Seabed hydrocarbon seeps are environments where petroleum fluids from deep warm sources migrate upwards through marine sediments and up into the water column. These are important biological environments that also have industrial applications. Seeps can be indicative of deep petroleum reserves and are used in oil exploration. They also host microbial communities that are capable […]

The Government of Canada considers lithium as a critical element because it is a major component of rechargable batteries in, for example, electric vehicles, but it is also used in lubricants, ceramics, and glasses. The Tanco mine in Manitoba supplies approximately 5% of the world’s lithium, but little is known about the distribution of lithium […]

The Island Gold mine, owned by Alamos Gold Inc., operates on one of the highest-grade gold deposits in Canada. Many gold deposits, including the Island Gold mine, follow east-west-trending structures, but the northwest-trending Maskinonge Lake Fault, located east of the mine, is uniquely enriched with gold and therefore contradicts this model. The objective of this […]

The Government of Canada considers lithium as a critical element because it is a major component of rechargeable batteries in, for example, electric vehicles, but it is also used in lubricants, ceramics, and glasses Kavanagh et al. 2018). The intern will study this using data and samples supplied by the partner organization, by doing geological […]

The proposed research activi~ies aim the chemical and physical characterization of the wax contained in the Caledonia crude oil for the establishment of customized wax remediation alternatives. It also proposes the evaluation of the effectiveness of the optimum remediation treatments through the establishment of the flow performance of the original oil and treated oil in […]

The goal of this MITACS proposed project is to evaluate the preliminary performance and economics of the carbon dioxide capture technology using recovered waste heat from engine exhaust and utilizing the recovered heat to regenerate solvents in a small-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) capture project. This is because the regeneration of the solvents requires high energy. […]

This internship conducted in partnership with the Canadian Light Source (CLS) BioXAS Main Spectroscopy beamline (Saskatoon, SK) is a research project to develop and test a procedure to determine the detection limits (lowest analyzable concentrations) for chemical analyses of samples containing three elements of interest (copper, cobalt, and uranium) over a wide range of concentrations. […]

The mining sector is vital to the Canadian economy, contributing $71B towards the GDP and providing 392,000 jobs. Canada is the 4th and 8th largest global producer of refined zinc and lead, respectively, and as one of the world’s largest zinc and lead refining facilities, Teck Resources’ operation in Trail, BC, is an important part […]

Our research aims at developing efficient and cost-effective solutions for sustainable geothermal energy production, conversion, utilization and energy system integration. A practical geothermal energy production study will be conducted to explore medium to high temperature geothermal reservoirs in Saskatchewan with careful engineering design planning, and implementation to secure a long-term sustainable energy development process. A […]

La mine Essakane de IAMGOLD Corporation est une mine d’or à ciel ouvert dont l’exploitation devrait produire 32 millions de tonnes de stériles par an pendant quatre ans, puis 25 millions de tonnes l’année suivante, pour se stabiliser à 15 millions de tonnes par an par la suite, et ce, pendant toute la durée de […]

MineSense Technologies Ltd. is revolutionizing grade control at mining operations by installing ShovelSense® sensors on buckets that measure the grade of every load before it is dumped in the truck. ShovelSense® measures the elemental grade in each mining shovel bucket by scanning the rocks with X-ray fluorescence (XRF) sensors as the bucket is filled. This […]

The mining industry is undergoing a tremendous revolution, as an increasing number of components are being automated, which presents unresolved engineering challenges. The current proposal is to develop quantitative frameworks to evaluate modern control and automation strategies, simulating the impacts of uncertainty in ore tonnages and system-wide automated responses that would mitigate these impacts. The […]