The Institution of Mining and Metallurgy (London) recently hosted a dinner in Toronto to mark the 100th anniversary of the organization’s founding. Guest speaker was Hugh Allen, president of the IMM and director of Rio Tinto Zinc (RTZ) Technical Services.
About 70 guests heard Allen make a plea to all mining associations. “We have to join forces and tackle the emotion and rhetoric of the environmental groups,” he said.
“We need to learn more about toxicology than those who oppose us and we must strive to ensure that this highly charged subject becomes infused with a measure of realism and objectivity.”
For close to a century, mining engineers and metallurgists from the United Kingdom were to be found in practically every mining camp of the globe (with the notable exception of North America). The IMM was founded in London on the crest of this period.
After the Second World War, the picture changed. Countries that had once been the stamping grounds for British engineers wanted their own nationals to run their industries and an era came to an end.
Nevertheless, the IMM retains its international scope. Allen’s employer, RTZ, has a similar aura. It is based in London, had its first and still profitable venture in Spain, renewed success in Australia and now is active the world over (including North America).
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