Editorial Excellence

There were big changes behind the scenes of the Publications department in 2019. We welcomed two new editors,

Matthew Parizot and Carolyn Gruske, to the CIM Magazine team. They replaced Kelsey Rolfe and Tom DiNardo, who had been instrumental in the successful launch and growth of CIM Magazine online and in the evolution of the form and content of our print edition. Despite their departures, Kelsey and Tom will both continue to contribute to the CIM Magazine.

Our new news editor Matthew, who joined CIM in March, is a former intern for the CIM Magazine. Carolyn, a writer with extensive editorial experience in trade publications, has led the features section since September.

CIM Magazine again received recognition for the quality of its design and reporting from both the National Magazine Awards and Trade, Association and Business Publications International (TABPI).

CIM Journal published 19 papers in its 10th volume. We also reframed the editorial structure of the journal to better represent the academic and publishing influence of the members of the technical publications committee and to improve the prospects of being included in the leading scientific paper citation indexes.

CIM entered an agreement with the academic publisher Taylor & Francis that will begin in 2020. The editorial process will remain the same, but Taylor & Francis assumes the responsibility of managing the publication of the journal. The goal of the partnership is to grow the audience of the journal and attract more prospective authors to the journal.

Last spring we very proudly published Mining Geophysics: A Canadian Story by Norman Reed Paterson, one of the forefathers of the application of geophysics in mineral exploration. Mr. Paterson was present at the CIM Convention Montreal to sign his work for attendees.

Total of 320 technical papers from COM and other CIM events added to OneMine.

AWARDS

TABPI Silver - Front Cover Illustration Dec.18/Jan.19 - How can Canada better reward exploration risk? By Romain Lasser

TABPI Top 25 feature articles: #5 May 2018 - Crisis Mode: Creative solutions to mining’s skills shortage By Cecilia Keating Honourable Mention TABPI and National Magazine Awards May 2018 - A staged start-up By Virginia Heffernan