Mr. Speaker, the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources and member for Wascana, Saskatchewan, visited Val d'Or and Malartic yesterday to announce that an additional $2.5 million dollars would be added over three years to the Canadian Centre for Mineral and Energy Technology.
The money will be used in the CANMET mine laboratory in Val d'Or for research on innovative ways to extract gold from narrow veins.
In many cases, the small regional mines lack the resources to develop new technology that would enable them to work more efficiently. CANMET can work with them to develop and adapt technologies meeting their particular needs and help them reduce production costs and remain in business.
Canada is a world leader in the field of mining. CANMET helps make Canada the place the rest of the world turns to for innovative mining technology.
We can become the best in the world in the development, production, distribution, use and exploration of mining products, abilities and technologies.