Prospectors Association restructures, sets up office.The provincial government has committed funds toward raising the profile of prospectors in Ontario. The Ontario Prospectors Association (OPA OPA: see Office of Price Administration. ) is restructuring itself into a professionally run organization to promote grassroots initiatives in the exploration sector and to better support the views of its membership. Over the next three years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time province is earmarking  It has been suggested that some sections of this article be split into a new article entitled Earmark (USA). $4 million through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund The Northern Ontario Heritage Fund is a division of the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines in the Canadian province of Ontario, whose purpose is to provide funding and program support to foster economic development in the economically disadvantaged Northern Ontario region. Corp. to help establish the non-profit group. Following up on Northern Development and Mines Minister Tim Hudak's pledge from last spring, the ministry announced the first payment of $952,295 in December to assist in the association's start-up costs. "We're kind of a poor man's Poor man's is a common slang term used to compare one thing with another. It is not necessarily a derogatory term. It is usually used in a sentence as "X is a poor man's Y", with "X" being the person or thing one is referring to, and "Y" being the superior but similar person or version of the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (OFAH) was established in 1928, and is Canada's leading conservation organization, as well as a non-profit registered charity. The Federation lobbies for the protection of wildlife and Canadian outdoor traditions. right now," says OPA chair Garry Clark, whose membership ranges between 800 and 950 volunteers but injects more than $120 million annually into the provincial economy. Prospectors' views in Ontario have to be better represented with a full-time and accessible point of contact, he adds. Many of the present members own their own businesses. The office will be based in Sudbury and the association is leaning toward setting up space near the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines mineral offices on Ramsey Lake Road. An executive director and an administrative assistant will be in place by summer. Clark says outside of the booming exploration activity in the Sudbury and North Bay areas, prospecting in Ontario has remained generally depressed in the last year due to sagging gold prices and diminished spending in exploration. But he expects activity to pick up as prospectors shift their focus to platinum group The platinum group (alternatively, the platinum group metals or platinum metals) is a collective name sometimes used for six metallic elements clustered together in the periodic table. metals and diamond exploration. Clark says their association's immediate goal is to become a self-sufficient entity through individual and corporate dues, by networking better with its members by holding industry symposiums and skills development, and to be a more effective lobby group on government policy and legislative issues. |
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