Teachers and Career Educators can contact MineralsEd (info@mineralsed.ca) to register your students! Please include your school name, city, and number of students you would like to register. This trip is limited to 25 participants, so please limit your registration to students who are interested in pursuing a career in mining.
Senior secondary students from SD 27, 57 and 73 are invited to participate in an all day field trip to Taseko's Gibraltar Mine near Williams Lake, BC for an opportunity to learn about this modern mining operation and to be introduce the the wide variety of careers of employees at this complex, natural resource operation.
Gibraltar Mine is a copper and molybdenum operation located in south-central British Columbia. In 2022, processed 97 million pounds of copper and 1.1 million pounds of molybdenum. As Canada's second largest open pit operation, this mine utilizes some of the newest and largest mining equipment and technology and employs approximately 720 people in diverse roles such as equipment operators, tradespersons, scientists, engineers, and technologists as well as accounting, HR, communications, and logistics specialists.
This tour will spotlight the various careers that are vital to mine operations. Students will get to explore the mine's open pit, the machine shop, and learn about the mining process.
Read more about the Regional Spotlight: A Career in the Minerals Industry Program and upcoming events here: https://career.sd83.bc.ca/2025/03/05/career-exploration-of-the-minerals-industry-begins-next-month/