Our Artemis Project member Kari Lentowicz and her all-female team, Diamonds in the Rough, competed at the International Mines Rescue Competition #IMRC2022 in West Virginia in September and did amazing! They placed second in High Angle Rope Rescue and third and Theory & Technical.Diamonds in the Rough team of 8 is made up of female and non-binary miners from all over Canada. They came together from 7 different mining operations, spanning 3 Provinces and 2 Territories. Their backgrounds are diverse: some work in Hardrock, others in Potash, some in Gold, and one comes from a diamond mine.

The work experience that the Diamonds brought to the team is even more diverse. They work in Health & Safety, mining operations, underground mining, logistics, surveying, and Engineering.

The competition took place on the ancestral lands of the Catawba-speaking Moneton people, who referred to the surrounding area as Okahok Amai, and the Traditional Territory of the Cherokee, Shawnee, and Yuchi peoples, otherwise known as Beckley, West Virginia.