Parres named PDAC winner of ’89 Prospector award

Parres will re ceive his award at the Monday night banquet during the 57th annual PDAC convention taking place March 5-8 in Toronto.

Also to be honored by the PDAC that night are John Hansuld and Mike Muzylowski as Developers of the Year, and Maurice Brown and Murray Pezim who will receive Distinguished Service Awards.

A graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, Parres began prospecting with his father in Manitoba’s Snow Lake and Flin Flon areas. He worked at the Coniaurum mine in Schumacher, Ont., and with Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting (TSE), before starting his own company.

He was a participant in the Lynn Lake, Man., staking rush in 1947 and in the Thompson Nickel Belt rush in 1949. Among his discoveries are the Western Nuclear mine at Hanson Lake, Sask., and the Pinebay deposit near Flin Flon. His prospecting work has taken him to Venezuela and Nevada, as well as Ontario and Quebec. Doubly honored The award is the second for Hansuld, a native of northern Ontario, during the past few months; the president of Canamax Resources (TSE) was named The Northern Miner’s Mining Man of the Year for 1988 in December. A geologist who obtained a Ph.D. from McGill University, Hansuld worked for Amax Inc. for about 20 years before taking charge of that company’s newly created offspring, Canamax, in the early 1980s.

Canamax is currently operating two gold mines, the Kremzar near Wawa, Ont., and the Bell Creek at Timmins, Ont. It is selling its 50% stake in the Ketza River gold mine in the Yukon, and recently suspended operations at its Matheson gold project in northeastern Ontario.

Muzylowski, president of Granges Exploration (TSE), is a native Manitoban who spent 15 years with Hudson Bay. He joined Granges in 1970 as general manager.

Granges, which produced 68,500 oz gold last year, has interests in two operating gold mines, Tartan Lake in Manitoba and the Hycroft project in Nevada through a controlling interest in Hycroft Resources & Development (VSE). Granges also has a 19.8% interest in the zinc- copper-silver-gold Trout Lake mine near Flin Flon. Long-time scribe

A member of The Northern Miner’s editorial staff since 1948, Brown has worked as field engineer, writer, editor and publisher for the weekly mining newspaper and currently serves as its publisher emeritus. He also chairs the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.

Brown, born at Port Arthur (now part of Thunder Bay), Ont., graduated in mining engineering in 1938. As a student he worked two summers at the Kirkland Lake, Ont., Lake Shore mine and spent a season with the Ontario government’s geological survey party. Following graduation, he spent eight years in the Little Long Lac area of northwestern Ontario in various mining positions.

The colorful Pezim, a Toronto native who has taken up residence in Vancouver, is perhaps best known for his role in helping to bring the Hemlo gold camp in northern Ontario into production. He currently serves as honorary chairman of Corona Corp. (TSE), one of the major Hemlo players which was known as International Corona Resources when Pezim was spearheading its attack.

The mining promoter remains active. Pezim will be assuming the chairmanship of Prime Resources (VSE), created through the recent consolidation of the assets of three companies: Prime Capital, Delaware Resources and Colossus Resource Equities. Among Prime Resource’s various assets is a 40% interest in the promising Snip gold project in northwestern British Columbia.

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