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Community Update Q2 2022

December 2, 2022
A letter from the Mount Polley team Everyone at Mount Polley Mine has been busy commissioning the mill and preparing the mine for full scale operations.  We are at full production mining in the pit, stockpiling materials for future mi… Read more »

Mount Polley Fishing Derby

August 3, 2022
The Mount Polley Fishing Derby was a huge success! It was a great weekend that brought together families, fishers and boaters, local vendors, and musicians. The derby was a public event held at Cedar Point Park on Quesnel Lake over the July 8… Read more »

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]

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 »