BC Mining Week 2012
byAs declared by the Legislature of British Columbia, BC Mining Week returns May 13th to 19th with events and community celebrations throughout the province. From Kamloops and Princeton to Prince George and Terrace here are just a few of the highlights:
Mining Day in Kamloops
When: Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 11:00am to 4:00pm
Where: Big Little Science Centre, 985 Holt Street, Kamloops
What: Come try New Gold’s heavy equipment simulator, have a close up look at some heavy equipment, bring in your rocks to be identified, try the hands-on activities, visit the displays, and learn about rocks and fossils from around Kamloops. The Valleyview Lions Club will be on site cooking hamburgers and hotdogs for sale.
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BC Mining Week Community Fair
When: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 from 10:00am to 3:00pm
Where: Creekside Community Centre, Vancouver
What: The Community Fair provides an opportunity to inform the general public and school students about mineral exploration and mining and the relevance of mining. The event features both indoor and outdoor exhibits showcasing a variety of mining activities and interactive displays.
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Women in Mining Gala Reception
When: Wednesday, May 16, 2012 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Where: Pan Pacific Hotel, Ocean View Suite, Vancouver
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Teck’s Annual Celebrity Pie Throw
When: Thursday, May 17, 2012 from 11:30am to 1:30pm
Where: Vancouver Art Gallery, front lawn
What: The Teck Celebrity Pie throw is part of the Mining for Miracles campaign in support of BC Children’s Hospital, BC’s mining industry Charity of Choice for 24 years .
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Hedley Stamp Mill & BC Mining Day
When: Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 11:00am
Where: Hedley Heritage Museum
What: Hedley Museum invites you to come and enjoy events at the Museum organized in celebration of Hedley Stamp Mill Days and BC Mining Day.
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Prince George Mining Day
When: Saturday, May 19, 2012 from 12:00pm
Where: Railway and Forest Museum, 850 River Road, Prince George
What: Have a rock you’d like identified? Have a question about geology? Come and visit our geologists at the Railway and Forestry Museum.
More information
Visit the I (Heart) Mining website for more details and to enter their iPad2 giveaway series.
Last year I helped promote BC Mining Week 2011 with a very successful giveaway of my own and organizers would like to once again award a brand new iPad to a Miss604.com reader. It’s a WIFI + 4G iPad3 in white, 16GB. Here’s how you can enter to win:
- Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
For more information you can find the Mining Association of BC on Facebook and Twitter, and follow the tag #miningweek. I will draw one winner at random from all entries at 12:00pm next Friday, May 11, 2012 as Mining Week in BC begins.
Fine Print: This contest is open to residents of BC only. The prize has been furnished by the Mining Association of BC and is no way connected to Apple Computers. Mining Association of BC employees and their relatives are not eligible to win.
Update The winner is Danika!
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iPad would be sweeeet!
Great idea and some interesting links!
Wish safety to all the miners!
And yay ipad 😀
I’m very much addicted to Apple.
Miners have very dangerous jobs!!! My computer is soooo on its way out, could sure use an Ipad.. something I could oly dream of buyingg for myself. Thx for this chance 🙂
I’ve always wanted to go to the Britannia Mine Museum
Yes please!
Would love the new iPad 3.
I would very much like the iPad! I can’t believe it has been a year since the last one! Keep up the good work R.
I went to the Britannia Mine Museum last summer and it was actually really interesting!
Would so love to win this little gadget! Thanks Rebecca, for always keeping us informed on interesting events are our province. 🙂
I think I’ll take my kids up to Hedley! That’d be a fun day trip 🙂
Thanks for the awesome contest Miss604! 🙂
iPad would be sweet,thanks for the chance to win one B)
oh this would be sooooo appreciated and put to very good use.
Sweetest prize ever!Looks like a fun family day!
This would be awwwwwwwwwesome!!
Great Idea – and awesome blog!
I remember a field trip to the Mining Museum when I was a kid. My Mother was one of the parent volunteers and had a big curly bubble hairdo. Funniest thing ever was to see her hard hat perched on top of her hair a la Marge Simpson while heading into the mine on the little train.
I’d love to learn more about the mining industry
Interesting events happening, looks like fun!
Looking to mine some gold with my new iPad!
