According to government figures, the amount of nuclear energy used in the production of world electrical power between 1971 and 1990 jumped more than eight times, from 2% to 17%. In 2001, Saskatchewan…
Christine McLelland, a high-school teacher in Englewood, Colo., believes students need to understand the Earth, the processes that created it, and what’s happening to it, and she is addressing that ne…
The University of Toronto chapter of the Society of Economic Geologists will present a short course on diamond exploration on March 7 and 8.The event coincides with the annual convention of the Prospe…
Looking to develop public awareness of earth sciences, a group of 25 geoscientists, including three past directors of the Geological Survey of Canada, has started a project to catalogue and preserve i…
It has come to light that the Royal Ontario Museum plans to close the Jack Satterly Geochronology Laboratory, part of its Department of Earth Sciences.The lab, which bears the name of one of the giant…
The weather reports say that it’s minus 42 in Cambridge Bay, but that won’t keep Patricia Dillon and Patricia Meyer from teaching mining to students in chilly, far-northern Nunavut.Both women are par…
I read with interest the commentary by David Lefebure regarding platinum group element potential in British Columbia (T.N.M., Nov. 12-18/01) and would like to comment on one item.In describing the cop…
Ontario-based Ekwan Technologies is hoping to take a stranglehold on what it believes will be a large emerging market for an airborne system that maps geochemical alteration over large areas. The syst…
When Caitlin Kearns was given an assignment by her science teacher to write a poem about mineral use in our daily lives, she was just an 11-year-old with an interest in the subject matter. Today, she …
Denver — The Dow Jones industrial average climbed 136.70 points, or 1.2%, to 11,175.84 during the report period ended June 5, while spot gold slumped to US$265.70 on the Comex division of the New Yor…
The scientific career of one of the country’s greatest living geologists is to be commemorated by an endowed research and teaching chair in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Wester…
A workshop on business opportunities and private investment in China’s mining and minerals industry will be held Oct. 21 at the Hilton Toronto Airport Hotel, three months before a Canadian trade deleg…
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