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IN THIS ISSUE C IM MAGAZINE

MARCH/APRIL | MARS/AVRIL2014

cover story

Can we ditch diesel?

Miners are learning to harness the energy that surrounds their sites by Pierrick Blin and Antoine Dion-Ortega

51 Built to break throughNew requirements at mining operations areopening the door to mechanized tunnelling by Correy Baldwin

32 An electrifying ideaElectrical comminution promises lowerpower costs and more efficient liberation by Eavan Moore

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special report55 Saskatchewan Miners have their eyes fixed on the long

view as they develop the vast resources of the prairie province

75 2014 Preliminary CIM Expo! Guide

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MINING 4 EVERYONE

8 Editor’s letter

10 President’s notes

tools of the trade 12 The best in new technology

by Herb Mathisen and Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco

news 14 Industry at a glance

18 Canadian institute to assistforeign governments to developresponsible extractive sectors by Andrew Livingstone

20 Yukon Government faces courtchallenge over land use plan by Ainslie Cruickshank

24 Indonesia surprises the worldby following through on oreexport ban by Herb Mathisen

columns 26 Canada’s mining HR practices –

a new export?by Ryan Montpellier

28 Reducing railways’ liability notthe right path to rail safety by Brendan Marshall

30 Mine backfill: a budgetary blackhole or a savings opportunity?by Tony Grice

upfront 35 Tweaking stirred mill spins gold from historical tailings at New Dawn Mining

by Ian Ewing

38 Ken Major has gotten his hands dirty in nearly every area of mineral processing

by Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco

travel 69 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

cim community 73 CIM news from Canada and

beyond

mining lore 110 The miner’s best friend:

A history of the pit pony inunderground coal mines in the19th and 20th centuriesby Alan Jones

108 Innovation showcase |Product file

109 Professional Directory

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page couverture46 Pouvons-nous

abandonner le diesel?Les sociétés minièresapprennent à exploiter l’énergiequi entoure leurs sitespar Pierrick Blin et Antoine Dion-Ortega

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66 Profil de projetPour son projet de mine depotasse Legacy dans le sud dela Saskatchewan, la sociétéminière allemande K+S prévoitun potentiel à long termepar Eavan Moore

73 La communauté de l’ICM

75 Guide préliminaire de l’Expo! de l’ICM

By David Harquail’s count, in just the lastdozen years, a series of short-terminvestment trends have arisen, had their

moment, and then in two or three yearsdeclined, replaced by the next new idea.Generating free cash flow is currently envogue, the Franco-Nevada CEO told a crowdgathered at the recent PDAC Convention inToronto.

Based on Harquail’s observed rate ofinvestment trend turnover, another 20 or sowill have been picked up and abandonedover the projected 55-year life of the Legacypotash mine, which we profile in our specialreport on Saskatchewan (p. 62). The $4.1-bil-

lion project represents just one long-term investment in the commodity bytwo new players – K+S Potash Canada and BHP Billiton – as well as estab-lished producers that have already been drawing potash from the PrairieEvaporite Formation for more than 50 years.

Another example proving that long-term projects can be accomplisheddespite investor unpredictability and short-term thinking is CamecoCorporation’s Cigar Lake uranium mine. After decades in development, themine began producing ore in mid-March and will add 18 million poundsto the company’s annual output once fully ramped up.

For short-term investors putting money into mining companies, thevalue of the actual projects the miners have and the extent of their risks,Harquail explained, is often beside the point. To succeed, he advised thatinstead of compromising their projects for short-term gain, companiesshould try to find investors such as sovereign wealth funds and pensionfunds with long-term goals that want to “get rich slow.”

Market forces have squeezed the fertilizer and uranium sectors, result-ing in layoffs and stalled projects. Developers of potash and uranium, how-ever, have the fundamentals on their side, and, if disciplined, should bevery attractive to the kind of long-term investor that Harquail says is outthere. We will just need the patience to wait to see.

Ryan Bergen, [email protected]

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Section editors Peter Braul, [email protected] Mathisen, [email protected]

Copy editor/Communications coordinator Zoë Koulouris, [email protected]

Web content editor Maria Olaguera, [email protected]

Editorial intern Tom DiNardo, [email protected]

Contributors Correy Baldwin, Pierrick Blin, Ainslie Cruickshank, PeterDiekmeyer, Antoine Dion-Ortega, Ian Ewing, Jesse Greene, Tony Grice,Alan Jones, Graham Lanktree, Andrew Livingstone, Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco, Brendan Marshall, Ryan Montpellier, Eavan Moore, RobertSchafer

Editorial advisory board Alicia Ferdinand, Garth Kirkham, VicPakalnis, Nathan Stubina

Translations Pierrick Blin, Antoine Dion-Ortega, Karen Rolland

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president’s notes | mot du président

La mise en œuvre de l’innovationUtiliser une nouvelle application pour téléphone intelligent pour gérer son horaire constitue une mise en

œuvre de l’innovation, tout comme forer une nouvelle série de trous de mine en se servant des granules denitrate d’ammonium-fioul (anfo) d’un nouveau fournisseur afin d’obtenir une fragmentation supérieure maismoins coûteuse. Il s’agit de deux changements au risque relativement faible qui n’auront aucun effet nuisibleà long terme sur l’exploitation et les coûts et qui ne signifieront pas la fin d’une opération ni d’une carrièreadvenant leur échec. Mais qu’arrive-t-il quand on prend la décision d’installer à grands frais un parc automatiséavec la promesse d’une réduction considérable des coûts de l’excavation et du traitement des matériaux envrac ? Ou qu’on adopte une nouvelle technologie de transformation du minerai qui n’a jamais été utiliséecommercialement, mais qui est appuyée par des essais qui concluent que l’amélioration du rendement et laréduction de la consommation de réactifs, d’énergie et d’eau seront énormes ? Une analyse des risques de lamise en œuvre dans chacun de ces cas laisse croire qu’un rendement inférieur aux attentes pourrait signifierla perte de centaines de millions de dollars et un retard de 18 mois dans l’échéancier de la mine.

Le chef de l’exploitation et le directeur de la mine doivent-ils prendre leur courage à deux mains et choisir cesoptions de préférence aux pratiques d’exploitation classiques et éprouvées ? Ils sont les seuls à pouvoir répondre àcette question, mais nous ne devrions pas nous croiser les bras, les regarder faire en leur souhaitant bonne chanceet attendre de voir quelle décision innovatrice fera avancer l’industrie et laquelle retombera sur le nez des ambitieux.

D’autres questions appellent des réponses qui profiteraient à tous : Comment et quand des innovationsrévolutionnaires ont-elles été mises en application dans un environnement minier ? Qu’est-ce qui motive lesdécideurs à prendre le risque de mettre en œuvre des innovations ? Où l’innovation se produit-elle petit à petitou de façon absolue? Comment les pratiques et technologies novatrices sont-elles mises en œuvre et utiliséesdans une nouvelle mine et dans une vieille mine, où un système d’exploitation usé a besoin d’être rajeuni ?

D’où nous viennent les innovations dans l’industrie minière, de nos jours ? La recherche et le développe-ment en entreprise fait-elle des progrès ? La recherche universitaire, souvent commanditée par l’industrie et legouvernement, a-t-elle du succès ? Qu’en est-il de la recherche et du développement menés par les fournis-seurs d’équipement? Quels sont les obstacles ?

En tant qu’industrie, nous devons nous habituer à notre rôle inconfortable de preneurs de risques. Notreavenir en dépend.

Robert SchaferCIM PresidentPrésident de l’ICM


Implementing innovationUsing a new smart phone app to manage the day’s demands at work is innovation implemen-

tation, just as drilling a new blasthole pattern while using ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (anfo)prills from a new supplier to get better yet cheaper rock fragmentation is. These are both rela-tively low-risk changes that will not have long-term negative operational and cost impacts andwill not undo an operation or career if they fail. But what happens when a decision is made toinstall a high-cost, automated fleet that promises to dramatically lower the costs of excavationand bulk materials handling? Or what about a new mineral processing technology that has notbeen used commercially but is backed by tests hinting at enormous advantages of improvedrecoveries with less reagent, energy and water consumption? A risk analysis on implementationin either case suggests that if performance falls short of expectations, hundreds of millions ofdollars may be lost and the mine schedule set back 18 months.

Do the COO and mine manager steel themselves and choose these options over standard,successful operating practices? Only they can answer this question, but we should not standback, wish them well and wait to see which leap to implement an innovation moves the indus-try forward and which punishes the leapers.

There are other questions we would all profit from having the answers to: How and whenhave paradigm-shifting innovations been put into practice in a mining environment? Whatinspires decision-makers to take the risk to implement innovations? Where does innovationoccur as incremental steps and where as sweeping changes? How are novel practices and tech-nologies implemented and used at a new operation, and how are they at an old mine where atired operating system needs revamping?

Where are innovations in mining coming from today? Is corporate R&D making headway?Is university research, oftentimes sponsored by industry and government, a success story? Whatabout R&D from equipment suppliers? What are the obstacles?

We, as an industry, need to get accustomed to our uncomfortable position as risk takers. Ourfuture depends on it.

