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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.

For April, 2008 Newsletter, click here



 


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