This message was sent to ##Email##
|
|
|
APGO
Speaker: Carl Friesen, MBA, Founder, Thought Leadership Resources (part of Global Reach Communications Inc.)
Oct. 23, 2018 from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m.
Are you a member of a professional firm, a solo practitioner, or a corporate employee with expertise in the geosciences? Getting recognized for that expertise can help you get more of the work you want to do, possibly at higher rates. Gaining reputation as a solidly reliable source of solutions involves meeting the people in position to help you with your career. This webinar is designed to do just that.
READ MORE
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.
International Association of Hydrogeologists (IAH)
We are delighted to announce open access of Sixty years of global progress in managed aquifer recharge, one of a series of articles developed by IAH's Commission on Managing Aquifer Recharge (MAR).
READ MORE
Ontario Prospectors Association
Oct. 16, 17, 18 in Kirkland Lake, ON.
READ 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.
CBC Radio
When Mark Selby received an email in the middle of the night that his mining company had struck what may be the two largest gold nuggets ever discovered, he was shocked.
"Needless to say, I didn't get back to bed last night," the president of the Toronto-based company RNC Minerals told As It Happens host Carol Off from Seoul, South Korea.
RNC Minerals recently announced that approximately 9,250 ounces of gold has been extracted from Beta Hunt mine in Australia — worth about $15 million.
READ MORE
Kenora Daily Miner & News
After nearly 20 years, Wauzhushk Onigum (Rat Portage First Nation) will be getting clean drinking water.
At the recent Kenora city council committee of the whole meeting, the city signed a letter of intent to supply the First Nation with water and sewage services.
"In this day and age, it is just [horrible] that my community as well as other First Nation communities can't have the luxury of other Canadians and get to go open up their water tap and have a drink," Wauzhushk Onigum Chief Chris Skead said.
READ MORE
Northern Ontario Business
The discovery of new underground reserves has pushed the life of the Lac des Iles Mine (LDI) to 10 years.
North American Palladium (NAP) released an updated feasibility study and mine plan that projects a longer mine life at its operation, north of Thunder Bay.
NAP has been employing a more efficient bulk mining method — known as sublevel shrinkage (SLS) — in the lower part of the mine that it intends to utilize at other near-surface resources on their property.
READ MORE
Timmins Times
A united effort is underway to help the Timmins mine rescue team from Tahoe Resources Canada put in a good showing when the team takes part in the International Mine Rescue Competition (IMRC) being held in Russia later this month.
The Timmins team, aside from winning the Timmins District mine rescue competition held in May, also won the all-Ontario mine rescue competition in June.
READ MORE
ParrySound.com
Town of Parry Sound staff continue testing area streets to identify sewage cross connections.
Using a power fogger purchased earlier this year, several staff took to Joseph Street, Mall Drive and Parry Sound Drive recently, as well as the William Street area, to inject harmless fog into sanitary sewers to see where fog shouldn't be going.
READ MORE
Northern Ontario Business
One of the Canadian mining industry's most charismatic figures, Bill James, died on Sept. 4.
He was 89. A 2002 inductee into the Canadian Mining Hall of Fame, James was known in the industry as a "turnaround man."
Born in Ottawa in 1929, the McGill University geological science graduate began working for his father's mining consulting firm becoming moving on to Noranda Mines and to lead Falconbridge, Denison Mines and Inmet Mining.
READ MORE
National Post
Flooded rivers from Florence's drenching rains have swamped coal ash dumps and low-lying hog farms, raising pollution concerns as the swollen waterways approach their crests.
North Carolina environmental regulators say several open-air manure pits at hog farms have failed, spilling pollution. State officials also were monitoring the ongoing threat from the breach of a Duke Energy coal ash landfill near Wilmington.
READ MORE
Missed last week's issue? See which articles your colleagues read most.
|
Don't be left behind. Click here to see what else you missed.
|
|
| Field Notes Connect with APGO
Recent Issues | Subscribe | Unsubscribe | Advertise | Web Version
Bernard Kradjian, Marketing & Communications Specialist — APGO, 416-203-2746 ext. 23 | Send feedback
Marilen Miguel, Contributor — APGO, 416-203-2746 ext. 24 | Send feedback
Radek Meljon, MultiView Canada, Vice-President and General Manager, 289-695-5394 | Media kit Katherine Radin, Executive Editor, 289-695-5388
Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario
25 Adelaide Street East, Suite 1100 | Toronto, Ontario M5C 3A1 | 416-203-2746 | Contact Us
Learn how to add us to your safe sender list so our emails get to your inbox. |
|
| |
|
|
 50 Minthorn Blvd.Suite 800, Thornhill, Ontario L3T 7X8
|