Thank you to Jim Monger fr his talk titled, "Did craton movement cause Cordilleran mountain building? The case for a continental bulldozer." Just over 50 people braved the snowy weather to attend this fascinating talk. 

AME RoundUp is the largest mining and exploration conference in BC. This is an excellent opportunity for KEG to network, share details about our upcoming conference and talk with other regional exploration groups to share ideas. During our time at the conference, KEG had a booth to speak to delegates as well as a booth at BC Night, a very well attended social event. KEG Directors also attended several meetings including a regional exploration group session to discuss new ideas and what the...

Thank you to Jane McCaw, KEG President, for sharing her knowledge about, "The many categories of land and what they mean to us," at the second lecture of the season. Just under 50 people attended this talk.

We were thrilled to have Dr. Catherine Hickson give the world premier lecture, 'The "wow" factor - an amazing newly discovered geological feature hidden away in Wells Gray Provincial Park,' as our kick off to the 2019 series. It was standing room only for this 45 minute talk that brought in many new faces. Who doesn't want to hear all about this new cave found in Wells Gray!? While Catherine was here, she did several interviews including the final Jim Harrison Show on Radio NL and Midday with...

We had a fabulous night at our combined annual volunteer appreciation & holiday social. This year we celebrated at Falcon Lanes with a catered Greek dinner from Dorian’s and a battle on the alley’s for the top bowler prize, which went to Marty Henning. The theme this year was ‘Don we now our plaid apparel,' which saw everyone sporting their best plaid attire. This years door prize was won by long time volunteer, Ed Frey. A wonderful family fun night which also doubled as a...

New process for submitting Notice of Work applications online for placer mining, aggregates, and mineral exploration on behalf of the Natural Resource Permitting Project, part of the Ministry of Forests, Lands, Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development. These applications will be submitted through the Natural Resource (NR) Online Services website and are self-serve from start to submission. The benefits of using NR Online Services include: · Submit...

KEG held its annual Ask A Geologist at the Kamlooops Museum and Archives. We had lots of hands on activities and educational information on display as well as our volunteer geologists on hand to answer questions and identify rocks. Thank you to Ed Frey, Lorne Warner and Don Bouffard for sharing your knowledge and time once again. Close to 100 people of all ages attended and brought in some incredible rocks for identification. KEG holds 3 to 4 of these events each year... the next one is...

A huge thank you to all our sponsors, everyone who attended, the staff at Mt Paul Golf Course and the Ablett family for making this years Ab Ablett Memorial Charity Golf Tournament such a success. We had 35 registered golfers and an additional 9 guests for dinner for a total of 44 attendees. The weather cooperated, in the end, and everyone had a fabulous time. This year we added a live auction item along with the silent auction, putting challenge, mulligans and golf prizes. We raised more...

The 7th Annual Mining Day took place at the Big Little Science Centre on May 12th. Thank you to co sponsor CIM South Central Branch, all our volunteers and all the industry reps for taking the time to have a hands on educational booth during the event. Big thanks to World Professional Gold Panner Yukon Dan, Magician Clinton W. Gray and 2 X Winter X Games Gold Medalist Brett Turcotte for being a big part of the day. Thanks to MABC for driving up the Hybrid car which showed us all how cars come...

We were thrilled to take part in the 4th Annual Meet A Machine, supporting the Kamloops JDRF. Once again, the event say close to 4000 in attendance with something for everyone. KEG had an Ask A Geologist table, where our volunteer geologists, Ed Frey & Ellen Biascucci, were very busy. We also had Cookie Mining with KEG Outreach Coordinator Julie Dormer, and Future Miner Business Card Making with KEG President Jane McCaw. Thank you to all our volunteers and the Meet A Machine Committee for...