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2016, the year ahead

We review how miners are coping with low commodity prices, the implications of the federal election and the potential of cloud computing

By Ryan Bergen, Tom DiNardo, Christopher Pollon, Kate Sheridan and Katelyn Spidle

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50 The Cream of Devon County Devon, England, has a long history of mining, and Wolf Minerals with the new Drakelands tungsten mine, the first metal mine in nearly 50 years, has burnished its future

By Peter Braul

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Faster and more flexible than more traditional approaches, implicit modelling software has become a powerful decision making tool

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New university chair works on mine site reclamation in northern Quebec

By Antoine Dion-Ortega

Briefs Renewable and alternative energy are playing a larger part in miners’ energy mix

By Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco

A look at legislation changes around the world

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Close the gaps on duty of care for your road warriors

By Brian Robertson

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Barrick gets strong results from forward-looking surveying method

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Smartphone apps are modernizing the miner’s mobile toolkit

By Kate Sheridan

Stephan Jou of Interset discusses cyber security in mining

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2016, L’année à venir Le point sur la façon dont les sociétés minières font face à l’effondrement du prix des marchandises, les répercussions des élections fédérales et le potentiel de l’informatique en nuage.

Par Ryan Bergen, Tom DiNardo, Christopher Pollon, Kate Sheridan and Katelyn Spidle

Répertoire des membres corporatifs de l’ICM Lettre de l’éditeur Mot du président Une nouvelle chaire universitaire se consacre à la restauration des sites miniers dans le nord du Québec Par Antoine Dion-Ortega

Profil du projet : La crème de la crème du Devon Le Devon, en Angleterre, a une longue tradition minière. La nouvelle mine de tungstène Drakelands de Wolf Minerals, qui représente la première nouvelle mine métallifère développée sur l’île depuis près de 50 ans, vient redorer le blason et l’avenir du comté.

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I would not be doing my job, however, if I didn’t draw your attention to the departure of Peter Braul, who has been an editor at CIM Magazine for the last four years, and is now already in full stride, pursuing his dream of becoming a brewer. Evidence of his ideas, big imagination and sharp eye began on the cover page and ran throughout each issue he worked on.

Over his time here, the magazine improved in appearance and grew in its ambition.

Working alongside him helped me to do my job better, and his close work with the young editors who have since joined the magazine will serve the publication and its readers well.

Although the charge may provide the force that breaks the rock, there would only be noise, dust and flyrock without the explosives engineer to oversee drill patterns, blast sequence and timing. Such is the role of the editor, and Peter was an excellent one.

Fortunately, evidence of Peter’s talents are on full display in “The cream of Devon County” (pg. 50). His profile of Wolf Minerals’s newly commissioned Drakelands mine highlights a modern project in a land where mining had seemed bound to become only a curiosity of history.

This issue also features the work of our newest editor, Kelsey Rolfe, including her contributions to our 2016 preview, “The year ahead” (pg.

43). Kelsey, an alumna of our internship program and erstwhile contributor, has brought her own enviable set of skills and energy to her role.

I wish the two of them, and all of you, the best in the New Year.

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nce, flushed with pride for a newly printed issue of the magazine, I showed the finished work to a friend of mine unfamiliar with both publishing and mining. “Very nice,” he said. “Did you write that story?”

“No.” “Did you take the pictures?”

“No.” “Did you do the layout?”

“Not exactly.”

With that, the magazine was put away and we moved on to other topics. Why hold forth on the role of editor? Boring someone with unwanted details; that’s something we try to

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Editor-in-chief Ryan Bergen, rbergen@cim.org Executive editor Angela Hamlyn, ahamlyn@cim.org Managing editor Andrea Nichiporuk, anichiporuk@cim.org Section editor Tom DiNardo, tdinardo@cim.org Junior section editor Kelsey Rolfe, krolfe@cim.org Web content editor Maria Olaguera, molaguera@cim.org Contributing editors Peter Braul, Eavan Moore, emoore@cim.org Editorial intern Kate Sheridan Digitization technician Marie-Ève Lapierre, melapierre@cim.org Contributors Correy Baldwin, Antoine Dion-Ortega, Alexandra LopezPacheco, Valerian Mazataud, Eavan Moore, Christopher Pollon, Brian Robertson, Cai Sepulis, Katelyn Spidle Editorial advisory board Alicia Ferdinand, Garth Kirkham, Vic Pakalnis, Steve Rusk, Nathan Stubina Translations CNW, Karen Rolland

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A call to action This fall we had what has become fairly typical of elections in Canada: what I call an inversion. I define this as voting the ruling party out in favour of the most reasonable alternative, or even out of spite. I am heartened though that the collective decision was one based on values, rather than purely a “vote the bums out” attitude. The mining industry is thought to be a “conservative” bunch, however I look at the platform put forward by the new Liberal government and they seem to be very much in line with the values of the Canadian mining industry today. These include diversity, environmental stewardship, prosperity for all, building infrastructure for future generations, sustainable development and international leadership, especially in struggling regions with great potential but in need of guidance.

Miners have long embraced these values as a necessity of doing business and Canadian mining companies have, time and again, brought knowledge, financing, leadership and best practices to the countries in which they work, especially in areas where they are trying to build a foundation for growth.

At the forefront of development, miners sometimes find themselves in regions where conflict is smoldering just beneath the surface. In Mali, three of our colleagues working in the industry were at that Radisson in Bamako when terrorists stormed the hotel. Thankfully they survived.

That two of those trapped in the hotel, sending anxious texts to family and colleagues back home, were there to oversee the construction of a mine in a young and expanding mining region is significant. Such places are at a crossroads, where foreign investment and local capacity building may lead the country in one direction while fanatics with delusions of medieval grandeur want to push it the opposite way. From this perspective, best practices in safety, environmental stewardship, diversity, and financial and social responsibility are particularly important. It is our responsibility to live these values wherever we may be. While I do not want to overinflate our role, I think it would be much more foolish to underestimate it.

May you all have a safe and prosperous 2016.

Garth Kirkham CIM President @GarthCIMPrez

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Crushing it on a smaller scale When Sepro tried to find a cone crusher for the small- and medium-sized mining projects they worked with, they came up empty-handed. Some were too expensive, some were too old-fashioned, and some were too big and took up too much space for smaller sites. The company expects its new Blackhawk 100 will fill the gap. The compact design of the cone crusher could make it a valuable secondary or tertiary crusher for any operation, but the size is ideal for smaller projects ranging from 20 to 60 tonnes per hour, according to vice-president of sales Dave Hornick. “We tried to bring the new technologies to the table with a little more economy in mind,” Hornick said.

According to Hornick, many smaller crushers are still spring-loaded, whereas the Blackhawk 100 is fully hydraulic, which makes maintenance easier, faster and safer; for example, the hydraulics can be used to remove stuck particles easily. The lock-bolt design also allows operators to safely remove liners without using a cutting torch, a feature Hornick called unique among crushers of this size.

Faster, cheaper core logging Between the cost of the truck and the technician, gamma logging can be pricey – up to $1,900 per day, especially at remote sites when transportation costs become an issue. But Imdex’s new gamma logging tool, the REFLEX EZ-GAMMA, can do the job at about 10 to 15 per cent of the cost, according to Dave Lawie, head of Imdex’s global geosciences division. “The EZ-GAMMA detects naturally occurring radiation emitted by the geological formations that the drill hole has intersected,” Lawie said. That information is transmitted from on-site drilling crews or geologists to a decision-maker via the cloud, eliminating the need for an on-site technician and a logging truck. This means less money spent on transportation and less waiting for the vehicles to arrive at the site. Lawie said the data from the EZ-GAMMA is at least equal to traditionally collected information. “Recent field trials completed have proved that the EZ-GAMMA logs have actually provided more detailed, and consequently more informative, data,” he said.

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Making an informed decision about the direction of gold exploration can mean waiting days or weeks for information from an assay or scanning electron microscope (SEM). But with the Gold Sniffer, released to the market in August by its eponymous company, geologists can analyze samples in 45 minutes.

The equipment uses a 20-megapixel camera to take pictures of drill core or grab samples cut by a diamond saw and search for the specific wavelengths reflected by the goldsilver alloy electrum, according to information provided by the company. This data is fed through an algorithm to determine the location of the gold and the grade.

As a former CEO of a mineral exploration company, inventor Jim Kendall knew that a portable golddetection device could be a powerful tool for miners. The device’s intent is truly “to move the analytical power of [assay and SEM] techniques into the field so that geologists can do gold analysis on-site and in minutes,” Kendall said. However, he cautioned that given the novelty of the technology, only a qualified person can determine if the data from the device is accurate and reliable enough to replace assays and SEMs in technical reports or press releases.

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hanks so much for your interesting and revealing article, “When is a Mineral Resource not a Resource?” by Rod Webster in the October 2015 issue of CIM Magazine. As a professional engineer involved with project and mineral resource evaluation, I am sometimes surprised, frequently disappointed and in some cases outraged by some of the things I see happening in this sector of our business. The degree to which the mineral resource estimation process is oversimplified, resources are overestimated and over-reported, is a stain on our industry. To Mr. Webster’s long list of observed challenges we face in conducting this work, I would add overly optimistic OPEX and CAPEX estimating, simplification of metallurgical treatment results and

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failure to treat individual (and distinct) mineralogical zones and orebodies as separate economic entities.

We can only hope that continued selfevaluation will lead to better-quality reporting. I suggest that those of us who practice in the field need to do a better job of critically reviewing and critiquing the work being published in this area. Perhaps it is time to call out some of the authors of the more obvious (and misleading) reports. If we do not do a better job, there will only be more scrutiny from regulators. Perhaps this, too, is an idea whose time has come.

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letters to the editor Bowker Associates held this up for review and discussion 10 months ago on our website after looking at the head grades of British Columbia mines as compared with global averages and assessing the balance sheets of British Columbia miners with permits at active operating sites. We called for the creation of an independent panel of mining economics experts to conduct a financial audit of all British Columbia mines.

No tailings waste management conference post-Mount Polley has considered or focused on the role of solid fundamental mining economics in preventing mines that are likely to become both an environmental and an economic disaster or correcting already permitted mines on a course to disaster.

The authenticity of Rod Webster’s analysis, and the process of authentication it points to as a possible solution is a light on the path around the road block of the small clique who makes a living from the shabby, offthe-shelf, uniformed resource assessments that are the norm in NI 43-101 technical reports.

I thank CIM for the authenticity and timeliness of Mr. Webster’s article and in general for the excellent work trying to map key issues fully and invite collaborative searches for workable answers to mining’s most profound challenges this decade.

Lindsay Newland Bowker, CPCU, ARM Environmental Risk Manager, Bowker Associates

Letters have been edited for length and clarity.

Please send your comments to editor@cim.org.

errata In the story “Get smart” (Nov. 15, p. 30) we incorrectly identified the Canada Mining Innovation Council as the Canadian Mining Innovation Council. In the same story, we stated that Barrick Gold’s changes in comminution practices at three sites resulted in energy savings of 61 kilowatt hours, when they actually resulted in savings of 61 million kilowatt hours.

The project profile “A rubystudded first step” (Nov. 15, p.

48) should have credited the $6 million investment in True North Gems to Leonhard Nilsen & Sønner A/S rather than its Greenland subsidiary. In the same story, we stated that Greenland has a home-rule government, but has in fact been self-governed since 2009. We regret the errors.

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Environmental experiments New university chair works on mine site reclamation in northern Quebec

The Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT) launched a new industrial chair this year exclusively dedicated to mine site reclamation. With $2.5 million in funding over five years, lasting until 2020, coming from the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and industrial partners, the chair’s mandate is to develop efficient reclamation strategies that will limit mining’s environmental impacts. It will take over from UQAT’s previous chair on environment and mine waste management, which existed from 2001 to 2012.

For the Research Institute on Mines and Environment (RIME), which hosts new chair Bruno Bussière, a UQAT professor focused on waste management and mine site reclamation, the abandoned Manitou site is an ideal laboratory.

Of all the abandoned mine sites in Quebec, Manitou is by far the largest and most problematic. On the 200hectare site, 15 kilometres from Vald’Or, the cracked earth resembles a desert, with soil ranging in colour from pure white to dark orange. These tailings, which consist of sulphuric rocks, generate acid mine drainage (AMD) that has released heavy metals into the environment, and more precisely into the nearby Bourlamaque

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Bruno Bussière, UQAT’s new industrial chair, is conducting mine site reclamation work on the abandoned Manitou site near Val-d’Or, QC.

River. Aquatic life has been unable to survive in the river for decades along a three-kilometre segment downstream.

The former zinc and copper mine site, closed in 1979, was taken over by Quebec’s Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources after its last owner went bankrupt in 2003. In 2006, the ministry decided to cover the site with non-sulphuric tailings from Agnico Eagle’s Goldex Mine, some 24 kilometres away. The ministry began reclamation work the same year, with a plan to bury 11 million tonnes of sulphuric

tailings. The previous chair had done research on the site in the hope of finding the best reclamation scenario.

The first step was to dig 10 kilometres of drainage ditches to prevent the watershed from reaching the contaminated tailings.

The original plan was to cover the whole site with a 45 per cent liquid pulp from Goldex so that water from the pulp could drain through the tailings and raise the underlying groundwater level. After a while, groundwater would completely submerge the ManiDecember/Décembre 2015 • January/Janvier 2016 | 17

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tou waste, thus blocking its contact with air and preventing oxidation.

However, the reclamation concept had to be revised after Agnico Eagle closed its Goldex mine in 2011 due to stability and infiltration problems at the mine. After the mine reopened in 2014, the tailings tonnage prediction was reduced. “In the centre of the pond, our calculations showed that we wouldn’t be able to raise the groundwater level enough to submerge the waste,” said Bussière, who has been doing research at Manitou since the 1990s as a graduate student at UQAT and was involved in the 2006 reclamation work. “So we convinced the ministry to change its method.”

Although a final decision has not yet been made, the plan eventually changed to building a cover with capillary barrier effects on the centre of the site. It will consist of three layers of different grain sizes that together are meant to prevent oxygen from reaching Manitou’s sulphuric wastes.

Goldex is providing waste rocks of different grain sizes that will be reused as covering layers.

According to Bussière, reclamation planners should always consider using tailings and waste rocks from operating mines when looking for material.

“Normally, Goldex would have put its tailings where it would have been easier and cheaper to put them,” he said.

“They would have built a brand new tailings pond, while here we would be looking for natural materials, so in addition to reclaiming the Manitou site, we would also have to rehabilitate the places we would have stripped.”

According to Bussière, mines that generate non-sulphuric waste represent invaluable opportunities for reclamation works.

Of the 713 abandoned mine sites in Quebec, 213 were in operation before their abandonment (the rest are exploration sites, or priority sites that have already been reclaimed). The total reclamation cost for all of the mine

The Manitou mine site is by far the largest and most problematic of the abandoned mine sites in Quebec.

sites managed by the province is estimated to be $1.2 billion. The Manitou reclamation project alone has a total budget of $50 million and will go on until Goldex’s planned closure in 2024.

Challenges of revegetation However, RIME does not focus solely on heavily contaminated sulphuric sites such as Manitou or Principal Mine, a 400-hectare mine site near Chibougamau in northern Quebec. It is also looking for efficient ways to revegetate both waste rock and tailings ponds, even ones that do not generate AMD. Mining regulations in Canada require that companies plant vegetation that can regenerate itself following mine closure.

Since 2010, Marie GuittonnyLarchevêque, a professor at RIME, has been reflecting on the best ways to reforest the waste rocks and tailings pond on the Canadian Malartic mine in Malartic, Quebec. The gold mine entered commercial production in 2011 and began progressive reclamation of its site as soon as 2013. The

same year, Guittonny-Larchevêque began a series of experiments on reforestation of the steep slopes on the site.

“We know more or less how to revegetate flat areas,” she said. “On steep slopes though, little research has been done. You need to limit the impacts of erosion. The soil that you put at great cost will slip down slope if you don’t have the right vegetation to fix it.”

One common solution is to plant fast-growing herbaceous species on the slopes, such as clover, trefoil, fescue or rye grass, to lay down a green cover. The problem is that these plants are often hostile to trees. GuittonnyLarchevêque thus decided to try to plant fast-growing poplars instead, hoping that their roots could restore the soil quickly and prevent erosion so that other trees could establish themselves naturally. The poplars are doing fine so far, but a lot of research is still needed before she knows if they can fill reforestation objectives in the long run, she said.

Reclamation science is still young and researchers do not yet have the benefit of hindsight. More time is needed before they know whether these techniques will still be effective in 20, 50 or 100 years. This is why the mining industry has a direct interest in the new chair’s work.

RIME plans to train 20 undergraduate student interns in reclamationrelated disciplines, in addition to hosting 16 master’s students, seven doctoral students and two post-doctoral students, all of whom will have access to mine sites to advance their work.

“Reclamation projects include characterization works and preliminary studies that can take a lot of time,” said Bussière. “Before moving on to the heavy works, we need to make sure that we found a sustainable solution. Having to come back in 20 years to start all over again is not an option.” CIM

To see a video about Bussière and Guittonny-Larchevêque’s work revegetating contaminated sites in the Abitibi region, head to our website at magazine.cim.org.

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Lorena Tere (paddle 21), a chemical engineer-in-training, bids at the Women Who Rock auction with her sister, Konstanca Tere (left of 21), a chemical engineering student from Ryerson. They were sponsored by Pear Tree Securities and won an hour of mentorship with David Garofalo, CEO of Hudbay.

Bidding on the future How valuable is an hour-long conversation with a mining CEO? Twentythree women in the early stages of their career got to name their price as they bid on an hour of mentorship with one of 13 C-level executives during Women Who Rock’s (WWR) second annual Auction for Action at Toronto’s Fairmont Royal York Hotel on Oct. 28.

This year, Carol Banducci, CFO of IAMGOLD; Rob McEwen, CEO of McEwen Mining; and David Garofalo, president and CEO of Hudbay Minerals, were among the 13 mentors.

While the organization actively recruits female mentors – and three participated this year – WWR president and founder Elena Mayer noted that men also have a role to play to increase women’s participation in the industry.

“We do believe that to have a meaningful dialogue, we need to have both male and female leaders,” she said.

“Our industry is still predominantly male, so we need to make sure that our male stakeholders are also a part of this dialogue.”

One of the mentees from last year’s auction, Sandra Meng, said she believed the mentorship would help

her succeed. “As a woman, I feel we are often not proactive enough to seek a mentor. I thank WWR for providing me with the opportunity to gain

insight in the mining industry, and meet and talk to someone as successful as [Kinross president and CEO] Paul Rollinson.” Meng was a student at York University’s Schulich School of Business when she took part in last year’s event. Rollinson was back this year to provide his insight to another young mining professional.

Front and centre among the bidders were six students from across the country who won an essay competition to have their bids for mentors sponsored by companies.

All of the profits from the event were donated to the Native Women’s Association of Canada, chosen because of the economic development support provided by the federal government for indigenous women in mining.

CIM partnered with WWR to support the event and donated copies of the Women of Impact book (published

by CIM), which profiles 18 women who have risen to prominence in the materials, metallurgy and mining – Kate Sheridan fields.

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Vale under investigation for decades of waste seepage in Sudbury Environment Canada and the RCMP collected documents and information from Vale’s Sudbury offices on Oct. 9 as part of an ongoing investigation into an alleged leak from the company’s smelter facility. Accusations listed as part of the search warrant filed in the Ontario Court of Justice include that waste material has been seeping from Vale’s site into local streams for decades and that the company has been aware of the seepage since 1997. “We have reviewed the warrant documents filed with the court by Environment Canada and disagree with the conclusions being drawn,� stated a Vale press release.

A resident of the area around Vale’s Sudbury plant reported a green runoff from the site into a nearby creek in 2012, which spurred Environment

Canada to investigate, according to the warrant. Testing later revealed that the material had high levels of nickel and copper, according to a recent statement issued by the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change.

The provincial ministry stated that in 2012 they required Vale to upgrade their seepage collection system, to redirect all smelting waste to a water treatment plant prior to discharging them. “The ministry continues to oversee operations at the site and can confirm that the treatment plant is in full compliance with ministry standards,� wrote environment ministry media relations officer Lindsay Davidson in a statement to CIM Magazine. “Vale acted swiftly to address the issue raised in 2012 when the matter came to our attention and at no time was the community at risk as the water had no connection to any of the City’s drinking water sources,� Vale’s statement said.

While copper and nickel can be normally found in the environment, high levels can have a negative impact on plants and animals, said Environment Canada spokesperson Natalie Huneault. “For example, excess copper and nickel concentrations in water or soil have been shown to inhibit growth of plants and algae, to decrease the life span of organisms such as crustaceans, and to affect the development of fish and amphibians at early life-stages.�

Because the investigation is ongoing, Environment Canada refused to confirm if the department verified what Vale did in 2012 to fix the leak, or what the department’s next step would be to confirm the issue was per– K. Sheridan manently fixed.

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news and First Nations, speeding up the development of projects on treaty-affected land, according to a study by the C.D. Howe Institute published in October.

The report, entitled The Effect of First Nations Modern Treaties on Local Income, reveals that these treaties have increased the real income in First Nations communities by 17 per cent, and incomes for extractive sector workers have risen by 40 per cent. Real income refers to income after adjusting for changes in cost of living.

“By clarifying property rights, treaties reduce the transaction costs for extractive industries, such as mining, and facilitate their development,” wrote Fernando M. Aragón, author of the report. “Such clarification paves the way for more mining projects that may increase demand for local workers.”

The study examined 15 modern treaties implemented by 27 bands in British Columbia, Northwest Territories and Yukon since 1990.

According to the study, bands with a modern treaty are more likely to hold a mining contract. In 2012, the average number of mining contracts held by a treaty band was one, while non-treaty bands had just 0.2. It also claims that although the overall number of First Nations mining agreements has increased since the mid-1990s, the number has risen much faster among treaty bands.

The Nisga’a Lisims Nation of northern British Columbia, included in the

study, has not conducted a formal analysis on the treaty’s economic impact. However, its spokesperson and president H. Mitchell Stevens confirmed that the nation’s relationship with the mining sector has drastically improved since implementing the Nisga’a Final Agreement in 2000.

“Our treaty has an environmental chapter which sets out legal requirements in addition to federal and provincial legislation which has ensured that we can agree to projects

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Noront Resources announced on Nov. 3 it has begun a new exploration program in Northern Ontario’s Ring of Fire region. The program will begin with geophysical work on targets within three kilometres of the company’s Eagle’s Nest project. The Eagle’s Nest nickel-copper-platinum group element deposit, currently in the permitting phase, has over 11 million tonnes of Proven and Probable Reserves, with an average nickel grade of 1.68 per cent.

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while protecting our human and marine water habitats,” Stevens said.

He noted that the Nisga’a Final Agreement has enabled the successful negotiation of contracts with Avanti Mining, Seabridge Gold and Pretium Resources, whose operations will collectively cover 26,000 square kilome– Katelyn Spidle tres of Nisga’a land.

University of Toronto students place first at mining competition Imagine a junior miner’s project has caught the eye of an executive at a major mining company, but developing the site would require a dam as well as the diversion of a river. Should the company buy the site? Should the river be diverted to develop the site?

What is the best solution?

This challenge was tackled by 13 teams of four students at the World

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Matthew Hart, Daryl Li, Seung Young Baek, and Peter Miszkiel (left to right) pose with their award from the World Mining Competition.

Mining Competition’s fourth annual undergraduate case competition in Saskatoon on Nov. 1. The winning

team from the University of Toronto’s Lassonde Institute of Mining – which included Peter Miszkiel, Daryl Li,

news Matthew Hart and Seung Young Baek – won gold by rejecting the deal and choosing to do nothing.

“We took into account a lot of scenarios that we’ve seen in the current mining atmosphere with projects that involve water, as well as the environmental and social impacts,” said Li. “That was the big driver for us, to come up with our decision, the [corporate social responsibility] issues, as well as the social license to operate.”

Teams from the University of Waterloo and Queen’s University came in second and third place, respectively.

The competition is Canada’s first undergraduate mining case competition. The name of the event changed this year, from the National Mining Competition to the World Mining Competition, to acknowledge four participating international teams from the Freiberg University of Mining and Technology in Germany, the University

of Exeter in England, and the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.

A panel of seven executives, including some from K+S Potash and Cameco, judged the teams’ submissions.

The convergence of social, economic and technical concerns is what makes the competition special, said Ben Copeland, the chair of the competition and a student at the University of Saskatchewan, which hosted the event.

MOVIN’ on up Compiled by Kate Sheridan

Peter Whitcutt was named Anglo American’s new CEO of marketing business, the company announced on Nov. 12. Whitcutt had been the group director of strategy, business development and marketing since 2013. The move is part of a larger C-suite shuffle after Paulo Castellari, the CEO of the company’s Brazilian iron ore properties, decided to leave the company.

Teck Resources announced on Oct. 20 that Lawrence Watkins would step into the role of vice-president of health and safety. Watkins has been the company’s director of health and safety since 2014, and previously worked with BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto in a similar capacity.

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The company operates a fleet of 69 driverless Komatsu trucks across three operations. The Nammuldi and Yandi-

coogina mines, both in Western Australia’s Pilbara belt, are now the first two in the world to use only driverless trucks. Hope Downs 4, also in the Pilbara, has a mix of driver-operated and

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“It’s the only competition that I know of that brings together the engineering and the business side of the mining industry.”

Success at case competition is helpful for the visibility of the students’ programs, said Brent Sleep, head of the Lassonde Institute. It will also be a valuable credential for the students themselves, showing that “not only do they have the skills needed to participate but they have the skills needed to come first,” he said. “That’s a good thing to put on a – K. Sheridan resume.”

Two Australian mines move to all-driverless truck fleet Over 20 million tonnes of material at Rio Tinto’s Australian iron ore mines are being moved by trucks every month – but at two mines, there has

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news driverless trucks. The company has 15 mines in the Pilbara region, where much of the workforce is fly-in, fly-out.

The initiative is part of the company’s Mine of the Future program, said James Petty, the general manager of mine fleet management and technology at Rio Tinto’s iron ore division. The trucks are managed from an operations centre in Perth, about 1,500 kilometres away.

The trucks have been online since pilot projects began in December 2008. Since then, productivity has increased by 12 per cent, while load and haul operating costs have decreased by about 13 per cent, according to Rio Tinto. Over the next three years, the company has reported it expects to save US$200 million a year by phasing in other automated

equipment as part of its Mine of the Future program, including unmanned drills and trains.

The company is the largest owner and operator of autonomous haulage systems in the world, Petty said, but there are still plans for additional growth. The trucks will arrive at additional sites in the Pilbara belt in the – K. Sheridan coming years.

Powering up Renewable and alternative energies are playing a larger part in miners’ energy mix

Renewable energy technologies are playing a bigger role on mine sites around the world than they were two years ago, but there are still roadblocks to wide-scale adoption, attendees of the third annual Energy and Mines summit in Toronto heard in late October.

“Mining is changing its energy mix, and renewables are playing a lead role in that change,” said Adrienne Baker, the organization’s director, in her opening in remarks at the event, which attracted 200 representatives from the mining and renewable energy sectors.

The summit showcased successful renewable projects in mining that illustrate how the technologies can be integrated into an energy plan to solve challenges in energy availability, reliability and costs.

Participants at the event, however, noted that despite the benefits of renewable energy, many in the mining industry are still reluctant to embrace it. In fact, keynote speaker John Dorward, president, CEO and director of Roxgold, began his presentation with a confession. “I am a miner and I’ve been slow to adopt the new energy paradigm,” he said. That is changing though; his company is now considering a hybrid diesel/solar backup system for its Yaramoko gold project in Burkina Faso, which is currently under construction, to mitigate the cost of diesel

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Liezl van Wyk, Diavik’s manager of mine technical services, says barriers to adoption of renewable and alternative energies are often self-created.

and take advantage of the powerful solar resource in the region.

The importance of choosing the best renewable technology that solves a mining operation’s energy challenges while using the most abundant natural resource found in its geographical location was a key theme at the event. For example, although solar is a natural choice at Yaramoko, for Western Copper and Gold’s Casino project in central Yukon, which is off-grid in a territory that is dark for half of the year, solar power makes no sense, said

Paul West-Sells, the company’s president and COO, in the keynote panel discussion on mining’s new energy strategy.

On the other hand, energy in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG) transported from nearby Fort Nelson, British Columbia, on tanker trucks represented a far more cost-effective and low-emissions alternative to diesel for the Casino site, where 40 per cent of operating costs are electricity. The LNG will be stored onsite in a 10,000cubic-metre site-fabricated storage December/Décembre 2015 • January/Janvier 2016 | 25

tank to supply the 150 megawatt (MW) power plant. The company estimates the $260-million plant will be able to produce power at 9.5 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) for Casino, which has an estimated 23-year mine life. By contrast, Yukon Energy’s cost for diesel power is 30 cents per kWh and even its hydro/wind power costs 14 cents per kWh. To reduce transportation costs, Casino’s truck fleet, including the tanker trucks delivering the fuel, will run on LNG. “Also from a social-license-to-operate-in-thenorth perspective, building a 150-MW diesel generation system was not something that was going to fly,” WestSells said.

Others agreed with West-Sells that alternative energy can represent an influential tool to gain social licence in off-grid communities. “Access to reliable and affordable electricity is a fundamental block for economic

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development and improvements in living standards,” said Dorward.

The recent downturn in oil prices has created a new hurdle for renewables. With oil prices in the $45-a-barrel range, mining operations are finally enjoying some relief in energy costs, but that has reduced the perception among miners that renewables can lower their energy bill.

Speakers and panelists at the event agreed that renewables can still represent significant costs savings, even with today’s low oil prices. Among these was Liezl van Wyk, who gave a presentation at the first Energy and Mines Toronto Summit in 2013 on Rio Tinto’s Diavik Diamond Mine wind project in the Northwest Territories, which she masterminded. This year she returned to provide an update on the three-yearold project.

On all counts, Diavik’s four 2.3-MW turbine farm, which cost $31 million

and was installed to mitigate the mine’s diesel costs, is surpassing expectations.

The project has saved Diavik $17.6 million in diesel fuel over three years, with a return on investment, despite current oil prices, expected in less than seven years. The success has been in part due to the mine optimizing the wind farm operations, including blade angle management and understanding how the turbines respond to different wind directions.

The greatest barrier to integrating renewables into mining operations, van Wyk said, is mostly “psychology” and the lack of champions within a company who can identify the opportunities and propel the project through to completion. “You need to know if you have these hound dogs in your business who will chase these things and break down the barriers,” she said, “because a lot of the barriers are actually self-created.” CIM

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The dam failure at Samarco’s mine in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais spread muddy tailings water through 11 communities.

Eleven dead after catastrophic Brazilian tailings dam failure The numbers used to describe the tailings dam failure at Samarco Mineração’s Germano iron ore mine on Nov. 5

make it clear that there will be social, environmental and financial ramifications. At least 11 people were killed and 600 residents were displaced after 62 million cubic metres of tailings spread over 440 kilometres downstream through 11 local communities, reaching the Brazilian coast by late

November. By comparison, the Mount Polley tailings dam breach released 17 million cubic metres of water and 8 million cubic metres of tailings.

Less clear are the scale of the impacts and the next steps for the Brazilian government, Samarco and its parent companies, Vale and BHP Billiton.

The tailings dam complex in question was a three-tiered system. One dam completely failed and another was “affected,” according to a BHP Billiton press release a few days after the event.

The companies have monitored the third dam since the incident.

In the days following the failure, the Brazilian government revoked Samarco’s mining license and ordered the company to provide helicopters to aid rescue efforts and search for people still in the area. The government also announced Samarco would have to pay BRL$250 million (about CAD$88 million) in fines for the environmental

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impact. The company will also put BRL$1 billion (about CAD$350 million) into an emergency fund, to be used for compensation, solutions for the failure and potential future issues, or other expenses. BRL$500 million must be deposited by Nov. 26. Vale and BHP Billiton vowed to help Samarco create an emergency fund for

affected families, communities and infrastructure.

A plan to deal with the environmental impact of the incident is also being developed. According to BHP Billiton, the tailings are inert, but the suspended solids from the tailings have flowed into the Rio Doce and made water supplies for drinking and indus-

try unusable. BHP Billiton president and CEO Andrew Mackenzie told analysts and investors the company did not yet know how long it would be before the water improved.

“We are deeply sorry, so sorry, to everyone who has and will suffer from this terrible tragedy,” Mackenzie said at a press conference in Brazil. “We are 100 per cent committed to do everything we can do to support Samarco – K. Sheridan and make this right.”

FinnMin adopts MAC’s Towards Sustainable Mining initiative The Finnish Mining Association (FinnMin) adopted the Mining Association of Canada’s Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) initiative on Nov. 3. The program was embraced following a national dialogue, led by FinnMin, about how to encourage social acceptance of Finland’s mining sector.

Markus Ekberg, the chair of FinnMin, said the organization chose to implement TSM because it had “proven its effectiveness” in Canada.

“We believe it will be a useful tool for Finnish mining companies when the companies develop their sustainability reporting in the future,” he said.

Created in 2004, TSM outlines six protocols – each with a set of indicators – that provide a framework for mining companies to measure the performance of their facility-level management systems. Canadian mining companies are required to publicly report their results in the annual TSM Progress Reports to retain their memberships with MAC. Every three years, participating companies are audited by third-party verifiers to determine if the self-reported performance ratings are accurate.

Since TSM was developed within the Canadian context, Ben Chalmers, who leads the program for MAC, noted that Finland will need to adapt the initiative to fit its unique needs. So far, Finland has developed a water management protocol and a mine closure protocol – two things that are missing from TSM. 28 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 10, No. 8

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Late changes undermine Peel Watershed plan The Yukon Court of Appeal ordered the territory’s government to redo some of the consultation process for the Peel Watershed land use plan. The court upheld a December 2014 Yukon Supreme Court ruling because “Yukon failed to honour the letter and spirit of its treaty obligations,” according to the appeal court’s decision published on Nov. 4.

The Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal agreed with the plaintiffs in the original lawsuit, first launched in January 2014. The Yukon chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society, the Yukon Conservation Society, and the Na-Cho Nyäk Dun,

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“I think what we will see as this develops over time is that it will evolve in each country, but we will each be able to benefit from the other’s successes and progress,” Chalmers said.

Chalmers also confirmed that Norway, Sweden and Denmark have also shown interest in adopting TSM, having recently engaged in discussion with MAC. According to the association, Botswana also unofficially follows its – K. Spidle guidelines.

The Peel Watershed and the rivers within it, like the Hart River (pictured) are the subject of a court battle between the Yukon territorial government and environmental and First Nations groups who want to protect more of the watershed from development.

Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in and Vuntut Gwitchin First Nations argued the territorial government had deprived First Nations of effectively exercising their role in land use planning. Agreements with the territory entitled the First Nations to consult on land use planning processes through an independent planning commission.

There are about 9,000 mineral claims in the Peel Watershed region.

The territorial government estimated that $47 million has been spent on exploration since 2002.

The Yukon Geological Survey estimated that companies spent $700 to

ACHIEVEMENTS Compiled by Kate Sheridan

Hatch received four awards at the 2015 Canadian Consulting Engineering Awards, held on Oct. 23. The firm received the Tree of Life award and an Award of Excellence for its work at AltaGas’ Forrest Kerr 195-MW hydroelectric plant. Two additional awards were presented jointly to the firm and its coventure with Mott MacDonald, Hatch Mott MacDonald, for their outreach program. Their Northern Communities Outreach program works with young people who want to work in science and engineering disciplines.

Mediacorp Canada named Agrium, Cameco, Goldcorp and the Mosaic Company among Canada’s top 100 employers for 2016 on Nov. 2. Educational initiatives played a role in all of the company selections, including Agrium’s tuition subsidies, the Mosaic Company and Cameco’s in-house and online training programs, and Goldcorp’s development program for graduates. The top employers are selected based on eight key areas, including the physical workplace, community involvement and family benefits.

CIM’s Newfoundland Branch named Stantec the service provider of the year on Nov. 18, based on the engineering firm’s work on Vale’s Voisey’s Bay Mine development and Long Harbour hydromet facility, as well as their partnerships with aboriginal companies.

$750 million on exploration and $500 million on development in Yukon as a whole from 2010 to 2014.

During the final stages of the planning process, the government reduced the amount set aside for conservation to about 30 per cent, down from 80 per cent, which the appellate court declared were “new and substantive modifications that were neither consulted on nor put to the [independent Peel Watershed Regional Planning] Commission for consideration.”

Now, everything completed after February 2011, including some consultations, will have to be redone.

“The Yukon government will review the court’s decision and consider the implications of today’s judgement. The government’s initial assessment is that we are satisfied with the court’s direction to go back to an earlier stage in the planning process,” the government stated in a press release.

Some of the plaintiffs expressed their concern that the ruling would not translate into more protected space, instead allowing the government to repeat the consultation process with its preferred plan. “The Appeal Court’s ruling supports our constitutional rights under the UFA, but does little to ensure the Yukon Government respectfully listens to what we have to say,” said First Nation of Na-Cho Nyäk Dun Chief Simon Mervyn in a press release. “Our trust has been seriously breached and we had hoped the Court would rule more decisively in our favour.”

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Jurisdiction review A look at legislation changes around the world

Chris Schwarz, Government of Alberta

By Eavan Moore

Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced a climate change plan on Nov. 22, which includes an annual carbon emissions cap of 100 megatonnes on oil sands operations.

The year 2015 brought new standards for mining jurisdictions around the globe. Transparency, taxation and social contributions featured prominently in the new rules put forward, especially in Africa. At the same time, encouraging mining activity remained a top priority for governments. Here is a look at the tenor of legislative changes this year.

Passed In Burkina Faso, a new mining code required by the World Bank and demanded by the public improved oversight of the industry while increasing its contributions to state coffers and local communities. The new code, passed in June, removes a 10 per cent tax break, bringing mining companies up to the fixed corporate tax rate of 27.5 per cent. It also requires companies to contribute one per cent of revenue to a local development fund, in response to a campaign mounted by 30 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 10, No. 8

local and global NGOs. “We don’t view the new code unfavourably, with the exception that the corporate tax has increased,” said Doug Reddy, executive vice-president of business development at Endeavour Mining. “But we always found [Burkina’s mining tax rate] to be the anomaly in the region.”

