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NEWS RELEASE: Vale Celebrates Another ‘Sudbury Saturday Night’ with a $50,000 Donation to Maison Vale Hospice


(L to R) Léo Lefebvre, Chair of the Board of Maison Vale Hospice; Kelly Strong, Vale’s Vice-President of Ontario & UK Operations; Léo Therrien, Executive Director, Maison Vale Hospice.

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SUDBURY, February 11th, 2013 – Vale celebrated another Sudbury Saturday Night on February 9th with a $50,000 donation to Maison Vale Hospice for programs and services.

“Vale is pleased to offer continued support for Maison Vale Hospice” said Kelly Strong, Vice-President, Ontario & UK Operations, Vale. “We are proud to be associated with such a compassionate and caring organization, which has touched the lives of so many in our community.”

Maison Vale Hospice provides vital support and quality care to individuals and families in a homelike environment. The Hospice assists residents in their final stages of life by attending to their physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and practical needs.

“Maison Vale Hospice is fortunate to have developed such a mutually rewarding partnership with Vale,” said Léo Lefebvre, Chair of the Board of Maison Vale Hospice. “The company’s continued support is truly appreciated and benefits every resident and family who journey with us at the Hospice.”

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NEWS RELEASE: MINERS FOR CANCER RAISES OVER $60,000 FOR CANCER RESEARCH & PROGRAMS


(L to R) Rob Payette with his wife Marlene and daughter Lucinah picking up the 2nd prize Kubota RTV.

Sudbury, February 08, 2013 – Miners for Cancer is pleased to announce that their annual Allan Epps Memorial Hockey Challenge (sponsored by Sandvik), that took place January 24-27th at the T.M. Davies Community Arena, generated $60,540. This brings the group’s fundraising total to over $700,000 – all of which is donated to cancer research and programs in Northern Ontario.

“This was a really great way to kick off our 2013 fundraising year,” said Wayne Tonelli, President, Miners for Cancer, “and we will keep on fundraising for cancer research & programs as long as cancer keeps affecting our community.”

To help with fundraising efforts, Miners for Cancer held a raffle draw and throughout the days leading up to the hockey challenge, board members and participating hockey players took part in selling tickets. The draw took place on Saturday, January 26th, and the winners were:

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NEWS RELEASE: Teck Named to Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations List

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA–(Marketwire – Jan. 23, 2013) – Today at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Teck Resources Limited (TSX: TCK.A and TCK.B, NYSE: TCK) (“Teck”) was recognized as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations for 2013 by media and investment research company Corporate Knights. Teck was the top ranked Canadian company on the Global 100 list.

“Our people live and work in the communities where we operate and they care deeply about doing the right thing for future generations,” said Don Lindsay, President and CEO. “This ranking recognizes the progress we’ve made, but we know there is more work to be done. Teck remains committed to responsible resource development and to considering people, communities and the environment, now and in the future, in every decision we make.”

Launched in 2005, the ranking of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations was recently recognized as the world’s most credible corporate sustainability ranking in a GlobeScan/SustainAbility survey. The top 100 companies are selected from all publicly traded companies with a market capitalization over USD$2 billion. Companies were evaluated based on a range of sector-specific sustainability metrics, such as water, energy and carbon productivity, and safety performance.

For more information about the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations and the full rankings, visit: www.corporateknights.com/global100.

Teck has also been named to the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index (DJSI) for the last three years, which ranks Teck’s sustainability practices in the top 10 per cent of companies in the resource sector worldwide. For more information on Teck’s approach to sustainability, visit: www.tecksustainability.com.

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‘Rescoped’ Clean AER project will still create local work: Vale rep – by Carol Mulligan (Sudbury Star – January 17, 2013)

The Sudbury Star is the City of Greater Sudbury’s daily newspaper.

Although cut in half, work on a major pollution reduction project in Sudbury is continuing, a Vale official said Wednesday.

Vale announced last week it was scaling back the cost of its Clean AER (Atmospheric Emissions Reduction) project to $1 billion. The company blamed volatile market conditions, operating cost challenges and the commissioning of the Long Harbour project in Newfoundland.

For several years, ore mined in Voisey’s Bay was processed here in Sudbury. A team at Vale has been struck to put together revised plans for Copper Cliff Smelter Complex, which will go down to one furnace from two, and to examine the impact on the company’s workforce, both during the construction phase and after.

Vale spokeswoman Angie Robson said the company doesn’t expect to go to one furnace until 2016. In the meantime, Vale has received the first of four converters and it’s being installed, said Robson. Nickel particulate emissions capture work, which would have been done regardless of whether the smelter has one furnace or two, is also continuing.