Love the big trucks and mountain movers,watch them on the learning channel
go mining! go ipad
Nice to see the mining community’s charity events, like Teck’s pie throwing event!
RT to enter to win an iPad3 from @Miss604 in celebration of the upcoming BC #miningweek http://ow.ly/aIhjq tweeted as @movingforward55
I was not even aware of a mining week! I always learn from your blog!
Weeeeeeeow!
Mining is such an important part of the B.C. economy thanks for bringing attention to BC Mining Week.
Sweet! i’m taking a mining class right now so this sounds interesting!
My company is working on creating more green eco machines for the mining industry.
I’d looove to win am IPad!! Thanks!
Mining is more important that people realise!
Wonderful giveaway thank you, and a great article about Mining Week!
Interesting stuff!
i love apple products!
My home computer just died last weekend. Trying to work off my mobile is very difficult, would love an iPad!
Thank you for holding a contest!
This would be a fantastic gift for my manpanion!
Great post! Let’s keep everyone informed about mining in BC.
Awesome! Thank you! and I dig mining week!!..lol
Just visited the Britannia Mine a few weeks ago and helped celebrate Mining Week. Interesting stuff!
I used to work in the exploration industry before becoming disabled. I have written for the mining industry now. The technology and scientific advancements are amazing. Love the Britannia Mine!
And yes winning an iPad would be very cool.
You’d be hard pushed to find a more iPad-deserving comment than this one. 🙂
Awesome. The women in mining event sounds interesting!
it’s always mining week in Britannia Beach!
always the best contest!
Drove through Britannia Beach a couple weeks ago, I would love to take my kids to explore the museum there some day!! Thanks for the chance to win the IPad 🙂 🙂
I dig it
Awesome! Thanks Rebecca and Mining Association of BC! Good luck all…
I would love to win the new iPad3.
My Grandfather was a miner. His name was James Henry, and he worked in the Newdigate Colliery, in the UK for 30 yrs. I remember many happy hours with him telling stories about the pit ponies 🙂
Just thinking back to what it must have been like back in British Columbia’s old Gold Rush days. Wow!
I’ll have to check out the Vancouvet event. Please enter me for an IPod too.
I’ll have to check out the Vancouvet event. Please enter me for an IPad too.
Mining is such a critical part of BC’s economy. Thanks for the info you posted.
Teck recently donated $12.5 million to the Vancouver Aquarium! http://www.aquablog.ca/2012/04/vancouver-aquarium-receives-unprecedented-12-5-million-donation-from-teck-for-aquarium-expansion-and-water-program/
This is a perfect event close to home to take my little one to stuff to explore!
http://www.miningweek.ca/bc-mining-week-community-fair/
Thanks for the info, I’ll have to try to catch the Vancouver event and thanks for the chance to win an IPad.
Free iPad, don’t MIND if I do!
Used love going to mines and checking all that stuff out as a kid. Will definitely try to make it out to some of these. =D
Great info & contest!
Good stuff! Would love to win an iPad
Just drove past the old Hedley mine last weekend… very cool!
Awesome photos and great info as per usual! Mining is so vital to our economy, nice to see it get some recognition.
Thank you for the contest:)
ooooh iPad3!! what an awesome give away!
If you dig deep enough, will you strike iPads?
I love bc mining week!
Great contest and site!
Thanks Miss604 for bringing these great festivals to our attention! The women in mining event sounds interesting! All miners, stay safe on the job!
(The ipad sounds great too!)
I look forward to mining week. Hopefully catch a few of the displays at the science center
The Britannia Mining Museum has great displays.
The pie throw sounds like fun!
Another great contest and great plug for Mining Week too!
Mining is so dangerous! Be careful Miners!
Go down a mine it is a surreal experience! Great contest thanks!!
More of a reason to visit one of those museums, nice.
Women in mining …hmmmm I could be one of them
What an interesting week of events!
Best memories of visiting Britannia Mine as a kid 🙂
It would be great present for sure!
I WANT!!!!
drive by the brittania mines a lot and heard that it’s been fixed up!
so glad to see someone covering these great events!!
Yay for mining week!
