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Government of Ontario
Ontario
has
released
a
renewed
Mineral
Development Strategy
that provides
a 10-year vision to
position Ontario as the global leader in sustainable mineral development.
The
renewed
strategy confirms the province's commitment to attracting
new investment
and
supporting innovation
in the mineral exploration and development sector.
The strategy consists
of a 10-point action plan with
four strategic priorities.
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Toronto Geological Discussion Group
Speaker: Craig MacDougall, Senior Vice President of Exploration, IAMGOLD
Hosted by Toronto Geological Discussion Group (TGDG)
Jan. 26, 2016 from 4:00-5:00 PM
2nd Floor, 20 Toronto St, Toronto
To register, please click here.
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
Industry veterans with Northern Ontario connections will be honoured at the 2016 Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada's (PDAC) convention in the spring.
Robert Cudney, Stephen Roman, and John Whitton are the recipients of this year's Bill Dennis Award for the Bruce Channel gold discovery at the Red Lake gold camp in northwestern Ontario.
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Canadian Mining Journal
Premier Gold Mines of Thunder Bay, ON, is pleased with the continuing exploration of its Rahill-Bonanza joint venture in the Red Lake mining camp. Premier's partner at Rahill is Goldcorp (55 per cent and operator) of Vancouver.
Work has uncovered additional high grade gold mineralization immediately south of the tram and on strike with Goldcorp's Red Lake Gold Mines complex.
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Edmonton Sun
As the glaciers melt, the world turns more slowly.
Scientists out of the University of Alberta Faculty of Science found a rise in sea levels isn't the only effect of melting glaciers — the Earth's mass has shifted from the poles to the equator. That — combined with changes in the Earth's core — account for longer days, according to research from physics professor Mathieu Dumberry.
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Mining.com
Diamond miners will remain under pressure over the next 12-18 months as sluggish jewellery sales and reduced credit availability for cutters and polishers have created a temporary supply and demand mismatch, warns Moody's.
In a special report published recently, the rating and research agency notes that despite current conditions, which have dragged rough diamond prices down about 18 per cent this year, the sector's long-term fundamentals remain solid.
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Las Vegas Review-Journal
A new mining boom is taking shape in Nevada, one focused not on gold and silver, but brines and clay containing an element critical to a 21st century world.
Interest in Nevada's lithium supplies spiked after Tesla Motors chose the Northern Nevada desert as the site for its $5 billion lithium-ion battery factory, a joint venture with Japanese company Panasonic.
Elon Musk, Tesla's billionaire CEO, said mass production of the batteries is key to his goal of making the company's fast and sexy electric cars affordable to the general public.
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Cosmos Magazine
Carbon levels are rising, so negotiators at the Paris climate conference have had their work cut out for them. But things are starting to look a lot worse.
Climate scientists such as Columbia University's James Hansen have long warned about "runaway" climate change — feedback loops where climate levers get pushed to the point where out planet enters a phase of unstoppable warming.
One of the most worrisome runaway warming scenarios involves the thawing Arctic permafrost.
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Phys.org
University of Maryland researchers have made a breakthrough discovery in graphene research that could provide a test-bed for understanding how electrons move in extremely high magnetic fields. Since its discovery in 2004, graphene has become a celebrity in the materials science and physics world due to its remarkable physical properties.
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