Posts Tagged: Lassonde Institute of Mining
Pierre Lassonde (front, centre) with current Lassonde Scholars. All photos by Phil Babcock The day after he first arrived in Canada from Sri Lanka, Channa Kumarage (BASc 2016) headed to the University of Toronto to pay tuition fees. But there was a…
When you mention “mining” to most people, they’ll automatically conjure images of coverall-clad crews wearing hard hats, driving dump trucks and extracting ore from hundreds of metres below the Earth’s surface. That’s all accurate, however, while understanding how we mine…
A mine straddling the border of Saskatchewan and northern Manitoba will be the first site in the world to deploy an innovative new technique for monitoring and managing sulfur compounds, including thiosalts. The strategy improves understanding of possible impacts in…
Whether it’s copper for electric cars, or lithium for cellphones, many everyday technologies and devices are made of or rely on metals. But mining and extracting these valuable commercial minerals can come at a catastrophic cost to the environment. The…
This weekend, Zawwar Ahmed (MinE Year 3), Ice Peerawattuk (MinE Year 4), Jihad Raya (MinE PEY) and Dalton Veintimilla (MinE Year 4) successfully defended their first place title in the Goodman Gold Challenge (GGC) in Sudbury. The GGC is a…
Psychology research at the University of Toronto is ranked second in the world – just after Harvard University – in a new ranking of subjects by the independent Shanghai Ranking Consultancy. In addition to psychology, U of T also ranked third in…
As the students of Leslieville P.S. eagerly look forward to summer, they took some time on their last week before the summer break to visit the Lassonde Institute of Mining. As a culmination to their rock and minerals unit, the…
[View the story “U of T’s Lassonde Mining Students shine at the 2017 Canadian Mining Games” on Storify]
Prof. Lesley Warren in The Norther Miner, January 9, 2017. Geochemist and professor Lesley Warren (right) collects water samples for geochemical analyses from a waste deposit undergoing reclamation.
This story originally appeared on U of T Engineering News. Wastewater from a mine doesn’t sound like a cozy habitat, but for untold numbers of microorganisms, it’s home sweet home. A new research project led by Professor Lesley Warren (CivE)…
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