I had a big disappoint today – this would help
Looks like some interesting events coming up!
that would be a cool win!
broke student 🙁 an ipad wud make doing my homework much easier
This is cool. You are cool.
made a comment earlier but it didnt show up? great info thanks for sharing! i have tweeted as well.
could sooo use an ipad
i remember when my kids came home from school so excited to tell me how they were panning for gold at the mining museum .. some great events you are bringing to light. and i’m sure i will have to fight my kids for the ipad if i win!
Would love to win this contest! Love your blog
Lots of movies and tv shows are shot around the mine. Its my birthday today this would be a great gift:)
oh this would be amazing, what a great mothers day present this would make for ME lol
Thanks for holding such an amazing contest!
i tweeted
https://twitter.com/#!/roswello/status/198562052204277760
Would love an IPAD!
Great post and thanks for the links. Would love to win a new iPad!
Very informative & thorough post as always. Thanks for sharing all the links.
Having visited mine sites, I have even more appreciation for the miners than before.
Thanks for the opportunity to win the iPad, looking forward to attending Teck’s Annual Celebrity Pie Throw!
My wife told me the Brittania Mine tour is very good.
My grandfather worked at Brittania Mine back in the day…shocking what they go through.
Thanks for sharing! Would love to win an iPad too! 🙂
I’d recommend visiting the Britannia Mine – it’s great for all ages.
Thanks for the history lesson on this great province :>) looking forward to sending many people there this summer
There are great opportunities in the Mining Industry. And WOW, GO YOU WOMEN IN MINING!
thx for the info and the giveaway
Great… thx for the giveaway
I know someone’s mommy who would love a brand new ipad. I also went to http://www.iheartmining.ca and learned a bit about BC’s mining industry. Very neat!
I want to win for once!
It would make a nice birthday present to myself;)
Would love an iPad 3, still don’t have one yet
Awesome contest!
Great job on supporting this, miss 604!
Looks very interesting
Cool event. Even cooler contest!
I’m mining for an ipad3. PLease enter me into your most excellent contest. Cheers!
Nice promotion. A good way to get people info on the mining industry.
I’d love to win!
Would love to win!
Can’t build an iPad without the mining industry! Or… Anything else!
Great contest. Safety in mining is extremely important!
Great events for anyone wanting to learning more about mining.
Sweet,mining week sounds cool
I’d like to win an iPad and see what the fuss is all about. The Starfleet officers on the Enterprise used it and I didn’t see they all excited about their PADDs.
It’s REALLY cool that they are addressing Women in Mining! (High 5 to the ladies!) It’s not an industry that people typically think of as one women would gravitate towards, so it’s great to see that boundry being broken down! I’d LOVE to know what types of job women are performing.
Recently, I’ve been enjoying that new show Bearing Sea Gold, which is about mining in Alaska. It’s really interesting!
I always learn something by reading this blog! 🙂
I love the museum in Hedley and it would be great to win an ipad.
After having worked at Hunter Dickinson Inc. with the engineering team as a high school student in their work experience program, I’ve come to understand and appreciate the mining industry so much more. And I definitely would not eliminate it from my future career options 🙂
Ipad3 would b great!
I sure would love an iPad!
Pick me!
I used to work at the mine in Princeton. Great summer job…put me through university.
Mining for an ipad 3
Would love to win one!
Looks like some fun events!
Thank you for this wonderful blog! It really is nice to see Miss604 covering such a important and valuable topic. I work in the mining field, and let me tell you… it’s far more interesting than any other field I’ve ever worked in! I work in the head office of a very reputable mining contractor based in Burnaby BC called Procon Mining & Tunnelling. Procon is full of amazing talent and loyal employees who truly value great work ethic and hold their values high amongst the best. The knowledge and years behind the majority of the staff, make working for them so fantastic and rewarding. I get to work the front lines, and deal with everything from clients, and most importantly the miners!! They deserve to be treated well, as the work that they do is so difficult and and mostly, a hard lifestyle to be away from family and friends for extended period of time.
BC Mining week is extremely important as the industry is booming, and the manpower is at an all time low. It is a struggle to find skilled workers, and I truly hope that this new generation really thinks about the worth of this industry and its importance to our economy.
Thank you again Miss604 for posting this blog. You did a remarkable job, and hope this really does help spread the awareness to this crucial industry for our economic growth.
