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October 2002
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Water monitoring station
MIRARCO board members among first
to witness the new CIMTEC training and development room
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MIRARCO
is Probing the Health of Ramsey Lake
MIRARCO
and its Centre for Environmental Monitoring (CEM) have launched
an unprecedented water quality project with far-reaching implications,
through a project called "Probing the Health of Ramsey Lake."
These efforts are supported in part by the Greater City of Sudbury,
Laurentian University's Centre for Integrated Monitoring Technology
(CIMTEC), the Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit, Inco Limited,
Falconbridge Limited, Science North, and the European Space Agency.
This project examines the impact of watershed management and conflicting
land use pressures on the primary drinking source for over 50,000
residents of Sudbury. The
research will be conducted using an innovative automated "toolchest"
to detect, measure, and collect data. The data will then be integrated
in CIMTEC's Design and Training Facility, and visualized in the
Virtual Reality Facility, the ideal vehicle to couple water chemistry
and hydrologic models with metal transport models involving atmospheric,
landscape and in-lake sediment sources.
Visit www.mirarco.org
for more about this project. |
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Elite Joins MIRARCO's Board of Directors
On October
1, 2002, at its Annual General Meeting, MIRARCO
elected and welcomed five new members to the Board of Directors:
Bruce Humphrey - Vice-President Operations, Goldcorp Inc., Richard
Molyneux - President & CEO, De Beers Canada Corporation, George
Pirie - Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, Placer Dome
Canada, Ian Pritchard - Vice-President Operations for Ontario,
AMEC Mining and Metals, and Thomas Soderqvist - President, Sandvik
Tamrock Canada.
A complete
listing of MIRARCO's Board of Directors can be found at www.mirarco.org.
Mark
your calendar and register:
Professional Development Course:
November 13 - 15
"Tunnelling
and Brittle Failure of Excavations in Highly Stressed, Rockbursting
Ground"
Instructor:
Dr. Peter Kaiser, Chair for the Geomechanics Research Centre.
This course is intended for practicing engineers and geologists
faced with challenges while tunnelling at depth in brittle rock.
The content of the course will be of value to those involved in
the design of underground mining excavations, large underground
caverns and repositories in rock. The course will also feature
software tutorials and case studies presented by Sandvik Tamrock
Canada and others in the tunnelling industry.
For program details and to register please visit www.mirarco.org.
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| MIRARCO
- Mining Innovation
Laurentian University
Willet Green Miller Centre
933 Ramsey Lake Road
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada P3E 6B5
Ph:
(705) 675-1151 x 5075 |
For more information about MIRARCO and its research centres
please visit
www.mirarco.org |
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