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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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Presented by RPA Inc.
September 19, 2018 in Toronto
APGO is pleased to provide this professional development opportunity to its members in collaboration with the professional experts from RPA Inc. This one-day course introduces the fundamentals of estimating mineral resources. The content is prepared for an audience of exploration and mine geologists who are primarily responsible for the discovery, definition, and production of mineral deposits, but are often not involved in estimation stage.
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Disclaimer: The events and 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.
By Marc Y. Tassé, MBA, CPA, CA
FCPA (USA), CICA (USA), CFF (USA), CACM (USA)
Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption Compliance Expert
Good strategists manage uncertainty by playing the probabilities, but too many executives use wishful thinking when it comes to anti-corruption compliance. Playing the probabilities means understanding the odds of success. Just one in 12 companies manages to Mitigate Reputational Risk Exposure resulting from non-compliance and therefore this result in a High Level of Reputational Risk Exposure.
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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.
The Weather Network
Hundreds of feet below thick boreal forest blanketing the Canadian Shield, a squad of near-silent, battery-powered machines are tunneling toward gold in a multi-million dollar mining experiment to ditch diesel.
Goldcorp Inc. is building the world's first new all-electric mine in Chapleau, ON, a high-stakes gambit to replace noisy, fume-belching equipment being closely watched by a diesel-dependent industry.
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Quinte News
It's going to cost about $2.7 million more than expected, but Quinte West Council has approved a tender for some critical water infrastructure work.
Council recently approved a $16.2 million dollar contract to Peak Engineering and Construction, for improvements to the Dundas Street pumping station, which would twin the river crossing and the force main infrastructure.
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Canadian Mining Journal
Premier Gold Mines of Thunder Bay, ON, and 50 per cent partner Centerra Gold of Toronto have signed an agreement with the Long Lake #58 First Nation covering the development and operation of the Greenstone gold mine 275 kilometres northeast of Thunder Bay. The agreement was made with Greenstone Gold Mines, the operating company.
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SouthWesternOntario.ca
An appeal to the province could delay completion of Erin's wastewater environmental assessment (EA) by a few months, but the town will continue developing plans for new growth.
Mayor Allan Alls confirmed that the Ministry of the Environment has received a request for a Part II Order. The minister could dismiss the request, or set conditions and order further study if the EA is found to be deficient.
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Northern Ontario Business
The potential of two former cobalt and silver mines in northeastern Ontario has convinced Brixton Metals to form a standalone, publicly-traded, cobalt company.
Higher prices for cobalt, the flurry of recent cobalt company acquisitions and streaming deals, and strong demand coming from the electric vehicle market were cited as the reasons to create a spinoff company, said the Vancouver-based junior exploration outfit in a recent news release.
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CBC News
Looking for oil riches? You might want to follow the microbes.
Researchers are exploring the ocean floor off Sable Island for micro-organisms that eat oil and gas, hoping to find untapped reserves for offshore exploration.
They're testing DNA found in mud samples, on the hunt for specific microbes that have adapted to live off hydrocarbons.
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Cosmos
In what appears to be rare good news for sea level rise, bedrock underneath parts of West Antarctica is rising at a rate of 41 millimetres per year, or more than four metres per century, scientists say.
That's fast enough, says Valentina Barletta, a geophysicist from the Technical University of Denmark, that it could help prevent or delay the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a collection of gigantic glaciers on the Pacific Ocean side of Antarctica. Currently one of the most rapidly melting regions in the world, the sheet contains enough ice to raise sea levels by several metres if it were all to liquidize.
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