{"id":54394,"date":"2022-06-15T08:06:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:06:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/?p=54394"},"modified":"2022-06-15T08:06:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T12:06:37","slug":"ontario-mine-rescue-competition-winners-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/15\/ontario-mine-rescue-competition-winners-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Ontario mine rescue competition winners announced"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ontario Mine Rescue 2022 provincial competition champion is Newmont Musselwhite Mine, Red Lake District, from left to right: Vice Captain Philip Mullin, Briefing Officer Ryan Lepage, Alexa Dumaine, Jimmy Sinclair, Captain Jack Lawson, Nick Gosselin, Scott Lawson, and Taylor Poling.<\/p><\/div>\n

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From June 7 to 9, Ontario Mine Rescue hosted the provincial competition at Vale\u2019s Creighton Mine in Sudbury and announced the winners at a banquet on the final evening.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe invitation-only event marks the final month of the annual mine rescue volunteer training cycle,\u201d says Ted Hanley, Vice President, Mine Rescue. \u201cAnd the provincial competition brings together all of the district winners and challenges them to resolve an advanced mine emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Unlike the District Competitions which are held in spectator-friendly hockey arenas with a maze of simulated mine workings constructed on the arena floor, the Provincial Competition sends teams into an actual operating underground mine.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSpectators viewed the teams via camera feed to surface,\u201d says Hanley, \u201cas each team navigates the mine and attempts to solve a variety of mine hazards using their knowledge, skills, and abilities to evacuate the workers trapped underground and restore the mine to safe working conditions. Skills are tested in as realistic a scenario as possible to help ensure they are prepared for future mine emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Technical judges hidden throughout the mine evaluate teams against a pre-determined list of criteria based on the policies and procedures of the provincial mine rescue guidelines.<\/p>\n

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The scenario this year included the construction of ventilation infrastructure, the application of first aid to injured miners, the use of specialty mine rescue equipment, and the challenge of detecting contaminated mine ventilation and making it safe.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOntario Mine Rescue is proud to report that all seven of the highly skilled participating teams successfully resolved the emergency,\u201d says Hanley. \u201cEach team is evaluated on the strength of their strategy and use of safe procedures.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The winners of this year\u2019s event, with the Provincial Champions taking home the coveted gold hard hats, were as follows:<\/p>\n

Provincial Champion – 1st<\/sup> Overall \u2013 Newmont Musselwhite Mine, Red Lake District<\/strong><\/p>\n

Captain – Jack Lawson
\n#2 – Taylor Poling
\n#3 – Alexa Dumaine
\n#4 – Scott Lawson
\nVice Captain – Philip Mullin
\n#6 – Jimmy Sinclair
\nBriefing Officer – Ryan Lepage
\n#7 – Nick Gosselin
\nCoaches – Chris Horde and Gabe Roy
\nMine Rescue Officers – Kurtis Atkinson and Jeff Farquharson<\/p>\n

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2nd Overall<\/strong> \u2013 Impala Canada Lac des Isles Mine, Thunder Bay District<\/p>\n

Team Firefighting Award<\/strong> \u2013 Newmont Musselwhite Mine, Red Lake District<\/p>\n

Team First Aid Award<\/strong> \u2013 Lakeshore Gold Timmins West & Bell Creek Mines, Timmins District<\/p>\n

Team Special Equipment Award<\/strong> \u2013 Newmont Musselwhite Mine, Red Lake District<\/p>\n

Team Theory Exam Award<\/strong> \u2013 Lakeshore Gold Timmins West & Bell Creek Mines, Timmins District<\/p>\n

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Additional competing teams:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Barrick Hemlo Williams Mine, Algoma District
\nAlamos Gold Young-Davidson Mine, Kirkland Lake District
\nCompass Minerals Goderich Mine, Southern District
\nOnaping District \u2013 Did Not Qualify<\/p>\n

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Individual Technician Competition results:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st \u2013 Garry Bennett<\/strong>, Alamos Gold, Young-Davidson Mine, Kirkland Lake District
\n2nd \u2013 Jean Yves Doiron<\/strong>, Vale Sudbury Operations, Sudbury District
\n3rd \u2013 Darren Bullied<\/strong>, Evolution Mining Red Lake Gold Mines, Red Lake District<\/p>\n

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Additional individual technician competitors:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Monika Jorgenson, Impala Canada Lac des Isles Mine, Thunder Bay District
\nJames Greer, Wesdome Gold Mines Eagle River Mine, Algoma District
\nMichael Bennett, Glencore Kidd Mine, Timmins District
\nJim Ahrens, Compass Minerals Goderich Mine, Southern District<\/p>\n

In May, Shawn Rideout, Chief Mine Rescue Officer at Ontario Mine Rescue, and Stephanie Bleker, Manager of Vale Totten Mine, received the Mining Safety Leadership Medal<\/a> from the Canadian Institute for Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum at its annual convention awards gala. The award was in recognition of the planning and execution of the safe evacuation of 39 miners from Vale\u2019s Totten Mine, September 26-29, 2021.<\/p>\n

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Since 1929, the Ontario Mine Rescue program has been a standardized province-wide collaboration between all mine operators working to ensure emergency response capability and reduce the risk profile of the work performed by more than 900 Ontario volunteer responders.<\/p>\n

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Ontario Mine Rescue, a part of Workplace Safety North (WSN), has trained and equipped thousands of volunteers who have fought fires, rescued injured personnel, and responded professionally to a wide array of incidents in the province’s mines over the past eight decades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  From June 7 to 9, Ontario Mine Rescue hosted the provincial competition at Vale\u2019s Creighton Mine in Sudbury and announced the winners at a banquet on the final evening.   \u201cThe invitation-only event marks the final month of the annual mine rescue volunteer training cycle,\u201d says Ted Hanley, Vice President, Mine Rescue. \u201cAnd the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":54395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[1509],"class_list":["post-54394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-ontario-mine-rescue-competition"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-25 11:33:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54396,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54394\/revisions\/54396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wawa-news.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}