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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 t… Read more »
Community Update Q1 2022
July 28, 2022
Figure 1 Long Nose Suckers forming a spawn ball as they spawn in Hazeltine Creek
A letter from the Mount Polley Team
Happy Spring everybody! Things at the mine are still moving along towards an operations phase. We have limited… Read more »
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 confirm… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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]](https://www.mountpolley.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/rainbow-trout-polley-lake-900x600.jpg)
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 »
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 »
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 »
