Canada Mining Innovation Council (CMIC)
CMIC LED Projects
Integrated Projects
Transforming Canada’s Mining Innovation Ecosystem
This partnership focusses on strengthening, expanding, and defragmenting the ecosystem, while aligning innovators towards the goal of a zero-waste mining industry.
Exploration
Exploration Undercover
The long-term deliverable of this project will be to provide robust guidelines as to what surface media should be targeted in an exploration program and the significance of anomaly recognition within different media.
Footprints
To develop new approaches to ore system modelling using more effective integration and visualization of multi-parameter geological-structural-mineralogical-lithogeochemical-petrophysical-geophysical exploration data using GEOSCIENCE Integrator®, self-consistent GOCAD® 3D Common Earth Models.
Mining
Continuous Underground Mining – Mechanical Cutting Demonstration
To evaluate the existing technology, continue learning more around mechanical cutting and continuous mining in order to transform the current drill and blast methodology, to a continuous mining platform.
Continuous Underground Mining – Discovery
This project is focussed on understanding and evaluating peripheral elements associated with hard rock mechanical cutting technologies such as mine design, ground support, material movement, maintenance and more.
Continuous Surface Mining – Alternative Haulage Technical Study
Material haulage is one of the highest costs in many surface mining operations. The purpose of this phase of the project is to identify technologies and processes that may provide an alternative to the existing platform of material haulage by trucks.
Haul Truck Analytics
Mining companies have been performing preventative maintenance (PM) on large scale equipment fleet based on calendar time. This proof of concept project is to determine if there are indicators in the oil analysis data to validate the robustness of the current PM program and to explore ways to optimize the program to maximize the equipment’s productive capacity.
Processing
Novel Technology Platform for Conjugate Anvil Hammer Mill (CAHM)
The project aims to design, build and test a revolutionary new comminution technology platform that will reduce energy in comminution by 50% as well as additional potential benefits that may significantly improve OPEX and CAPEX.
CanMicro
This project will result in the establishment of a new disruptive technology whereby the proposed solution will utilize microwave technology to achieve a step-change reduction in the energy required for comminution.
Global Water Curves
This project will define metrics and produce Global Water Curves tools that can be used to benchmark and evaluate water usage in mineral process equipment particularly those related to grinding. It will complement the comminution energy curves used to benchmark and evaluate comminution process energy usage.
Data Mining for Knowledge
Demonstrate where data mining techniques can be effectively used in Mining Operations (Mine, Mill and Smelter) to improve operational performance and where significant gaps exist that make their implementation ineffective.
Environment
Mining Knowledge Hub
The Knowledge Hub project involves the collection, preservation, and distribution of water quality data collected by mining companies. The pilot phase of the project developed an interface to access water quality data collected by companies developing and operating mines in British Columbia. Approximately 20 million data points are loaded into the prototype.
Remote, Real-Time Sensors
The project will accelerate the development of remote, real-time sensors to monitor water for primary contaminants of concern at a diverse array of mine sites across Canada.
Source: https://cmic-ccim.org/project-list/
