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LITHIUM: XPS, Frontier partner to pilot LiOH process
ONTARIO – Frontier Lithium Inc. has entered into a strategic partnership agreement with XPS Expert Process Solutions (a Glencore company) and Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman, a Queen’s University professor, to develop a process to refine spodumene concentrate into lithium hydroxide. The partnership…
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EDUCATION: Queen’s signs partnerships with mining colleges
KINGSTON, Ont. – Queen’s University he partnered with three Canadian colleges to help engineering and technologists and technicians upgrade their education from college diploma to university degree. Queen’s launched its online Bachelor of Mining Engineering Technology (BTech) program in 2016. And while…
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A snapshot of mining R&D activity in Ontario
As part of its “Innovation Agenda” the federal government announced last year that it would invest $800 million over four years to support research and innovation in five key sectors of Canada’s economy. The identity of those sectors is still…
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Mining student embraces opportunity for hands-on underground work
My name is Samantha Olthof and last month I entered my fourth and final year of Mining Engineering at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. By this time next year, I trust I’ll have my degree and hopefully will also have landed a…
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ACADEMIC PARTNERSHIP – Kinross funds mining and sustainability professorship at Queen’s
ONTARIO – KINROSS GOLD CORP. of Toronto is creating the Kinross Professorship in Mining and Sustainability, in part…
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CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES – Options for creating a world-class Canadian school of mines
I would like to commend Stan Sudol for making the case for creating a centralized educational centre for teaching a…
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CANADIAN MINING PERSPECTIVES – Guest editorial: Turn Laurentian into the Harvard of the mining sector
By consolidating Ontarios university mining engineering and geology programs at LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY, the McGuint…