In Canada, the Extractive Sector Transparency Measures Act took effect in June. It requires mining, oil and gas companies with a Canadian presence to report payments to governments of more than $100,000. The act is part of an international effort to combat corruption, and follows the recommendations of a working group that included MAC, PDAC, and Publish What You Pay. Morocco passed a new mining code in August that expands the list of mineable minerals, allows exploration rights over larger areas and requires mining licenses to go to demonstrably qualified businesses, to ensure sites are

developed. “The new mining code has aimed to remove a series of obstacles” to mining investment, according to Casablanca attorney Abdelatif Laamrani who said the code would give his mining clients confidence and enlarge investment in the mining sector.

As of February 2015, Turkey is charging more for exploration and operating licenses to discourage speculation. Another modification scales the royalty rate to commodity price; royalties can be between two and 16 per cent depending on the current price of the commodity mined.

Mining license holders in Uganda are no longer required to pay valueadded tax (VAT) on invoices from contractors. Uganda also reduced withholding tax on payments to nonresident contractors to 10 per cent, down from 15 per cent. “In our view, these recent changes are a very positive gesture from the government to improve the tax environment in the

extractive industries sector,” said Nicholas Kabonge, a PricewaterhouseCoopers tax consultant. “VAT in particular was a significant cost in the sector and it took a significant effort of lobbying from the sector to have these changes effected.”

Proposed Alberta moved to rebalance the costs and benefits of its energy industries. A climate change plan released in late November includes a carbon tax on all emitters and an annual carbon emissions cap of 100 megatonnes on oil sands operations. A separate 10megatonne cap applies to any new upgrading and cogeneration facilities.

Coal-fired power plants will be phased out in favour of renewable sources.

Meanwhile, an oil and gas royalty review panel will produce a report by the end of 2015 that could result in changes to any royalties paid from 2017.

Australia is expected to pass a bill before the end of the year intended to close a major tax loophole, after a senate investigation revealed multinationals, including BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, had shielded revenue generated in Australia from taxation.

The government of Senegal submitted a draft mining code to Parliament with the goal of passing it in 2015. An analysis by law firm DLA Piper suggested the revised code keeps Senegal investor-friendly while raising permitting fees and taxes, adding stronger social and environmental obligations, and setting deadlines for permitted mines to start operation, with fines imposed for not meeting them.

Up in the air British Columbia formed a mining code review committee to determine ways to implement seven recommendations made by the Mount Polley independent review panel. Regulatory

changes will be announced in 2016.

Karina Briño, president and CEO of the Mining Association of British Columbia, said she expected mandatory independent tailings review boards to be one of the new regulations.

Zambia’s mine royalties seesawed in 2015. In January its six per cent royalties were raised to 20 per cent for open pit mines and eight per cent for underground mines. In April, the government retreated to a uniform nine per cent, citing poor copper prices and consultations with the mining industry.

Zambia’s Chamber of Mines continues to call for a six per cent ceiling, in light of the “grave, if not perilous” state of Zambia’s mining sector.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo submitted mining code changes to Parliament in March. The draft code raises the profit tax to 35 per cent from 30 per cent. It also raises royalties on copper and cobalt, pre-

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cious metals and gems between one and two per cent each.

The country’s Chamber of Mines opposed the draft. Advocacy group Global Witness also criticized it for insufficient transparency rules and for removing conflict-of-interest provisions preventing politicians and army officials from owning mining rights. “The matter has been idle for a while,” said Hubert André-Dumont, a partner at McGuireWoods LLP who specializes in Congolese mining law. He suggested global metal prices and Zambia’s fluctuating royalties were possible culprits for the stalled progress, but added that there are signs the government is prepared to lower its tax hikes.

Soon after the departure of Guatemala’s president in September, the Supreme Court overturned a royalty hike passed in December 2014 that had raised royalties to 10 per cent from their previous one per cent. Ira Gostin, vice-president of investor relations at Tahoe Resources, said: “We still don’t know exactly how this will affect us but we are optimistic and hopeful that the new government will work on a new mining law with a more progressive royalty structure.”

Vietnam decreed foreign gold miners could deduct production costs before applying royalties of 15 per cent. But Vietnam is also considering higher mineral royalties as a way to balance the revenue lost from the lowered tariffs required to enter recent trade pacts like an EU free trade agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to Oliver Massmann, general director of Duane Morris Vietnam LLC. CIM

Asteroids like 243 Ida, pictured here, could be sites for American miners’ future exploration projects because of a new law.

Space: the final jurisdiction. These are the ambitions of the United States Congress, which voted in 2015 to allow U.S. citizens and corporations to keep any non-living “space resources” they acquire while operating under international law. It is still unclear exactly how the Space Act of 2015 jibes with the UN’s 1967 Outer Space Treaty, which doesn’t prohibit mining but does put celestial bodies off-limits to national appropriation. But if hopeful space miners can really claim U.S. property rights, the asteroids won’t know what hit them.

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Close the gaps on duty of care for your road warriors

BY BRIAN ROBERTSON

ravel budgets have not escaped the scrutiny of resource companies under pressure to cut overhead costs. And while activity across the board may have slowed up to a point, there will always be a need to send staff offsite. Inhouse procurement specialists are trained to look for the best possible travel options for the lowest possible cost, but management should emphasize that this should not come at the expense of duty of care.

Duty of care is embedded in Canadian law. According to Bill C-45, legislation that amended the Canadian Criminal Code in March 2004, “Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task.”

As it relates to travel, this bill could cover a broad sweep of incidents, as employees abroad may face a higher level of risk, whether referring to inherent foreseeable dangers in the destination or through intentional actions of a third party. It may also cover a range of incidents from local criminality to full-blown crisis situations.

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employee, while nearly a third have no idea how long it would take. This is a particularly alarming statistic as the first few hours are critical in an evolving crisis.

Take the situation in Kurdistan earlier this year as an example. When violence erupted in the region after a terrorist group moved into the territory, mining companies and their travel partners had to quickly implement evacuation for their staff. We at Vision Travel Solutions had chartered planes on standby ready to take clients to the nearest safe location at the drop of a hat. Imagine not having the ability reach staff within the crucial early stages of this development – it could mean the difference between safely transporting your staff away from harm and having your staff shut in after government officials close their borders.

Mobile technology can be an efficient tool in keeping communication lines open. Some solutions offer a direct line to contact travelling employees, or can track the locations of all remote staff. The ability to provide travellers with up-todate alerts on their flight and booking status, as well as any security warnings in their destination, from inclement weather to criminal activity, is also valuable.

Cut costs, pay the price

Safety training

On paper, it may appear that allowing staff to find deals and organize business travel directly through online booking channels translates into commercial savings. Doing so, however, puts companies and their travelling employees at risk. In the event of a critical incident, these companies will have no organized recourse to locate staff and implement safety and security mechanisms to guarantee their protection.

It is essential that employees are aware of this. If a company has a travel management supplier but employees choose to arrange travel plans themselves through an external provider, they are most likely not protected by the duty of care travel measures set in place by the company, such as an evacuation plan in case of emergency. Often these measures are entwined with the centralized travel arrangements coordinated through the travel manager.

While their intentions may be noble – staff may think they are saving their department some money by finding a cheaper fare deal online – when considering the wider implications of this deal, the risks far outweigh the outright savings.

Risk assessment should be a shared responsibility, and the traveller must be an active party in the implementation of duty of care. A full understanding of the ground situation and potential risks of his or her destination means the traveller is better prepared for any untoward incidents. Often, travellers take a laissez-faire approach to duty of care because they consider it the responsibility of the company travel manager or security officer. In reality, travellers themselves are the ones who will need to respond to the situation and follow the correct safety protocols.

Providing staff with hands-on training on how to identify and manage safety issues specific to their destination is key to their safety. This emphasizes the unpredictable nature of inherent dangers and keeps them alert and prepared for any situation. It also shows you care.

Duty of care, as a function of travel, may represent a small upfront cost but the potential for enormous savings in the long run makes it well worth the cost. CIM

Communication is key The Global Business Travel Association recently reported that in the event of a crisis, a majority of companies (67 per cent) will take more than an hour to locate a travelling

Brian Robertson is COO of Vision Travel Solutions, the largest travel management company in Canada. Its duty of care solution, Vision Assure, allows companies to manage all remote staff and pinpoint their location at any given time. It comes with a mobile app that provides up-to-date travel information and security alerts, as well as the ability to implement an electronic security fence, which alerts the employer, or a local security agency, if the travelling employee ventures outside of a designated safe zone. www.visiontravel.ca

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Tunnel vision Barrick Gold gets strong results from a forwardlooking surveying method

Peck Tech’s uGPS Rapid Mapper is mounted on a vehicle and emits infrared beams upward and outward as it is driven through mine tunnels, collecting data it will use to create a 3D point-cloud model.

Courtesy of Peck Tech Consulting

By Eavan Moore

arrick Gold surveyors have been using mobile mapping technology to quickly produce detailed images of the underground workings at the Turquoise Ridge mine in Nevada for the past year and a half. The vehicle-mounted uGPS Rapid Mapper uses the same infrared beams as stationary LiDAR technology, but is capable of capturing much longer scans in a fraction of the time. Barrick is now working with the commercial vendor, Peck Tech Consulting, to make improvements that would allow integration into the existing surveying system.

“The Rapid Mapper, as it stands today, evolved over the past decade out of a product that was designed to provide high-precision localization for underground or GPS-deprived environments,” said Andrew Chapman, technical manager of mining solutions at Peck Tech. The first commercial product to go on the market focuses on the first step required for underground localization: creating a three-dimensional map.

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registers distances based on the time it takes for these beams to bounce back. The movement of the vehicle is accounted for by proprietary and highly optimized motion estimation algorithms. The Turquoise Ridge surveyors usually drive at about two miles an hour. The slower the pace, the more detail Rapid Mapper can pick up.

When the surveyor stops the vehicle and presses the “End scan” button, the file is automatically saved on the device’s hard drive. At the end of the shift, the surveyor uploads the data onto a USB stick, returns to the office and plugs it into a computer for post-processing. The software Peck Tech provides converts the raw data into a three-dimensional point cloud.

To interpret the point cloud, Turquoise Ridge bought Maptek’s I-Site software. The points are triangulated into apparent solids, then compared to drift designs in Vulcan.

How it helps How it works Turquoise Ridge agreed to test out the technology in mid2014 and has been using it since then. Peck Tech and Barrick – which provided seed funding for the product – had decided early on that a mine should be able to use the technology with its existing infrastructure. The vehicle-mounted device has a wireless hotspot that creates a local area network. A user can open up the browser on any wireless-enabled device and navigate to the user interface, which is hosted onboard the device.

At Turquoise Ridge, surveyors use an old Panasonic Toughbook. The surveying tool itself “weighs about 20 pounds, and we just bolt it to the bumper of our tractor,” said Tim Somers, chief mine surveyor at Turquoise Ridge.

“You drive up to where you want, you open up your laptop or cell phone, you hook up to the Wi-Fi. It looks just like a webpage, basically. And you tell it you want to do a scan, and you start driving.”

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Turquoise Ridge has found a number of uses for the technology, all related to its ability to generate detailed volume measurements from the point cloud. First off, it can validate the results of conventional LiDAR stationary scanning. “The [uGPS] scanner says that overall, we’re usually off about two and a half per cent,” said Somers. “That’s pretty acceptable to most people, but it still shows that it’s a little bit more accurate using [the Rapid Mapper] because it sees every nook and cranny.”

Rapid Mapper takes in more detail because it operates continuously. “If you don’t move [a conventional scanner] a few times, it will have what we call ‘shadows,’” explained Somers.

“If you have a high spot in the drift and you’re back down the drift, it may not see that high spot because there’s a chunk of rock in the way; whereas if you move up, then you see that hole in the back.”

Moving a conventional LiDAR station can be slow. Peck Tech has found the difference can be as great as 10 minutes versus eight hours for certain use cases.

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Accuracy is helpful if the operations team wants to check whether miners are matching their actual drift construction to the design dimensions. It also came in handy when an excavation had to contain eight different fuel tanks. “We scanned the area, and then we actually made 3D images of the tanks and then tried to fit them in, and found out there was no way they were going to fit,” said Somers. “So from that image, we were then able to show the miners what they had to trim off to fix that drift so that all those tanks would fit in there.”

Chapman also pointed out that by scanning the same area repeatedly, surveyors could potentially detect tunnel convergence over time, an important indicator of ground stability for geotechnical engineers.

Challenges While the system is very useful for surveying short distances, it is not yet ready to replace conventional surveying at Turquoise Ridge. Its dead-reckoning position estimation drifts away from its actual location as it travels, at a small but constant rate.

Chapman said that motion estimation was one of the biggest challenges in getting the product ready for commercial use. “We estimate our position based on where we are currently and with a bunch of different sensor information,” he said. “We use the valuable feedback from our users to continuously improve on our algorithms, and in turn, scan accuracy.”

Peck Tech did design a way for Rapid Mapper users to periodically reorient the device. The idea is that the mine installs RFID tags at regular intervals along the tunnels and then scans a nearby point to assign each tag a specific location. Once all that information is in the system, rolling past any RFID tag will help the Rapid Mapper position itself within the mine’s coordinate system. This helps to limit drift while providing a mine map in a local reference frame familiar to mine surveyors.

Like any underground mine, Turquoise Ridge already has a system its surveyors use, based on a network of prisms in the tunnel rib. Each prism’s location is precisely known and has a specific offset effect on the infrared light that hits it, so that when the infrared bounces back, the surveyors can calculate exactly where their surveying instrument is.

As the tunnel advances, it takes 10 to 15 minutes to set each prism-based control point. Installing the RFID tag and scanning it into the Rapid Mapper takes additional time, which dissuaded Barrick from implementing the additional infrastructure. “If we have already set control we do not want to then set a different type of control for the scanner,” said Somers.

Somers said Peck Tech has been very good about coming up with fixes to issues as they arise. The current request under discussion between Turquoise Ridge, Barrick and Peck Tech is: How can the device be better integrated into the mine’s existing survey infrastructure?

involved in working toward the ultimate goal of an underground positioning system – hence the name uGPS – that is small and inexpensive enough to have on any vehicle underground, and that can slide into an operation without further infrastructure.

“The original benefit was for localization, but now there are opportunities for measuring difference,” explained Andrew Scott, senior director of mining information technology at Barrick.

At Turquoise Ridge, Scott and other corporate-level technologists are looking for site acceptance. So far the reaction is positive, but with some reservations.

“We realized when getting this unit that it was the first of its kind in many aspects, so we have been eager to see what comes next from this great product,” commented Mike Myers, one of the mine surveyors at Turquoise Ridge.

Meanwhile, another U.S. mine owned by Stillwater Mining has purchased a Rapid Mapper. Chapman commented that the current economic slump in the mining industry has presented some challenges, despite a base price that is roughly half that of a conventional stationary scanner. And, he added, “as a technology broker as well as a technical consulting company, we’ve seen business grow recently. And I think that’s an indicator of this paradigm shift to focus on technology as a way to increase revenues and decrease costs.” CIM

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A miner’s mobile toolkit Smart apps for smartphones

By Kate Sheridan

iAuditor’s smartphone and tablet app makes audit reporting simple and efficient

rilling and blasting and big “iron” make up the main events in mining, but so much of what keeps an operation running smoothly requires a finer touch. The advent of smartphones, and mining applications along with them, has the potential to increase the efficiency of decision making and problem solving. That comes with a big caveat: when on-site, for safety’s sake, the best place for your phone is in a pocket.

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This app cuts audit reports down to smartphone or tablet size. Management can create templates to be used for reports, and auditors can take their device out into the field, take pictures to show the condition of items and annotate the pictures to point out any issues. Once they are done, the information they have compiled is exported with a click, properly formatted and organized within the app itself.

The app has at least one high-profile client in the mining industry: Goldcorp piloted it at its Red Lake mine in Ontario, though it has not yet been rolled out company-wide.

Although the app might make a safety audit routine much more efficient, Goldcorp senior vice-president of people and safety Paul Farrow said, “the most effective catalyst for change with respect to safety behaviours remains face-to-face interaction and a personal commitment to take responsibility for safety, speak up and continuously look for ways to engineer out risk.”

Target users: Auditors, or those who manage auditors Compatible with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android Price: Free, with some pricing plans available for additional data backup, analytics and exporting options.

Wolfram|Alpha Quick calculations, helpful explanations and even graphs are all basic features of this legendary program’s app. Ask it to “integrate lnx” and it will provide indefinite and definite integrals and a graph. Step-by-step solutions are available for those who have purchased the app. Solutions are also available on a web browser, but the step-by-step explanations are only visible to subscribers.

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But the app goes well beyond a calculator – it is like a search engine on steroids. It offers detailed information on commodities, countries and chemicals by asking simple queries. The app will provide a wealth of information, even if a user searches with a single word.

Target users: Anyone Compatible with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android, Kindle, Windows phones and tables Price: $3.49 (Apple, Microsoft); $3.98 (Amazon); $3.90 (Google Play)

Pocket Blast Guide Orica’s blasting guide provides users with more than just information about the company’s products. It also helps professionals with blasting calculations and provides reference tables on rules of thumb and rock properties, replacing heavy paper manuals and hard-copy handbooks. The app updates automatically when an Internet connection is available so the information available is accurate. Users must register with Orica to get started – 15,000 already have – and James Lawrence, the company’s global customer communications manager, said the users are affiliated with “major mining companies and smaller operations alike.”

Target users: Blasters in any industry using Orica equipment Compatible with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Blackberry, Android Price: Free

ElectriCalc Pro This app puts a professional electrician’s industrial calculator on a smartphone. Calculated Industries’ application, which has been updated to comply with the American 2014 National Electrical Code, can work through nearly a dozen equations, including wire sizes, fuse and breaker sizes, kilowatts per hour and British thermal units. Out of the box, the app is compliant with the past six versions of the NEC. Target users: Electricians working with the American electric codes Compatible with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android Price: $29.99, upgrades to new code years are $9.99 each.

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Resources Queensland The app itself, released by the Queensland government in 2014, is populated with PDFs and webpages with valuable details for prospective or current investors in the Australian state, including the state government’s 30-year plan for the resource sector and industry events. All of the information is organized in a visually appealing layout and structure. The government’s website is also responsive, so pages remain legible even on a phone’s smaller screen. Better still, it downloads the information onto the phone’s hard drive so it can be accessed even without Wi-Fi or data coverage.

Queensland is one of two Australian state governments to push this type of information to investors via a mobile app; South Australia unveiled their app in October 2013. Since the Queensland app was released, it has been installed about 1,000 times.

Target users: Current or prospective investors who like to have key information stored in a well-labelled place.

Compatible with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android Price: Free

be added to a proper directory of contacts. You have been out of the office for three days: do you really have a couple hours to sort them all out?

CamCard makes the task easier. To add information from a business card to a searchable database, take a picture. The app also allows users to exchange e-cards, useful if they have run out of traditional, paper cards. It is more efficient than just organizing cards in a random pile on a desk. Paid plans for businesses allow users to import and export Excel files and send contacts to Outlook, Google or Salesforce.

Who should use it: Businesspeople who want to break free of a stuffed Rolodex.

Compatible with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Blackberry, Android, Windows phones Price: Free; paid version available CIM

Commodities Pro Track commodities prices and put them in context with news articles and analysis with this app. Commodities futures information is also available for products including copper, gold and silver. The unpaid version has limited daily access, with the option to pay for more access.

Target users: Traders, as well as those who produce or use the commodities.

Compatible with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad (including Apple Watch) Price: Free; $49.99 for the Pro

Dyno Nobel’s Explosives Engineers’ App This app is also a blasting calculator at its core. Operators can use it to determine explosives per blasthole and powder factor, and predict ground vibration. The calculations can be done in either imperial or metric units.

It also includes a reminder to check the environment for hazards and guides you through a hazard assessment checklist.

“Safety is such an important part of our industry that we wanted to have that at the front,” said Rick Atkin, Dyno Nobel’s global marketing and commercialization manager.

In addition, there are some fact sheets and videos from Dyno Nobel available on the app. Registration is not required, so it can work right out of the virtual box.

Target users: Blasters or distributors who work with Dyno Nobel products, though Atkin noted the app has attracted some students as well.

Compatible with: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android Price: Free

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We must protect this house!

Stephan Jou of Interset discusses cyber security in mining

Courtesy of Stephan Jou

By Christopher Pollon

s a data scientist and security expert, Stephan Jou, CTO at Ottawa-based cyber-security firm Interset, works to protect companies of all sizes from internal and external cyber attacks seeking to destroy or steal intellectual property, trade secrets and classified files. The first step to protecting your business, he says, is to step back and think about what you cannot afford to lose.

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CIM: Tell me about Interset and what you do there.

Jou: I run the engineering, data science and quality assurance teams. At Interset, it’s basically our job to catch bad guys with math. When you have a large organization, it’s almost like an organism, an ecosystem of machines and users, with users logging into accounts, so there’s a little heart beat signature that happens within that organization. There’s a way in which machines talk to each other, there’s a way accounts interact with applications. That pattern can be learned through statistical models, and that’s important when someone logs in and is masquerading as someone else, and then causing destruction or stealing. This shows up as an aberration in that signature. So we mathematically detect those, and we provide solutions to prevent these attacks.

CIM: What kinds of cyber attacks are Canadian companies seeing in 2015?

Jou: There’s a lot of concern right now over spear phishing and phishing attacks (see sidebar). So for example, someone is logging in as an employee named Christopher, but they are not Christopher. These are hard to deal with, especially when you think of things like firewalls and access control, which do a great job, but if an unauthorized user is running authorized applications and accessing authorized data, then all of those 40 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 10, No. 8

firewall methods don’t help. So there’s a large category of compromised accounts-related abuse cases. By some estimates, over 90 per cent of all attacks at some point will involve a compromised user.

The other common type of attack involves an insider threat, when someone on the inside is responsible for the attack. Disgruntled employees might steal trade secrets, leaking them to a competitor. And as scary as it sounds, it can be government sanctioned. There are nation states, China is unfortunately one of them, that are known to be part of this, and they are stealing intellectual property from competitor companies. Those are the main ones, and they are rising in volume, especially this year.

CIM: Are there certain kinds of attacks that a mining or resource extraction company might be more vulnerable to, or are they roughly the same across the board?

Jou: The types of attacks are pretty much the same. I will say that certain mining companies are more vulnerable than, say,

Terms of the trade Phishing refers to a wide variety of cyber attacks that target a large number of people where a malicious party tricks victims into providing personal information (e.g., login passwords or a credit card number) by impersonating a legitimate company via email.

Spear phishing uses a similar technique and has a similar aim, but is a more sophisticated, personalized attack against specific individuals, such as a corporation’s executives or administrators.

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banks and financial sector companies, because in my experience, these companies are often less mature on the IT security side. Why that is, I’m not sure. Usually a [dedicated job overseeing “Internet security”] is not created unless a company has already suffered a breach, or is aware of the dangers. But a big part of the problem with this is that breaches often go unreported, especially insider threats, because no one wants to publicize that one of their own employees stole from them. So companies often want to be very quiet about that.

CIM: So because of under-reporting, other companies may not know they are at risk?

Jou: Yes. We only hear about the really big breaches, especially if it is discovered by the FBI or RCMP. In certain cases, such as when a cyber attack involves personally identifiable data (e.g., credit card numbers), or a certain amount of financial loss, then the company is required by law to report it. Other than those circumstances, they go unreported.

CIM: Can you cite any recent examples of mining or resource companies being attacked, including the modus operandi of the attackers?

Jou: Yes. It was an engineering firm, one of the largest companies in North America. They had a massive breach over a seven-week period. The attackers were able to get inside the firewall. Once they got in, they spent a lot of time probing the network, seeing what other machines they could connect to.

Once they were connected with as many machines as they could, the attackers would then have access to things like financial records, databases, customer records, employee records, credit card numbers, process documents, whatever they wanted.

They want that time window when the data is actually leaving to be as small as possible, so that the firewall team doesn’t have enough time to see it. To do that they moved all that data onto a single server, and compressed it into a file and uploaded it back to their command centre, where they had a server set up to receive the data. It was very quiet, and the company was unable to discover it in time.

CIM: How does a company prevent this situation?

Jou: It’s so important to be looking for these suspicious anonymous movements inside before it’s too late. To make a house analogy – if someone is breaking in, you can try to catch them when they are entering a door, or when they are leaving in their van. But the best time is when they are in your house moving stuff. The time window associated with breaking in and leaving is very small. Firewalls are looking for suspicious log-ins and looking for stuff leaving the system. But we’ve realized that the best way to detect these guys is when they are spending those 240 days inside your “house.” Because they are spending a lot of time moving data around, running zips using someone else’s account who has never run zips before, collecting gigs of data on a hard drive, and that’s very unusual. Someone logged in under an HR account but suddenly they’re

reading credit card data? That makes no sense, right? In the case of the retail giant Target [which in 2013 sustained a massive cyber theft of millions of customer credit card numbers and personal information], there was a refrigeration vendor whose account was hacked, so [to the company’s eyes] this vendor was retrieving thousands of credit card records from the financial database. This is all stuff that is easy to find, if we look in the right places.

CIM: What is the starting point for a company that recognizes the need to protect itself?

Jou: No matter what the size of the company, there is usually some notion of where the most valuable intellectual property is. Whether it’s process documents related to how your mining is different from somebody else’s, employee records, customer records or financial information. What I usually recommend is to step back and build a list. Where is your most valuable stuff? What is it that absolutely cannot leak to a competitor, or be destroyed, or be stolen? Then you can do a cost-benefit evaluation of how much it will cost to protect that data. The solution could be technology, it could be people or it could be a process. It’s not necessarily all about software. I’ve never met a company, no matter how small, that didn’t have something it wanted to protect. CIM

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Miners continue to run the gauntlet.

The market remains difficult and funding is hard to find, forcing many companies to think laterally and be light on their feet to stay in business.

The political change of guard in Canada raises a number of as-yet unanswered questions for proponents of current and future projects at home and abroad. Today’s miners working diligently to tighten up their operations, however, have a powerful ally available to them. As much saleable material as a mine can produce, it will always generate more data. Those that can distil actionable information from that great stockpile can be expected to keep a step ahead. We explore each of these themes as we look to

THE YEAR AHEAD.

Dealing with the downturn BUNDLE UP AGAINST THE ELEMENTS

As the downturn has continued, several junior and mid-tier companies have opted for friendly mergers as a way to weather the storm. In early

November, Oban Mining announced it would acquire Northern Gold, a junior miner with advanced and prospective projects in northern Ontario. The agreement came three months after Oban acquired Eagle Hill, Ryan Gold and Corona Gold, and closed a private placement agreement with Osisko Gold Royalties.

According to the recently published PwC report Junior Mine 2015: Time for Change, aggregation can offer junior miners many benefits during a down cycle. There are lower administrative costs since aggregated companies only need one head office and management team. They can also share risks and adjust balance sheets, which strengthen the company’s position. Most importantly, aggregation can keep a company’s assets safe and preserve shareholders’ potential.

For John Burzynski, president and CEO of Oban, choosing the right junior companies to consolidate now will position Oban for success in the future.

“We’re looking at development-stage projects, and our intent is to get the development projects in the land positions that we like,” said Burzynski, who started the company five years ago as a side venture to the former Osisko Exploration, which he cofounded in 2003. After Osisko sold to Agnico Eagle in 2014, Burzynski cocreated Osisko Gold Royalties.

Senior companies are trying to fix their broken balance sheets by selling royalties and streams, something that Burzynski said he believes makes right now the perfect time to be starting a mining company. By acquiring assets while everyone is a seller, companies like Oban can ensure progress for years to come.

“We’re well-financed and when the market does turn, we’ll be coming up with the next generation of mines,” he said.

Eric Moeller, president and CEO of Northern Gold, decided to merge because Oban could provide Northern Gold’s shareholders with the opportunity to own Oban shares at a reasonable price and grow their investment.

He said he believes that any time is a good time for a junior company to consider an aggregation strategy, however, for juniors who want to develop a project during the current downturn, aggregation may be their only chance for survival.

Moeller said he thinks it will remain difficult for junior companies to stay afloat even after the market rebounds, as the entire infrastructure for funding mining projects will have to be rebuilt.

“Those companies that are successfully consolidating now will be stronger and better positioned for the future turnaround,” he said.

And it is not just juniors who are turning to aggregation to stay alive. Over the summer, Alamos Gold and AuRico Metals merged to form the new intermediate company Alamos, and First Majestic announced a friendly acquisition of SilverCrest

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TRIM THE FAT

While juniors and mid-tier companies huddle together for warmth, major mining companies are shedding extra weight. Barrick Gold

announced in November that it sold several non-core assets in Nevada for US$720 million in cash. These recent transactions brought the net worth of Barrick’s asset sales, partnerships and joint ventures to US$3.2 billion in 2015, surpassing the company’s debt-reduction goal of US$3 billion.

“The sale of these assets is consistent with our strategy to create long-term value for our shareholders by strengthening the balance sheet and further focusing our portfolio on core mines that will drive free cash flow growth,” said president Kelvin Dushnisky in a press release.

To be able to live with such low metal prices, companies must continue to cover sustaining capital and pay dividends to shareholders.

BARRICK’S 2015 ASSET SALES* This means not only $610 million** reducing debt, but also Bald Mountain mine + Round cutting costs and bolsterMountain mine ing their balance sheets.

(50 per cent) to Kinross Of the other majors, $110 million*** Anglo American has also Ruby Hill + Spring Valley project (70 per cent) to subsidiaries of sold several assets. GlenWaterton Precious Metals Fund II core announced in OctoCayman, LP ber it would sell its $1.005 billion Lomas Bayas and Cobar Zaldívar copper mine to Antofagasta copper mines, and First Quantum pledged to $550 million Cowal mine to Evolution Mining reduce its debt by $1 billion in early 2016 * All values in USD ** Expected completion of deal by mid“through a combination January 2016 of asset sales and other *** Expected completion of deal by end of 2015 strategic initiatives,” according to a press release. And earlier in the year, BHP Billiton spun off its noncore assets into a new company called South32.

According to Patricia Mohr, vice-president of economics and commodity market specialist at Scotiabank, companies who reduce supply in a period of weak demand growth are placing themselves in a better position going forward, but it is going to take a few years before investors really see the benefits.

“Supplies, as we move through the decade, are going to become constrained because of a reduction in mine development,” Mohr said, adding, “tighter physical markets will evenBY KATELYN SPIDLE tually attract investors.”

DOOR OPENS FOR EQUITY CROWDFUNDING

Businesses in five Canadian provinces will soon be able to crowdfund up to $1.5 million a year – all with a fraction of the hassle and expense currently required by prospectus-related disclosure requirements.

Crowdfunding, as defined by the Financial Times, is “a new and emerging way of funding new ideas or projects by borrowing funding from large numbers of people, often accessed through a website.” Artists have used this approach for years to fund their creative projects, but the concept is now being applied in places like the U.K. and Australia to help small- and medium-sized enterprises raise money in increasingly hard times.

On Nov. 5, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), alongside its counterparts in Manitoba, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, announced a prospectus exemption for crowdfunding, to coincide with a new framework to register the dedicated online portals needed to act as gatekeepers for the transactions. The exemption, which goes into effect in January, is open to reporting and non-reporting issuers that are incorporated or organized in Canada. They must have a Canadian head office and a majority of directors must reside in the country.

Although disclosure requirements will be streamlined for crowdfunding, investors still must receive annual financial statements and some additional written materials, in addition to signing a document acknowledging the risks associated with the investment. There will be an investment cap of $2,500 per investment, while accredited investors have a $25,000 cap per investment. In Ontario, no investment limits will be required for individuals with net financial assets exceeding $5 million.

Samad Uddin, the director for capital markets with PDAC, said the announcement is welcome news, with one caveat.

“This is an additional tool that companies can use when looking for alternative ways of financing their projects,” he said. “But it’s also very restrictive in the amount of money you can raise, and the amount investors can invest.”

Uddin, who worked for the OSC before coming to PDAC, said crowdfunding is a good fit for prospectors who need to raise between $50,000 and $100,000 to get out in the field, and generally speaking, companies that seek to raise less than $1.5 million (which is the maximum amount a company can raise annually). This could include the growing number of TSX-V “zombie companies” – ventures so poor they are not exploring at all, but are instead struggling to maintain their listing. (Listing fees alone on the TSX-V can cost as much as $40,000 a year, according to Uddin.) For larger companies, Uddin added that crowdfunding can be used concurrently with other more conventional fundraising efforts.

The new rules will also provide opportunities for the independent online platform providers to operate the registered venues required for crowdsourcing. Uddin said this new niche will likely be filled by so-called “exempt market dealers,” which are already licensed to distribute investment securities without a prospectus to institutional and high-net-worth investors.

Crowdfunding is just one of the ways to tap the global reach of the Internet. More than just finding investors, resource companies are already finding solutions to a wide range of problems through an approach known as crowdsourcing.

In September 2015, Integra Gold launched its online Gold Rush contest in an attempt to pinpoint new gold deposits on two recently acquired properties in Val-d’Or, Quebec. September also saw the launch of a $20-million global competition, cosponsored by NRG Energy and Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA), inviting the public to propose “breakthrough technologies” to convert carbon dioxide emissions from power plants and industrial facilities into marketable new products like building materials and alternative fuels.

BY CHRISTOPHER POLLON

STRATEGY REVIEW

The publicly traded Orbite Technologies has a mining lease, an aluminous clay deposit with an Indicated Mineral Resource of 1.04 billion tonnes in Quebec’s Gaspé region, and an offtake agreement with Glencore for all of the smelter grade alumina produced at the site, but you will not find it listed under the mining banner on the TSX.

Last spring, as the market capitalization of resource comTHE BAIT FOR panies continued to sink, the company opted to drop the THE SWITCH name Orbite Aluminae and its Change in equity capital designation in the mining segraised on TSX and TSX ment for the clean technology Venture from Oct. 2014 sector. to Oct. 2015 Asked in November whether MINING the switch had had an impact on generating investor interest, CLEAN Marc Lakmaaker, the company’s TECH investor relations officer, said it was still too early to tell.

“The name change is more than just playing into the unpopularity of resource assets right now,” explained Lakmaaker. “It is really a reflection of what the company is about. Yes, we still have the Grande-Vallée property, and it is still one of the projects we are going to go after, but it is our third priority.”

At the top of the list is the commercialization of Orbite’s high-purity alumina (HPA) production plant. The proprietary process ticks a number of buzzworthy boxes: the product is in demand from the growing LED lighting sector and other hi-tech specialty products, it has a far better recovery rate than the conventional Bayer process and does not require tailings impoundment. The second priority will be to apply the process to various feedstocks from mine and coal power plant wastes and licence that technology internationally.

The start date of the three-tonne-per-day commercial HPA plant, however, has been pushed back more than once, but the company expects to begin producing before the end of 2015.

BY RYAN BERGEN

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The Election

MEET THE NEW CABINET The new Liberal cabinet was sworn in at Rideau Hall on Nov. 4, and at least one of the ministers will know a thing or two about the mining industry.

MaryAnn Mihychuk, a former member of the Manitoba legislature and the founder of Women in Mining Canada, scored a cabinet seat as Minister of Employment, Workforce Development and Labour. Although Mihychuk’s position may only tangentially affect mining-related policies, these six other new ministers will become familiar names and faces for the industry:

By Kate Sheridan MINISTER OF NATURAL RESOURCES James Gordon “Jim” Carr (Winnipeg South Centre) Previous occupation Businessperson, former head of the Manitoba Business Council Previous political experience MLA in Manitoba’s Legislative Assembly, deputy leader of Manitoba’s Liberal Party (1988-1992)

MINISTER OF INDIGENOUS AND NORTHERN AFFAIRS* Carolyn Bennett (Toronto—St. Paul’s) Previous occupation Physician (family medicine) Previous political experience Critic for Aboriginal Affairs in the previous parliament

PRIORITY ISSUES

MINISTER OF FISHERIES, OCEANS AND THE CANADIAN COAST GUARD Hunter Tootoo (Nunavut) Previous profession Public servant, including assistant director of the Northwest Territories Housing Corporation Previous political experience Former member of Nunavut’s Legislative Assembly for Iqaluit Centre (1999-2013)

MINISTER OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE Chrystia Freeland (University—Rosedale) Previous occupation Author and journalist (Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Thomson Reuters) Previous political experience Critic for International Trade in the last parliament

MINISTER OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE*** Catherine McKenna (Ottawa Centre) Previous profession Lawyer Previous political experience Former trade policy officer for the Government of Canada, legal advisor to UN treaty negotiation peacekeeping mission in East Timor

MINISTER OF INNOVATION, SCIENCE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT** Navdeep Singh Bains (Mississauga—Malton) Previous occupation Certified management accountant, worked with Ford of Canada Previous political experience MP from 2004-2011, critic for Natural Resources, Small Business and Tourism portfolios.

REVIEW PROCESSES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL WORK ON IMPLEMENTING GLOBAL FREE TRADE AGREEMENTS – ISRAEL, CHILE AND UKRAINE SPECIFICALLY – AND CONSULT ON THE TRANS-PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENT INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF PROTECTED MARINE AND COASTAL AREAS TO FIVE PER CENT IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS AND TO 10 PER CENT IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS BOOST CLEAN TECHNOLOGY USE, LIKE RENEWABLE ENERGY, IN MINING AND OTHER NATURAL RESOURCES INDUSTRIES * Name has changed from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development; ** This is one of two portfolios formerly known as the Minister of Industry; *** Name has changed to add Climate Change to the title of the portfolio

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PROMISES, PROMISES The Liberals had 78 days to make promises to Canadians during the campaign. Now it is time to see how many stick. The new federal government has 184 promises to keep, according to a citizen watchdog group, Trudeaumetre – including several that will affect the resource extraction industries.

Many of the pledges made in the final version of the party’s campaign platform, released just prior to the election, were reiterated in the ministerial mandate letters made public in November, which identified the “top priorities” in each minister’s portfolio.

The entire federal environmental assessments process will be “immediately” reviewed to ensure that the oversight of areas under federal jurisdiction, which include fisheries and federal lands, is heightened while avoiding duplication with provincial and territorial processes. The government has also said they will analyze long-term impacts and greenhouse gas emissions as part of the new process.

