Aurizon Mines has received the ‘e3 Plus’ award from the Association de L’Exploration Miniere du Quebec (AEMQ) at the recent Quebec Exploration 2009 convention. The company was granted this in recognition of its high level of environmental and social responsibility and its compliance with best practices recommended by the Prospectors and Developers Association (PDAC) in its e3 Plus guidelines: A Framework for Responsible Exploration. The guidelines, which are available in the form of an online toolkit, are an initiative of the PDAC designed to assist exploration companies to continuously improve their social, environmental and health and safety performance and to comprehensively integrate these three aspects into all their exploration activities. (more…)