THANK YOU!!!!!
Karrie
Cool! 🙂
An iPad would be SO useful.. Fingers crossed for this one!!
Would love an ipad! Woohoo for mining week! 🙂
This would be such an awesome prize!
I love the old bumper sticker slogan, “If it can’t be grown, it’s gotta be mined.”
Sign me up 🙂
BC has a cool mining history.
Sign me up for the pie toss. And the iPad 😀
Yes, please!
What a great contest! I would love to win an ipad 😀
Amazing giveaway!!
Such a nice prize!
Great prize for a contest.
would love to learn more about this industry
Thanks for promoting such an interesting week of events!
Would love to win an iPad! Thanks for the giveaway 🙂
Been through Britannia mine both before and after the restorations. A very, very cool way for the fasmily to enjoy an entire day!
Great post!
Great! Mining week is back and reminds me of the time I was a volunteer for CIM Conference. Hope I get the IPad 😉
I love rocks and minerals. Hope I can attend one of the conferences.
Awesome post! And of course super IPad giveaway! Thanks
I haven`t been to Britannia Museum yet. That would be a very good excuse. Win an iPad one month away from my bday would also be sweet!
I heart mining!
I need a Ipad.
Would love to win one for free!
OMG, that would be amazing.
I heart @Miss604 too.
This is one event I’ve not heard of yet. Thanks for the post!
Mining week is awesome. I attended the mining conference back in May 2010 at Convention Centre. Such a good memory
Toured the Britania Mine up towards Squamish when I was about 6. Toured the Sudbury Nickel Mine when I was about 10. Always fascinated with mining. Wonder what cool mining apps there are for the iPad 3?
Great contest giveaway. Thanks!
Awesome prize!
The mining museum is awesome!
Had my students participate in “Mining Week” one year. Have been in the Britannia Mine when it was a working mine.
Your the bestest!:)
iBC mining week 2012!
Thanks for this amazing giveaway! So awesome to see events recognizing women in trades!
Ahh Rossland/Trail born and raised. My grandfather a miner and excellent spelunking teacher throughout my childhood. I love Mining Week, it makes my soul smile. Please remember those lost, yet let it not deter us from exploring our beautiful land
It’s amazing that you’re able to bring awareness to the mining industry. Great info.
You have the best contests!
Nice
Thanks for the contest! This would be a nice present
An iPad would be amazing,thanks for the chance to win one!!
This is so cool! I remember visiting the mine/museum on the way to whistler as a kid.
Thanks for posting. Shame the Creekside Community Fair isn’t on the weekend 🙁 The iPad would be awesome – starting a writing course next week, so here’s hoping. 🙂
Great contest! Love mining companies!
Great info! Great event! thank you @miss604!
Thanks for the chance to win. Go Miners!
nice prize
Thank you for the event listing! Great way to learn more about our mining industry!
I never win anything from Contests!! Please do let me win and I’ll make sure to keep reading your promotions! 😀
I never knew we had such a thing…now let me win muahhaha jk jk. kinda!
Love to have an iPad for work! @eleenie
I loved going to the Mining Museum as a kid! And now supporting them / spreading the word to win an ipad? Why not! Thanks miss604!
Cool prize!
I’d love to win this
Thanks for the opportunity to win an iPad – I’ll need it for grad school in September! 🙂
Tweet tweeted.
Love taking the family up to Britannia Beach to explore the mine.
Mining week, eh? Sounds like an under appreciated industry…
You can’t have an ipad without minerals…and I can’t have one unless I win it!
I need an iPad to go back to school this year! Winning one would be great.
I’ve never been to the Brittania Mine Museum… I should really go. Great giveaway btw!
My wife would love to take that two story truck for a spin…. I’m just worried she’d take it shopping :-). Happy mining week!
Great contest.
Definitely recommend the Hedley Mascot Mines tour if you’re ever in the area. Very interesting bit of local history!
Smart promotion by Mining Week
Love that you are Supporting our province!
Was planning to go to the Britannia Mine Museum sometime this summer! 🙂
What a great way to get out and learn about some of the history of BC.
I so need an ipad to play draw something and angry birds! 🙂 jk.
It would be great for my new art endeavours!
Thanks!
Fingers crossed!
