UBC Applied Science and Teck Resources Limited today announced a $4 million investment into a new professorship focused on enhancing safety and sustainability in mine tailings management. Teck’s $2 million endowment will be matched by UBC to fund a new professor and lab-based research focused on tailings management at undergraduate and graduate levels.
Working across different disciplines with industry experts and with world-leading consultancies, the appointed professor will build greater capacity to exchange knowledge, new ideas and innovative approaches in the safe and responsible design, operation and closure of tailings storage facilities. Tailings are produced as part of the mining process after critical metals and minerals used to support a modern world are separated from ore.
The professorship will leverage UBC’s first-class facilities and highly specialized engineering expertise. The partnership aims to strengthen the pipeline of highly skilled engineers to work in tailings management immediately after graduating.
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