Focus Areas

Revegetation Post Mining

Environmental Remediation and Monitoring Systems

Gail Heath – environmental water monitoring
Kwangmin Kim – dust control
Jaeheon Lee – metal recycling from e-waste
Ben K. Sternberg – groundwater plume tracking and contamination
Jinhong Zhang – tailings recycling and reuse

Mining Slope Failure

Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Tailings

John Kemeny – geomechanics, fracture mechanics
Kwangmin Kim – fragmentation, excavation, tailings containment
Moe Momayez—slope failure prediction
Brad Ross – geotechnics, slope failures

Conducting an electrical resistivity study

Geophysical Sensing Techniques

Gail Heath – resistivity, electrical methods
Moe Momayez – electrical resistivity
Ben K. Sternberg – ground-penetrating radar, electrical methods

Mine Health and Safety

Moe Momayez – heat stress monitoring, mine ventilation
Brad Ross – risk analysis, safety

Drone equipped with sensors at mine site

Mine Sensor Technology

Groundprobe slope stability radar technology in action

Mine Technology and Automation

John Kemeny – image analysis, software implementation
P.H.S.W. Kulatilake – neural networks
Moe Momayez – smart mining, distributed sensor networks, machine learning
Victor Octavio 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
Kwangmin Kim – hyperspectral sensing, lidar
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
Jaeheon Lee – bioleaching, bio-oxidation, hydrometallurgy, novel lixiviants
Jinhong Zhang – comminution, flotation chemistry

Space Mining, Underwater and Deep Mining

Victor Octavio Tenorio – centralized supervision, tele-command, moon mine planning, off-the-earth mining methods, underwater robotic systems

Solar panels — Solar panels being installed at a mine site

Sustainable Mining and Development

Moe Momayez – renewable energy, energy efficiency
Brad Ross – artisanal mining, community engagement, sustainability