Whiting, Ben

 

Ben Whiting

 

 

Ben Whiting, is a Canadian from British Columbia, but he also has Swedish and Norwegian ancestry. He has worked in the Scandinavian mining industry and presented at the World Mining Forum in Stockholm and the Euro Mine 2012 in Skellefteå.

 

 

 

Ben is a professional geologist with over 30 years experience in the worldwide mining industry. A graduate of the University of British Columbia, he has served as an advisor for the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and on the Sino-Canadian Collaborative Program in Mineral Management. He currently is the Chief Geologist for Orko Silver Corp. and Orex Minerals Inc., as well as being a Director of several publically traded companies.

 

 

 

For 10 years, Ben also taught as an Adjunct Professor of geological sciences and mining engineering on a dual-appointment at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. His fields of research are in exploration methodologies, ore deposits geochemistry and reserve/resource estimation.

 

 

 

Ben is a registered “Professional Geoscientist” with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of British Columbia (APEGBC) and the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario (APGO). He is a Fellow and past-editor for the Society of Economic Geologists (SEG) and a member of the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum (CIM) and La Asociación de Ingenieros de Minas Metalurgistas y Geólogos de México (AIMMGM).

 

 

 

Ben is an “Economic Geology Award” winner from the Aaro Aho Foundation and he received the 2008 IAC “Explorer of the Year” Award for his role in the discovery of the giant silver-gold deposits of La Preciosa in Mexico.

 

Ben Whiting spoke to us in November 2012.

 

 

Midsummer Festival

Each June we have a booth at the Midsummer Festival on the grounds of the Scandinavian Community Centre. In addition to handing out information about our club, we also sign up new members. Everyone is invited to come out to enjoy this fun annual event. If you have time available, why not consider volunteering to help with our booth?

Christmas Party

 

In December, instead of our usual monthly dinner meeting, we have our annual Christmas party. Our guests are welcomed into the hall by the cheerful sounds of the Runeberg Choir. We have a fabulous Scandinavian Christmas dinner, followed by dancing to live music.

Monthly Dinners

Our dinner schedule for 2024 will be: Feb 14th, Apr 10th, TBD. Social hour starts at 6:00pm, dinner at 7:00pm and the dinner speaker starts at about 8:00pm. The dinner is Scandinavian and usually starts with herring and salmon open-faced sandwich appetizers and ends with coffee/tea and delicious Scandinavian desserts. The theme for the after dinner talk is usually business related and hopefully with a Scandinavian connection but we also schedule other speakers of interest. Two meetings of the year we have no speaker. Instead, in February we have our Annual General meeting where we discuss business for the upcoming year and elect our new board of directors. In June, we have our annual joke-telling contest and discover who, among us, is the best teller of jokes.