Specifics are sparse about the changes to come; Natural Resources ministry spokesperson Jacinthe Perras said that modifications to assessments and oversight processes “will require a transition period for new projects, which is currently being worked on.”

That is not the only change coming for projects in the resources sector. According to the mandates received by the ministers of the environment, natural resources, and fisheries and oceans, companies with projects going through environmental assessments will be required “to choose the best technologies available to reduce environmental impacts.”

The government has promised to make cleaner technologies available to the industry, with tax credits and an extra

$200 million invested each year “to support innovation and the use of clean technologies in our natural resource sectors,” including the mining industry – the only time it is explicitly referenced in the campaign platform document.

The commitment is a signal to the industry, according to Céline Bak, senior fellow with the Centre for International Governance Innovation, “and signals are important,” she said. “[Clean technology] is an industry that the government expects will be a part of renewing the economy, of building high-quality long-term jobs,” said Bak. Mining companies could use renewable energy sources or build micro-grid electrical systems for local communities for power on remote sites, options that could be financially and socially responsible for the industry, she said, but the government must encourage companies to try the technology. The new funding could be one step in that direction.

Some things are likely to remain untouched, like the Mineral Exploration Tax Credit. In an interview with the Northern Miner, the Liberals said during the campaign period that they

BY KATE SHERIDAN will continue to support the credit.

NATIONAL ENERGY BOARD, INDIGENOUS CONSULTATION CHANGES IN THE PIPELINE “No relationship is more important to me and to Canada than the one with Indigenous Peoples,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau declared in his ministerial mandate letters, which were released to the public on Nov. 13. It echoed previous commitments made by the party to re-evaluate the way the government works with Indigenous Peoples, which could have wide-ranging impacts.

The Liberal government pledged to review the laws, policies and practices that guide federal environmental assessments, taking into account input from First Nations, Inuit and Métis groups. The review would also assess if the Crown is consulting and accommodating the view and rights of Indigenous Peoples appropriately, in line with various treaties signed with the Canadian government, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.

The Liberals also highlighted the National Energy Board (NEB) as a priority for reform – or, as Trudeau has put it, “modernization.” The Board regulates pipelines as well as oil and gas exploration and production projects. At a campaign stop in June, Trudeau said, “[The Conservative] government has chosen to be a cheerleader instead of a referee on issues like this,” referring to environmental issues surrounding pipelines.

As part of the reforms, the Prime Minister directed Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr to ensure “that [the board’s] composition reflects regional views and has sufficient expertise in fields like environmental science, community development, and Indigenous traditional knowledge.” Indigenous groups would also be more involved in consultations with the NEB. The NEB’s current outreach efforts to Indigenous communities include meeting with local communities to discuss the assessment process and inviting groups to weigh in on specific projects through the Enhanced Aboriginal Engagement program, according to the board’s website. (The website has not been changed since the new government came into power.)

Details of how the NEB will change are not being released just yet. “The Government has indicated that it is committed to renewing its relationship with Indigenous peoples based on trust, respect and cooperation, as well as to ensuring that this commitment is reflected in the environmental assessment and oversight processes for the natural resources sector,” said Jacinthe Perras, a spokesperson for the natural resources minister, who added that the way the changes will be transitioned in for new projects was still being developed.

BY KATE SHERIDAN

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The Cloud

THE MINE ONLINE

How mining can harness the power of the cloud

By Tom DiNardo

A proliferation in asset health sensors, instrumentation and automation means that mining companies are generating huge amounts of data on a daily basis.

This is on top of the data precipitated by more mundane software that manages corporate email or scheduling. The cloud offers miners a way of offloading their data, reducing costs and freeing up valuable resources while maintaining access and security.

A DEFINED CLOUD

The cloud is a term that “loosely refers to any resource or service made accessible by a service provider through the Internet, as opposed to being located in-house,” according to a report recently published by Illumiti, SungardAS and Cisco entitled Cloud ERP for Mining Companies. Rather than install software applications directly onto on-site hardware, cloud-based software is hosted in third-party data centres, which are essentially large facilities that house massive computer systems maintained by cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Compute Engine. Software providers rent space on the cloud and supply clients with on-demand access.

Information generated or collected by the software is stored on the cloud, which has virtually unlimited space.

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The cloud offers many benefits to miners including business continuity in the face of a failure, according to the Illumiti report. Because information is not hosted on an on-site server, it is easier to recover data if business is disrupted. And for Doug Bellin, the global senior manager of manufacturing at Cisco Systems, total cost of ownership is another attractive aspect of the cloud. “You don’t have to worry about how long it takes to spin out a server farm or start a data centre,” he said, which can eat up precious capital and resources. Furthermore, cloud-based services always provide the latest version of the software immediately to clients.

Software as a Service (SaaS) – Software hosted on the cloud, licensed to clients on a subscription basis and available on-demand via the Internet.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – A third-party infrastructure provider (AWS or Google, for example) that hosts hardware, software, servers, storage and other infrastructure components on computer systems in remote data centres.

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GET YOUR HEAD IN THE CLOUD! Since the cloud relies on an Internet connection, many underground or remote mines are not yet capable of taking full advantage of all the cloud has to offer. But that is changing.

Goldcorp’s Éléonore mine in Quebec is equipped with Wi-Fi, thanks to Cisco Systems’ Connected Mining solution. And while miners on the front line may not be able to fully embrace the cloud just yet, those in the front office have already started using it.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) functions – like human resources, finance and project management – are migrating to the cloud. SAP, for example, offers a number of cloud applications for sales, HR, marketing and finance, among others.

Here are the most popular cloud-based ERP functions that mining companies have already adopted, according to Cloud ERP for Mining Companies, which surveyed 35 North American mining executives: 46%

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Strata GeoData Services launched a crowd-consulting initiative in April, dubbed the Hive, in which founder Andy Randell employs teams of young geoscientists to assess earlystage exploration projects. But team members rarely, if ever, meet in person. Work is done remotely and they share information and maps via Google Drive, a free cloud-based storage service that automatically saves changes and can be accessed anywhere in the world on a laptop.

Cisco’s Connected Mining solution is a communications platform that establishes baseline connectivity throughout a mine site. With the platform, miners can receive real-time information on output, equipment, worker location and security. Because the architecture of the system enables the cloud, it can easily accommodate mining applications if and when a company decides to migrate to off-premises servers.

CHALLENGES AND CONCERNS The number one obstacle miners face when it comes to cloud adoption is establishing a baseline connectivity to enable the cloud, according to Bellin. Once connected, communication networks may be shoddy given the remote location of some mines. Other concerns miners have include those surrounding the integration of data from different systems hosted on the cloud, security of their data from cyber-attacks (read more on cybersecurity in our Q&A on page 40) and control over vendor contracts.

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Some industries have been using cloud technology for the past couple of years. But slow uptake in the mining industry does not put a limit on its future capabilities, according to Bellin. “We are just starting to see new ways of interacting with the data,” he said. Providers of fleet management systems, for instance, are looking into leveraging the cloud to offload the enormous amount of information being processed by local servers on a daily basis. Modular Mining Systems is planning to soon release MineCare 3, a cloud-based SaaS maintenance management offering. And beyond that, Bellin said, “the sky’s the limit.”

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The Drakelands mine is 11 kilometres northeast of Plymouth in southwest England.

The cream of Devon county

All photos courtesy of Wolf Minerals

Negotiations were not always easy for Jeff Harrison when, five years ago, he went knocking on doors near the village of Hemerdon, United Kingdom, to convince people to sell their homes. His pitch: with their cooperation, the region would see some 220 new jobs, injecting badly needed cash into the local economy. All that hinged on the startup of the Drakelands tungsten mine, which had been in the works in some form or another since 1867.

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ltimately, the 15 owners accepted the offer. “Some of them still come back and visit the site to see where their houses used to be and see how the mine developed,” said Harrison, the U.K. operations manager for Wolf Minerals, whose Drakelands project is now ramping up the first new metal mine in the United Kingdom in 45 years.

The operation, which is scheduled to produce up to 5,000 tonnes of tungsten concentrate and 1,000 tonnes of tin concentrate a year, is a boon for the economy of Devon county as well as neighbouring Cornwall, where mining has traditionally been a major source of income. “There’s a lot of people in

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the local area who, if they haven’t been involved personally in mining, their dads were or their granddads were, so there is that family tradition,” Harrison said. “Fundamentally all I’ve seen in my lifetime is the closure of the tin industry, the demise of the coal industry and the demise of the china clay industry. There’s been nothing new, nothing positive.”

Harrison has had a very personal investment in the project, and mining in the Southwest in general. “I’ve been down here since 1983, my children were born down here,” he said, recalling the 20 years he spent at a nearby china clay mine, where he was area manager, but where operations have since

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been scaled down. He left for Australia in 2005 to work for neers all around the world. There’s only the Camborne School QMAG in Queensland, but returned to Devon in 2010. “I of Mines left now.” didn’t have a job, and it’s 12 miles from my back yard, so they The Camborne School couldn’t have written the script better for me.”

At last count, there were 14 graduates of the Camborne But reviving the United Kingdom’s metal mining industry is a big job for one man. When he joined the company five School of Mines, which is near Falmouth, just over 100 kiloyears ago, Drakelands was far from being a certain success. metres away, working on the Drakelands project. “It’s because “When I got involved with Wolf, there were three guys in we’re the best,” joked James McFarlane, a graduate of the Australia and me here in the U.K. and that was it,” Harrison school and a senior mine geologist at Wolf Minerals. Since he recalled. “Back in 2010, some people thought we were crazy began working for the company earlier this year, he has been and hardly anyone thought it was really going to happen.” trying to package all of the geological data that has been collected over the history of the mine. “In The next year, however, the company order to know where you’re going, released a positive feasibility study at a you’ve got to know where you’ve been, time when the price of tungsten was so I’ve built up quite an appreciation of about US$45,000 per tonne and the the work that’s been done previously,” project gathered momentum. he added.

As the project ramps up to capacity Some maps, notes and diagrams in early 2016, almost every day can date back to the First World War, but, feel like a major milestone in British said McFarlane, “the majority of informining history. The day I visited in late October, Orica was performing – J. Harrison, mation comes from the work conthe first trial blast, albeit a small one.

U.K. operations manager for Wolf Minerals ducted from the late 1970s through to the mid-1980s. This work was con“It’s more a few pops creating shockducted to a high standard but was in waves which we can measure, and paper format.”

Beyond digitizing the information, they have then you can start to model and design the future blasts,” said standardized it to create a more robust database for the proHarrison, adding that blasting will become necessary as the duction phase. open pit gets deeper and the rock harder. Optimizing the Part of the work that contributes significantly to McFarblasts will help avoid unnecessary noise, dust and vibration lane’ s understanding is that of the Camborne School’s Robin that could disturb neighbours.

Shail, whose research is focused on the geology of the southFor Harrison and his crew, getting it right is very imporwest of England. Shail’s graduate students often undertake tant. “As a British mining engineer, one also wants to do the projects specifically examining the geology around the Drakeright thing for the British mining industry,” he said. “When I lands deposit, where the granite that houses valuable veins of went to university back in the 1970s, I think there were eight or nine mining colleges and we used to send mining engi- wolframite has been pushed up into the surrounding Devon-

“It’s 12 miles from my back yard, so they couldn’t have written the script better for me.”

PROJECT SPECS

AVERAGE EMPLOYEE AGE: 37

PRODUCTION: 5,000 tonnes/year tungsten concentrate 1,000 tonnes/year tin concentrate Current mine life: 10 years (expected to be increased)

EQUIPMENT: Two 100-ton Komatsu HD785 trucks One Komatsu PC1250 SP shovel Bell B40D and B50D articulated dump trucks

RESOURCE: 58.6 million tonnes Measured and Indicated Resource at 0.17% WO3 and 0.02% Sn

MOBILE EQUIPMENT CONTRACTOR: Blackwell LABORATORY CONTRACTOR: SGS

OPEN PIT DIMENSIONS (as planned) 850 metres × 450 metres × 265 metres

EMPLOYEES ON SITE: Wolf Minerals: 120 Blackwell: 85 SGS: 15

GEOLOGY: Porphyritic granite dyke with a sheeted quartz vein system

PLANT: 514 tonnes/hour at the entrance EQUIPMENT HIGHLIGHTS: Terex Jaques apron feeder, Sandvik primary roll crusher, Sepro scrubber, Sandvik CH660 tertiary cone crushers, Ersel primary regrind mill, Holman Wilfley shaking tables, Outotec flotation cells, Eriez high-intensity magnetic separators

OFFTAKE AGREEMENTS: Wolfram Bergbau und Hütten AG (Austria) Global Tungsten and Powders (United States)

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ian sediments that make up the region. “These are from the Devonian era, which takes its name from the county of Devon,” McFarlane pointed out. “I came into this project just thinking ‘it is what it is,’ but you get here and you look at it and you start to appreciate what a monster this deposit is.

There are so many things you could do, I’ve had to reel my neck in, as the Australians would say, to make sure the critical startup and commissioning phase is spot on.”

The relationship between the school and the mine is symbiotic. “We’re happy to have one position on each of the four shifts for a graduate, rather than having them struggle to find work in any way related to their qualifications,” said Harrison.

These graduates benefit from experience working in a mine and will be more employable when the industry picks up. It also enables Wolf Minerals to build a pool of young talent with the potential to fill positions as older staff members retire.

Phil Hingston, a senior plant metallurgist, is another graduate of the Camborne School and a Plymouth native. He is one of many of the team with international experience, and recalls that before joining Wolf Minerals earlier this year, he already knew or had worked with many of the tungstenfocused team. When working in Northern Ireland at a gold mine, for example, he met McFarlane. “I spent probably 15 months working with him, and we’ve always stayed in touch.”

History Very Present As with most of the United Kingdom, war has left a huge impact on the Southwest. Plymouth, just 10 kilometres away, is said to have been one of the most heavily bombed English cities during the Second World War, as it is home to a major naval dockyard and army installations. But the mine, too, is in a way a product of the war.

The discovery of tungsten at the site dates back to 1867, but exploitation came much later. Processing plants were built in both the First and Second World Wars to replace the supply that could no longer come from oversees. Sadly, both of these plants barely saw any ore, as it took so long to develop the mine that by the time they could be commissioned, the wars that made them important ended and the mine was again put on hold.

But even after the Second World War, there was continuous interest in developing the project. Amax became attracted to the deposit in the late 1970s and began exploration drilling that would define much of the deposit that is under production today. Devon County Council granted planning permission to build the mine in 1986, but again the stars did not align and the price of tungsten, having crashed in the early 1980s, did not recover. Amax eventually left the land back to the landowners whose properties covered the deposit, though their planning permission

Captions, opposite page: Top left: UK operations manager Jeffery Harrison.

Top right: At full capacity, the mine will produce 5,000 tonnes of tungsten concentrate annually; Centre: Inside the plant at Drakelands; Bottom left: The truck and shovel operation began tungsten concentrate production from its open pit last August; Bottom right: Senior mine geologist James McFarlane.

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Dense media separation and the use of magnets to improve tungsten recovery “What makes this place a bit interesting is the concentrate end – where we do the tin/tungsten separation,” said Wolf Minerals metallurgist Phil Hingston. To feed that stage of the process, the plant crushes material before clays are removed with a scrubber and screens, and the feed is divided into coarse and fine fractions. “There’s a lot of different stages that we would term ‘black box circuits’ within the big circuit,” Hingston noted.

The fine fraction is sent through a series of conventional spirals and shaker tables that separate out heavier tungsten and tin particles.

The coarse fraction is sent into cone crushers and then a dense media separation circuit, in which very fine ferrosilicon is added, along with water. The ratio of ferrosilicon to water changes the density of the solution, with the goal being to target a density somewhere between the heavier, valuable particles and the lighter waste particles in the processing stream.

Both fine and coarse process streams join for flotation, in order to remove any sulphides, and the preconcentrate is dried. “Once we’ve dried the material, we have the reduction kiln that reduces hematite to magnetite, which is more magnetic,” said Hingston.

“That allows the use of low intensity magnets to remove any iron and the tungsten to be vastly improved. It’s a key component.”

After this, the less magnetic tungsten and nonmagnetic tin are easily separated with a second series of high intensity magnets.

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extended to 2021. Thankfully for Wolf Minerals, those same permissions are still in place and work is ongoing to further extend the life of mine.

environmental mitigation measures In an effort to ensure the mine has a minimal impact on the Devonian countryside, Wolf Minerals has embraced a number of unconventional techniques that have kept environmental manager Barnaby Hudson busy. These include: • Bat hotels • Planted 45,000 trees – of an expected 1 million over the life of the project • Planted dead trees to create habitat near plantations • Heathland restoration • Eel passes • Fish surveys • Ponds and waterways for dragonflies • Rebuilt traditional Devon stone walls • Relocated reptiles • A “stumpery” where old stumps rot, creating microhabitats

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Cozy Surroundings With its dense population, England may seem like an unlikely place for mining in the 21st century. But hourly labour in the United Kingdom is actually less costly than the European average, and a generally positive attitude towards mining makes the jurisdiction attractive. Regulations, however, are stringent and can be difficult to navigate. Harrison is quick to point out that the Drakelands mine waste facility will be the first in the United Kingdom to be permitted under the new European mine waste legislation adopted in 2009. “We say it’s an environmental project, rather than a mining project,” he added. “The environmental permits through the Environment Agency have required a lot of hard work but we have worked well with the regulators on what was a first for them as well as us.”

One major benefit of this operation, though, is that the processing circuit is almost entirely gravity-based. The area does have some arsenic associated with the granite, but the company is monitoring that and working within strict conditions to prevent its operations concentrating or increasing the levels already naturally present in the region’s soils and waterways.

Ultimately, in an area where mining has been the norm rather than the exception, Wolf Minerals is a welcome neighbour bringing prosperity rather than being an adversary. “To be able to say you’ll produce four per cent of the world’s tungsten here, just six miles north of Plymouth, is quite special,” said Harrison. CIM

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An Introduction to Cutoff Grade: Theory and Practice in Open Pit and Underground Mines (with a new section on blending optimization strategy) Cut-off grades are essential in determining the economic feasibility and mine life of a project. The fundamentals of cut-off grade calculation, first established by Ken Lane forty years ago, are revisited. In this course it is shown how direct and indirect costs, opportunity costs imposed by operational constraints, and other factors, such as political risk, legal, environmental and regulatory requirements, must be taken into account. Mathematical equations are developed and graphical analytical methods are displayed, which can be used to solve most cut-off grade estimation problems. It is shown how minimum cut-off grades are estimated and how they must be modified to take into account constraints imposed by mine or mill capacity, or by limits on sales volumes. Multiple practical examples are given, illustrating the role of cut-off grades in mine planning, in allocating material to different processes, in optimizing mill operating conditions, and in poly-metallic deposits.

INSTRUCTOR Jean-Michel Rendu, JMR Consultants, USA • DATE September 21-23, 2016 • LOCATION Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Geostatistical Mineral Resource Estimation and Meeting the New Regulatory Environment: Step by Step from Sampling to Grade Control This course is designed according to the latest regulations on public reporting of Mineral Resources. It aims at showing how state-of-the-art statistical and geostatistical techniques help answering the requirements of those regulations in an objective and reproducible manner. A particular emphasis is put on understanding sampling and estimation errors and how to assign levels estimation confidence through the application of resource classification fundamentals. In addition to a solid introduction to mining geostatistics this course provides a comprehensive overview of industry’s best practices in the broader field of Mineral Resource estimation.

INSTRUCTORS Marcelo Godoy, Newmont Mining Corp., Denver; Jean-Michel Rendu, JMR Consultants, USA; Roussos Dimitrakopoulos, McGill University, Canada; and Guy Desharnais, SGS Canada Inc., Canada • DATE September 26-30, 2016 • LOCATION Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Optimization and Risk Management in Strategic Mine Planning: Unearthing Material Value in Mining Complexes Growing volatility and uncertainty in global metal markets highlight the need to focus on new technologies that can unveil significant value and reliability to the performance of mining operations. This three-day course explores the foundations of strategic mine planning and stresses the new generation of applied technologies related to: (a) simultaneous optimization of integrated mining and processing operations, and (b) orebody risk management with new stochastic mine planning optimization developments.

INSTRUCTORS Roussos Dimitrakopoulos and Ryan Goodfellow, McGill University, Canada; and Brian Lambert, Minemax, USA • DATE September 5-7, 2016 • LOCATION Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Quantitative Mineral Resource Assessments: An Integrated Approach to Planning for Exploration Risk Reduction Learn about exploration risk analysis for strategic planning. Understand how to demonstrate how operational mineral deposit models can reduce uncertainties; make estimates of the number of undiscovered deposits; and integrate the information and examine the economic possibilities.

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ntegra Gold’s Triangle Zone deposit is structurally complex, a common trait to the many mines and gold deposits in Quebec’s Abitibi gold district.

When the company continued a drilling program on the site in early 2015 it found one hidden structural trend, which changed the resource estimate for the better. The site’s Indicated Resources increased by 21 per cent to 627,810 ounces of gold, with an average grade of 7.37 grams per tonne, thanks to the discovery of “steeply dipping ‘C’ structures.”

The company detected that structural trend with the help of Leapfrog, 3D implicit modelling software made by ARANZ Geo. The software, and others based on the same principles, can create accurate, detailed 3D models that highlight the particular challenges and potential of an ore body in a fraction of the time and for a fraction of the cost of models done using explicit modelling, the traditional approach.

Traditional explicit modelling methods require geologists to input the data and connect the points by hand. Frank Bilki, technical product manager at software company Micromine, compares this to making a computer model of a loaf of bread by building a 2D model of each slice and then combining all the slices. This kind of technique could take weeks or months, depending on the size and complexity of the deposit, but it had been the standard for modelling – until implicit modelling became available.

The mathematical functions behind implicit modelling have been around for some time. It is the relatively recent advances in computing power, however, that have helped unlock their potential for commercial application.

3D in real time

The algorithms Leapfrog and Micromine use for implicit modelling are based on radial basis functions (RBFs). These functions help interpolate the data collected during drilling programs. They do this by identifying trends in the data set, based on parameters set by the geologist, and by creating surfaces that honour those trends. Implicit modelling provides the flexibility to model many types of deposits, including complex vein systems, stratiform and porphyry deposits.

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enough to handle the calculation,” said Micromine’s Bilki.

“Only in the last decade or so have we seen computers fast enough to do so.”

Uptake expanding

Though ARANZ has established itself as the leading implicit modeller in the geology market over the past decade, the company is now facing new competition; Micromine first included implicit modelling in their 2013 software release.

“We actually love the way that others [like Micromine] are embracing implicit modelling. It’s really highlighting how game changing, effective and important it is,” Schurr said.

Image courtesy of Micromine

making it more or less conservative to aid decision making.

“In an exploration program when you’re spending as much money as you’re spending – and we’ve got between five and 10 drill rigs running – you need to be able to make changes on the fly to your drill patterns,” said George Salamis, a geologist and chairman of Integra Gold. “The quicker you have the data … the more efficient you’re going to be drilling and the less money you’re going to spend. It’s pretty simple.” Better yet, implicit modelling software can take models and present them with 3D contours, allowing geologists to quickly spot trends or structures. “You really need to see things in 3D to fully understand them,” said Salamis.

“It’s especially key in these structurally controlled deposits that you see in Quebec and Ontario.”

Before miners got their hands on the software, ARANZ first applied implicit modelling to medicine and movies. The company’s techniques led to a hand-held portable laser scanner, which has been used to make prosthetics as well as some of the computer animations in the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Star Wars prequels.

Leapfrog’s program has matured over the past decade as a result of working closely with the industry, according to its director of product and innovation Tim Schurr. “We pioneered this method of modelling in the mining industry in 2003, and it definitely caught people’s attention. After more than a decade of refinement the Leapfrog engine you see today, and the models you see today, are light years ahead,” he said.

The software uses Computers have been evolving as radial basis well. “The implicit modelling algorithm functions to generate models is actually quite old, but computers were such as grade simply unable to create an implicit shells using drill hole data. model until they became powerful

A stratigraphic model built using Leapfrog Image courtesy of ARANZ Geo

Integra has used implicit modelling software on-site for several years, Salamis said, ever since the company hired new employees who had Leapfrog experience from their previous work with major mining companies.

“Before, when we weren’t using Leapfrog as much as we are now, getting the data into a quick 3D visualization module took time. Now, with our more intensive use of Leapfrog, the guys and gals who know how to use it pretty well can visualize things on the fly,” he said.

However, implicit modelling has faced challenges in the past and some people remain unconvinced. Users need to be familiar with the software in order to get good results, said Peter Gleeson, a consultant with SRK. “It really does take about a year to become proficient,” he noted. “And you’ve got to understand your geology, first and foremost. It’s not a black box. You’ve got to have a good geologist behind the computer.”

Bilki echoed that users must understand what went into an implicit model if the results are to be trusted. “[Implicit modelling] is simply another tool in the geologists’ toolkit, to be used under the appropriate conditions,” he said. “Some ore bodies are ideally suited to an implicit modelling approach, others are best modelled using traditional interpretation-and-wireframing or stratigraphic methods.”

Feedback essential

Some regulatory steps have also been taken to recognize implicit modelling’s potential. In 2014, the technique was included in the AusIMM Monograph 30, which gives a guide to best practices for mineral resource and ore reserve estimation. Although Schurr noted that some companies have begun to use implicit modelling techniques for reporting standards-compliant resource estimations and classifications, the technique has not yet entered the mainstream.

Gleeson is optimistic. “NI 43-101 does not stipulate the method you use. So long as you can justify what you’ve done, and show that it’s geologically realistic, there is no reason not to use it,” he said.

Geologists may soon be able to bring their implicit models out of the office and into the field. In September, ARANZ

Geo announced a beta version of an augmented reality tool was in the field with testers. The tool should allow geologists to superimpose their models on the actual topography of the site. A release date, at this point, has not been announced.

Feedback will be key, the company stated in the release, and Schurr noted that this is the way the software has always developed. “This implicit modelling engine that we’ve built has been developed carefully, through a lot of feedback from our customers.”

Salamis said that he would love to see conditional simulations, providing what-if scenarios that could be used to determine if an ore body is economically viable. “If I was to drill 10 holes, 100 metres away from the ore body and hit this grade or this width, what does that do to the economics of this deposit? Right now, we don’t have the capability to do that. We basically have to go back from scratch and redo resource estimates to get that answer,” he explained.

But that does not mean that he is not happy with the software’s current capabilities. In fact, the company has a lot of faith in the software – so much so that they have selected Leapfrog as the 3D modelling partner for their Gold Rush Challenge. Entrants are given a Leapfrog licence for the duration of the competition to help them find new, potentially profitable trends at their Sigma-Lamaque project. This competition allows the Integra geologists to focus more on the Triangle Zone.

As implicit modelling itself becomes more established, companies like Leapfrog and Micromine continue to develop new, cutting-edge applications. Both Leapfrog and Micromine have new versions of their software on the market or nearing release; Micromine’s should be launched in the second quarter of 2016 and a new version of Leapfrog Geo was made available in November with new tools for data analysis and geologists working on stratified or layered geologies. CIM December/Décembre 2015 • January/Janvier 2016 | 59

CIM community OBITUARIES

CIM commemorates members who have passed

By Kate Sheridan Over the past year, CIM has been notified of the passing of several valued members of our community. We have compiled their names below to remember their lives and accomplishments in the mining industry. Our thoughts are with their surviving family members and friends.

CIM past president Yves Harvey passed away on May 8, 2015, in Gatineau, Quebec. He was 65. He joined the institute in 1982 and served as CIM president from 1998 to 1999. He spent much of his career at la Société québécoise d’exploration minière (SOQUEM) as a geologist and, between 1991 and 2006, as director-general. He also became president of l’Association minière du Québec in 2007.

membership in 2003. Sanguinetti was an active member of CIM until his death.

over the course of his career during his time at Lavalin and Hatch.

Hugh Taylor, inventor of the eponymous rule for mine life, passed away May 15, 2015, in Vancouver at the age of 98.

He was a fellow of CIM and a life member since 1994. He received CIM’s Robert Elver Mineral Economics Award in 1982.

Ralph Toombs, an Ottawa Branch member since 2009, passed away in Ottawa on Jan. 25, 2015. He was 96. He spent 33 years of his career as a senior energy advisor and policy analyst for the federal government’s Department of Energy, Mines and Resources. He also served in the Royal Canadian Engineers during the Second World War.

Weldon Thoburn passed away Nov. 18, 2014, at the age of 76. Thoburn joined CIM in 1967 and had been a life member since 2004. He was also elected fellow of the Metallurgical Society (today known as the Metallurgy and Materials Society of CIM) in 1998. He worked with several major mining companies

Jack Walli passed away on April 24, 2014, at the age of 87. He joined CIM in 1951 and was always passionate about mining engineering. Walli became a life member of CIM in 1989.

Alexandra Kozak passed away on Feb. 10, 2014, at her home in West Vancouver. She was a CIM member since 1986.

Robert S. Lipic, a CIM member since 1997 and the former CEO of Mining Technologies International, passed away July 4, 2015, at the age of 71.

Joseph Dwayne Plamondon passed away Jan. 5, 2015. He was 53 years old.

He joined CIM in 1995 and was an active member until his death. He was director of mining for Workplace Safety North.

Joseph Jeffrey Sample passed away on Feb. 13, 2015. He was 73. He had been a life member of CIM since 2004. The Saskatchewan native travelled extensively during his 50-year career as a geologist, working in nearly every Canadian province as well as the United States, Ireland, England, Chile, and Morocco.

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CONFERENCES | CONGRÈS May 1-4

September 11-15

October 16-18

CIM 2016 Convention & Expo!

Congrès et Expo! de l’ICM 2016

XXVIII International Mineral Processing Congress

MEMO 2016

Vancouver, BC | convention.cim.org

Québec City, Quebec | impc2016.org

Sudbury, ON Website available in 2016

CIM TECHNICAL SOCIETIES EVENTS AND CONFERENCES CONGRÈS ET ÉVÉNEMENTS DES SOCIÉTÉS TECHNIQUES DE l’ICM

Canadian Mineral Processors Society/ Société canadienne du traitement des minerais

Metallurgy and Materials Society/ Société de la métallurgie et des matériaux

48th Canadian Mineral Processors Conference

CMSC 2016 – 28th Canadian Materials Science Conference CMSC 2016 – 28e Conférence canadienne en science des matériaux

January 19-21 | Ottawa, ON | www.cmpsoc.ca

Regional meeting: Côte-Nord-Labrador

June 4-7 | McMaster University, Hamilton, ON | metsoc.org/cmsc

April 27

55th Annual Conference of Metallurgists September 11-15 | Québec, Quebec | com2016.metsoc.org

Mining Society of Nova Scotia/ Société minière de la Nouvelle-Écosse Mining Society of Nova Scotia’s 129th Annual Meeting June | Location TBD | www.miningsocietyns.ca

9th International Copper Conference (held in conjunction with MetSoc, SME, TMS, GDMB, MMIJ and IIMCh) November 13-16 | Kobe, Japan | copper2016.jp/data/html/welcome_to_copper_2016.html

educational show on mining, minerals, metals and materials M4S | The Le salon éducatif sur les mines, minéraux, métaux et matériaux

M4S MEMO Sudbury 2016

M4S Québec Mines Découverte 2016

Laurentian University Sudbury, ON Oct.13-14 (schools) & Oct 15 (public)

Centre des congrès de Québec Québec, Qc Nov. 21-24

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CIM CALENDAR OF EVENTS

WESTERN DISTRICT | DISTRICT OUEST CALGARY, CROWSNEST, EDMONTON, NORTH CENTRAL BC, OIL SANDS, SASKATOON, SASKATOON GEOSECTION, SOUTH CENTRAL BC, TRAIL, VANCOUVER, YELLOWKNIFE, YUKON

CALGARY Edward Alberts: edward@edwardalbertsconsulting.com TECHNICAL LUNCH & LEARN PRESENTATIONS, FAIRMOUNT PALLISER HOTEL, CALGARY, AB

January 13, February 10, March 9, April 13, May 11

CROWSNEST

SOUTH CENTRAL BC Katherine Ray: southcentralbc@cim.org

Events planning in progress

VANCOUVER Neda Farmer: nedaf@jdsmining.ca

February 18 March 17 April 21

Luncheon, Location to be determined Luncheon, Location to be determined Luncheon, Location to be determined

North Jones: north.jones@teck.com

YELLOWKNIFE (inactive branch)

Events planning in progress

WHITEHORSE

EDMONTON

Paul Christman: paul.christman@tmacresources.com

Andiea Hermes: ahermes@nacg.ca

Events planning in progress

January 11 March 7

Student Awards Night, University of Alberta Faculty Club, Edmonton, AB First-year Mining Engineering Recruitment Night, University of Alberta Faculty Club, Edmonton, AB

MONTHLY BRANCH DINNER MEETINGS, UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA FACULTY CLUB, EDMONTON, AB

February 1, April 4

CENTRAL DISTRICT | DISTRICT CENTRAL GTA WEST, HAMILTON, NORTHERN GATEWAY, OTTAWA, PORCUPINE, RED LAKE, SUDBURY, SUDBURY GEOSECTION, THOMPSON, THUNDER BAY, TORONTO, WINNIPEG, FLIN FLON

GTA WEST Betty Lin: blin@hatch.ca

NORTH CENTRAL BC

February 10

Christy Smith: csmith@tasekomines.com

Events planning in progress

OIL SANDS Issac Bussin: ibussin@suncor.com

Events planning in progress

SASKATOON Tara Stratton: cimsaskatoon@gmail.com

January 21 February 18 March 24 April 21 July 8

Uranium Night, Sheraton Cavalier Hotel, Saskatoon, SK Environmental Night, Sheraton Cavalier Hotel, Saskatoon, SK Industry Collaboration Night, Sheraton Cavalier Hotel, Saskatoon, SK Annual Spring Social, Sheraton Cavalier Hotel, Saskatoon, SK 37th Annual Golf Tournament, Willows Golf & Country Club, Saskatoon, SK

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June 23 September 14

Membership Drive, Otello’s Special Events Center, Oakville, ON Golf tournament, Millcroft Golf Club, Brampton, ON Pub Evening, Location to be determined

LUNCH SPEAKER SERIES, OTELLO’S SPECIAL EVENTS CENTER, OAKVILLE, ON

March 23, April 20, May 25, October 19, November 23

HAMILTON Shannon Clark: Shannon.clark@arcelormittal.com

Events planning in progress

NORTHERN GATEWAY Brenda Patterson-Mack: Patterson@foraco.com

February 18

5th Annual Seafood Mixer, Clarion Pinewood Park

SPEAKER LUNCHEON MEETINGS, DAVEDI CLUB

January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December MINING PROFESSIONALS – NEXT GENERATION (CIM & PEO), RAVEN REPUBLIC

January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December

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Winter

North Bay Mining Week, Various locations Mining Teacher’s Tour, Canadian Ecology Centre Trades Trailer Promoting Mining Industry (Canadore College), Various locations 11th Annual Golf Tournament, Highview Golf Course CIM & PEO Curling Bonspiel, Granite Club

THOMPSON Inge Robinson: inge.robinson@vale.com

Events planning in progress

THUNDER BAY Mark Smyk: mark.smyk@ontario.ca

Events planning in progress

TORONTO

OTTAWA Jean-François Fiset: jean-francois.fiset@nrcan.gc.ca

Irene Gosende Seeney: mailto:mtoronto@cim.org

Events planning in progress

January 20

PORCUPINE

August 24

Andrew Smith : mailto: mregistration@cim-porcupine.org

January February

August October December

Curling Bonspiel, Macintyre Curling Club, Timmins, ON Ontario Mining Cup Hockey Tournament, Macintyre Arena Archie Dillion Sportsplex, Timmins, ON CIM Scholarship Golf Tournament, Hollinger Golf Club, Timmins, ON Steak and Lobster Dinner, Ramada, Timmins, ON Annual General Meeting, Ramada

Janice Wallgren: Janice.wallgren@goldcorp.com, and Carmen Storey: Carmen.storey@ontario.ca

July September

October 20

LUNCHEON SPEAKER SERIES, THE NATIONAL CLUB, TORONTO, ON

February 18, March 24, April 21, May 19, June 16, September 15, November 17, December 8

WINNIPEG

RED LAKE

Winter 2015/ 2016 June

October 20

Student-Industry Luncheon, The National Club, Toronto, ON 16th Annual CIM/CMP Frank Grieco Memorial Golf Tournament, Glen Abbey Golf Club, Oakville, ON MES & CIM Toronto Branch Rocks & Stocks Annual Professional Development Day, Bennett Jones LLP, Toronto, ON 10th Annual Grubstake Networking Event, The National Club, Toronto

Ed Huebert:mailto:edhuebert@mines.ca

Events planning in progress

Distinguished Lecturer Series, Location to be determined Exploration Round-Up and Field Trip, Cochenour Hall, Cochenour, ON 9-Hole Best Ball Golf Tournament, Red Lake Golf and Country Club, Baltertown, ON Wine and Cheese (tentative event), Campbell Rec Centre Curling Lounge, Balmertown, ON

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May 9-13 Summer Summer/ Fall September 16

SUDBURY Trang Tran-Valade: trang_tran-valade@bestech.com

February 6 June 10 August 6

Winterlude Dinner and Social, Caruso Club Annual Lobster Dinner & Dance, Caruso Club Rudolph Kneer Golf Tournament, Lively Golf & Country Club

GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING, DYNAMIC EARTH, ATLAS COPCO THEATRE

January 21, March 24, April 21

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EASTERN DISTRICT | DISTRICT DE L’EST AMOS, CHAPAIS-CHIBOUGAMAU, VAL D’OR, MONTRÉAL, LABRADOR, NEW BRUNSWICK, QUÉBEC, QUÉBEC NORD-EST, ROUYN-NORANDA, SAGUENAY, THETFORD MINES, NEWFOUNDLAND

AMOS

Jean-Yves Labbé: jean-yves.labbe@mrn.gouv.qc.ca

Events planning in progress

QUÉBEC NORD-EST Patrice Tremblay : patrice.tremblay@riotinto.com

Robert Cloutier: icm.amos@gmail.com

23 mars 6-9 mars 19 mars 25-29 avril

QUÉBEC

Conférence, La Sarre, Amos, Qc PDAC Toronto, Metro Toronto Convention Center Cabane à sucre, Refuge Pageau La semaine minière du Québec, Place CentreVille Amos,Qc

Events planning in progress

ROUYN-NORANDA Guylaine Houle : ghoule@stavibel.qc.ca

Events planning in progress

SAGUENAY

5 À 7 CONFÉRENCES, SALON DE QUILLE AU DOUBLÉ D’AMOS, QC

Benoît Lafrance : blafrance@focusgraphite.com

19 janvier, 16 février, 22 mars, 26 avril, 17 mai, 14 juin

February March April April

CHAPAIS-CHIBOUGAMAU Patrick Houle: Patrick.Houle@mern.gouv.qc.ca

Mars Avril

Conférence Activités semaine minière du Québec

Annual Meeting and Conference Wine and Cheese Quebec’s Mining Week Lobster party

THETFORD MINES

VAL D’OR

Normand Boutet: normand.boutet@fibreop.ca

Johanne Voyer : jvoyer@deloitte.ca

Events planning in progress

18 mars 23-28 avril

NEWFOUNDLAND

Vin et fromage, Hôtel Forestel Semaine minière du Québec

CONFÉRENCES, HÔTEL FORESTEL

Len Mandville: lenmandville@gmail.com

Events planning in progress

20 janvier, 17 février, 18 mai

INTERNATIONAL

MONTRÉAL Lise Chartrand : icm-cim-mtl@videotron.ca

March February September 1

Dinner conference, McGill Faculty Club CIM Student Chapters Night, McGill/Polytechnique Golf Tournament, Club de golf Elm Ridge, L’Île-Bizard

LABRADOR (inactive branch) NEW BRUNSWICK

DAKAR (SÉNÉGAL), LIMA (PERU), LOS ANDES (CHILE)

DAKAR (SÉNÉRAL) Oumar Toguyeni: oumar_toguyeni@iamgold.com

Events planning in progress

LIMA (PERU) Siegfried Arce: sarce@viasac.com

Events planning in progress

Kristin Banks: kbanks@dillon.ca

LOS ANDES (CHILE)

Events planning in progress

John Selters B.: jselters@vtr.net

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Barrick Gold Corp.

