Education

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 Eco

Trades training will be more accessible than ever with Cambrian College's new mobile trades training trailer.

David Smart, a heavy equipment technician student at Cambrian College in Sudbury has won a gold medal at the Ontario Technological Skills Competition (OTSC).

Laurentian University mining engineering students won the 19th annual Canadian Mining Games at the University of Toronto February 19 – 21. The Laurentian victory is its seventh since the founding of the annual event in 1991.

Inspired by famous Canadian scholar Marshall McLuhan’s observation that the medium is the message, the Ontario Mining Association launched a video contest late last year to educate an unlikely audience about the mining industry.

Four engineering students from Laurentian University won the Ontario Engineering Competition, Junior Design Category, in competition against 14 other universities earlier this year.

Retired miner, researcher and author Hans Brasch is keeping Sudbury’s mining heritage alive and well.

Michelle DeWolfe has set the bar high as the first PhD graduate of Laurentian University’s Earth Sciences program. External examiner Dr.

Burying one’s child is a tragedy beyond description. Yet the theatrical production Slague – L’histoire d’un mineur effectively brings to life the emotional impact of such a loss.

An urgent need to attract students to the Earth sciences has sparked a national contest for Canadian youth.