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Aug. 6, 2020

NEWS

PGO Response to MECP Proposed Regulatory Changes for Managing Water Takings PGO On June 18, 2020, the Ontario Government released proposed regulatory changes for managing water takings to protect the long-term sustainability of surface water and groundwater resources (https://ero.ontario.ca/notice/019-1340). Comments were requested by Aug. 2, 2020. The PGO’s response to these proposals may be viewed here.

IN THE MEDIA

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Canada delivers broad support for the minerals and metals sector Government of Canada As Canada emerges from the COVID-19 crisis, our world-leading minerals and metals industry will play an important role in the country’s economic recovery. This key industry is primed to supply the crucial elements for the global transition to a clean and digital economy, and the Government of Canada is committed to ensuring it remains competitive. READ MORE

Canadian research program seeks to transform our understanding of how orebodies form The Northern Miner Mining is a wealth-creation industry that produces the metals and minerals essential to every sector of our economy. For instance, in 2018, Canada produced over 60 minerals and metals from almost 200 mines and 6,500 sand, gravel, and stone quarries valued at $47 billion, according to Natural Resources Canada. Mineral exploration is at the front end of the mining industry, and the discovery of new orebodies is vital to meet the demands of a growing world population. READ MORE

Bluffer’s Park headland project faces all the elements ConstructConnect The $3 million, one-year-long construction of a 250-metre long erosion protection wall/headland along the most protruding portion of Toronto’s Bluffer’s Park was scheduled to wrap up at the end of July.Designed by Riggs Engineering for the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority (TRCA), the Bluffer’s Park South Headland is comprised of a double layer of 14,000 tonnes of seven- and five-tonne armourstone supplied by C.D.R Young Aggregates Inc. from its limestone quarry in Bobcaygeon, ON, as well as a layer of geotextile and rip rap. READ MORE

The secret beneath seemingly trustworthy volcanoes National Science Foundation Geologists working on remote islands in the Galapagos archipelago have found that volcanoes that produce small basaltic lava eruptions hide chemically diverse molten rock in their underground plumbing systems — including some with the potential to generate explosive activity. "I think of these as fugitive magmas," says Dennis Geist, a geologist at the U.S. National Science Foundation and a member of the team. READ MORE

FSU geologists publish new findings on carbonate melts in Earth’s mantle Florida State University News Geologists from Florida State University’s Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science have discovered how carbon-rich molten rock in the Earth’s upper mantle might affect the movement of seismic waves. The new research was coauthored by EOAS Associate Professor of Geology Mainak Mookherjee and postdoctoral researcher Suraj Bajgain. Findings from the study were published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. READ MORE

When Mars was like Canada Cosmos Magazine Ancient river channels on Mars may have formed beneath thick ice sheets, scientists say. It’s an important find, because many have long wondered why Mars is covered with tens of thousands of ancient river valleys, even though climate models have a hard time explaining how it could have been warm enough for flowing water. “It’s farther from the Sun than the Earth,” says Anna Grau Galofre, a physicist at Arizona State University and lead author of a paper in the journal Nature Geoscience. READ MORE

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