BC Mining Week 2013: iPad Mini Giveaway
The Mining Association of BC is hosting BC Mining Week from April 28th to May 4th, celebrating the history and future one of the province’s largest industries through community events from Britannia Beach to Fort St. James.
1898: Pick and shovel mine near Ferguson. VPL# 70 & 1926: Miner sitting on a ‘locie’ towing ore cars. VPL# 8361. Photographer: Albert Paull
Photo credit: John Bollwitt on Flickr
BC Mining Week Events
Vancouver
Event: BC Mining Week Opening Reception & Mining Person of the Year 2012 Award
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013 from 5:30pm to 8:30pm
Location: Five Sails Restaurant, 999 Canada Place
Tickets can be purchased in advance online.
Event: Vancouver Board of Trade Luncheon
Date: Tuesday, April 30, 2013 from 11:45am to 2:00pm
Location: Fairmont Waterfront — Waterfront Ballroom, 900 Canada Place Way
The keynote speaker is Karina Briño, President & CEO, Mining Association of BC. Tickets can be purchased in advance online via the Vancouver Board of Trade.
Event: BC Mining Week Community Fair
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 from 10:00am to 3:00pm
Location: Creekside Community Centre, 1 Athletes Way
FREE family-friendly event open to everyone. The community fair will feature displays, demonstrations and hands-on learning activities showcasing mineral exploration and mining the the role minerals play in our everyday lives. School children and the general public are invited to participate in this lively and entertaining day. The BC Mining Week Community Fair, organized and co-hosted by the Association for Mineral Exploration and MineralsEd (Mineral Resources Education Program of BC) with the support of the BC Mining Week Committee.
Event: Women in Mining Gala Reception
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 from 4:30pm to 7:30pm
Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, Oceanview Suite, 999 Canada Place Way
This event is already sold out.
Event: Teck’s Annual Celebrity Pie Throw
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 11:30am to 1:30pm
Location: Vancouver Art Gallery (front lawn)
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 25 years. Hosted by Global TV’s Wayne Cox and attended by celebrated and notable individuals from BC’s mining industry, the pie throw has become a campaign favorite. This popular event throws the world’s most expensive cream pies in the faces of mining industry leaders, all in support of BC’s sick and injured kids.
Event: Career Day in Mining
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013 from 9:00am to 12:30pm
Location: SFU Segal Graduate School of Business (Room 4400) 500 Granville St
If you are an undergraduate student or graduate student looking for job ideas or simply more information about the BC mining industry – reserve this career fair in your calendars. You will enjoy a number of presentations showcasing how diverse the industry is. Come discover what jobs are available in the fields of geoscience, exploration, development of projects, operating mines, educational institutions and local and international projects.
Elk Valley
Event: Elk Valley Mine Tours
Date: Monday, April 29, 2013 to Friday, May 3, 2013
Location: You are invited to join Teck Coal for a free mine tour of one of their five operations in the Elk Valley. To book on one of the tours please contact the Sparwood Chamber: 1-877-922-2423. This will be an opportunity to see where steelmaking coal comes from and to learn about mining–from exploration to production to reclamation.
Fort St. James
Event: Mining Week in Fort St. James
Date: Wednesday, May 1, 2013 from 10:00am to 2:00pm
Location: The College Of New Caledonia, 179 Douglas Ave
FREE event where you can include meet with local Mining companies in the area, find out who and when they want to hire, try the heavy haul truck simulators, attend a MINE 101 seminar with our Regional Geologist at 11:00am, tour our campus for hands on displays, chat with local mining companies.
Smithers
2nd Annual Exploration & Mining Community Expo
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 9:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Northwest Community College, Smithers Campus
Take advantage of this great opportunity to discover and celebrate the exploration and mining industries, career and training opportunities at this FREE regional event. General public welcome.
Event: Smithers Exploration Group Annual Business Luncheon
Date: Friday, May 3, 2013 from 11:30am to 1:30pm
Location: Hudson Bay Lodge, Ferguson Room
Celebrate Mining with us: Looking Back, Building Ahead! This year for BC Mining Week 2013, Smithers Exploration Group and Smithers District Chamber of Commerce are partners in presenting the annual Mining Week 2013 luncheon in Smithers BC. To purchase tickets, please contact the Smithers Chamber of Commerce at 250-847-5072 or e-mail info[at]smitherschamber.com
Prince George
Prince George Seminar and Business Luncheon
Date: Thursday, May 2, 2013 from 9:00am to 2:00pm
Location: Ramada Hotel, 444 George St
Tickets can be purchases in advance online.
