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Revegetation Post Mining
Revegetation Post Mining

Environmental Remediation and Monitoring Systems

  • Gail Heath – environmental water monitoring
  • Jaeheon Lee – metal recycling from e-waste
  • Ben K. Sternberg – groundwater plume tracking and contamination
  • Jinhong Zhang – tailings recycling and reuse
Mining Slope Failure
Mining Slope Failure

Geomechanics, Geotechnical and Tailings

  • John Kemeny – geomechanics, fracture mechanics
  • Moe Momayez—slope failure prediction
  • Brad Ross – geotechnics, slope failures
Conducting an electrical resistivity study
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
Drone equipped with sensors at mine site

Mine Sensor Technology

  • Isabel Barton
  • Gail Heath
  • John Kemeny
  • Moe Momayez
Groundprobe slope stability radar technology in action
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
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
  • 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 
  • 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
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