Students take advantage of the opportunity to connect with industry leaders during the CIM Convention CIM believes that a key part of the mining community is the future leaders of our industry: the students and recent grads of the various mining and mining-related programs across Canada. In 2018, after discussions with students, it became apparent …
Left to right: Ottawa Branch Chair Bud Cumming, Distinguished Lecturer Dave Pearson and Branch Chair Colin Riley. Pearson’s presentation, Trends in Utilization of Western Coal, consisted of a talk and a series of 32 coloured slides. January 21, 1982. This month CIM launches the 55th season of its Distinguished Lecturer Program. Since 1968, it has …
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Dr. L.M. Cumming, Past Chairman of the CIM Ottawa Branch, with brothers Stephen (left) and Selwyn De Souza, who won the Queen’s University Metallurgical Engineering Award at the 1982 Canada-Wide Science Fair, held at York University, Toronto. CIM Bulletin, 1982 This story originally appeared in the November 1982 edition of the CIM Bulletin. The Canada-Wide …
As school begins in many parts of Canada and the rest of the world, we take a look at how CIM has been involved with students over the decades. Miss Mabel I. Corlett, B.Sc. ’60, Queen’s University, receives a prize from CIM President W. H. Durrell for her essay, Fabric Study and Fracture Patterns of …
A selection of CIM publications on display at the National Office in Montreal One of CIM’s foundational objectives was “to promote … the economical production of valuable minerals and metals, by means of meetings for the reading and discussion of technical papers, and the subsequent distribution of such information … through the medium of publications.” …
Earth sciences students from the University of Quebec (Chicoutimi & Montreal) on the field trip of a lifetime: the little known but still active El Teide–Pico Viejo stratovolcanoes within the Las Cañadas caldera complex on the Canary Islands, organized by Wulf Mueller in October 2007. Many students in the group were working on ancient deformed volcanic …
