ABD receives inaugural Skookum Jim award

March 10, 2008 in News

Responding to a call for submissions in the Northern Miner, ABDLP applied for an aboriginal Canadian mining and exploration service award to the Prospector’s and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC). This group runs the largest mining show in the world in Toronto with over 25,000 people in attendance. They also have an awards night and for the first time ever were going to give an award to an aboriginal firm. Within two weeks of submission, ABDLP learned it was going to receive the Skookum Jim award on March 3, 2008; 10 years after our initial companies were started. A delegation of shareholders, board members, customers (including CEOs of the world’s largest uranium companies) and managers made the trip to Toronto and received the award in front of over 700 people who attended the PDAC Gala. ABDLP will always be known as the inaugural winner of this award.

In 1896, an Aboriginal prospector named Skookum Jim Mason is credited with finding the first gold in the Yukon. The discovery that he and his co-discoverers made at Bonanza Creek set off the massive Klondike gold rush, the first of many in Canada. This discovery laid the foundation for later exploration and establishment of mining camps.

While greater Aboriginal participation is being encouraged, the minerals industry is mindful that Aboriginal people have always been involved in mineral exploration and development. They were the first explorers of minerals in this Country.