Clean AER plans relating to the single furnace are being “rescoped — some of it will be put on hold, some of it will be cancelled altogether,” said Robson.

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A Very Merry Noront Christmas from Webequie and Marten Falls – by Kaitlyn Ferris

It is no secret that it is my favorite time of year and I am feeling privileged to have once again been part of the coordination and delivery of this year’s Annual Ring of Fire Christmas Fund with Noront and our employee volunteers.

Over the last four years, Noront’s employees, Board of Directors, suppliers and friends have donated their time, resources, services and money to deliver a special celebration of Christmas spirit to the youth under 13 years of age in the communities of Marten Falls and Webequie First Nation.

Santa, his elves, over 700 individually wrapped presents, a singer song writer, a b-boy, two photographers and a feast, were brought to the communities of Webequie and Marten Falls First Nation. Presents were also delivered to those community members living off reserve in Thunder Bay.

Santa, our very own Glenn Nolan, Noront’s VP of Aboriginal Affairs and current PDAC President, sported his moccasins with his traditional red outfit this year! Judging by the looks on the children and parent’s faces I believe that the delivery was once again a huge success.

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OMA NEWS RELEASE: Helping make communities better: Vale in Sudbury

This article was provided by the Ontario Mining Association (OMA), an organization that was established in 1920 to represent the mining industry of the province.

As the holiday season is upon us, a couple of items have come to light recently which show how Ontario Mining Association member Vale is stepping forward to help make Sudbury a little better community. The nickel producer and its employees are doing their bit for the area’s social safety net.

Vale and the United Steelworkers Union announced recently that their joint employee-company fundraising campaign is contribution $700,000 to the 2012 United Way Centraide Sudbury campaign. Vale matches the donations by employees and pensioners on a dollar-for-dollar basis for the United Way campaign.

“The United Way is a long-standing tradition at Vale,” said Kelly Strong, Vice President Canada and U.K. Operations for Vale. “The success of this campaign speaks to the incredible generosity of our employees and their commitment to making our community a better place to live.”

“For 30 years, our members continue to dig deep in their pockets to ensure the success of the United Way Centraide campaign,” said Rick Bertrand, President of the USW Local 6500. The total raised by the community for the 2012 United Way campaign in Sudbury is $1.96 million.

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VALE NEWS RELEASE: 25th Anniversary of the Edgar Burton Christmas Food Drive Collects 100 tons of Food


(L to R): Announcing 100 tons of food collected at the 25th anniversary of the Edgar Burton Christmas Food Drive wrap-up are: Kayla Richardson, Student, Marymount Academy; Lise Callahan, Teacher, Marymount Academy; Claude Gravelle, MP, Nickel Belt; France Gelinas, MPP, Nickel Belt; Sharon Burton, Jennifer Burton, Noah Burton; Glenn Thibeault, MP, Sudbury; Rick Bartolucci, MPP, Sudbury and Minister of Northern Development & Mines; Sudbury Mayor Marianne Matichuk; Mellaney Dahl, Honorary Chair, Sudbury Food Bank; Rick Bertrand, President, United Steelworkers, Local 6500; and Bruce Bichel, General Manager, Smelting & Refining, Vale.

SUDBURY, December 20, 2012 – The 25th anniversary of the Edgar Burton Christmas Food Drive was the most successful food drive ever in Sudbury, and one of the largest Christmas food drives in all of Canada, with approximately 100 tons of food collected by Vale, the United Steelworkers, schools and local businesses in Greater Sudbury.

“The spirit of Edgar Burton continues to guide the success of this campaign,” said Geoffrey Lougheed, Chair of the Sudbury Food Bank. “We achieved his goal of ‘one more can’ because of the generosity and care of our community. Thank you to everyone who has donated and continues Edgar’s legacy of sharing.”

Edgar Burton, a Vale Divisional Shops employee for 36 years, started the annual food drive 25 years ago when Edgar’s daughters asked him if they could start collecting food for the less fortunate. Since then, the campaign has grown to include hundreds of businesses and schools in Greater Sudbury. It is the largest food drive per capita in Ontario and one of the largest in all of Canada.

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Ring of Fire mining prospects empower Canada’s most disenfranchised natives – by Heather Scoffield (Canadian Press/Global News -December 20, 2012)

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MARTEN FALLS, Ont. – For Christmas, Chief Eli Moonias received a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey autographed by Wendel Clark. His remote northern Ontario community of Marten Falls got 50 turkeys and a visit from Santa, laden with children’s gifts.

