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This house asks “Whether mining should be allowed on the moon and in Antarctica?”
January 14, 2021 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
The presentations will be presented from this GoToMeeting Room. Click the Link at the end of the sentence to download the GoToMeeting App.
Presentations will be made by four people outlining how mining could affect the moon and Antarctica either positively or negatively. This number may evolve.
Presenters Profiles:
- Dion Brandt
Senior Associate and Geologist
Behre Dolbear International
Gold and Base Metal Consultant
Research areas include Meteorite Impact Studies and Fluvial Systems
- Joshua Rasera
Mechanical Engineer
3rd Year Ph.D. Student
Imperial College
- Colin Morrish
Mining Engineer Consultant
Occupational Health and Safety, Mining Methods, Rock Mechanics specialist
Formerly Mines Inspector employed by the province of Saskatchewan in Canada for 18 years.
- Sue Struthers
MinSouth Past President
Chartered Environmentalist
There will be an opportunity for you to put forward questions or your own views after the presentations and participate in an informal straw poll.
By way of some background to mining on the moon, see the video of Joshua’s Young People’s Lecture Competition (YPLC) presentation on this topic on the MinSouth website which can be located at this Link
Mr. Rasera also presented to the NXGEN Resources Student Conference last November. A copy of this presentation is available on YouTube: NXGEN Resources 2020 YPLC Presentation.