December 28, 2021 An exploration geologist’s work involves analyzing the structure of bedrock that you cannot see. To counterbalance the challenging work, Johanna Paadar practices physical exercise and hiking. On trekking trips, stones remain just a part of the scenery - discovering the secrets in the bedrock is restricted to [...]
February 25, 2021 Seven members of Agnico Eagle Finland’s regional mineral-exploration team gathered at Levi Rally Center one morning in February. There was excitement in the air, because their winter-driving course was about to start. Before the course, senior exploration geologist Jari Ylinen said, “We drive in all kinds of [...]
Jorma Valkama, a research assistant who hails from Rovaniemi, has had an interest in stones from an early age. Valkama’s parents used to be avid collectors of stones. His interest was piqued particularly by a sample of uvarovite, a rare specimen from the garnet family found in Outokumpu that his [...]
The Agnico Eagle Award 2019 was granted to a group of three teachers from Lycksele in Västerbotten, northern Sweden – Thorbjörn Grahn, Jan-Åke Unée and Eric Sjölund (who sadly passed away earlier this year) – for their strong interest, belief and enduring prospecting work that led to the discovery of [...]
Ingmar Haga, the former managing director of Agnico Eagle Finland Oy and Vice-President, Europe of Agnico Eagle Mines Limited, who officially retired at the end of 2017 was recently celebrated with two events in his honour. The first farewell party took place at the mine site sharing coffee and cake [...]
Agnico Eagle Finland’s team recently attended the 11th Fennoscandian Exploration and Mining Conference, or FEM 2017. The conference, which ran from October 31st to November 2nd, is held every other year in Levi, Finland and this year brought together approximately 1,200 ore exploration and mining professionals from around the globe. [...]