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Women in Mining Network in Toronto

The Women in Mining Network of Toronto is a lively, informal and relatively unstructured group of more than 200 women who work across the spectrum of the mining industry. They meet monthly from September to June, usually over lunch, sometimes with a speaker, sometimes just to chat on a selected topic.

WIM can trace its origins to the late 1960s when females in the industry were such a rarity that the handful of women geologists active then were deemed worthy of an article in The Northern Miner. The editor must have liked the article, for he told the reporter who penned it (also a geologist) to take her interviewees out for lunch. The four who sat down on that occasion enjoyed themselves so much, they decided to lunch again. And they did, every now and then, and those in attendance grew in number, eventually organizing themselves to the extent of having a mailing list and regular gatherings. The rest, as they say, is history.

Sadly, two of the four who sat down for that original lunch have since succumbed to cancer, so it is particularly appropriate that WIM's first collective fund-raising effort is the Weekend to End Breast Cancer walk.

The scheduled lunches for 2009 are on Wednesdays (usually the second Wednesday of the month) as follows:

February 11

March 18

April 16 (a Thursday and a joint lunch with CIM Toronto Branch)

May 27

June 17

September 9

October 14

November 11

December 9

Items of Interest

Article published by Brenda Daldlish on Surviving the boom-busy cycle of mining - click here.

For a copy of the submission to the Australian Government by the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy and Women in Mining Network on pay equity and associated issues relating to increasing female participation in the workforce - click here.

Our Women-in-Mining walking team for the Princess Margaret Weekend to End Breast Cancer are part of the media for the 2009 walk. To check out the TV ad - click here

Women in Mining are initiating a fundraising for microfinance credit in South Africa through The Townships Project. Click here to access the Townships Project website. Click here to make a donation to The Townships Project. Click here for information on WIM's initiative and how and why you should get involved.

Click here for information concerning How to Get on a Board: Tips and Tactics, a forum to be put on by the Institute of Corporate Directors on January 22, 2009 in Toronto.

Article published by Mining Industry Human Resource Council on Women in the Mining Workplace - click here.

Article published by the Ontario Mining Association on WIM - Toronto written by Jane Werniuk - click here.

Tracking the trends 2009 is a report prepared by Deloitte that identifies the ten most pressing global challenges facing the mining industry today and offers thoughts and strategic advice toward addressing them. - click here.