Britannia Beach (Sea to Sky)
Event: Family Fun Day at the Britannia Mine Museum
Date: Saturday, May 4, 2013 from 9:00am to 5:00pm
Location: Britannia Mine Museum, Sea to Sky Highway (Highway 99)
Britannia Mine Museum Family Fun Day will be filled with great activities including chocolate chip cookie exploration and gold panning races with prizes. A blacksmith will be on site demonstrating his craft swinging hammers and making lots of sparks. All of the Museum’s attractions will be open as well, including the famous guided underground experience. Check out the Britannia Mine Museum website for your admission coupon.
Princeton
Bonus Event: Mining Day in Princeton – Copper Mountain Sponsored Family Day
Date: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 from 3:30pm to 6:00pm
Location: Veteran’s Square
Copper Mountain Mining, the Mining Association of British Columbia,and the District of Princeton are pleased to invite you to a unique opportunity to celebrate BC Mining Week in Princeton. Join them for FREE face-painting, live entertainment, hot dogs & hamburgers, a magician, gold panning, and more.
Kamloops
Bonus Event: KEG / CIM Community Fair
Date: Saturday, May 11th, 2013 from 11:00am to 4:00pm
Location: Big Little Science Center, 985 Holt St
FREE admission. The Paddlewheelers Lions Club will be on site cooking hamburgers and hot dogs for sale, come try New Gold‘s Heavy Equipment Simulator, try the hands-on activities and visit the displays, have a close-up look at some heavy equipment, bring in your rocks to be identified, learn to gold pan with Yukon Dan.
BC Mining Week Contest
In 2011 and 2012 I partnered with BC Mining Week by hosting giveaways and we’re doing it again this year thanks to Rio Tinto Alcan. Enter to win an iPad Mini exclusively from BC Mining Week and Miss604! Here’s how:
- Leave a comment on this post (1 entry)
- Post the following on Twitter (1 entry)
I will draw one winner at 12:00pm on Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Follow the Mining Association of BC on Twitter for more information about BC Mining Week and surrounding events. Double your chances of winning a great prize by also entering to win an iPad directly from BC Mining Week by entering their contest online.
This contest is open to residents of BC only. The prize has been furnished by the Mining Association of BC/Rio Tinto Alcan 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 Tracy Mack!
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would love to win an ipad mini!
Lots of great events going on!
I love the mining museum and I would love an iPad mini of course
Love going to Britannia Mines, would LOVE to win!
Thanks for all your great work letting us know about events around town.
Definitely gonna take the kids up to Britannia!
Another great prize offering from Miss 604!
Mining has pretty much kept our economy afloat…
Awesome contest & very educational!
Great stuff! and prizes are awesome too!
Where does the metal in all these Apple devices come from anyways?
Great contest… thanks
Fort St. James is pretty cool. Im all for current day technology but its pretty awesome to see where we started. BC is where its at!
Yes please!
:,) I remember going on a mining field trip in elementary school. One of the best memories because it was fun and educational.
Amazing Prize from an amazing site !!!!
Oooo – looks like fun!
I have to go the renovated Britannia mine in Britiannia beach this summer, thanks for the reminder and giveaway
The mining history in BC is so extensive.
From Britannia all the way back to the Fraser River goldrush in 1858 and the coal mines in Nanaimo in 1839.
I would love to be able to research this all on an Ipad mini!
gotta love mining season!
I would love to win an iPad Mini.
Heehee I have a ticket to the Women in Mining Reception! Would love to win the iPad Mini!
iPad? Count me in.
Brilliant giveaway. Good luck to me!
Kind of an odd prize for mining week but it’s a great one nonetheless!
Great opportunity to lern about the industry.
I work for a mining company. What a great prize, I would love to win it!
Sounds awesome
Too bad I missed the Social Media Awards! Love all of your blogging!
