Mining Community Invests in New UBC Mining and Mineral Exploration Centre

Major minerals companies announced today that they will collectively invest more than $20 million in the new University of British Columbia Earth Systems Science Building.

The new $75 million facility, set to begin construction in 2009, will house UBC’s earth and ocean sciences department--known for its global leadership in sustainability research and education and its longstanding ties and remarkable history of contributions to Canada's minerals industry. Visit the ESS Building web page.

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Musqueam First Nation land acknowledegement

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