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April 5, 2005
SMITHERS – Minister Pat Bell (far right) is joined
by MLA for Bulkley- Stikine Dennis MacKay, (far left) Northwest
Community College president Stephanie Forsyth and Smithers
Exploration Group president Gary Thompson, in announcing
provincial funding of $360,000 to be used towards mining
training and education programs for northwest communities
and First Nations.
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March 12, 2005
NELSON – Minister Bell was invited to speak at the
Chamber of Mines of Eastern BC Annual General Meeting in
Nelson.
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March 12, 2005
NELSON – Minister Bell is joined by MLA Blair Suffredine
in presenting a signed copy of the British Columbia Mining
Plan - signed by Premier Gordon Campbell, Minister Richard
Neufeld and Minister Pat Bell - to Eric Dennys at the Chamber
of Mines of Eastern BC Annual General Meeting AGM banquet.
Eric is the first of 3 generations of Dennys miners in the
Kootenays, he appears with his son and grandson on page
1 of the recently released mining plan.
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March 11, 2005
VANCOUVER – Minister of State for Mining Pat Bell is
joined by South Australian Mineral Development Resources
Minister Paul Holloway on March 11, 2005 for a tour of the
Port of Vancouver and surrounding area.
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February 23, 2005
SPARWOOD – Minister Pat Bell (far right) is joined
by Elk Valley Coal's new Recruitment Centre's Officer David
Milne (left) Cranbrook MLA Bill Bennet (2nd from left) and
Coal Discovery Centre Chair Cindy Gallinger at the announcement
of the recruitment centre's official opening on February
23, 2005 in Sparwood.
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January 24, 2005
VANCOUVER – Minister Richard Neufeld (right) and Minister
of State for Mining Pat Bell (left) check out the B.C. booth
at the British Columbia and Yukon Chamber of Mines Mineral
Exploration Roundup 2005 on January 24, 2005. The Roundup
is one of the premier mineral exploration conferences, the
second largest in the world.
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VANCOUVER – A wide-ranging plan to expand on recent
government and industry successes supporting sustainable,
responsible mining in British Columbia was announced by
Minister of Energy and Mines Richard Neufeld and Minister
of State for Mining, Pat Bell.
Minister Neufeld (left) spoke to an audience at the Queen
Elizabeth Park on January 18, 2005. The park, now a wonderful
recreation area used by local residents and visitors from
around the world, was previously a quarry, a mine site where
rock was dug to build Vancouver's first roadways.
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Pat Bell, Minister of State for
Mining (left) joins Tony Nardi, Vice President Marketing
and Transportation, Neptune Terminals at the launch of the
first commercial metallurgical coal shipment by Pine Valley
Mining Company from the Willow Creek Coal Mine near Chetwynd.
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Pat Bell, Minister of State for
Mining is joined by Mr. Jang, President, Posco Canada, Mark
Fields, Executive Vice President, Pine Valley Mining Corp.
and Glenn Taylor, President, Neptune Bulk Terminals (left
to right) at the launch of the first commercial metallurgical
coal shipment by Pine Valley Mining Company from the Willow
Creek Coal Mine near Chetwynd.
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Energy Minister Richard Neufeld and Minister of State for
Mining Pat Bell review new geo maps that cover areas of
the Bella Coola region, Copper Mountain near Princeton,
the Atlin area in northwestern B.C. and Gibraltar Mine area
near Quesnel.
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June 11, 2004 Minister Bell and MLA Wendy McMahon touring
the BPB Gypsum mine near Invermere.
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June 11, 2004 Minister Bell and MLA Wendy McMahon touring
the BPB Gypsum mine near Invermere.
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June 11, 2004 Minister Bell and Scott Broughton President
and CEO of Stikine Gold Corporation at Sullivan Deeps drill
site near Kimberly.
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Left to right: John Mirko, Director, Stikine Gold Corporation
(SKY.TSXv),Paul Ransom, Project Manager, Stikine Gold Corporation,
Scott Broughton, President and CEO, Stikine Gold Corporation
Wendy McMahon, MLA, Minister of State Pat Bell, David Skerlec,
CFO, Stikine Gold Corporation
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June 12, 2004 Minister Bell watching the Northgate team
from Kemess at Mine Rescue Competition in Fernie.
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Minister of State tours Huckleberry Mine, April 2004. The
ore at Huckleberry is mined with standard open-pit truck
and shovel equipment, and processed through a SAG/ball mill
circuit producing a copper concentrate and molybdenum concentrate.
The copper concentrate is trucked to Stewart for shipment
to Japan, while the molybdenum concentrate is trucked to
and sold in Vancouver.
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Mine, April 2004 Minister Bell with Bud Sherman standing
in front of a truck and shovel in the East Zone Pit of Huckleberry
mine.
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Advanced
Education Minister Shirley Bond delivers the pie to Minister
of State for Mining Pat Bell. The Ministers were participating
in the Gold Rush Fair and Celebrity Pie Throw fundraiser
for Children's Hospital organized by Teck Cominco. The Mining
for Miracles event raised $319,380. The event took place
in Vancouver as part of provincial Mining Week May 16 -
22, 2004.
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Minister of State Pat Bell
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April 15, 2004, Minister of State Bell attends
the 40th annual Mines Safety Awards at the Harbour Towers
Hotel, Victoria, BC.
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March 26, 2004, Minister of State for Mining Pat Bell speaks
with Stuart Nelson, owner of Silverton Transport Ltd. in
front of the Adit at Orphan Boy Resources Inc. Goldstream
Willa Gold Project near Silverton, B.C.
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March 26, 2004, L to R MLA Blair Suffredine; Bill Gilmour,
Principal, Discovery Consultants of Vernon,BC; John Chapman,
Director of Orphan Boy Resources. Discovery is providing
geological services to the Willa exploration program. They
are standing in front of the Adit at the Goldstream Willa
Gold Project.
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