Calibre strikes high-grade gold near Valentine mine build as production nears
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Patrick Moore, a Greenpeace co-founder who earned his environmentalist stripes by protesting hydrogen bomb testing and famously confronted the Soviet whaling fleet off the coast of California while captaining a Zodiac, will address students at a workshop hosted by the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada.
His environmentalist days behind him, Moore now heads up a consulting firm in Vancouver and has parted company with his former Greenpeace colleagues on a number of issues, including nuclear power, of which he is a proponent, salmon farming, forestry and climate change.
Moore has also come out in favour of mining:
“Since my entry into the global environmental movement in 1971-and especially in the last decade- mining has contributed significantly to a more sustainable world economy, and key beneficiaries of this progress are mining workers, families and communities,” says Moore.
He will be speaking on May 18 at the PDAC’s Student-Industry Mineral Exploration Workshop in Sudbury, Canada.
Image of Patrick Moore by TEDx Vancouver
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