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2016
Walter Senza, Newmont Corporation
Lifetime Achievement in Reclamation

2017
Agnico Eagles Mines Ltd.
Coniagas No. 4 Shaft Rehabilitation

2018
Golder Associates Ltd.
Bat friendly progressive rehabilitation of the historic Edison Mine

2019
Vale and Terrapure Organics Solutions
Sustainable reclamation utilizing sewage biosolids and other waste materials

2020
Kirkland Lake Gold
Detour Lake Mine Research and Progressive Reclamation Program

2022
De Beers Group
Victor Mine Closure Project

2016
Renate Vanderhorst, Laurentian U
Assessment of the ability of manufactured soil to support boreal vegetation for use in mine reclamation

2017
Jillian Bieser, U of Toronto
Biochars and natural chars in boreal forest restoration: vegetation, phytotoxins, and soil greenhouse gas flux

2018
Katie Mitchell, Laurentian U
An evaluation of silica-Bacillus microencapsulation for reducing acid mine drainage from sulfur waste rock in cold climates

2019
Robyn Rumney, Laurentian U
Facilitating landscape carbon storage through brownfield restoration

2020
Jonathan Lavigne, Laurentian U
Regreening industrially damaged landscapes and investigating the effectiveness of novel restoration protocols (species-rich tree planting regime) and strategies (biosolid soil conditioner)

2021
Patrick Levasseur, Trent University
Evaluated a suite of biogeochemical parameters at field sites post-reclamation to understand how forest nutrient pools and fluxes have changed over time