Update Fun Facts about the Mining Industry on homepage

[Rebecca-MDS]

Describe the task Latest numbers are available to update in the Fun Facts about the Mining Industry in British Columbia, located on the BCMI homepage

Purpose Having the numbers updated shows the public that the site is accurate and maintained

Acceptance Criteria

• Replace the facts with the updated values
• Check to see if the # of environmental assessment applications for mining projects in progress is a live link
• If the # environmental assessments is a live link, don't update that number with the new value

Additional context Old Values: $8.8B 2019 Production Value of Mining [Natural Resources Canada Preliminary Estimate] $422.7M 2020 Industry Mineral Exploration Spending [British Columbia Mineral and Coal Exploration Survey] 16 Number of environmental assessment applications for mining projects in progress

New Values: $16.6B 2023 production value [Natural Resources Canada] $643.5M 2023 Industry Mineral Exploration Spending [British Columbia Geological Survey] 9 Number of environmental assessment applications for mining projects in progress [EPIC]

[sggerard]

The # of environment assessments is not a live link. Changes have been deployed to the test environment.

[sggerard]

Deployed to production https://mines.nrs.gov.bc.ca/