Northern Mine Remediation research in Yukon Territory

The Industrial Research Chair (IRC) in Northern Mine Remediation (NMR), hosted at Yukon University, partnered with 7 active mines and brings scientific evidence to environmental challenges the mining industry is facing is the North. Thir IRC in NMR build research projects under 3 main research trends (i) Water Treatment by Passive or Semi-Passive Technologies; (ii) Mine Waste Management and iii) Mine Revegetation. This project supports the hire of a Post Doc Fellow to assist in the development of 3 current or to be developed research projects as follow: Semi-passive treatment column (Permeable Reactive barriers) technology to treat mine impacted water under cold conditions; Victoria Gold Pilot scale bioreactors; and Oxygen diffusion in saturated cover following freeze and thaw cycles.The PDF position will also support the development of Northern Mine Remediation course for First Nation communities.

Faculty Supervisor:

Guillaume Nielsen

Student:

Partner:

BMC Minerals Ltd.;Casino Mining Corporation

Discipline:

Earth science

Sector:

Mining

University:

Yukon University

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