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Nurturing Our Talent Pipeline
August 15, 2022
During 2021, B2Gold partnered with the Young Miners Professionals Scholarship Fund (YMPSF) to offer a CAD$10,000 B2Gold University of British Columbia (UBC) Mining Scholarship.
The YMPSF was established by the Young Mining Professionals group to help fund and promote mining and mining-related education for the next generation of mining entrepreneurs in Canada. Last year, the YMPSF facilitated the disbursement of scholarships to the value of CAD$125,500.
The 2021 recipient of the B2Gold UBC Mining Scholarship is Alice Xu, a Geological Engineering student at UBC, who is interested in geohazards surrounding tailings dam design and management. “Through my work experiences, I discovered an interest in tailings dam stability and risk assessment, and I am excited to pursue these passions post-graduation in 2022,” said Alice about receiving the scholarship.
Alice has worked as a lab technician to turn tailings waste into rocks that can sequester carbon dioxide, completed an exchange for cold climate engineering in Greenland with the Technical University of Denmark, and assessed the hydrotechnical and geotechnical hazards along pipeline routes in Saskatchewan and Alberta. She currently teaches the lab components of two undergraduate courses, one with a focus on geomorphology and geohazard identification and the other on the engineering of different types of rock.
Victor King, Vice President of Exploration at B2Gold, had the joyful task of congratulating Alice on being the inaugural recipient of the scholarship. “B2Gold is proud to support Alice with her education in mining. We were particularly impressed by Alice’s interest in ESG