BASF Corp.

Benshaw Canada BHP Billiton BKT Tires Canada Inc. BlackRock Metals Inc. Boart Longyear Bradken Brandt Tractor Brault Maxtech Inc. C

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Candente Copper Corp.

CEMI (Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation) CLG CK Logistics Conspec Controls Ltd. Copper Development Association Inc. Corem Cullen Diesel Power Ltd. CWA Engineers Inc. Cypher Environmental Ltd. D

p 73

D3 Mining Solutions Dassault Systèmes Canada Software Inc. Dominion Diamond Corp.

Dragon Global Group DSI Underground Systems Inc. Dyno Nobel E

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Laird Controls Canada Ltd.

Fireball Equipment Ltd. FLSmidth Fountain Tire Mine Service Ltd. Fournier Industries Inc. Fusionex une compagnie d’EMCO

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Kalenborn Canada Inc. Kal Tire Mining Tire Group Kamco Installations Ltd. Key Maintenance Technologies Kinross Gold Corp.

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Sepor Inc. Service aux entreprises Harricana

Mine Cable Services Corp.

Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings Division

Mine Site Technologies

Sigfusson Northern Ltd.

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Tega Industries Canada Inc.

Outotec Canada

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P.R. Engineering Ltd.

Thibault & Associates Inc.

Pacific Bit of Canada Inc.

Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada Ltd.

Paul F. Wilkinson & Associates Inc. Pex Industrial Piping Solutions Phoenix Extreme Conveyor Belt Solutions (Veyance Technologies Canada Inc.) Pneuma-Tool Inc. Polar Mobility Research Ltd.

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Richwood

Wenco International Mining Systems Ltd.

Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium

WesTech Engineering Inc.

Rockhound Ltd.

Westlund

Rulmeca Canada Ltd.

Wire Rope Industries Ltd.

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48e Nord International is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to act as a catalyst for the growth of international trading activity in Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

48e Nord International works closely with regional economic players and government partners to help regional companies become export-ready. The organization also represents Quebec companies that offer products and services to the minerals industry around the world.

48e Nord international est un organisme à but non lucratif qui a pour mission d’être le catalyseur de la croissance des activités de commerce extérieur en Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

48e Nord international travaille de façon étroite avec les intervenants économiques de la région et les partenaires gouvernementaux dans le but d’offrir aux entreprises de la région une expertise les préparant à l’exportation. L’organisme représente également les entreprises québécoises offrant des produits et services à l’industrie minérale et ce, à l’échelle internationale.

install storage tanks, pressure vessels, chimneys, hoppers and silos, repair and provide maintenance for rotary furnaces and evaporators, and provide on-site installation of equipment, such as agitators, pumps, etc. Étendant son champ d’action du Grand Nord à l’Est canadien en passant par le Québec et l’Ontario, Acier St-Michel est une entreprise d’expérience, jeune et dynamique, qui s’est forgé une solide réputation dans le domaine des travaux d’acier.

Pour tous travaux d’acier : les ouvrages de plaques, les réservoirs, cheminées, trémies, silos, réparation et entretien de fours rotatifs, de réservoirs, d’évaporateurs et jusqu’à l’installation en chantier d’équipements tels que les agitateurs, les pompes, etc., il n’y a qu’une entreprise à contacter : Acier St-Michel.

Aciers SSAB Suédois Ltée Patrick Leclerc 220 rue Industrielle Delson, QC J5B 1W4 (514) 364-1752 www.ssab.com

Bernard Richard 1155 Ave. Laplace Laval, QC H7C 2N6 (514) 374-4970 www.acierstmichel.com

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Acier St-Michel is recognized for its experience and professional work, which has generated a solid reputation for quality and reliability since the company was established in 1984. The satisfaction of our customers is our priority. We design, fabricate and

SSAB est un leader mondial du secteur des aciers haute résistance à valeur ajoutée. SSAB offre des produits élaborés en étroite collaboration avec ses clients pour respecter les caractéristiques du monde qui nous entoure et en préserver encore

48 pays à travers tout le continent et prévoit d’en couvrir l’intégralité d’ici fin 2016 grâce au projet « Africa 54 ». AGS étend son offre de services sur le continent avec la relocation, la gestion locative et la gestion documentaire via ses sociétés sœurs. Nous mettons ainsi à votre disposition une palette de services unique et exhaustive, ajoutée à notre connaissance du continent et notre expérience auprès des plus grandes compagnies minières.

Aecon Mining Elyse Danchuk 301-1003 Ellwood Rd. SW Edmonton, AB T6X 0B3 (780) 395-3227 www.aecon.com

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As one of Canada’s leading construction and infrastructure development companies, Aecon provides turnkey solutions to our clients by handling virtually every aspect of mining development – from site preparation to final equipment installation. Backed by 130 years of experience, Aecon has significant resources, expertise and knowledge, often operating in some of the most hostile environments in the world.

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SSAB is a global leader in value-added high-strength steel. The company offers products developed in close cooperation with its customers to reach a stronger, lighter and more sustainable world. Its product, Hardox, maximizes the wear performance of your equipment and machines, reducing workshop lead times and increasing the overall productivity of your operations.

Thanks to its consistent properties, Hardox’s performance remains consistent across its lifetime. That also makes its service life very predictable, allowing you to rationalize your repair schedule.

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mieux les précieuses ressources. Grâce à sa grande homogénéité, les performances de Hardox restent inchangées sur toute la durée de vie du matériau. Cela permet également de prédire sa durée de vie avec une grande précision, afin de pouvoir rationaliser le planning de réparation.

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AGS Paul Massardier 14 rue Denis Papin Beauchamp, France 95 920 33 1 40 85 90 00 massardier-p@mobilitas.org www.ags-demenagement.com

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As the leading removals company in Africa, AGS is in 48 countries throughout the continent and plans to cover the whole continent by 2016 via its Africa 54 project. AGS has extended its services in this region to offer relocation, tenancy and document management services via its sister companies. This provides you with a unique and comprehensive range of services, in addition to our regional knowledge and experience with some of the biggest mining companies.

Leader du déménagement en Afrique, AGS est présent dans

Don Michaluk 32 York Street PO Box 6161 Sackville, NB E4L 4R4 (289) 775-8958 dmichaluk@ailmining.com www.ailmining.com

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Save time and money on mine site infrastructure with custom, value-engineered solutions from AIL Mining. Our in-house technical sales and engineering teams provide solutions that ship economically to remote sites and assemble quickly with minimal equipment, material and labour requirements. AIL Mining has a solution for virtually every mining application: heavy haul road and rail arches; stockpile, conveyor and escape tunnels; portals, support structures and shaft liners; crusher walls and ramps; temporary and permanent bridges; and storage structures.

AkzoNobel Chemicals Ltd. Mark P. Podwysocki 323 Crystal Green Rise Okotoks, AB T1S 2N5 (403) 461-7782 Mark.podwysocki@akzonobel.com http://sc.akzonobel.com/en/mining /Pages/home.aspx

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AkzoNobel provides high-quality reagents for mineral extraction and anti-caking applications with advanced colloid and surface

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chemistry. We have over 50 years of global research and development experience in molecular and surface chemistry, supported through feedback from the mining industry. Our strength is in customized solutions developed in close collaboration with customers for specific ores, including potash, iron ore, phosphate, calcite, carbonates, feldspar, quartz and other minerals.

AkzoNobel fournit les réactifs de haute qualité pour l’extraction minière et les applications antiagglomérant avec avancée colloïde et chimie de surface. Nous avons plus de 50 ans d’expérience internationale de recherche et développement en chimie moléculaire et surface, pris en charge à travers les réactions de l’industrie minière.

Notre force réside dans des solutions personnalisées, élaborées en étroite collaboration avec les clients pour les minerais spécifiques, y compris la potasse, du minerai de fer, phosphate, calcite, carbonates, feldspath, quartz et d’autres minéraux.

dans le monde entier, des poids lourds du secteur aux activités diversifiées aux jeunes entreprises minières et autres soustraitants.

Alexander Proudfoot Jon Wylie Canada Trust Tower, Brookfield Pl. PO Box 508, 161 Bay St, 27th Floor Toronto, ON M5J 2S1 (416) 572-2032 jwylie@alexanderproudfoot.com www.alexanderproudfoot.com

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Alexander Proudfoot is the pioneer for implementation of operational improvement programs.

For more than 65 years, we have partnered with companies in the mining and metals industry to execute their business strategies through improved management effectiveness and by embedding the disciplines required to deliver sustainable change. We have strong relationships with mining and metals companies all over the world – from major diversified miners to junior mining and mining contracting companies.

Alexander Proudfoot fait figure de pionnier dans la mise en place de programmes d’améliorations opérationnelles. Depuis plus de 65 ans, nous nous sommes associés à des entreprises du secteur des mines et métaux afin de mettre à exécution leurs stratégies commerciales par une amélioration de l’efficacité de leur gestion et l’intégration de la discipline requise pour parvenir à un changement durable. Nous entretenons de solides relations avec des sociétés minières et métallurgiques

nue. Les applications Alight Mining vous permettent de : • mesurer et comparer l’impact des changements de l’industrie sur votre entreprise minière, • optimiser votre performance financière en faisant des scénarios multiples “what-if,” et • notez vos décisions et de les utiliser pour comparer et analyser les résultats réels.

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Alight : optimisation financière continue pour l’entreprise minière.

Thomas Struttmann 600-44 Montgomery St. San Francisco, CA, USA 94104 (800) 960-7717 tstruttmann@alightinc.com www.alightinc.com

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Alight helps the world’s leading mining companies achieve superior financial performance through continuous financial optimization. Alight’s applications for gold, copper, coal, iron ore and silver let you: • measure and compare the impact of industry changes on your mining enterprise, • optimize your financial performance by doing multiple “what if” scenarios, and • record your decisions and use them to compare and analyze actual results.

Alight Mining – continuous financial optimization for the mining enterprise.

Alight Mining aide les plus importantes sociétés minières du monde à atteindre un rendement financier supérieur grâce à l’optimisation financière conti-

Amec Foster Wheeler Shelley Bruins 400-111 Dunsmuir St. Vancouver, BC V6B 5W3 (604) 664-4315 www.amecfw.com

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Amec Foster Wheeler is an industry leader in global mining solutions. For more than 60 years, we have been trusted to deliver some of the most logistically and technically challenging mining projects in the world.

We are focused on delivering consistent value to customers with safety and integrity in all we do.

Connect with our experts in geology and environmental consulting, mineral processing, project and construction management, operations support and mine closure.

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Analyze and Improve Asim Khan Toronto, ON (647) 965-9011 contact@analzeandimprove.com www.analyzeandimprove.com

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Analyze and Improve (A&I) specializes in the integration of data-driven decision making, bottleneck optimization, and management systems implementation, supported through a balanced approach of teaching skills, coaching techniques and executing projects, with the ultimate objective of responding to the client’s improvement needs.

We apply operational excellence, Lean Six Sigma and predictive analytic techniques to cost reduction, organizational optimization, process improvements and operational readiness efforts. “Stability before capability, and only then capital.”

Nous spécialisons dans l’intégration d’analyse de données, d’optimisation des goulots d’étranglement et implémentation des systèmes de gestion, soutenue par une approche équilibrée d’enseignement des compétences, support des techniques et exécution des projets avec l’objectif ultime de répondre aux besoins de nos clients. Nous appliquons les techniques d’excellence opérationnelles, Lean Six Sigma et les analyses prédictives vers la réduction des couts, optimisation de l’organisation, améliorations des procèdes et préparation opérationnelle.

“Stabilité avant Capacité, et alors seulement Capital”.

ArcelorMittal Exploitation Minière Canada SENC Pierre Lapoint 1400-1801 rue McGill College Montreal, QC H3A 2N4 (514) 285-1464 ext. 1292 pierre.lapointe@arcelormittal.com www.transformerlavenir.com

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ArcelorMittal produces and ships annually about 26 million tons of iron ore products in global markets. It operates extensive facilities on the Quebec North Shore: a mining complex railway, a pellet plant, a port and maintenance shops. Committed to the principles of sustainable development and backed by the immense talent of nearly 2,500 employees, ArcelorMittal Mining and Infrastructure Canada G.P. are owned 85 per cent by ArcelorMittal, the world’s number one steel company, and 15 per cent by POSCO/China Steel.

ArcelorMittal produit et expédie annuellement environ 26 millions de tonnes de produits de minerai de fer sur les marchés mondiaux. La Société exerce ses activités sur la Côte-Nord où elle possède d’imposantes installations (complexe minier, chemin de fer, usine de bouletage, port et ateliers d’entretien). Souscrivant aux principes du développement durable et s’appuyant sur l’immense talent

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de ses quelque 2,500 employés, ArcelorMittal Exploitation minière et Infrastructure Canada SENC. sont la propriété à 85 % du Groupe ArcelorMittal, numéro un mondial de la sidérurgie, et à 15 % du consortium Posco/China Steel.

Atlas Copco Mining and Rock Excavation Technique Canada Anne Marie Grossi 1025 Tristar Dr. Mississauga, ON L5T 1W5 (289) 562-0100 www.atlascopco.com

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Atlas Copco Mining and Rock Excavation Technique Canada is a sales and service company within the Atlas Copco Group, serving construction and mining industries throughout Canada.

We offer an extensive product range for a variety of underground and surface mining, as well as construction applications covering the mining cycle entirely. With regional hubs strategically located across Canada and 23 branch locations scattered nationally, our increased presence across Canada helps enhance the proficiency of our customer service and support throughout the country.

Le pôle Mining and Rock Excavation Technique d’Atlas Copco Canada est une entreprise de

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ventes et de services, à l’intérieur du Groupe Atlas Copco, qui répond aux exigences des industries minière et de la construction à travers le Canada. Nous offrons une vaste gamme de produits destinés à l’exploitation minière souterraine et de surface, de même que des applications de construction conçues pour les principales étapes du cycle minier. Grâce à ses centres régionaux stratégiquement situés partout au Canada et à ses 23 filiales établies sur l’ensemble du pays, notre présence accrue au Canada nous permet d’améliorer l’efficacité de notre service à la clientèle ainsi que la satisfaction des clients partout au pays.

Ausenco Joel Shirriff 855 Homer St. Vancouver, BC V6B 2W2 (604) 684-9311 joel.shirriff@ausenco.com www.ausenco.com

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Ausenco is a global diversified engineering, construction and project management company providing services in minerals and metals, process infrastructure, program management, environment and sustainability, and oil and gas. We deliver new and better ways to add value to our clients’ projects no matter how demanding and we deliver

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results in some of the world’s most challenging environments.

From mines to pipelines, ports, bulk terminals and infrastructure, we deliver ingenious solutions to optimize our clients’ resources.

Barrick Gold Corp.

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Andy Lloyd 3700-161 Bay St., Brookfield Place TD Canada Trust Tower Toronto, ON M5J 2S1 (416) 891-9911 www.barrick.com

Keshav Das 401-55 York St. Toronto, ON, M5J 1R7 (780) 888-5667 keshav.das@bkt-tires.com www.bkt-tires.com

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Axter Coletanche Inc. Daniel Crevier 301-1030 Beaubien Est Montreal, QC H2S 1T4 (514) 903-1912 www.coletanche.com

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More than 14 million square metres of Coletanche bituminous geomembranes manufactured by Axter have been laid worldwide, making it a stellar waterproofing product for civil engineering. Its high performance and adaptability to all types of terrain mean that it can be used in numerous ways: for the protection of the environment (the storage of solid and liquid waste; platforms for bottom ash stabilization or composting of green waste), water resource management (dams, reservoirs, containment basins, canals) and transportation (motorway ditches, protection of railway ballasts).

Avec plus de 14 millions de mètres carrés posés à travers le monde, la géomembrane bitumineuse Coletanche fabriquée par Axter est aujourd’hui un produit d’étanchéité phare du Génie Civil. Ses hautes performances et son adaptabilité à tous les types de sol lui ont ouvert de multiples applications dans le domaine de la protection de l’environnement (stockage de déchets solides ou liquides, plateformes de maturation de mâchefers ou de compostage de déchets verts), de l’hydraulique (étanchéité de barrages, de retenues d’eau, de bassins de confinement, de canaux), ou des transports (fossés autoroutiers, protection du ballast des voies ferrées).

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Barrick is the world’s largest gold producer. We operate mines across four continents, including some of the world’s premier gold assets. Our vision is to be the best gold mining company by operating in a safe, profitable and responsible manner.

BASF Corp.

Jim Lindsay 23700 Chagrin Blvd.

Beachwood, OH 44122 (503) 701-3677 jim.lindsay@basf.com www.master-builderssolutions.basf.us

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Through its Master Builders Solutions brand, BASF is a leading supplier of underground solutions. By connecting our MasterRoc products with our mining and tunneling customers, we provide solutions that help them to become more successful, even in highly challenging ground conditions.

BASF has the largest range of products and services available to meet needs and solve problems in mining and tunneling, in both soft-ground and hardrock conditions. We offer a full range of products such as additives for concrete and shotcrete, structural fibres and injection systems for ground stabilization and water control, as well as chemicals for backfill systems.

Benshaw Canada Chris Taplay 550 Bright St. Listowel, ON N4W 3W3 (519) 292-1257 chris.taplay@regalbeloit.com www.benshaw.com

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Benshaw has been manufacturing solid-state soft starters for more than 30 years and has become one of the largest starter manufactures in the world. Capabilities have grown to include complete motor control solutions, including soft starters, fullvoltage starters, variable speed drives, combination packages, MV switchgear lineups, mining skids and load break switches.

Also available are custom engineered products for starting all types of AC motors, such as standard induction, synchronous, wound rotor and two speeds.

BHP Billiton Sarah Nixon 130-3rd Ave. South Saskatoon, SK S7K 1L3 (306) 385-8400 Potashcorporateaffairs@bhpbilliton. com www.bhpbilliton.com

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BHP Billiton is a leading global resources company. Its purpose is to create long-term shareholder value through the discovery, acquisition, development and marketing of natural resources. In August 2013, it announced that it would be investing a further US$2.6 billion into its Jansen potash project in Saskatchewan. This announcement reflects the importance of potash as a potential key commodity for BHP Billiton as well as its confidence in the quality of the resources it holds in the province and the strong long-term fundamentals of the potash market.

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BKT is a global specialty tire manufacturer producing over 2,200 SKUs ranging from large earthmover to industrial to agriculture tires. BKT services endusers, large tire distributors and OEMs in over 130 countries. All tires are produced in our five state-of-the-art manufacturing plants located throughout India.

BKT has subsidiaries in Europe, United States and Canada to service end-users and support its product development activities.

BKT est un fabricant mondial de pneus spécialisés, produisant plus de 2 200 UGS allant de pneus pour gros engins de terrassement aux pneus industriels et agricoles. BKT répond aux besoins de l’utilisateur final, du grand distributeur de pneus et de l’équipement d’origine dans plus de 130 pays. Tous nos pneus sont produits dans nos cinq usines de fabrication à la fine pointe de la technologie situées partout en Inde. BKT a des filiales en Europe, aux États-Unis et au Canada pour répondre aux besoins de l’utilisateur final et soutenir ses activités de développement de produits.

BlackRock Metals Inc. Jean Rainville 1606-1080 Cote du Beaver Hall Montreal, QC H2Z 1S8 (514) 316-7281 www.blackrockmetals.com

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the world. Its high-performance culture is guided by its core values of putting people first, operating on budget in a safe, environmentally sound manner and maintaining a high standard of social responsibility and social acceptance of our projects.

Métaux BlackRock est une société minière canadienne privée avec un projet de minerai de fer titane-vanadium de classe mondiale dans l’une des régions minières les plus prolifiques au monde. Sa culture de haut rendement est guidée par ses valeurs fondamentales : prioriser les gens, fonctionner de manière sûre et écologiquement responsable, et maintenir un niveau élevé de responsabilité sociale et d’acceptance sociale de nos projets.

and crusher products and services for the mining and quarrying industries. Our business focuses on providing customers with innovative, cost-effective and complete wear-liner solutions for mills and crushers, designed to increase performance and reduce operating costs in grinding and crushing operations.

La division du traitement de minerai de Bradken est le chef de file mondial de la conception, la fabrication et l’approvisionnement de produits et services de qualité pour les broyeurs et concasseurs de l’industrie des mines et des carrières. Notre entreprise a pour but principal de fournir des solutions complètes, innovatrices et au meilleur prix pour les revêtements de broyeurs et de concasseurs. Ils sont conçus pour améliorer la performance et réduire les coûts des opérations de broyage et de concassage.

Boart Longyear Terry Kirkey 2570 West 1700 South Salt Lake City, UT, USA 84104 (801) 952-8457 www.boartlongyear.com

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Boart Longyear is the one source for drilling services, drilling equipment and performance tooling for mining and drilling companies around the globe.

The company also offers water exploration, environmental sampling, and energy and oil sands exploration services. Boart Longyear offers drilling services in more than 40 countries and provides mining products in over 100 countries.

Bradken Gabe Larose 400-90 Richmond St. E Toronto, ON M5C 1P1 (416) 975-8251 ext. 226 glarose@bradken.com www.bradken.com

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Bradken’s mineral processing division is a market leader in the design, manufacture and supply of differentiated high-quality mill

Brandt Jim Thompson Hwy 1 East, PO Box 3856 Regina, SK S4P 3R8 (306) 791-7777 www.brandt.ca

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Brandt is “deeply invested” in mining and construction equipment, offering a wide range of top-quality products and services to the mining sector for both above- and below-ground applications. From new pace-setting technologies for positioning, mapping and scanning, to industry exclusive and purpose-built production and maintenance equipment, Brandt is both a manufacturer and a reseller with an international footprint and an unrivalled track record for superior, 24/7 customer support.

Brandt Mining is part of the Brandt Group of companies.

With more than 80 years of experience, Brandt is committed to delivering value to our customers by doing whatever it takes to keep them productive and profitable.

Brault Maxtech Inc. Marcel Brault 525 Ave. Notre Dame, 2e étage Saint-Lambert, QC J4P 2K6 (450) 904-1824 marcel.brault@braultmaxtech.com www.braultmaxtech.com

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Americas. Their March 2011 Prefeasibility Study Progress Report concluded that the project has an after-tax NPV of US$912 million, an IRR of 17.2 per cent, a payback period of 4.4 years at US$2.25/lb copper and a discount rate of 8 per cent.

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Brault Maxtech is the exclusive manufacturer representative in the province of Quebec for the following manufacturers: Trojan Technologies, Parkson, Aerzen Canada, AWI, Claro, Con-V-Air, Premier Tech, Lamor-Slickbar, SSI, Hydro International, Huber Technology, Invent, Atlas Copco, NEFCO, Boerger Pumps, Schwing Bioset, GEA Westfalia, Membrane Specialists, Stamford Scientific and Evoqua Water Technologies.

Représentant exclusif pour la Province de Québec des manufacturiers suivants: Trojan Technologies, Parkson, Aerzen Canada, AWI, Claro, CON-V-AIR, Premier Tech, Lamor-Slickbar, SSI, Hydro International, Huber Technology, Invent, Atlas Copco, NEFCO, Boerger Pumps, Schwing Bioset, GEA Westfalia, Membrane Specialists, Stamford Scientific and Evoqua Water Technologies.

Candente Copper Corp.

Sean Waller 1100-1111 Melville Street Vancouver, BC V6C 3V6 (604) 689-1957 info@candente.com www.candentecopper.com

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Vancouver-based Candente Copper is developing the large-scale Cañariaco Norte copper deposit located in northern Peru. The deposit contains Measured and Indicated Resources totalling 752.4 million tonnes grading 0.52 per cent copper equivalent, containing 7.5 billion pounds of copper, 1.7 million ounces of gold and 45.2 million ounces of silver. A feasibility study is currently underway, led by AMEC

CEMI - Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation Shannon Katary 935 Ramsey Lake Rd. Sudbury, ON P3E 2C6 (705) 673-6568 info@cemi.ca www.cemi.ca

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CEMI – Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation CEMI is Canada’s leading expert in mining innovation. Our aim is to enhance the scope, extent and impact of innovation to create greater economic value and capacity for excellence within the mining industry in Canada and around the world.

CEMI is a not-for-profit organization. We provide a single point of entry to identify, assess and manage resources and knowledge to skilfully direct and coordinate step-change innovation within the metal mining industry.

Our areas of focus include exploration, deep mining, integrated mine engineering, underground mine construction, environment and sustainability. We engage in cross-sector collaboration with mining companies, universities, colleges, governments and forward-looking SMEs within the service and supply sector to manage industry-focused mining innovation.

CLG Kate Phillips Brookfield Place 2700-161 Bay St. Toronto, ON M5J 2S1 (416) 572-2056 kphillips@clg.com www.clg.com

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duce safe, reliable, cost-effective and lasting results consistently, with speed, precision and control. Whether your goal is improving culture, enhancing safety and environmental performance, cost management, productivity or other bottom-line business results, CLG Canada will deliver a solution that links behaviour change to important business outcomes.

CK Logistics Stéphane Lavallée 6750 ch. Saint-François Saint-Laurent, QC H4S 1B7 (514) 856-7580 ex.t: 3420 slavallee@cklogistics.ca www.cklogistics.ca

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Established in 1998, CK Logistics is a subsidiary of TransForce Inc. (TFI), a North American leader in the transportation and logistics industry.

CK Logistics offers its clients a vast and varied pool of equipment to meet all their transportation needs. Regardless of your shipment’s point of origin, destination or dimensions, CK Logistics offers reliable and effective solutions designed to give you peace of mind, allowing you to focus on the success of your operation. We are your total transport solution!

Fondée en 1998, l’entreprise CK Logistics est une division de TransForce (TFI), un chef de file nord-américain du transport et de la logistique. CK Logistics offre à sa clientèle une flotte d’équipements de transport aussi vaste que variée, pouvant répondre aux plus grandes exigences en la matière. Depuis ses débuts, l’équipe de CK Logistics a toujours fait preuve d’originalité, de persévérance, d’audace et de détermination afin d’offrir les meilleures solutions d’affaires en logistique et en transport.

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Conspec Controls Ltd.

Corem

John H. Williams 25 Klondike Dr. Toronto, ON M9L 1S1 (416) 661-0500 jwilliams@conspec.ca www.conspec-controls.ca

Claire Lavallée 1180 rue de la Minéralogie Quebec, QC G1N 1X7 (418) 527-8211 claire.lavallee@corem.qc.ca www.corem.qc.ca

For more than 45 years, Conspec has pioneered the design, development and manufacturing of environmental and atmospheric monitoring, process control and safety technology relied upon by mining operations all over the world. Our range of environmental and condition monitors, field and area control equipment, tracking systems, communications solutions and PLC/SCADA software systems are designed, built and tested to thrive in the harshest of conditions and environments. Conspec is an industry leader in innovative and cost-effective solutions that maximize your operation’s performance, production and profits.

Corem is the largest research centre in Canada totally devoted to mineral processing. Recognized as a world-class research organization, Corem provides a wide range of services to companies that explore and develop ore bodies and transform or recycle mineral substances. Corem’s facilities are unique in Canada for their size and diversity of equipment. With a versatile pilot plant of 5,300 square metres, an analytical services laboratory certified ISO/IEC 17025:2005 and a pyrometallurgical characterization laboratory certified ISO 9001:2008, Corem is capable of offering a complete range of services to the mineral industry for all major commodities. Its environmental management system is certified ISO 14001:2004 and covers all Corem activities.

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Copper Development Association Inc. Andrew G. Kireta Sr. 260 Madison Ave., 16th Floor New York, NY, USA 10016 (212) 251-7200 www.copper.org

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Copper Development Association (CDA) is a United Statesbased not-for-profit association of the global copper industry, influencing the use of copper and copper alloys through research, development and education, as well as technical and end-user support. CDA is committed to promoting the proper use of copper materials in sustainable, efficient applications for business, industry and the home.

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Corem est le plus grand centre de recherche au Canada totalement dédié au traitement de minerais. Également reconnu comme un centre de recherche de calibre international, Corem fournit un large éventail de services aux compagnies explorant et développant de nouveaux gisements et transformant ou recyclant des substances minérales. Les installations de Corem sont uniques au Canada par leur taille et par la diversité des équipements. Avec une usine pilote polyvalente couvrant 5 300 m2, un laboratoire de services analytiques certifié ISO/CEI 17025:2005 et un laboratoire de caractérisation pyrométallurgique certifié ISO 9001:2008, Corem est en mesure d’offrir une gamme complète de services à l’industrie minière, peu importe le type de minerai. Son système de management environnemental est certifié ISO 14001:2004 et couvre l’ensemble de ses activités.

Cullen Diesel Power Ltd. Alan Spetch 9300 192nd St. Surrey, BC V4N 3R8 (604) 888-1211 das@cullendiesel.com www.cullendiesel.com

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Cullen Diesel Power provides sales, parts and service for MTU, Detroit Diesel and MercedesBenz engines, Allison Transmissions and MTU Onsite Energy Power Generation generator sets. Cullen also provides parts and service for mine haul trucks.

Our highly trained sales and technicians team provides our customers in British Columbia with reliable and economical products and services through our MTU, Detroit Diesel and MTU Onsite Energy worldwide distributor network.

CWA Engineers Inc. Steven Yee 380-2925 Virtual Way Vancouver, BC V5M 4X5 (604) 637-2275 syee@cwaengineers.com www.cwaengineers.com

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CWA Engineers provides innovative and practical engineering, procurement and construction management services to industry-leading clients around the world. We provide a comprehensive suite of services for every phase of a project life cycle, from concept development through to commissioning and operations support. With our core expertise in materials handling, we specialize in efficiently moving product from mines to market, saving our clients time and money, while increasing throughput and revenue.

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Cypher Environmental Ltd.

Dassault Systèmes Canada Software Inc.

Patricia Mori 1149 St. Mathews Ave., 2nd Floor Winnipeg, MB R3G 0J8 (204) 489-1214 info@cypherenvironmental.com www.cypherenvironmental.com

Patricia Ceron 1100-1066 Hastings St. W Vancouver, BC V6E 3X1 (604) 684-6550 Patricia.ceron@3ds.com www.3ds.com/GEOVIA

Cypher Environmental is a leading provider of 100 per cent environmentally friendly and cost-effective mine haul road solutions. EarthZyme is a unique soil stabilizer used to significantly increase the performance of clay-based haul roads, reducing their maintenance requirements and costs, and eliminating the need for gravel. Dust Stop is extremely effective at eliminating dust on haul roads and is also an effective dust control and erosion control product for tailings piles of any kind.

About GEOVIA. As part of Dassault Systèmes, GEOVIA applications lead the way in delivering tomorrow’s innovations in modelling and simulation for mining and is home to world-renowned solutions including Surpac, GEMS, Minex, Whittle, MineSched, PCBC, Hub and InSite.

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D3 Mining Solutions Thomas Fisher 101-2301 Ave. C North Saskatoon, SK S7L 5Z5 (306) 343-3367 D3Mining@shaw.ca www.d3miningsolutions.ca

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D3 Mining Solutions is dedicated to providing quality products and exceptional pre/post-sale support to the mining, oil and gas, and industrial sectors. We offer many Canadian-manufactured products that were not only designed for mining applications but developed with the help of and input from mining professionals. Currently, D3 is proud to offer ventilation, cap lamps, collision avoidance, communication platforms, safety products, exploration equipment, gas detection, replacement parts for mining equipment, storage structures and LED lighting products.

of the Diavik diamond mine. It supplies rough diamonds to the global market through its sorting and selling operations in Canada, Belgium and India, and it is the world’s third-largest producer of rough diamonds by value.

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About Dassault Systèmes. Dassault Systèmes, the 3DEXPERIENCE company, provides business and people with virtual universes to imagine sustainable innovations. Its world-leading solutions transform the way products are designed, produced and supported. Dassault Systèmes’s collaborative solutions foster social innovation, expanding possibilities for the virtual world to improve the real world.

The group brings value to over 170,000 customers of all sizes, in all industries, in more than 140 countries.

Dominion Diamond Corp.

Kelley Stamm PO Box 4569, Stn. A Toronto, ON M5W 4T9 (416) 362-2237 www.ddcorp.ca

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Dominion Diamond is a Canadian diamond mining company with ownership interests in two major producing diamond mines located in the low-political-risk environment of the Northwest Territories. The company operates the Ekati diamond mine through its 80 per cent ownership as well as a 58.8 per cent ownership in the surrounding areas containing additional resources, and owns 40 per cent

Dragon Global Group Katherine Tam Unit 1901, 19/F, AIA Financial Centre, 712 Prince Edward Road East, San Po Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong (852) 3758-2155 katherinetam@mining.com.hk www.mining.com.hk

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Dragon Global Group is an independent consulting company founded in Hong Kong. We provide one-stop services in mining exploration and exploitation, project financing, project mergers, acquisitions and corporate appraisal services. We engage in different stages of mining projects, offering consultation services and independent technical reports. Valuation services for projects are also available. As for corporate appraisal services, we provide comprehensive consultation services covering all investment procedures ranging from project screening to investment exit strategy.

DSI Underground Systems Inc. Eric Paquet 853 Boul. Rideau Rouyn-Noranda, QC (819) 762-0901 www.dsiunderground.com

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DSI offers a complete product line for mining and tunnelling ground support. Each support system is custom tailored and professionally engineered to the customer’s specific application.

DSI is committed to meeting customers’ needs and is continuously improving their products and services. DSI’s innovations, products and services have

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moved the underground industry forward in efficiency and safety.

DSI’s underground activities in North America include four manufacturing plants in Canada, six in the United States and one in Mexico.

DSI offre une gamme complète de produits de support de terrain pour l’industrie minière et la construction de tunnels.

Chaque type de support est adapté aux besoins à partir de spécifications définies par l’ingénierie et des applications sont fabriquées sur mesure et selon ces spécifications. DSI maintient ces exigences dans tous ses produits et services en vue de rencontrer les besoins des différents utilisateurs. L’ensemble des innovations, la qualité de ses produits ainsi que de son service, ont propulsé l’industrie vers des gains en efficience et en santé et sécurité pour sa clientèle. Les activités en Amérique du Nord incluent quatre usines au Canada, six aux ÉtatsUnis et une au Mexique.

Dyno Nobel Nicole Lyman 2795 E. Cottonwood Parkway #500 Salt Lake City, UT, USA 84121 (800) 732-7534 marketing@am.dynonobel.com www.dynonobel.com

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Customers in the mining, quarry, construction, pipeline and geophysical exploration industries choose Dyno Nobel for our quality products, reliable service and technical expertise. Dyno Nobel is the market leader in North America, with facilities in Australia, Canada, the United States, Indonesia, Mexico, South America and Papua New Guinea. Dyno Nobel is renowned for its excellent safety performance and for being a provider of innovative explosive products and services that together deliver groundbreaking performance for its customers.

Les clients œuvrant dans le domaine des mines, des carrières, de la construction, des pipelines et de l’exploration géophysique choisissent Dyno Nobel pour ses produits de qualité, son

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service fiable et son expertise technique. Dyno Nobel est le chef de file du marché en Amérique du Nord, avec des installations partout à travers le monde.

Dyno Nobel est reconnu pour son rendement exceptionnel en matière de sécurité ainsi qu’en tant que fournisseur de produits et services innovateurs qui lui permettent d’offrir à ses clients un rendement hors pair.

Eco Waste Solutions Jean Lucas 14-5195 Harvester Rd. Burlington, ON L7L 6E9 (905) 634-7022 info@ecosolutions.com www.ecosolutions.com

Element Mining Ltd.

Fireball Equipment Ltd.

Devon Eastwood 967 Falconbridge Rd. Sudbury, ON P3A 5K8 (705) 525-6163 www.elementminingltd.com

Liam Murphy 17509 109A Ave. NW Edmonton, AB T5S 2W4 (780) 944-4814 ext. 106 liam.murphy@fireball.ca www.fireball.ca

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Element Mining is a mining company based in Sudbury, Ontario.

The company is focused on providing mechanical services underground and explosives accessories. Element Mining also specializes in various mining equipment for mine construction and maintenance.

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Eco Waste Solutions (EWS) custom engineers and manufactures advanced waste incineration and waste-toenergy systems. Capabilities include a range of waste materials such as kitchen and domestic waste, medical waste, sewage sludge and waste oils. These innovative, easy-to-use systems are field proven in extreme mining locations like the Arctic, the desert, the tropics and high elevations. This track record, in addition to superior environmental performance and product durability, sets EWS apart from other suppliers worldwide.