Would love an iPad mini!
Lots of great events going on!
I’ve never had a chance to visit a mine but I’ve always been fascinated with them. Especially in the movie October Sky, which features a mining town. Great subject and great prize giveaway.
BC is lucky to have so many resources and the mining sector plays such a big part. Will try and take in the event at Creekside. Thanks for keeping us informed.
Britannia rocks!!
Love the mining museum! Great stuff in there.
IPad technology not possible without the metals and minerals from mining – very appropriate giveaway
would love to check out Britannia =)
I would love to go to Britannia Mines and I would love an IPad Mini.
sweet prize!
I keep meaning to visit the Britannia Mines – I’ve heard a lot of great things about them. Maybe I’ll head down on May 4th!
Love the Britannia Museum and would love an iPad mini!
Can I win please?! Would love to win.
Great prize. Hope I win!
We’ve driven past the mining museum many times & I’ve always wanted to check it out. Maybe this summer we’ll take a Sunday drive up & finally do it. I bet it’s nice & cool inside in the summer!
What a great contest, I was there just this September and had a great time.
Cool! I’ll try to check out the Princeton event!
Awesome prize!
I’d love to win this contest!
Mining is a big part of why BC is the way it is and it’s important to remember that.
Yes please and thank you!
The improvements they’ve made to the Britannia Mine Museum in recent years are great to see.
Love your blog and all the great contests you have!
I would love to win one for my Mom for Mother’s Day and also go to the mine.
Love to win! 😀
These events all look great!
Interesting week-long event! Would love to check some of them out.
I would love to win an ipad mini! Perfect size!
The celebrity pie throw looks like fun
This makes me want to go back to Britannia Mine Museum.
I’ve always wanted to go to the Britannia Mine Museum – definitely doing that this summer!
The BC Mining Brittania Mine Museum is well worth the visit
Never owned an iPad before, love to win an iPad mini!
I ♥ my wee gold nugget earrings and pendant from my hubby’s gold mining days! Mining Museum is a fantastic place for kids, I remember mine panning for gold once upon a time.
I’m thinking of taking my 3 kids to the free family fair on May 1st.It sounds really interesting and educational for them as well.
Great contest. I had no idea about BC Mining Week. Very interesting.
I first heard about mining week last year on miss 604. I learned a lot from reading up on it. Thanks for the contest!
I’m looking forward to the Teck pie throwing contest!
I’ve wanted to check out Britannia mine for ages, yay for BC mining!
My son loves big machines
Thank you BC Mining and Miss604 for hosting various informative events all across BC and a chance to win an awesome prize!
An ipad mini would be an amazing way to celebrate BC Mining 🙂
Would love to win an ipad. Wanted one for awhile.
Would be thrilled to have one for school.
Wow! Amazing giveaway~
https://twitter.com/leanne_mac/status/328021440282624000
I just saw one of these, and it looked amazing!
I am excited for Mining Week! So many neat events!
Good luck!
Mining is so deep!
i lived in bc all my life but know next to nothing about bc’s mining industry, i think its ’bout time i bring the family to one of bc’s mining events! thanks
I wish I could go to the Elk Valley mine tour
I have yet to visit BC but hope to one. Love to win an iPad
Brittania is somewhere I have wanted to visit for a long time. I respect all that Miners do and to the Miners that have lost their lives. They are brave souls.
My husband has visited mining events all over the world but it will be great to share his passion with the family in his own hometown.
Years ago my family went on a tour of Briannia mine. It was fantastic!
Wish I had an ipad mini so I could read more about mining 😉
Love reading your blog!!
This is supposed to be a great museum. I’ve heard good reviews.
We took my nephew and did the tour at the Brittania Mining Museum years ago and it was way better than I thought it would be (for a girl!) I highly recommend it for everyone! Don’t miss out on this local piece of history. Great contest too! The mini ipad would be wonderful!
Fingers crossed.
This is great!
Lots of great events happening!
Nice prize.
So many great events! Thanks for the post and I’d love to win an iPad mini 🙂
Wow, lots happening in the mining community! Count me in for the iPad mini draw, thanks!!!
mining is wicked.
