Our Annual Holiday and Volunteer Social was a terrific evening. Close to 40 people attended all decked out in their festive attire. KEG Conference Coordinator, Jen Barter, and her family had the absolute best homemade sweaters, so they got to hit the dinner line first. We all enjoyed Spice: A Taste Of Indian Cuisine before battling it out on the bowling lanes. This years top bowler prize went to KEG Director Karen Kennedy with a high score of 156. Congratulations to the door prize winner,...

This is one of our favourite events. Each November, we team up with Kamloops Museum and Archives to host the annual event. Thank you to our volunteer geologists Robin Whiteaker, Lorne Warner and Ed Frey for identifying over 100 rocks. Thanks to KEG Director Raegan Markle for helping with hand on activities and to long time KEG volunteer Don Bouffard for bringing in some of his incredible rock collection. We saw close to 100 in attendance. Guests were able to speak with geologists and have thier...

We had another incredible tournament honouring a great man. The 2019 Ab Ablett Memorial Charity Golf Tournament saw 36 golfers and more for dinner. We had a putting challenge, silent auction, prizes and a wonderful dinner. The weather was beautiful and everyone had a great time. This year's benefiting charity was the Kamloops SPCA. Hayley Bennett, Manager - Community Engagement at Kamloops BC SPCA, dropped by to visit with attendees and talk about the incredible work they are doing. This...

KEG took part in the 2019 Tech Fest put on by Kamloops Innovation. The theme this year was 'TECHFEST 2019 | Celebrating The Innovation Building BC’s Interior." KEG volunteer, Royanna Wild, had her incredible rock collection on display as well as the reclamation game and a video showing the innovation in mining. This was a very interesting event and sees about 500 in attendance.  

KEG took part in the IndiGem Kamloops Gem & Mineral Show August 23-25 at the McArthur Island Sports Centre. The event had something for everyone. KEG had an informative table with information about what we do along with the reclamation game. There was so much to see and do at the event and we can't wait until the next one!  

The 8th Annual Mining Day took place at the Big Little Science Centre on May 11th. 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, Uncle Chris The Clown, Face Painting by Denise and 2 X Winter X Games Gold Medalist Brett Turcotte for being a big part of the day. Thanks to MABC for their support with the event. Thank you...

We were thrilled to take part in the 5th Annual Meet A Machine, supporting the Kamloops JDRF. The weather saw a bit of everything from snow, rain, wind and sun... but that didn't stop the close to 3500 in attendance with something for everyone. KEG had an Ask A Geologist table, where our volunteer geologists, Ed Frey & Lorne Warner were very busy. We also had Cookie Mining with KEG Outreach Coordinator Julie Dormer, and the reclamation game with KEG Director Raegan Markel.  Thank...

A huge thank you to Alanna Mitchell for all her time spent with KEG. Alanna flew in from Antartica to Kamloops with very little sleep to spend two days with us. On April 3rd, we headed to Salmon Arm to speak to a science class at Salmon Arm High School before giving a lecture to the general public. On April 5th, we spoke to a career class at Norkam High School before the evening lecture at TRU. Alanna gave four lectures to an eager audience. Alanna is a best selling award winning scientific...

Thank you to Ray Lett for his talk titled, "Exploration Geochemistry 2018 – Proven methods and new techniques." Ray was our guest at the annual appreciation social taking part before the lecture. Thank you to those who attended.

Thank you to Nimmi Dhadwal & Josh Parsons for their lecture titled, "New Afton: An overview of a successful BC block cave." (From left to right) KEG director Raegan Markel, speaker Josh Parsons, KEG director and speaker Nimmi Dhadwal and KEG Director John Tyler