◢ Key to a longer lifeDirty oil in engines and hydraulic systems poses realproblems. “It accelerates wear and inhibits reliability,”says Herb Martin, CEO of FilterMag, an Arizona-based provider of magnetic filtration solutions.Unfortunately, to provide adequate lubrication tosystems, filters need to have a certain porosity, whichmeans that particles under 20 microns can getthrough. “Over the years, the tolerances withinengine systems have become tighter and tighter, butfilters have not evolved to address this,” explainsMartin. The millions of tiny particles that collect in anengine or hydraulic system between oil changes cantherefore act like a grinding paste that shortens theengine’s life. FilterMag has created an additionalfiltering system that snaps onto regular filters andextends an engine’s life by 30 to 60 per cent, according to Martin. Using powerfulmagnetic technology, the filtering system catchesparticles as small as two microns, without affecting the

oil flow. “Rebuilding a Caterpillar enginecosts a minimum of $200,000, and

they rebuild them about every 15 to 18 months,” says Martin.“So even just a 30 per centincrease in the engine’s

life is worth$60,000 to$80,000 insavings. Theinvestment inour product isaround $3,000.”– A.L.-P.


TOOLS OFTHE TRADE

◢ Shipping containers as building foundationsWhat if you could send up your construction supplies inshipping containers that double as your building’sfoundations? Britespan Building Systems, an Ontario-basedcompany, has constructed more than 30 such buildings atremote mine sites in Canada, custom-designing fabricstructures that use shipping containers as a foundation, in avariety of dimensions for many different applications. MikePollard, a former building design and sales consultant, says thedimensions of the structures, which in the past have been up to24 metres wide and 31 metres long, with an 18-metreclearance, are limited only by local conditions andengineering practicalities. The shipping containers areanchored to the ground or filled to a required weight to

account for wind and snow loads. Galvanized steel trusses are then erected with the fabric stretched on top. Withone building, Pollard explains, the customer had stacked shipping containers three-high, and fitted them withelectrical and water infrastructure to allow for offices, washrooms and additional storage spaces. Other benefits tothe buildings are their portability. The fabric and trusses are taken down, stored in the containers, and can be rebuiltagain later. The buildings can be insulated, and Pollard said the fabric allows much of the daylight in. – H.M.

◢ People catch this machine’s eyeMost obstacle-detection systems that use radar andultrasonic technology are great at detecting objects andwarning large-vehicle operators before potentialaccidents occur. “But they tend to sound the alarm veryoften,” says Marie Grandpierre, spokesperson for France-based company Arcure. The reason is these technologiesdo not distinguish the human form from other objects.“[They] can’t tell the difference between a person and atunnel wall, for example,” she says, adding the alarm cango off up to 20 times a day. “The biggest risk is that theoperator can get used to the alarms and start ignoringthem,” Grandpierre explains. “Or at the very least, theconstant ringing can be annoying and disturb workerproductivity.” Arcure has come up with an alternative: itsBlaxtair system consists of a camera that transmits 3Dimages to a monitor in the vehicle cabin and to a harddrive. “If there’s a pedestrian between the wall and thevehicle, Blaxtair sets off both a sound alarm and a visualalarm in the monitor,” says Grandpierre. This alarm alsowarns both the operator and pedestrian. – A.L.-P.

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appropriate in light of evolving condi-tions,” wrote David Barnabe, spokesper-son of the ministry of finance. Thedepartment, however, would not com-ment on what criteria are used to deter-mine whether to extend the credit.When asked at PDAC if he would con-sider making the credit permanent,Prime Minister Stephen Harper jokedthat he would “never prejudge theactions” of Minister Flaherty.

– Herb Mathisen

Midway Gold on its way to production

Midway Gold Corporation beganbuilding its Pan gold project in Januaryand, with construction expected to takesix to nine months, the company isoptimistic it could start production atthe Nevada mine in the fourth quarterthis year.

The open pit, heap leach mine has anexpected life of roughly nine years withProven and Probable Reserves of 48.3million tonnes, grading 0.56 grams pertonne and a targeted average annualproduction of 81,000 ounces. “We’vegot a power line and a road that needsto be widened that’s already pioneeredto the site,” said Jaime Wells, investorrelations analyst at Midway. All that isleft to build are minor facilities and theadsorption/desorption and refining(ADR) plant.

Wells said he is optimistic about theprofitability of the Pan project given therecent improvement in gold prices:“With the upswing, Midway hasresponded well and we hope to see thatinto 2014.” Based on a November 2011feasibility study, the internal rate ofreturn at a gold price of $1,200 perounce is 32 per cent. At press time, goldwas hovering around $1,340 per ounce.Even if gold prices level off, there areopportunities to extend the project. “Wedeliberately stopped our drilling at amillion ounces at Pan just so we weren’tdrilling out of equity dollars,” said Wells,“but we have enough evidence internallythat we are optimistic that it could dou-ble, and we actually permitted for twicethe amount of mine life.” Midway hasalso done some drilling in between the

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper made history at PDAC in early March. While he did not make any policyannouncements or reveal any new initiatives for the mining industry, he did make an appearance, which was thefirst time a sitting prime minister has spoken at the annual event. And his presence certainly generated a buzz. Amedia throng squished into the question and answer session, hosted by PDAC’s new president Rod Thomas,while PDAC attendees crowded around televisions broadcasting the event.

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Taseko vows to keep NewProsperity fires burning

After the New Prosperity project washanded a second rejection from the fed-eral government, Taseko Mines brassannounced they would continue theirlegal fight with Ottawa over the validityof evidence submitted by NaturalResources Canada that resulted in thegovernment’s decision. “All of this willroll out in front of a court some day,”said Brain Battison, Taseko’s vice-presi-dent of corporate affairs.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper, speak-ing at PDAC in March, called the environ-mental assessment “extremely negative,”and added that unresolved land claimsissues with First Nations in the area con-tributed to the decision. But Harper alsosought to reassure miners that his govern-ment is an ally of the industry in general,noting that Taseko is welcome to apply forenvironmental permitting on its B.C.gold-copper project for a third time withrevised plans.

In the meantime, Taseko CEO RussHallbauer stated in a release that thecompany will “look at other opportuni-ties to increase shareholder value.” Ana-lysts have speculated over whatproperties the Vancouver-based com-pany could consider acquiring. JackiePrzybylowski, an analyst at Desjardins

Securities, pointed to Curis Resources,another HDI company, while Christo-pher Chang, a Laurentian Bank analyst,said he believes Yellowhead Miningwould be another fitting candidate.

– Peter Braul

Flaherty keeps exploration tax credit

First introduced by the Liberals as afive-year initiative in 2000, the MineralExploration Tax Credit (METC) hasbeen extended for one year in each ofFinance Minister Jim Flaherty’s budgets,dating back to 2006. In February, heonce again included the 15 per centcredit, which flow-through-shareholderscan claim for specific exploration workperformed by junior mining companies.The government estimates the credit hashelped juniors raise $5 billion since2006. In comparison, the lost govern-ment revenue as a result of the credit isexpected to be roughly $45 million thisyear. While the government continues totout METC’s benefits, it has shied awayfrom instituting it as a permanent meas-ure, despite extending it during bothcommodity booms and market dips.“The temporary nature of the MineralExploration Tax Credit allows the gov-ernment to periodically review themeasure and ensure that it remains

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worry about funding. “We control whatwe control,” said Adam Travis, CEO ofColorado Resources, which has hadrecent success drilling out its NorthROK copper-gold property in northwestB.C. “We wouldn’t be in the business ifwe weren’t eternal optimists. This year atRoundup and at the Cambridge (Van-couver Resource Investment) show, I seepeople have got a renewed enthusiasm.”

Mike Ball, commercial sales directorat Weatherhaven, whose company sup-plies portable shelters, camps and sys-tems for remote sites, said explorationsuppliers all suffered to varying degreesduring the recent lull. “If you’re going toservice this market, you had better haveat least one foot on another saddle,” Ballexplained, adding Weatherhaven is alsoa defence contractor and so not com-pletely exposed to the junior miningdown-cycle.

But drillers have fewer options. “Justabout every drill contractor has gotcapacity that’s not being used,” saidGeoff Newton,senior projectgeologist at Kami-nak Gold. Hiscompany hasmore money thanmost, with $10million in work-ing capital to con-tinue explorationthis year. “Thereare very few peo-ple who couldn’tget a rig goingpretty quickly,” headded.

Dips in metalprices are onlyone reason whymany juniors arenot appearingattractive toinvestors. Eventhough, Ball said,commodity prices“are an order ofm a g n i t u d ehigher” than theywere 10 years ago,he points a fingerat regulatory costs

for recent shortcomings. “There is anenormous burden associated with justmaintaining your listing on publicexchanges,” he said. “I’ve heard that it isbetween $160,000 and $250,000 just tomaintain your listing on the VentureExchange. That’s not a lot of moneywhen you’re raising millions, but it’s awhole heck of a lot of money whenyou’re diluting your shares by 30 percent to go raise $30,000. That’s veryproblematic.”

The positive momentum continuedthrough to March, as the annual PDACConvention did not experience a notabledrop-off in attendance, bringing in thefourth biggest audience in its history.

– P.B.

Cliffs closes Wabush mine,future uncertain

In February, Cleveland-based CliffsNatural Resources shut down theWabush iron ore mine in Newfound-

two planned pits, showing there ispotential for further expansion.

– Tom DiNardo

New group aims to attractwomen to mining innorthern Ontario

A new not-for-profit organization innorthern Ontario hopes the efforts of itsmembership can fill a pending shortageof mining workers with an under-repre-sented segment of the population.Women in Mining Northern Ontario(WIMNO) held its inaugural meeting inJanuary, and it aims to address the lackof women in the industry, said presidentCharmaine Gazdic.

Women currently make up 16 percent of the mining workforce, accordingto the 2013 Labour Market ForecastReport by the Mining Industry HumanResource Council (MiHR). With pend-ing shortages forecast for the industry inthe next decade, Gazdic said, “to fill theshortage, we are looking to women inthe sector as well as aboriginals.”

