Novamera’s surgical mining technologies are designed to pinpoint, map, navigate and extract high-value narrow-vein deposits. Courtesy of Novamera

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 mine sites.