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The industry then and now: A B.C. Chamber of Mines (now AME BC) exhibit at the Industrial Exhibition (now PNE) in Vancouver circa 1928 (above left); the Geoscience BC display in the 2010 Mineral Exploration Roundup Map Tent (above middle). “MABC represents mine operators in the province and AME BC is the voice of explorationists,” Giraud says. “The two groups have different interests. The operators, since they already have a mining operation, are interested in things like taxation and the cost of doing business. Explorationists, who don’t have an operating mine yet, are more concerned about things like tax credits and access to land. But because many operators also explore, there is some overlap between the two.” Giraud says the many regional exploration groups across the province fulfil an important need for explorationists, allowing them to get together socially and to share technical and geological information. “Most of them are not as involved in government advocacy as MABC and AME BC,” he says. “What they answer is a need for community.” He adds history and geography are the reasons for so many regional mining associations in B.C. “The gold rush in the 1850s and 1860s led directly to the creation of the province in 1871,” he says. “And many parts of the province were very difficult to reach from outside until the second half of the 20th century.” Although there are advantages to being so rich in mining and exploration associations, it has created some challenges as well. “One of the problems of having so many mining associations is that governments like to have the industry speaking to them with one voice,” Giraud says. “But 26 SUMMER 2010 Photographs: AME BC archives, Brian Dennehy/AME BC
Group work: A prospecting class held by the Chamber of Mines of Eastern B.C. (above right). with so many organizations, that consensus is hard to obtain.” Vancouver-based Geoscience BC, chaired by John Thompson, is an industry-led, not-for-profit, applied geoscience organization that began in 2005 with a $25-million grant from the provincial government. Since then it has received almost $12 million more. President and CEO ’Lyn Anglin says the group works with industry, academia, government, First Nations and communities to fund applied geoscience projects. Its objective is to attract mineral and oil and gas exploration to British Columbia. Its mandate includes the collection, interpretation and delivery of geoscience data and expertise to promote investment in resource exploration and development in B.C. AME BC, led by president and CEO Gavin Dirom, is an advocacy organization that promotes healthy, sustainable and environmentally sound mining exploration in B.C. Currently chaired by Lena Brommeland, the association has been in existence since 1912 under different names (a few years ago it acquired its present moniker). It has 4,000 members all over the world, most of which are in the Lower Mainland. Its membership includes explorationists, prospectors and suppliers. Annually the organization hosts Mineral Exploration Roundup, the pre-eminent exploration conference in the world, which attracts some 6,000 attendees. AME BC has a five-year strategic plan Photograph: Chamber of Mines of Eastern B.C. SUMMER 2010 27
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