Technical Services Active
Objective: To deliver technical services & expertise to support a wide range of mining related activities for the industry and government.
Climate Resilient Mining Priority Active
- RD&D informs policies, regulations, codes & standards
- New green and transformative mining related technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of mining advance towards pre-commercial phase
Efficient Mining Practices Priority Active
- Reduced capital and operating costs
- Increased metal recoveries
- Improved worker health and safety
- Reduced environmental impact from mining, specifically reduced water use and better waste management practices
Critical Minerals Research, Development and Demonstration Active
- Targeted R&D for upstream critical minerals processing, and
battery precursors and related engineering from primary and
secondary sources - Collaborate with federal lab partners to progress battery mineral, mine value from waste, and REE & Other Critical Minerals R&D
- Build critical mineral value chains
- Leverage our world leading ESG credentials and clean mining
practices to position Canada as a supplier of choice - Work with global partners to support investment attraction and
Key Projects, Programs and Initiatives Active
MINE WATER AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Development of novel modified membranes for the treatment of mineral processing effluent streams
- Mining effluent treatment of selenium (METS)
PROCESSING.
- Lithium from brines
- Separation of rare-earth elements using electrodialysis-assisted solvent extraction
CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION AND MITIGATION
Technical Services
Objective:
To deliver technical services & expertise to support a wide range of mining related activities for the industry and government.
Climate Resilient Mining Priority
- RD&D informs policies, regulations, codes & standards
- New green and transformative mining related technologies to reduce the carbon footprint of mining advance towards pre-commercial phase
Key Projects, Programs and Initiatives
- Review of mine waste practices at proposed, operating and closed mine sites
- Annual BC MEND Metal Leaching and Acid Rock Drainage Workshop
- Metal Leaching and Acid Rock Drainage Field School
- MEND (National ML/ARD Research Program)
- B.C. Technical Research Committee on Reclamation and Annual Reclamation Symposium
Key Projects, Programs and Initiatives
- Demonstration scale testing for CTM and spent U fuel management
Key Projects, Programs and Initiatives
- Digitalization for energy efficiency
- Carbon footprint from mining-related Land Use Change
- 360 Electric mine assessment
- SIMPLER ( Streamlining to Improve Mine Permitting by Leveraging Expertise and Resources)