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Giant Mine
The Giant Mine was a gold mine located on the Ingraham Trail, north of Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Giant Mine is within the Kam Group, which is part of the Yellowknife greenstone belt. Gold was discovered on the property and mineral claims staked in 1935 by Johnny Baker, but the true extent of the gold deposits was not known until 1944, when a massive gold-bearing shear zone was uncovered beneath the drift-filled Baker Creek Valley.
History.
The discovery led to a massive post
APOPO
APOPO (an acronym for Anti-Persoonsmijnen Ontmijnende Product Ontwikkeling: "Anti-Personnel Landmines Removal Product Development" in English) is a registered Belgian non-governmental organisation which trains southern giant pouched rats to detect landmines and tuberculosis. They call their trained rats HeroRATs.
History.
Bart Weetjens, the founder, liked his pet rats when he was a young boy; as a student at the University of Antwerp, he applied the idea of using rodents for mine detection. He believed that rats, with