Under this priority, CanmetMINING will:

• Take a holistic approach to look at tailings as a source of secondary metals and other valuable industrial minerals.
• Seek to demonstrate and develop technologies that can cost-effectively recover metals from mine waste.
• Develop and demonstrate enhanced mine waste technologies for ecosystem restoration and facility closure.

This priority will examine how to increase the productivity of existing mines through the demonstration and development of automated technologies and innovative equipment; and accelerate the development of new mines in new commodities with the goal of reducing operating and capital costs while increasing efficiency and recoveries.

The Targeted Geoscience Initiative (TGI) is a collaborative federal geoscience program that provides industry with the next generation of geoscience knowledge and innovative techniques, which will result in more effective targeting of buried mineral deposits.