Historical Highlights
1887 - The Gold Miners Club of Nova Scotia was founded in Halifax as a somewhat informal club interested in gold mining.
1888 - The Gold Miners Association of Nova Scotia was formed as a reorganization of the Gold Miners Club.
1891 - The General Mining Association of the Province of Quebec was organized in Montreal.
1892 - The Mining Society of Nova Scotia was formed as a reorganization of the Gold Miners Association of Nova Scotia.
1894 - The Ontario Mining Institute was organized in Toronto.
1895 - The British Columbia Association of Mining Engineers was organized.
1896 - The Federated Canadian Mining Institute was organized by the Mining Institute affiliation of all provincial groups.
1898 - The Canadian Mining Institute was founded in Montreal in March at the second annual meeting of the Federated Canadian Mining Institute which was dissolved. The Institute was incorporated in March 1898 by Act of Parliament to include all former provincial groups except The Mining Society of Nova Scotia, which remained a seperate body.
1902 - The Institute, which was originally only the three provincial groups - Quebec, Ontario and British Columbia - Formed its first Branches at Sherbrooke, Quebec, Kingston, Ontario, and Nelson, British Columbia.
1918 - The Mining Society of Nova Scotia was formally affiliated with the Canadian Mining Institute.
1920 - The Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy became the official name of the Institute by Act of Parliament on May 11th.
1934 - The Institute formed the Industrial Minerals Section as the first specialized group.
1940 - The Institute changed the name of the Industrial Minerals Section to Industrial Minerals Division.
1942 - The Institute’s abbreviation officially became CIM.
1944 - The Institute formed the Coal Division.
1945 - The Institute formed the Metallurgy Division and the Geology Division.
1946 - The Institute formed the Metal Mining Division.
1949 - The Institute formed the Petroleum and Natural Gas Division.
1961 - The Institute formed the Mechanical-Electrical Division.
1965 - The Petroleum and Natural Gas Division was renamed the Petroleum Society of CIM.1967 - Metallurgy Division renamed the Metallurgical Society of CIM.
1984 - Mechanical Electrical Division became the Maintenance/Engineering Division.
1990 - Geology Division renamed The Geological Society of CIM.
1990 - Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum became the official name of the Institute by Act of Parliament on June 19.
1992 - Mineral Economics Committee became the Mineral Economics Society of CIM.
1998 - CIM Centennial Year
The Institute formed the Environmental Society
1999 - Petroleum Society of CIM’s 50th Anniversary
Coal Division renamed the Coal and Oil Sands Division
2000 - The Institute held its Annual General Meeting and Tradex jointly with the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC), under the name Mining Millennium 2000. It was the largest meeting held in recent years.
CIM Council approved the revised version of the CIM Standards on Mineral Resources and Reserves — Definitions and Guidelines, which were incorporated by reference into the new National Instrument 43-101.
2001 - The Institute held its Annual General Meeting and Tradex in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency under the theme of Minespace 2001 Québec.