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The Surprising Source of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals

The Surprising Source of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Medals

What goes into an Olympic medal? A digital picture of a nine-year old girl smiling by a pool after she won her first regional tournament. That late-night chat with Sebastian, the basketball coach, to schedule the next day’s training. Multiple alarms at 4:15, 4:20, 4:25… so the snooze button will not prevent a young surfer […]

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Mining mentorship programs abound but don’t solve industry’s retention challenge

Mining mentorship programs abound but don’t solve industry’s retention challenge

When Stephanie Saliba was in her second year of McGill University’s mining engineering co-op program, she joined the Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering (POWE) group to help mentor first-year engineering students. While she says she joined the group in part because of the connections it offered, Saliba knows first-hand the benefits of having a […]

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Innovating the Electrification of Mines

Innovating the Electrification of Mines

Electrification of mines is starting to climb the agenda of the CEO and COO as a driver of cost reduction, energy efficiency and social licence to operate stewardship. We will be releasing our global mine electrification survey later this year which identifies the role miners can play in electrical power innovation; the challenges and opportunities […]

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PhD Student Vinoth Kumar Wins the Best Student Paper Award

PhD Student Vinoth Kumar Wins the Best Student Paper Award

Maria Holuszko’s PhD student Vinoth Kumar was awarded the best student paper award at the “Cleanwater Clean Energy” Conference June 3-8, 2018 for the paper: SIMULTANEOUS EXTRACTION OF CLEAN COAL AND RARE EARTH ELEMENTS FROM COAL TAILINGS USING ALKALI-ACID LEACHING PROCESS. View more award winners here!

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The Robots Are Here To Help Us – Ilija Miskovic

The Robots Are Here To Help Us – Ilija Miskovic

University of British Columbia (UBC) professor and engineer Ilija Miskovic, who was born in the former Yugoslavia, has an easy way to distinguish the oft-confused domains of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Think of them as Russian dolls, he suggests. Artificial intelligence, a branch of computer science focused on creating intelligent machines that can […]

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CIM Distinguished Lecture

CIM Distinguished Lecture

Brief biography and lecture description Martin Wacker Marty is Principal Engineer at Cameco Corporation. He is a mechanical engineer with over 30 years of experience in design, project engineering and management in the mining and manufacturing industries. He is recognized for his lead role in developing Cigar Lake’s unique ground freezing and water jet mining […]

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Alexa Dumaine is this year’s recipient of the CIM MES-COSMO Scholarship!

We are delighted to announce that the 2017 CIM MES-COSMO Scholarship recipient is Alexa Dumaine who is a 3rd year student within the Bachelor of Applied Science programme at the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at the University of British Columbia. She is currently completing her co-op work term at Albian Sands in […]

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UBC Mining Engineering is at the CIM Convention in Montreal, April 30-May 3, 2017

UBC Mining Engineering is at the CIM Convention in Montreal, April 30-May 3, 2017

UBC Mining Engineering is at the CIM Convention in Montreal, April 30-May 3, 2017. Our booth is #1624

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Daniel Lim and Brandon Johnson recognized for placing 1st and 2nd in the National Society of Petroleum Engineers report competition in APSC

Daniel Lim and Brandon Johnson recognized for placing 1st and 2nd in the National Society of Petroleum Engineers report competition in APSC

Daniel Lim and Brandon Johnson placed 1st and 2nd respectively in the National Society of Petroleum Engineers report competition held at UBC on March 25.

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UBC wins first place at the 27th annual Canadian Mining Games

UBC wins first place at the 27th annual Canadian Mining Games

Scoresheet: 2017_CMG_Results As many of you may have heard, last weekend was the 27th Canadian Mining Games hosted at the University of Toronto. Our UBC Team was excited coming off our win at last year’s Mining Games, even though a majority of our team graduated. And we are excited to announce that despite a young […]

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