Urban Mining Innovation Centre (UMIC) - University of British Columbia
Dedicated to the scientific, business and social approaches to the recovery of valuable materials/metals from urban waste streams.
This research network is aimed at improving exploration success by developing practical applications and approaches to the acquisition, management, integration, and analysis of geological, geochemical, mineralogical, petrophysical, and geophysical data that can be used to identify the ore-system footprint at its most distant edge and at depth. It is also providing fundamental new knowledge about the unique combinations of geological processes that have been responsible for some of the largest concentrations of metal in the Earth's crust.