Awards Ideas for the Mining Industry

Many mining awards are handed out each year from groups such as Mining Association of Alberta (MABC), Canadian Association of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM), and The Mining Association of Canada’s Toward Sustainable Mining (TSM).

The words they used in describing their awards are sustainability, diversity, women, person of the year, aboriginal, excellence, environment, leadership and many more. All of these are strong, positive, and compelling words. The physical mining awards themselves should represent these ideals in a strong and creative way.

Any awards program should feel personal and special. It is an opportunity for companies, organizations and associations to rise above the mundane and average and take the occasion of presenting awards to showcase the best of their industry, product, partnerships and brand. When a specific industry like mining presents awards, the awards themselves should represent the industry and the achievement so the recipient feels a unique connection with the award they have received.

When creating a mining industry award, it is important to know what is hoped to be achieved by giving this particular award. Is it for leadership, performance, special event or safety in the mining industry? Awards in the mining industry should celebrate both the industry itself and the specific recognition (leadership, safety, etc.)

Mining Awards Ideas

Mining is a fascinating industry that allows awards creators the chance to craft unique awards that really showcase the mining industry. A great way to do this and to allow the recipient to literally “take their work home with them” (in a good way), is to incorporate actual minerals and other items from the mine site within the award.

At Clearmount, we have created many interesting pieces using items to create mining awards or corporate gifts for recipients in mining industry. Lucite is a great medium to use when producing mining awards because most minerals mined from the earth can be embedded. Lucite also provides an opportunity to create mining industry-related shapes (drills, trucks etc.) for a unique mining award. Lucite also allows for colouring to create maps of mined areas. Another great way to exploit the exceptional qualities of Lucite for a mining award is to feature a cutaway of the mine to show the multifaceted angles and layers of the mine.

Best of Mining Awards by Clearmount

One of my favourite mining awards we created at Clearmount incorporated a truck loaded with coal driving up a hill as a physical feature of the award.

Potash embeds beautifully. We regularly create corporate gifts for the mining industry featuring a piece of potash positioned behind a logo which the company uses as keepsakes for those who are invited for corporate tours. What a great way to have your product and brand sitting on someone’s desk to remind them of a positive and exciting experience!

To make the mining awards or corporate mining gifts even more distinctive, Clearmount is able to digital print or laser engrave on the Lucite which allows integrate other aspects like project partners. For example, if you are working with your Aboriginal partners, incorporating aspects of their culture either within or on the surface of the mining award allows you to bring a meaningful facet to the award.

So, when creating your next mining award, consider all of the possibilities that can really take your award from ordinary to extraordinary. If you are looking for more mining awards ideas, contact our team let us drill down to your awards needs until we discover the the perfect mining awards design for you.