Mount Milligan also enters into strategic partnerships that contribute multi-year funding to local education and environmental initiatives. In 2018, Mount Milligan committed to three years of funding totalling C$45,000 to support a joint initiative between the local school district and the University of Northern British Columbia. The initiative will lead to the creation of an interactive, geospatial watershed portal and a series of co-learning activities for students, educators, and researchers, including more than 10 participating Indigenous groups. This partnership was continued in 2021 through the Centerra Gold Partners in Education Grant.
Through our strategic community investments, we seek to create capacity and self-sufficiency in the local community, which will help minimize dependency on the mining project. For example, the Alternative Feed Production Project at Öksüt produced an alternative feed that meets the needs of the region by establishing an animal feed factory that incorporates innovations. The nutritional value of the feed produced with this new technology will increase from 75% to 97% and farmers will directly benefit from the reduced feed costs.
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