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Whether it’s training potential employees what they need to know to head out into the field or informing the public about the important everyday items that mining makes possible, education is a vital aspect within the mining and exploration industries.

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Promoting the positives and attracting the next generation

1 of 2Younger-generation employees, according to Goldcorp's Paul Farrow, have skills such as in technology or social media that the older generation m

News • Karen Kornelsen

College of the Rockies receives $1.1 million for training simulators

1 of 2This is an interior shot of the Pro3 Transportable Simulator showing the instructor’s position as well as the student. — Immersive Technologies

News • Karen Kornelsen

BC AMTA celebrates two major milestones

On February 27, 2013, 37 students graduated from BC AMTA's Mining Skills for an Entry-Level Workforce program in Williams Lake, B.C. — Photo courtesy

News • Karen Kornelsen

An innovative discovery camp is coming to Williams Lake

Jacob Purdy is a heavy-duty equipment operator student in the BC Task Force apprenticeship program. — Gordon Armour photo At the end of June, Grade 8

News • Karen Kornelsen

The BC Task Force is creating a vast array of opportunities

1 of 2Ian Samson is a welding student participating in the apprenticeship pilot at Mount Polley. — Gordon Armour photo2 of 2Brandon Douglas is an elec

News • Karen Kornelsen

How B.C. can win a gold medal in the economic Olympics

1 of 4Michel Lamarre, project manager for Rio Tinto Alcan's Kitimat Modernization Project. — Photo courtesy Rio Tinto Alcan2 of 4Byng Giraud, vice-pre

News • Tim Gardner

Women in Mining comes to B.C.’s East Kootenay

The careers women are finding in the mining industry are diverse; this woman is working as a mining engineer. — Photo courtesy Teck Resources There's

News • Karen Kornelsen

Yukon and Alaska: a significant collaboration

1 of 3A student tries out a mining simulator at Yukon College. — Archbould.com photo2 of 3Welding programs at Yukon College are always operating at ca

News • Karen Kornelsen

A coal mine and college partner on the Mothers to Miners program

1 of 4Mothers to Miners participants take a tour of the Peace River Mine prior to beginning their classes. — Photo courtesy Donna Merry2 of 4Elsie An

News • Jessica Kirby

A family visit to the Britannia Mine Museum

1 of 3The concentrator building is a landmark that can be seen from the Sea-to-Sky Highway. — Kerry Shellborn photo2 of 3A tour group listens to a kno

News • DaleAnn Shellborn

The BC AMTA will continue to provide valuable services

1 of 3Mary Brearly, a Kamloops Indian Band member, is a processing operations trainee working at New Gold’s New Afton Mine. — Photo courtesy BC AMT

News • Karen Kornelsen

East Kootenay mine rescue and first aid teams show they’re well prepared

1 of 6Line Creek Mine Rescue team stands in wait for the high angle rope task at the Elkford Fire Department. — Brielle Will photo2 of 6Greenhills Min

News • Brielle Will

Building inclusive relationships with First Nations communities

1 of 3Katie Ludwig, a First Nations elder who stays at the camp with students each summer, aids in cultural immersion. — Photo courtesy School of Expl

News • Breanne Massey

How to break the glass ceiling

Madeleine Champagne, lobbyist for AGC Communications, is helping women put their careers on the fast track. — Photo courtesy AGC Communications Playi

News • Breanne Massey

York University launches world’s first MBA with a mining specialization

Richard Ross, executive in residence at the Schulich School of Business at York University, is eager to launch the only MBA with a mining specializati

News • Breanne Massey

Mining Day in Kamloops

Lukas Vanderlip is eager to spend Mining Day at the Big Little Science Centre. He examined rocks at the Big Little Science Centre in anticipation of t

News • Breanne Massey

Making mining accessible

Yukon Dan, guest speaker for KEG, teaches kids to pan for gold. — Photo courtesy KEG The Kamloops Exploration Group (KEG) is an organization dedicat

News • Lisa Crane

School of rocks

1 of 4Geologist Peter Klewchuck studies a rock with school students. — Sarah Kennedy photo2 of 4Lindsay Park Elementary School kids explore the miner

News • Lisa Crane

On track to deal with a looming labour shortage

Site assessment training in a Northwest Community College School of Mining prospecting program. — Photo courtesy of Northwest Community College School

News • Karen Kornelsen

Targeted training for the mining industry

Students in the Master of Engineering program 2009 at Copper Mountain. — Photo by AJ Gunson With the mining industry in BC running at nearly full spe

News • Maureen McEwan