Mount Polley

Mount Polley Mine: A Decade of Environmental Restoration and Progress

August 27, 2024

Written by C.D. (‘Lyn) Anglin, Anglin & Associates, North Vancouver BC, and member of the Board of Directors, Imperial Metals. Ten years ago, the Mount Polley Mine experienced a significant environmental event when its tailings dam unexpectedly breached . This led to the release of millions of cubic meters of water and tailings, causing substantial […]

Mount Polley Honoured with Jake McDonald Annual Reclamation Award

October 16, 2023

🌿 Celebrating Excellence in Reclamation: Mount Polley Mining Corporation and Habitat Remediation Working Group Honoured with Jake McDonald Annual Reclamation Award 🌿 Imperial Metals is pleased to share that on September 20, 2023, Mount Polley Mining Corporation and the Habitat Remediation Working Group proudly accepted the prestigious Jake McDonald Annual Reclamation Award from the BC […]

September Sockeye Salmon Run

December 16, 2022

This season we witnessed a great Salmon Run in Hazeltine Creek. Mount Polley’s environmental team along with the support of our environmental consultants at Minnow Environmental have continued to monitor use of the constructed creek habitat, and the results have been very encouraging. Over the course of four weeks from September 6th to October 6th, […]

Trout Spawning Activity in Hazeltine Creek at its Highest since 2019

August 3, 2022

Mount Polley is pleased to report there has been an increase in the number of adult rainbow trout and in spawning activity in Hazeltine Creek. Mount Polley completed a series of annual surveys to count individual adult rainbow trout using the creek during the spawning season. This is part of the ongoing monitoring of fish […]

Two Recent Scientific Papers Confirm Mount Polley’s Previously Reported Findings

June 13, 2022

Mount Polley Mining Corporation is Pleased that Two Recent Scientific Papers Confirm Mount Polley’s Previously Reported Findings. Two recently published reports (Granger et al., 2022 and Pyle et al., 2022) provide third party confirmation of Mount Polley’s previously reported findings, which are available on the internet at https://www.imperialmetals.com/…/moun…/technical-reports. The Granger et al. paper, reported that […]

Springer Pit Tailings Removal Complete and Tailings Dry Stacked atop the South East Rock Storage Area.

May 14, 2024

The 2.2 M m3 of tailings that had been stored in the Springer Pit have been removed and are now stored in cells atop an area used to store unmineralized rock. Dry stacking of tailings began on May 8, 2023 and was completed this week. The tailings that have been dry stacked at Mount Polley, […]

Environment

Two Recent Scientific Papers Confirm Mount Polley’s Previously Reported Findings

June 13, 2022

Community

Mount Polley Community Update Q4 2021

April 4, 2022

A letter from the Mount Polley Team,The Mount Polley mine team hopes that this finds you well and healthy.The team at Mount Polley are continuing to prepare for a mine restart along with routine care and maintenance activities. We have many… Read more »

Community

Mount Polley Community Update Q3 2021

January 6, 2022

Happy fall everybody. Our team at Mount Polley hopes that this finds you well. Things at the mine continue to get busier as we prepare for a mine re-start along with our routine care and maintenance activities. We have had many visitors to the… Read more »

Environment

Hazeltine Creek Remediation Wildlife Monitoring Plan Update

October 13, 2021

A Wildlife Monitoring Plan has been implemented in the Hazeltine Creek corridor, utilizing wildlife cameras to build an inventory of animals that are using the corridor to support local wildlife studies. Environmental monitoring prog… Read more »

Environment Indigenous

Over 100 sockeye salmon adults return to spawn in Hazeltine Creek

October 5, 2021

After seven years of remediation work in Hazeltine Creek in response to the 2014 tailings dam breach, the salmon have returned to the creek to spawn. In stream work was completed in late August this year, just in time for the sockeye migratio… Read more »

Abundant Rainbow Trout observed upstream of fish fences, looking to transit into Hazeltine Creek from Polley Lake to spawn. [May 2017]

Environment

Fish populations thriving at Mount Polley

August 11, 2021

Habitat modelling reveals four times more juvenile fish are expected in Hazeltine Creek post-remediation efforts Mount Polley Mining Corporation is pleased to report that fish populations are thriving at Mount Polley. Further… Read more »

Mining

Mount Polley already meets Metal and Diamond Mining Regulations

June 23, 2021

Mount Polley Mining Corporation was future ready when the federal government published new regulations amending the Metal Mining Effluent Regulations (MMER) earlier this week. The federal regulati… Read more »

Mining

The Cultural History of Copper

May 20, 2021

Copper has played an important role in the development of human civilization. Copper was discovered in several sites, and has notable industrial origins in Cyprus whose name comes from those that traded the metal as a commodity. The ancie… Read more »

Research

Imperial Metals congratulates recipients of the 2021 Barlow Medal for Best Geological Paper

May 5, 2021

Imperial Metals congratulates authors Chris Rees, Greg Gillstrom, and K. Brock Riedell on being the 2021 recipient of the Barlow Medal for Best Geological Paper Imperial Metals congratulates authors Chris Rees, Greg Gillstrom, and c… Read more »

Mining

Magnetite and Magnetite Mining in Canada

March 3, 2021

Magnetite (also magnet iron, magnet iron stone, iron oxide, or iron (II, III) oxide) is the most stable iron oxide with high resistance to acids and alkalis. It has a cubic crystal system and a chemical molecular formula Fe3O4. One of the iro… Read more »