FIRST NATIONS EXPERIENCE

• MINTO MINE – CONSTRUCTION

  • JDS was engaged by Sherwood Copper in 2006/7 to provide EPCM services to construct the Minto Mine in the Yukon
  • JDS partnered with the Selkirk First Nations (SFN) based in Pelly Crossing, Yukon Territory to provide essential services for the mine construction. This included helping SFN build businesses:
    • Transportation services for personnel ferrying across the Yukon river
    • Provide employees where possible to provide barge deckhand manpower
    • Camp Catering services including food services, housekeeping and maintenance
    • On the job training and mentorship for SFN members through construction contractor companies
• Yukon River – Barge Operations

  • JDS partnered will a local (SFN) individual to start and develop Britannia Creek Contracting
    • Provide coordination and management services for the JDS owned barges on the Yukon River
    • Business development to expand barging services
    • Mentorship and training in business operations
  • JDS provides two position openings for Little Salmon Carmacks First Nations (LSCFN) members to obtain employment within the current barging program to be trained in the following
    • Equipment operations
    • Barge deckhand
    • Logistics and freight tracking skills
• JDS Silver – Silvertip

  • JDS purchased the Silvertip Mine in Northern BC in November 2013
  • JDS signed a life of mine Socio-Economic Participation Agreement with the Kaska, 6 weeks after purchase
  • During construction, JDS signed agreements with First Nations owned and partnership companies including:
    • Camp catering
    • Fuel supply and delivery
    • Freight and personnel expediting
  • JDS used IKN, a First Nations business for all earthworks, road maintenance and labour on site
• JDS Silver – Silvertip

  • During operations JDS management negotiated with the Tahltan FN as they came forward as a second affected community.
  • The First Nation employment on site was maintained at 25% + for until JDS sold Silvertip to Coeur Mining in Oct 2017.
  • Coeur Mining has now included the Tahltan in the Silvertip benefits agreement.
  • In the development of Silvertip, JDS invested in the community and increased capacity for the First Nations living in the both North BC and the Yukon.
  • JDS is very proud of the working partnership with the First Nation community and gives a lot of the credit to the Kaska and the Tahltan in a successful business venture.
• Victoria Gold – Eagle Gold Project

  • Victoria Gold’s Eagle Gold Project was developed in 2017 thru 2019 in the traditional territory of the Nation of NA-CHO NYAK DUN (NND)
  • Victoria Gold signed a collaboration agreement with the NND
  • JDS managed the $500M in Construction
  • Contracts awarded to NNNDC (development corporation) owned & Partner Companies included:
    • Camp construction and catering
    • Fuel supply and delivery
    • JDS Site services
    • Earthworks construction
    • Electrical & Controls installation
    • Structural Steel installation
    • 25 percent of employees First Nations
• Coffee Gold Project

  • The Coffee Gold Project is located in the traditional territory of the Tr’ondek Hwech’in in the Central Yukon
  • JDS working for Goldcorp (now Newmont) signed an exploration benefits agreement with the Tr’ondek Hwech’in including training opportunities, equipment sales and revenue sharing
  • JDS employment on the project has been consistently between 25 percent and 40 percent of employees being Yukon First Nations
• Mt Nansen – Remediation Project

  • In 2019, JDS and Ensero were awarded the 10 year Mt Nansen Remediation Project
  • The Mt Nansen Mine lies in the traditional territory of the Little Salmon Carmacks First Nation (LSCFN)
  • The Partnership signed a Benefits Agreement with the LSCFN focused on:
    • Training and capacity building opportunities
    • Financial revenue sharing
    • Financial incentives aligned with YESAB and
    • Water License permitting schedule achievement dates
• SHÍSHÁLH NATION (SECHELT, BC)

  • JDS is the Technical Advisor to the shíshálh Nation for matters pertaining to mineral resource development, mining operations, community impact mitigation and reclamation
  • JDS was part of the shíshálh Nation negotiating team that secured a beneficial, 50-year Relationship Agreement (RA) with Lehigh Hanson Materials for the operation of a sand and gravel mine and processing facility within the shíshálh Nation swiya (territory).
  • JDS holds one of two shíshálh Nation seats on the Joint Implementation Committee that oversees implementation of the Lehigh Relationship Agreement.
  • JDS holds a seat on the Lehigh/shíshálh Technical Committee that oversees community impact mitigation for the Sechelt Mine
  • JDS helped the Tsain-Ko Dev Corp, the development arm of the shíshálh Nation, bid on a large trucking contract with Lehigh
  • JDS worked jointly with the shíshálh Nation, Lehigh and the Sunshine Coast Regional District to develop options for a regional a Raw Water Reservoir on shíshálh Nation land