Mining Leadership Team

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Mining Leadership Team
A Centre in Mining Research Excellence
Past and current Initiatives
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Past and current Mining Resarch Initiatives

• Dr. Doug Goldsack - former Dean of Sciences and
  Engng and Dir CIMMER
• Building excellence and moving toward Canadian
  School of Mines
• Dr. Peter K. Kaiser Chair, Rock Mech. Ground
  Control / Pres. MIRARCO
• Road map to research excellence Laurentians
  Mining Leadership Team
• MIRARCOs RD initiatives and NAVnet a northern
  development initiative
• Dr. Mike Lesher Chair, Department of Earth
  Sciences (former Dir. MERC)
• Mineral exploration research building the
  foundation for future mines
• Dr. Greg Baiden Canada Research Chair,
  Telerobotics Automation
• Mining an industry in evolution Northern
  Ontarios Opportunity

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On the path to a Canadian School of Mines

• 1975 LU Long Term Planning Committee Focus on
  Mining/Optima
• DeBeers Corp Article
• 1982 Amalgamation of School of Engineering with
  Faculty of Science
• Delegation sent to Colorado School of Mines
• 1983 - The Honourable Judy Erola Minister of
  State for Mines
• Stamps Proposal
• 1984 Center in Mining and Mineral Exploration
  Research Center (CIMMER) Proposal Dr. T.
  Beswick
• 1988 Stevenson Commission Recommends Rock
  Burst Study
• ? to Triangle of Excellence Queens U, U of T,
  Laurentian University
• ? Leads to Geomechanics Research Center (GRC)
• 1990 Ontario Geological Survey moves to Sudbury
  Dr. John Gammon
• 1992 MNDM approached CIMMER regarding Elliot
  Lake
• ? Elliot Lake Field Research Station (ELFRS) D.
  Berthelot, Dr. V. Clulow, Dr. D. McCreath

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On the path to a Canadian School of Mines

• 1997 Mineral Exploration Research Center (MERC)
  
• Dr. R. Keyes, Dr. H. Gibson
• ? 5M Industrial Research Dr. M Lesher, first
  NSERC Industrial Chair
• 1998 MIRARCO - Mining Innovation
• Dr. P. Kaiser 1M ? 10M
• 1998-2005 PhD programs in Earth Sciences and
  Engineering
• Dr. D. James, Dr. D. McCreath, M. Lacroix
• 2002 Formation of TRAC - Telerobotics and
  Automation Center
• Dr. G. Baiden
• 2003 Mining Service and Supply Cluster Concept
  (Dr. D. Robinson)
• ? formation of Sudbury Area Mining Supply and
  Service Association (SAMSSA) D. DeStephano
• 2005 Center of Excellence in Mining Innovation
  (CEMI)
• L. Paquette, D. Marleau, R. Bartolucci, J. Gammon

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On the path to a Canadian School of Mines
100 million
Building Excellence
10 million
Building Strength
1 million
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Past and current Mining Resarch Initiatives

• Dr. Doug Goldsack - former Dean of Sciences and
  Engineering
• Building excellence and moving toward Canadian
  School of Mines
• Dr. Peter K. Kaiser Chair for Rock Mechanics
  and Ground Control and Pres. MIRARCO
• Road map to research excellence Laurentians
  Mining Leadership Team
• MIRARCOs RD initiatives and NAVnet a Northern
  development initiative
• Dr. Mike Lesher Chair, Department of Earth
  Sciences (former Director MERC)
• Mineral exploration research building the
  foundation for future mines
• Dr. Greg Baiden Canada Research Chair for
  Telerobotics and Automation
• Mining an industry in evolution

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Laurentians Mining Leadership Team

• Senate and Board of Laurentian University adopted
  a vision related to mining
• Laurentian University will become the national
  centre of excellence in mining innovation -
  education, research, technology, and
  commercialization - by energetically building on
  acknowledged strengths in mineral exploration,
  mining engineering, robotics, and environmental
  sciences
• No other Canadian university has a vision
  statement explicitly directed in support of
  mining
• Mining Leadership Team (MLT) was established to
  assist in implementing this vision
• to provide leadership in support of mining
  cluster initiatives being pursued at both the
  regional and provincial level
• to pursue mining research excellence on a wide
  front
• to make things happen supporting many
  mutually complementary initiatives

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What is a Centre in Mining Excellence?

