A new centre that applies remote monitoring technologies to environmental challenges

CONTACT

Dr. Graeme Spiers
Director
gspiers@mirarco.org

OUR SPECIALITY AND EXPERTISE

Our goal is to develop analytical systems, monitoring procedures, and provide research and technical services to support the needs of mining and other resource industries:

• ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MONITORING
• REMEDIATION OF MINE SITES
• ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH
• DATA INTERPRETATION SERVICES
• MINE OPERATIONS EFFECTS MONITORING
• GEOLOGICAL MONITORING
• ENVIRONMENTAL DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES

ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS MONITORING

• On-site analytical systems development
• Development of small sample analysis technology
• Remote data transmission
• Ground water and emissions monitoring
• Tailings dam stability monitoring
• Impact of anthropogenic metals on ecosystems
• Movement and speciation of metals in ecosystems

ECOTOXICOLOGICAL RESEARCH

• Metal mobility in perturbed systems
• Radioactive nuclide transfers and transformations

MINE OPERATION EFFECTS MONITORING

• Emissions monitoring
• Speciation of metal particulate emissions
• Development of isotopic monitoring techniques
• Metal phytoavailability

GEOLOGICAL MONITORING

• Geosensing for grade estimation

ENVIRONMENTAL DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICES

• Collection, management and interpretation of environmental monitoring data
• Spectral data image analysis
• Image analysis