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British Columbia Mining Week: Glass, Brass, and Pass the $

by Jack Caldwell

This week is Mining Week in British Columbia.  Some of the events include:

  • PricewaterhouseCoopers (one word!) releases their 2007 Annual Report on the BC mining Industry:  $988 per table of eight non-members at the Marriott.
  • Also at the Marriott, the Mining Suppliers, Contractors and Consultants Association of BC meet on Tuesday.  If you need to ask more, you can’t go.
  • On Wednesday on the lawn in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery is the only event that appears to be free:  pavilions showcasing the roles of minerals and mining in our lives. I wonder if the folk threatening to demonstrate the 2010 Olympics will be demonstrating on Wednesday–could make for a fun day.
  • Women in Mining are holding a wine and cheese (not a more sober cheese and wine) do at the Hyatt Regency on Wednesday.
  • Then for $52.50 each on Thursday you can attend the BC Mining Person of the Year and Sustainability Award at the Pan Pacific Hotel. 

All in all a busy and expensive week awaits us. I shall probably go only to the lawn event.  I do not like hotels at the best of times, so why go to more of those glass & brass & pass the buck places when I do not have to? 

1 comment

1 Anonymous { 05.14.08 at 10:43 am }

Jack, there is another event this week that’s free. On Thursday (May 15) there is the Teck Cominco Celebrity Pie Throw Fundraiser (mining industry celebrities that is). It’s part of the Mining for Miracles campaign in support of BC Children’s Hospital. It’s on Hornby between Hastings and Cordova.
And by the way, men are also welcome to the WIM wine and cheese (or cheese and wine if you prefer). That’s only $20 at the door.
Check out http://www.mining.bc.ca/news_events/Events/miningweek08vancouver.htm for more info.

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