On March 6-9, 2025, the Queen’s Mining Society sent a team of 16 students to compete at the 35th Annual Canadian Mining Games in Québec City. We are proud to bring back the third-place overall finish! 🥉
The Canadian Mining Games is a cumulative competition in which students from the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining participate. Throughout the year, students garner support from mining companies to sponsor their efforts and run practices to prepare for their events. The weekend, hosted by Université Laval, was packed with competition, networking, and banquets where students met industry professionals and other mining engineering students from across Canada.
The Canadian Mining Games competition gives students a range of technical, presentation-based, and hands-on challenges to demonstrate their mining know-how and engineering problem-solving, all while working against the clock. The third-place overall finish and outstanding individual performances are both a testament to the Queen’s Mining reputation and the well-roundedness of the team. In addition to the many podium finishes, Women In Mining Canada awarded Sarah Glaspell-Elser with a scholarship for her performances at the competition and her future as a woman in mining.
We are proud of the team’s accomplishments at this edition of the Canadian Mining Games and look forward to their appearance at next year’s games, which the University of Saskatchewan will host!
Podiums:
🥇1st Place: Mechanical Design (Full Team)
🥇1st Place: Commodity Trading (Nicholas Pantis & Fin McInnes)
🥇1st Place: Mineral Economics (Nicholas Pantis & Fin McInnes)
🥇1st Place: Health & Safety (Alexander Arellano & Nicholas Pantis)
🥇1st Place: Open Pit Drill & Blast (Sarah Glaspell-Elser & Fin McInnes)
🥇1st Place: Mine Rescue (Curtis Dewasha, Lisa du Plessis, Logan Drane, Maxime Forest, @in McInnes)
🥉3rd Place: Exam Package (Full Team)
🥉3rd Place: Mineral Identification (Joel Zandvliet)
🥉3rd Place: Tailings/Closure Management (Logan Drane & Maxime Forest)
Mining Society Team Members:
Theron Craig, Fin McInnes, Maxime Forest, Gavin Bhattacharya, Rebecca Randall, Joey Cuzzetto, Alexander Arellano, Nicholas Pantis, Logan Drane, Curtis Dewasha, Joel Zandvliet, Liam Bacon, Ryan Dailey, Chunxiao Wang, Sarah Glaspell-Elser, Lisa du Plessis
Team Shadows:
Lauren Hawitt, Nathan Hrebicek