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Laurentian University’s Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) and the Department of Earth Sciences have spearheaded the introduction of two new Geology programs to help address a serious shortage of geoscientists.
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 Sky high PGM prices spark exploration
Northern Ontario is never going to become a leading producer of platinum group metals (PGMs), but the region's output may eventually increase to the point that it “can't be ignored by the rest of the world,” according to an executive at a northwestern Ontario palladium mine. | |
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Perry English: prospector of the year
Perry English, winner of the Ontario Prospectors Association Prospector of the Year Award, has a little in common with Sam Walton, the legendary founder of the mammoth Wal-Mart empire. | |
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Exploration spending tops $500 million
Final statistics for 2007 exploration and deposit appraisal expenditures in Ontario were still being compiled at press time, but will be well over $500 million, a significant increase over the $346.5 million recorded last year. | |
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Noront discovery highlights record year
A lot of people in the mineral exploration business spend decades raising money, acquiring properties and funding exploration programs with nothing of any significance to show for it. | |
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CCIC ramps up to serve juniors
Geologists rule. Finally, after years of being “used and discarded” during short-lived spikes in the mining cycle, “there’s enough demand that we can actually start to be price-setters,” said Scott Jobin-Bevans, managing director of Caracle Creek International Consulting Inc., (CCIC). | |
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