• Northern Ontario (Sudbury) is a Centre of Mining
  Excellence
• Excellence in exploration geoscience
• Excellence in mining
• Excellence in mining equipment-telerobotics.
  automation
• Excellence in environmental stewardship -
  reclamation, monitoring
• Excellence in innovation and commercialization of
  products and services
• Excellence in Supplies and Services
• Excellence in Mining Research supporting the
  entire spectrum of activities
• Opportunity for Northern Ontario, Sudbury and
  Laurentian University to take a leadership role
  in establishing a Centre in Mining Research
  Excellence, the backbone of a Mining Cluster and
  Centre of Excellence in Mining Innovation (OMICC
  concept)

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Mining Research Spectrum
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The foundation is in placeMining Research Chairs
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Road Map to Mining excellence - Foundation

• Mining Future for Northern Ontario, the
  Province and Canada
• Sudbury One of the World's Leading Mining
  Districts
• Mining Research A Cornerstone for Ontario
  Mining Cluster
• Critical mass, expertise, knowledge, HQP,
• Building the Foundation Strength and Excellence
• Education
• M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in Earth Sciences and
  Engineering, and more pending
• Research
• Leadership - 6 Research Chairs
• Capacity - 6 Mining research centres
• Funding - Healthy research funding stream of
  gt3M/yr
• Network - National and international
  collaboration
• Technology - Geosciences, robotics, VR,
  monitoring
• Commercialization services, software, hardware

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Why does Canada need a Centre in Mining Research
Excellence?

• The Mining Industry faces serious challenges that
  jeopardize its sustainability and growth
• Continuous supply of HQP (manpower)
• Discovery of new resources at depth within mines
  and outside of existing operations
• Cost efficient and safe mining methods/equipment
  to pursue deposits at depth
• Environmental stewardship
• ? Development of new knowledge and technology to
  aid discovery, production, processing and
  reclamation

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Why does Canada need a Centre in Mining Research
Excellence?

• The solution to these and other problems will
  require
• Close collaboration between industry, government
  and universities that is focused and led by
  experts who have a profound understanding of the
  industry
• The leadership must emerge from specific centres
  of research excellence that have the capability
  to effectively address minings research and
  educational challenges across the spectrum of
  exploration, mining, metallurgy and reclamation
• There are no university-based, federally or
  provincially sponsored Centres in Mining Research
  Excellence designed to meet the research and
  educational needs of the Mining industry
• ? The visionaries of Laurentian University have
  steadily built the foundation to provide solution
  teams

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The N.O. Advantage

• Sudbury is the largest mining district in the
  world
• Known and potential reserves indicate Sudbury
  will be a mining powerhouse for the next 50 years
• Vibrant major and junior mining exploration
  sector
• gt300 SMEs in minerals supply and service
  industry
• One-day drive from other major mining camps and
  12 universities that conduct mining-related
  research
• Northern Ontario is a centre of Mining
  Excellence, and Sudbury is at its centre - OMICC
  initiative to develop Mining Cluster in Sudbury
• ? Laurentian University provides Northern Ontario
  with a worldwide strategic advantage

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Building on the Laurentian Advantage

• The Way Forward fuse the strengths of LUs
  Mining Research Centres and supporting
  Departments,and through collaboration with other
  Ontario and Canadian researches, establish an
  integrated, cross-disciplinary collaborative
  Centre in Mining Research excellence that would
  have the capability and mandate to achieve
  excellence, and to address Industrys educational
  and research problems across the spectrum from
  exploration to reclamation.

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MLT Recommedation

• The MLT recommends that
• Laurentian University allocate human and
  financial resources to expand leadership role and
  to accelerate the development of mining
  excellence (ICME)
• Specifically that
• a MLT Secretariat be created and a Director
  Mining Initiatives be appointed

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The Mandate of the MLT Director and Secretariat
promote aggressive growth, research excellence
and collaboration

• Way Forward Implement an aggressive growth
  strategy
• establish a Centre of Mining Research Excellence

• A knowledge pool to derive social and economic
  benefits
• Research, development and innovation
• Technology transfer and training (education
  through RD)
• Commercialization of knowledge and IP ? Mining
  commercialization resource
• An pool of industrial, academic, and public
  sector collaborators
• Collaborative innovation network taking data ?
  information ? knowledge ? innovation ? market
• The backbone of an OMIC
• serving the North, and
• opening the North to the global market

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Mining Research
Investor Relations
Research - Mining Research Centres at
Laurentian University
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Environmental Stewardship

• Environmental systems monitoring
• Environmental data management interpretation
• Ecosystem remediation, rehabilitation
  restoration
• Ecotoxicological research

OMICC ? CEMI ? CER
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Mines Operations Optimization

• Water jet scaling, cutting drilling
• Equipment performance assessment
• Economics safety aspects of technology
• Integrated ventilation systems
• Best Practice Operations Analysis

OMICC ? CEMI ? IMPE
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Geomechanics Mine Design

