Category: Mining Minerals
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Understanding Mining Waste Management and Disposal Methods
Mining produces a lot of waste which needs to be handled properly, as improper mining waste disposal will lead to air, soil, and water pollution. This week’s Blog examines some of the different types of mining waste and then how to manage it effectively.
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Orebody Knowledge in Operations: The Dataset That Just Keeps Giving
There is no such thing as an average rock and mining needs to adapt its blasting efforts to adjust to the different rock types based on a better understanding of the underlying rock and how its measurements affect future performance. This week’s Blog talks about improving all stages in mining with a variability lesson taken…
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Attracting investment and exploration in Canada – Can governments and mining companies use data-driven open innovation initiatives to increase interest in highly prospective regions?
Over the past ten to twenty years, we have seen a steady decline in discovery rates, despite continued and substantial expenditure in exploration and deposits are becoming harder and harder to find. This week’s Blog discusses how can we better understand the environments in which we’re working to target more effectively, as well as how…
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Wear Resistance: the Underlying Property in Modern Steels
Recent research predicts that the mining automation market will be worth $3.29 billion by 2023 — a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.7 per cent since 2017. Yet, while automation greatly enhances productivity, it also places additional demands on steel components. In this week’s Blog, we examine why wear resistant steels are becoming increasingly…
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Ramping Up Mine Site Decarbonization
Decarbonization, or the reduction, removal or offsetting of CO2 emissions, has become a strategic priority for mining majors with most on track to meet their 2020 targets and starting to look at the 2050 horizon. This week’s Blog explores the issues surrounding decarbonization, as well as the myriad of other clean energy, power efficiency, and…
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Nourishing a growing world
With world populations expected to rise up to nine billion people over the next thirty years, fertilizers – and the potash that’s used to make them – will only become more important as the demand for food becomes ever greater. This week’s Blog takes a look at Saskatchewan’s role in the production of potash and…
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Fully Implemented Blockchain Responsible Supply Chain Solution The future is already here, today!
What happens when one of the world’s most trusted precious metal refiners teams up with a Canadian blockchain tech-solutions company? The answer is next level transparency for gold buyers and brands that are looking to source conflict free materials. This week’s Blog takes a look at the benefits of MIMOSI for Responsible Sourcing, a tool…
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K+S Potash Canada mines the potential of virtual reality
Through the use of emerging Virtual Reality technologies, a user – no matter where they may be located – is now able to experience what it is like to be part of the Canadian mining industry. This week’s Blog takes a look at how K+S Potash Company is using VR to support education, training, and…
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Big Data Points to New Minerals, New Deposits
Big Data Points to New Minerals, New Deposits By Shaunna Morrison and Robert Hazen, Deep Carbon Observatory The quest for new mineral deposits is incessant, but until recently mineral discovery has been more a matter of luck than scientific prediction. All that may change thanks to big data. In a paper published Aug. 1 by…
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Extracting Today’s Hottest Mineral from Canada’s Petroleum-rich Backyard
The world’s new “white gold” is the foundation of our technological future. Until now, there were only two conventional ways of procuring lithium; neither are efficient. In this guest blog post, learn how Canadian company MGX Minerals is perfecting a new way – extracting lithium from petroleum brine.