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Former Ontario Securities Commission chair named to mining hall of fame

Sudbury-raised Maureen C. Jensen among five to receive 2022 honours
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The 2022 inductees to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame include (from left) F. Dale Corman, Maureen C. Jensen, Phillip John Mackey, Robert Quartermain, and Peter Risby.

Maureen C. Jensen, the first woman to lead the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), is one of five new inductees to the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame.

The Toronto-based organization annually acknowledges select inductees for their leadership and outstanding achievement in the industry.

Born in Winnipeg, but raised in Sudbury, Jensen is the daughter of a Falconbridge mining engineer whose interest in mining was piqued while she was studying pre-med at the University of Toronto.

She spent nine years at the OSC, five of those as chair and CEO, where she established a successful whistleblower program and a series of regulatory changes to reduce burden for market participants while maintaining investor protections. She left the role in 2020.

Previously, Jensen served as senior vice-president of surveillance and compliance at IIROC and president at Market Regulation Services, and also held senior positions at the Toronto Stock Exchange, including director of mining services during the aftermath of the Bre-X scandal.

Jensen was additionally a member of the Mining Standards Task Force that laid the groundwork for National Instrument 43-101, which became a globally recognized disclosure standard for mining projects.

She has been a longstanding champion of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI), introducing policies for disclosure of gender diversity on boards, and currently chairs the Prosperity Project, which was created to help women stay in the workforce during and after the COVID-19 crisis.

Along with Jensen, the following people will be inducted into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame in 2022:

  • F. Dale Corman, who discovered the San Nicolas deposit and the Penasquito mine in central Mexico, the latter of which became Mexico’s largest gold mine;
  • Phillip John Mackey, who is known worldwide as one of Canada’s most prominent metallurgists in the field of non-ferrous extractive metallurgy;
  • Robert Quartermain, who played a pivotal role in the discovery of Ontario’s Hemlo gold camp in the early 1980s; and 
  • Peter Risby, who became a successful prospector and strong advocate for the involvement of women and Indigenous peoples in mining.

The Canadian Mining Hall of Fame is a joint initiative of the Northern Miner, the Mining Association of Canada, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada, and the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum.

Since its inception in 1989, the CMHF has recognized 195 people for their contributions.

The 2022 inductees will take their place among those ranks during a gala dinner and ceremony on Aug. 18, 2022 in Toronto.