Mining week looks fun I’m going to attend some of the
Events
I’ve always wanted an iPad, winning one would be amazing!
I like the idea of promoting women in mining.
I like to see big machinery
Didn’t know there were so many events! Thanks for posting!
Thanks for letting us all know about mining week!
Ipad? totally in for that!
Congrats to BC Mining and good luck with the week of events!
Britannia Mine is an awesome day trip destination for families.
Happy Mining Week! (Hard) hats off to all BC miners.
Women in mining, got to love it.
Great contest!
Mining Week, important in BC, lucky to be resource rich. Great giveaway, great blog!
I love your blog! It’s so informative about events and news around town and you have great contests!
Mining and geology are really interesting even though all I have done personally is pan for gold! I have some real sweet gold nugget earrings and a small pendant to match. ( of course I also like gold crowns to protect teeth! LOL Dats da twooth!) Thanks for chance in this fantastic giveaway! I’m keeping my wings crossed. Wonderful job you are doing PRomoting British Columbia Mining Week 2012.
Mining week looks interesting! Would love to check out the museum 😀
Great information on Mining Week!
Mining week! Would love an iPad!
Mining week looks awesome!
awesome giveaway!
…. and aside from the events listed above, be sure to visit the Britannia Mining Museum – great for kids of all ages.
The women in mining event sounds interesting!
Stay safe out there!
The Britannia Mine Museum was a fun experience.
Interesting week planned. The giveaway is a bonus!
Yaaay iPad!
Would be awesome to be an iPad owner!
Would love to win!
Would love to win 🙂
Got to check this out! I will be posting pictures on Miss604’s flickr site.
I wish I had time to get to some of the mine week events!
I got to check this out and post my images on Miss604’s Flickr Account!
congratulations!!! Would love to upgrade from my iPad 1….
Yay! iPad!
My dad worked in the mines to pay for teacher’s college, way back in the day.
Thanks for posting the links.
I’ll have to go check out the pie throw!
Great contest and prize !
some interesting mining events this week – thanks!
Love these contests, love the local content. Keep up the good work!
An iPad would
Be a sweet addition to my life.
My industry Rocks!!
Planning to take my children up to The Britannia Mine Museum this summer! I had no clue there was a BC Mining Week…thanks Miss604 for the great info and giveaway! To all miners, kudos to every single one of you and please stay safe! I’ve retweeted as well!
Sweet I want iPad!! 🙂
Love the brittania mining museum
I don’t personally know any miners but I appreciate them!!
I think it was cool that they used the mines for an episode or two for the X-Files 🙂
As always, another awesome contest!!
would love an ipad!
Bring on the ‘Pac!
The celebrity pie throw sounds fun! Great prize, miss604!
Never heard of BC Mining week before and this is pretty cool! My kids would love the iPad, and I’m guessing I would too! 🙂
I would love an ipad!
Pie throwing contests are great!
Mining is such an important peice of our past.
I could use a new iPad.
Sweet!
iPad 3!!!!
YAY! iPad 3!
Nothing special happening at the Britannia Mining Museum?
I want an ipad
A good read and another great contest…..I would love to win an iPad.
iPaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad!
It’ll be a nice addition to our existing IPAD collection =)
Never knew that there is a BC Mining Week. Thanks for another great post. The iPad giveaway is definitely a bonus…
Very cool! I’ve never heard of mining week!
Yes please!
Thanks for the chance!!!
Thanks for the chance to win and for the info…I hope to take my son to check out the heavy duty mining dump trucks at Brittania one day!
Nothing beats precious metals, well an i-pad does come close!
I would actually love to get my son out to one of the mining museums. I think he would love that.
I tweeted https://twitter.com/#!/carolem/status/199351751680331776
Awesome giveaway!
Good info….hope I win….it’s my birthday this month…..would love an iPad.
Great info, and great prize!
Would be great to win an ipad
Would love to win this iPad!
Thank you for the great co-promotion with Mining Week. An Ipad … just awesome.
Lots of cool events for Mining Week!
Let’s show appreciation!
Didn’t realize BC Mining Week involved so many events!
interesting event and great prize!
oooh, ipad3….
Thanks Rebecca!
I’ve never heard of BC Mining Week before now, but it’s interesting to know!
