Queens

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Queens Mining Engineering

2009
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Did You Know.

• Canada is the worlds centre for mine financing.
• The mining industry is a major foundation of
  Canadas economy.
• Canada is the world leader in mining engineering
  technology.

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Did You Know.

• Over 100 communities and 600,000 people depend on
  Canadian mining.
• Canada is one of the worlds largest exporter of
  minerals.
• Earnings from mining industry employment are at
  the highest level of any industry in Canada.

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Mining Engineering

• Mining engineers are concerned with the
  excavation and processing of ore to obtain the
  mineral products required by modern civilization.

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Mining Engineering

• Founded over a century ago, the Department of
  Mining Engineering at Queens University has a
  history and tradition of excellence in teaching
  and research that continues to grow and evolve to
  serve the Canadian and world mining communities.

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Mining Engineering

• 116 years old in 2009
• One of the largest mining schools in North
  America
• Graduated 50 of the Canadian mining and mineral
  processing engineers within Canada
• 141 students enrolled currently

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Undergraduate Options

• Mining
• Mineral Processing
• Mine Mechanical

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Mining Option

• Mine Planning
• Underground Open Pit Design
• Mineral Economics and Finance
• Management
• Rock Mechanics
• Mine Ventilation
• Drilling and Blasting
• Numerical Modeling
• Occupational Health Safety
• Geostatistics

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Mineral Processing Option

• Process Control
• Physical Separation
• Flotation
• Gold Extraction
• Hydrometallurgy

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Mine Mechanical Option

• Computer Applications
• Communications
• Equipment Design Manufacture
• Automation Robotics
• Instrumentation Technology
• Equipment Maintenance

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Broad Based Education

• Mining engineers are responsible for a wide
  variety of tasks and need a good overall
  background in engineering.
• Mining students take a number of courses from
  other disciplines, including Civil, Geological,
  Chemical, Mechanical and others

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Mining Labs
Floating minerals to recover metals
Measuring rock strength
Mixing Explosives
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Field Trips
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Current Enrolment

• Be a name, not a number enter the workforce with
  a competitive advantage
• small classes
• social and friendly

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Career Paths

• From supervising and managing mines and mills,
  to Bay Street banking and government policy, to
  laboratory or field research a degree from
  Queens Mining opens up a flexible world of
  opportunities.

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Links around the World

• More than 970 Queens Mining Alumni work in
  over 25 Nations.

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Student Life
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Mining might be for you if....

• You like big toys!

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Mining might be for you if....

• You like loud noise!

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Mining might be for you if....

• Like to travel!

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Mining might be for you if....

• You enjoy solving complex problems!

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Mining might be for you if....

• you enjoy working with others!

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A word from our Grads....

• Queens Mining Engineering provided me with a
  toolkit of skills that allowed me to excel as an
  engineer in industry and prepare for a career in
  investment banking.
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• Id highly recommend Queens Mining
  Engineering to any prospective student with an
  interest in earth sciences and a desire to be
  part of a tradition of success.
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• Hugh Agro

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A word from our Grads....

•  A mining engineer is the architect of a mine,
  building a city underground in three dimensions.
  As an engineer, you see the things youve
  designed become real and work with the people
  constructing it.
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• Steve Runnalls

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Mining ROCKS!