Canadian Mining Hall of Fame calls for submissions

The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame (CMHF), has put out its annual call for nominations for next year’s inductees.

The new group of inductees who have demonstrated “outstanding lifetime achievements to the benefit of the Canadian minerals industry” will be honoured at a ceremony to be held in Toronto on Jan. 15, 2009.

They will join the 135 other CMHF members who have been inducted since the Hall of Fame’s inception in 1989.

Individuals, firms and organizations can all nominate new Hall of Fame members.

An in-depth set of nomination guidelines can be found at www.halloffame.mining.ca.

Nominations should be made before May 30 to one of the sponsoring organizations listed below. Sponsors have until July 18, 2008, to submit nominations.

Sponsors include the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, the Mining Association of Canada, The Northern Miner and the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada. Associate sponsors include the British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan mining associations and the Association for Mineral Exploration British Columbia.

The CMHF showcases its inductees in the University of Toronto’s Mining Building, in the Mining Museum in the Lester B. Pearson Civic Centre in Elliot Lake, Ont., and at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto.

For more information, contact Nean Allman, CMHF Co-ordinator by phone at 519-599-3050 or by email at cmhf.info@sympatico.ca