My boyfriend had the chance to check out a diamond mine in November and he had an incredible experience. Unbelievable how much courage and sacrifice goes into being a miner.
Bailey
http://akabailey.blogspot.ca
Hi ho hi ho it’s off to work we go…
Such a good part of our history!
Awesome post, full of great info! Thanks!
Great event to raise awareness of the importance of mining!
Our company participates in mining week each year. It’s a great event celebrating B.C.’s mining heritage. What a great contest to spread the word!
Ooh, I would love to win!!
Ooh, I would love to win!! Thanks for the contest!
Sounds like an interesting event. Thanks for having this prize draw.
I’ve toured the Britannia Mine Museum and it is an incredible experience. Mining is an important part of our heritage.
Thank you for the contest!
Would love to win an ipad mini!
Would love to win this, thanks~
Thanks for the contest, love to win it !
So many things to explore within BC Mining! gonna do some field trips soon!
My twin girls loved the heavy machinery trading simulators at the event in kamloops last year. iPad mini would be a bonus.
Thx Miss604
Love the Brit Museum- good childhood memories. Thanks for another great cobtest, Miss 604!
iPad would be iLoved!
Would love an iPad Mini.
Yay, an iPad Mini!
I’d love an iPad mini!
Thanks for letting us know about BC Mining Week!
Family Fun Day at the Britannia Mine Museum sounds great!
Great contest. I can’t wait until my foot is healed to go to the Britannia Museum!
iluv this! <3
So much information in this post!
I’m crossing my fingers for the contest!
I’m a Samsung fan, but I’ll won’t say no to a free apple.
I’m definitely going to check out the Britannia Museum this summer, and would love an iPad mini for school!
perfect for on the go!
My grandpa worked at Copper Mountain! Thanks for the contest.
I enjoyed the museum & would really enjoy an ipad mini.
I haven’t been to the Britannia Mine Museum since I was a little girl. Our class went on a field trip there. Great memories. I will definitely have to check it out again. Thanks for reminding me about the Britannia Mine.
Would really enjoy an ipad mini!
Need an ipad
Taking my kids to Brittania Mine is on my to do list
@miss604 great shout out – mining rocks!
I’d love to win.
Will stop by next time we go up to Whistler!
Sounds like some great events!
very interested in seeing the museum and winning the ipad!
Never visited a mining museum and don’t own an iPad, mini or not… Fingers crossed!
Mining is huge part of the BC economy, support miners and their families this election!
nice prize!
I have never visited a mining museum,
Great contest!
I would love to win an iPad mini!
would love a new ipad
It would be awesome to win a new ipad! 😉
Nice prize – would love to win this. We went to the mining museum last summer with guests from out of town and it was a grey experience…highly recommended!
would love to win an ipad mini
what a great prize
Would love to win
The events are diverse and interesting, maybe will make it to the close by one.
The pie contest sounds fun but winning the I-pad is great!!
Would love to win this prize thank you
Looks like a fun place to go!
Would love to win an iPad Mini
BC #MiningWeek is very important gives a lot of information that everyone should be aware of
Great to see all these events being offered!
Happy that #miningweek is back! We enjoy the historical photos.
We are fortunate to have such an industry which employees thousands of BC workers. Happy BC Mining week!
Love when they’ve done to Britannia Mines. CONGRATULATIONS!
Hi Rebecca!!
We have always wondered about the mining museum and have been wanting to go there… thank you for all the info! I would love to win an iPad mini as I am kind of in the dark ages… have never owned an iPod much less an iPhone or iPad! (Although I would really like one and would put it to good use!!)
Did the Britannia Mine tour last autumn – excellent staff, and really enjoyed the time there. Would also very much enjoy an ipad mini 🙂
It would definitely be interesting to attend some of these events.
Would love to win an ipad mini!
I have always wanted to go to see this place. seeing this has reminded me. I might take my son up this summer
Thanks for the great Post!
Brittania is well worth checking out
Going to check out these sweet events. Thanks Miss604:D
I hope that i can check out some of these great events!
This is the summer to tour the Hedley mine. Mining week is a good reminder to visit.
i think my little guy would lose his mind if he saw that gigantic dump truck!!
I have two brothers working BC Mines & my father did & grandfather too. So nice these events celebrate the industry. Would love to win!