Eco Waste Solutions (EWS) conçoit et fabrique des systèmes technologiquement avancés d’oxydation thermique et de transformation des déchets en énergie. Une vaste gamme de déchets peuvent être traités, tels que les déchets domestiques et médicaux, les boues d’épuration et les huiles usées.Ces systèmes, qui sont technologiquement avancés et faciles à utiliser, ont démontré leur capacité dans des emplacements miniers extrêmes tels que les régions arctiques, climats tropicaux et en haute altitude. Cette feuille de route, ainsi que la performance environnementale et la durabilité de ses produits, permet à EWS de se distinguer des autres fournisseurs d’oxydation thermique à travers le monde.

Emerson Electric Canada Ltd.

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Fireball Equipment is a leading supplier for bulk lubrication and fuel distribution systems. As specialists in this industry, our expertise includes the storage, pumping, dispense and detailed tracking of these products. Inhouse, we have technical design, engineering and fabrication departments, which are complemented by dedicated installation and service groups. Consolidating these resources into one company has allowed Fireball to serve our customers from “boots to boardroom”! Store it, pump it, track it!

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Products and services from 70plus divisions, including specialized tools, industrial electrical and power equipment, hazardous location electrical enclosures, commercial and industrial power-quality and power generation, mechanical equipment, pneumatic valves, actuators and controls, VFD electric motor drives and modular MCC drive centres, digital process plant control systems, process analytics, automation and instrumentation.

sage, le broyage, la classification, la flottation, l’épaississement, la clarification, la filtration, la récupération des métaux précieux, le pyrotraitement, le pompage, la gestion du vrac, l’automatisation, les essais métallurgiques, les pièces et le service . Nous offrons l’expérience, la fiabilité éprouvée et des performances exceptionnelles de grandes marques telles : DORR-OLIVER, EIMCO, FFE, KREBS, WEMCO, PNEUMAPRESS, MÖLLER, VECOR, ABON, RAHCO, CEntry, Raptor Crushers, Fuller-Traylor, CONVEYOR ENGINEERING, KOCH-MVT, Dawson, Summit Valley, Knelson et Ludowici.

Fountain Tire Mine Service Ltd. Dan Parker 130 Lafarge Rd. Kamloops, BC V2C 6T5 (250) 573-5315, toll free: (888) 637-7687

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Thomas W. Cleland 306 Town Centre Blvd.

Markham, ON L3R 0Y6 (905) 948-3400 thomas.cleland@emerson.com www.emerson.com

Emerson Electric in mining: extract more with a 120-yearold, $25 billion/year Fortune Global 500 company, serving the mining industry for 80-plus years.

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FLSmidth Andrew Cuthbert 7158 S. FLSmidth Dr. Midvale, UT, USA 84047-5559 (801) 871-7000 info.SLC@flsmidth.com www.flsmidth.com

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FLSmidth is a world leader in engineering mineral processing, material handling and mine shaft systems technology and equipment, process plant and systems design, and customized services. We offer experience, proven reliability and enhanced performance from leading minerals industry brands and integrate metallurgical testing, ore characterization and process mineralogy, detailed design engineering, global procurement, process control and localized services to ensure you stay competitive now, whilst preparing for future environmental requirements.

FLSmidth est votre fournisseur unique d’équipements ayant la plus grande base installée dans le monde qui inclus : le concas-

Fountain Tire Mine Service’s mission statement is “Lower our client’s tire operating costs through sustainable tire performance improvements and improved practices.” To accomplish our mission statement we incorporate a comprehensive tire management and service program that involves best practices in service and safety, training, technology, site specific engineered tires, detailed tracking, and in-house science-based analysis.

Fournier Industries Inc. Gaston Tanguay 3787 boul. Frontenac O. Thetford Mines, QC G6H 2B5 (418) 423-4241 fax: (418) 423-7366 g.tanguay@fournierindustries.com www.fournierindustries.com

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Founded in 1960, Fournier Industries is a leader in various industry sectors such as hydropower dams and gates, foundries, smelters, industrial equipment and, more particularly, in the mining industry. Our technical team and experience allows us to successfully execute turnkey projects including

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design, detailed engineering, drawings, manufacturing, logistics and site installation. The manufacturing procedures we have developed enable shorter lead times and reduced on-site delays, contributing to overall cost reductions.

Fondée en 1960, Les Industries Fournier est chef de file dans divers secteurs de l’industrie tels que l’hydroélectricité, les fonderies, les alumineries, les équipements industriels sur mesure et plus particulièrement le secteur minier. Grâce à notre équipe technique et notre expérience nous pouvons exécuter avec succès des projets clés en main comprenant la conception, ingénierie détaillée, dessins, fabrication, logistique et installation. Nos procédés de fabrication permettent des délais plus courts contribuant à des réductions globales des coûts.

Fusionex une compagnie d’EMCO Guylaine Lefebvre 2855 rue Étienne-Lenoir Laval, QC H7R 6J4 (450) 963-3010 glefebvre@epgpipe.com

triques, gazières, irrigations, aquacultures, acéricultures, etc.

Global InspectionsNDT Inc. GEA Group Derek Ettie 5045 South Service Road Burlington, ON L7L 5Y7 (289) 288-5500 derek.ettie@gea.com www.gea.com

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GEA Westfalia Separator offers a full range of products in the separation categories, including high-performance separators and decanters. Our equipment is used for classification, thickening and dewatering of minerals from 0.5 to 100 micron in particle size, as well as for crud treatment and solvent recovery. Of special interest is the GEA Westfalia Separator ecoforce decanter. This new decanter has been designed for maximum separation, durability and dramatically reduced energy consumption, and it incorporates a four-stage high-torque drive, which achieves higher cake solids than a filter press.

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Fusionex specializes in the distribution and fusion of HDPE pipes and fittings, as well as a multitude of related products.

Fusion services on site are made by experienced and certified technicians. Fusionex operates in many areas of activity such as mining, municipal infrastructures, industry, pulp and paper, the environment (leachate collection), telecommunication, electricity, natural gas, irrigation, aquaculture, etc.

Fusionex se sepcialise dans la distribution et la fusion de tuyaux et raccords en PEHD ainsi qu’une multitude de produits connexes et un service de fusion par des techniciens experimentés et certifiés. Fusionex œuvre dans plusieurs secteurs d’activités tels que : minières, infrastructures minicipales, industrielles, pâtes et papiers, environnementales (bio-gaz), télécommunications, élec-

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Jason Shumka 2-2260 Hunter Rd. Kelowna, BC V1X 7J8 (250) 762-5525 jason@global-ndt.ca www.global-ndt.ca

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Global Inspections-NDT was instrumental in authoring ASTM Standard E2905 for gear drives, cleaning and inspections. This practice addresses the need to detect surface-breaking flaws electronically, and to accurately size any surface-breaking cracks found. All the data can be electronically archived for future reference.

Insurance companies have now accepted this standard. E2905 is now referred to in AGMA 919-1A14, condition monitoring and diagnostics of gear units and open gears.

Goldcorp Inc.

Geohart Consultants Pty Ltd. Wouter Hartman 24-195 Wellington Rd., Building 4 Clayton, VIC, Australia 3168 61-4-1842-5069 Wouter.Hartman@geohartconsultants. com.au www.geohartconsultants.com.au

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Geohart Consultants is a mining consultancy that provides a range of services for the mining industry with a focus on geological evaluation, interpretation and site services, mining geotechnical site investigations, rock mechanic and strata control reviews, open-cut mine slope stability assessments, tunnelling and shaft assessment/review, due diligence studies, slope stability, civil geotechnical foundation investigation and project management services.

social à Vancouver (ColombieBritannique), Goldcorp emploie plus de 18 000 personnes dans le monde. La société souscrit pleinement aux pratiques minières responsables et elle est bien placée pour offrir une croissance et un rendement durables sans pareils dans l’industrie.

Christine Marks 3400-666 Burrard St. Vancouver, BC V6C 2X8 (604) 696-3050 www.goldcorp.com

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Goldcorp is one of the world’s fastest growing senior gold producers with operations and development projects located in safe jurisdictions throughout the Americas. A Canadian company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia, Goldcorp employs more than 18,000 people worldwide. The company is committed to responsible mining practices and is well-positioned to deliver sustained, industryleading growth and performance.

Goldcorp est un des grands producteurs d’or et affiche l’un des plus forts taux de croissance au monde. Ses projets d’exploitation et de développement sont répartis dans différents pays des Amériques dont le climat politique est stable. Entreprise canadienne ayant son siège

Golder Associates Catharine Shaw 910-141 Adelaide St. W Toronto, ON M5H 3L5 (416) 366-6999 info@miningsolutionsgolder.com www.golder.com

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As a global, employee-owned organization with more than 50 years of experience, Golder Associates is driven by our purpose to engineer Earth’s development while preserving Earth’s integrity.

With deep technical understanding, Golder’s professional teams collaborate to design and build sustainable mining projects around the globe. Golder clients rely on the strength of technical and service excellence, delivered by a global network of specialists ready to provide strategic solutions for every stage of their mining projects.

Propriété de ses employés et forte d’une expérience de plus de 50 ans, Golder Associés, une organisation d’envergure mondiale, a pour raison d’être de contribuer au développement de la Terre tout en préservant son intégrité. De par le monde, les équipes de professionnels de Golder mettent en commun leur haut niveau de connaissances techniques pour concevoir et réaliser des projets miniers durables. Les clients de Golder peuvent compter sur l’expertise technique et l’excellence des services d’un réseau international de spécialistes prêts à apporter des solutions stratégiques.

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Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Geological Survey, Department of Natural Resources Sean O’Brien PO Box 8700 50 Elizabeth Ave. St. John’s, NL A1B 4J6 (709) 729-2775 seanobrien@gov.nl.ca www.nr.gov.nl.ca

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The Geological Survey of Newfoundland and Labrador is mandated to map the geological framework of the province; to interpret and explain its geological evolution; and to describe, interpret and explain the distribution, nature, quantity and origin of the province’s mineral resources. The Survey currently has five sections (Regional Geology; Mineral Deposits; Geochemistry, Geophysics and Terrain Sciences; Geoscience Data Management; and Geoscience Publications and Infor-

mation) and a geochemical laboratory.

Graham Group June Verhelst 875 57th St. E Saskatoon, SK S7K 5Z6 306-934-6644 junev@graham.ca www.graham.ca

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Graham is an employee-owned construction solutions partner with revenues exceeding $2 billion annually. With more than 50 years of experience in accessing, building and upgrading a wide variety of mine sites – oil sands, potash, gold, diamonds and uranium, as well as other commodities – we have the experience, equipment and resources to safely deliver projects of every scope, scale and complexity.

Through our aboriginal partnerships, we hire, train and mentor

aboriginal peoples, and provide the necessary tools and supervision to ensure they succeed.

Groupe CLR Inc. Yves Hebert 7200 boul. Jean XXIII Trois-Rivières, QC G9A 5C9 (819) 377-2424 yhebert@groupeclr.com www.groupeclr.com

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Groupe CLR is always looking for the latest innovations in wireless technologies. We deliver customized solutions for two-way radio, mesh networking, satellite phone and telemetry needs.

Groupe CLR is an authorized dealer for Kenwood, Motorola, Icom, Rajant and Iridium. For more than 30 years, our skilled engineers and technicians have provided the best-quality service there is to our diversified customers. From major urban cen-

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tres to the Far North, Groupe CLR is a leader in providing wireless communication to the mining industry. À l’affût des plus récentes innovations technologiques, Groupe CLR offre des solutions sur mesure en Radiocommunication, communication sans-fil (réseaux MESH), téléphonie satellite ainsi qu’en télémétrie.

Groupe CLR est distributeur autorisé des marques Motorola, Kenwood, Icom, Rajant et Iridium. Depuis plus de 30 ans, les ingénieurs et techniciens spécialisés de Groupe CLR mettent leur expertise au service de leur clientèle grandement diversifiée. Présent partout, des centres urbains jusqu’au Grand Nord, Groupe CLR s’impose comme l’un des plus importants développeurs de systèmes de communication sans-fil dans le domaine minier au pays.

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ability and maximization of mining industry economic impacts.

Groupe Crevier / Crevier Group Pierre-Paul Sabourin 2320 rue de la Métropole Longueuil, QC J4G 1E6 (450) 918-4493 psabourin@crevier.ca www.crevierlubrifiants.ca

Le Groupe MISA est un réseau d’experts qui travaille activement, sur une base d’affaires, à l’avancement d’équipements et de services innovateurs afin d’assurer la pérennité et la maximisation des retombées de l’industrie minière.

loppons actuellement nos compétences et relations d’affaire avec Gaz Métro pour évaluer les opportunités entourant la construction de points de transbordement et de dépôts, pour le Gaz Naturel Liquéfié, au Québec et au Canada.

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Crevier Group is a one-stop shop for your petroleum products and complementary fluids supply.

The Group carries a wide range of quality products such as gasoline, diesel, aviation fuels, lubricants, bio lubricants, coolants, diesel exhaust fluids and windshield washer fluids. Always attentive to the needs of its customers, Crevier Group’s experienced team offers technical and logistical support adapted to different types of mining operations.

Le Groupe Crevier est un guichet unique pour votre approvisionnement en produits pétroliers et fluides complémentaires. Le Groupe se démarque par son large éventail de produits de qualité tels que les essences, les diésels, les carburants d’aviation, les lubrifiants, les lubrifiants bio, les antigels, les fluides d’échappement diésel et le liquide laveglace. Toujours à l’écoute de ses clients, l’équipe expérimentée du Groupe Crevier offre un support technique et logistique adapté aux différents types d’opérations minières.

Groupe MISA Alain Beauséjour 10-94 Ave. du Lac Rouyn-Noranda, QC J9X 4N4 (819) 279-7195 ab@groupemisa.com www.groupemisa.com

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Groupe MISA is a network of expertise on mining innovation working actively, according with business logic, on the development of innovative equipment and services to ensure the sustain-

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Hard-Line Groupe SM Tardif Inc. Gilles Blanchet 15971, boul. de la Colline Quebec, QC G3G 3A7 (418) 571-5700 gilles.blanchet@sm-inc.com www.sm-inc.com

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Groupe SM Tardif works as a contractor. Three subsidiaries make it up. With its subsidiary SM Construction, it has been developing, over the years, a solid expertise in bulk plants (oil deposits), service stations and construction in general (HVAC, electricity, plumbing, telecommunications) with its subsidiary Pagui. Tardif Metal owns a 50,000 SF factory manufacturing all kinds of steel structures (electric structures, telecommunications towers, footbridges, etc.). We are now developing our skills and business relations with Gaz Métro to estimate the opportunities surrounding the construction of liquefied natural gas infrastructures (uploading points, LNG plants, etc.) in Quebec and in Canada.

Groupe SM Tardif œuvre comme entrepreneur en construction.

Trois filiales la composent. Avec sa filiale SM Construction, elle a développée, au fil des années, une solide expertise dans les dépôts et installations pétroliers et dans la construction en général (HVAC, électricité, plomberie, télécommunications) avec sa filiale Pagui. Tardif Métal possède une usine de fabrication d’acier, où de multiples structures d’acier peuvent être configurées et montées et pré-assemblage en atelier. Nous y fabriquons des structures d’acier (structures électriques, tours de télécommunications, passerelles, métaux ouvrés, garde-corps, etc.). Nous déve-

Ian Busch 53 Main St. Dowling, ON P0M 1R0 (705) 855-1310 www.hard-line.com

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Hard-Line is the global leader in design, manufacturing and installation of radio (RRC) and tele-remote (Teleop) control systems for heavy machinery. HardLine develops new and innovative products that save lives while increasing productivity in the global mining market.

Our remote control systems facilitate mining operations in hazardous areas via direct and extended line of sight or Teleop operation, while enhancing worker safety, continuous production and mine profitability.

Hard-Line’s systems can be installed and customized for any make or mode of machine.

decades with corporate roots extending over 100 years and has project experience in more than 150 countries around the world. With over 10,000 people in over 65 offices, the firm has more than $35 billion in projects currently under management.

Hatch est une firme multidisciplinaire appartenant à ses employés, qui offre des services professionnels destinés aux secteurs des mines, de la métallurgie, de l’énergie et des infrastructures dans un large éventail de domaines techniques et stratégiques, notamment la consultation, les technologies de l’information, l’ingénierie, le développement de procédés ainsi que la gestion de projets et de la construction.

Hatch est au service de sa clientèle depuis plus de six décennies et ses origines remontent à plus de cent ans dans le cadre de projets réalisés dans plus de 150 pays aux quatre coins du monde. Comptant sur un effectif de 10 000 professionnels répartis dans plus de 65 bureaux, la firme gère actuellement des projets représentant une valeur totale supérieure à 35 milliards de dollars.

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Hatch Ltd. Ljiljana Radman 2800 Speakman Dr. Mississauga, ON L5K 2R7 (905) 855-7600, (905) 403-4181 (rep) lradman@hatch.ca www.hatch.ca

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Hatch is an employee-owned, multidisciplinary professional services firm that delivers a comprehensive array of technical and strategic services, including consulting, information technology, engineering, process development, and project and construction management to the mining, metallurgical, energy and infrastructure sectors. Hatch has served clients for over six

Kelly Elphinstone 91 Terra Nova Dr. Wynyard, TAS, Australia 7325 61-3-6442-7777 sales@haulmax.com www.haulmax.com

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Haulmax is a leading manufacturer of extended distance, offhighway haulage trucks and technologically advanced roadrail vehicle and maintenance equipment solutions. Based in Tasmania, Australia, Haulmax is an established Caterpillar OEM and forms part of the Elphinstone Group. Representing integrity in design, manufacturing and overall product performance, Haulmax delivers integrated solutions for the global market.

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Haver & Boecker Canada Kristen Randall 225 Ontario St. St. Catharines, ON L2R 7B6 (905) 688-2644 krandall@havercanada.com www.havercanada.com

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une mine située au Québec (Canada). Hecla possède également des propriétés en phase d’exploration et de pré-exploitation dans six districts d’exploitation minière aurifère et argentifère de calibre international aux États-Unis, au Canada et au Mexique, ainsi qu’un bureau d’exploration et des investissements dans des projets d’exploration argentifères au stade préliminaire au Canada.

Haver & Boecker is a leading manufacturer in processing, storage, mixing, packing, filling, palletizing and loading systems.

Haver & Boecker’s brands include W.S. Tyler screening, washing and pelletizing equipment; Haver & Boecker packing technology; Behn + Bates food and feed packaging systems; Feige Filling technology for filling liquid and pasty products; IBAU Hamburg bulk loading, material handling and storage equipment; and Newtec solutions for palletizing and loading bagged products.

Hecla Mining Company Luke Russell 6500 N. Mineral Dr. Suite 200 Coeur d’Alene, ID, USA 83815 (208) 769-4100 www.hecla-mining.com

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Hecla Mining Company is a leading low-cost United States silver producer with operating mines in Alaska and Idaho, and is a growing gold producer with an operating mine in Quebec, Canada. The company also has exploration and predevelopment properties in six world-class silver and gold mining districts in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and an exploration office and investments in early-stage silver exploration projects in Canada.

Hecla Mining Company est un producteur d’argent à faible coût américain de premier plan qui exploite des mines en Alaska et en Idaho. La société prend aussi de l’importance à titre de producteur d’or grâce à

apporter des produits pertinents et technologiquement avancés au marché, maintenant et dans l’avenir.

Hewitt Equipment Ltd.

Herrenknecht Tunnelling Systems Steffen Dubé 200-5353 Dundas St. W Toronto, ON M9B 6H8 (416) 231-2555 dube.steffen@herrenknecht.com www.herrenknecht.com

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Hella Mining Inc. Canada Siegfried Tigges 201 Kelly Dr. Peachtree City, GA, USA 30269 (770) 631-7500 www.hellamining.com

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Hella Mining is oriented to support, develop and serve the mining industry worldwide. With divisions in Canada and the United States, and a designated mining sales team, Hella Mining is capable of providing technical and commercial expertise on a regional level with regard to lighting solutions. Canada is divided in Western/Eastern Canada, handled by two focused mining associates. Hella Mining has safety and durability in mind, as well as conformity with governmental regulations. We are committed to only bringing the most relevant and technology-advanced products to the marketplace, both now and in the future.

Hella Mining est orienté à soutenir, développer et servir l’industrie minière mondiale. Avec une division au Canada ainsi qu’aux États-Unis et une équipe de vente minière désignée, Hella Mining est capable de fournir une expertise technique et commerciale au niveau régional en ce qui concerne les solutions d’éclairage.

Le Canada est divisé entre ouest et est canadien géré par deux associés miniers ciblés. Hella Mining a la sécurité et la durabilité à l’esprit ainsi que la conformité aux réglementations gouvernementales. Nous nous engageons uniquement à

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Herrenknecht is the market leader in the field of mechanized tunnelling, delivering high-tech tunnel boring machines with diameters ranging from 0.1 metres to 19 metres for all ground conditions. Our tailormade tunnel boring machines produce systems for high-performance utility and traffic tunnelling, as well as declined ramps and horizontal access tunnels for mining applications.

The company produces a complete product platform of innovative technology for underground mining applications including boxhole boring machines, raise boring drills, shaft boring machines and tunnel boring machines.

Herrenknecht est le leader mondial dans la conception et fabrication de tunneliers mécanisés de diamètres allant de 0,10 à 19 mètres pour toutes conditions géologiques de forage dans le roc. L’entreprise produit une gamme complete de technologies automatisees, spécialisees dans le forage de tunnels pour rail, routes, metro, systèmes de canalisations des eaux sanitaires, mirco-tunnels pour services de cables, lignes de gaz. Nous fabriquons une gamme compléte d’equipements destinés aux besoins de l’industrie miniere concu pour le forage mecànise de rampes inclinees, tunnels d’acces, puits principaux de +/- 12 metres de diametres et 2000 mètres de prófondeur pour les mines sousterraines, puits de ventilation, galleries horizontals et systemes de convoyeurs specifiques adaptés à l’industrie miniere.

Jim Hewitt 5001 Trans-Canada Hwy Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 1B8 (514) 630-3211 www.hewitt.ca

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Hewitt Equipment is the authorized CAT dealer for Quebec and western Labrador, and through its subsidiary Atlantic Tractors and Equipment is also the CAT dealer for the Maritimes. With headquarters in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, and 45 branches, Hewitt sells, rents and services the fullline of Caterpillar products through five divisions: heavy equipment, material handling, energy, truck and agricultural; and other subsidiaries: Hewitt Material Handling, Hewitt Rentals, Montréal Hydraulique 04 and SITECH Atlantic.

Hewitt Équipement Limitée est le concessionnaire autorisé Cat au Québec et à l’ouest du Labrador; et, via sa filiale Atlantic Tractors and Equipment Ltd., l’est aussi pour les Maritimes.

Depuis son siège social à PointeClaire et ses 45 succursales, le Groupe Hewitt vend, loue et assure le service après-vente sous cinq divisions : Équipement Lourd, Manutention, Énergie, Camion et Agricole; et quatre autres filiales : Hewitt Material Handling Inc., Location Hewitt inc., Montréal Hydraulique 04 inc. et SITECH Atlantic Ltd.

Hitachi Consulting Matt Donnelly 333 Wyman St. Waltham, MA, USA 02451 (617) 756-6718 matt.donnelly@hitachiconsulting. com www.hitachiconsulting.com

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Hitachi Consulting has more than 25 years in the metals and mining sector, spanning 110plus successful projects worldwide and delivering over $700 million in operational value. Our mission is to preserve mining portfolio value by optimizing and sustaining the performance of physical, human, systems and data assets across mining operations. As a Hitachi company, we

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can partner with you across all of your mining capital, environmental and safety requirements.

• Contribuez à la sécurité de vos employés

IMAFS Inc. HumEng International Inc. Marc Labrie 3455 A Matte Boulevard Brossard, QC J4Y 2P4 (450) 651-5313 ext. 230 www.humeng.ca

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HumEng est un leader dans la gestion et le développement des compétences. Depuis plus de 20 ans, HumEng accompagne ses clients dans la conception, le développement et l’implantation de solutions de formation qui augmentent l’efficacité opérationnelle et diminuent les coûts.

Notre équipe est composée d’experts dans les domaines techniques, de la formation, de l’apprentissage et de l’éducation aux adultes. Nous avons travaillé avec plus de 150 moyennes et grandes entreprises dans plusieurs pays à travers le monde.

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IBK Capital Corp.

Michael White 640-130 King St. W Toronto, ON M5X 1E4 (416) 360-4505 mikewhite@ibkcapital.com www.ibkcapital.com

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IBK Capital is an independent and privately owned investment banking firm that offers financial advisory services in the mining, renewable energy and technology sectors. Such services include private placements of equity and debt, going public by way of reverse takeover of a public shell corporation, merger and acquisition, and divestiture advisory services, valuations, fairness opinions and takeover defence planning. Since its inception in February 1989, IBK Capital has played a role in transactions with a combined value of $5.6 billion.

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Noémie Rouleau 937 Boissy Saint-Lambert, QC J4R 1K1 (450) 671-1831 info@imafs.com www.imafs.com

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The Inventory Optimization Software. Be in complete control of your inventory with our state of the art optimization tools: • Improve your company’s performance

Disponible en mode cloud et intégration parfaite à toute plateforme transactionnelle (ERP, GMAO, WMS). IMAFS offre des réductions des stocks et des améliorations significatives du service et de la performance de ses inventaires, à un coût mensuel abordable. Possibilité d’évaluer le potentiel de rendement. Nos clients sont: Glencore Mine Matagami, Mine Canadian Malartic, Hecla Québec, Norampac, Société de transport de Montréal, Réseau de transport de la Capitale.

• Increase your parts’ availability • Establish your priorities • Reduce your inventories up to 50 per cent • Decrease stockouts up to 80 per cent • Reduce equipment downtimes • Insure your workers’ health and safety Available in a cloud application, IMAFS software can be easily integrated to any ERP or maintenance software. The results speak for themselves. IMAFS offers its customers a significant reduction of inventory and service, and performance improvements, all at a more affordable monthly cost. Proof of concept is available!

Our customers are Glencore Mine Matagami, Canadian Malartic Mine, Hecla Québec, Norampac, Société de transport de Montréal and Réseau de transport de la Capitale.

Le logiciel d’optimisation des inventaires en mode cloud. Maîtrisez la gestion de vos inventaires avec nos outils de dernière génération :

ISM – Industrial Steel Manufacturing Inc. Anthony Arduini 7690 Vantage Way Delta, BC V4G 1A7 (604) 940-4769 aa@ismbc.ca www.ismbc.ca

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ISM provides steel construction and steel fabrication solutions for projects in Western Canada through steel fabrication, steel detailing, steel erection and engineering. An 85,000 SFT manufacturing facility, located near barge and rail access, enables ISM to collaborate on the largest projects. Our team of certified steel fabricators, welders, erectors and project managers have successfully collaborated on some of the largest oil and gas and mining projects in North America. ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 pending in 2015.

ISM – your primary steel connection.

• Améliorez la performance de votre entreprise • Améliorez la disponibilité de vos stocks • Établissez les priorités

Intergraph Canada Ltd.

• Abaissez vos inventaires jusqu’à 50% • Diminuez vos ruptures de stock jusqu’à 80 %

1120-68 Ave. NE Calgary, AB T2E 8S5 (403) 569-5500 marketing@intergraph.com www.intergraph.com

• Réduisez le temps d’arrêt des équipements

Intergraph Process, Power and Marine (PP&M) is the leading

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global provider of engineering software for the design, construction and operation of plants, ships and offshore facilities. Many of the world’s largest and most advanced industrial and mining facilities are designed by using Intergraph’s enterprise engineering software, increasing efficiency in the design and construction of facilities and enabling management of the engineering design basis throughout the life cycle of an asset.

Intergraph Process, Power et Marine (PP&M) est le principal éditeur au monde de logiciels d’ingénierie dédiés à la conception, la construction et l’exploitation d’usines, de navires et de plates-formes au large des côtes. Nos clients s’en remettent à nos logiciels pour créer, gérer et maintenir des données d’ingénierie cruciales afin d’accroître leur productivité et de garantir des opérations sûres et précises. En tant que leader de l’industrie, nous vous faisons bénéficier dès aujourd’hui des capacités d’ingénierie de demain.

ISCO Canada Inc. Jean François Rioux 853 Rue Alfred Viau St. Jerome, QC J7Y 4N7 (514) 266-9900 jf.rioux@isco-pipe.com www.isco-pipe.com

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ISCO Industries – total piping solutions.

ISCO Industries is a global customized piping solutions provider based in Louisville, Kentucky. ISCO stocks and sells a wide variety of piping materials and provides solutions for various environmental, geothermal, golf, industrial, landfill, mining, municipal, nuclear, waterworks and culvert-lining applications worldwide. ISCO is a total piping solutions company with more than 30 facilities in the United States, Canada, Australia and Chile. ISCO offers custom highdensity polyethylene (HDPE) fabrication and inventories large supply of HDPE pipe.

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ISCO Industries est un fournisseur mondial de tuyauterie PEHD basé à Louisville, KY. ISCO possède et vend une grande variété de tuyauterie et propose des solutions pour diverses applications : environnement, géothermie, golf, industrielle, minière, aqueduc municipal, nucléaire et réinsertion de ponceau. ISCO est présente à travers le monde avec plus de 30 usines aux États-Unis, Canada, Australie et Chili. ISCO offre un service de fabrication personnalisée de structures en polyéthylène haute densité (PEHD).

Jannatec Technologies Rey Boucher 1545 Maley Dr. Sudbury, ON P3A 4R7 (705) 566-3939 rboucher@jannatec.com www.jannatec.com

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Jannatec Technologies, based in Sudbury, Ontario, is a member of the Schauenburg Group of companies. The name Jannatec Technologies has a long tradition in the two-way radio industry; Jannatec Technologies has more than 25 years of experience in the industry. We challenge ourselves to find a better way to build two-way radios that do more for less to efficiently meet the needs of our customers around the globe. Jannatec Technologies is an authorized two-way radio distributor; our number one goal is to achieve superior satisfaction by delivering products and services that exceed expectations. Our mission is to help the mining industry improve their productivity and safety by introducing new ways of working and communicating.

Our vision is to build on our dominance in northern Ontario, and be perceived as the preferred communication solution provider of total wireless networks to mines across Canada as well as around the world.

J.F. Comer Inc. Ben Kubica 4-141 Reach St. Uxbridge, ON L9P 1L3 (905) 852-3370 b.kubica@jfcomer.com www.jfcomer.com

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J.F. Comer was established in 1935 and continues to supply quality equipment from leading manufacturers. The main activity of J.F. Comer is the selection and sale of dependable and durable equipment. Specialized engineering principles are applied in order to select the most efficient and effective equipment for each client’s specific requirements.

J.F. Comer is a stocking manufacturer’s representative serving the mining and mineral processing industries. Products include mine hoists, slurry pumps, valves and metal detectors.

La compagnie de J.F Comer a été établie en 1935 et continue de fournir de l’équipement de qualité des principaux fabricants.

L’activité principale de notre compagnie J.F Comer Inc., c’est la sélection et la vente des équipements durables et fiables. Les principes spécialisés en techniques et ingénierie sont appliqués afin de sélectionner l’équipement le plus effectif et efficace pour les besoins spécifiques de chaque client et entreprise. J.F Comer est un représentatif des fabricants de stockage au service des industries qui traitent les mines et les minéraux. Les produits incluent les plans de mines, les pompes pour liquides chargés, les vannes et les détecteurs de métaux.

Joy Global (Canada) Ltd. Mohammad Ashraf 10-2256 29th St. NE Calgary, AB T1Y 7G4 (403) 516-5301 www.joyglobal.com

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Joy Global Canada is a leading supplier of equipment and serv-

ices for the Canadian mining industry. The company manufactures, sells and services P&H surface mining equipment, JOY underground mining equipment, Montabert drilling products, hard rock mining equipment, and other equipment and solutions that help make mining operations safer and more productive. Joy Global Canada employs close to 600 employees at facilities in Alberta, British Columbia, Newfoundland, Ontario and Saskatchewan.

Joy Global Canada est un fournisseur leader d’équipement et de services pour l’industrie minière canadienne.

L’entreprise fabrique, vend et entretient de l’équipement P&H pour l’exploitation minière surface, de l’équipement JOY pour l’exploitation minière souterraine, des produits de forage Montabert, de l’équipement d’exploitation minière en roche dures et d’autres équipements et solutions qui améliorent la sécurité et la productivité des activités minières. Joy Global Canada emploie près de 600 employés dans ses installations en la Colombie britannique, Terre-Neuve, l’Ontario et Saskatchewan.

Kalenborn Canada Inc. Sebastien Allard 602-755 boul. Saint-Jean Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5M9 (514) 426-0460 cell (514) 426-0460 seb@abresistkalenborn.ca www.kalenborn.de

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Kalenborn Canada is a part of the Kalenborn Kalprotect Group, a leading provider of wear protection and slide promotion solutions around the world for the last 80 years. With the knowledge that one product cannot solve all wear problems, Kalenborn Canada designs and manufactures its basalts, ceramics, chromium carbide overlay plates and pipes, alloyed castings, rubber and synthetics to meet the customer’s specific abrasion, impact and corrosion problems. The combination of different wear-resistant materials provides a more intelligent

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solution to each wear problem.

Kalenborn Canada’s purpose is to keep the solution simple but effective, and then deliver to you the complete package, including field measuring, drafting, manufacturing and installation.

Innovators of KALFLEX, flexible wear protection.

Kal Tire Mining Tire Group 1540 Kalamalka Lake Rd. Vernon, BC V1T 6V2 (250) 542-2366 www.kaltiremining.com

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The Kal Tire Mining Tire Group is a global leader delivering bestin-class customized solutions that ensure maximum productivity for all mining tire service, supply and safety needs. The company provides service to more than 150 mine sites on five continents and in 19 countries.

With more than 1,500 team members operating globally, Kal Tire Mining Tire Group has built a reputation for innovation, reliability and outstanding service.

Kal Tire Mining Tire Group est un leader mondial fournissant les meilleurs services de sa catégorie et des solutions sur mesure en vue d’assurer une productivité optimale, tant pour le service que l’approvisionnement des pneus, tout en respectant les besoins en terme de sécurité. Présente sur 150 sites miniers, situés dans 19 pays, lesquels sont répartis sur 5 continents, l’entreprise emploie plus de 1500 personnes dans le monde entier et s’est taillé une réputation enviée pour son innovation, sa fiabilité et son offre de service exceptionnelle.

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Kamco Installations Ltd. Justin Simpson 1347 Mission Flats Rd. Kamloops, BC V2C 1A9 (250) 374-3934 justin@kamcoinstallations.com www.kamcoinstallations.com

technicians), carbon steel, rubber-lined, fiberglass and stainless steel pipe, pipe spooling, drop tanks, air releases and valves. By focusing on our customers’ requirements and needs, our mission is to provide effective, quality service and products to our clients.

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Kamco Installations is an excavation and pipeline contracting company that is focused on installing pipelines for mines, serving all of British Columbia since it was founded in 1974.

Kamco has extensive experience installing above-ground and underground pipelines up to 65 inches in diameter for tailings, process, reclaim, firewater, freshwater, overflow and potable water. We can meet all your piping needs including HDPE (certified fusion inspector and

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Key Maintenance Technologies Greg Desrosiers 204 Carmichael Close NW Edmonton, AB T6R 2K6 (780) 437-7659 toll free: (866) 437-7659 greg@kmt1.ca www.kmt1.ca

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Key Maintenance Technologies is proud to be the Canadian master distributor for the complete lines of Spinner II oil cleaning

centrifuges, Glacier purification systems, DuraChem industrial chemistries and Fast Funnel disposable funnels. We are the largest Canadian distributor for AMSOIL synthetic lubricants, filtration systems and specialty chemicals. We are leading warehouse distributors for PulseTech battery maintenance systems and Centri air precleaners. 100 per cent Canadian since 1987.

We offer customized, sophisticated maintenance solutions for the mining industry.

teur de systèmes d’entretien des batteries PulseTech et de pré-filtres à air Centri. Depuis 1987, nous sommes 100 % canadien, et nous offrons à nos clients de l’industrie minière des solutions d’entretien personnalisées et sophistiquées.

Key Maintenance Technologies est fier d’être le distributeur canadien de choix pour la série complète de centrifugeuses Spinner II de nettoyage des fluides industriels, les circuits d’épuration Glacier, les chimies industrielles DuraChem et les entonnoirs jetables Fast Funnel.

Nous sommes le plus grand distributeur canadien de lubrifiants synthétiques, systèmes de filtration et produits chimiques spécialisés AMSOIL. Nous sommes le principal distribu-

Kinross Gold Corp.

David Eden 25 York St., 17th Floor Toronto, ON M5J 2V5 (416) 365-5123 david.eden@kinross.com www.kinross.com

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Kinross is a Canadian-based gold mining company with mines and projects in Brazil, Chile, Ghana, Mauritania, Russia and the United States. Kinross maintains listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange (symbol: K) and

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the New York Stock Exchange (symbol: KGC).

Quebec, and West Africa with a mining hub in Senegal.

Kinross est une société canadienne d’exploitation aurifère qui détient des mines et des projets au Brésil, au Chili, au Ghana, en Mauritanie, en Russie et aux États-Unis. Kinross est une société inscrite à la Bourse de Toronto (sous le symbole K) et à la Bourse de New York (sous le symbole KGC).

Au service de l’industrie minière depuis 1959, Équipements K.N. Inc. Possède un atelier de réparation et de fabrication complet.

Nous fabriquons les ventilateurs miniers, distribuons et réparons une gamme complète de produits neufs et usagés de pompage, tuyauterie, accouplements et équipements de traitement des minéraux. Notre expertise s’étend aussi à la fabrications de mini usine modulaire pour le traitement de l’or à petite échelle et pour projet pilote.

Nous desservons maintenant le nord du Québec à partir de notre entrepôt de Chibougamau et l’Afrique avec un hub minier au Sénégal.