• Numerical modelling
• Applied geophysics
• Risk assessment
• Rapid drift development
• New support methods

OMICC ? CEMI ? IMPE DMRC
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Immersive Virtual Reality for interpretation
decision making
Laurentians Virtual Reality Facility
OMICC ? CEMI ? IMPE DMRC
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Innovation with Immersive Collaboration and VR
in research and decision making
Tele-mining
Production
Exploration
Design
Remediation
Processing
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Virtual Reality Networking Tele-Decision

• applying technology to existing knowledge
• capitalizing on existingcommunication networks
• Accessability
• Localize technology
• Virtualize experts
• Affordability
• Less travel
• Lower cost to access
• Demonstration of Mining Cluster Concept
• Low technical risk
• International linkages
• Access to money

Phase I Northern Ontario
To
Phase II Head Offices
Phase III International links
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Benefits the business case

• Short Term
• Increase capabilities for Junior Mining companies
• Opportunity for local technology SME to diversify
  capabilities
• Develop cross industry capabilities (e.g. mining,
  forestry, medical)
• Youth retention and education by locating in
  Education facilities
• New opportunities e.g., for distance education
• Mid Term
• Additional investment in Ontario Exploration
  Programs
• Via international exposure and differentiation
• Increased capabilities in industry, higher
  efficiency
• Provide access to information (Govt Databases)
• Create infrastructure for northern medical
  graduates
• Long Term
• Sustainability of existing mining centres
• Discovery of new properties
• Ontario seen as leader in Mining for investment /
  development

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Past and current Mining Resarch Initiatives

• Dr. Doug Goldsack - former Dean of Sciences and
  Engineering
• Building excellence and moving toward Canadian
  School of Mines
• Dr. Peter K. Kaiser Chair for Rock Mechanics
  and Ground Control and Pres. MIRARCO
• Road map to research excellence Laurentians
  Mining leadership Team
• MIRARCOs RD initiatives and NAVnet a northern
  development initiative
• Dr. Mike Lesher Chair, Department of Earth
  Sciences (former Director MERC)
• Mineral exploration research building the
  foundation for future mines
• Dr. Greg Baiden Canada Research Chair for
  Telerobotics and Automation
• Mining an industry in evolution

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Past and current Mining Resarch Initiatives

• Dr. Doug Goldsack - former Dean of Sciences and
  Engineering
• Building excellence and moving toward Canadian
  School of Mines
• Dr. Peter K. Kaiser Chair for Rock Mechanics
  and Ground Control and Pres. MIRARCO
• Road map to research excellence Laurentians
  Mining leadership Team
• MIRARCOs RD initiatives and NAVnet a northern
  development initiative
• Dr. Mike Lesher Chair, Department of Earth
  Sciences (former Director MERC)
• Mineral exploration research building the
  foundation for future mines
• Dr. Greg Baiden Canada Research Chair for
  Telerobotics and Automation
• Mining an industry in evolution

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Mining Research Excellencepart of N.Os future
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Role of Mining Leadership Team

• Senate and Board of Laurentian University adopted
  a vision related to mining
• Laurentian University will become the national
  centre of excellence in mining innovation -
  education, research, technology, and
  commercialization - by energetically building on
  acknowledged strengths in mineral exploration,
  mining engineering, robotics, and environmental
  sciences
• Mining Leadership Team (MLT) was established to
  assist in implementing this vision
• to provide leadership in support of mining
  cluster initiatives being pursued at both the
  regional and provincial level
• to pursue mining research excellence on a wide
  front
• to make things happen , i.e., supporting many
  mutually complementary initiatives

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MLT-Ex activity report

• Members
• Baiden, dEntremont, Gibson, Kaiser (6-mos
  rotating Chair), Mercier
• Role
• Define priority items and do groundwork for
  issues to be dealt with by the Mining Leadership
  Team (MLT)
• Prepare agenda for quarterly meeting of MLT with
  external members
• Ensure follow-up to MLT decisions1
• Represent MLT internal (0) and external to LU (1)
• integrate Faculty with Mining Research Expertise
  in presenting LUs mining case
• Leadership
• To lead means to promote all valuable initiatives
  (not to judge) and to bring proponents together
• To lead, we need to understand
• past developments / our strengths
• current and future complimentary mining
  (research) initiatives
• communicate how initiatives complement each other
  
• ? Road Map to Mining Research Excellence
  (MLT-Ex held monthly meetings to define action
  items in road map)

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MLT-Ex activity report (2)

