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Revegetation Post Mining
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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