Klohn Crippen Berger Bob Chambers 500-2955 Virtual Way Vancouver, BC V5M 4X6 (604) 669-3800 mining@klohn.com www.klohn.com

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Klohn Crippen Berger (KCB) has served the natural resource industry worldwide for more than 60 years. Our experience spans commodities from oil and gas, base and precious metals, coal and oil sands, in some of the most challenging conditions in the world. Headquartered in Vancouver, KCB has key offices in Toronto, Sudbury, Calgary and Edmonton; Lima, Peru; and Brisbane and Perth, Australia.

We are registered and have an ongoing presence in the United States, the United Kingdom, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Mauritania, Mongolia and Brazil.

KN Equipment Jean-Daniel Nieminen 8254 Rang du Vieux Pont Rouyn-Noranda, QC J9Y 0H4 (819) 797-4919 jean-daniel@kninc.ca www.kninc.ca

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Serving the mining industry since 1959, KN Equipment has a full repair and manufacturing shop.

We fabricate mine ventilation fans and accessories. We also supply and repair a full range of new or used pumping products, pipes and fittings, and ore processing equipment. We have developed a small modular gold recovery plant destined to smallscale miner and pilot plant. We now service the north from our warehouse in Chibougamau,

Lafarge Ifueko Abajue 300 - 115 Quarry Park Road SE Calgary, AB T2C 5G9 (403) 225-5271 ifueko.abajue@lafargeholcim.com www.lafarge.ca

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Lafarge is the largest diversified supplier of construction materials in Canada. We have a strong track record of providing solutions to the mining industry, with a priority on safety. These include concrete solutions for mine shaft and infrastructure construction, custom cementitious blends and backfill design, backfill production services, portable aggregate and concrete production service. We have an active First Nations partnership program and promote sustainable growth in the local communities where we operate.

Lafarge est le plus grand fournisseur de matériaux de construction au Canada. Nous avons une solide expérience en matière de conception et fourniture de solutions pour l’industrie minière, avec une priorité absolue accordée a la sécurité. Ces solutions comprennent des bétons prêt a l’emploi et préfabriqués pour les puits de mine et la construction d’infrastructures, des mélanges de ciment personnalisés, la conception et la production de remblai, des

services mobiles de production de béton et de granulats. Nous avons un programme de partenariat actif avec les Premières Nations et nous engageons a promouvoir une croissance durable dans les localités dans lesquelles nous opérons.

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mesh capacity along with the ability to precisely design products to meet the needs of specific industries. The company occupies a 350,000 square foot, state-of-the-art facility on a 22acre site in Burlington, Ontario.

Its commitment to quality has resulted in several landmark designations. It is the first North American cold-finisher to receive ISO 9002 registration – an international stamp of approval. It is also among the first to earn QS 9000 registration.

Laird Controls Canada Ltd. Eric Brouillette 3850 rue Griffith St-Laurent, QC H4T 1A7 (514) 908-1659 systems-cdn-sales@lairdtech.com www.lairdtech.com

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Laird wireless automation and control solutions provide safe and reliable solutions for the mining industry. Our CattronControl family of remote controls offers flexibility, safety and streamlined workflows. Laird also offers SiamNet Communications, which provides a safe and more efficient mining environment by combining conventional two-way radio technology with high-speed data transmission. Laird is also an industry leader in the design and manufacturing of EMI shielding, telematics, thermal management and antenna solutions.

Laurel Steel, Division of Harris Steel Grant Fraser 5400 Harvester Rd. PO Box 5095 Burlington, ON L7L 5N5 (905) 681-6811 grant.fraser@laurelsteel.com www.laurelsteel.com

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Levert Personnel Resources Inc. Jim Laroche 17 Frood Rd. Sudbury, ON P3C 4Y9 1-800-451-5934 jlaroche@levert.ca www.levert.ca

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Levert Group provides industryready personnel resources, executive recruitment, staffing and employment opportunities within the mining, oil and gas, marine and industrial sectors.

Through extensive recruiting and training processes, Levert is committed to safety and quality assurance. Levert fills roles such as surface and underground mining personnel, maintenance and shutdown personnel, engineers, confined space rescue teams, skilled trades, equipment operators, office clerical and much more. Clients are provided with skilled, prescreened, industry-ready employees, along with complete payroll services. With over 30 years of experience, Levert Group assists clients and candidates alike to achieve their short- or long-term business goals. Our product is people.

Since 1983.

Founded in 1967, Laurel Steel is a member of the prestigious Harris Steel Group. It has experienced constant growth, including launching its branded products: Cutter’s Choice Cutter’s Choice Green, Miner’s Choice and Bolt-Saver. Recently installed high-tech and worldclass welding equipment will allow increased wire and wire December/Décembre 2015 • January/Janvier 2016 | 83

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Limpact International Ltd. Steve Fredericks 569 D’Arcy St. PO Box 187 Cobourg, ON K9A 4K5 (905) 373-4100 sfredericks@limpact.com www.limpact.com

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Limpact International has been an active manufacturer/exporter of custom cathodes and other products for the nonferrous electrolytic metals refining industry for more than 40 years.

Our unique process of impact bonding dissimilar metals allows us to manufacture energy-saving products with increased service life for metals refining. You will find Limpact products in most of the leading zinc and copper refineries around the world. Limpact is located in Cobourg, Ontario, and has a workforce of 70 employees.

Mabarex Inc. François Seguin 2021 Halpern St. Saint-Laurent, QC H4S 1S3 (514) 334-6721 fseguin@mabarex.com www.mabarex.com

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Specialized in design, manufacturing and installation of drinking water, wastewater and sludge treatment processes, Mabarex has the solution to all your environmental problems.

Mabarex offers a wide range of products and services and the most efficient up-to-date processes to meet all of its clients’ needs since 1983. Our experienced team will guide you in building or retrofitting water and sludge treatment projects.

From necessary permit requests to start up, Mabarex has an unmatched expertise and the most appropriate technological solutions to meet all your needs.

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Spécialisée dans la conception, la fabrication et l´installation de procédés de traitement de l´eau potable, des eaux usées et des boues, Mabarex possède la solution à vos problèmes environnementaux. Depuis 1983 Mabarex dispose d´une vaste gamme de services et de technologies de pointe qui répondent à l´ensemble des besoins de sa clientèle. Notre équipe d´expérience vous conseillera dans vos projets de construction ou de modernisation de systèmes de traitement des eaux et des boues. De la demande de certificat d´autorisation à la mise en œuvre du projet, Mabarex offre une expertise inégalée et la solution technologique la mieux adaptée à vos besoins.

Maptek Dede Butler 165 S. Union Blvd., Suite 888 Lakewood, CO, USA 80228 (303) 763-4919 www.maptek.com

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Maptek is a leading provider of innovative software, hardware and services for the global mining industry. Maptek products are in use at more than 1,700 sites in over 65 countries, supported by professional and technical services in a worldwide network of 13 offices. Maptek products include Vulcan, I-Site, BlastLogic, PerfectDig, Eureka, Sentry and Evolution.

Maptek est un leader dans le domaine des logiciels innovants, du matériel informatique et des services destinés à l’industrie minière. Les produits Maptek, utilisés sur plus de 1700 sites, eux-mêmes répandus dans plus de 65 pays, sont soutenus par des services professionnels et techniques prodigués à partir de 13 bureaux à travers le monde.

Les produits Maptek regroupent les marques Vulcan, I-Site, BlastLogic, PerfectDig, Eureka et Sentry.

McCarthy Tétrault SENCRL, srl Pierre Boivin 500, Grande-Allée Est Québec, QC G1R 2J7 (418) 521-3000 www.mccarthy.ca

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McCarthy Tétrault is Canada’s premier law firm, with offices in all major financial centres in Canada and London, United Kingdom. Our Global Mining Law Group has been at the forefront of deal-making, innovative transaction structures, headline-making litigation and transformative regulatory developments in Canada and abroad. We blend industry experts with top-tier experience, a practical approach to problem-solving and a relentless focus on achieving business objectives and delivering value for mining industry players.

Le groupe mondial du droit minier de McCarthy Tétrault a joué un rôle prépondérant dans la conclusion d’opérations, la création de structures transactionnelles novatrices, divers litiges médiatisés et l’évolution des lois et règlements au Canada et à l’étranger. Alliant spécialistes sectoriels chevronnés et approche efficace de résolution de problèmes, notre groupe mondial du droit minier accorde une attention particulière à l’atteinte des objectifs d’affaires et à la création de valeur pour les acteurs de l’industrie minière.

McCue Engineering Contractors Chris McCue 203-8291 92nd St. Delta, BC V4G 0A4 (604) 940-2828 info@mccuecontracting.com www.mccuecontracting.com

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McCue Engineering Contractors is an award-winning Canadian engineering and construction company. We design, build, operate and maintain remediation

systems, mine water treatment systems and industrial wastewater treatment systems. We provide custom, leading-edge water treatment technologies for mining, oil and gas, industrial wastewater and camp/small community sewage systems. We also provide services in vapour management system design, installation and inspection, and are the only approved Liquid Boot applicator and inspector in British Columbia. McCue has a proven track record of customer service – we pride ourselves in being nimble, entrepreneurial and responsive when attending to our customer’s needs.

McCue Engineering Contractors est une compagnie lauréate canadienne spécialisée en ingénierie et en construction. Nous concevons, construisons, opérons et maintenons des systèmes d’assainissement, des systèmes d’épuration des eaux de mine, et des systèmes pour le traitement des eaux usées industrielles. Nous offrons des technologies de pointe sur mesure pour le traitement des eaux de l’industrie minière, de l’industrie pétrolière et gazière, des eaux usées industrielles et des systèmes d’égouts de campements et de petites municipalités. Nous offrons aussi des services de conception, d’installation et d’inspection de systèmes de gestion des vapeurs.

Nous sommes de plus les seuls applicateurs et inspecteurs approuvés de Liquid Boot en Colombie-Britannique. McCue a fait ses preuves en service à la clientèle – nous avons à coeur d’être souple, entrepreneurial et attentif lorsque nous voyons aux besoins de notre clientèle.

McLanahan Corp.

Matt Riley 200 Wall St. Hollidaysburg, PA, USA 16648 (814) 695-9807 mriley@mclanahan.com www.mclanahan.com

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than ever in today’s tough marketplace. From crushing to water management, McLanahan custom engineers process solutions to help you be more efficient, more productive and more profitable. Sales, engineering and customer service are constantly working together to improve designs to help producers do more with their resources.

cent Canadian-owned and operated, and have manufacturing and service facilities in Alberta and British Columbia. MCS also provides for its customers worldwide through a network of established distributors and our newly opened office in Santiago, Chile.

Colin Smith 1920-400 Burrard St. Vancouver, BC V6C 3A6 (604) 646-8924 www.micromine.com

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Micromine develops mining software solutions spanning the entire mining process – from geological exploration and 3D mine design to mine production management, mine production control and data management solutions. With over 12,000 clients in more than 90 countries, and 22 offices located in the world’s major mineral producing capitals, Micromine is the leading provider of intuitive software solutions that deliver operational efficiencies through every step of the mining and exploration process. Micromine provides you with local support and services in your language and your time zone.

1085 Kelly Lake Road Sudbury, ON P3E 5P5 www.mstglobal.com

Mine Site Technologies is the global leader in the design, manufacture and deployment of solutions for mine communications, vehicle and personnel tracking, production optimization, automation and safety. We train our employees, design our products and support our customers to create a global culture of safe productivity. Our network solutions include digital communications and tracking (ImPact), vehicle intelligence platforms, leaky feeder, mobile mesh, MinePhone, ICCL, PED and BlastPED.

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Mine Cable Services Corp.

John Parkes 7731 16th Street NW Edmonton, AB T6P 1M1 (780) 439-1113 toll free : (800) 663-2889 www.minecableservices.ca

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Mine Cable Services (MCS) manufactures and supplies highvoltage cable connection systems (5 kV, 8 kV, 15 kV, 25 kV), and handling and safety accessories for mining, oil and gas, container port cranes, underground tunnelling and forestry crane operations. We are 100 per

Prospector News; and eMining blasts. Trade show and seminar/conference services called “Hit Lists” complement our business.

We are enthusiastic supporters of helping mining students find jobs.

MWH Global Inc. Resa Furey One Bentall Centre 740-1185 W. Georgia St. Vancouver, BC V6E 4E6 (303) 533-1931 resa.k.furey@mwhglobal.com www.mwhglobal.com

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Lewis Bonder 200-4965 Borden Ave. Montreal, QC H4V 2S9 (514) 485-3083 lbonder@miningpublications.com www.miningpublications.com

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Mining Publications International was established in 1997 to provide advertising and trade show services to the Canadian Institute of Mining. After eight successful years, we then became the exclusive Canadian representative for the Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SME-USA).

Our publications include Construcción Latino Americana, the leading Latin America mining and construction journal; Canadian Mining and Energy;

The Mosaic Company Joc O’Rourke E490-3033 Campus Dr. Minneapolis, MN, USA 55441 (763) 577-2700 www.mosaicco.com

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The Mosaic Company is the world’s leading combined producer and marketer of concentrated potash and phosphate – two of the primary nutrients required to help the world grow the food it needs. Mosaic engages in every phase of crop nutrition – from the mining of resources to the production of crop nutrients, feed and industrial products for customers around the globe. Our customer base includes wholesalers, retail dealers and individual growers in more than 40 countries.

Mullen Trucking LP Jeff Pahl 1 Maple Leaf Rd. Aldersyde, AB T0L 0A0 (800) 661-1469 jpahl@mullentrucking.com www.mullentrucking.com

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Mullen Trucking owns and operates one of the most diverse fleets of equipment in the transportation industry, including vans, decks and specialty extendable and multi-axle trailers. Our specialized fleet is Western Canada’s largest and has the capability to move up to 100 tons throughout North America. Our services include LTL, truckload, over-dimensional, project management, logistics, storage and rail siding service.

MWH Global is a strategic consulting, technical engineering and construction services firm.

Our mining services encompass water management, treatment and supply; environmental planning, permitting and compliance; hydrogeologic, geochemical and ecological studies; civil/geotechnical structures and infrastructure; reclamation planning and closure; dams and hydropower, and remediation. Our nearly 7,000 employees are dedicated to fulfilling our purpose of building a better world and our commitment to sustainable development.

MWH Global est une société de conseil, d’ingénierie et de services de construction. Nos services englobent la gestion, le traitement et la distribution d’eau; la planification, l’autorisation et la conformité environnementale; les études hydrogéologiques, géochimiques et écologiques ; les structures et infrastructures civiles / géotechniques; les barrages, l’hydroélectricité et l’assainissement. Nos 7000 employés travaillent à la réalisation de notre objectif de construire un monde meilleur et de concourir au développement durable.

Necotrans Global Logistics Canada Inc. Stephane Le Coroller 4711 Yonge St., 10th Floor Toronto, ON M2N 6K8 (647) 297-9730 s.lecoroller@necotrans.com www.necotrans.com

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with a wide range of integrated and customized services. Those activities include equipment distribution oil logistic as well as inland, freight forwarding, port and logistics activities. Necotrans is at the heart of those exchanges and guarantees the smooth movement of the people and equipment that your projects require. Necotrans is the key to your success.

Les territoires les plus prometteurs sont rarement les plus faciles. Solidement implanté en Afrique depuis 30 ans dans les zones qui offrent aujourd’hui les plus belles opportunités de croissance, Necotrans, acteur clé de la logistique accompagne votre développement grâce à une gamme de services sur mesure et intégrés. Ces secteurs couvrent : la distribution d’équipement, la logistique pétrolière ainsi que terrestre, la manutention portuaire, la commission de transport. Necotrans est au cœur de ces échanges et assure la bonne coordination des matériels et de la main d’œuvre nécessaire à vos projets.

is Tata Steel, which is also NML’s largest shareholder and business partner.

New Millennium Iron Corp.

(NML) est une société canadienne cotée en bourse, spécialisée dans le développement de minerai de fer. NML contrôle sept gisements importants dans la région de Menihek de la fosse du Labrador au Canada, aux alentours de Schefferville, Québec. Chacun a été exploré et certifié à la norme du règlement NI 43-101 et NML étudie actuellement différentes options de développement. Des études de faisabilité approfondies ont été effectuées sur deux de ces gisements – LabMag et KéMag – et publiées en 2014. Dans la même région, NML détient une participation minoritaire du projet de minerai à enfournement direct, le projet DSO (pour Direct Shipping Ore) actuellement en production avec des expéditions vers l’Europe et la Chine de fines pour agglomération. Le propriétaire principal est Tata Steel Ltd. qui est également le plus grand actionnaire de NML et partenaire en affaires.

NTN Bearing Corp. of Canada Ltd. Al Rudaitis 305 Courtney Park Dr. W Mississauga, ON L5W 1Y4 (905) 564-2700 www.ntnamericas.com/en

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NTN Bearing is the world’s thirdlargest bearing manufacturer in the world. Manufacturing and supplying a range of bearings and constant velocity joints, NTN meets a variety of applications, across a variety of industries.

Every mining operation is an array of mining machines – from compact, continuous miners in underground mining to larger draglines found in surface mining. NTN has bearings for each of these processes. With our experience in mining, we have the products that are capable of performing and exceeding reliability and life requirements.

Oboni Riskope Associates Inc. Cesar Oboni 3783 Maxwell St. Vancouver, BC V5N (604) 341-4485 coboni@riskope.com www.riskope.com

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North Fringe Industrial Technologies Inc.

Robert Patzelt 1303 Greene Ave., 2nd Floor Montreal, QC H3Z 2A7 (514) 935-3204 rpatzelt@nmliron.com www.nmliron.com

Brett Cain 1251 Nipawin Rd. W Nipawin, SK S0E 1E0 (306) 862-5900 www.northfringe.com

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New Millennium Iron (NML) is a publicly traded Canadian iron ore development company. NML controls seven significant deposits in the Menihek region of Canada’s Labrador Trough, around Schefferville, Quebec.

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North Fringe Industrial Technologies is a company focused on pump sales, pump service and pump rentals. North Fringe has offices and representatives across Western Canada to help with any application or request you may have.

Oboni Riskope Associates (ORA) is a world leader in developing custom-tailored quantitative risk-based decision-making models and methodologies evaluating natural and man-made risks, including criminal and terrorist activities. ORA identifies and benchmarks risks and crises, allowing informed and sensible mitigation plans to be selected and implemented, leading to enhanced resiliency of any operation. Among ORA’s clients are Fortune 500 (top 10) companies, Teck, Codelco, GICHD, UNDP, 2006 Winter Olympics and Mackenzie Valley Review Board (NWT).

Oboni Riskope Associés (ORA) est un chef de file dans le développement de modèles et méthodologies de prise de décisions basées sur les risques naturels et humains, incluant les activités criminelles et terroristes. ORA identifie et quantifie

les risques et les crises, permettant la sélection de plans d’atténuation de risques et leur implémentation, conduisant à un accroissement de la résilience globale. Parmi les clients de ORA: Fortune500 top 10 companies, Teck, Codelco, GICHD, UNDP, Jeux olympiques 2006, Mackenzie River Review Board (TNO).

Outotec Canada Craig Sames 1551 Corporate Dr. Burlington, ON L7L 6M3 (905) 335-0002 craig.sams@outotec.com www.outotec.com

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Outotec develops technology solutions for the sustainable use of Earth’s natural resources. As the global leader in minerals and metals processing technology, Outotec has developed numerous breakthrough technologies over decades. The company also offers innovative solutions for the chemical industry, industrial water treatment and utilization of alternative energy sources.

Outotec collaborates with its customers in order to optimize the utilization of raw materials and energy efficiency as well as minimizing environmental impact and operating costs.

Outotec développe des solutions technologiques pour l’utilisation pérenne des ressources naturelles de la Terre. En tant que chef de file mondial de la technologie des minéraux et de la transformation des métaux, Outotec a développé plusieurs technologies révolutionnaires au fil des décennies. La société propose également des solutions innovantes pour l’industrie chimique, traitement des eaux industrielles et l’utilisation des sources d’énergie alternatives.

Outotec collabore avec ses clients afin d’optimiser l’utilisation des matières premières et l’efficacité énergétique ainsi que la réduction de l’impact sur l’environnement et des coûts d’exploitation.

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Paul F. Wilkinson & Associates Inc.

P.R. Engineering Ltd. Linda Grieco 249 Toronto Ave. Oshawa, ON L1H 3C2 (905) 579-9721 linda@prengineering.com www.prengineering.com

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Since 1965, P.R. Engineering has been committed to the crusher industry in all aspects of manufacturing, remanufacturing, component repair, supplying parts and service. If your requirements call for a new or remanufactured crusher, find out why P.R. Engineering in Oshawa, Ontario, is a leader in the jaw crusher industry. We have the capabilities to fabricate, machine and assemble large custom equipment for the following industries: steel, pulp and paper, material handling, power generation, defence and architectural/advertising.

Pacific Bit of Canada Inc. Hal Hinkkuri 204, 9485 -189th St. Surrey, BC V4N 5L8 (604) 513-4292, toll free: (877) 511-4292 Hal.hinkkuri@pacific-bit.com www.pacific-bit.com

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Pacific Bit of Canada supplies the complete line of rock drilling tools: shanks, rods, bits and accessories, DTH equipment, drill pipe, casing, grinders and hand-held rock drills. All are available. These are proven highquality products from companies such as Robit, Rock Hog, Drill Pipe, CME and Canun. With locations in British Columbia and Ontario, Pacific Bit has one of the largest inventories in the country.

Quality products, exceptional service, no compromises. More holes – more value.

Paul F. Wilkinson 105-2325 rue Centre Montreal, QC H3K 1J6 (514) 448-9595 pfw@wilkinson.ca

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Paul F. Wilkinson & Associates (PFWA) specializes in environmental and social impact assessment and aboriginal affairs. Over the past 35 years, it has served the private industry, governments, NGOs, international agencies and close to 100 aboriginal organizations, thereby gaining a solid understanding of the various perspectives at play.

For the past decade, it has specialized in mining projects, principally in Canada. It has also worked in India, Africa and South America.

La firme PFWA se spécialise en évaluations d’impacts environnementaux et sociaux ainsi qu’en affaires aborigènes. Au cours des 35 dernières années, elle a œuvré pour le compte de firmes privées, de gouvernements, d’ONGs, d’institutions internationales et d’une centaine de groupes autochtones, profitant ainsi d’une bonne compréhension de perspectives variées sur le développement.

Depuis une dizaine d’années, PFWA se spécialise dans les projets miniers, principalement au Canada. Son expérience s’étend aussi en Inde, en Afrique et en Amérique du Sud.

Pex Industrial Piping Solutions Al Comeau 3703-56 Ave. Edmonton, AB T6B 3R7 (780) 450-1155 al@pex-pipe.com www.pexgol.com

28 inches NPS, and is suitable for corrosive and abrasive media found in the mineral process industry. Installations can be found in oil sands, nickel, gold, copper, potash, uranium, salts and alumina. PEXGOL is available as pipe and also as liner for pipe remediation.

Phoenix Extreme Conveyor Belt Solutions (Veyance Technologies Canada Inc.) Brad Baber 383-3 11 Bellerose Dr. St. Albert, AB T8N 5C9 (780) 569-5057 brad.baber@veyance.com www.extremebelts.com

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Conveying extreme commitment. We’re committed to more than just creating the longest, strongest, heaviest conveyor belts in the industry; we’re committed to you – your needs, your business, your success. From design and installation, to stateof-the-art monitoring, our extreme conveyor belt solutions go the distance, helping you achieve more. Put our commitment to work for you.

Goodyear Engineered Products mining conveyor belts are now branded Phoenix. Same extraordinary people. Same exceptional products. Same expert advice.

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Keith Klayh 1971 Bond St. North Bay, ON P1B 4V7 (705) 478-0902 www.pneuma-tool.com

Pex Industrial Piping Solutions is the North American representative for PEXGOL dependable piping. PEXGOL is a cross-linked PE-Xa piping material with enhanced mechanical properties that make it suitable for demanding piping applications operating up to 115 C. PEXGOL is available in pipe diameters up to

Rock drill lubricants (RDOs) represent a relatively small cost to mine operators but have a significant impact on mine productivity and on the health and safety of miners. Traditional RDOs create an oil mist, reduce visibility, form a slippery film on surfaces and pose a respiratory hazard.

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mist, improves tool life and creates a healthier work environment. Various grades are available for extreme heat and cold, and for areas with limited ventilation.

Les lubrifiants pneumatiques représentent une dépense faible pour les exploitants de mines, mais ils ont un impact significatif sur la productivité des mines et de la santé et la sécurité des miniers. Les huiles traditionelles créer un brouillard d’huile, une réduction de visibilité, la formation d’une filme glissant sur les surfaces, et la création d’un danger respiratoire. Pneuma-Tool élimine le brouillard d’huile, améliore la durée de vie d’outil, et crée un environnement de travail plus sûr et sain.

Polar Mobility Research Ltd. Ian Duiven 7860 62nd St. SE Calgary, AB T2C 5K2 (403) 279-3633 / toll-free: 1-800-309-8155 iand@polarmobility.com info@polarmobility.com www.polarmobility.com

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At Polar, we manufacture a diverse selection of HVAC systems for use in the heavy construction, military and mining industries. Wherever clean, conditioned air is required, you can find Polar Air. Check out our mining A/C systems on our website. All Polar-manufactured products are designed to give the greatest operator comfort and reliability for your environment – engineered for incredible performance in extreme conditions and built to handle vibration, corrosive atmospheres, dusty work areas and hazardous environments. Do you require intrinsically safe or explosion-proof systems? Polar can help solve issues. Our systems are suitable for all equipment and uses, including shovels, dozers, drills, LHDs, cranes, refuge stations, haul trucks, excavators, etc. No matter what your application, call Polar! Heavy-duty HVAC sys-

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tems for extreme climates and hazardous environments.

PotashCorp Tyler Dunn 500-122 1st Ave. S Saskatoon, SK S7K 7G3 (306) 933-8546 www.potashcorp.com

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PotashCorp is the world’s largest fertilizer company by capacity, producing the three primary crop nutrients: potash (K), nitrogen (N) and phosphate (P). To enhance our global footprint, we also have investments in four potash-related businesses in South America, the Middle East and Asia. With operations and business interests in seven countries, PotashCorp is an international enterprise and plays an important role in helping the world grow the food it needs.

Praetorian Construction Management Chris Pichurski 201-10441 178 St. Edmonton, AB T5S 1R5 (780) 801-4706 cpichurski@praetoriancm.com www.praetoriancm.com

weather. We incorporate this experience into the planning, scheduling, constructability and execution of a project. We focus on leadership, effective communications and continuous improvement for the management of the construction and, more importantly, the development of a behaviorally based safety culture.

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Praetorian Construction Management provides professional construction management services for the global mining industry, including open pit and underground operations. We serve as our clients’ front-line interface for the development and construction of projects at both new and existing facilities in the resource sector. Praetorian brings extensive experience in remote, arctic conditions and meets the challenges created by extreme cold

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Provix Inc. Karly Winfield 6436 Hwy 89 Alliston, ON, L9R 1V2 (705) 434-0253 sales@provix.net www.provix.net

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Provix is well recognized for vision enhancement solutions in surface and underground mining. Provix supplies and installs remote control systems with IP

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Making informed choices – Modern mining: Standing still is going backwards!

Faire des choix éclairés – Exploitation minière contemporaine : Ne pas bouger, c’est faire marche arrière!

Full-costing in the selection of good mine projects Méthode du coût complet dans la sélection de bons projets miniers

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Provix est reconnu pour ses solutions d’amélioration de la vision pour les mines en surface et sous terre. Provix fournit et installe des systèmes de contrôle à distance avec IP et des systèmes vidéos analogiques sur les équipements mobiles et fixes pour les exploitations à distance et des proces-

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and analogue video systems on mobile and stationary equipment for remote operations and process monitoring that offer increased safety and productivity at mines across North AmerCollision avoidance ica. specialists, Total Detector is an RFID-based proximity detection system that does not require infrastructure deployment.

Provix cameras are deployed on bolters, jumbos, drills, scoops, haul trucks, loading chutes, breakers, bin, stope, borehole inspection, raised bore, ITH drills, back/paste fill and more.

Contact Provix for cost-effective custom video solutions for any application.

5. ROUSSOS DIMITRAKOPOULOS McGill University

Smart mining complexes and value chains: a technological perspective on risk management and sustainability Complexes miniers intelligents et chaînes de valeur : une perspective technologique sur la gestion du risque et la durabilité

6. WILSON PASCHETO XPS Consulting & Testwork Services

Materials technology in the mining industry, opportunities and challenges Technologie des matériaux dans l’industrie minière : occasions et défis

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sus de surveillance qui maximisent la sécurité et la productivité dans les mines en Amérique du Nord. Spécialisé en évitement de collision, le « détecteur total » est un système de détection de proximité RFID qui ne nécessite aucun déploiement des infrastructures. Les caméras Provix sont installées sur les boulonneuses, les gros-porteurs, les trépans, les pelles, les camions de transport, les rampes de chargement, les concasseurs, les bacs, les chantiers, les inspections de trous de forage, les alésages soulevés, les perceuses ITH, les remblayages/système de remblayage par pâte et plus encore.

Contactez Provix pour des solutions de vidéo personnalisées rentables pour toutes les applications.

gamme des produits financiers tels que des participations dans le capital-actions des entreprises, des débentures et diverses formes de prêts.

REM-Resource Engineering & Maintenance John MacPherson 222 Edward St. Aurora, ON L4G 1W6 (905) 713-4335 jmacpherson@annexweb.com www.rem-mag.com

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RICHWOOD Richwood Kevin Maloy 707 7th St. W. Huntington, WV 25704, USA (304) 525-5436 www.richwood.com

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Richwood designs innovative solutions for the worldwide bulk material handling industry. For over 30 years the busiest mines in the world have put their confidence in our problem solving expertise. Clean conveyors and sealed and protected load zones from site-specific solutions mean lower maintenance costs, safer work areas and more productive operations.

Redpath Mining Contractors & Engineers Laura Piché 710 McKeown Ave. North Bay, ON P1B 7M2 (705) 474-4042 ext. 220 www.redpathmining.com

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Redpath has been providing full and comprehensive expertise and experienced services to the global mining industry for more than 50 years. Companies choose Redpath for our international family of highly qualified personnel, unwavering commitment to maintaining the highest safety standards and ability to meet deadlines. Technical and operational expertise contributes greatly to our reputation for practical and innovative performance, resulting in the successful completion of complex, challenging mine development and construction projects.

Worldwide services include shaft sinking, mine development contract mining, raiseboring and raise drill manufacturing, raise mining, underground construction, engineering and technical services.

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Rio Tinto est un important groupe minier international dont le siège social est situé au Royaume-Uni, regroupant Rio Tinto plc, société inscrite aux Bourses de londres et de New York, et Rio Tinto Limited, société à la Bourse d’Australie.

Rio Tinto s’occupe de propection, d’exploitation et de traitement de ressources minérals. Il produit principalement de l’aluminium, du cuivre, des diamants, de l’énergie (charbon et uranium) de l’or et des minéraux industriels (borax, dioxyde de titane, sel et talc) et du minerai de fer. Bien que ses activités soient d’envergure mondiale, Rio Tinto est solidement implanté en Australie et en Amérique du Nord et possède d’importantes entreprises en Amérique du Sud, en Asie, en Europe et en Afrique australe.

Rockhound Ltd. Ressources Québec Denis Williams 1500-600 rue de la Gauchetière O Montreal, QC H3B 4L8 (866) 870-0437 Denis.williams@invest-quebec.com www.ressourcesquebec.com

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Ressources Québec, a subsidiary of Investissement Québec, is the gateway for companies seeking to invest in the mining and hydrocarbon industries.

Ressources Québec supports resource companies at every stage of their projects, from exploration and development through to processing. It offers a full range of financial products, including investments in share capital, debentures and various types of loans.

Ressources Québec, filiale d’Investissement Québec, est le point d’entrée des entreprises qui souhaitent investir dans les secteurs des mines et des hydrocarbures.

Ressources Québec accompagne les entreprises tout au long de la réalisation de leurs projets, de l’exploration à l’exploitation, jusqu’à la transformation des ressources. Elle offre toute la

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Rio Tinto Iron & Titanium Didier Arseguel 1625 rte. Marie-Victorin Sorel-Tracy, QC J3R 1M6 (450) 746-3076 www.rtit.com

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Rio Tinto is a leading international mining group headquartered in the United Kingdom, combining Rio Tinto plc, a London and New York Stock Exchange-listed company, and Rio Tinto Limited, which is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

Rio Tinto’s business is finding mining and processing mineral resources. Major products are aluminum, copper, diamonds, energy (coal and uranium), gold, industrial minerals (borax, titanium dioxide, salt) and iron ore.

Activities span the world but are strongly represented in Australia and North America with significant businesses in South America, Asia, Eruope and Southern Africa.

Rockhound is a Hong Kongbased private company of highly qualified professionals and business specialists set up in 2006 to serve the minerals industry in the region, both in exploration and mining. We provide technical consultancy services as well as mineral asset management services tailored to the needs of our clients. We help our clients maximize their minerals investments through technical means and through our business network in the region.

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maximiser la valeur pour ses actionnaires par la gestion efficace de ses actifs existants ainsi que la recherche d’occasions de croissance organique et stratégique.

Rulmeca Canada Ltd. Todd Mason 75 Mason St. Wallaceburg, ON N8A 4L7 (519) 627-2277 www.rulmeca.ca

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Precismeca is now Rulmeca Canada! Precismeca was purchased by the Rulmeca Group in 2000. The Precismeca name is well recognized worldwide and will continue in a brand-name capacity. Manufacturing out of Wallaceburg, Ontario, Rulmeca Canada is on the forefront of technology, design and construction of a vast array of conveyor components. Rulmeca Canada stands alone in its commitment to supply only the most robust conveyor products on the market today.

SAFEmap International Inc.

Sedgman Ltd.

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Elaine Einarson 2670-650 West Georgia Street PO Box 11515 Vancouver, BC V6B 4N9 elaine.einarson@sedgman.com www.sedgman.com

SAFEmap is a global safety consultancy that focuses on safety leadership, culture change and risk-based safety. Our programs create real change, ensure lasting safety improvements and win the hearts and minds of people to take you “beyond zero.” With us, your managers become inspirational safety leaders, your supervisors become safety coaches and your employees become safety champions. Our training courses are globally recognized, our change programs are unequalled and our focus on risk is unique.

Sedgman is a leading provider of mineral processing and associated infrastructure solutions to the global resources industry.

Services range from concept, prefeasibility and design through to construction, commissioning, operations, maintenance and asset management. Sedgman has been successfully delivering projects and operations globally for over 35 years, including in some of the world’s most remote regions. What differentiates Sedgman is simplicity of our solutions, the certainty and quality of our delivery and our relentless focus on safety.

Corrie Pitzer 500-666 Burrard St. Vancouver, BC V6C 3P6 (604) 642-6110 safemap@safemap.com www.safemap.com

SEMAFO Inc. RungePincockMinarco (Canada) Ltd. Diane Kincaid 304-4014 Macleod TR SW Calgary, AB T2G 2R7 (403) 217-4981 dkincaid@rpmglobal.com www.rpmglobal.com

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RungePincockMinarco (RPM) is one of the world’s largest independent groups of mining technical experts, with a history stretching back to 1968. RPM was formally introduced to the market in December 2012 as three of mining’s most respected names – Runge, Pincock Allen and Holt, and Minarco-MineConsult – united. Together, we collectively offer solutions that span all commodities and mining methods, from advisory consulting to software technology and professional development courses. We have local knowledge gained through our work in more than 118 countries.

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Schlumberger Water Services Shane O’Neill 109-267 West Esplanade Ave. North Vancouver, BC V7M 1A5 (604) 984-3032, ext.: 633106 soneill2@slb.com www.water.slb.com

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Schlumberger is the world’s largest subsurface technology company with annual revenues of $45 billion and more than 85 years of history. Our mining consulting services in the areas of water, environmental, exploration and production are delivered worldwide. Schlumberger technology services provide mining clients with increased precision and reliability resulting in long-term value as demonstrated in our heap secondary recovery, directional dewatering well placement, in-situ mine exploration via wireline and sitewide monitoring solutions.

Robert LaVallière 100 Alexis-Nihon Blvd.

7e étage St-Laurent, QC H4M 2P3 (514) 744-4408 ir@semafo.com www.semafo.com

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SEMAFO is a Canadian-based mining company with gold production and exploration activities in West Africa. The corporation operates the Mana Mine in Burkina Faso, which includes the high-grade satellite Siou and Fofina deposits, and is developing the advanced gold deposit of Natougou. SEMAFO’s strategic focus is to maximize shareholder value by effectively managing its existing assets as well as pursuing organic and strategic growth opportunities.

SEMAFO est une société minière canadienne menant des activités de production et d’exploration aurifères en Afrique occidentale. La Société exploite la mine Mana au Burkina Faso, laquelle inclut les gisements satellites à haute teneur de Siou et Fofina, en plus de développer le projet aurifère avancé du gîte Natougou. La priorité stratégique de SEMAFO consiste à

Sentry Equipment Corp.

William J. Werra 966 Blue Ribbon Cir. N Oconomowoc, WI, USA 53066 (262) 567-7256 BillW@sentry-equip.com www.sentry-equip.com

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With proven sampling expertise since 1924, Sentry products and services provide mining operations the critical insights to optimize process control and product quality. We deliver true representative sampling and analysis techniques to customers around the globe, empowering them to accurately monitor and measure processes for improved production efficiency, output and safety. With a wide range of rugged sampling solutions for abrasive mining materials, we are determined to tackle any application, anywhere.

Avec l'expertise d'échantillonnages prouvés depuis 1924, les produits et services de Sentry procurent les opérations minières des aperçus critiques pour optimiser les processus de contrôle et de la qualité du produit. Nous livrons à des clients du monde entier, de véritables échantillons représentatifs et des techniques d'analyse, leur donnant le pouvoir de surveiller et de mesurer les processus pour une meilleure efficacité de la production, le redement et la sécurité. Avec une large gamme de solutions d'échantillonnage robuste pour les matériaux miniers abrasifs, nous sommes déterminés à s'attaquer à n'importe quelle application, n'importe où.

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Sepor Inc. R. Drew Willis 718 N. Fries Ave. Wilmington, CA 90744 (310) 830-6601 dwillis@sepor.com www.sepor.com

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Sepor offers a wide range of equipment and pilot plants for the mineral and natural resource industries. Sepor, the single source for mining equipment.

