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As 2015 comes to a close, APGO would like to wish its members, partners and other industry professionals a safe and happy holiday season. As we reflect on the past year for the industry, we would like to provide the readers of Field Notes a look at the most accessed articles from the year. Our regular publication will resume Thursday, Jan. 7, 2016.
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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.
National Geographic
From May 14, 2015:
A placid mountain lake in central Oregon lives up to its name, Lost Lake, by disappearing every spring. This year, video capturing the annual phenomenon has gone viral.
As the video shows, Lost Lake drains rapidly through a six-foot wide hole in the lake's bottom, morphing into a quiet meadow in late spring. Early in the following spring, the lake fills up again, as snow-melt from the surrounding Cascade mountains accumulates faster than water can drain out through the hole.
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Northern Life
From Feb. 19, 2015: Innovator Jim Kendall remembers the exact circumstances surrounding his eureka moment: While on the elliptical trainer at the Ajax Community Centre. It was then the mining engineer alighted on an idea that some believe could be a game-changer for the mineral exploration industry.
Kendall, who holds four engineering degrees, was working for a large gold mining company at the time, and his job was to come up with new technologies for mineral exploration.
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CBC News
From June 25, 2015: Ontario's Ministry of Environment and Climate Change approved the terms of reference recently for the environmental assessment of the Noront Resources nickel project in the Ring of Fire.
The company first submitted its plan more than two years ago.
The terms of reference sets out the rules for consulting First Nations about the impacts of the proposed mine.
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Daily Mail
From July 9, 2015: A huge fault in the Earth's crust near Los Angeles is leaking helium, researchers have found. They say the unexpected find sheds new light on the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los Angeles Basin. It reveals the fault is far deeper than previously thought, and a quake would be far more devastating. It follows a report from the U.S. Geological Survey has warned the risk of "the big one" hitting California has increased dramatically.
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Northern Ontario Business
From Aug. 27, 2015: Amothballed crushing mill in Matheson is being refurbished by a Toronto industrial minerals company with the aim of processing flake graphite imported from South America.
Great Lakes Graphite has struck a five-year agreement with DNI Metals to procure graphite from Brazil for shipment to the northeastern Ontario plant, where the company is refitting a micronization plant.
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Earth Magazine
From July 2, 2015: Every year, the world consumes about 20 million tons of copper, primarily for construction materials like electrical wiring and water pipes. Most non-recycled supplies come from porphyry copper deposits, which form when hot, metal-bearing fluids percolate up through Earth's crust. But while geologists have long recognized — and exploited — PCDs, two new studies suggest they may need to rethink how these deposits form.
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CBC News
From Nov. 12, 2015: The news of a temporary closure at the Rubicon Minerals mine in Red Lake, ON, came unexpectedly to one mining economist at the Centre for Excellence in Sustainable Mining at Lakehead University.
The shutdown of the mine is leaving 330 workers without a job in the northern Ontario town with 5,000 residents.
In a paper highlighting key mining developments, Karl Skogstad said the Rubicon mine was one of the more promising projects in northern Ontario.
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APGO
From Oct. 1, 2015: APGO congratulates Shastri Ramnath, P.Geo., President, Principal Geologist and Founder of Orix Geoscience Inc. for being one of the 2015 RBC Canadian Women Entrepreneur Award finalists. The Women of Influence press release, dated Sept. 23, 2015, named Shastri as one of the finalists for the RBC Momentum Award. The Women of Influence website describes this prestigious award as a recognition given to the entrepreneur who has successfully overcome obstacles and capitalized on opportunities to deliver 10 per cent or more growth, year-over-year for more than three years. Through expanded management, empowered employees, and demonstrated excellence, she has created a flexible and responsive business that is able to adapt to changing market environments and leverage opportunities for continued growth.
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The Weather Network
From Nov. 5, 2015: Given the ongoing public fear that the volcano beneath Yellowstone National Park is about to erupt, people might be forgiven for being a little nervous when the landscape nearby splits in half.
The crack in the earth in the shots up above is no new Grand Canyon, but it's still a big one, at almost 700 metres long and 45 metres wide.
It appears to have opened recently, in the foothills of Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains. Wyoming is home to the lion's share of Yellowstone National Park.
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The Weather Network
From Nov. 19, 2015: Groundwater — the water held in the cracks in soil and in the pores of rocks — is a precious resource that has never been fully quantified.
The need to know how much groundwater Earth has has become increasingly important in recent years, due to unprecedented drought in California and long heat spells elsewhere.
Now, a new study led by B.C.'s University of Victoria has provided the first-ever data-backed estimate of the Earth's total groundwater supply.
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