And in March, the 61-year-old chief will be granted his wish of travelling to China ­– if he can get his passport in time. They’re all gifts from mining companies who need the chief’s support to develop what could be a world-class base-metal discovery.

Moonias’s community sits next to what has become known as the Ring of Fire. Marten Falls is a small, fly-in reserve — just three streets of houses for about 300 people at the junction of the Albany and Ogoki rivers. It’s in the middle of one of the only forests in the world that has never been touched by industry, an area that hosts six of Canada’s biggest rivers.

When trapping for furs lost its lustre several decades ago, nothing replaced it in Marten Falls. Unless the residents are working for the band office or a government-run social service, they’re almost certainly unemployed — and more often than not, addicted to prescription painkillers at the expense of putting food on the table for their families. Never have they felt more empowered.

“If you don’t reassure me, that’s when I say No,” Moonias says in an interview at the band’s resource office, wallpapered with maps and surveys. About 130 kilometres to the north of the reserve, multinational miner Cliffs Natural Resources wants to develop a huge chromite mine to make a key ingredient in stainless steel. The firm brought Marten Falls the Christmas turkeys.

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OMA NEWS RELEASE: Helping make communities better: Noront brings Santa to Ring of Fire First Nations

This article was provided by the Ontario Mining Association (OMA), an organization that was established in 1920 to represent the mining industry of the province.

Ontario Mining Association member Noront Resources’ Ring of Fire Christmas Fund is once again helping ensure Santa visits three First Nations in the vicinity of its Eagle’s Nest project. Noront’s Christmas Fund will be providing approximately 700 wrapped gifts to every child under the age of 13 in Webequie, Marten Falls and Neskantaga First Nations.

This will be the fourth year the Ring of Fire Christmas Fund, with the involvement of Noront employees and supplier volunteers, has assisted Santa’s transportation. Along with visits to each of the communities, the Christmas Fund takes Santa to Thunder Bay for celebrations and gift giving to people from the Webequie, Marten Falls and Neskantaga First Nations living off reserve in that larger community.

“Every year our volunteers enjoy going above and beyond their tasks to spread the Christmas cheer to the youth of the communities we work with,” said Kaityln Ferris, Manager Corporate Responsibility for Noront. “Judging by their smiling faces, we think providing a wrapped gift for each child at Christmas and providing individual recognition is very important.”

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CIDA reforms are good; but Minister Fantino has bungled the message (Globe and Mail Editorial – December 6, 2012)

Globe and Mail is Canada’s national newspaper with the second largest broadsheet circulation in the country. It has enormous influence on Canada’s political and business elite.

International Co-operation Minister Julian Fantino is not helping his government and is undermining needed reforms to foreign-aid delivery by his incoherent rhetoric and weak grasp of his file. He has profoundly miscommunicated the ideas behind the creation of public-private partnerships to deliver aid, and responded defensively to questions. “We’re not talking about pillaging and exporting,” he said this week.

Mr. Fantino is consequently diverting attention from the clear benefits that the approach could have, including better ways of poverty reduction, and promotion of sustainable development overseas. Partnering with the private sector, including enterprises, foundations and individuals, is a good idea, and can improve the flexibility, transparency and effectiveness of aid projects.

While it might be seen as revolutionary by some circles in Ottawa, the public-private model was endorsed by the U.S. a decade ago, and has been followed by Australia, Germany and the U.K., with minimal controversy. In fact, many Canadian companies already partner with USAID. The results have been largely positive.

The parliamentary standing committee on foreign affairs and international development held hearings for several months on the issue and recently released a 118-page report with recommendations supporting this approach to aid delivery (with some notable opposition dissenters).

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Fantino under fire to explain CIDA direction – by Kim Mackrael (Globe and Mail Editorial – December 5, 2012)

Globe and Mail is Canada’s national newspaper with the second largest broadsheet circulation in the country. It has enormous influence on Canada’s political and business elite.

Ottawa — Canada’s minister for international co-operation is facing questions about the ability of the country’s foreign-aid agency to focus on its mandate as it moves to increase ties with the private sector.

Julian Fantino has drawn attention in recent weeks after he began publicly championing a philosophical shift in the way his government approaches aid. He says the Canadian International Development Agency will work more openly to promote the country’s interests abroad, a strategy that includes helping Canadian businesses become more competitive in developing countries.

CIDA already funds several non-governmental organizations in Africa and Latin America to work with Canadian mining companies on development projects, something Mr. Fantino has suggested could be a template for future private-sector engagement.

Appearing before a House of Commons committee Tuesday morning, the minister said his plans to increase partnerships with the private sector will help – not hurt – CIDA’s ability to deliver effective foreign aid.

