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F E B R U A R Y / M A R C H 2 0 1 7 www.resourceworld.com 23 Finnigan Northern awards presented The Northwest Territories and Nunavut Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists (NAPEG) Education Foundation has presented two Finnigan Northern awards for student research presentations. Named in honour of the late Dr. Craig Finnigan, the purpose of the award is to provide finan- cial assistance to students presenting their geological research at these events: the Nunavut Mining Symposium, NWT/NU Geoscience Forum Dr. Craig Finnigan was a geoscientist who contributed to the geological understanding of the metallogeny of gold in the Kivalliq District of Nunavut, the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt in the Northwest Territories and the Dawson Range, Yukon Territory. Dr. Finnigan has been recognized for his role in the discovery of the Coffee gold deposits (Kaminak Gold/Goldcorp) in the Yukon. A Finnigan Northern Award was presented to Well-Shun Lee as the 2016 Yukon recipient. "My supervisor, Dr. Murray Allan, and I are excited to see what secrets my Honour's project will uncover about the metallogeny of the Dawson Range which includes the Coffee gold deposit," said Lee. "I would like to send my gratitude to the NAPEG Education Foundation for giving me this wonderful opportunity and having the honour of being the first recipient of the Finnigan Northern Award for Student Research for the Yukon." A Finnigan Northern Award was also presented to Bob Janzen as the 2016 NWT recipient. "I am very grateful to receive this award," said Janzen. "The assistance I am receiving will provide me with the opportunity to travel to the Yellowknife Geoscience Forum, and present the results obtained thus far, from a three-dimensional geological model that will assist future exploration efforts in glaciated terrains. This exposure will propel my aspirations of a career in geological sciences using modeling techniques that are only beginning to be used in public and private sectors." n Completion of the investment is scheduled by the end of 2030 for the underground mine. The work necessary to start mining in the GGP area has now been completed. Currently, sinking of the shaft GG-1 (down - cast, inspiratory function) is underway. By year-end 2016, the shaft reached a depth almost 847 metres of the targeted 1,340 metres. Stage II work of the construction of the surface air conditioning station near shaft R-XI (as part of the central under - ground air-conditioning) is continuing. Since 2006, a total of 123,662 metres of underground mine workings, and related technical infrastructure, have been com- pleted, which equals to 76% of total excavation and preparation for workings in the KGHM mines. The main objective of the project is the opening of the GGP mining areas, including new mining zones within current mining areas, for develop - ment. n