Interesting events! Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win an ipad!
Would love to win an ipad!
The Britannia Mining Museum is definitely on my to do list for this summer! Thanks for all your tips. Great blog!
https://twitter.com/#!/KarrieGPhotos
TWEET TWEET 🙂
Thanks Miss 604! I would love an ipad 3!
Nothing but respect for those working in the mining industry.
Pie throwing sounds like fun! Thanks for the contest!
Oh my, I was wondering why navigating your blog was so slow today!It kept stopping, wouldn’t load at first! All this traffic must be why!! I have be secretly wanting one of these for too long now!! Thanks so much for this opportunity!!
I would love to win an iPad 3.
Awesome. Fingers crossed. 🙂
I love iPads, AND Mining!
Hurray for miners – I used to date one! Hard work..
Fantastic contest! Fingers crossed!
Great prize, and a way to build awareness for BC Mining Week
Yes pick me please!!
Mining Week!
What a great thing for our province!
Would love to learn more about rocks and fossils on an I-Pad 🙂
Great info about the Mining Week! Love to learn more from an iPad. Never owned one before.
Would love to win this!
Nice!
BC Mining Week returns May 13th to 19th!
nice! thank you mining association of bc!
great event posting 🙂 would love to have one of these for my mother
I never would have known that there was a mining week in BC if it wasn’t for Miss 604!
Thanks for another great contest!
Love the Brittania Mine museum! Can’t wait until my kids are a little bit older so I can take them!
Great contest prize!
Great article. Thank you for spreading the words.
aweomse
I would love an iPad!
This would be awesome! I remember going to an abandoned mine as a kid for a field trip. Hope I can win!
An iPad would be nice
Thanks for the contest!!
I think is an interesting way to get word out about BC’s mining industry good idea 😀
Celebrity pie throw at VAG is fun and benefits good cause. Hope to also check out Creekside show. Thanks Miss604!
sweet prize!
I would love an iPad!
The Women in Mining Gala Reception looks interesting! Thanks for this opportunity 🙂
Hooray for Mining Week!
I wouldn’t MIND a free iPad. Thanks BC Mining Week!
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Nice to see mining promoted this way.
Ooh, I’d love an IPad.
How could I pass this up? iPad 3… yes please!!
I would really like learn more about women in mining – very interesting! blog
ooooh – I REALLY need an iPad! Good article too!
Calendar marked for Teck’s Annual Celebrity Pie Throw!
An Ipad would be awesome.
Nice Blog and Happy Mining Week!
Count me in 🙂
IPAD! YAY!!!
From Sudbury, huge mining town, ipad would <3 to win one!
Happy Mining Week! Count me in!
I’ll be up in Prince George for mining week.
The miners all deserve ipads for all the hard work they do.
When ever my girls and I are stuck on what to do, I check your site! You always keep us in the know for local activities. Tnx!!
Great giveaway thank you
Mining is a very tough job! My grandfather was a gold/silver miner in Haileybury, Ontario. My oldest brother mined Uranium in Eliot Lake, Ontario; long enough (maybe 2 years) to buy a brand new Corvette, in cash.
I still have samples from both of my family’s mining days. The Uranium is only slightly radioactive (about 80 CPM).
Thank you so much for this great tour information. I will definitely check out some of these events (and look into the tours).
The chance at a iPAD 3 is super… I was just laid off… so I would use the iPAD to start iDevice apps programming (objective c is interesting :-)).
My Kids Love collecting Rock’s that would be so cool to have them identified 🙂
Thanks for the contest!
I’d love to win this ipad3, if i do its gonna go to my mom for mothers day! ^^
This would be awesome! Thanks.
I’m looking forward to the event in Kamloops. Thanks!
I learned about Mining Week! Love this giveaway!
That’s great idea to promote mining in BC and I especially like that there is also an event to focus on women in mining.
Went to the Britannia Mining Museum and was tons of fun! Great to see events like this bring awareness to the industry!
Great giveaways Miss 604!!!
tweeted
https://twitter.com/#!/ginette4/status/200247635565744129
Great contest and so wonderful to bring attention to all the hard work the miners in BC do!
haven’t been there since I was a child but I hope to go back one day.
