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Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
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Northern Ontario Business
The province expects to implement the first three amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act — aimed at improving safety standards in Ontario mines — early in 2016.
"These three in particular were amendments that were put forward by the committee that we've acted on as quickly as we could," said Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn, referring to the provincial Mining, Health, Safety and Prevention Review committee.
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Geophysics GPR International is pleased to announce the launching of its new website with expanded details on applications and geophysical methods. We continue innovating as a pioneer in applications to geologic, geotechnical and engineering challenges.
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The Weather Network
We can't say we've finally reached the future, but some scientists say our planet has finally entered a new, distinct age.
But before you go checking your horoscopes, it's less about the Age of Aquarius and more to do with geology — specifically a new geological age an international scientific panel is tentatively calling the Anthropocene Epoch.
It's distinct from the current age, known as the Holocene, in that human impact on the Earth has reached a level where its evidence can be detected in sediments and ice by future archaeologists.
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Canadian Mining Journal
Since suspending underground mining at its Phoenix project in the Red Lake camp, Rubicon Minerals of Toronto has taken the time to update its resource estimate for the mine.
The company has made significant decreases in both tonnage and contained ounces compared to the 2013 estimate. The new numbers reflect the geological complexity of the F2 deposit and the less continuous nature of the high grade gold mineralization. The changes were made after additional drilling and modeling.
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Northern Ontario Business
Could good news come in threes for the City of Timmins?
On the heels of a pair of announcements of new industrial development in Timmins — Calabrian's liquid sulphur dioxide plant and General Magnesium's magnesium and talc mine — the city has announced a potential third development from an investor in China.
This past fall, the city announced Mayor Steve Black had signed a letter of intent with China's Jiangsu Tianlong Continuous Basalt Fiber to work together in bringing a rock wool insulation facility to the city.
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Global News
It was only recently that NASA released a statement saying that the effects of El Nino were yet to come for much of the United States, particularly drought-stricken California. A mere two weeks later, California and parts of the U.S. Midwest are dealing with heavy rains causing floods and landslides.
The rains, while welcomed, are wreaking havoc across several states. The ground has been unable to absorb the copious amount of rain.
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Science Alert
If your life's ambition is to become very, very rich, consider getting into the business of producing endohedral fullerenes — the world's most expensive material.
Scientists at Oxford University in the U.K. announced that a spin-off lab called Designer Carbon Materials is now producing endohedral fullerenes, and they recently sold off their first sample of the material to the tune of $32,000 for 200 micrograms, which is about one-fifteenth the weight of a snowflake, or one-third the weight of a human hair.
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Phys.org
The bottom of the ocean just keeps getting better. Or at least more interesting to look at. In an ongoing project, mappers at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory have been gathering data from hundreds of research cruises and turning it all into accessible maps of the ocean floor with resolutions down to 25 meters. You can see some of the results at a mapping site that allows scientists — and you — to zero in on a particular location, zoom in and download topographical maps of the ocean floor.
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