AWARD: Ross Beaty receives Order of Canada

OTTAWA – Mining magnate and philanthropist Ross Beaty is among the 99 prominent Canadians awarded membership in the 2017 Order of Canada. [caption id="attachment_1003719094" align="alignright" width="223"] Ross Beaty[/caption] The award shows that mining and environmentalism are not necessarily incompatible. Beaty, the founder and chairman of Pan American Silver and executive chairman of Alterra Power Corp – a geothermal, wind and hydro power company – is also a generous philanthropist. In May he gave $5 million over 10 years to Panthera, which is a global wild cat conservation organization. A few month earlier the Canadian Museum of Nature announced that Beaty would be providing it with its largest ever philanthropic gift: a $4 million investment to enhance the museum’s national research and collections that are focused on species discovery. The gift was through the Sitka Foundation, which Beaty founded in 2007 to be a catalyst in the protection of the environment and promotion of biodiversity. Beaty is a past president of the Silver Institute, fellow of the Geological Association of Canada and CIM, The Northern Miner’s 2011 Mining Person of the Year, and winner of many more industry awards. He lives on Bowen Island, BC. Visit the Order of Canada website at www.GG.ca/document.aspx?id=14940.