Diamond Exploration Research and Training School

自 20 世纪 90 年代初以来，钻石为加拿大北部的经济发展提供了绝大部分。加拿大目前的生产主要集中在西北地区，是世界第三大钻石生产国。自 1998 年开始采矿以来，钻石行业已在西北地区经济中投资了 130 亿美元，其中包括超过 40 亿美元的原住民公司投资和超过 1 亿美元的进一步社会投资。西北地区的三个矿场中有两个处于生产的最后阶段，如果没有发现新矿床，加拿大在钻石生产中的作用将会减弱，对北方经济造成巨大影响。新矿床的发现在技术上具有挑战性，需要新一代的地球科学家具有多学科背景，更重要的是，需要在野外地球科学、运营物流和加拿大北极地区工作所涉及的社会经济因素方面具有良好的基础。该培训计划将培养地球科学家，他们可以成为钻石勘探和采矿行业的下一个领导者，并有能力应对这一挑战。它将培养具有更丰富的行业背景的人员，他们也具有学术资格，可以指导和应用最新的研究方法，为基于金伯利岩的钻石勘探项目提供信息。

Diamonds have provided the vast majority of the economic development of the Canada'sNorth since the early 1990s. With production currently focused on the NWT, Canada is the world's 3rdlargest diamond producer. Since mining began in 1998, the diamond industry has invested $13 billion inthe NWT economy including > $4 billion with Aboriginal companies and > $100 million in furthersocial investments. Two of the three NWT mines are in the final phase of production and if no newdeposits are found Canada's role in diamond production will diminish, with dramatic consequences forthe economy of the North. The discovery of new deposits will be technologically challenging, requiringa new generation of geoscientists who have a multi-disciplinary background and critically, an excellentgrounding in field geosciences, operational logistics and the socio-economic factors involved in workingin Canada's Arctic regions. This training program will produce geoscientists who can become the nextleaders in the diamond exploration and mining industry, well equipped to take on this challenge. It willproduce personnel with greater industry-ready backgrounds, who are also academically qualified todirect and apply the latest research methods to inform kimberlite-based diamond exploration programs.