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Digital applications in mining – data collection and processing
– Mining communication
– Remote controlled operations
– Autonomous trucks, excavators, drills and other equipment
– Using AI algorithms to improve mine planning
Asset management
– Remote sites
Equipment maintenance and reliability
– Maintenance planning
– Inventory management – minimize the risk and the capital inefficiency
– Use of the software and AI to predict equipment failures
– Best industry practices
Mine operation – surface and underground
– Using renewable energy sources
– Remote sites – planning and supply chain challenges
– Mine electrification
Mine planning and optimization
– Planning Software applications – success stories
– Surface mine planning
– Underground mine planning
– Crushing and grinding
– Ground control Open pit and underground mapping
Operation efficiency or challenges
– Improving blast fragmentation
– Blast movement and impact on dilution
– Increasing trucking/loading efficiencies
– decreasing dilution in the UG & OP operations
– Improving data return times lab to the field – assays
– Month End Reconciliation, pit to port and pit to smelter
Rock mass characterization and stress measurement
Innovations in laboratory testing and field monitoring
Innovations in rock engineering modelling
Seismicity and rock bursts risk management
Case studies
Community engagement and First Nation, building acceptability and mutual benefits
Communication with communities [or stakeholders]
Permitting and reclamation success stories
How to assess properly project risks
– Risk assessment
– Risk prevention
– Risk monitoring & reporting
Federal and provincial assessment process
Diversification in Energy
Geothermal applications
Renewable energies (wind & solar polar)
Hydrogen
Small nuclear reactors
Clean diesel
Design best practices
– Remote sensing and monitoring
– Instrumentation, success stories
Dry stacking, codisposing and co-mingling waste and tailings
– Reducnig risks by removing water
– Cost-effective designs lowering the CAPEX
– Projects operability and OPEX reduction
Preventing ARD and ML (metal leaching)
Design for reclamation
Geotechnical
Water management
Water treatment
Toward a decarbonizing world
· Carbon sequestration in mining
· Carbon credits
· Carbon neutral planning
How to make mining interesting for young people
Retaining people resources
Gamification of the exploration and mining
Using new softwares and gadgets
Remote work form the cities (remote scoop, track drill, excavator operators)
Value of diversity and inclusion
Women on Boards
Mental health, breaking the stigma
Culture
Critical controls
Incident reviews, personal stories safety shares, lessons learned
Safety leadership
Safety program development and implementation
Safety related new technologies
CO2 emissions abatement in the metals production cycle
Proven or emerging mineral processing technologies for GHG-footprint reduction
Proven or emerging extractive/process technologies for GHG-footprint reduction
Improvements on existing process technologies to minimize specific energy consumption
Examples of implementation projects with novel mining/extraction technologies that have a material impact on GHG-footprint reduction
Innovative research on new selective-mining and mineral sorting, comminution and/or on new extractive processes that reduce energy-intensiveness
Global market review and new projects
Mining operations
Concentration and flotation
Pelletizing
Social and Environment
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