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By Bill Leedham, P.Geo., CESA and an APGO Mentor
When people discuss mentoring, we think of an experienced and trusted adviser in a company or institution who trains and counsels new employees or students. Whether mentoring takes place at or outside of work or school, it is invaluable and will provide many benefits to both the mentor and mentee. Individual careers, businesses, our clients and the entire geoscience industry will all profit by sharing our expertise and experiences.
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APGO
Registration is still open for APGO's Networking Event, "What Drone Technology Can Do for Mineral Exploration."
Date: April 4, 2016 at 12:30 PM
Location: Valhalla Inn, Viking Room, 1 Valhalla Inn Road, Thunder Bay, ON
Register here.
APGO
A reminder that the deadline to submit nominations for APGO's Award of Merit is March 31, 2016. Please send your submissions to Dave Hunt, at dhunt@apgo.net and put "APGO AOM" and the nominee's name in the subject line of your email. APGO's Award of Merit is to be presented annually to an individual member who, during the course of their career, has made significant contributions to the geoscience profession. Click here to learn more.
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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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Ontario Prospectors' Association
Hosted by Ontario Prospectors' Association
April 5-6, 2016 in Thunder Bay
Click here for more.
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.
Northern Ontario Business
Sudbury's Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) has been selected to host the upcoming Ontario Mine Rescue Competition at its Onaping mine training facility.
The annual provincial competition brings together mine rescue volunteers, mining companies, government officials, and spectators in an event which showcases the skills and expertise of some of the world's finest mine rescue personnel.
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The Fountain Pen
The Ontario Geological Survey is celebrating 125 years of documenting the geology of Ontario and providing modern, independent and credible geoscience data and knowledge to the public.
In 1902, Ontario appointed its first provincial geologist, Willet Green Miller. Ninety years later, the Ontario Geological Survey relocated from Toronto to the newly constructed Willet Green Miller Centre on the campus of Laurentian University in Sudbury in 1992.
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The Sudbury Star
Sudbury recently received a $2.3 million grant from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change that will enable it to study nine subwatersheds throughout the Sudbury region.
A subwatershed is "an area of land divided by natural features," Paul Javor, a drainage engineer at the city, said recently. "So, watersheds can be further divided into subwatersheds. Junction Creek, for instance, has all the water that would drain into it."
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Timmins Press
As shareholders of Lake Shore Gold consider the merits of the friendly business combination deal with Tahoe Resources, an LSG executive said the new venture intends to hold onto the key players who have built the company into the gold mining success story is has become in Timmins.
Mark Utting, the vice president of investor relations for LSG told The Daily Press in an exclusive interview that he expects most members of the management team will continue once the deal is approved.
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Northern Ontario Business
Janice Martell knew that going national with her quest to get compensation for miners who had inhaled McIntyre Powder would get some attention, but she was bowled over by the response after CBC aired her story earlier this year.
CBC's Fifth Estate program broadcast Miner's Daughter, a follow-up to the show's original look at the issue, Powder Keg, which aired in 1979.
"Since the Fifth Estate aired, I've been spending virtually every night, several hours a night, just answering peoples' messages," Martell marvelled.
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Torontoist
The matter you so effortlessly flush down the tubes each day can be an excellent source of renewable energy.
Since 2013, North Wastewater Treatment Plant near Albany, N.Y., has been burning the sludge leftover from sewage treatment.
See, everything we city-dwellers flush down the toilet and wash down the sink or shower ends up at wastewater treatment plants. There, solid waste is filtered out of this foul tide, before the water is disinfected and sent out into nature.
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North Bay Nipissing News
For years, the graphite mine near Kearney has been just around the corner, just a couple steps away from being in active production and sending material to market. It is a place the mine owner Ontario Graphite still believes it is at, says company CEO Tom Burkett as they look for investors to kickstart the endeavor which last produced ore in 1994.
Burkett says Ontario Graphite has been successful raising cash from private investors, but there are still some huge steps to take in that direction for the mine to become operational.
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Phys.org
Ice wedges, a common subsurface feature in permafrost landscapes, appear to be rapidly melting throughout the Arctic, according to a new study published recently in the journal Nature Geoscience. The wedges, which can be the size of a house, gradually formed over hundreds or even thousands of years as water seeped into permafrost cracks. On the ground surface, they form polygon shapes roughly 15-30 meters wide — a defining characteristic of northern landscapes.
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