Britannia mines looks like an interesting place to go.
Great post!
I remember going to the Britannia Mine Museum for a field trip in elementary school. It was a lot of fun! Looks like lots of events all around the province!
some great tours here for BC Mining week.
Crossing my fingers for the iPad mini!!
this is a great prize!
id love to win
This would be awesome to win!
Yes please
Lots of great events! Love the Brittania museum.
Haven’t been to the Britannia Mine in years…sometimes forget all of the cool things available just outside of Vancouver
Britannia Mine ROCKS.
Lots of amazing events! Hope i get the chance to check out some of them !
you have the best contests and this is a great post – love Britannia mine 😉
the mining museum is awesome.
ipad mini – pretty fun!
I grew up near Logan Lake and we used to go there on school trips.
Oh how I would love this!!!
another great prize from Miss 604!
Great prize! Thanks for the contest.
I’d love to win!
Awesome looking forward to this!!! 🙂
what a great event, mining put BC on the map, winning an mini ipad would make history for me
Thanks for supporting mining in BC!
I love mining week and would love an iPad Mini!!
Great prize!
Thanks for hosting the giveaway and for rounding up a bunch of the activities throughout the province!
This would be great!
Thanks for posting all the mining week events! Can’t wait for the WIM cocktail reception.
Would be a great gift.
I’d love to be a winner! Followed Miss 604 for over a year now, would love to win with you one day 🙂
I would love to win an iPad Mini
I’d love to get thay ipad!
I love the Mining Museum at Britannia Beach!
Went up to Britannia Mines last year during Mining Week. Wow, they had done a lot of work and upgrades to the place. We took some American friends of ours and they loved it!
Looks like some fun events!
Great events , great contest!
LOVE IT……….would love to win, my sister(71) is 14 yr old than me and she’s getting one, I feel left behind!
I love the Britannia Mine Museum! The underground tour and gold panning are so much fun.
Great contest to support a huge BC industry.
Great contest, great prize!
Awesome that you are partnered with them again!
Used to live in Tumbler Ridge, so I know how important mining is to BC. Thanks for the great contest!
I’m entering to win the ipad…
Cool events especially the Britannia Beach (Sea to Sky) one! Enter me in to win the iPad mini, that would be awesome : ) thanks!
Awesome, thank you for the chance!
Great listing of events for BC Mining Week.
neat info and great contest
Great activities to be had and explorations to do. Would also love to win this Ipad!!! Please, pretty please!
Working with and taking kids to these events helps to bring our history alive for our kids…..
Sounds like great events happening! I’d love to go out to brittania again soon
Yay Mining! (and ipad mini 🙂
Great events! The mining museum is an interesting place.
This laptop somehow survived the semester, but I think an Ipad mini is in my future! Thanks BC mining week 😉
Currently I’m looking into becoming a Heavy Hauler myself and am exploring the education and career opportunities.
It’d be awesome to win this prize!
This reminds me of social studies class back in high school. I really enjoyed learning about this!
It is event great!
“Mining week ”
I hope in my country sometime day I will can create same event
This is culture!! for family
Have good week and success in your event!
I could use an ipad
What would we do without mining?
Free Mining tours AND a free iPad mini?!?….yes please!!!
I love this blog, since I work with children I am able to find amazing things to do. Without your list of events my day would be full of boredom. The giveaways are a great bonus too. Thanks so much for your great work
I need that ipad mini!!
Great contest!
Way more going on in mining than I would have guessed! Enjoyed a vist to Hedley a few years back. Would love the ipad!
Love the site Miss 604! Never felt so conntected to what is going on in Vancouver!
Mining is a big part of our history. It is great to see the industry thriving.
What a great event pie toss is, supporting BC Children’s Hospital!
this would make a great bday present for my wife!!
Great post on this little known but important BC resource!
Can’t wait for the Women in Mining luncheon. Should be a great event, glad I got my tickets early!
Britannia Mines sounds interesting. Would love to check it out and owning an iPad mini would be great.
This sounds awesome!
I’m mining your website for an iPad Mini.
Count me in!
I hope the iPad Mini is Mine
Hope that iPad mini can be MINE!
