Raymond Bhushan (Year 3, MinE) has been awarded the Okane Consultants Sustainable Mining Scholarship.
Currently he’s on his PEY Co-op with Vale at their South Mine location near Sudbury, Ont. The announcement came via Young Mining Professionals Scholarship Fund (YMPSF).
“I have a couple thoughts about the award,” says Bhushan. “First, I don’t think it would have been possible for me to win it without the lessons I learned in my Mining Environmental Management course (MIN330), since I directly discussed some of those topics in the essay I submitted to Okane. Therefore, I have to give a special thanks to instructors Ryan VanEngen and Michel Julien, and TA Oleksiy Chernoloz.”
Industry must collaborate with stakeholders to create environmentally sustainable projects.
“I’m glad this scholarship exists (thanks to Okane Consultants) because it highlights a crucial aspect of modern mining — sustainability. Mining is absolutely critical in our collective fight against climate change, which is why the industry must collaborate with stakeholders to create environmentally sustainable projects. Indeed, mining companies (in Canada, at least) have begun to adapt sustainability goals, ESG targets, transition to net-zero, etc. I hope in the coming years, more scholarships like this one will be established to encourage and reward future industry leaders who understand why sustainable mining is essential to our society.”
YMPSF was established to help fund and promote mining, and mining-related education, to Canada’s next-generation mining entrepreneurs. The mandate is to attract young people to Canada’s exploration and mining industry by supporting their academic studies in earth sciences post-secondary programs. All of the 2023 scholarship winners have been posted online.