Water EPA - Oil Sands Pit Lakes Active
Provide sound science to demonstrate that pit lakes and other treatment options will successfully remediate water quality for release to natural surface water.
Water EPA - Mine Water Return to the Athabasca River watershed Active
Return of treated Oil Sands Process Water (OSPW) and mine depressurization water to the natural surface water during operations. Depressurization water salt management, treatment technologies, residuals management and return.
CanmetMINING, Smithers BC - Lands and Minerals Sector, NRCan
A regional location of CanmetMINING, a branch in the Lands and Minerals Sector (LMS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).
Sustainable Mining Solution Active
Mining companies are being challenged to enhance the environmental sustainability of their operations. Public concerns about acid drainage, heavy metals contamination, tailings and wastewater have all led to the need to reduce mining’s environmental footprint.
Industry Support via Industrial Engineering Active
Decades of hands of experience have been combined into SRC new initiative, Industrial Engineering Business Unit, which purpose was to address operational challenges of our clients. Industrial Engineering Business Unit have the combined engineering and technical capability to custom design a wide range of equipment, systems and structures that saves SRC’s clients time and money required on upgrades, expansions, retrofits and new installations.
REE extraction from Uranium tailings in Northern Saskatchewan Active
SRC’s experts are focused on rare earth elements (REE) processing and hydrometallurgy and working with mining companies to develop rare earth properties through laboratory, bench scale, pilot testing and field implementation.
SRC Advanced Mining Systems: Advanced Instrumentation, Automation and Robotics for Remote Mining Systems Active
Development Engineering has provided tools and services to the mining industry for more than 20 years. With the Saskatchewan
Research Council’s breadth of technical expertise, Development Engineering can offer answers to unique and challenging problems.
Development Engineering is involved in the concept research, design and development of distinctive mining technologies. Group’s skill set and expertise includes:
Tailings Management and Industrial Water Treatment Active
SRC’s Pipe Flow Technology Centre™ includes 500 m2 dedicated to tailings research. This facility houses a 30 m³ supply tank, deposition columns and a 15 m long x 0.75 m wide x 1.6 m high open channel flume, equipped with instrumentation to detect pore pressure and density variations in test materials.
Additional equipment includes a pilot-scale thickener, mini thickeners and a smaller 8 m long x 0.25 m wide x 0.5 m high adjustable angle flume apparatus.
Some of the group’s expertise include:
Hydrotransport RD&D at SRC’s Pipe Flow Technology Centre™ Active
SRC’s Pipe Flow Technology Centre™ provides test facilities and expertise for researching and developing slurry handling systems and applications. Clients from the mining, oil sands and oil industries use our internationally recognized facility to obtain quality pipeline data necessary for designing safe and reliable slurry pipelines.