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Is the World Tottering on the Precipice of Peak Gold? An excellent article in this week Science

By Eugene Barsky on March 2, 2012

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/335/6072/1038.full?rss=1 Seventeen-hundred-dollar-an-ounce gold is driving a mining frenzy, but analysts are concerned that miners can’t extract gold any faster than they have the past decade.

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Mining MEng workshop – Tue, 9 August, 10:00am – 11:30am

By Eugene Barsky on August 8, 2011

Tomorrow, mining MEng students will meet me in Koerner 217 for a introductory workshop on mining engineering info. Here is the page we are going to use – http://guides.library.ubc.ca/mining_engineering

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Shortage Of Skilled Mining Workers Becoming “A Major Issue.”

By Eugene Barsky on June 3, 2011

From ASEE daily update: Mining Weekly (6/2, Hill) reported, “The shortage of skilled people – a top concern for mining companies during the boom years leading up to mid-2008 – is once again bubbling up as a major issue facing the sector.” Experts say that worldwide, “record prices for many commodities, coupled with cheap and [...]

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UBC mining engineering professor Rimas Pakalnis has been named Fellow of Engineers Canada

By Eugene Barsky on May 3, 2011

UBC mining engineering professor Rimas Pakalnis has been named Fellow of Engineers Canada for his noteworthy achievement and service to the engineering profession. Pakalnis is an expert in developing geotechnical design methods for underground openings. His research areas include applied mine design and design under consolidated backfill. He has consulted/researched more than 100 mines around [...]

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UBC Mining Team Wins SME Mine Rescue Competition

By Eugene Barsky on March 11, 2011

Congratulations to the NBK Team for winning the Mine Rescue Competition at this years 2011 SME Annual Meeting & Exhibit and CMA 113th National Western Mining Conference “Shaping a Strong Future Through Mining” in Denver, Colorado! http://mining.ubc.ca/news.php?action=fullnews&id=141&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NbkMiningEngineering+%28NBK+Mining+Engineering%29

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APSC 262 – Tue, 1 February, 11am – 12pm in MCLD 228

By Eugene Barsky on February 1, 2011

Teaching APSC 262 class – Tue, 1 February, 11am – 12pm in MCLD 228. Library course page is here – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2500

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APSC 150 – Engineering Cases – Wed, 26 January

By Eugene Barsky on January 25, 2011

APSC 150 students will see us on Wed, 26 January, 8:30am – 9:00am and Wed, 26 January, 3:30pm – 4:00pm for a short class talking about researching engineering failures. Here is the library class page – http://toby.library.ubc.ca/ereserve/er-coursepage.cfm?id=2411

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APSC 201 and APSC 176 sessions this week

By Eugene Barsky on January 17, 2011

This week APSC 201 and APSC 176 students will see Kevin Read, Heidi Schiller , Andre Iwanchuk and myself coming to their classes to talk libraries. We will show the major engineering databases, ebook packages and talk about evaluating engineering information. We have booked six (6) sessions this week…see you in one of those!

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Mining engineering graduate seminar – Wed, 12 January, 10am – 12pm

By Eugene Barsky on January 5, 2011

I am offering a library seminar for mining engineering graduate students on Wed, 12 January, 10am – 12pm in Forward 519 as part of mining engineering graduate seminar series. We will be covering mining engineering databases, ebook packages, standards, theses, citations and more… Please see my mining eng guide for more information – http://guides.library.ubc.ca/mining_engineering

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UBC Students’ Lunar Excavator for the NASA Centennial Challenge

By Eugene Barsky on December 10, 2010

Here is an interesting students project from UBC: Design and Tele-Operation of a Lunar Excavator for the NASA Centennial Challenge. Taylor Cooper, Amy Cheng, Ian Phillips, Andre Wild, and John Meech, ASCE Conf. Proc. 366, 95 (2010), DOI:10.1061/41096(366)95. The desire to colonize the moon has prompted an examination of ways to mine lunar regolith to [...]

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