Northern Ontario is an importantplace to pursue this work because of itslarge mining community, she explained.WIMNO plans to promote the industry’sexisting opportunities to students andyoung professionals in the regionthrough networking events, personaland professional development, and lead-ership conferences. In June, the organi-zation will host a networking event atMacLean Engineering, and in Septemberit will launch its student chapter at Lau-rentian University. – T.D.

Junior sector ever optimistic as summer approaches

Whether based in reality or not,explorers and the contractors that sup-port their industry voiced enthusiasmand optimism at AME BC’s Roundupconference at the end of January. Thoughthe exploration sector is in turmoil, morethan 6,500 attendees from 37 countriesfound the necessary cash to attend theconference in Vancouver this year.

For most, the annual event was achance to network and talk rocks, not to

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land. “Our assessment has determinedthat the current cost structure and capi-tal requirements at Wabush Scully arenot sustainable,” said director of globalcommunications Patricia Persico, addingthe mine’s future is uncertain. “The com-pany is considering all options includinga sale of the operation.”

The Wabush iron ore mine wasCliffs’s highest cost operation and it wasrunning at a loss. During the fourthquarter of 2013, cash costs wereUS$143 per ton. Other factors that ledto the idling of the mine included aninability to meet targeted operationalperformance while costs continued torise, along with declining sales margins.Efforts to improve productivity last year,including a $66-million investment, ofwhich $40 million was devoted tomobile equipment, did not pan out.

The cuts may not stop at Wabush.Cliffs announced in February it wouldbe reducing expansion and capitalspending at its Bloom Lake mine

because of the outlook for iron oreprices. For now, Persico said Bloom Lakeis in operation but that could change ifpricing significantly decreased for anextended period of time. “For example,if Platts pricing remains belowUS$100/ton for a prolonged period oftime,” she said. “We have a sense of

urgency in that the status quo [at BloomLake] is not acceptable and a change isnecessary. The first step is to cut allgrowth and expansion capital, whichwe’ve done. The next step is to exploreour options, which we are doing.” – T.D

Transmission line energizesKami project

The Newfoundland and Labradorgovernment announced in February thatit will construct a transmission line fromChurchill Falls to Labrador West, mark-ing a significant step forward forAlderon Iron Ore’s Kami project in theLabrador Trough. The line will providethe necessary power for constructionand production at the company’s flag-ship project. “It’s an enabler for opera-tions and it’s also important from theperspective of us securing the financingfor our project because it’s a known factthat it’s a system that is lacking transmis-sion capacity,” said Tayfun Eldem,

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Alderon’s president and CEO. Alderon has been pushing forthe current grid in the region to be upgraded since September2011.

Alderon is required to pay $65 million for its share of theusage on the new transmission line. The company announcedin late February that it secured a $22-million loan from LibertyMetals & Mining to cover the first security deposit. LibertyMetals & Mining holds a 14.5 per cent stake in Alderon.Depending on the need for the next work phase, Alderon mayuse its own funds or borrow money from Liberty again to payfor the remainder of its access, according to Tayfun.

“The next step for the Kami project is completing our fund-ing so that we can start construction,” said Eldem. “The projecthas received sanction from the regulators and we’re busyacquiring all the construction-specific permits, but we will notstart construction until the full funding is in place.” Construc-tion could begin as early as this summer and would take abouttwo years to complete. – T.D.

Miners find safety while stranded in potashoperation

A fire broke out in the north block of Agrium Vanscoy’spotash mine in Saskatchewan, trapping 54 miners under-ground overnight on February 14. The fire forced the minersto clear the north block and seek safety in emergency sheltersunderground to avoid smoke. An emergency response teamheaded into the mine and put out the fire that broke outaround 9:45 p.m. The mine was ventilated to clear the smoke,and miners were released from underground shelters when itwas deemed safe. Production was temporarily affected by theincident, as underground operations were shut down from thestart of the fire Friday evening until Sunday night.

General manager Mike Dirham said the fire started on ascoop tram and spread when the vehicle’s fire suppression sys-tem failed to extinguish the fire. The cause of the fire is cur-rently under investigation. Dirham said Agrium is workingwith provincial authorities and forensics experts to determinewhat happened and to prevent similar events in the future.

– T.D.

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By as early as April, a new Canadianinstitute will begin delivering programsto help local, regional and nationalgovernments in developing countriesto convert their mineral resourcepotential into sustainable industriesthat provide long-term benefits to theircitizens.

The Canadian International Insti-tute for Extractive Industries andDevelopment, a partnership betweenthe University of British Columbia,Simon Fraser University and ÉcolePolytechnique de Montreal, wasawarded $25 million by the federalgovernment in November 2012 todevelop and deliver programs that helpforeign governments improve resourcedevelopment policies. This is in addi-

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tion to $15 million of in-kind fundingfrom the three universities.

The institute’s members have beenbusy ever since, communicating withforeign governments and puttingtogether programs that fit their needs.Professors will travel to host countriesto deliver the majority of the programsthat will focus on applied research,community engagement, education andnatural resource governance. Fundingruns out in 2018, and the goal is tohave the institute running self-suffi-ciently by then through partnershipswith governments, non-governmentalorganizations and mining companies.

The federal government seesCanada’s experience and reputationin the extractive sector as an opportu-

nity to help foreign governmentsimprove “revenue and wealth distri-bution among all individuals soeveryone can reap the rewards,” saidChristian Paradis, internationaldevelopment minister.

Weak capacity in taxation, inspectionand regulation, contract negotiation,and revenue collection and distributionare problems the government has identi-fied in developing countries. “[These arebarriers] to ensuring that developingcountries make the most of the develop-mental and economic results of extrac-tive operations in their countries for thebenefit of their people,” said NicolasDoire, a spokesperson with the Depart-ment of Foreign Affairs, Trade andDevelopment.

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The University of Toronto’s Department of Civil Engineering invites applications for one tenure-stream appointment at the rank of Associate or Full Professor. The successful candidate will be appointed to the prestigious Claudette MacKay-Lassonde chair in Mineral Engineering and be expected to take an active role in the Lassonde Institute of Mining. The Endowed Chair appointment is for a five-year term with the possibility of renewal following a favourable review. The successful candidate will commence his/her duties on July 1, 2014 or shortly thereafter.

The Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Toronto is committed to excellence in teaching and interdisciplinary research. Candidates must have exceptional undergraduate and graduate teaching in disciplines related to mineral/mining engineering and an international reputation for innovative research in any area related to the mineral/mining industries.

The Lassonde Institute of Mining at the University of Toronto promotes and facilitates cross-disciplinary research

related to challenges facing the mineral and energy sectors. The Lassonde Mineral Engineering Program crosses traditional university disciplines to provide a diversified undergraduate education in the areas of mining, mineral processing, geology, and other relevant topics in applied science and engineering. Graduates are highly sought by industry, consulting and research organizations.

Candidates must hold a Ph.D., have or be eligible for registration as a Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, and must have demonstrated leadership, administrative capabilities, communication skills and a strong vision to develop the potential synergies that are available at the University of Toronto. Evidence of excellence in teaching and research is required. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

All qualified candidates are invited to apply online at http://www.jobs.utoronto.ca/faculty.htm to Requisition ID: 1400112. Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, teaching dossier (including a statement of teaching philosophy), and

a statement outlining current and future research interests. If you have questions about this position, please contact [email protected]. All application materials should be submitted online.

Submission guidelines can be found at: http://uoft.me/how-to-apply. We recommend combining attached documents into one or two files in PDF/MS Word format.

Applicants should also ask at least three referees to send letters directly to the department via e-mail to [email protected]. The closing date for receipt of applications is April 30, 2014 or until the position is filled. Applications will be reviewed when they are received.

The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community. The University especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and other who may contribute to further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

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“We recognize that Canadian companies want to see goodgovernment in countries where they are working, and itreduces their risk when they’re working in other countries,”said Bern Klein, the institute’s executive director. Heexplained there are countries that have significant resourcepotential, “but they don’t have the experience or systems inplace to best benefit from the development of theseresources.” He added some companies currently advise gov-ernments on aspects of resource development and policy:“It’s a bit of a conflict of interest and our institute serves as athird-party group that can help support the government.”

Klein said one of the major barriers of resource develop-ment in developing countries is a lack of knowledge aboutmining locally. “A lot of the conflicts take place at the com-munity level,” he said, adding this is an area where the insti-tute hopes to help. When organized communitygovernments can effectively communicate what the issuesand opportunities are with a specific project, they can makemore informed decisions, he explained.

Members of the institute are currently in the process ofdeveloping programs that concentrate on Latin America,Africa, and Asia. Much of the institute’s initial outreach hasbeen with Latin American countries, specifically Peru,Colombia, and Ecuador. Klein said the institute is looking topartner with local universities. Discussions about program-ming in Latin America have so far included integratedresource management and local governance; however, noth-ing has been decided at this point.

