Darryl Lake, the executive director and CEO of the Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) in Sudbury, Ont., will be the guest speaker at the next industry luncheon for second-year students of the Toronto branch of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum. The meeting is slated for Thursday, Oct. 19, 2006, at noon.
Lake will discuss the likelihood of mining in outer space.
NORCAT develops technology together with small and medium-sized businesses and other organizations. It has worked with government agencies such as the Canadian Space Agency and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in the U.S., as well as more than 80 private sector companies. In all, NORCAT has developed or adapted over 200 technologies and helped launch 30 small companies.
Lake has served on a number of committees and boards relating to technology. As a founding board member of the former Ontario Centre for Resource Machinery Technology, located in Sudbury, he is aware of the difficulties and opportunities for technological development in northern Ontario.
Darryl had been employed in various positions at Sudbury’s Cambrian College for the previous 35 years.
The Northern Centre for Advanced Technology Inc. (NORCAT), in collaboration with various industrial and academic partners, has been working to develop a variety of mining technologies, ranging from a deep-drill system capable of capturing samples from the lunar and martian subsurface, to excavation and processing techniques for oxygen production in support of a human colony on the moon.
The meeting will take place at the Ontario Club in Toronto. The cost is $30 for members and $40 for non-members.
For more information, email Rick Hutson at rick@cjstafford.com or call (416) 352-1989.
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