Sepor offers crushing and grinding, sample preparation, screening, filtration and dewatering equipment, Merrill–Crowe plants and mobile labs. A full line of equipment for the labs, including fire assay, is also available.

Service aux entreprises Harricana Luc Mercier 850 1re Rue E. Amos, QC J9T 2H8 (819) 732-6563 www.csharricana.qc.ca

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Le Service aux entreprises de la commission scolaire Harricana dispense des services de formation continue dans des secteurs de pointe, adaptés aux réalités des entreprises minières et forestières. Qu’il s’agisse de mécanique industrielle, de conduite de machinerie lourde et de voirie forestière appliquée aux mines et travaux de chantiers, le SAE peut répondre à vos exigences. D’importantes compagnies d’envergure internationale ont fait appel à notre expertise : Osisko, Agnico Eagle, Rio Tinto (Madagascar), Domtar, Produits forestiers Résolu et bien d’autres.

Sherwin-Williams Protective & Marine Coatings Division John Reiser PO Box 545 La Center, WA, USA 98629 (360) 931-4645 john.reiser@sherwin.com www.protective.sherwinwilliams.com

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Corrosion is a critical issue in mining, due to extreme environmental conditions where mining operations are conducted, heavy-duty machinery, and the action of acids and other chemical products used in production processes. A proper anticorrosive protection ensures a longer lasting service-life of your assets, cost reduction in downtime due to system failure and fewer accident hazards. Sherwin-Williams is a leading manufacturer of paints and coatings for corrosion protection in mining, based on a long and successful experience in major mining projects in Latin America and worldwide. The best-specialized professional team will help you make your best decision on protection needs.

Sigfusson Northern Ltd. Warren Sigfusson 21-1313 Border St. Winnipeg, MB R3H 0X4 (204) 594-1132 est@sigfusson.ca www.sigfusson.ca

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Sigfusson Northern is a heavy civil construction company with a diverse profile operating from northwest Ontario through to British Columbia. Our work record demonstrates our team’s ability to effectively handle any challenge. We tackle a range of challenging jobs and are committed to innovation and improvement. Our highly skilled personnel combined with our wide selection of the latest equipment can meet your project needs. Sigfusson Northern takes pride in our commitment to local resources and development.

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SMS Equipment

Lars Ruuth 40 Executive Crt. Toronto, ON M1S 4N4 (416) 299-1220, (416) 299-2846 (rep) www.skf.ca

Dennis Chmielewski 53113 Range Rd. 263A, Zone 1 Acheson, AB T7X 5A5 1-866-458-0101 www.smsequip.com

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SKF Group is a leading global supplier of bearings, seals, mechatronics, lubrication systems and services, which include technical support, maintenance and reliability services, engineering consulting and training.

The SKF life cycle management approach applies SKF’s expertise in a wide range of technical areas to help customers, both OEMs and the aftermarket, optimize machine productivity and efficiency. Technical development, quality and marketing have been the focus at SKF since the very start. The group’s efforts in R&D have resulted in numerous innovations, forming bases for new standards, products and solutions.

Le Groupe SKF est l’un des premiers fournisseurs mondiaux de produits et de solutions sur les marchés des roulements, des services, des solutions d’étanchéité, de la mécatronique et des systèmes de lubrification. Les services incluent l’assistance technique, la maintenance, la maintenance conditionnelle et la formation. Depuis toujours, SKF privilégie la qualité, l’excellence technique et la satisfaction des clients. Le Groupe s’investit considérablement dans la Recherche et le Développement.

De nombreuses innovations sont à la base de nouveaux produits, de nouvelles normes et de solutions dans le monde des roulements.

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SMS Equipment is one of Canada’s leading providers of equipment solutions and services for the construction, forestry, mining and utility industries. To help customers meet their needs, SMS has established strategic alliances with suppliers around the world.

SMS Equipment is a full-line distributor of heavy industrial equipment and also offers a variety of services through various locations throughout Canada. Équipement SMS est l’un des premiers fournisseurs de solutions et de services dans les secteurs de la construction, de la foresterie, de l’exploitation minière et des produits utilitaires. Pour répondre aux besoins de sa clientèle, Équipement SMS établit des alliances stratégiques avec des fournisseurs provenant des quatre coins du globe. Équipement SMS est le distributeur d’une gamme complète d’équipements lourds et offre toute gamme de services dans diverses succursales partout au Canada.

SNL Metals & Mining Michelle Patterson 300-1718 Argyle St. Halifax, NS B3J 3N6 (902) 429-2880 snlinfo@snl.com www.SNLMetals.com

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SNL Metals & Mining is the most trusted source of global mining information and analysis with more than three decades of providing global insights and intelligence. From worldwide exploration, development and production to strategic planning and acquisitions activity – our unbiased research helps clients make confident decisions and improve results.

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SRK Consulting Dr. James Siddorn 22-1066 West Hastings Street Saskatoon, SK S7L 6M6 (604) 681-4196 www.srk.com

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SRK Consulting is an independent, international consulting practice providing focused advice and solutions to the earth and water resource industries.

For mining projects, SRK offers services from exploration to mine closure. Established in 1974, SRK employs more than 1,500 professionals in over 45 offices on six continents. SRK’s specialists are leaders in fields such as due diligence, feasibility studies, mine waste and water management, permitting and mine closure.

SRK Consulting est un groupeconseil indépendant et international qui offre une gamme complète de services à l’industrie minière, allant de l’exploration à la fermeture de sites miniers. Fondé en 1974, le groupe SRK emploie plus de 1500 personnes dans 45 bureaux sur six continents. Les spécialistes de SRK sont des leaders dans des domaines tels que les audits préalables, les études de faisabilité, la gestion des déchets miniers et de l’eau, l’obtention des permis d’exploitation et la fermeture de la mine.

Struttmann Consulting Tom Struttmann 46 De Silva Island Dr. Mill Valley, CA, USA 94941 (925) 330-8360 Tom@Struttmann.com www.struttmann.com

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contractors with a road map for success. Specialties include technical and operational due diligence, M&A, post-merger integration, asset management, maintenance engineering and strategic sourcing. By identifying the best solutions for each client’s unique situation, we ensure the right resources are allocated for world-class results.

Struttmann Consulting aide les clients de l’industrie minière partout au monde à résoudre leurs plus grands défis. Nos analyses opérationnelles et techniques approfondies tracent pour les minières, institutions financières et entrepreneurs miniers la voie du succès. Nos spécialités incluent : diligence raisonnable technique et opérationnelle, regroupements d’entreprises, intégration post-fusion, gestion des actifs, ingénierie de maintenance et sourçage stratégique.

En identifiant les meilleures solutions pour chaque client, nous nous assurons qu’il obtienne les ressources les mieux adaptées pour des résultats exceptionnels.

Stuart Olson Industrial Constructors Denis Gareau 1-1988 Kingsway Sudbury, ON P3A 2P2 (705) 222-4848 Denis.Gareau@stuartolson.com www.stuartolson.com

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Stuart Olson Industrial Constructors is a fully integrated construction company providing surface construction to the Canadian mining industry. Stuart Olson Industrial Constructors’ commitment is to offer project solutions on budget and on schedule, with the highest degree of safety and environmental responsibility. A member of the Stuart Olson Corporation, Stuart Olson Industrial Constructors ensures effective managed projects from concept to completion.

marque Petro-Canada. Suncor exploite les ressources pétrolières de façon responsable, ainsi qu’un portefeuille croissant de sources d’énergie renouvelable.

Suncast Polytech Inc. Neil MacNeil Box 346, 9768-170 St. Edmonton, AB T5T 5L4 (780) 448-1098 neilm@suncast.ca www.suncast.ca

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Suncast Polytech is a manufacturer of specialty cast elastomer polyurethane (PUR) wear parts.

Suncast manufactures PUR parts for the oil and gas, oil sands, pipeline, mining and forestry industries for use in difficult and demanding applications. Suncast has developed a proprietary process technology called ReCast that makes it possible to rebuild or recycle worn PUR parts. This technology creates a completely secure bond between virgin and cured PUR cast elastomer, enabling the ReCast parts to perform successfully in demanding applications.

Suncor Energy Anne Marie Toutant 150-6 Ave. SW Calgary, AB T2P 3E3 (403) 296-6060 www.suncor.com

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Suncor Energy is Canada’s leading integrated energy company.

Suncor’s operations include oil sands development and upgrading, conventional and offshore oil and gas production, petroleum refining and product marketing under the Petro-Canada brand.

While working to responsibly develop petroleum resources, Suncor is also developing a growing renewable energy portfolio.

Suncor Énergie est la plus importante société énergétique du Canada. Les activités de Suncor sont reliées notamment au développement et à la valorisation des sables pétrolifères, à la production pétrolière et gazière classique et extracôtière, au raffinage du pétrole et à la commercialisation des produits sous la

Synthesarc Inc. Serge Dallaire 106-75 boul. de Mortagne Boucherville, QC J4B 6Y4 (450) 641-5227 synt@synthesarc.com www.synthesarc.com

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Synthesarc offers the minerals industry facing severe wear problems high-tech cored wires that produce arc-sprayed coatings and overlays containing boride phases. Having high hardness and excellent chemical stability, these coatings and overlays possess superior abrasion, dry erosion (low and high temperature) and slurry erosion resistances. Synthesarc also develops tailored coatings for specific applications.

Synthesarc offre à l’industrie de transformation des minéraux aux prises avec des problèmes graves d’usure, des fils fourrés spéciaux qui produisent par projection à l’arc et par soudure des revêtements et recouvrements contenant des borures. Ces revêtements qui ont une dureté élevée et une excellente stabilité chimique, possèdent une résistance élevée à l’érosion sèche (basse et haute températures), l’abrasion et l’érosion par boues.

Synthesarc fait aussi la conception de revêtements sur mesure adaptés à des besoins spécifiques.

Teck Resources Ltd. 3300-550 Burrard St. Vancouver, BC V6C 0B3 (604) 699-4000 www.teck.com

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coal, zinc and energy. Teck owns, or has an interest in, 13 mines in Canada, the United States, Chile and Peru, as well as one metallurgical complex. Teck is actively exploring for copper, zinc and gold in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and Africa.

Teck est une entreprise diversifiée de ressources, engagée à mener des activités et des développements miniers de manière responsable. Ses principales unités opérationnelles sont le cuivre, le charbon pour la fabrication de l’acier, le zinc et l’énergie. Teck est propriétaire ou possède un intérêt dans 13 mines au Canada, aux ÉtatsUnis, au Chili et au Pérou en plus d’un complexe métallurgique. Teck explore activement à recherche de cuivre, de zinc et d’or dans les Amériques, en Asie-Pacifique, en Europe et en Afrique.

Tega Industries Canada Inc. Vinay Grover 1305 Kelly Lake Rd., Unit 1 Sudbury, ON P3E 5P5 (705) 523-4158 vinay.grover@tegaindustries.com www.tegaindustries.com

in more than 70 countries with sales offices in 15 of them.

Tega Industries Canada – fournisseur de solution globale à vos problèmes d’usure et à l’abrasion lors de la séparation des minerais. Industries Tega Canada, une norme ISO 9002 entreprise certifiée, spécialisée dans la conception, la fabrication et la fourniture de solutions pour l’usure et la séparation des minerais dans les mines, les industries de traitement des minerais. Tega est un fournisseur de solutions globales pour l’usure et à l’abrasion problèmes. Les produits incluent: caoutchouc / PM revêtements de broyeurs pour AG, SAG, primaires, tige, billes et galets mouture usines secondaires; médias de l’écran en caoutchouc et polyuréthane; porter des protections pour les goulottes, accumulateurs, les trémies, les systèmes de contrôle de déversement pour les convoyeurs; porter composants pour convoyeurs comme les bars et les lits curseur, retard poulie; et hydrocyclones pour la séparation des minéraux. Nos produits sont installés dans plus de 70 pays, avec des bureaux de vente dans 15 d’entre eux.

ment, storage and reclaim equipment, and pneumatic conveying equipment.

Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada Ltd. Tetra Tech WEI Inc. Keara Pownall 800-555 W. Hastings St. Vancouver, BC V6B 4N6 (778) 945-5700 keara.pownall@tetratech.com www.tetratech.com

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Tetra Tech is a leading provider of consulting, engineering, program management, construction management and technical services.

The company supports government and commercial clients by providing innovative solutions focused on water, environment, energy, infrastructure and natural resources. With more than 14,000 employees worldwide, Tetra Tech’s capabilities span the entire project life cycle.

Rene Scheepers 2409 Albert St. N, PO Box 1997 Regina, SK S4P 3E1 (306) 949-6606 www.thyssenmining.com

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Thyssen Mining Construction of Canada is a leading mining contractor in Canada and the United States, and also a world leader in shaft sinking. Our expertise includes shaft sinking, mine development (level, ramp and raise), mine rehabilitation and dewatering, raise boring, road header operation, civil and mine construction, ground freezing, shotcreting, shaft boring, mine operation (stoping, tramming, hauling), ground control, raise mining, civil tunnelling, mechanical and electrical installation, grouting and project management.

Thibault & Associates Inc.

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Tega Industries Canada: total solution provider to your problems of wear and abrasion when separating ores. Tega Industries Canada, an ISO 9002-certified company, specializes in designing, manufacturing and supplying solutions for wear and separation of ores in the mining and mineral processing industries. Tega is a total solution provider for wear and abrasion problems. The products include rubber/PM mill linings for AG, SAG, primary, secondary, rod, ball and pebble grind mills; screen media made of rubber and polyurethane; wear pads for chutes, bins, hoppers and spillage control systems for conveyors; wear components for conveyors like slider bars and beds, and pulley lagging; and hydrocyclones for mineral separation. Our products are installed

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TerraSource Global Arlene Willmann 1600-100 North Broadway St. Louis, MO, USA 63102 (618) 641-6963 www.terrasource.com

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TerraSource Global is the ultimate resource for material processing and handling equipment, uniting three market-leading brands: Gundlach Crushers, Jeffrey Rader and Pennsylvania Crusher. With sales offices and a representative network that spans the globe, these brands are installed and trusted worldwide throughout the material reduction and feeding spectrum.

The firm’s product line includes size reduction equipment, Posimetric and vibratory feeders, material handling equipment, screening and processing equip-

J. Dean Thibault 330 Alison Blvd.

Fredericton, NB E3C 0A9 (506) 454-2359 d.thibault@thibault-processengineering.ca www.thibault-processengineering.ca

Ultra Seat Corp.

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Eric Krysa 1-3605 - 26230 TWP. Rd. 531A Acheson, AB T7X 5A4 (800) 667-7328 contactus@ultraseat.com www.ultraseat.com

Thibault & Associates provides process engineering services, specializing in the tailored design of metallurgical and hydrometallurgical flowsheets for production of concentrates and refined metals, with an experience base that includes projects for recovery of base, transition, rare and precious metals. Our firm assures a fully integrated approach to project execution by offering in-house bench and pilot-scale test facilities, process and economic modelling capabilities, process intensification studies, coordination of multidiscipline engineering design and after-care services.

Ultra Seat has been specializing in the development and manufacturing of innovative industrial seating for more than 20 years.

Aiming to be recognized worldwide as the preferred source for industrial seating, Ultra continuously looks for new products and technologies to help serve their customers better, and offers the highest quality and reliability of seating systems. Ultra has distribution centres across North America and is expanding its distributor network around the globe.

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United Personnel Carriers

United Rentals Pump Solutions

Jay Michaud 2960-3 Trudeau Dr. Val Caron, ON P3N 1B2 (705) 897-4872, cell (705) 9299457 jayupc@gmail.com www.upc-canada.ca

Owen Myhre Bay 101, 5025 90 Ave. SE Calgary, AB T2C 2S9 (403) 278-7862 omyhre@ur.com www.unitedrentals.com/pumps

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We are a company that provides small utility vehicles for the mining sector. We currently have over 100 working units in the field. Our clients have experienced lower cost and higher availability since the introduction of our units to their fleet. We have service technicians with stocked parts available to go to site, or if you so choose the unit can be shipped to our shop for service or repairs. We also have a fully stocked parts department with over $160,000 in parts just for the UPC Shifter; these are the things that set us apart from our competitors!

Nous sommes une entreprise qui fournit des véhicules utilitaires pour l’industrie minière.

Nous avons au-delà de 100 machines dans ce secteur. Nous offrons un coût inférieur à ceux comparables dans ce domaine ainsi qu’une disponibilité supérieure depuis l’introduction de nos machines à leur flotte de commerce. Notre département de marchandise est étendu de plus de $160 000 pour le “UPC Shifter”, ce qui nous permet de tenir des délais de livraison expédiée à vous et pour faciliter l’entretien et les réparations.

C’est grâce à une équipe dynamique de techniciens de services qu’un service de si grande qualité peut être offert. Celles-ci sont quelques exemples qui nous distinguent de nos concurrents!

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United Rentals Pump Solutions is a leading provider of industrial pumps, light towers, generators, dryers and related equipment.

The industrial application areas in which we specialize are agriculture, construction, disaster recovery, environmental, frac water transfer, marine, mining and quarry, municipal and bypass, oilfield, oil sands, pipeline, pulp and paper, refineries/petrochemical, river crossing, water and wastewater, and well pointing.

Val’s Drilling Ltd.

Frédéric Beaulieu 310 rue Principale Saint-Alban, QC G0A 3B0 (800) 267-0355 vallee@vallee.ca www.vallee.ca

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Founded in 1990, Val’s Drilling has specialized in the drilling industry for more than 25 years.

Through our experience and innovation, the company has thrived, growing to include various drilling and support equipment. With Balzac, Alberta, being home to head of operations, Val’s Drilling has expanded throughout North America. Val’s Drilling will provide you with complete drilling solutions in any location the job demands!

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Renowned for its innovations, Vallée is a manufacturer specialized in custom handling solutions. Our all-terrain articulated four-wheel-drive lift trucks, cable reels, tire handlers, buckets and forks for all models of lift trucks and loaders combine safety with productivity to meet the specific needs of the mining industry. Our know-how also extends to the metallurgy industry with our range of very compact high-capacity lift trucks and specialized attachments.

technologique importante dans le remplissage de pâte cimentée (CPB). Foamed Mine Fill (FMF) a été développée au département de génie minier de l’Université McGill utilisant le système d’entrainement d’air Stable Air afin de réduire la densité de la pâte cimentée et améliorer la rhéologie. Bénéfices significatifsincluants réduction de l’utilisation d’eau, réduction de ciment, moins de bris mécanique liés à l’usure d’équipements et placer plus de résidus lors du processus. Appelez aujourd’hui pour de plus amples informations.

Jonah Cimolini RR 3, Site 17, Comp. 18 Airdrie, AB T4B 0P7 (403) 226-0572 www.vdrill.com

Vallée

Entreprise reconnue pour ses innovations, Vallée est spécialisée dans les solutions de manutention sur mesure. Nos chariots élévateurs quatre roues motrices articulés tout-terrain, enrouleurs de câble, manipulateurs de pneu, godets et fourches pour tout modèle de

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chariots et chargeuses sur pneus alliant sécurité et productivité répondent aux besoins spécifiques de l’industrie minière. Notre savoir-faire s’étend également au secteur de la métallurgie avec des chariots très compacts de grande capacité et des outils spécialisés.

Vatne Concrete Systems

Vatne Concrete Systems Ltd. Dan Vatne 210 Sherwood Rd. Beaconsfield, QC H9W 2G8 (514) 695-8899 dvatne@vatne.ca www.vatne.ca

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Vatne Concrete Systems is proud to introduce a breakthrough innovation in cemented paste backfill (CPB) technology.

Foamed Mine Fill (FMF) was developed at McGill University’s Mining Engineering Department using Stable Air foam to reduce CPB density and improve paste rheology. Significant benefits include water saving, binder saving, placing more tailings underground and reduced pipe wear.

Call today to find out more.

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Victaulic Tim Meadows 123 Newkirk Rd. Richmond Hill, ON L4C 3G5 (905) 884-7444 Tim.Meadows@victaulic.com www.victaulic.com

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Since 1919, Victaulic has been the world’s leading producer of grooved mechanical couplings and pipe-joining systems. Victaulic is the single supplier with unique solutions and a comprehensive product line for mining’s most demanding services. Victaulic has developed a number of innovative pipe joining technologies designed for reliable, worryfree service under the most severe conditions imaginable.

Victaulic systems benefit owners, engineers, installers and maintenance personnel across the globe.

Depuis 1919, Victaulic est le premier producteur mondial de raccords mécaniques rainurés et de systèmes de raccordement de tuyaux. Victaulic est le seul fournisseur offrant des solutions uniques et une gamme complète de produits pour les tâches les plus exigeantes de l’exploitation minière. Victaulic a mis au point un certain nombre de technologies novatrices d’assemblage de tuyaux conçues pour un service fiable et sans tracas, même dans les pires conditions. Les systèmes Victaulic profitent aux propriétaires, aux entrepreneurs, aux installateurs et au personnel d’entretien sur la planète.

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Le point sur la façon dont les sociétés minières font face à l’effondrement du prix des marchandises, les répercussions des élections fédérales et le potentiel de l’informatique en nuage.

Par Ryan Bergen, Tom DiNardo, Christopher Pollon, Kate Sheridan and Katelyn Spidle

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99 Une nouvelle chaire universitaire se consacre à la restauration des sites miniers dans le nord du Québec

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Par Antoine Dion-Ortega

La crème de la crème du Devon Le Devon, en Angleterre, a une longue tradition minière. La nouvelle mine de tungstène Drakelands de Wolf Minerals, qui représente la première nouvelle mine métallifère développée sur l’île depuis près de 50 ans, vient redorer le blason et l’avenir du comté.

Par Peter Braul

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Tournons une nouvelle page

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n jour, très fier de mon accomplissement pour la nouvelle édition imprimée du magazine, je présentais la version finalisée de mon travail à un ami qui connaissait peu le monde de la publication et de l’industrie minière. « Beau travail », m’a-t-il dit. « Tu as écrit cet article ? » « Non. » « Tu as pris les photos ? » « Non. » « Tu as fait la mise en page ? » « Pas vraiment. » Sur ces bonnes paroles, j’ai posé le magazine et nous sommes passés à autre chose. Pourquoi essayer d’expliquer le rôle de l’éditeur/-trice ? Ennuyer nos lecteurs/-trices avec des détails inopportuns est exactement ce que l’on cherche à éviter dans notre profession.

Cependant, il serait inconvenant de ne pas vous parler du départ de Peter Braul, éditeur pour le CIM Magazine ces quatre dernières années, qui a déjà trouvé son rythme de croisière et réalise son rêve, devenir brasseur. Ses idées, sa grande imagination et l’attention qu’il porte au détail transparaissent dès la page de couverture et imprègnent le contenu de chaque numéro sur lequel il a travaillé. Durant ses années au sein de notre équipe, le magazine a changé d’apparence et son ambition a évolué.

En travaillant à ses côtés, j’ai appris à mieux faire mon travail, et sa relation étroite avec les jeunes éditeurs/-trices qui ont depuis rejoint notre équipe profitera à la publication ainsi qu’à nos lecteurs/-trices.

La charge explosive a beau fournir la force qui brise les roches, le résultat ne serait que bruit, poussière et projections si les ingénieur(e)s expert(e)s dans ce domaine n’étaient pas là pour surveiller les plans de tirs, les séquences d’abattage à l’explosif et le calendrier des travaux. Tel est le rôle de l’éditeur/-trice, et Peter en est un excellent exemple.

Ses talents sont encore une fois exposés dans l’article intitulé La crème de la crème du Devon (page 109). Le profil qu’il établit de la mine Drakelands de Wolf Minerals, récemment mise en service, met en avant un projet moderne dans une région où l’exploitation minière semblait être vouée à devenir une simple curiosité dans l’histoire du pays.

Ce numéro comprend également les travaux de notre toute dernière éditrice Kelsey Rolfe, et notamment ses contributions à notre article intitulé L’année à venir (page 101), qui vous donnera un avantgoût de ce que nous réserve l’année 2016. Kelsey, ancienne étudiante de notre programme de stage et autrefois collaboratrice, offre à l’équipe ses propres compétences enviables et toute l’énergie indispensable à son nouveau poste.

Je leur souhaite à tous deux, ainsi qu’à vous tou(te)s, mes meilleurs vœux pour la nouvelle année.

Ryan Bergen, Rédacteur en chef editor@cim.org @Ryan_CIM_Mag 98 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 10, No. 8

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et automne, nous avons assisté à une situation devenue typique au moment des élections au Canada, ce que j'appelle un renversement. Cela consiste à ne pas réélire le gouvernement au pouvoir en faveur d'un autre parti constituant une option plus raisonnable, ou même par pure rancune. Je trouve cependant très encourageant de voir que la décision collective était basée sur des valeurs, et non purement et simplement sur une attitude consistant à « éliminer les bons à rien. » On qualifie souvent l'industrie minière de « conservatrice » ; pourtant, le programme électoral du nouveau gouvernement libéral me semble totalement correspondre aux valeurs aujourd'hui prônées par l'industrie minière canadienne. Ces valeurs portent sur la diversité, la gérance de l'environnement, la prospérité pour tous, le développement d'une infrastructure pour les générations futures, le développement durable et le leadership international, particulièrement pour des régions en difficulté qui présentent un grand potentiel mais qui ont besoin d'aide.

L'industrie a depuis longtemps adopté ces valeurs, qu'elle considère comme une nécessité pour mener ses activités, et les sociétés minières canadiennes ont, à maintes reprises, partagé leurs connaissances, leur financement, leur leadership et leurs meilleures pratiques avec les pays dans lesquels elles travaillent, notamment dans des régions où elles essaient de jeter les bases de la croissance.

Parce qu'elles sont au cœur du développement, les sociétés minières se retrouvent parfois dans des régions où couvent des conflits. Au Mali, trois de nos collègues qui travaillent dans l'industrie se trouvait à l'hôtel Radisson de Bamako lors de l'attentat terroriste.

Heureusement, ils ont survécu.

Il est important de noter que deux des personnes piégées dans l'hôtel, qui envoyaient des messages angoissants à leurs familles et ami(e)s au Canada, se trouvaient au Mali pour surveiller la construction d'une mine dans une jeune région minière en pleine expansion. Ces régions se trouvent à la croisée des chemins, dans un contexte où l'investissement à l'étranger et le renforcement des capacités locales peuvent mener le pays dans une direction donnée, alors que des fanatiques empreints d'une folie des grandeurs digne de l'époque médiévale cherchent à le pousser dans une autre direction. De ce point de vue, les meilleures pratiques en matière de sécurité, de gérance de l'environnement, de diversité ainsi que de responsabilité financière et sociale revêtent une importance particulière. Il nous incombe d'incarner ces valeurs où que nous soyons. Je ne cherche pas à exagérer la portée de notre rôle, mais le sous-estimer serait, selon moi, bien plus absurde.

Je vous souhaite à toutes et à tous prospérité pour l'année 2016.

Garth Kirkham Président de l’ICM

Les actualités Expériences sur l’environnement Une nouvelle chaire universitaire se consacre à la restauration des sites miniers dans le nord du Québec

L’université du Québec en AbitibiTémiscamingue (UQAT) a créé cette année une nouvelle chaire industrielle exclusivement dédiée à la restauration des sites miniers. Cette chaire, qui s’étend jusqu’en 2020, bénéficiera d’un financement sur cinq ans de 2,5 millions $, dont 50 % seront fournis par le conseil de recherche en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada (CRSNG) et les 50 % restant par des partenaires industriels de l’institut de recherche en mines et en environnement (IRME) UQAT-Polytechnique. La chaire a pour objectif de développer des stratégies de restauration efficaces qui limitent les impacts et les risques environnementaux. Elle poursuivra les efforts de la précédente chaire industrielle CRSNG Polytechnique-UQAT en environnement et gestion des rejets miniers, qui était en place de 2001 à 2012.

Bruno Bussière, directeur scientifique de l’IRME à l’UQAT et professeur spécialisé, entre autres, en gestion des rejets miniers et en restauration des sites miniers, est le titulaire de la nouvelle chaire industrielle. Pour l’institut de recherche en mines et en environnement, le site abandonné Manitou constitue un laboratoire idéal.

De tous les sites miniers abandonnés au Québec, Manitou est de loin le plus vaste et le plus problématique. Sur ce site de 200 hectares situé à 15 kilomètres de Val-d’Or, la terre craquelée évoque un désert coloré aux nuances allant du blanc parfait à l’orange foncé.

Les résidus de roches sulfureuses génèrent des drainages miniers acides (DMA) qui libèrent des métaux lourds dans l’environnement, et plus précisément dans la rivière Bourlamaque à

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Bruno Bussière, titulaire de la nouvelle chaire industrielle de l'UQAT, mène des travaux de restauration du site minier abandonné Manitou près de Val-d'Or, au Québec.

proximité, dont la vie aquatique a été totalement ravagée sur un segment de trois kilomètres en aval.

La mine Manitou de zinc et de cuivre a fermé ses portes en 1979 et a été prise en charge par le ministère de l’énergie et des ressources naturelles (MERN) après la faillite en 2003 du dernier détenteur des droits miniers.

En 2006, le ministère a décidé de recouvrir le site de résidus exempts de sulfure provenant de la mine Goldex d’Agnico Eagle, située à 24 kilomètres du site Manitou. Il a commencé ses travaux de restauration la même année dans l’objectif de recouvrir les 11 millions de tonnes de résidus sulfureux. La chaire précédente avait mené des recherches sur ce site dans l’espoir de trouver le meilleur scénario de restauration. La première étape consistait à construire des fossés de drainage sur 10 kilomètres afin d’em-

pêcher le contact des eaux non contaminées du bassin versant avec les résidus miniers.

Le projet original consistait à recouvrir l’intégralité du site avec une pulpe de résidus de Goldex constituée à 45 % d’eau, de manière à ce qu’elle s’écoule au travers des résidus contaminés et qu’elle surélève la nappe phréatique.

Après un certain temps, la nappe phréatique finirait par totalement submerger ces résidus, empêchant ainsi leur contact avec l’air et par là même l’oxydation.

Toutefois, ce scénario a dû être révisé suite à la fermeture soudaine de Goldex en 2011 en raison de problèmes liés à la stabilité et à l’infiltration d’eau dans la mine. Après sa réouverture en 2014, le nombre de tonnes de résidus disponibles à Goldex a été revu à la baisse. « Au centre du parc à résidus miniers de Manitou, nos December/Décembre 2015 • January/Janvier 2016 | 99

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calculs montraient que l’on ne pourrait pas suffisamment surélever la nappe phréatique pour qu’elle submerge les résidus », expliquait M. Bussière, qui travaille sur le site depuis les années 1990, à l’époque dans le cadre de ses études à l’UQAT, et a contribué aux travaux de restauration de 2006. « Il a donc fallu convaincre le ministère de changer de méthode. » La décision finale n’a pas encore été prise, mais le plan vise désormais à construire une barrière capillaire à plusieurs couches au cœur du site. Cette dernière consistera en trois couches de granulométrie différente qui devraient empêcher l’oxygène d’atteindre les résidus de roches sulfureuses de Manitou. Goldex se chargera de fournir les roches stériles qui serviront à créer les couches.

D’après M. Bussière, les planificateurs chargés de la restauration des sites miniers devraient toujours envisager l’utilisation de résidus et de roches stériles provenant de mines en exploitation. « En temps normal, Goldex aurait simplement cherché à évacuer ses résidus de la manière la plus simple et la moins coûteuse », indiquait M. Bussière. « La société aurait construit un nouveau parc à résidus, et nous aurions recherché des matières naturelles sur d’autres sites. Ainsi, en plus de réhabiliter le site Manitou, nous aurions également dû restaurer ces sites-là. » Selon lui, les mines qui génèrent des résidus exempts de sulfure représentent un atout inestimable pour les travaux de restauration.

Sur les 713 sites miniers abandonnés au Québec, 213 étaient en exploitation. Les autres étaient des sites d’exploration ou des sites déjà réhabilités. Le coût total de la restauration de tous les sites dont se charge la province s’élève à 1,2 milliard $. Le projet de restauration du site minier Manitou coûte à lui seul 50 millions $ et se poursuivra jusqu’à la fermeture prévue de Goldex en 2024.

De tous les sites miniers abandonnés au Québec, Manitou est de loin le plus vaste et le plus problématique.

Les difficultés liées à la végétalisation L’IRME ne se concentre pas uniquement sur des sites sulfureux très contaminés tels que Manitou ou la mine Principale, un site de 400 hectares situé près de Chibougamau, dans le nord du Québec. Il s’efforce également de trouver des moyens efficaces de végétaliser les parcs à résidus et les roches stériles, même ceux qui ne génèrent pas de DMA. Les réglementations au Canada imposent aux sociétés minières de planter un couvert végétal pérenne suite à la fermeture d’une mine.

Depuis 2010, Marie Guittonny-Larchevêque, professeure à l’IRME, réfléchit aux meilleurs moyens de reboiser le parc à résidus et les roches stériles de la mine Canadian Malartic au Québec. La phase de production commerciale à la mine d’or a commencé en 2011 et la mine a entrepris la restauration progressive de son site en 2013. La même année, Mme Guittonny-Larchevêque a entamé une série d’expériences de reboisement sur les pentes abruptes du site. « Nous savons plus ou moins comment végétaliser les zones plates », déclarait-elle. « Par contre, peu de recherches

ont été menées sur la végétalisation des pentes. Il faut limiter l’impact de l’érosion ; sans végétation adaptée pour le stabiliser, le sol que vous installez à grands frais risque de s’affaisser. » L’une des solutions communes consiste à planter sur les pentes des plantes herbacées à croissance rapide telles que le trèfle, la fétuque ou l’ivraie.

Le problème est que ces espèces herbacées ne sont souvent pas propices à la plantation d’arbres. Mme GuittonnyLarchevêque a donc décidé de planter directement des peupliers à croissance rapide, dans l’espoir que leurs racines se fixent rapidement dans le sol et limitent l’érosion, et que d’autres espèces d’arbres puissent s’y établir naturellement. Jusqu’à présent, les peupliers se développent bien, mais il faudra mener des recherches plus poussées avant de savoir si l’institut pourra atteindre ses objectifs de reboisement sur le long terme, indiquait-elle.

La restauration des sites miniers en est à ses balbutiements et les chercheurs n’ont pas encore beaucoup de recul. Il faudra du temps pour déterminer si ces techniques seront toujours efficaces dans 20, 50 ou 100 ans, d’où l’intérêt direct de l’industrie minière dans les travaux menés au titre de la chaire de recherche de l’UQAT. L’IRME prévoit la formation de 20 stagiaires en premier cycle dans des disciplines liées à la restauration des sites miniers, et accueillera 16 étudiant(e)s de maîtrise, 7 doctorant(e)s et 2 post-doctorant(e)s. Tou(te)s auront accès aux sites miniers pour pouvoir mener leurs travaux de recherche. « Les projets de restauration incluent la caractérisation des sols et des études préliminaires qui peuvent prendre du temps », expliquait M. Bussière. « Avant de nous atteler à des travaux plus approfondis, nous devons être sûr(e)s d’avoir trouvé la solution la plus durable. Nous ne pouvons pas nous permettre de reprendre les travaux depuis le début dans 20 ans. » ICM

Pour regarder une vidéo consacrée aux travaux de M. Bussière et Mme Guittonny-Larchevêque sur la végétalisation des sites contaminés dans la région de l’Abitibi, rendez-vous dans la section CIM Magazine (magazine.cim.org/fr-CA) de notre site Internet.

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Les sociétés minières traversent une mauvaise passe. Le marché reste très incertain et les financements sont difficiles à trouver, ce qui oblige de nombreuses sociétés à aborder les problèmes de manière originale et à rester sur leurs gardes pour pouvoir poursuivre leurs activités. Les changements politiques au Canada soulèvent un grand nombre de questions encore sans réponses pour les promoteurs de projets actuels et futurs, sur le territoire canadien comme à l’étranger. Les sociétés minières qui travaillent actuellement avec zèle pour renforcer leurs activités ont cependant un allié de taille à leurs côtés. Si les mines produisent une quantité spécifique de matériaux vendables, la masse de données qu’elles génèrent n’a pas de limite. Ceux et celles qui parviendront à extraire les informations exploitables de ce gigantesque amas de données peuvent s’attendre à garder une longueur d’avance.

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Faire face au ralentissement économique touS enSembLe Contre LeS éLémentS Dans ce contexte de ralentissement économique persistant, plusieurs petites et moyennes sociétés ont opté pour des fusions amicales afin de lutter contre la tempête. Début novembre, Oban Mining a annoncé son acquisition de Northern Gold, une petite société minière dirigeant des projets avancés et potentiels dans le nord de l’Ontario. Cette entente intervient trois mois après l’acquisition par Oban d’Eagle Hill, de Ryan Gold et de Corona Gold, et suite à la conclusion d’un accord de placement privé avec Redevances Aurifères Osisko Ltée.

D’après le rapport récemment publié par PwC intitulé Junior Mine 2015: Time for change (petites sociétés minières en 2015 : place aux changements), le regroupement offre de nombreux avantages aux petites sociétés minières pendant un cycle baissier. Les coûts administratifs sont réduits étant donné que les sociétés regroupées n’ont besoin que d’un seul siège social et d’une équipe de direction. En outre, elles partagent les risques et adaptent les bilans, ce qui renforce la position de la société. Plus important encore, le regroupement permet de protéger les actifs de la société et de préserver le potentiel des actionnaires.

Pour John Burzynski, président et chef de la direction d’Oban, en choisissant bien les petites sociétés minières à consolider dès maintenant, Oban augmentera ses chances de réussir à l’avenir. « Nous nous concentrons sur des projets en phase de développement, et notre intention est de faire aboutir ces projets de développement là où nous le souhaitons », expliquait M. Burzynski, qui a lancé sa société il y a cinq ans en marge de l’ancienne société Osisko Exploration, qu’il avait cofondée en 2003. Après le rachat d’Osisko par Agnico Eagle en 2014, M. Burzynski a cocréé Redevances Aurifères Osisko Ltée.