Artisanal mining is a big focus area for the institute, saidKlein, as it plays a significant part of the mining sector indeveloping countries, specifically in Africa. Worldwide, thereare more than 15 million artisanal miners and the numbersare climbing, he said. However, the use of mercury is preva-lent and causing major health and environmental issues.“We’re trying to move the practice away from the use of mer-cury to other methods to help them recover gold, but at thesame time help them do it in a safer manner that is less harm-ful to the environment,” pointed out Klein. “They want toknow how to get more gold and they want to know technolo-gies that will improve their livelihoods, and our hope is togive that to them.” CIM

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The Yukon government has releasedits long-awaited Peel Watershed landuse plan, and no one is happy. Not thelocal First Nations and environmentalgroups that filed a lawsuit against thegovernment. Not the residents whoprotested the announcement in sevenYukon and Northwest Territories com-munities. And not even the miningindustry, including Vancouver-basedTarsis Resources, which wants the planadjusted so its Goz Creek zinc projectdoes not fall within protected area.Despite this, the government plans tomove forward with its decision, openingup more land to development than wasrecommended by a planning commit-tee. That is, unless the courts stop them.

The Peel Watershed region encom-passes 67,430 square kilometres of relatively untouched wilderness innortheastern Yukon. Under the gov-ernment’s plan, the area is split into 16land management units that fall underthree land use categories: protectedareas, restricted use wilderness areasand integrated management areas. Atemporary staking ban, in place sinceFebruary 2010, was lifted for 71 per

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cent of the Peel region following theJanuary announcement.

No new staking is allowed in theprotected areas that cover 29 per cent ofthe region. But the plan does respect allexisting claims, as long as they are keptin good standing. Those claims can bedeveloped, although any work will besubject to higher environmental stan-

dards. Road access for advanced explo-ration and development work on exist-ing claims is also possible in protectedareas, to the chagrin of the environmen-tal lobby.

The restricted use wilderness areas, anew land use designation in the terri-tory, encompass 44 per cent of theregion. New mineral staking, explo-ration and development are permitted,but limited. Oil and gas exploration anddevelopment, on the other hand, is pro-hibited. The government’s plan limitsdevelopment in these zones by restrict-ing industrial work to 0.2 per cent ofeach land management unit fallingunder this category. It will also manageactivity by developing timing windowsthat could, for instance, create no flyzones over sheep habitat during thespring lambing season. The integratedmanagement areas make up the remain-ing 27 per cent of the region. This iswhere the majority of development isintended to occur.

Samson Hartland, Yukon Chamberof Mines executive director, hasexpressed misgivings about the land

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• More than 10,000 claims had beenstaked in the region before thegovernment imposed a moratorium inFebruary 2010.

• No claims have been staked theresince the plan was announced and thestaking ban was lifted (as of March 6).

• No mineral development has occurredin the Peel, although two of its 13known deposits – the Crest iron depositand the Bonnet Plume coal deposit –hold significant economic potential,according to the government. The regionalso contains gold, copper, uranium, andzinc potential and hosts four petroleumbasins.

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use plan, arguing it initiates a very highlevel of protection in the territory.Including the new protected areas inthe Peel Watershed, 17 per cent ofYukon would be withdrawn from newstaking.

But if the lawsuit challenging thegovernment’s plan is successful, muchmore land will be withdrawn. TheFirst Nation of Na-cho Nyak Dun, theTr’ondëk Hwëch’in, the Yukon Con-servation Society, and the Yukonchapter of the Canadian Parks andWilderness Society filed a statementof claim asking the Supreme Court ofYukon to overturn the government’splan. They want the Peel planningcommission’s final recommended planimplemented instead. The commis-

sion was formed in 2004 to develop aland use plan for the near-pristinewatershed following the process out-lined in the Umbrella Final Agree-ment, which forms the basis of YukonFirst Nation self-government.

The commission’s plan recom-mended 80 per cent of the Peel be pro-tected from new staking and allow fordevelopment in 20 per cent. While thefinal recommended plan would alsorespect existing claims, it would notallow for road development in protectedareas to access those claims. Tr’ondëkHwëch’in chief Eddie Taylor has high-lighted the strong relationship betweenhis First Nation and the mining indus-try, but explained that it does not extendto the Peel: “We do not want to see min-

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ing in the Peel watershed. To us thatland and water is sacred and should bepreserved for generations.”

The plaintiffs, represented by well-known aboriginal rights and environ-mental lawyer Thomas Berger, argue thegovernment acted outside of theUmbrella Final Agreement’s definedland use planning process and violatedthe spirit of First Nations’ self-govern-ment agreements in the territory.

Yukon Premier Darrell Pasloskimaintains the government has met itsobligations under the agreement. “Whatwe’ve heard so far is that the environ-mentalists are not happy with our landuse plan. But we’ve also heard so far thatat the other end of the spectrum themining industry is not happy with our

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plan either,” he said. “I think what thatspeaks to is what we were trying toachieve and that is a balance; a balancethat will protect the environment andalso have the opportunity to protect allsectors of the economy.”

The government could be facing legalaction from miners as well. Marc Blythe,president and CEO of Tarsis Resources,a junior resource company based in Van-couver, has requested the governmentadjust the Peel plan so its 90 claims at

Goz Creek do not fall within protectedarea. He argues that regardless ofwhether the plan allows for the develop-ment of existing claims in protectedareas, the government has essentiallyexpropriated the company’s claims. “Try-ing to put some sort of access through arestricted area is going to be very, verydifficult to permit,” he said.

If the government does not adjustthe plan, Blythe said Tarsis will seekcompensation. The Goz Creek claimsinclude a high-grade zinc deposit with ahistorical resource of 650 millionpounds. Blythe noted that more than $3million has been spent exploring theclaims since they were staked fourdecades ago. Out of respect for the plan-ning process, the company stoppedwork on Goz Creek in 2008.

Despite the controversy, BrandonMacdonald, a Vancouver-based miningand exploration consultant, who hasdone extensive field work in Yukon,does not expect to see much new stak-ing in the Peel region nor any “meaning-ful exploration and development” forthe time being. He contends therewould have been lawsuits even if thegovernment had implemented the finalrecommended plan.

But any uncertainty, like that createdby the First Nations’ challenge, willcause industry to pause before investingin the region, “especially now at a timewhen investment in mining explorationand development is already low,” saidMacDonald. “The sentiment I've gaugedis that industry is substantially morenervous about Yukon as a whole eventhough the Peel decision affects only alimited area. The First Nations disputesdefinitely do not help either, although Igenerally feel Yukon is ahead of thegame in that respect compared to mostparts of Canada.”

“The Peel Watershed was already aremote and challenging place to workand any restrictions on work therebeyond the norm for the territory, orglobally, were going to make it lessappealing; the Yukon government planis no exception,” added Macdonald. CIM

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Ban-demonium in IndonesiaGovernment surprises the world by following through on ore export ban

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of gold per month as it coordinatesshipments to accommodate the coun-try’s lone copper smelter, and awaitsclarifications on whether the ban vio-lates a contract it signed with theIndonesian government. Newmont,meanwhile, has reduced guidance atits Batu Hijau copper mine in reactionto the ban. In SEC filings, the com-pany indicated it is currently in talkswith the government to see if the newrules contravene its work contract.The company admits in its annual 10-K report that if the Indonesian govern-ment decides the ban overrides itscontract, it “could result in a failure toobtain an export permit and potentialimpacts to operating plans at BatuHijau.”

The ban certainly hurts operatorsworking in Indonesia, but dependingon how firmly it is enforced – and forhow long – it could also have repercus-sions around the world. For instance,nickel producers and project promot-ers have cause to be excited, even if theprice hardly budged after the ban wasenforced, rising slowly in Februaryfrom roughly $6.21 to $6.60 perpound.

“You take out 20 per cent of globalmine supply and the price doesabsolutely bloody nothing,” saidAndrew Mitchell, principal nickel ana-lyst with Wood Mackenzie, during apresentation at PDAC in Toronto inearly March. What accounts for thismuted reaction, he explained, is thatIndonesia has supplied demand for the

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It was a long time coming, but onJanuary 12 Indonesia’s mineral exportban came into effect, essentially block-ing outgoing shipments of mostunprocessed ores. The restrictionswere spelled out in the government’s2009 mining law and adopted in aneffort to promote local refining, pro-cessing and smelting. But in the fiveyears leading up to the ban, fewexpected the government to hold firmon its commitment, and plants werenot built.

“Everyone knew that it was comingin five years, just nobody believed it, tobe honest,” said Jessica Fung, com-modities analyst with BMO CapitalMarkets. “It’s unbelievable how, upuntil the last day, there were still a lotof skeptics out there, us included.”

Due in part to the inaction, the gov-ernment has provided some flexibility

with certain exports. For iron ore, lead,zinc, manganese, titanium and ilmenitebelow a specific purity level, a 20 percent export tax will be slapped ontoshipments. (For copper concentrates,that tax is 25 per cent.) This increases

to 60 per cent by July 2016, until 2017,when a total ban takes effect for thoseunprocessed ores. Nickel, coal, goldand silver ore, however, were excludedfrom this exemption.

Phoenix-based Freeport-McMoRan,owner of the massive Grasberg mine,will delay exports of 40 millionpounds of copper and 80,000 ounces

“Everyone knew that it was coming in five years, just nobody

believed it, to be honest… It’s unbelievable how, up until the

last day, there were still a lot of skeptics out there, us included.”

– Jessica Fung, commodities analyst with BMO Capital Markets


majority of China’s nickel pig iron production growth inrecent years and, in advance of the ban, China has beenstockpiling unprocessed nickel. For instance, Chinaimported 6,120,110 tonnes of nickel ore from Indonesia inJanuary 2014 (an increase of 54 per cent year-on-year) of itstotal monthly import of 7,269,431 tonnes, according tonumbers released by the General Administration of ChinaCustoms.

But as China’s reported stockpile of 20 million wet met-ric tonnes dwindles, and assuming the ban stays in place,Mitchell said he expected the nickel price to begin rising inlate-2014. And while he said he believed China wouldmake significant investments to build nickel plants inIndonesia, he foresees nickel moving to $11.20 per poundin the long term, based on an incentive price to developnew projects to satisfy demand.

