TSM Excellence Awards
Past Winners:
TSM Leadership Awards
A TSM Leadership Award is granted to companies that meet or exceed a Level A or Yes across all indicators of the Towards Sustainable Mining protocols. A facility’s TSM results must be externally verified to be eligible for this recognition.
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2022
Silver Award – Meets or exceeds a Level AA or Yes on all indicators
- Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, Meliadine
Bronze Award – Meets or exceeds a Level A or Yes on all indicators
- Eldorado Gold, Lamaque
- Pan American Silver Corp., Timmins West and Bell Creek
- Teck Resources Limited, Elkview Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Fording River Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Greenhills Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Trail Operations
- Vale, Long Harbour
- Vale, Sudbury
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2021
Silver Award – Meets or exceeds a Level AA or Yes on all indicators
- Agnico Eagle Mines, Meadowbank
- Teck Resources Limited, Line Creek Operations
Bronze Award – Meets or exceeds a Level A or Yes on all indicators
- Agnico Eagle Mines, Kittila
- Agnico Eagle Mines, La Ronde
- Cameco Corporation, Cigar Lake Operatoin
- Copper Mountain, Copper Mountain Mine
- Canadian Malartic, Canadian Malartic Mine
- Teck Resources Limited, Highland Valley Copper
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2020
Gold Award – Achieves a Level AAA or Yes on all indicators
- Glencore Nickel, Raglan Mine
- Teck Resources Limited, Trail Operations
Silver Award – Meets or exceeds a Level AA or Yes on all indicators
- Teck Resources Limited, Elkview Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Fording River Operations
Bronze Award – Meets or exceeds a Level A or Yes on all indicators
- De Beers Canada Inc. Gahcho Kué Mine
- Glencore Zinc, Kidd Operations
- Syncrude Canada Ltd.
- Teck Resources Limited, Cardinal River Operations
- Teck Resources LImited, Greenhills Operations
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2019
- Hudbay Minerals, Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co. Limited
- New Gold, New Afton Mine
- Teck, Highland Valley Copper
- Teck, Elkview Operations
- Vale, Newfoundland and Labrador Operations – Voisey’s Bay
- Vale, Ontario Operations – Sudbury
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2018
- Agnico Eagle, La India
- Agnico Eagle, Goldex
- Agnico Eagle, Kittila
- Agnico Eagle, Meadowbank
- Agnico Eagle, Pinos Altos
- Agnico Eagle, LaRonde
- Dominion Diamond Mines, Ekati Diamond Mine
- IAMGOLD, Essakane
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2017
- Glencore, Raglan Mine
- Glencore, Brunswick Smelter
- Glencore, Kidd Operations
- New Gold, Cerro San Pedro Mine
- Rio Tinto, Diavik Diamond Mine
- Syncrude Canada, Oil Sands Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Cardinal River Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Greenhills Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Trail Smelter
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2016
- Hudbay Minerals Inc., Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co.
- New Gold Inc., New Afton Mine
- Suncor Energy Inc., Oil sands facility
- Teck Resources Limited, Elkview Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Highland Valley Copper
- Vale Newfoundland and Labrador Limited, Voisey’s Bay Mine
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2015
- Agnico Eagle Mines Limited – Goldex mine
- Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, Kittila mine
- Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, LaRonde mine
- First Quantum Minerals Ltd., Çayeli mine
- IAMGOLD Corporation, Essakane Gold Mine
- IAMGOLD Corporation, Rosebel Gold Mines N.V.
- IAMGOLD Corporation, Westwood Mine
- Teck Resources Limited, Line Creek Operations
TSM Leadership Award Winners 2014
- Glencore Nickel – Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Cardinal River Operations
- Teck Resources Limited, Teck Trail Operations
TSM Leadership Award Winner 2013
- Teck Resources Limited, Elkview Operations
TSM Leadership Award Winner 2011
- Barrick Gold Corporation, Hemlo Mine
“We are pleased to recognize the TSM Leadership Award winners, which is an important and rare distinction that celebrates a facility for its achievements in the TSM initiative. These facilities have demonstrated leadership in environmental management and for how they engage with their communities, and we congratulate them for being a model for other mine sites across Canada.”
– Pierre Gratton, President and CEO, the Mining Association of Canada