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As 2018 comes to a close, APGO would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of Field Notes a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019.
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Disclaimer: The media articles featured in Field Notes do not express or reflect the opinions of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, or any employee thereof.
New York Times
At the start of the last ice age, 2.6 million years ago, a sheet of frozen water formed atop North America that kept expanding and thickening until it reached a maximum depth of roughly two miles.
At its southern edge, the vast body deposited tons of rocky debris — from sand and pebbles to boulders the size of school buses. Then, some 18,000 years ago, the planet began to warm and the gargantuan sheet of ice began to melt and retreat.
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APGO
You voted and we have a WINNER! The winning photo belongs to Laurie Curtis who is a Non-Practising Member of APGO. His win was announced at the Annual General Meeting on June 14th where he was presented with a plaque and a $100 cash prize. Laurie's photo will appear as the cover of next year's Annual Report. Click here to view the photo that Laurie took of the Treatment Pond, Brewer Mine Superfund site, Carolina Gold Belt. Congratulations Laurie!
Science Daily
A new study could help explain the driving force behind the largest mass extinction in the history of earth, known as the End-Permian Extinction.
The event, also known as the Great Dying, occurred around 250 million years ago when a massive volcanic eruption in what is today the Russian province of Siberia sent nearly 90 percent of all life right into extinction. Geologists call this eruption the Siberian Flood Basalts, and it ran for almost a million years.
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Toronto Star
Eira Thomas has discovered diamonds in the far north, co-founded mining companies and sat on a dozen boards — including Canada's most valuable energy company.
So the 49-year-old was a little taken aback when an investor recently suggested she needed to hire an engineer as chief operating officer to back her up in the executive suite. She was, after all, only a geologist. "I'm 30 years in this business," said Thomas, who took over as chief executive officer of Vancouver-based Lucara Diamond Corp. in February.
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CBC News
Some scientists believe human activity and technology have pushed us into a new geological epoch called the Anthropocene. What they still need to figure out is exactly when this turning point began.
A team of researchers from three universities in Ontario is betting the answer lies at the bottom of a lake in Milton, just west of Toronto.
"We feel strongly that Crawford Lake has all the right stuff," said Francine McCarthy, the team's leader and an earth sciences professor at Brock University who has been studying the lake since the 1980s.
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CTV Northern Ontario
Big news for the mining giant Vale, which has operations in Sudbury.
The company is investing $2 billion to open a new underground mine in Labrador.
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CBC News
It's official — you're living in a new age.
It's called the Meghalayan, and it was officially added this week to the International Geologic Time Scale.
The scale divides the history of the Earth into eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages, the way we divide smaller increments of time into years, months, hours, minutes and seconds.
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The Sudbury Star
Noront Resources Ltd. is looking to partner with a gold company as it continues to lead exploration of the Ring of Fire, a vast isolated area in northwestern Ontario with untapped mineral resources.
The company has proven nickel and chromite deposits in the Ring of Fire, but those base metals are too heavy to transport out of the area, given the current lack of road access. Gold, on the other hand, is so valuable that it is often flown out of remote areas.
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APGO
This year's recipient of APGO's Award of Merit is Peter A. Gray, P.Geo. Peter was recognized for his outstanding contribution to geoscience and to the public at APGO's 16th Annual General Meeting that took place in Toronto on June 14, 2018. Joining the rank of previous winners, Peter not only contributed significantly to the geoscience field but also utilized his expertise to bring important aspects of geoscience to the public at large.
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APGO
The APGO is pleased to present the 2018 APGO Membership Survey Report. We thank everyone who participated in this survey. Your voice is important to the APGO. As per the President's message to the membership, the members' responses are being taken to heart. Click here to read the report.
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