Posts Tagged: mining

Lassonde Mineral Engineering team wins gold at World Mining Competition

The Lassonde Mineral Engineering Program team triumphed at the fourth annual World Mining Competition, held from Oct. 29 to Nov. 1, 2015 at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon. Students Seung Young Baek (Year 4 MinE), Matthew Hart (Year 3 MinE), Daryl…

Lassonde Mining Building wins Canadian Green Building Award

Tucked away in one of the University of Toronto’s oldest and most historic buildings, there’s an attic. This attic isn’t a place to store your grandmother’s old photo albums or records, it’s home to the Goldcorp Mining Innovation Suite –…

Mining Business Success

If you were to picture someone working in the mining industry, would she or he be wearing a hard hat and carrying a pickaxe or a business suit and carrying a briefcase? Mining in Canada has come a long way.…

Mining Engineering Graduates Are in Demand

A report by Postmedia explained how the growing demand for qualified professionals in Canada’s mining industry has sent students flocking to mining programs like those offered at U of T Engineering. Canada’s mining industry has seen a business boom in the past…

Transformed Lassonde Mining Building Celebrated

The University of Toronto celebrated the opening of the renovated Lassonde Mining Building on November 28. The transformation of the building, which first opened in 1904, converted the previously unused attic into new collaborative student design studios and teaching spaces…

CivE Professor to Advise Governments on Proposed New Mine

Civil Engineering Professor Philip Byer has been named to a joint federal-provincial review panel for the environmental assessment of a proposed new mine in Northern Ontario. The appointment was made by Canada’s Environment Minister Peter Kent and Ontario’s Minister of…
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