Category: Mining Research
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Innovating to Meet Challenges: the Projects Ecosystem in Canada
Amid the surge of successful major capital projects in Canada in recent years, there have been some recurring challenges in getting projects off the ground. In this week’s Blog, we explore some challenges—and potential trends offering solutions—that those in the infrastructure space will want to consider to help avoid any hurdles in their own projects.
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New Solutions to Improve Sustainability
Visibility into data means sustainable mining doesn’t have to be an either/or situation. This week’s Blog looks at how mining companies can reduce their energy and water consumption and improve on sustainability to help lead the mining industry into the next era, while also increasing production, ensuring product quality, and generating a profit.
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Polymeric Repair Composites in the Mining Industry
The mining and quarrying industry brings together some of the most destructive forces affecting modern day machinery and equipment. This week’s Blog explores Belzona’s line of rapid-curing elastomeric solutions to the many treats posed by the mining environment, from abrasion, corrosion, wear, impact, and chemical attacks.
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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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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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Beyond MWD – Seismic While Drilling Established subsurface evaluation technology from oil and gas enters the Mining Industry
Beyond MWD – Seismic While Drilling Established subsurface evaluation technology from oil and gas enters the Mining Industry Written by Thor Kallestad and Jamie Rector at DataCloud Over the past 20 years the oil and gas industry has seen the role of production geophysics grow rapidly. Production geophysics is aimed at improving oil and gas…
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Open Mine-d: Towards the Sustainable Mine of the Future
Extracting raw materials is necessary for our economy and our way of life, but it’s also necessary for mines to place themselves on a de-carbonization pathway that achieves standards and emissions targets. This week’s Blog takes a look at what steps the Canadian mining industry needs to take to keep up with this rapidly changing…
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Canadian Mining’s Future Depends on Millennials and Diversity: The Industry Can Only Succeed If We All Work Together
Millennials will soon become the largest percentage of the mining industry’s workforce, and they will be sure to shake up the status quo. This week’s Blog takes a look at this growing workforce demographic and what industry can do to attract – and then retain – it in order to lessen the impact of worker…
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PDAC Behind Proposal to Submit Exploration Assessment Results in Digital Format
Currently in Canada some jurisdictions have zero requirements for prospectors, mineral exploration companies and mining corporations to submit digital data in exchange for assessment credits. Few regions require all the data. In this Blog post Charles Beaudry outlines a better way to submit data that will benefit exploration across the country.
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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.