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APGO is currently finalizing details on a 2-day short course on "Introduction to Exploration Geochemistry for Precious Metals." Details will be posted here.
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July 19, 2017 from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
University of Toronto — Mississauga
GUEST SPEAKER: Laurra Olmsted, P.Geo., Executive Director, UniWater Education
PRESENTATION: A Novel Approach to Solving Water Challenges in Africa
This presentation highlights an example of how professionals in Canada, such as professional geoscientists, can work internationally to share their experience and knowledge to benefit those in developing countries. Register
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APGO is pleased to introduce a monthly column in our issue of Field Notes, "Ask the Registrar." This new section will address the most common registration questions being asked by members. The column will appear on the last Thursday of each month.
DISCLAIMER: The information contained in the "Ask the Registrar" section is provided for general information purposes only and is not intended to provide advice or guidance to uniquely specific issues or circumstances. Members who have specific questions on any registration issues should consult with the Registrar directly.
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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.
BBC News
A million-year-long period of extreme volcanic activity most likely paved the way for the dawn of the dinosaurs, a study suggests.
Scientists have analyzed ancient rocks and have found traces of emissions from huge volcanic eruptions that happened about 200 million years ago.
This would have led to one of the largest mass extinctions on record, enabling dinosaurs to become dominant.
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Government of Ontario
Ontario is diversifying the Northern economy and helping create good new jobs for people in the North by supporting innovation at a mining company near Kenora.
The province is supporting Avalon Advanced Materials as it develops an innovative new process to make lithium-ion batteries from petalite mineral deposits in the Kenora area. This support, through the Northern Ontario Heritage Fund Corporation (NOHFC), will allow the local mining company to test and demonstrate converting lithium mineral petalite into lithium hydroxide, a key component in the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries, which provide a rechargeable, sustainable and low-pollution source of energy storage.
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Northern Ontario Business
The future is looking more secure for several innovation projects at Cambrian College in Sudbury with a large grant coming their way.
Cambrian Innovates, the applied research division at the college, and three mining industry partners will benefit from a $2.1 million grant aimed at supporting a five-year Mine Environmental Stewardship Initiative.
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Hamilton News
When he was a Hamilton councillor in 2007, Bob Bratina raised the issue of lead in the city’s drinking water from old pipes in some residential homes.
A subsequent public health study found that an estimated 30,000 homes in the city could have higher levels of lead in their water than the provincial regulation allowed.
Now as the Hamilton East-Stoney Creek Liberal MP, Bratina introduced a private member's bill, which was approved, that directs the federal government to study the impact of lead pipe infrastructure in all Canadian municipalities. The study is to be ready by December 2017.
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DurhamRegion.com
It was during the extension of Highway 407 from Brock Road in Pickering to Oshawa that Greenwood resident Ed Tait started noticing problems with the quality of his well water.
"We had an increased amount of silt our filter system had to put up with," he said.
He is part of a group of residents that wants some answers to their well problems, which they say only became an issue since the extension of Highway 407 began.
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The Sudbury Star
Two St. Catharines natives are part of winning teams in this year's MINED Open Innovation Challenge, offered by the Ontario Mining Association to mining and engineering students.
Adam Grinbergs and Sarah Bulanda, Laurentian University students, are members of the first and second place teams, respectively.
The program tasked engineering students to come up with solutions to hypothetical mining problems.
Their case study presented them with the challenge of cooling down underground mines.
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Canadian Mining Journal
After a seven-month long build, the Hydraulic Air Compressor (HAC) Demonstrator at Dynamic Earth has officially opened. The 100-foot high industrial-scale system for testing and demonstration of compressed air production is installed in a former elevator shaft at Science North's Dynamic Earth in Sudbury.
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Gizmodo
The search for raw materials to feed the all-powerful Sarlacc of capitalism is pushing industries to increasingly remote and alien environments. One of the most exciting frontiers to emerge of late is the deep ocean—rife with valuable metals like copper and zinc, as well as the rare Earth elements that drive our smartphones and computers. But as humanity's interest in plundering the deep of its riches heats up, scientists are warning that this new gold rush will have serious consequences.
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Science Daily
Nanotechnologists from Rice University and China's Tianjin University have used 3-D laser printing to fabricate centimeter-sized objects of atomically thin graphene.
The research could yield industrially useful quantities of bulk graphene and is described online in a new study in the American Chemical Society journal ACS Nano.
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