About Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association

The Northwestern Ontario Prospectors Association (NWOPA) is pleased to announce the 2019 Bernie Schnieders Discovery of the year.

 

Since 2001 NWOPA has presented awards recognizing lifetime achievements, mineral discoveries and mine developments. Lifetime achievement is based upon cumulative work, discoveries and contributions to the prospecting, exploration and mining community of Northwestern Ontario. The Bernie Schnieders Discovery of the Year Award recognizes an exceptional discovery in Northwestern Ontario during the previous calendar year with the Developer of the Year Award recognizing an outstanding mineral development during the previous calendar year. In 2010 NWOPA added the Dan Calvert Distinguished Service Award to acknowledge exceptional service to the mineral exploration community. The award was named in honour of Dan Calvert and in 2016 NWOPA renamed the Lifetime Achievement Award in honour of Dave Christianson; both of these gentlemen were long-time prospectors and supporters of mineral exploration in Northwestern Ontario.

 

On behalf of NWOPA, the Awards Committee is pleased to announce the 2019 recipient:

Bernie Schnieders Discovery of the Year (2019)

Spark Pegmatite – Frontier Lithium Inc.

 

As this year’s awards banquet was cancelled, NWOPA has deferred the 2019 awards for Lifetime Achievement and Distinguished Service until recipients can be honoured in a banquet setting at a later date. Developer of the year will not be awarded for 2019.

 

NWOPA would also like to recognize the recipients of the Bernie Schnieders Memorial Award from Lakehead University.

 

This year, for the first time, Lakehead was able to split the award into two with one award going to a first year MSc. student and one to a second year MSc. student.