Research

Improved safety and comfort in store for miners working at depth Jannatec Technologies is well on its way toward revolutionizing the clothing and personal protective equipment used in the mining industry.

Mining suppliers use state-of-the-art technology for product design and development ICAMP, a unique innovation centre established at Canadore College’s trade campus in North Bay two years ago, is expanding due to overwhelming support from the manufac

Solution for deep mine cooling and energy storage can also be used to power mobile equipment Sudbury-born mining engineer Daniel Cluff believes he’s found the mining industry equivalent of the Holy Grail – liquid air.

$46 million R&D initiative gives green light to 28 projects The Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation’s (CEMI) Ultra Deep Mining Network (UDMN) has committed to funding 28 research and development projects to address challenges posed by mini

MIRARCO demonstrates hydraulic air compressor for deep mine cooling A 100-year-old technology used in Northern Ontario’s Cobalt mining camp to produce compressed air for the area’s then booming silver mines is being reintroduced by MIRARCOMining Inno

Start-up and multinational companies test prototypes in underground mine A chance is all that is needed for a mining technology company to launch a product or service that will change the industry.

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Underground field trial at Copper Cliff Mine shows 95 to 99 per cent elimination of diesel particulate and noxious gases A filter undergoing field trials on a Caterpillar 1700 LHD at Vale’s Copper Cliff mine is dramatically reducing harmful diesel pa

Temporary protection enables simultaneous drilling, loading and ground support The Centre of Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) has completed the first phase of testing for a protective canopy system designed to serve as a key enabler for rapid u

Sudbury high school students propose novel method of arsenic cleanup Two high school students from Sudbury are bringing attention to phytoremediation as a means of cleaning up an arsenicladen tailings site from a past producing gold mine 25 kilometre