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Just as cellular technology leapfrogged wired telecommunications in much of Africa and Asia, automation using tunnel boring technology will leapfrog the mechanized drill and blast mining paradigm, predicts Mike MacFarlane, senior vice-president of te

The Xstrata Nickel Sustainable Energy Centre at Cambrian College was officially opened January 31st.

Valuable lessons were learned from a recently concluded ventilation-on-demand (VOD) study by the Sudbury-based Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI ), but more research is necessary to ensure optimum performance of VOD systems in the futu

The Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation has received $823,000 from the Ontario government for a research chair in holistic mining practices and $2.

Recent deployments of ventilation-on-demand (VOD) systems at two mines and lessons learned from an $8.5 million study are positioning Sudbury as a centre of expertise for this increasingly important technology.

Rio Tinto is investing $10 million dollars to establish the Rio Tinto Centre for Underground Mine Construction at the Sudbury-based Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI).

Ultimately, Dean Millar, MIRARCO research chair of energy in mining and mining engineering professor at Laurentian University in Sudbury, hopes to revolutionize ventilation and energy management in the coal industry.

The algae that form a green slime on our lakes and waterways and that so many of us find revolting could one day be grown in giant commercial-scale tanks in Northern Ontario to produce clean-burning biodiesel for underground mining equipment, and die

The new deputy director of the Sudbury-based Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) sees an urgent need to "broaden the base of the intellectual capacity that's applied to mining issues.

The Sudbury-based Northern Centre for Advanced Technology (NORCAT) is midway through the design and development of a mini coring drill that could serve as a prototype for future missions to the moon or Mars. The $1.