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Feb. 5, 2020 at 5:30 p.m.
Speaker: Brittany Ramsay, Department of Geology, Lakehead University
Presentation: Mesoarchean Chemical Sedimentary Rocks of Northwestern Ontario: Implications for Hydrosphere Composition in Deep Time
Come and join PGO’s North East regional Councillor, Tafa Gomwe, P.Geo. for an evening of learning and networking with professional geoscientists. There is no registration fee for this event. However, attendees are required to register online.
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The PGO continues to engage the Ontario Government regarding amendments designed to update the PGA. Last week, PGO conducted meetings with new staff with responsibilities in this area in the Premier’s Office and Ministry or Energy, Northern Development and Mines.
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Ministry of Environment and Conservation Parks
Jan. 30, 2020 in Toronto
The Ontario government is moving forward with its commitment to make it safer and easier to use local excess soil and put vacant, prime lands back into good use while maintaining strong environmental protections. On Dec. 4, 2019, Ontario amended the Records of Site Condition Regulation (Ontario Regulation 153/04) and also introduced the On-Site and Excess Soil Management Regulation to help support these commitments. There is limited capacity for the in-person information session being held on Jan. 30, 2020. Qualified Persons and municipal staff can register using this link. Information sessions via webinar are also slated for Feb. 5 and Feb. 20, 2020. More information on these webinars will be made available soon.
Metal Earth and Smart Exploration
Workshop by Metal Earth and Smart Exploration
Feb. 27, 2020 in Toronto
The Metal Earth and Smart Exploration projects present a workshop on the application of novel seismic and electromagnetic methods for mineral exploration. They invite participants from the mineral exploration industry, geologists, geophysicists, mineral explorers, as well as mining and service providers to see the recent developments within these growing fields.
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Timmins Daily Press
The courts have ruled in favour of an environmental group that accused De Beers Canada of allegedly failing to report mercury monitoring data collected at the Victor Diamond Mine to the provincial regulator.
The Victor Diamond Mine is located on wetlands along the Attawapiskat River near Attawapiskat First Nation on the James Bay Coast.
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Northern Ontario Business
Dawn Madahbee Leach is hopeful that a newly forged partnership between Waubetek Business Development Corp. and Rio Tinto will be just the first of many positive working relationships between Indigenous people and the mining industry.
In November, the global mining giant announced it would invest $1 million over five years into Waubetek’s Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Minerals Development, which is being established in Northern Ontario.
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The Weather Network
It's almost a "classic" Toronto experience these days. Every time we see dark, rain-laden clouds sweep across the GTA, and especially if we combine rainfall with a rapid snow melt or even freezing rain, it isn't too long before social media lights up with reports that the south end of the Don Valley Parkway is — once again — flooded out.
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Simcoe.com
The public board is flushing away any concerns about its drinking water quality.
Simcoe County District School Board trustees got an update on drinking water procedures in December, following a Toronto Star report that showed more than 2,400 Ontario schools and daycares exceeded lead levels in drinking water.
Lead testing has been regulated by the province since 2007 and starting in 2017, all school boards were required to test every fountain or sink.
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University of Toronto
To an aspiring geologist, southern Ontario leaves something to be desired since it sits astride the geologically stable Canadian Shield. Not so the Cappadocia region of central Turkey.
“For geologists, Turkey is exciting,” says Professor Russell Pysklywec, chair of the department of Earth sciences in the Faculty of Arts & Science at the University of Toronto. “It sits on the boundary between two tectonic plates and, as a result, is geologically very active."
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ETH Zurich
Searched for and found: climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global scale. They are thus amending a long-established paradigm: weather is not climate — but climate change can now be detected in daily weather. In October this year, weather researchers in Utah measured the lowest temperature ever recorded in the month of October in the U.S. (excluding Alaska): -37.1°C.
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GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz Centre
A new submarine volcano was formed off the island of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean in 2018. This was shown by an oceanographic campaign in May 2019. Now an international team led by the scientist Simone Cesca from the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ has illuminated the processes deep inside the Earth before and during the formation of the new volcano.
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University of East Anglia
In light of the Australian fires, scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA), Met Office Hadley Centre, University of Exeter, Imperial College London, and CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, have conducted a Rapid Response Review of 57 peer-reviewed papers published since the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report in 2013.
All the studies show links between climate change and increased frequency or severity of fire weather — periods with a high fire risk due to a combination of high temperatures, low humidity, low rainfall and often high winds — though some note anomalies in a few regions.
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