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XPS Continues Support of Ring of Fire Process Development
Natural Resources and FedNor Minister Greg Rickford initiated the siren at the Toronto Stock Exchange on Thursday, with a few friends including Mika Muinonen, XPS Manager Extractive Metallurgy and Dominic Fragomeni, Director XPS
Anyone who says the federal government isn’t doing anything to advance development of the Ring of Fire hasn't been paying attention.
Natural Resources Minister Greg Rickford initiated the siren at the opening of business on Thursday May 14th at the Toronto Stock Exchange to mark National Mining Week, a celebration of Canada's leadership and expertise in the industry.
The minister hand-picked a who's who of 'movers and shakers” from Northem Ontario to accompany him at the ceremony and they met in a round-table session afterward to discuss mining in the Ring of Fire. In attendance was Mika Muinonen, Manager, XPS Extractive Metallurgy and Dominic Fragomeni. Director XPS, Frank Srneenk, President and Chief Executive Officer of KWG Resources, and Alan Coutts, President and CEO of Noront Resources.
Rickford, who is also minister of the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario, said the theme of mining week this year is 'Innovation in Canada's Mineral Development Model."
“In today's world. innovation is the price of admission, the prerequisite for success,“ said Rickford.
The Conservatives' Economic Action Plan 2015 pledged $23 million over five years for the further development of the technology and innovation required to develop rare earth elements and chromite.
“This will be critical as the Ring of Fire moves forward,” he said. XPS has been collaborating with NRCan, Canmet, industry and peer groups in charting the course for these programs in both rare earths and chromite. XPS position in chromite processing is well known as we have been working with KWG Resources in the testing and development of a novel direct reduction tech- nology for Ring of Fire chromite and with Cliffs (now Noront) in the assessment of conventional DC smelting technologies complete with techno-economic analysis.
XPS is proud to be a part of this historic initiative to dewlop these game changing technologies which will ultimately benefit all Canadians.
Source: http://www.xps.ca/EN/Media/Publications/XPSBulletin_Issue_14_Summer2015_pg_6.pdf
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Process Control (Program) Engineer for Mine Automation & Control
Reporting to the Process Control Group Manager, the Senior Program Engineer will be based at Fraser Mine, Onaping and will oversee, lead and work on the process control programs / projects at both Fraser and Ni Rim South Mine client sites while also providing input to other projects from XPS consulting services to external and internal clients in the metals, mining and processing businesses.