Your article on the need for co-operation to improve our chances for success in mining technology (March, 1987) is most timely. We have only to look at some of our competitors such as Sweden with its Swedish Mining Group or Australia with its amira to realize the benefits of co-operation between mining companies, equipment manufacturers and university researchers. However, there were a few inaccuracies that I would like to correct. First, the Canadian Geoscience Council has commissioned the Centre for Resource Studies to conduct a study of R&D expenditures and education trends in Earth Sciences, not in mining.
Second, there is no preliminary report as yet; the report quoted in your article was based on an earlier study done by the crs for the Ministry of State for Science and Technology.
Third, the quote incorrectly attributes 40% of Canada’s value added to mining and gives 29% of federal R&D funding to mining. These figures, in fact, refer to mining’s contribution to mineral production and share of federal mineral-related R&D funding, respectively. The corresponding figures for mining’s gnp contribution and R&D share in the economy as a whole would be closer to 2%. Margot Wojciechowski, Associate Director, Centre for Resource Studies, Queen’s University
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