The collected wisdom of ...Name: Peter Edmunds Title: vice-president of Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum The Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) is a technical society of professionals in the Canadian minerals, metals, materials and energy industries. It was founded in 1898. In 2006, the organization had 12,000 national members. Business Development Manager with Atlas Copco Atlas Copco is a Swedish industrial company that was founded in 1873. It manufactures industrial tooling and equipment. The Atlas Copco Group, founded already in 1873, is a global industrial group of companies headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. Construction and Mining Canada. Residence: Sudbury Q What's the most valuable thing you've ever lost? [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] My heart--when I got married in New Liskeard, many years ago! Q What is the toughest job you have ever had? As an underground crew boss in Northern Rhodesia Northern Rhodesia: see Zambia. (now Zambia) in the mid sixties with 35 guys old enough to be my father, and using 11 pneumatic bar & arm rockdrills to produce 2,000 tons a night from our stopes Stopes , Marie Carmichael 1880-1958. British social reformer who opened England's first birth control clinic (1924) in London and later promoted family planning in east Asia. . Q How do you recharge your batteries? My Dad was at el Alamain with the South African troops during WW2, so I recharge my batteries by having a drink and watching WW2 stories on the History Channel. Q What is your favourite sport and/or pasttime? It used to be rugby, but that would be too dangerous for all concerned today! So, today I prefer the more sedentary pass time of sitting on my rear end and paddling my kayak! Q Is there a year in your life you would like to relive? The first time I came to Canada. I was a mining engineering student in England and had a summer job at Quirke Mine in Elliot Lake Elliot Lake, city (1991 pop. 14,089), S central Ont., Canada, W of Sudbury. The focus of a 1950s uranium-mining boom, it is now a retirement home center. . After two months of learning lots about Northern Ontario mines, lakes and girls, I spent three weeks doing 9,000 miles by Greyhound Bus going across Canada and the United States and returning to New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and then London. Q If you could be anywhere in the world, where would it be? On the beach, in the Seychelles which are small islands a couple of thousand miles east of Mombassa in the Indian ocean, with warm, crystal clear water, amazing snorkeling, pristine white sands, and excellent rum! Q Can you give us a sound piece of advice? Yes, it was a favourite quote of my Dad's: "To thine own self "Thine Own Self" is an episode from the television series . Dr. Crusher is serving bridge duties on the Enterprise on the night shift when Counselor Troi returns from a class reunion. be true, and it shall follow as the night the day, that thou cans't not then be false to any man." |
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