One such project is Royal Nickel’s Dumont, whichinterim CEO Mark Selby shopped to potential equity andofftake partners during a recent trip to Asia. Located in theAbitibi region of Quebec, Dumont could be the fifth largestnickel sulphide mine in the world, and the company hopesit will be fully permitted by end-2014. In late February,Selby said Japanese plants were already feeling the pinchfrom the ban. “There are three ferro-nickel plants in Japanand 45 per cent of the feed for those plants comes fromIndonesia, and they’re now living out what the ban meansin a big bad way,” he said. “They are trying to find ore fortheir plants.”

One place Japanese and Chinese plants could look is thePhilippines, but both Mitchell and Selby have said theythink the country could likely only provide for 10 to 20 percent of Chinese demand. “It doesn’t have the grades thatIndonesia has,” said Mitchell. “There is no one that canreplace Indonesia.”

BMO’s Fung said there are still events that could affectthe ban including the country’s July elections: “In manyways, I think the reason for the prolonging of their view onthis and maintaining this ban is because there are electionscoming up and they want to show that they can generatelonger-term value for their people and employment. It willhurt in the short term.”

But Selby suggested the ban is already beginning tohave its intended effect. Royal Nickel’s Chinese partner,Tsingshan, is currently building a 300,000-ton-per-yearsmelter in Indonesia. “It will be the first decent scaleplant to start up” when it opens in early 2015, he said,adding Tsingshan is putting financing together to build asecond plant. “If (Indonesian authorities) change theirmind at this point, those things would grind to a halt,” hesaid. CIM

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s three-quarters of the world’s mining companies areheadquartered in Canada, the spotlight on their interna-tional practices cannot be avoided, and the demand to

uphold domestic standards abroad is growing. An increasingfocus on corporate social responsibility (CSR) is leading to fur-ther collaboration and partnerships between the mining indus-try and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) worldwide,and is demonstrating the positive impact that mining can havearound the globe. Canadian and foreign mining companies andorganizations can build on the innovative work and HR bestpractices that are in place in Canada to help manage the risksof operating in complex and challenging environments globally.

For employers looking to improve their HR practices abroad,our most recent consultations in Colombia have shown that thebasis for any strategy must be one of collaboration between indus-try, training organizations, international developmental organiza-tions, and governments. Mining has been declared one of the fiveengines of economic growth for Colombia, and both the Colom-bian and Canadian governments recognize the challenges ofrecruiting and developing a workforce with the technical skills tosupport commercial mining activity. Furthermore, up until now,Colombia’s gold mining sector has been small scale, with largenumbers of artisanal miners who require additional trainingrelated to safety, essential skills and environmental practices.When looking to develop programs that would produce long-term solutions to these skills development issues, Colombiansview Canadian experience and practices in engaging local Aborig-inal Peoples as a starting point, due to the years of accumulatedknowledge, experience and programs already developed.

Over the last five years in Canada, we have seen a growingcommitment to training, standardization and certification thathas spurred the creation of national skills development andrecognition programs like Mining Essentials: A Work ReadinessTraining Program for Aboriginal Peoples. In developing MiningEssentials, MiHR, in partnership with the Assembly of FirstNations, has amassed significant experience and expertise incrafting strategies and partnerships between industry, aboriginalgroups and educators. The Mining Essentials training programcan provide a template for countries like Colombia that wish toengage with and transition traditional communities and arti-sanal mining workers to industrial mining activities.

When embarking on the design of a new program, in Canadaor abroad, a thorough needs assessment with local trainingorganizations, employers, international developmental organi-zations, government and the communities forms the buildingblocks of the strategy and identifies further opportunities. Thisensures programs, when developed, are culturally centred, richwith industry-relevant content, and provide the essential skills,

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Ryan Montpellier is the executive director of MiHR. He is a recognized expert andsought-after speaker on HR issues impacting the Canadian mining sector today.

attitudes and work readiness needed for meaningful employ-ment opportunities in the mining sector.

Although this might sound simple, it is important to remem-ber that this is not a one-size-fits-all solution. In Canada, wequickly recognized that our Mining Essentials program neededalternative Métis and Inuit activity options to meet the culturalcomplexities of different aboriginal populations. The curriculumalso had to be customized for the requirements of the local minesite and to meet any regional regulations. It is essential to gobeyond the basics and consider the impact on family welfareand how the training program could help a community becomemore stable and better provide for their families in the future. Acompany must decide what the legacy of its operation will be.

Companies committed to continuing the development oftheir employees also have solid Canadian standards as a startingpoint. Currently there are four National Occupational Standardsfor the mining sector: Underground Miner, Minerals ProcessingOperator, Surface Miner and Diamond Driller. These standardscan be used by companies and training organizations as thebasis to develop occupation-specific training programs thatmeet or exceed the needs of industry. In Canada, these standardsare the basis for worker certification. This concept would pro-vide employers abroad with a way of recognizing and verifyingthe skills and experience of a new worker. By capturing theskills, training and experience of a worker through certification,all employers can capitalize on the investment made by thecountry and industry, and later assist with issues like recruit-ment, training, mobility and foreign credential recognition.

To date, MiHR has been asked for its guidance in emergingmarkets like Chile, Senegal, Tanzania, and Colombia. In bothChile and Africa, MiHR hosted a series of workshops and infor-mation sessions with local governments, public training institu-tions and mining companies to help them identify their labourmarket needs and guide them in the development of skills andworkforce development solutions to meet the demand of newprojects.

Introducing Canadian-made best practices, innovative HRstrategies and programs can only serve to strengthen Canada’sreputation as a leader and strengthen our competitiveness internationally.

For more information on MiHR’s programs and our workabroad, please contact the Council. CIM

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so. Mitigating a railway’s liability, even if transferred ontoanother party, has the potential to reduce rail safety.

Similar conclusions were found in a 2010 review of liabil-ity issues conducted by the Surface Transportation Board ofthe United States. In reviewing precedent on liability issues,the board determined that “a rail carrier cannot be indemni-fied for its own gross negligence, recklessness, willful orwanton misconduct, as that would be contrary to public pol-icy in encouraging safe rail operations.”

Another challenge is the impracticality of having shippersparticipate in liability sharing with railroads to a degree notcommensurate with their level of accountability for themovement of their goods. Once the goods are on the train,and the train has departed a shipper’s operation, the railwayoperator has care, custody and control of the train and theproduct. An underwriter will likely be unwilling to offergreater levels of coverage to a shipper because the shipperhas limited influence over what happens in transit and socannot manage the risk.

Railways are responsible for the safe transport of goodswhen the cars are in their custody, and liability insuranceserves as an incentive to ensure maximum precautions areundertaken to prevent accidents. And the incentive is work-ing. Transportation Safety Board of Canada Statistics indicatethat 1,011 rail accidents were reported in 2012, down 10 percent from the 2007–11 average of 1,128. In 2012, 118 acci-dents involving dangerous goods were reported, down fromthe five-year average of 147. According to the Railway Asso-ciation of Canada, millions of carloads of dangerous goodsmove by rail every year and more than 99.9 per cent of themare delivered without incident.

While there is always room to improve safety, the currentsystem motivates railways to safety, and this motivationshould not be underestimated. While the government doeshave the duty to act as stewards of taxpayers’ dollars, it is alsoresponsible for ensuring the safety and security of Canadians.Any changes being considered to the current rail liabilityframework must unequivocally put the safety and security ofCanadians first. CIM

ith Canadians still reeling from the devastatingtragedy in Lac-Mégantic last summer, the federalgovernment is contemplating improvements to the

transportation of dangerous goods by rail. As possible solu-tions are being studied, and consultations are ongoing, oneoption could see liability transferred from rail companies tothe shippers, and this could actually result in a reduction ofrail safety.

Following the Lac-Mégantic disaster last July, the federalgovernment highlighted the issue of rail safety in its October2013 throne speech, stating that railway companies must beable to bear the cost of their actions. MM&A, the companywhose train derailed in Lac-Mégantic, was grossly underin-sured to pay for the damages resulting from the explosionthat killed 47 people and razed the centre of the southernQuebec town. That MM&A is now insolvent creates uncer-tainty as to who will pay for the damages, potentially leavingit to the government to compensate individuals and busi-nesses affected by the disaster. As a result, the governmenthas indicated it will require both shippers and railways tocarry additional insurance to ensure they are held account-able should accidents occur in the future.

Although it remains uncertain as to the exact approachbeing considered, there has been much chatter of a “shared-liability” regime between shippers and railways. While themining industry respects the federal government’s responsi-bility to protect taxpayers’ dollars, it is critical that any sharedliability policy changes being contemplated not unintention-ally reduce the safety of rail operations, inadvertently placingcitizens’ lives at greater risk.

The mining industry recognizes it has an important role toplay in ensuring the accurate classification and stewardshipof its products. Rail cars are in a miner’s custody duringproduct loading, and mining companies have the responsi-bility to inspect the cars and make sure that mineral productsare securely loaded. Once rail cars leave their custody,responsibility for the safety and security of the transportationof freight belongs to the company contracted and entrustedfor safe shipment. After all, transportation companies are theexperts in the movement of freight including the safety, secu-rity and reliability of their equipment and physical and non-physical infrastructures.

