Videos
Men, machines and the environment in Copper Cliff
Sam Marcuson, the recipient of the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM 2018 Airey award - the most prestigious award in Canadian metallurgy and materials science - traces the metallurgical and environmental history of the smelter, and in the process, sheds light on the dynamics between industry, engineering, environmental regulation and society.
Changing the way we think about corrosion risk
A holistic approach to dealing with corrosion at mining operations
Digital twins in mining and mineral processing
A digital replica of a mineral processing plant won't recover any metals on its own, but it is an essential element to optimizing operations using the latest technologies available. Sohail Nazari of Andritz explains
Mining data and data for mining
If the mining industry is truly interested in re-imagining how value is extracted from rocks in the ground, its members could do a lot better than going back and forth with each other about how to innovate.
From mining's Dark Age to a mining innovation Renaissance
"We need to start moving away from empirical systems to quantified engineering principles, given the level of uncertainty we have in our industry."