Laurentian students win NASA competition A team of eight mechanical engineering students from Laurentian University in Sudbury took home the top prize in NASA’s second annual Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida May 28th. The eight students designed, built and operated a robotic excavator that collected and dumped 237 kilograms of lunar simulant in 15 minutes. View Article
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Laurentian students win NASA competition A team of eight mechanical engineering students from Laurentian University in Sudbury took home the top prize in NASA’s second annual Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida May 28th. The eight students designed, built and operated a robotic excavator that collected and dumped 237 kilograms of lunar simulant in 15 minutes. | More...
Students attend green mining program Four students and their teacher from Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School in Sudbury recently attended a “Green Mining” program at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario to learn about the root causes of water quality issues at mining sites. | More...
Miner certification program takes shape Miners and mineral processing operators have sets of elite skills and knowledge that can now be nationally certified and recognized across Canada thanks to an innovative Canadian Mining Credentials Program being introduced by the Mining Industry Human Resources (MiHR) Council. | More...
Training program targets First Nations It didn’t take long for the Mining Industry Human Resources Council and Assembly of First Nations Mining Essentials program to make its impact felt and show it is going to be a success. | More...
Workshop opens doors for geoscience students Another 25 Earth Sciences students from universities across Canada will get a taste of the mineral exploration industry at the PDAC’s fifth annual Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop (S-IMEW) in Sudbury, May 6 to 21. | More...
Mining Matters reaches out to Aboriginal youth The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada's (PDAC) Mining Matters program has expanded its Aboriginal youth outreach activities to Baker Lake in Nunavut and the First Nation communities of Webequie and Marten Falls in Northern Ontario. Together with the First Nations Natural Resource Youth Employment Program in Upsala, Ontario and the Manitoba Natural Resource Camp in northern Manitoba, Mining Matters will connect with more than 115 Aboriginal youth ranging from ages nine to 19. | More...
Teachers don hard hats and mucker boots Thirty elementary and high school teachers from across Ontario donned hard hats, mucker boots and cap lamps for an underground tour of Xstrata's Nickel Rim South Mine in August as part of a four-day Teacher's Mining Tour organized by the Canadian Ecology Centre. | More...
