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Mine Managers Call For Answers to Questions Like These:

"How can we optimise our exploration dollars?"

"Can you monitor vibrations, stress, blast vibrations?"

"Can you monitor ground water quality?"

"How do we regreen our tailings sites cost-effectively?"

"Isn't there a better way to control and support the ground?"

"Can you help to assess the risk of mining the next 1000 feet?"

"How can we accelerate the development process...?"

"Do you have a student that we could hire for...?"

"Do you offer short courses on...?"

"I heard that there is now a better way to..."

...Yes, we do. Yes, we can.

GEOMECHANICS AND MINE DESIGN

  • Ground Support and Rock Excavation
    • Ground Support o Liner integrity testing
    • Rockmass stability testing
    • Support performance assessment
    • Support in burst-prone ground
    • Drillability and Abrasivity Testing
  • Instrumentation and Monitoring
    • New! Borehole acoustic televiewer logging
    • Stress Change monitoring
    • Deformation monitoring
    • Acoustic emission monitoring
    • Borehole geophysics
    • Velocity probe profiling
  • Mine Design and Simulation
    • New! Mining Exploratorium Program
    • Numerical Modelling
  • More Geomechanics Services

ENVIRONMENTAL

  • Environmental systems monitoring
  • Reclamation research o Site remediation
  • Ecotoxicological research
  • Mine operation effects monitoring
  • Hydrogeological monitoring
  • Environmental data management and interpretation
  • More Environmental Services

MINING TECHNOLOGY

  • Development of new drilling technologies
  • Virtual reality modelling with a safety and training objective
  • Water jet and abrasive-water jet cutting or drilling for mining applications
  • Equipment performance, safety, and economics assessment
  • Technical evaluations of new mining technologies
  • Systems engineering

INTEGRATED MONITORING TECHNOLOGY and VIRTUAL REALITY

  • New!Virtual Reality Laboratory
  • Data monitoring, collection, storage, processing and visualization
  • Integration and visualization of multiple data sets
  • Remote data acquisition
  • Data dissemination and knowledge transfer capabilities
  • Multidisciplinary collaboration within a project
  • More Integrated Monitoring and Virtual Reality Services



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A not-for-profit corporation of
Laurentian University

Last modified: August 15 2005.