Kylie Williams

1 week ago | magazine.cim.org | Lynn Greiner |Eavan Moore |Kylie Williams

The mass mining technique of block caving—where miners undercut an ore body, causing it to collapse and letting gravity do much of the work of fragmenting the ore—is not a new method. It is the chosen approach for the very largest of underground copper and gold mines, such as PT Freeport Indonesia’s Grasberg copper-gold mine in Indonesia, Codelco’s El Teniente copper-molybdenum mine in Chile and Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi copper mine in Mongolia. Sign Up Already signed up?

1 month ago | magazine.cim.org | Trish Saywell |Eavan Moore |Kylie Williams

In February 2022, Teck Resources, the University of British Columbia (UBC), BGC Engineering, Kookie Canada, Rio Tinto, Genome BC, Allonnia, Microsoft and the Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation (CEMI) created the Mining Microbiome Analytics Platform (M-MAP)—the first integrated online platform to extract DNA from more than 15,000 mining site samples to identify microbes that can replace the chemicals that traditionally have been used in extracting minerals and metals and remediating...