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14 Mineral Exploration | amebc.ca PHOTO: COURTESY NORONT RESOURCES up the British Columbia Aboriginal Mine Training Association and chaired the Yukon Mine Training Association. In addition, he founded the Tahltan Nation Development Corporation in 1985. He also served as its CEO and president. Today, Asp is president of Grey Wolf Solutions Ltd. and CEO and co-founder of Global Indigenous Development Trust. He has worked hard to build bridges between First Nations and the mineral exploration and mining industry and he has received many awards for his contributions. In 2011, for example, he received the prestigious Skookum Jim Award from the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and, in 2013, the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal. In January 2020, Asp was inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in a ceremony at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. "I appreciate the recognition I've received over the years, but my greatest achievement is my family and four children," says Asp. Glenn Nolan is vice-president, Government Affairs of Noront Resources Ltd., which is developing a nickel-copper project in Northern Ontario. "I became involved in the mining industry in the mid-1970s as a summer student, when I was in college in the geology program," says Nolan. After graduating, he worked in uranium in Saskatchewan and in base and precious metals in B.C. In the early 1980s, Nolan started a company that did geophysical surveys, built camps, staked claims and cut lines across northern Canada. Later in the decade, he moved east and started working for Indigenous communities there, developing policy and leading negotiations with federal and provincial governments. In 2001, he was elected Chief of Missanabie Cree First Nation, a position he held until 2010. During that time he continued to work closely with mining companies to develop projects and build Indigenous businesses to service and supply mining and forest industry operations. Glenn Nolan