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News and Events

• The NWOPA Awards Committee is pleased to announce the 2019 Bernie Schnieders Discovery of the Year Award
  
• The Ontario Explortion Showcase scheduled for April 7-8, 2020 at the Valhalla Inn in Thunder Bay has been cancelled. (see announcement from the OPA)
  
• The NWOPA Awards Dinner scheduled for April 7, 2020 has been cancelled.

• The Annual General Meeting of the Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association (NWOPA) scheduled for Tuesday, April 7, 2020 at the Ontario Prospectors Exploration Showcase has been postponed to a future date.
• The 8th Annual Mining Day scheduled to be held at Marina Park in Thunder Bay on June 20, 2020 has been cancelled until June, 2021. Click to view Mining Day Website
• 2019 Ontario Prospectors Exploration Showcase "Here we GOLD again"  was held at the Valhalla Inn in Thunder Bay  on April 2 & 3 , 2019. On Tuesday evening April 2 the NWOPA Awards were presented (Click to view)

  

Current Metals Prices

Covid 19 and the Minerals Sector
The Raw Materials group at the Irish Centre for Research in Applied Geosciences (iCRAG) is conducting a brief survey of members of the mineral exploration, mining, and minerals research communities to assess the immediate effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. 
We urge you to complete this survey, which should take about 3 minutes. https://tinyurl.com/y6vtlmuz
       Only complete the survey ONCE
     The survey will close on May 1, 2020
The results will be available in May 2020

Ore Deposits 101
Check out this series of videos from Sprott Global Investments giving an introduction to different ore deposit types in simple layman's terms.
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