The 14-week program at Collège Boréal, called Mining Potential, will launch at its campuses in Sudbury and Timmins to expose students to the mining industry and prepare them for entry-level jobs.

“To get to zero emissions, we need metals. It would be the largest boom the mining industry has seen since the California Gold Rush of 1849. The demand would be infinite.”

The QS World University Rankings by Subject released this week is led again by the Colorado School of Mines.

The association, which includes about 50 of Canada’s leading mining companies, is developing an “equity, diversity, and inclusion” protocol as part of its existing Toward Sustainable Mining program.

Rio Tinto Exploration Canada took gold for achieving over 317,000 hours without a reported injury in 2020.

At AME Roundup in Vancouver, speaker Jamie Strauss said blockchain will become the basis for companies to communicate ESG assessments.

Study of volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) occurrences and the over-7-km-long alteration zone have begun.