Les grandes sociétés minières essaient de rétablir leurs bilans dégradés en vendant des redevances et une partie de leur future production, ce qui, d’après M. Burzynski, crée le climat idéal pour démarrer une société minière. En achetant des actifs alors que les autres vendent, des sociétés telles qu’Oban peuvent assurer leur prospérité pour les années à venir.

Eric Moeller, président et chef de la direction de Northern Gold, a décidé de fusionner car Oban donnait la possibilité aux actionnaires de Northern Gold de devenir détenteurs d’actions d’Oban à un prix raisonnable et, ainsi, d’accroître leurs investissements.

D’après lui, il est toujours bon pour une petite société minière d’envisager une stratégie de regroupement ; qui plus est, pour celles souhaitant développer un projet en période de ralentissement économique (comme c’est le cas actuellement), le regroupement pourrait bien représenter leur seule chance de survie. M. Moeller expliquait qu’il sera difficile pour les petites sociétés minières de se maintenir à flot même après la reprise du marché, car il faudra alors reconstruire l’intégralité de l’infrastructure de financement des projets miniers. « Les sociétés qui parviennent à consolider leur position dès maintenant seront plus fortes et mieux placées pour faire face au redressement futur », expliquait-il.

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Les petites sociétés minières ne sont d’ailleurs pas les seules à se tourner vers le regroupement pour survivre.

Dans le courant de l’été, Alamos Gold et AuRico Metals ont fusionné pour former la nouvelle société intermédiaire Alamos, et First Majestic a annoncé son acquisition amicale de SilverCrest Mines. par KateLyn SpidLe

éLiminonS LeS aCtifS SuperfLuS Si les petites et moyennes sociétés minières se regroupent pour surmonter la tempête, les grandes sociétés minières, quant à elles, se débarrassent de leur trop-plein. Barrick Gold a annoncé en novembre la vente de plusieurs actifs non essentiels dans le Nevada pour un total de 720 millions $ US en espèces. Ces transactions récentes ont porté la valeur nette des ventes d’actifs, des partenariats et des entreprises communes de Barrick à 3,2 milliards $ US pour l’année 2015, dépassant ainsi l’objectif de réduction de la dette que s’était fixé la société à 3 milliards $ US. « La vente de ces actifs s’inscrit dans notre stratégie visant à créer une valeur sur le long terme pour nos actionnaires en renforçant notre bilan et en concentrant davantage notre portefeuille sur les principales mines qui permettront à notre flux de trésorerie disponible d’augmenter », déclarait Kelvin Dushnisky, président de la société, dans un communiqué de presse.

Pour survivre dans un contexte où le prix des métaux est aussi bas, les sociétés doivent continuer à couvrir leur réinvestissement de maintien et à payer des dividendes à leurs actionnaires. Ceci signifie qu’elles doivent non seulement réduire leur dette, mais également réduire leurs coûts et maintenir leur bilan.

Anglo American fait également partie des autres grandes sociétés minières qui ont vendu plusieurs actifs. En octobre, Glencore a annoncé la vente de ses mines de cuivre Lomas Bayas et Cobar, et First Quantum s’est engagée à réduire sa dette de 1 milliard $ d’ici début 2016 « en associant la vente d’actifs à d’autres initiatives stratégiques », pouvait-on lire dans un communiqué de presse. Au début de l’année, BHP Billiton a transféré ses actifs non essentiels vers une nouvelle société, South32.

D’après Patricia Mohr, vice-présidente des études économiques et spécialiste du marché des produits de base à la banque Scotia, les sociétés qui réduisent leur offre durant une période de faible croissance de la demande seront mieux placées pour se préparer à l’avenir, mais les investisseurs n’en verront les réels bénéfices que dans plusieurs années. « Alors que nous abordons la deuxième moitié de la décennie, les offres vont devenir plus restreintes en raison d’une baisse du développement minier », indiquait Mme Mohr, ajoutant que « les investisseurs finiront par se tourner vers les marchés au comptant où les écarts acheteur-vendeur sont plus étroits. » par KateLyn SpidLe

ouverture de La voie au finanCement CoLLeCtif par Capitaux propreS Les entreprises de cinq provinces canadiennes seront bientôt en mesure de faire appel au financement collectif pour un maximum de 1,5 million $ par an, le tout avec beaucoup moins de difficultés et de dépenses que celles actuellement engendrées par les exigences de divulgation relatives aux prospectus.

Selon le Financial Times, le financement collectif est « un moyen nouveau et émergent de financer de nouveaux projets ou des idées innovantes en empruntant un financement auprès d’un grand nombre de personnes, souvent par le biais d’un site Internet. » Les artistes ont recours à cette approche depuis des années pour financer leurs projets créatifs, mais ce concept est désormais utilisé au Royaume-Uni et en Australie pour aider les petites et moyennes entreprises (PME) à recueillir des fonds dans un contexte économique de plus en plus incertain.

Le 5 novembre dernier, la commission des valeurs mobilières de l’Ontario (CVMO) ainsi que ses homologues au Manitoba, au Québec, au Nouveau-Brunswick et en Nouvelle-Écosse ont annoncé une dispense de prospectus pour le financement collectif, qui coïncidera avec un nouveau cadre relatif à l’enregistrement des portails dédiés en ligne servant de contrôleurs pour les transactions. Cette dispense, qui entrera en vigueur en janvier, concerne les émetteurs assujettis et non assujettis constitués en personne morale ou basés au Canada. Leur siège social doit être au Canada et la majorité des directeurs doivent vivre dans le pays.

Les exigences de divulgation seront simplifiées pour le financement collectif, mais les investisseurs devront tout de même recevoir les états financiers annuels ainsi que certains autres documents écrits. Ils devront par ailleurs signer un document stipulant qu’ils ont conscience des risques liés à l’investissement. Le plafond sera fixé à 2 500 $ par investissement, et à 25 000 $ pour les investisseurs agréés. En Ontario, aucune limite d’investissement ne sera fixée pour les particuliers dont les actifs financiers nets dépassent les 5 millions $.

Samad Uddin, directeur en charge des marchés financiers à la Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC, l’association canadienne des prospecteurs et entrepreneurs) s’est réjoui à l’annonce de cette bonne nouvelle, mais a cependant émis un avertissement. « Il s’agit d’un outil supplémentaire dont peuvent se servir les sociétés lorsqu’elles envisagent d’autres options de financement de leurs projets », expliquait-il. « Les modalités concernant les sommes pouvant être recueillies et les fonds que peuvent injecter les investisseurs sont cependant très restrictives. » M. Uddin, qui travaillait pour la CVMO avant de rejoindre la PDAC, expliquait que le financement collectif convient bien aux sociétés de prospection qui cherchent à recueillir entre 50 000 et 100 000 $ pour commencer leurs activités et, de manière générale, aux sociétés souhaitant

réunir moins de 1,5 million $ (somme maximale pouvant être récoltée par une société annuellement). Ce type de financement pourrait également se révéler positif pour le nombre croissant de « sociétés fantômes » inscrites à la bourse de croissance TSX, des entreprises spéculatives si démunies qu’elles n’ont pas les moyens de mener les moindres activités d’exploration et luttent pour rester cotées en bourse (d’après M. Uddin, les droits d’admission à la cote de la bourse de croissance TSX peuvent atteindre 40 000 $ par an). Pour les plus grandes sociétés minières, le financement collectif peut compléter d’autres efforts de collecte de par ChriStopher poLLon fonds, indiquait M. Uddin.

réviSion de La Stratégie La société Orbite Technologies est cotée en bourse et a à son actif un bail minier, un gisement d’argile alumineuse affichant des ressources minérales indiquées de 1,04 milliard de tonnes dans la région de la Gaspésie au Québec, ainsi qu’un accord d’écoulement avec Glencore pour l’intégralité de l’alumine métallurgique produite sur le site. Pourtant, vous ne la trouverez nulle part dans la liste des sociétés minières inscrites à la bourse de Toronto.

Au printemps dernier, alors que le déclin de la capitalisation boursière des sociétés spécialisées dans les ressources s’accentuait, la société a choisi d’abandonner le nom Orbite Aluminae et de renoncer à sa désignation dans le segment Mines du secteur des technologies propres.

En novembre, nous avons demandé à Marc Lakmaaker, chargé des relations avec les investisseurs de la société, si ce changement avait eu un impact sur l’intérêt que portaient ces derniers à la société. Il nous a répondu qu’il était encore trop tôt pour juger. « Le changement de dénomination est plus qu’un simple jeu sur l’impopularité des actifs constitués par les ressources naturelles », expliquait M. Lakmaaker. « Il constitue plutôt le reflet de ce que représente réellement la société. Évidemment, nous possédons encore la propriété de Grande-Vallée, et nous comptons bien poursuivre ce projet à l’avenir, mais il s’agit de notre troisième priorité. » En tête de liste figure la commercialisation de l’usine de production d’alumine de haute pureté (HPA) d’Orbite. Le procédé de marque soulève un certain nombre de questions qui devraient susciter un grand intérêt. Ce produit est extrêmement demandé par le secteur de l’éclairage DEL (diode électroluminescente) en pleine croissance ainsi que pour la fabrication d’autres articles spécialisés de haute technologie ; son taux de récupération est bien meilleur que le procédé Bayer classique, et il ne requiert pas de bassin de résidus. La deuxième priorité consistera à appliquer ce procédé à diverses matières premières issues des déchets de mines et de centrales électriques au charbon, puis à breveter cette technologie à l’échelle internationale.

La date de lancement de l’usine commerciale de HPA, qui produira trois tonnes par jour, a cependant été repoussée plus d’une fois, mais la société espère commencer la producpar ryan bergen tion avant la fin de l’année 2015.

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Les élections

préSentation du nouveau Cabinet Au moins un des ministres du nouveau cabinet libéral assermenté à Rideau Hall le 4 novembre possède une certaine expertise dans l’industrie minière. MaryAnn Mihychuk, ancienne députée de l’Assemblée législative du Manitoba et fondatrice de Women in Mining Canada, a obtenu un siège au sein du cabinet comme ministre de l’Emploi, du Développement de la main-d’œuvre et du Travail. Bien que la présence de Mme Mihychuk n’aura peut-être qu’une influence indirecte sur les politiques d’exploitation minière, l’industrie se familiarisera bientôt avec le nom et le visage de ces six autres nouveaux ministres : Par Kate Sheridan

MINISTRE DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES James gordon « Jim » Carr (Winnipeg-centre-Sud) occupation antérieure homme d’affaires, ancien PDg du conseil manitobain des entreprises expérience politique antérieure député de l’Assemblée législative du Manitoba, chef adjoint du parti libéral du Manitoba (de 1988 à 1992)

MINISTRE DES AFFAIRES AUTOCHTONES ET DU NORD* Carolyn bennett (Toronto – St. Paul’s) occupation antérieure médecin (médecine familiale) expérience politique antérieure porte-parole de l’opposition officielle en matière d’affaires autochtones

ENJEUX PRIORITAIRES

MINISTRE DE L’ENVIRONNEMENT ET DU CHANGEMENT CLIMATIQUE*** Catherine mcKenna (ottawa centre) occupation antérieure avocate expérience politique antérieure agente des politiques commerciales pour le gouvernement du canada, conseillère juridique auprès de la mission de maintien de la paix des nations unies au Timor-oriental

MINISTRE DES PÊCHES, DES OCÉANS ET DE LA GARDE CÔTIÈRE CANADIENNE hunter tootoo (nunavut) occupation antérieure fonctionnaire, notamment directeur adjoint de la Société d’habitation des Territoires du nord-ouest expérience politique antérieure député de l’Assemblée législative du nunavut pour iqaluit centre (de 1999 à 2013)

MINISTRE DU COMMERCE INTERNATIONAL Chrystia freeland (university—Rosedale) occupation antérieure auteure et journaliste (Financial Times, Globe and Mail, Thomson Reuters) expérience politique antérieure porteparole de l’opposition officielle en matière de commerce international

MINISTRE DE L’INNOVATION, DES SCIENCES ET DU DÉVELOPPEMENT ÉCONOMIQUE** navdeep Singh bains (Mississauga—Malton) occupation antérieure comptable en management accrédité, a travaillé pour ford du canada expérience politique antérieure MP from 2004-2011, critic for natural Resources, Small Business and Tourism portfolios.

RéviSER lES PRocESSuS D’évAluATion EnviRonnEMEnTAlE Au nivEAu féDéRAl S’ATTAcHER à METTRE En œuvRE DES AccoRDS DE liBRE-écHAngE à l’écHEllE MonDiAlE – PluS PARTiculièREMEnT AvEc iSRAël, lE cHili ET l’uKRAinE – ET TEniR DES conSulTATionS SuR l’AccoRD DE PARTEnARiAT TRAnSPAcifiquE. fAiRE PASSER lE noMBRE DE zonES MARinES ET côTièRES PRoTégéES à cinq PouR cEnT D’ici DEux AnS ET à Dix PouR cEnT D’ici cinq AnS. STiMulER lE REcouRS Aux TEcHnologiES vERTES, coMME l’énERgiE REnouvElABlE, DAnS l’inDuSTRiE MinièRE ET D’AuTRES SEcTEuRS DES RESSouRcES nATuREllES.

* Anciennement, Affaires autochtones et Développement du nord canada ; ** un des deux portefeuilles anciennement connus comme le ministère de l’industrie ; *** le nom du portefeuille fait maintenant aussi référence au changement climatique

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deS promeSSeS, deS promeSSeS Les libéraux disposaient de 78 jours durant la campagne pour faire des promesses aux Canadiens. Voyons maintenant combien seront tenues.

Bon nombre des engagements figurant dans la version définitive de la plateforme électorale du parti, publiée juste avant les élections, ont été réitérés dans les lettres de mandat ministériel rendues publiques en novembre, lesquelles énonçaient les « priorités absolues » associées à chaque portefeuille ministériel.

Le processus d’évaluation environnementale fédéral sera « immédiatement » révisé au complet de façon à assurer une surveillance plus rigoureuse dans les domaines relevant de la compétence fédérale, notamment les pêches et les terres fédérales, le tout de concert avec les administrations provinciales et territoriales pour éviter le double emploi de processus. Le gouvernement a également affirmé qu’il analysera les répercussions et les émissions de gaz à effet de serre à long terme dans le cadre du nouveau processus.

Il ne s’agit pas du seul changement prévu visant les projets dans le secteur des ressources. Selon les mandats reçus par les ministres de l’Environnement, des Ressources naturelles et des Pêches et des Océans, les entreprises ayant des projets faisant l’objet d’évaluations environnementales seront tenues de « choisir les meilleures technologies pour réduire les répercussions sur l’environnement. » Le gouvernement a promis de faire en sorte que l’industrie ait accès à des technologies plus vertes, en accordant des crédits d’impôt et en investissant 200 millions de dollars de plus par an « en appui à l’innovation et au recours à des technologies

vertes dans les secteurs des ressources naturelles », y compris l’industrie minière — la seule fois où l’on y fait explicitement référence dans le document sur la plateforme électorale.

L’engagement donne un signal à l’industrie, estime Celine Bak, agrégée supérieure du Centre pour l’innovation dans la gouvernance internationale, « et les signaux sont importants », dit-elle.

Les sociétés minières pourraient utiliser des sources d’énergie renouvelable ou construire des mini réseaux électriques pour les communautés locales afin d’alimenter les sites éloignés, options qui pourraient s’avérer financièrement et socialement responsables pour l’industrie, a-t-elle expliqué; cependant, le gouvernement doit inciter les entreprises à essayer les technologies. Le nouveau financement pourrait constituer un pas dans cette direction.

Certains programmes demeureront probablement intacts, comme le Crédit d’impôt pour l’exploration minière. Lors d’une entrevue avec The Northern Miner durant la campagne électorale, les libéraux ont affirmé qu’ils continueraient d’appuyer ce crédit. par Kate Sheridan

ChangementS prévuS ConCernant L’offiCe nationaL de L’énergie et LeS ConSuLtationS autoChtoneS « Aucune relation n’est plus importante pour moi et pour le Canada que la relation avec les peuples autochtones », a déclaré le premier ministre Justin Trudeau dans ses lettres de mandat ministériel, rendues publiques le 13 novembre. Cette déclaration faisait écho aux engagements antérieurs du parti en vue de réévaluer la façon dont le gouvernement collabore avec les peuples autochtones, engagements susceptibles d’avoir des répercussions d’une grande ampleur.

Le gouvernement libéral s’est engagé à entreprendre un examen des lois, des politiques et des pratiques qui orientent les évaluations environnementales fédérales en tenant compte des propositions des Premières Nations et des communautés inuites et métisses. L’examen évaluerait également si l’État respecte ses obligations de consultation et d’accommodement de la vision et des droits des peuples autochtones, conformément aux différents traités signés avec le gouvernement canadien et à la Déclaration des Nations Unies sur les droits des peuples autochtones.

Les libéraux ont également attiré l’attention sur la nécessité de réformer l’Office national de l’énergie (ONÉ). L’Office assure la réglementation des pipelines ainsi que des projets d’exploration pétrolière et gazière.

Dans le cadre des réformes, le premier ministre a demandé au ministre des Ressources naturelles, Jim Carr, de s’assurer « que la composition [de l’Office] reflète les points de vue régionaux et compte suffisamment d’expertise dans des domaines comme la science environnementale, le développement communautaire et le savoir traditionnel autochtone. » Les efforts actuels de rapprochement de l’ONÉ avec les communautés autochtones consistent notamment à se réunir avec les collectivités locales pour discuter du processus d’évaluation et à inviter les groupes à donner leur avis par rapport à des projets particuliers par l’intermédiaire de l’initiative de participation accrue des Autochtones, d’après le site Web de l’Office.

Les détails sur les modifications qui seront apportées à l’ONÉ n’ont pas encore été publiés. « Le gouvernement a indiqué qu’il est déterminé à renouveler sa relation avec les peuples autochtones en misant sur la confiance, le respect et la collaboration, ainsi qu’à assurer que cet engagement se reflète dans les processus de surveillance et d’évaluation environnementale dans le secteur des ressources naturelles », a affirmé Jacinthe Perras, porte-parole du ministre des Ressources naturelles, qui a ajouté que le processus de mise en œuvre des changements touchant de nouveaux projets était toujours en cours d’élaboration. par Kate Sheridan December/Décembre 2015 • January/Janvier 2016 | 105

Le nuage

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ou comment l’industrie minière peut exploiter la puissance du nuage Par Tom Dinardo

la prolifération de détecteurs de la santé des actifs, de systèmes de surveillance et de l’automatisation implique que les sociétés minières génèrent quotidiennement d’énormes quantités de données, lesquelles viennent s’ajouter aux données condensées par des logiciels plus courants qui gèrent la messagerie d’entreprise ou la programmation. le nuage offre aux sociétés minières une manière de se délester de toutes ces données, de réduire leurs coûts et de libérer des ressources précieuses tout en préservant leur accès et leur sécurité. un nuage défini

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D’après un rapport récemment publié par Illumiti, Sungard et Cisco intitulé Cloud ERP for Mining Companies (planification des ressources de l’entreprise dans le nuage pour les sociétés minières), le nuage est un terme qui « fait plus ou moins référence à tout service ou ressource mis à disposition par un prestataire de services sur Internet, et non pas en interne ». Plutôt que de directement installer des applications logicielles dans le matériel sur site, un logiciel « dans le nuage » est hébergé par des centres de données tiers, à savoir de grandes installations dotées de systèmes informatiques gigantesques entretenues par des prestataires de services dans le nuage tels qu’Amazon Web Services (AWS) ou Google Compute Engine. Les prestataires de services logiciels louent de l’espace dans le nuage et fournissent à leurs clients un accès à la demande. Les informations générées ou recueillies par le logiciel sont stockées dans le nuage, qui dispose d’un espace pratiquement illimité.

D’après le rapport d’Illumiti et al., le nuage offre de nombreux avantages aux sociétés minières, notamment une continuité de leurs activités en cas de panne. Les informations n’étant pas hébergées sur un serveur interne, il est plus facile de récupérer les données si les activités sont interrompues. Pour Doug Bellin, cadre supérieur chargé de la fabrication à l’international chez Cisco Systems, le coût total de possession constitue un autre aspect intéressant du nuage. « On n’a pas à s’inquiéter du temps qu’il faudra pour déployer une batterie de serveurs ou pour initialiser un centre de données », expliquait-il, procédures qui peuvent absorber des ressources et des capitaux précieux. En outre, les services hébergés dans le nuage fournissent toujours, et immédiatement, la dernière version du logiciel aux clients.

CompoSanteS du nuage

Logiciel en tant que service (SaaS) - un logiciel hébergé dans le nuage partagé entre l’ensemble des clients utilisateurs du service sur abonnement et disponible à la demande.

Infrastructure en tant que service (IaaS) - un fournisseur tiers d’infrastructure informatique (par exemple, AWS ou Google) met à votre disposition une infrastructure réseau (matériel, logiciels, serveurs, stockage et autres composantes d’une infrastructure) dans des centres de données à distance.

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La tête danS Le(S) nuage(S) !

Le nuage dépend d’une connexion Internet, aussi de nombreuses mines souterraines ne peuvent pas encore profiter de tous les avantages qu’offre cette technologie. Mais la situation évolue. Grâce à la solution Connected Mining de Cisco Systems, la mine Éléonore de Goldcorp au Québec est désormais équipée du WiFi. Si les mineurs en première ligne ne peuvent encore pas totalement profiter des avantages du nuage, les personnes travaillant dans les bureaux ont, quant à elles, déjà commencé à l’utiliser.

Strata GeoData Services a lancé une initiative de consultation collective en avril dernier, baptisée SGDS Hive, et son fondateur Andy Randell embauche des équipes de jeunes géoscientifiques afin d’évaluer des projets d’exploration en démarrage. Cependant, les membres de l’équipe se rencontrent rarement, voire jamais. Les travaux sont effectués à distance et les membres de l’équipe partagent leurs informations et leurs cartes par le biais de Google Drive, un service de stockage sécurisé dans le nuage qui leur permet de sauvegarder les changements et auquel ils ont accès partout dans le monde à partir d’un simple ordinateur portable.

Les fonctions de planification des ressources de l’entreprise (PRE) telles que les ressources humaines, la finance et la gestion de projets migrent progressivement vers le nuage.

SAP, par exemple, propose plusieurs applications dans le nuage pour les ventes, les RH, le marketing et la finance, entre autres. D’après le rapport Cloud ERP for Mining Companies, dans lequel 35 dirigeant(e)s de sociétés minières ont été interrogé(e)s, voici une liste des fonctions de PRE dans le nuage les plus populaires déjà adoptées par les sociétés minières :

La solution Connected Mining de Cisco Systems est une plateforme de communication qui crée une connectivité de base pour l’intégralité du site minier. Grâce à cette plateforme, les mineurs reçoivent des informations en temps réel relatives à la production, à l’équipement, à la localisation des employé(e)s et à la sécurité. L’architecture du système permet de se connecter au nuage, aussi elle peut héberger des applications minières au cas et au moment où une société décide de procéder à la migration des serveurs hors site.

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À pleine capacité, la mine produira 5 000 tonnes de concentré de tungstène par an.

Les images sont gracieusement fournies par Wolf Minerals.

La crème de la crème du Devon Les négociations n’ont pas toujours été faciles pour Jeff Harrison quand, il y a cinq ans, il frappait aux portes des habitants de Hemerdon au Royaume-Uni pour les convaincre de vendre leurs maisons. Avec leur coopération, leur expliquait-il, 220 nouveaux emplois seraient créés dans la région, ce qui permettrait d’injecter des fonds dont l’économie locale avait cruellement besoin. Cette prospérité future dépendait cependant du démarrage de la mine de tungstène Drakelands, en construction depuis 1867.

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es 15 propriétaires ont fini par accepter sa proposition. « Certains continuent de venir voir comment se développe le projet de mine sur ce site où se trouvaient auparavant leurs maisons », indiquait M. Harrison, directeur de l’exploitation pour le Royaume-Uni chez Wolf Minerals, dont le projet Drakelands représente à l’heure actuelle la première nouvelle mine métallifère développée sur l’île depuis 45 ans.

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Cette exploitation, qui devrait produire jusqu’à 5 000 tonnes de concentré de tungstène et 1 000 tonnes de concentré de minerai d’étain par an, est une véritable bénédiction pour l’économie du comté de Devon ainsi que pour la région voisine des Cornouailles, où l’exploitation minière a toujours constitué une source importante de revenus. « La plupart des habitants de la région ont un lien avec l’industrie minière ; si eux n’ont pas forcément travaillé dans ce secteur, leurs pères December/Décembre 2015 • January/Janvier 2016 | 109

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ou leurs grands-pères y ont sans doute consacré leurs vies.

C’est une tradition familiale », expliquait M. Harrison. « Au fond, tout ce à quoi j’ai assisté au cours de ma vie est la fermeture de l’industrie de l’étain, la déliquescence de l’industrie du charbon et la ruine de l’industrie d’extraction de la terre à porcelaine. Rien ne s’est renouvelé, rien n’a été positif. » M. Harrison s’est beaucoup investi sur le plan personnel dans ce projet et, de manière générale, dans l’exploitation minière dans le sud-ouest du Royaume-Uni. « J’habite ici depuis 1983, mes enfants sont nés ici », déclarait-il, se remémorant les 20 années qu’il a passées à travailler dans une mine voisine de kaolin où il était directeur de secteur, mais dont les activités ont depuis bien diminué. Il est parti en Australie en 2005 pour travailler chez QMAG à Queensland, mais est revenu dans le Devon en 2010. « J’étais sans emploi, et le site se trouve à moins de 20 kilomètres de chez moi ; j’aurais difficilement pu trouver mieux. » Toutefois, ranimer l’industrie de l’extraction des métaux au Royaume-Uni est une tâche bien complexe pour un seul homme. Lorsque M. Harrison a rejoint la société il y a cinq ans, la réussite de Drakelands était loin d’être gagnée. « Lorsque j’ai commencé à travailler chez Wolf Minerals, la société comprenait en tout et pour tout trois hommes en Australie et moi au Royaume-Uni », se rappelait-il. « En 2010, certaines personnes nous prenaient pour des fous. Presque personne ne pensait que nos efforts allaient aboutir. » L’année suivante, cependant, la société publiait une étude de faisabilité positive à une époque où le tungstène se vendait à 45 000 $ US la tonne, et le projet a alors commencé à gagner du terrain.

Le projet devrait progressivement atteindre sa pleine capacité début 2016, et chaque jour marque une étape importante dans l’histoire minière britannique. Le jour de ma visite à la fin du mois d’octobre, Orica était en train de procéder au premier essai pour les coups de mine, de petite ampleur certes. « Il 110 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 10, No. 8

s’agissait davantage de quelques bruits secs créant des ondes de choc que l’on peut mesurer pour ensuite modéliser et prévoir les prochains coups de mine », expliquait M. Harrison, ajoutant que l’abattage à l’explosif deviendra indispensable à mesure que la mine à ciel ouvert devient plus profonde et la roche plus dure. L’optimisation des coups de mine aidera à éviter le bruit, la poussière et les vibrations inutiles qui pourraient déranger les personnes vivant à proximité.

Pour M. Harrison et son équipe, il est très important de ne rien laisser au hasard. « En tant qu’ingénieur des mines britannique, on souhaite aussi bien faire les choses pour l’industrie minière de notre pays », ajoutait-il. « Quand je suis rentré à l’université dans les années 1970, il existait huit ou neuf écoles des mines et on envoyait les ingénieurs miniers dans le monde entier. Aujourd’hui, seule la Camborne School of Mines existe encore. »

L’école des mines de Camborne Aux dernières nouvelles, 14 diplômé(e)s de la Camborne School of Mines (l’école des mines de Camborne), qui se trouve près de Falmouth à environ 100 kilomètres du site, travaillaient sur le projet Drakelands. « C’est parce que nous sommes les meilleurs », plaisantait James McFarlane, diplômé de l’école et principal géologue minier chez Wolf Minerals. Depuis qu’il a commencé à travailler pour la société au début de l’année, il tente de réunir toutes les données géologiques qui ont été recueillies au cours de l’histoire de la mine. « Pour savoir où l’on va, il faut savoir où l’on a été, aussi j’ai reconstitué au mieux que j’ai pu les travaux qui ont été menés antérieurement », ajoutait-il.

Certains diagrammes, notes et cartes datent de la Première Guerre mondiale mais, comme l’expliquait M. McFarlane, « la plupart des données sont issues de travaux menés entre la fin des années 1970 et le milieu des années 1980. Ces travaux

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sont de très grande qualité, mais sont consignés sur papier. » Outre la numérisation des informations, son équipe a dû les normaliser de manière à créer une base de données plus solide pour la phase de production.

Les travaux de recherche du professeur Robin Shail de l’école de Camborne, qui portent sur la géologie du sud-ouest de l’Angleterre, sont particulièrement précieux pour M. McFarlane. Les étudiant(e)s diplômé(e)s de M. Shail entreprennent souvent des projets portant spécifiquement sur la géologie aux alentours du gisement de Drakelands, dans lequel le granit qui renferme des filons précieux de wolframite est remonté et a été assimilé dans les sédiments dévoniens environnants que l’on trouve dans la région. « Ces sédiments datent de l’ère du Dévonien, qui tire son nom du comté du Devon », indiquait M. McFarlane. « Je me suis lancé dans ce projet sans trop savoir ce qu’il en était, mais une fois que j’ai découvert l’ampleur du gisement, j’ai commencé à réaliser sa complexité. Il y a tant de choses à faire ; j’ai dû me démener pour m’assurer que la phase de démarrage et de mise en service soit parfaite. » L’école et la mine sont en parfaite symbiose. « Nous sommes ravis de pouvoir attribuer un poste dans chacune des quatre équipes à un diplômé(e) et préférons les savoir ici plutôt qu’à s’évertuer à trouver un emploi digne de leurs qualifications », indiquait M. Harrison. Ces diplômé(e)s acquièrent de l’expérience en travaillant dans une mine et augmenteront leur chance d’être embauché(e)s lorsque l’industrie remontera la pente ; quant à Wolf Minerals, elle développe une équipe de jeunes talents qui pourront remplacer les membres du personnel à mesure qu’ils prennent leur retraite.

Phil Hingston, métallurgiste principal de l’usine de traitement, est un autre diplômé de l’école des mines de Camborne, originaire de Plymouth. Comme beaucoup d’autres membres de l’équipe, il a à son actif une expérience d’envergure internationale, et se rappelle qu’avant de rejoindre Wolf Minerals au début de l’année, il connaissait déjà ou avait déjà travaillé avec la plupart des membres de l’équipe spécialisée dans le tungstène. Il avait par exemple rencontré M. McFarlane en Irlande du Nord alors qu’il travaillait dans une mine d’or. « Nous avons travaillé ensemble pendant environ 15 mois, et nous sommes restés en contact. »

Une histoire très contemporaine La guerre a eu un impact dévastateur sur le sud-ouest du Royaume-Uni tout autant que sur le reste de l’île. Plymouth, située à seulement 10 kilomètres du projet, abrite un grand port ainsi que des installations militaires et est considérée comme la ville anglaise la plus ravagée par les bombardements de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. La mine est elle aussi, d’une certaine façon, née de la guerre.

La découverte de tungstène sur le site remonte à 1867, mais l’exploitation est arrivée bien plus tard. Les usines de traitement ont été construites durant les Première et Seconde Guerres mondiales afin de remplacer les réserves qui ne pouvaient plus être envoyées de l’étranger. Malheureusement, ces usines ont rarement traité de minerai ; il a fallu tellement de temps pour développer la mine qu’au moment où les usines devaient

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être mises en service, les guerres qui les avaient rendu si importantes ont pris fin et l’ouverture de la mine a de nouveau été repoussée.

Pourtant, même après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, on continuait de s’intéresser au développement de ce projet. La société Amax s’est intéressée au gisement à la fin des années 1970 et a commencé les forages d’exploration qui ont fini par définir la majeure partie du gisement en production aujourd’hui. Le conseil du comté du Devon a délivré un permis de construire à la mine en 1986, mais comme rien ne se passe jamais comme prévu, le prix du tungstène, qui s’était effondré au début des années 1980, n’est pas remonté. Amax a fini par rendre aux propriétaires les terres qui recouvraient le gisement, malgré l’obtention du permis de construire qui s’étendait jusqu’en 2021. Wolf Minerals a heureusement pu profiter de ces permis, qui sont toujours valides, et mène actuellement des travaux pour prolonger la durée de vie de la mine.

Un environnement confortable On pourrait penser que l’Angleterre, dont la population est dense, n’est pas l’endroit idéal pour mener des activités minières au XXIe siècle. Pourtant, les employé(e)s à salaire horaire coûtent moins cher au Royaume-Uni qu’ailleurs en Europe en moyenne, et l’industrie minière y est en outre relativement bien acceptée, ce qui rend cette région intéressante à plusieurs points de vue. Les réglementations sont cependant très strictes et difficiles à comprendre. M. Harrison précisait cependant que l’installation de gestion des déchets de la mine Drakelands sera la première au Royaume-Uni à être autorisée au titre de la directive européenne concernant la gestion des déchets de l’industrie minière adoptée en 2006 et modifiée en 2009 par décision de la Commission européenne (CE). « Nous qualifions ce projet d’environnemental plutôt que de projet minier », ajoutait-il. « Les permis environnementaux délivrés par l’agence britannique pour l’environnement ont été très difficiles à obtenir, mais notre collaboration avec les autorités réglementaires a été très positive sur ce sujet qui était aussi nouveau pour eux que pour nous. » L’un des grands avantages de cette exploitation est que le circuit de traitement repose presque entièrement sur la concentration gravimétrique. La région présente de petite quantité d’arsenic associé au granite, mais la société surveille cela de près et respecte des conditions très strictes pour empêcher que ses activités ne concentrent ou n’augmentent les niveaux déjà présents à l’état naturel dans les sols et les voies navigables de la région.

En fin de compte, dans une région où l’exploitation minière est une activité courante et non une exception, Wolf Minerals est un voisin plutôt classique qui apporte prospérité à la région et que l’on ne considère pas comme un adversaire. « C’est assez exceptionnel de pouvoir dire que l’on s’apprête à produire 4 % du tungstène à l’échelle mondiale à moins de dix kilomètres au nord de Plymouth », déclarait M. Harrison. ICM December/Décembre 2015 • January/Janvier 2016 | 111

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uring the Middle Ages, copper was an extremely useful white metal was strong like iron, as well as malleable, ductile metal. Its alloys, bronze and brass, were forged into and magnetic. It also had a very high melting point of 1,453 church monuments, coins and weaponry – objects degrees Celsius and contained 56 per cent arsenic. His that defined the material culture of Medieval Europe. observations revealed that the Saxon miners had not By the 16th century, Erzgebirge – otherwise known fallen ill at the hands of a Germanic mythologias the Ore Mountains, along today’s German– cal demon spirit, but were poisoned by the Czech border – had become the epicentre of arsenic that was released in the smelting mining in central Europe, as it contained large process. deposits of copper and other precious In 1754, Cronstedt shortened the word minerals.

Kupfernickel to name the newly discovIn 1750, miners from Saxony – a region ered metal Nickel. Whether or not Cronon Erzgebirge’s eastern ridge – struck upon stedt knew the Germanic word’s evil an unusual mineral deposit. Although origins has been lost to history. slightly lighter in colour, the reddish-brown In the decades that followed, nickel ore looked uncannily like copper. After was thought to be rare, since Kupfergoing through the long and laborious process nickel ore was hard to find. That changed of extracting, crushing and roasting the ore, in 1824, when it was discovered that the the miners were perplexed when smelting prometal could be obtained as a byproduct in duced a bright and silvery metal that was the production of cobalt blue. In the years leadextremely hard. Try as they might, the ing up to this discovery, cobalt mine Swedish chemist Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt miners could not figure out how to make owners would say that nickel’s misbehavaccidentally discovered nickel when attempting to the metal malleable. ing ores were in fact cobalt that had lost extract copper from a curious ore called Kupfernickel.

After several fruitless attempts, disapits soul. pointment turned into horror and disgust when the men Shortly after, in 1848, Norway began exploiting nickel-rich began to fall ill. Those who were tasked with smelting the mys- pyrrhotite, making the country the world’s first large-scale terious ore began to show signs of poisoning. Many began to nickel producer. Large-scale production meant that nickel experience intense stomach pains, which led to vomiting and became widely accessible. Several large discoveries were made diarrhea. Others got vertigo, resulting in accidents and falls. in the second half of the 19th century, including deposits in Some who worked the smelters even became delirious, went New Caledonia, Russia and South Africa. Canada’s Sudbury into shock or died.

Basin, discovered in 1883, revealed an extraordinary mineral The ore was not copper after all, they concluded, but some- deposit whose mines continue to produce tens of thousands of thing disguised as such. Convinced that the deposit was the tonnes of nickel each year. mischievous work of the devil, the miners named it KupferNickel’s use caught on quickly. Its durability, combined nickel, meaning “Old Nick’s copper.” Old Nick was the name with its resistance to oxidization and corrosion, made it ideal of an evil sprite in Saxon mythology, and was also used as a for small, everyday objects like coins and cutlery. colloquial name for the devil.

The demand for nickel exploded when it began to be comWord spread across Europe of the Saxons’ unfortunate bined with chromium, cadmium, silver, iron, zinc and copper encounter with Kupfernickel, piquing the curiosity of a to make a variety of alloys. After being introduced into steel Swedish chemist named Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. A production in 1889, nickel formed the foundation of the pupil of Georg Brandt, the chemist and mineralogist who dis- Industrial Revolution. It plated the railway that ran between covered cobalt, Cronstedt would eventually become known as New York and St. Louis, and steel – an alloy made from nickel one of the founders of modern mineralogy. and iron – erected the skyscrapers of Chicago.

Although the superstitious Saxon miners had condemned it Today, nickel alloys are used in everything from cutlery as useless and even dangerous, Cronstedt set out to discover and electronics to medical equipment and infrastructure. the proper technique for extracting copper from the curious Once thought to be rare, we now know that it is one of the 10 ore. In 1751, he succeeded in making a discovery – albeit not most common elements on earth – though most large the one he had hoped for. deposits remain hidden deep in the Earth’s crust. Many What Cronstedt managed to extract from the Kupfernickel experts even believe that nickel forms a small part of the was not copper but something else entirely. The hard, silvery earth’s core. CIM 114 | CIM Magazine | Vol. 10, No. 8

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