Rubicon Minerals Exploration Team Awarded the AME-BC,
Colin Spence Award for Excellence in Global Mineral Exploration
- Rubicon Minerals
Corporation is pleased to announce that its Phoenix Gold Project
exploration team, led by CEO, David Adamson has been awarded The Association
for Mineral Exploration, British Columbia (AME-BC), 2010 Colin Spence Award.
This prestigious honour is given for their role in
the discovery and development of the F2 Gold Deposit in Red Lake,
Ontario. The team consists of: David Adamson, President and CEO,
Matthew Wunder, VP-Exploration, Ian Russell, Terry Bursey and Crystal McCullough.
Quoting from the AME-BC
news release dated December 14, 2010:
"David Adamson,
Matthew Wunder, Ian Russell, Terry Bursey, and Crystal McCullough (The Rubicon Team) of
Rubicon Minerals Corporation are awarded the 2010 Colin Spence Award for
excellence in global mineral exploration. They are acknowledged for their
technical expertise and perseverance in evaluating and recognizing favourable lithologic and
structural elements, and then applying the Red Lake deposit model within the
geologic framework of the Phoenix Gold Project in the Red Lake Gold Camp to
define the potential target that led to the discovery of the high-grade F2 Gold
Zone."
President and CEO and
co-recipient David Adamson said: "On behalf of our entire team, I wish to
acknowledge the great honour of receiving this award
recognizing our discovery in Red Lake. The discovery is testament to the
persistence of a technically focused and talented group of explorationists
which it is a privilege to work with."
Previous recipients of the
award include Ross J. Beaty, Roman Shklanka, Charles Forster and Mark Rebagliati.
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