Looking forward to visiting the mine next month.
YES PLEASE!!!
Would love to win this 🙂 Thanks!!
pick me, pick me!
Fantastic line up of events for BC Mining week
Great contest – thanks
not a mini giveaway by my standards!
This is super! Thank you for the opportunity!
I would love to win this!
I need to visit the Brittania Mine one day. I don’t think I’ve ever been there.
I like this prize.
surfed in looking for photos of winners clearance racks, how else to window shop from a small town, well I do not see any, silly google, but I did take a short mining class last year so this is interesting, might head up to brittania for the tour, count me in for the apple swag draw thanks K
Would love to win 🙂
Hubby totally needs an iPad mini for school!
a great reminder of BC’s history
love apple products!
Yet another gr8 contest & prize @Mis604 & some gr8 #MiningWeek events. I learned something new, ty 🙂 Good luck every1 🙂
I love that museum I used to take my kids there 🙂
I would like to ride in one of those huge trucks.
I didn’t even know we had this!
Toured Britannia mine last year.
Love it!
3rd time’s a charm 😉
I have never heard of Mining Week until I found miss604…thank you both for this contest.
Would love an iPad mini
hope I win!
Count me in!
Great article! Yes please!
I’ve been to the museum in Brittania, well worth it (and a great drive!).
Great events @ super great prize!
Can’t wait to see what celebrities get pie’d at The Teck Celebrity Pie throw!
I’d love to win it for my wife
wow, I would LOVE THIS!
Happy BC Mining Week! My grandfather used to work in the mines.
Also, I am only person on my block without a iPad!
I would love to win an Ipad Mini
I would love to win an iPad
Good luck!
Awesome contest!
This is awesome!
Great prize…thanks!
Been wanting to visit the Britannia Mine Museum. Everyone says it’s great!
So many events coming up, so excited!!
thanks for the list of events
Great contest!!
still remember that grade 4 trip to brittania mines so many years ago
Looking forward to getting to know the mining industry more!
I will definitely be taking the fam to the Brittania Mine Museum this weekend! We love being so close in Squamish:) Great place, great event and great for everyone…thanks for this!
Looks interesting! I can’t believe I’ve never heard of Mining Week until now?!
Ya to bc mining!
Hope I win!
I want to check out some of these mining week activities. An iPad mini would be a great prize!
Love it!
I visit Britannia at least once a year on my way up to Whistler! The best part is panning for gold and the mini train ride!
Would love this.
I love visiting Britannia. It’s so much fun to pan for gold.
Can’t wait to visit Hedley’s mine museum this summer!
That looks kinda fun.
love to have an ipad mini
love the minis!
I’ve seen it from the outside while driving by, and that it was fixed up quite nice, but never knew what it was – thanks for your pictures.
My kids love visiting Britannia.
I love touring the ghosts towns of BC when my disabled body lets me and this I_pad can help me find some that I have not discovered yet. I can’t wait to find Phoenix I have been to Princeton Mines before they restarted and Britannia both many times 🙂
The mining industry has such a deep history and a big impact on our economy! It’s great to bring such awareness to people who aren’t directly exposed on a day to day basis.
Great prize! Hope I win. 🙂
Would love this!
Thanks for the info. Fingers crossed for the ipad!
Very good info in this post.
woo! Pick me! Love the post – would love the mini!
My daughters love the Britannia Mine Museum
Love the Britannia Mine trip!
Great post – full of info. Plus you have the best contests!
Thank you for this opportunity. My grandfather was a miner in Haileybury, Ontario and before he passed away, gave me his rocks and mineral collection. Today, I have a large collection of common and rare specimens. I have bookmarked this page for [near] future reference and plan to do some of the above tours.
The Britannia Mine Museum is so fun! Pan for gold!
Without mining there wouldn’t be an iPad [or a mini]!
Pan for gold!
big part of BC’s history! And an iPad mini is just icing on the cake.
yes please
We’ve visited the Britannia Mine Museum and really enjoyed it. Makes an excellent stop on your way to Whistler.
pick me please =)
This could be the first Apple product that I will own!
I scream for ipad!
Mining ROCKS!