We look forward to hosting BC mining week. I’d like an ipad 🙂
Is there nothing at Britannia Mines? Maybe I’ll go to Hedley. Love the opportunity to win the Ipad though :-).
Awesome contest!
Had no idea there was a week dedicated to Mining! Seems pretty cool, and heck a chance to win an iPad is awesome!
Yes, please!
I’d take pictures of the museum with my new iPad 3.
I’d never really given BC’s mining history a lot of thought until I moved to Nanaimo and now, it’s kind of everywhere. Lotta coal coming out of Nanaimo. May not have much of a chance to actually win this one, but any chance is a good chance, eh? Hope you & J are well. xocc
Even though the film and tech industries get all the press, mining is still king out here in BC.
It’s great to see some celebration of primary resources – hopefully it can develop into higher safety and inspection standards for primary sites in BC. Protect the workers!
Awesome to see an event honoring women in the field, or in this case mine!
Mining history is so interesting. Loved it as a kid. Cool contest.
Mining Week is a great idea! Any awareness raised for the workers and families of those who work in dangerous jobs to mine the minerals that keep our economy going is a good cause. Congrats on the event, hope it goes well.
I would love an ipad!
Respect for the miners, that is for sure!
I’d love to finally get an iPad. 🙂
Wow! It would be fabulous to win an Ipad3. Thanks to BC Mining for such a great contest.
I would love an iPad!
Interesting to see miners pushing for visibility in BC.
All the best to the miners. Would be great to win the ipad. Thanks for this.
Ohh I want one!!!!!
Mines and miners contribute a lot to the BC economy, so thanks to all of them. iPad 3 would be SO cool for my kids (okay, and me too!)
Great contest to promote mining week.
Go MINING!
One great day-trip thing to do is to visit Britannia Mine 🙂
Thank you for running this promotion & for promoting Mining Week. Great work opportunities in BC – unlike the rest of Canada.
Good luck to everyone!
Let’s help keep those miners safe…and win an iPad!! 🙂
Thanks for letting us know about BC mining week – great giveaway too!
Kudos to miners!
I would love an iPad! Great blog!
Well Teck is just a floor above me…so why not for an Ipad lol
Mining week rules!!
Great giveaway!
iPad3? Let’s see what all the fuss is about.
I’d give the ipad to my mom for mother’s day!
Excellent! Go mining week! Hello there ipad!
Great prize!
I think Mining week is a great idea. Residents of BC need to learn more about natural resource industry as a whole.
I think Mining week is a great idea. Residents of BC need to learn more about natural resource industry
Mining week!
Big trucks and ipads.
O MY! Yes please!!
I’d love to win an iPad for my son he could get alit of use out of it at school
Generous of BC Mining.
winning would be sweet!
An iPad would make travelling much more fun! I’d have to have some kind of mining related background photo.
Great contest! I used to work in the mining industry! An iPad would be so awesome!
The weight, or should that be non-weight, of an ipad would be so much kinder on arthritic joints.
Thanks to Miss 604 and the Mining Assoc. for hosting this awesome giveaway.
Interesting links! Happy Mining week!
Sounds awesome, goooo mining!
Good to know there’s Mining Week in BC and thanks for the giveaway.
Would be a sweet way to start the summer! iPad 3!
Brittania mine is cool,
Any time I think of mining in B.C. I think of my elementary school field trips to Britannia Mines where we learned how to pan for gold.
This link made me have a look at other sites about mining in BC. Very interesting.
Hey Guys,
It’s great to see you in the community! Looking forward to some of the events that will be taking place!!
Glad to see you’re working with these folks again!
I think it would be so much fun to watch the celebrity pie throw at the art gallery!
Been to the mining week last year and it was great and very interesting and a great trip with my son. Would love to win this package, he’s been wishing and requesting for an ipad for the last year. Would love to be able to present this to him! Pick me, Pick me!
Ahhh my computer is slowly dying (go figure it’s a dell) so I am having to use my iphone for everything. Please help me hehe.
Yes I would love to win an ipad! 😀
Yes! Yes!! Yes!!! Free I-pad. My Kid will love one.
Im sooo going to check out the pie tossing!
re: mining – I don’t think I ever grew up from being a kid getting a rock tumbler for Xmas, I still end up going home after a day at the beach or where ever with rocks in my pockets!
