Technology

The data beneath our feet

Sara King-Abadi

A new initiative to create a Canadian Digital Core Library aims to centralize decades of geological data, accelerate mineral discovery and strengthen Canada’s position in the global race for critical minerals 

Pre-mining carbon storage

Lynn Greiner

A collaboration between Canada Nickel and the University of Texas at Austin is piloting an in-situ carbon sequestration technique that aims to store carbon underground before mining starts  

Hybrid truck deployed at Caserones mine

Ashley Fish-Robertson

The Chilean mine is piloting a first-of-its-kind hybrid diesel-electric truck to demonstrate a practical path to decarbonization in heavy-duty mining operations 

A digital ear to the ground

Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco

Through her start-up Lumidas, geotechnical engineer Susanne Ouellet is advancing a technology that could transform how mining companies detect early warning signs of tailings dam instability 

Future-looking flotation

Tijana Mitrovic

New flotation technologies push the boundaries of mineral processing by recovering and monitoring different particle types 

Intelligence test

Jax Jacobsen

Artificial intelligence has shown the potential to be a powerful tool for mineral exploration. Understanding how powerful it can be is still a work in progress