• Other MLT activity
• Submission to the Rae Commission on
  Differentiation of Northern Post Secondary
  Education through its Role in the Natural
  Resources/Mining Industry of Ontario
  recommending
• Laurentian University and the community colleges
  of Northeastern Ontario be recognized as being
  differentiated in the Ontario postsecondary
  sector through their roles in mining-related
  research and in supplying highly qualified
  personnel for the mining and mineral sector of
  Ontario, as part of the Northeastern Ontario
  Mining Cluster, and through out the world.
• The mining and minerals industry being given a
  role in aiding the development of such personnel
  through a Sudbury-based foundation, called the
  Ontario School of Mines Foundation, directly
  affiliated with Laurentian University and the
  community colleges of Northeastern Ontario, in
  collaboration with other mining related
  educational institutions in the Province.
• ? follow-up actions to be defined upon release of
  Rae-report

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Road Map to Mining excellence - Foundation

• DRAFT prepared by MLT-Ex with support from Andrea
  Poryckyi and Jane Djivre (MIRARCO)
• Mining Future for Northern Ontario, the
  Province and Canada
• Sudbury One of the World's Leading Mining
  Districts
• Mining Research A Cornerstone for Ontario
  Mining Cluster
• Critical mass, expertise, knowledge, HQP,
• Building the Foundation Strength and Excellence
• Education
• M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs in Earth Sciences and
  Engineering, and more pending
• Research
• Leadership - 6 Research Chairs
• Capacity - 6 Mining research centres
• Funding - Healthy research funding stream of
  gt3M/yr
• Network - National and international
  collaboration
• Technology - Geosciences, robotics, VR,
  monitoring
• Commercialization services, software, hardware

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Mining excellence Complementary initiatives

• Initiatives some highlights
• Education new Ph.D. programs
• Research capacity building CFI grants, NAVNet,
  WGMC
• Research program development Deep Mining
  Consortium, OMICC Centre Mining Excellence,
  Tele-robotics Institute, Safe Rapid Drifting,
• Networking OMICC, SAMSSA, C-CAIRN,
• Commercialization OMET, CITO, MMO, CRESTEC, now
  OCE,

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Road map to mining excellence - Summary

• Laurentian University has grown its mining
  research program and achieved internationally
  recognized excellence
• Many new initiatives are underway to expand and
  build unique educational, research, and
  commercialization programs
• Mining research excellence will contribute to
  prosperity in the North by
• creating well-paying jobs for skilled knowledge
  workers
• attracting and retaining highly qualified
  personnel
• generating opportunities for spin-off benefits to
  the Region
• Complementary, compatible initiatives summarized
  in this road map lead to our collective goal of
  developing Sudbury as an internationally
  recognized Centre of Mining Research Excellence.

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Road map to mining excellence

• Acknowledgements
• Laurentian University for support of MLT
• Members of MLT-Executive for leading this
  important initiative
• Members of Mining Leadership Team
• for guiding by providing input, ideas and
  suggestions,
• and, most importantly,
• for working in the background in support ofand
  by funding many of the listed initiatives

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Mining Leadership Team

• Agenda
• Welcome
• Introduction
• Role of MLT
• Composition of MLT
• Road Map to Mining Research Excellence
• Presentation
• Update on OMICC initiatives by FedNor/MNDM
  representative
• Discussion / Motion
• Information exchange session
• New business
• Future MLT initiatives/activities
• Other
• Selection of Chair of Mining Leadership Team
  Executive
• Future meetings

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Mining Excellence action by ...

• MLT recommends that
• Laurentian University allocate human and
  financial resources to expand leadership role and
  to accelerate the development of mining
  excellence (ICME)
• Specifically that
• Road map be presented to LU-Executive, Senate and
  Board of Governors
• a MLT Secretariat be created and a Director
  Mining Initiatives be appointed
• To accelerate activities of MLT
• Annual budget of at least 75k
• Mining M.Sc. and Ph.D. programs be developed
  further and marketed aggressively
• Marketing program to attract top students, e.g.,
  by providing student fee waivers to qualified
  Ph.D.
• focus part of NSERC Capacity Building Grant in
  support of mining excellence
• Develop an ongoing mining education and research
  awareness program
• Motion to receive draft of Road Map to Mining
  Excellence and to recommend implementation of
  proposed action plan.

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Mining Leadership Team

• Agenda
• Welcome
• Introduction
• Role of MLT
• Composition of MLT
• Road Map to Mining Research Excellence
• Presentation
• Update on OMICC initiatives (Mining Centre of
  Excellence) by FedNor/MNDM representative
• Discussion
• Information exchange session
• New business
• Future MLT initiatives/activities
• Other
• Selection of Chair of Mining Leadership Team
  Executive
• Future meetings

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Mining Leadership Team
Mining Leadership Team