This is a Kool place! love to win also! 😉
What a fantastic opportunity to win a quality prize!
awesome! thanks for the chance.
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Great events going on for mining week!
The pie throw for mining for miracles is a great event 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
what an awesome giveaway! =D
BC Mining Week highlights what a great contribution the BC Mining Industry makes to our Province both in terms of providing jobs to remote areas and supporting charities. As someone who works in the mining industry an ipad 3 of my very own would mean I could give back my work one and have one all of my very own – lol!
Great information and prize again!
awesome contest!
would love to take the family to britannia mine museum for the day ….
with my new iPad!
I’ve done some environmental work in the mining sector.
Great prize.
What a great event to bring to everyone’s attention!
I’ve never been to the Mining Museum and I’ve really been meaning to go. Perhaps this summer.
The Britannia Mine Museum is a wonderful place to visit. We enjoyed our time there and got some cool pics too.
Yay! Mining is cool, and winning stuff is even cooler!
I’d say it’s about time to finally get into the new millenium and a new IPad would help
would definitely like to take my kids to visit The Britannia Mine Museum during the summer break
I went to the Britannia Mine Museum a while back and would love to go again
would love love to win this!!! =D
nice prize.
Ipads make the world go round.
great contest, I’ve always wanted to visit that museum.
Happy Mining Week to everyone in this industry!
Going to the Britannia museum this weekend!
Can’t wait!
What an awesome prize!
Goin down in the ground
iPad? Yeah, I could use one of those.
What a very important part of history and the future.
Ohhhh boy… this would be a DREAM PRIZE!
nice to see the industry in a positive light for a change
Mining is one of BC’s largest and oldest industries!
Karm.
I live in Nanaimo and we have lots of mining history here!! #miningweek
Another great contest. Hoping for a win for once!
Loved the Britannia Mining Museum tour, we went in March. Tour was led by a great fellow who used to work in the active mine.
Ironically enough, I just transferred into the Mining division at my company! Would be fabulous to win an iPad to commemorate the occasion 🙂
ipad 3 would be the PERFECT birthday gift!!! Great contest, great museum!
Love me an ipad…
yea mining yea iPad3
I actually have photos, from when my father would go to these sites, as he was a regional manager at the time for General Tire Company.. and one time he took my younger brother and the picture of a little fellow beside one of those huge mining trucks was crazy!
Would love to win an iPad to give to my Mum for mother’s day!
I’ve always wanted an iPad3! 🙂 and I have always wanted to do the Britannia Tour, is that part of the prize too???
I believe in Mining.
Which is why I think this iPad should be Mine.
Would love to check out some of these Mining Week events!
I pad 3 would truly be an amazing win * fingers crossed*
Wow, I’ve heard a bit of BC Mining in the past year. So glad that more light is shed on the industry.
Amazing giveaway again, Rebecca!
Nothing but respect for the men and women who risk their lives to provide us the materials for an inhanced quality of living.
iPad? yesPlease! Mining ROCKS!
Wow, an iPad! Super!
sweet prize!
Help me enter the modern age! I am Ipad-less. And I love rocks. That’s like mining, right?
I’d like to find out more about mining.
I like this contest. Mining is an important part of BC’s history.
Makes sense, as many of the iPad’s components are based on mining products
pie throw would be a fun experience
Always interesting to hear what is up in the mining industry. I’ll be sure to “mine” for information on my new ipad if i win it.
I feel we take mining for granted here in Vancouver. It contributes a lot to our provincial economy.
These events should be cool to check out.
Mining is such a huge driver of BC and Canada’s economy. Really happy to see it get the visibility and recognition in many communities with this event. Hope it continues.
Also look forward to throwing pies in front of the Vancouver Art Gallery on Mat 17th!
Never knew about mining week. cool giveaway, wanna own an ipad.
Never knew about mining week! Cool!
happy mining week!
Yes please!
Would love to win this Rebecca!
Ipad 3 would be amazing!
Minning is good for the BC economy!!!
my mom has an ipad… i need one to keep up with her!
Interesting post! We visited Britannia a few years ago and it was very interesting. 🙂
Minning for iPad 3!
Congrats Danika! Enjoy!