Want to win one for my sister for her birthday!
would love to win this
I definitely want to visit the mining museum in britannia beach this summer.
Go canucks go
Thank you! I’d love to win an iPad mini!
Great prize
I confess I’ve still never visited the Britannia mine… definitely long overdue!
Lived in Vancouver all my life – have never been to the Britannia mine – went last week – it was AWESOME!!!
my blackberry playbook died just after warrenty :(. I’m happy to try the iPad mini
I would love to win this iPad mini for my mom to give to her on Mother’s Day. She’s an amazing women and works hard everyday. She’s been wanting a iPhone or iPad for awhile so I would be so happy to win this one for her.
fingers crossed!
Great event, great prize!
Would love to win one of these puppies as I could give it to my mom on Mother’s Day.
cool prize. went to AME’s False Creek event this week for kids – lots of info
Awesome!
Thank you for sharing where we can go to learn more about mining in BC. I still remember my grade 5 field where I got to go gold panning and had such fun!
Safety first in mining. No questions about it.
I think Yukon Dan is great! He’s going to be in Kamloops, if you haven’t seen him pan for gold you should!
would love to win!!
the iPad Mini… the iPad Apple should have made first. Would love to win one
I remember all the field trips to Britannia as a kid.
Great…Mining Museum is cool!
Some great events listed , we hope to get out to some of them
Love all the renovations at Britannia Mines. My girls LOVED it there!
Yes please!
– @miss_erynn_
Love hearing about cool BC events like these on your blog. Thx!
Dang, that’s cool!
BC mining
I’ve driven by the museum a million times, but have never been.
I’m always in a rush to get to my northern destination.
I see they’ve given the outside a face lift.
I’d love to go!!!
Mini me wants a mini ipad
awesome prize
Awesome prize!
I just RT this contest and hoping I could the the lucky winner
Interesting event.
We would love to win the mini! We visited The Crow’s Nest Pass Coal Company two ummers ago and saw the abandoned Coke mining operations….very cool!
I’ve always been amazed by the mining industry. It’s good to see the effort to educate people about them.
Your blog always has the very best stuff!
I would love to win an iPad mini! Always so jealous of my friends who have one.
I would love to win an ipad!!
Crossing my fingers and hoping to win. 🙂
Great Work. Very interesting article! #BCMiningWeek2013
Pretty cool that there’s so many family type of events!
It would be great to win an iPad!
I would like a camp job at one of BC’s mines, but an iPad Mini would make me happy too 🙂
Wow, tons of events spreading awareness about mining! Largely helped by the iPad mini 😉
Thanks for the giveaway. I love the mining museum!
Looks good! Especially the iPad mini contest! It’s nice to see a BC industry putting on great events!
Thanks for another interesting article, and another great giveaway!
Would love to win this so I can keep my 3 year old busy on the car ride up to Britannia Mine when we go!!
many interesting events going on! i don’t have an ipad of any sort yet, so would love one.
iPad Mini! I’d love one for reading. 😉
Happy Mining Week!
I’ve been dying to check britannca out 🙂
I want an iPad so bad, thanks for the chance to win!!!
Thank you Rebecca for informing us all of these great events. Happy Mining Week to all.
Had no idea there was a BC Mining Week!? Thanks for the info Miss604!
Happy Mining Week! I would love to win an iPad Mini. 🙂
Happy Mining Week!
Great cause and would like to win the mini.
When I was a kid, my dad took my sister and I. It was fun. They have greatly improved the site since then and I look forward to going with my family soon.
love to win…
need my own so i dont have to steal my bf’s
Will make a point to try and get to the Mining Museum soon.
Would love an iPad mini!
love to win…
It’d be awesome to have an iPad mini!
I want an ipad!!!
Great week of events to raise awareness of this important industry.
Great contest! I’ve driven past the Britannia mine and thought “I should take the kids there one day!”…..next time we’re in the area it’s on the to-do list.
What a great cause and giveaway! Love an iPad mini.
Great events and a great prize!
Always wanted to check out the Britannia Mine Museum. Maybe this year!
Keep driving by the Britannia Mine Museum, good chance to check it out.
Everything we have from cell phones to bicycles is made up of metals and minerals!
Pretty please.
OMG – yes please!!!