63rd Annual Mine Safety Awards

Recipients of the 63rd Annual Mine Safety Awards were celebrated on May 8, 2025 in Victoria.

Open Pit Mine and Quarry Awards

Certificate of Achievement

Certificates of Achievement were presented to the following operations, all of which had a minimum of 15,000 worker hours and an injury-frequency rate of zero:

• Arthon Construction Corp. – Crawford Quarry
• Lafarge Canada Inc. – Abbotsford Gravel Sales Ltd.
• Lafarge Canada Inc. – Cannon Pit
• Mainland Construction Materials – Bradner Pit
• Mainland Construction Materials – McLean Quarry
• Mainland West – Pineridge Pit
• Sandhill Materials Inc. – Sandhill Materials

Stewart/O'Brian Safety Award

This award was presented to the following operations, all of which logged between 35,000 and 200,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate:

• Summit Crushing – 532470 BC Ltd.
• Baymag Inc – Mt Brussilof Mine
• CertainTeed Canada Inc. – Kootenay West and Windermere Mining Operations
• Lafarge Canada Inc. – Central Aggregates
• Lafarge Canada Inc. – Hub City Paving
• Lafarge Canada Inc. – Pitt River Quarry
• Mainland Construction Materials ULC – Cox Quarry
• Mainland Construction Materials – Jamieson Quarry
• Orca Sand & Gravel LP – Orca Sand & Gravel

Edward Prior Award

This award is presented to operations that logged between 200,000 and 1,000,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate:

• Coeur Mining Inc.– Coeur Silvertip

John Ash Award

This award is presented to operations that logged a minimum of 1,000,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate:

• Conuma Resources – Willow Creek

Underground Mine Awards

Small Underground Mines Award

• No winner.

Large Underground Mines Award

This award is presented to operations with more than 240,000 worker hours (one-third of which were underground) and that had the lowest injury-frequency rate during the calendar year:

• New Gold Inc. – New Afton Mine

Chief Inspector of Mines Award

• Centerra Gold Inc. - Mount Milligan Mine

Mine Safety Technology Award

The Mine Safety Technology Award is a leading indicator award created to recognize the development of controls to prevent workplace incidents and to acknowledge a mine’s innovation, using technology to protect the health and safety of its employees. We want to hear how you identified the problem and what you did to fix it, either using brand new technology or through the innovation of existing technology. This is a chance to showcase how your company took innovative steps to make BC’s mining sector safer.

• Newmont - Red Chris Mine - Cable Stands