Reducing liability for the railways may present a moralhazard – a situation whereby a party is likely to take greaterrisks because the costs that could result from an accidentwould not be sufficiently steep to dissuade them from doing

Reducing railways’ liability not the right path to rail safety

BY BRENDAN MARSHALL

Brendan Marshall is director of economic affairs at MAC. He works to advancethe mining industry’s interests and understanding of key economic issues suchas taxation, transportation, innovation, international trade and investment, andenergy and climate change.

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Mine backfill is used on many underground mines and,although it can consume a big share of the operatingbudget, it is still a rarity to find a single person directly

responsible for the process. As commodity prices ease offfrom the recent boom, costs and productivity are receivinglaser-like attention. Backfill, which can account for up to 30per cent of a mine’s operating expenses, warrants manage-ment focus.

Backfill is typically made from waste rock or dewatered tail-ings residues, and is often mixed with cement to achieve mod-erate strengths. It is then delivered to stopes either by truck, bypumping and/or gravity, or as dense slurry or paste throughboreholes and pipelines.

It fills open stope voids, maintaining stability of the adjacentworking areas and reducing risk of local or regional ground fail-ure. When cementitious binders are added, the blasting of adja-cent pillars enables higher recovery of ore reserves by exposingthe cured fill.

Backfill offers many environmental benefits too. Paste back-fill – or tailings dewatered to a yoghurt or toothpaste-like con-sistency – can enable up to 50 per cent of the total tailingsproduced by an underground mine to be placed back under-ground. In some mines, acid-generating waste can be encapsu-lated in the backfill, sealing it into virtually impermeable cells.These activities reduce the environmental footprint of the mineand assist with final site rehabilitation.

The design, operation and management of backfill systemsrequire a number of technical disciplines that often involve sev-eral management teams on a mine site. The processing depart-ment on surface is generally in charge of production anddelivery of the backfill, and is responsible for the quality, oper-ating costs and process monitoring. The underground geotech-nical department specifies the strength of the fill, the cementdosing and the fill recipes. It also reviews the quality control(QC) data and analyzes fill performance to improve the fillrecipes. The mine planning department develops the schedulesand specifies where and how much fill is placed.

This convoluted process presents problems, though. Theprocessing department carries all the production costs, but thegeotechnical department is responsible for the cement dosingrates, and the mine planning and operating departments planand place the fill. The net result tends to be a lack of focus onmeeting the mining requirements and maximizing quality,which in turn produces excessive costs and low productivity.

To improve productivity and reduce costs in the backfill sys-tem, operations should assign one person to have overall respon-sibility. Most commonly, this is a superintendent level employeewho is directly responsible for all underground backfill activities.

Mine backfill: a budgetary black hole or a savings opportunity?

BY TONY GRICE

Tony Grice, global leader, backfill and a principal mining engineer with AMCConsultants, is a leading expert in mine backfill systems with more than 25years of operating and consulting experience in the field. He is chairman ofMine Fill 2014, in Perth, Australia from May 19 to 22, 2014.

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Where management roles are split on a mine site by surface andunderground, that person would also have a leadership role forassisting the other managers. The role is a coordinating functionbetween processing, mine planning and operations, and geome-chanics. Backfill is a technically complex system, and an engineeris required either directly or as support for this role.

Operations should also initiate a backfill system audit. Thekey performance indicators (KPIs) are both the quantity andquality of the fill placed underground. Ideally this should be areview of the current backfill system against the backfill man-agement plan. However, many mines do not have such a doc-ument and the audit then serves to provide a systematic reviewthat will initiate this plan.

The audit should start with a review of mining needs andwork back through the system via placement, delivery and pro-cessing to the supply of the backfill components. Invariably, thebackfill needs of the mine will have changed since the originaldesign and commissioning of the backfill system. Increases inproduction rates, and changes in both mining area locations andmining methods will have occurred. An audit provides an oppor-tunity to fine-tune each component to ensure that the backfilltypes and recipes are all relevant to the current operations.

Productivity improvements can emerge when focus isplaced on activities that will shorten stope fill cycle times.Longer fill runs, higher slurry density, reduced drainage andimproved barricade construction will all contribute to fasterstope turnaround. Installation or recommissioning of line pres-sure sensors and video links will permit operators to identifyand avoid impending line blockages, and the long and costlydelays that accompany them.

Cost reductions can be found by addressing the fill qualityand the components, particularly binders. Is the mine using thecorrect binder type or grade for your strength curing targets?When was the last review of the tailings or rock characteristics,and how do the QC test results compare with the design spec-ifications? Have there been recent changes to recipes inresponse to either unexpected or excessive fill dilution thathave increased binder or additive costs?

At an efficient mining operation, the backfill costs willactively contribute to better underground safety, efficient orerecovery, fast stope cycle times and flexible production options.The improvements from the single point of responsibility andtechnical audit will pay for themselves many times over andwill have continuing long-term benefits to the mine. CIM


Selfrag is testing electric pulse fragmentation,which the company says can vastly improve

comminution efficiency.

An electrifying ideaElectrical comminution promiseslower power costs and moreefficient liberationBy Eavan Moore

Selfrag uses an electric pulse generator to blast between90 kilovolts (kV) and 200 kV into rock immersed in water.Usually the water must be treated to minimize its conductiv-ity, so that both the rock and the water are dielectric, mean-ing they are not conductive. But when that much electricityis pushed through a dielectric, it causes semi-permanentchanges to the atomic structure of the material. This process,called electrical breakdown, occurs in rocks before it does inwater under the right electrical conditions, so that the elec-trical energy is deposited selectively inside the rocks with thewater acting as an insulator.

“It literally rips electrons out of their shell, and this createsplasma, which is basically a cloud of free electrons,” explains vander Wielen. As with lightning, the plasma flow traces fractal pat-terns away from the initiation point to a ground electrode. Therapid heating that occurs in the plasma channels results in veryhigh pressures, creating a shockwave that ultimately fragmentsthe rock. The shockwave itself has effects similar to conventionalexplosive blasting, according to van der Wielen: a local crushingzone very close to the plasma channel, with radial and circum-ferential fractures further away and spalling at the edge.

Mineral processing benefitsHappily for miners, the plasma channels stream toward

minerals with higher permittivity – the ability to transmit anelectric field – which is a quality many high-value ores possess.Sulphide minerals like chalcopyrite and oxide minerals such ashematite and magnetite tend to affect electrical fields verystrongly compared to gangue minerals, says van der Wielen.

“At the same time,” he adds, “the stream will also look for theeasiest electrons to displace, and along grain boundaries there’sa higher likelihood of having electrons that aren’t quite boundinto their atom properly. As well as being a weakness in terms of

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ASwiss company aims to send a jolt through the mineralprocessing sector. Selfrag AG has completed the pilot-scale engineering for an ore pre-treatment system thatcould lower the power draw of comminution by dou-

ble-digit percentages. Using electric pulse fragmentation toweaken ore before it enters the milling circuit can speed up thegrinding process and improve liberation results, according toresearch conducted with the Julius Kruttschnitt MineralsResearch Centre (JKMRC).

In a study of Selfrag technology to be presented at the Inter-national Mineral Processing Congress in Santiago, Chile inOctober, a major gold producer, JKMRC and Selfrag usedJKSimMet software to simulate modifications to an existinggold-copper circuit. Pre-weakening the ore fed to a SAG millfreed up spare capacity in the mill. Results suggested that byadding Selfrag’s technology, two pebble crushers and one ballmill could be removed from the circuit while maintaining thesame overall throughput and yielding a five-kilowatt-hour-per-tonne energy reduction.

Underwater lightningAlthough not yet commercialized for large-scale comminu-

tion in mining applications, the technology has existed for morethan a decade. Selfrag’s product development is partly funded bysales of smaller, already commercialized versions used for oretesting, high-purity mineral crushing, and recycling. Both Self-rag and an Ontario-based company called CNT Mineral Con-sulting employ the same principle of electrical breakdown.

“What we’re doing basically is creating underwater light-ning,” says Klaas Peter van der Wielen, mineral processingengineer at Selfrag, “the big difference being that we do it undercontrolled circumstances into rocks rather than from the cloudsto the Earth.”

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mechanical fracturing, [the grain boundary] also presents a niceelectrical weakness that the stream prefers to travel along.”

Selfrag’s mineral processing benefits fall into two cate-gories. First, the system promotes liberation at coarser frac-tions in tests run on quartz, graphite, diamond, and basemetal ore. The second and better-understood benefit is thatthe cracks created by the shockwave tend to have significant


weakening effects on rock. In Selfrag’s latest research, anenergy input of two kilowatt hours per tonne produced achange in weakness of 55 to 125 per cent (as measured inA*b values). “Quite often,” van der Wielen says, “the crack-ing is so intense that where you had a rock with a compres-sive strength of something like 150 megapascals [typical forhard rock], after a treatment using one to three kilowatt

A study of Selfrag electric pulse technologysuggested two pebble crushers and a ballmill could be removed at a major goldproducer’s operation.

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hours per tonne, often you can actually crush it by hand.There’s no strength remaining whatsoever.”

The simulation results accumulating from Selfrag and itsresearch partners suggest the electrical discharges are most effec-tively applied to SAG mill feed. This is both because its weaken-ing effect is more pronounced at coarser particle sizes andbecause the improved grinding efficiency of the SAG mill couldreduce or eliminate the need for downstream ball milling.

Noko Phala, principal metallurgist, R&D, AngloGoldAshanti, says that the limited data published so far suggest anenergy reduction of 30 per cent could result from pre-weaken-ing. If a 10-million-tonne-per-annum operation had grindingcosts of $2 to $6 per tonne, and if power contributed half ofthat, the mine could save $3 to $9 million each year.

