Teck has been touring Canada and allowing schools, nursing homes, and hospitals all over the country to see the medals for the past eight months following the cessation of the 2010 Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
The company provided the metal used to cast the 2010 Olympic medals, and subsequently was given one of the only three sets of non-awarded medals.
One set is on display at the Olympic museum in Zurich, with the other at the Royal Canadian Mint Museum in Ottawa.
Each of the medals, crafted in a rustic and natural design, is adorned with a different crop of a larger contemporary Aboriginal artwork, and features an undulated shape.
Both design aspects marked a first in the history of Olympic medals.
The wavy design is said to be inspired by the ocean waves, drifting snow and mountainous terrain familiar to the western region of the country.
The medals were designed by Canadian artist Corrine Hunt, of Komoyue and Tlingit heritage, who lives in Vancouver, and chose the orca as the motif for the Olympic medals, and the raven for that of the Paralympic ones.
It took two years for Hunt, industrial designer Omer Arbel, Teck, the Royal Canadian Mint, and the Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee to complete this unique project.