SPEAKER: John A. Chapman, P.Eng

TITLE: The importance of mineral exploration and mining to humans in their space development activities

DATE: Thursday February 21st, 2013

TIME: 4:30pm

LOCATION: Room 451, 409 Granville Street (UK Building at Granville and Hastings)

ABSTRACT: There is presently a surge of government and commercial space initiatives that harkens the beginnings of a new age – that of space development beyond Earth orbit. Dot-com billionaires along with well educated and experienced space scientists, engineers and technologists have begun forming companies focused upon advancing human civilization toward utilization and occupation of the moon, mars and asteroids.

 The wealth from mines, from the dawn of recorded human history, is the epic march of mankind along the path of progress. It was the mines that made ancient civilizations such as Egypt, Greece and Rome great and in more recent times have created immense wealth to the benefit of the people of Europe, North America, Australia and now China, India, Brazil and Russia.

 Today, we are part of the “space generation”, crawling off the surface of the earth into the “oceans of space” – mining will continue to provide the capability for humankind to advance to the moon, mars and on to the stars.

  http://www.aiaa-sf.org/techtalks/2012/0208.html

 http://www.jmeech.mining.ubc.ca/MINE290/minerals%20-%20space%20development.pdf