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多数。目前，加拿大的钻石生产主要集中在西北地区，是世界第三大钻石生产国。自1998年开始开采以来，钻石行业已为西北地区经济投资了130亿美元，其中包括向土著公司投资的40亿美元和进一步的社会投资1亿美元。西北地区的三个矿场中有两个已进入生产的最后阶段，如果没有发现新的矿藏，加拿大在钻石生产中的作用将会减弱，这将对北方的经济产生巨大影响。新矿床的发现将在技术上具有挑战性，需要新一代的地球科学家，他们具有多学科背景和批判性，在加拿大北极地区工作中涉及的现场地球科学，运营物流和社会经济因素方面具有出色的基础。这个培训项目将培养出能够成为钻石勘探和采矿行业下一代领导者的地球科学家，他们有能力迎接这一挑战。它将培养具有更多行业背景的人才，他们也具有学术资格，可以指导和应用最新的研究方法，为金伯利岩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.