“Of course this excludes any potential scale reoptimizationsto take into account the lower cost,” adds Phala. “This is thecarrot that keeps us looking for new technologies.”

Piloting the craftAngloGold Ashanti is watching the technology with interest

but has held back from involvement pending further develop-ments. The sign of a breakthrough, in Phala’s view, would be acontinuously running pilot plant that realizes the value propo-sition as well as designs showing that scaling up to the 1,000-tonne-per-hour range is feasible. Such a plant would likelyinvolve adding more discharge electrodes to the system, butthat has not been engineered yet.

According to van der Wielen, the pilot plant is ready to go –with the help of a partner. Selfrag has done the engineering fora 10-tonne-per-hour demonstration plant and is now seekinginterested suppliers, mining companies or consultancies tohelp build it.

Meanwhile, JKMRC and Selfrag have developed better waysto measure the relationships between energy input, size reduc-tion, and pre-weakening effects. Their work in progressincludes ways to minimize the cost of water treatment or tomake the system less sensitive to water quality. “In principle oursystem can work with pretty dirty water; we have worked atconductivities up to 4,000 micro-Siemens/cm,” adds van derWielen. “But the process is more efficient at lower process waterconductivities so we will likely have a water treatment systemalongside our Selfrag system.”

Another key challenge exists in maximizing the probabilitythat every ore particle will receive energy; in the lab, the particlesclosest to the electrode benefit more than those further away.Van der Wielen also hopes to assess what kind of liberationeffects occur at the same energy levels that produce weakening.

Though van der Wielen says large-scale commercializationis planned for 2016 or 2017, that progress will be dependenton finding funding and forming partnerships.

“No one is certain about timescales required to reach break-throughs,” comments Phala. “All we are certain about is that ifsomething is valuable, and its existence is not limited by thelaws of physics, it will ultimately become a reality – and theelectric pulse rock weakening technology certainly ticks allthose boxes in my view.” CIM


In 2010, management at New Dawn Mining, like manyminers, had been looking for ways to economicallyincrease the output of their mines. The Turk gold mine,after nearly 80 years of intermittent production, was a

good candidate for improvements. There were roughly400,000 tonnes of historical tailings that could be groundfiner and retreated, and the milling circuit looked like itwould perform better in general with the addition of a finegrinding mill.

“Turk mine is a sulphide-hosted ore body,” says Ian Saun-ders, president and CEO of New Dawn. “You can liberatethe gold and get a reasonable recovery as long as you havethe technology to get it to an ultra-fine state at a reasonablecost.” But doing that had not always been possible.

Since purchasing the mine in 1996, New Dawn sub-sidiary Casmyn Mining Zimbabwe has operated conven-tional ball mills, using 80- to 100-millimetre (mm) steelballs to grind the particularly hard ore (a 22.5 Bond workindex) to 45 microns (P90). But using ball mills to achieveparticle sizes that small is neither energy-efficient nor oper-ationally efficient. Saunders explains that “with any changein parameters from the ‘ideal,’ you get a rapid deteriorationof the performance of the mill.”

The stirred mill at the Turk mine isused for efficient fine grinding.

Stirring upsavingsTweaking stirred mill spinsgold from historical tailingsat New Dawn MiningBy Ian Ewing

Fortunately, another milling technology has started tocome into its own. Although stirred mills have been aroundin some form for years, mines have been slow to adopt themdue to high capital costs and high energy consumption. A2010 pilot project at Turk, however, showed that a new ver-tical-axis stirred mill, from South African company Deswik,could help recover gold from the company’s tailings at anincremental cost of roughly half the price of gold. NewDawn ordered a unit in 2011 from Knelson Milling Solu-tions, a joint venture between Deswik and Canadian firmKnelson.

Shortly thereafter, that partnership was acquired byFLSmidth. The new owners, wanting to properly model andoptimize its new mills, proposed an on-site optimizationstudy to get field data. Happy to get help wringing out everybit of performance from their purchase, New Dawn agreed.

Standard or stirred?Stirred mills are particularly effective for the fine and

ultra-fine grinding sizes where the performance of standardball mills typically falls off: below 100 microns. The outputparticle size in a ball mill is largely a function of the size ofthe steel balls used as grinding media. Large media can

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impart more energy to the feed material, grinding it effec-tively, but it is difficult for smaller particles to get trappedbetween the balls. That limits the size to which the feedmaterial can be ground. While smaller media are able tomore easily trap smaller particles, in a horizontal-axis andgravity-powered ball mill, they cannot impart enoughenergy to effectively grind the feed material.

Stirred mills, like the VXP2500 that New Dawn bought,overcome these problems by using smaller ceramic grind-ing media – from two to four mm in diameter – while usingrotating discs to impart additional energy to the mix.Twelve thick, perforated discs, each slightly smaller indiameter than the inside wall of the mill, are spaced alonga vertical shaft in the centre of the mill. The discs rotatethrough the slurry, agitating the mixture and grinding the

feed material between the grinding media and between thediscs and the wall.

“The advantage is that we’re able to put in a lot higherenergy per unit volume into the grinding process,” saysDavid Rahal, product manager for FLSmidth’s fine grindingequipment.

In optimizing a stirred mill for a particular use, though,a relatively minor design change can add a whole host offactors to consider. Besides the hardness and coarseness ofthe feed material, several interrelated parameters influencethe grinding performance of a stirred mill. The disc diame-ter, feed flow rate, disc tip speed, grinding media type andmedia fill level figure into the overall performance, as do therelationships between each of these variables. These all fac-tor into the energy required and the operating cost.

Testing the limitsTo examine the trade-offs

between production and cost,statistical software was used todevelop a test matrix. For eachdata point – each unique combi-nation of disc diameter, feed flowrate, and so on – the parameterswere set and the mill wasallowed to stabilize for 30 min-utes. Once stabilized, the millfeed and discharge were sampledfour times at 15-minute inter-vals, using a Malvern Mastersizerlaser diffraction analyzer todetermine particle size. The foursamples were averaged for eachdata point, and a statisticalanalysis was performed on theresults to isolate the effect ofeach parameter in terms of spe-cific energy consumption(energy usage per mass ofthroughput, or kWh/t).

Despite some logistical issuesnative to underdeveloped areas,FLSmidth’s engineers got most ofthe data they were looking for.The study indicated, for exam-ple, that larger disc sizes wereactually less efficient – too muchpower was being transferred tothe wall of the mill. In response,New Dawn reduced the size ofthe discs at Turk from 950 mm to920 mm, and FLSmidth hassince decreased the disc diame-ters at other installations, too.

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between different tip speeds,the Turk mill is now runningat a lower tip speed of 10metres per second to reducewear and power consump-tion. The mill is also usinglighter, or less dense, grind-ing media, because thisallows the mill to be filled toa greater volume, increasingthroughput.

More options, more valueWith all the changes recommended by the study, the

stirred mill now contributes about 400 grams of gold perday from re-treated tailings to the roughly 1.45 kilogramsper day of total production at Turk. Saunders expects the re-treatment program to run for 36 to 48 months beforeexhausting the supply of historical tailings. After that, NewDawn intends to repurpose the mill into the main grindingcircuit at the mine. By altering the primary ball mills tocoarser grinds and letting the stirred mill work in its finegrinding “sweet spot,” the plant should be able to simulta-neously increase feed flow rates and grinding efficiency.

“The addition of thestirred mill [to the maingrinding circuit] couldincrease capacity by 60 to 70per cent with no additionalcapital costs,” says Saunders.“That fundamentally changesthe economics of the mine.”

The real-world dataFLSmidth collected, mean-while, is being used to refinethe company’s models andimprove its understanding of

how to design and optimize its stirred mills. Some of thetrends discovered, like the effect of disc diameter, areimmediately applicable to other sites. Others may stillrequire on-site optimization. Saunders seems perplexedthat more companies have not jumped on emerging tech-nologies like this sooner: “I think the only differentiator [interms of value] between companies these days, with the[decreasing] quality of ore bodies, is that you’ve got thosethat are okay to think out of the box a little bit and look atthese innovative technologies, even though there is an ele-ment of risk that it won’t perform.” CIM


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“The advantage is that we’re able to put in a lot higher energy per unit volume into the grinding process.”

– David Rahal, FLSmidth


he way Ken Major sees it, by doing a little bit of every-thing you get to know a whole lot. He began his careerin 1976, taking a position as engineer in training withSherritt Gordon Mines after graduating with a bachelor’s

degree in metallurgical engineering from McGill University. Itwas the first step in a 40-year life in mining that saw him co-found Rescan Engineering Ltd., an engineering company thatsubsequently became one of Hatch’s first external acquisitionsin comminution and flotation processes expertise. After work-ing for 13 years with Rescan and Hatch, Major left in 2006 tolaunch Vancouver-based KWM Consulting Inc., where he con-tinues to lend his expertise to such major mining companiesas Newmont Mining, Goldcorp and Agnico Eagle in every-thing from metallurgical test programs and flowsheets todesign and optimization of grinding and crusher circuits. Hehas also published more than 20 technical papers throughouthis career.

In January, at the 46th Canadian Mineral Processors Con-ference (CMP), Major was awarded the Art MacPherson Com-

The grit to get things doneKen Major has gotten his hands dirty innearly every area of mineral processingBy Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco

minution Award in recognition of his outstanding contributionto the advancement of comminution. While proud of the illus-trious accomplishment, he was quick to share the acclaim withthe many strong teammates and mentors he has had over thecourse of his career.