“As we look to the future and strive to maximize our results, we must also look to innovative solutions to development challenges.

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Barrick tops list of sustainable Canadian miners – by Marilyn Scales (Canadian Mining Journal – December 3, 2012)

Marilyn Scales is a field editor for the Canadian Mining Journal, Canada’s first mining publication. She is one of Canada’s most senior mining commentators.

Corporate Knights, a specialized media and investment research company based in Toronto, has released its first Canadian mining sustainability ranking. The researchers measured the performance of 52 Canadian miners against 12 sustainability indicators, ranging from energy and carbon productivity, to comparisons of CEO and worker pay, and leadership diversity.

Readers familiar with Barrick Gold (56%) will not be surprised to learn it is the highest ranking of the top 10 sustainable Canadian miners. Corporate Knights found it deserved to be first because of its “top-tier disclosure practices and strong across-the-board sustainability performance”. The company was also cited for its water productivity (a measure of revenue generated for every cubit metres of water used in operations) and pay equity (the spread between an organization’s top earning senior executive and a average employee).

Barrick’s score of 56% is only two points ahead of Teck Resources (54%), the second place finisher. Inmet Mining (49%), Goldcorp (45%) and Agnico-Eagle Mines (39%) round out the top half of the list.

The continuing high gold price gives producers of the yellow metal substantial amounts of cash with which to foster sustainability. The trend continues in the next five companies. Eldorado Gold (35%) ranks sixth, Kinross Gold ranks seventh (34%) and New Gold (33%) sit at eighth.

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Vale’s movies are awarded in Cannes (Vale History Through Its People)

www.vale.com For the first time, a Brazilian company was awarded at the Cannes Corporate Media & TV Awards, one of the most important corporate film festivals in the world. Our History and Day to Reflect won in the categories of Marketing Communication and Integrated Communication, respectively. The competition was large: Vale’s videos were up against …

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NEWS RELEASE: Barrick Gold Corp.: Barrick Earns Top Position in Canadian Mining Industry Sustainability Ranking

11/19/2012| 01:15pm US/Eastern
November 19, 2012

http://www.barrick.com/

TORONTO, Nov. 19, 2012 – Barrick Gold Corporation has been named the top-performing company in a sustainability ranking of Canadian mining companies by Corporate Knights, a Toronto-based media and investment research company.

Barrick came first overall among Canada’s most well-known mining companies when assessed against 12 sustainability indicators. Corporate Knights has called the inaugural Canadian Mining Industry Sustainability Ranking “the most comprehensive quantitative ranking of Canadian mining companies to date.”

According to Corporate Knights, Barrick’s leadership in the ranking was driven by “top-tier disclosure practices” and “strong across-the-board sustainability performance.” The ranking highlighted the company’s performance in water productivity (revenue generated per cubic metre of water used) and “pay equity” (ratio of highest-paid executive compensation to average employee pay). Barrick achieved the highest overall score and was among industry peers that link a proportion of executive compensation to sustainability performance targets.

“At Barrick, our goal is to create shareholder value the right way,” said Jamie Sokalsky, President and Chief Executive Officer. “That is why we have embedded our commitment to responsible mining in our global business strategy.

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Not your father’s mining company – by Peter Gorrie (Corporate Knights Magazine – Fall 2012)

http://corporateknights.com/

New innovations, from gold-extracting bacteria to ventilation on demand, are helping the mining sector economically reduce its environmental footprint

Since the 1970s, sulphur-dioxide emissions from the Inco nickel smelter in Sudbury, Ont., have shrunk 90 per cent. That achievement cost $1 billion. Now, the current owner, a subsidiary of Brazil-based Vale SA, is spending another $2 billion to reduce the remaining emissions by about three-quarters.

Vale’s Clean AER (Atmospheric Emission Reduction) project seems a high price to pay for a relatively small result. It’s necessary, the company says, to comply with pollution limits imposed by the Ontario government. Plus, it says, the project is “simply the right thing to do.” It means cleaner air, 1,300 jobs at peak construction, “and a sustainable future for our operations.” That’s the new reality of mining: Spurred by tougher regulations and public pressure, leading companies are greening their operations to ensure they can continue to operate and expand.

The changes improve the environment and the bottom line – usually cutting costs and often producing profitable new resources. And they’re essential for the industry to meet increasingly stringent, albeit informal, conditions for a “social licence” to operate, says Ben Chalmers, vice-president, sustainable development, at the Mining Association of Canada, whose 36 members operate nearly half of Canada’s 200 mines. “It’s a competitive advantage.”

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