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。由于目前的生产集中在西北地区，加拿大是世界第三大钻石生产国。自1998年开始采矿以来，钻石业已在西北地区经济中投资130亿美元，其中包括对土著公司的40多亿美元和对社会的进一步投资1亿多美元。西北地区的三个矿山中有两个处于生产的最后阶段，如果没有新的矿藏被发现，加拿大在钻石生产中的作用将减弱，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，关键是在加拿大北极地区工作所涉及的野外地球科学、业务后勤和社会经济因素方面具有良好的基础。该培训计划将培养出能够成为钻石勘探和采矿行业下一个领导者的地质科学家，他们有能力迎接这一挑战。它将培养具有更好的行业背景的人才，他们也有学术资格指导和应用最新的研究方法，为金伯利岩钻石勘探计划提供信息。

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.