Focus Areas

Revegetation Post Mining
Environmental Remediation and Monitoring Systems
- Gail Heath – environmental water monitoring
- Dean Riley – mapping acid mine drainage
- Ben K. Sternberg – groundwater plume tracking and contamination
- Jinhong Zhang – tailings recycling and reuse

Mining Slope Failure
Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Tailings
- Angelina Anani – analysis and visualization of rock displacement data
- John Kemeny – geomechanics, fracture mechanics
- Moe Momayez – slope failure prediction
- Dean Riley – correlation of spectroscopic measurements with rock’s mechanical and physical properties, underground facility characterization
- Muhammad Waqas – geomechanics, water in mine operations, slope stability, rock excavation

Conducting an electrical resistivity study
Geophysical Sensing Techniques
- Gail Heath – resistivity, electrical methods
- Moe Momayez – electrical resistivity
- Dean Riley – magnetics, gravity, radiometrics, remote sensing (VNIR-SWIR, MWIR-LWIR), synthetic aperture radar, thermal imaging
- Ben K. Sternberg – ground-penetrating radar, electrical methods

Mine Health and Safety
- Angelina Anani – risk analysis for decision support
- Eric Lutz – operational risk management, exposure science, industrial hygiene, safety, leadership development
- Moe Momayez – heat stress monitoring, mine ventilation
- Kray Luxbacher – risk management, mine fire prevention and simulation, ventilation engineering, occupational health
- Nathalie Risso

Drone equipped with sensors at mine site
Mine Sensor Technology
- Isabel Barton – hyperspectral imaging, infrared spectroscopy, remote sensing
- Gail Heath
- John Kemeny
- Moe Momayez
- Dean Riley – hyperspectral imaging, synthetic aperture radar, GPS, remote sensing, unmanned aerial systems, unmanned ground vehicles, lidar, image analysis, software automation, data science and analytics, sensor fusion and integration, gas emissions
- Nathalie Risso
- Muhammad Waqas – equipment operations, surface mine planning

Groundprobe slope stability radar technology in action
Mine Technology and Automation
- Angelina Anani – mine planning and production scheduling tools, application of AI and immersive simulation (VR) technology, discrete event simulation, equipment reliability studies
- John Kemeny – image analysis, software implementation
- Pinnaduwa Kulatilake – neural networks
- Kray Luxbacher – ventilation on demand technology, design of automated systems
- Moe Momayez – smart mining, distributed sensor networks, machine learning
- Nathalie Risso
- Victor Tenorio – underground mine planning, automation, fleet management, immersive simulation, autonomous equipment, digital mining, control rooms, virtual & augmented reality

Grad student using the SEM lab
Mineral and Chemical Characterization
- Isabel Barton – electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, hyperspectral sensing, ore deposit characterization
- John Kemeny – lidar, contact probe scanning
- Dean Riley – ore deposit characterization, raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, reflectance and emittance imaging spectroscopy, mineral chemistry, lidar, XRF, ICP-MS, ICP-OES, EPMA, SEM, correlation of a rock’s spectroscopic measurements with its chemical and mineral-chemical properties
- Jinhong Zhang – atomic force microscopy

Metallurgy in action
Mineral Processing, Geometallurgy and Extractive Metallurgy
- Isabel Barton – process mineralogy, geometallurgy
- J. Brent Hiskey – hydrometallurgy, leaching kinetics, electrochemistry
- Dean Riley – process mineralogy, geometallurgy
- Jinhong Zhang – comminution, flotation chemistry
Space Mining, Underwater and Deep Mining
- Nathalie Risso
- Victor Tenorio – centralized supervision, tele-command, moon mine planning, off-the-earth mining methods, underwater robotic systems

Solar panels being installed at a mine site
Sustainable Mining and Development
- Angelina Anani – environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), mine impact analysis
- Moe Momayez – renewable energy, energy efficiency
- Dean Riley – renewable energy, environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG), community relations, critical and strategic minerals including supply chain risk management
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