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Two years ago this week, some 300 well-dressed ladies and gentlemen donned safety glasses and hard hats on their way to the most unusual dining experience of their lives. It was called "Dinner in the Dark," an underground banquet held in a spacious subterranean mechanical shop at the the Trout Lake mine. Complete with live music and hors d'oeuvres, the banquet capped off Flin Flon's memorable first time hosting the Mid Canada Mining Corridor Conference. Now Thompson, the host of this year's conference, is taking a page out of Flin Flon's playbook with its own distinct dining experience. The "Picnic in the Pit" is expected to bring about 300 people to Inco's open pit mine for a meal in roughly the same place where the Thompson ore body was first located. "When you hold conferences such as this, you want to expose the delegates to as much local history, industry, and as many activities as possible," said conference chairman Garry Zamzow. "And what better way than to dine at the approximate spot of the diamond drill hole that led to the discovery of the Thompson ore body." Scheduled for June 1, the Picnic in the Pit is believed to be the first banquet of its kind in North America and possibly the world. Flin Flon's Dinner in the Dark was also believed to be the first banquet of its kind.11/5/04