CIM: How does it feel to have won the award?Major: I’m thrilled to be in the company of all other peoplewho have received it. I can think of others who deserve it andhopefully they will receive it in the future. I understand someof the sporting awards better than I can understand a peerrecognition type of award. With a hockey award, there’s a totalat the end of the day, so you just add it up and you have thewinner. But I’ve been involved in presenting a couple of theCMP awards in the past, where I worked hard (to advocate forcertain people) because I thought they really deserved it. So Iknow somebody has put in that effort for me and it is greatlyappreciated. There was only one Art MacPherson, and I hadthe opportunity to talk with him on the phone when I was ayounger engineer working on the first SAG Conferenceorganizing committee and he was its honorary chairman.

CIM: Looking back, what have been your most importantachievements in comminution?Major: That’s difficult for me to answer. I think of myself as ageneralist. I get involved on all sides of the process plant. Withsome people, I’m known more for grinding because I getinvolved in plant optimizations, but others know me more forflotation work. For me, [success] has been having theopportunities and a really good solid group of mentors – Garry

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CIM: Has that generalist approach helped you when confrontedwith comminution challenges?Major: Absolutely. My plant operations experience allowed meto work with layout people and present ideas to them for howto put circuits together. Without that experience, it’s verydifficult to be successful. Your success is based on the peopleyou’ve had an opportunity to work with, whether it is thelayout people, mechanical people, or operators.

CIM: What has been the biggest problem area you’ve seen incomminution over the years?Major: It’s convincing people what can bemade to work.

CIM: What are some examples?Major: I think you see that in the history ofthe SAG mill grinding circuits. There wereproblems on the first few, but they showedthe benefits after time and you can see theacceptance in the growth of the SAGConference. Certainly grinding is a high-costelement, so the ability to reduce both yourcapital and operating costs is important.More and more of our process plants have todeal with low grades and some very highthroughputs and those circuits are verycomplicated. Now, we’re doing pre-crushing. So we tookcrushers away and now we’re putting them back in becausewe’re finding areas where they provide an economic benefit tothe process. What you’re able to do by putting in the crusheris increase your throughput at a relatively low capital costwhile actually reducing your unit power requirements. Oresare getting harder, not just lower grade. That’s what we’refinding, and that’s what people are trying to find solutions for.

CIM: What do you anticipate to be some of the future challengesin comminution? Major: Finding new inventors to replace retirees. People whorealize not all the answers are there and are going to go out andlook for better ways to approach things. Most of the guys whoare doing this are older. I think there are some very goodyounger people out there who could grow into it but they’rehungry for other activities as well. There are a lot of careerpaths to pursue in the mining industry, many that pay betterthan being the inventor.

CIM: Are there effective succession strategies in place to dealwith this?Major: I think most companies have some sort of a strategy.When I came out of university and went out into the plantthey put me in what was called an engineering trainingprogram. I gained experience in mill operations jobs. I worked

as a mechanic and an instruments technician and as anelectrician. With virtually anything that was involved with themill, I got some hands-on training. It didn’t make me an expertin any of it, but it gave me background knowledge thatprovided me with a better understanding of what I was doing.

CIM: That seems to go against the current today. Everything isfocused on specialization.Major: A lot of our training now is also based on letting thecomputer do the thinking for us. People are using cannedprograms that other people have written for them while, inmost cases, these are things they can put together themselvesin their own spreadsheets. That way, they can get an assurancethey understand what goes into it.

CIM: Do you think we are overly reliant on computers?Major: Computers are very important. I own three of them, forrepetitive calculations, report writing and storage. But I had anoverseas trip once where I only had a calculator. We didn’thave computers available to us at the mine site, and I had todo calculations for the expansion of a grinding circuit. It tookme three days to do my first set of calculations and I neededto look at alternative ones as well. I started to do the secondset and I realized that it would be better to get back to theoffice to create a spreadsheet. The only way you canunderstand what it is you’re working with is to actually getyour hands dirty and take a look at it, and grinding is nodifferent. What happens when you increase or decrease thesteel load? What happens if the speed of the mill changes?Where can you get advantages? You can do all of that bycomputer, but sometimes you have to just do it by hand to geta better understanding.

CIM: What are your plans for the future?Major: I’m going to do what I said I was going to do six yearsago, which is semi-retire. I define semi-retirement as you getup in the morning and if it’s raining, you get the computer outand work. If it’s sunny, you go to the golf course. I cut back onmy client load last year to reduce my workload but then Iended up working on a mine site in Arizona the first week ofthis year and Mexico the second week. CIM

What happens when you increase ordecrease the steel load? What happens ifthe speed of the mill changes? Wherecan you get advantages? You can do allof that by computer, but sometimes you

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That is essentially the question Rob Lydan, director for solarand wind at Hatch, is asking mining companies today. It is acareful trade-off: How much CAPEX should be invested inrenewable energy infrastructure to reduce future operatingcosts, mostly in the form of diesel, knowing the risks of suchan investment?

All of the related costs vary greatly depending on the loca-tion of the mine, the diesel generators already in place, the des-ired proportion of renewables in the total energy mix – knownas penetration rate – and the technologies used. Balancing allof these factors is key when determining whether or not toinvest in renewable energy.

For isolated mines cut off from the power grid, the invest-ment might make the most sense. Roughly 30 per cent of ove-rall operating expenses at these mines are devoted to supplyingelectricity. In the last decade, the prices of fuels used in theindustry have increased fourfold, though an apparent plateauwas reached in 2011. The appetite for energy in the miningindustry is also expanding. The steady decrease in mineralgrades is forcing companies to process more ore in order tomaintain production.

All the while, renewable energy technologies – most notablysolar and wind power – have become more economical andcompetitive, whatever the environment. “The cost of wind orsolar, from a capital liquidation standpoint, is about half thatof equivalent liquid fuel,” Lydan points out.

In the Far North for instance, one litre of diesel costs any -where between $1.50 and $2.50, which translates to an energycost of 30 to 45 cents per kilowatt-hour (kW/h), explains AlainForcione, research engineer at Hydro-Québec Research Insti-tute (IREQ). “With wind power, you can go down to 20 to 25cents per kW/h, sometimes 15 to 17 cents even,” he says.

An off-the-grid mine that runs on 100 per cent renewableenergy may be unrealistic at the moment, but using renewablesto offset diesel consumption is not. However, hybrid projectsare still very rare. According to a report by consulting firmNavigant Research in October 2013, renewable energy, exclu-ding hydropower, generates less than 0.1 per cent of powerconsumed by the mining industry. “It is a new thing,” saysLydan. Tw

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The biggest challenge facing renewable energy providersnow is convincing the mining industry to just give them a shot.“Nobody wants to be first,” says Lydan. “Everybody wants tobe a good second.”

The leadersFortunately, not all miners think alike.Early in 2012, Rollie Armstrong, who was then director of

solar energy development at project financing firm Solea Capi-tal, reached out to the management of Cronimet’s Thabazimbichromium mine. The operation sits under the blazing sun ofthe South African savannah, about 250 kilometres north ofJohannesburg. Realizing this location was a perfect fit for pho-tovoltaic (PV) power, Armstrong offered to launch a feasibilitystudy looking at what portion of the mine’s operating costs hecould save by integrating solar panels with the existing dieselsystem. At the time, he recalls, “they required roughly 1.9 mil-lion liters of diesel a year” to fuel the gensets.

Cronimet accepted the proposition, and once the study wasdone, the company committed to solar power. By the end ofthe year, a one-megawatt (MW) project was completed, consis-ting of 4,170 solar panels, sunbathing their way to a total pro-duction of 1.8 gigawatt-hours per year. “With this PVintegration, they are able to save 450,000 litres of diesel a year,”says Armstrong.

Last year, Cronimet Mining AG acquired Solea Capital toexpand its power and energy unit. Armstrong was named mana-

ging director of the new business unit, Cronimet Mining PowerSolutions, created to market its formula to other companies.“When a mine needs energy, we will offer to come in and financethe power, supplying electricity with no upfront capital costs tothe mine, or we offer to supply the hybrid power plant throughtraditional turnkey EPC delivery,” says Armstrong.

Cronimet goes a step further than conventional power com-panies and offers a kind of energy price hedge by supplyingpower to the mine in exchange for whatever commodity isbeing produced through its mineral ore and metals trading unit.“It is something we are going to see a lot in the future: thatmining companies barter for energy resources with the ore bodythey have in hand,” says Armstrong. “It reduces OPEX, and itgives them a quicker cash conversion cycle, because the energythey are using is immediately converted to sales, more or less.”

On the other side of the Earth, Liezl Van Wyk landed in theNorthwest Territories in 2010. Her task: diversifying the energyportfolio at the Diavik diamond mine where the wind, howlingacross the barren tundra, was foremost in her mind. Locatedon an island some 300 kilometres north of Yellowknife andaccessible over land by an ice road that is only open for about10 weeks per year, Rio Tinto’s mine desperately needed to limitits diesel consumption, to which transportation costs add toan already steep fuel price. Many options were on the tableand, after a close look at the mine’s energy profile, Van Wykand her team chose to go with wind turbines and ultimatelycommitted $31 million to the project.

“There were still a lot of unknowns because it had neverbeen done before,” says Van Wyk. Construction on the windfarm began in 2011, and four 2.3-MW Enercon turbines star-ted commercial production in September the following year.Looking at it now, the integration of the wind power plant andthe existing diesel system has been successful. “We have repla-ced nine per cent of our diesel consumption and our windpower costs around 17 cents per kW/h,” says Van Wyk.

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entire installation can be reduced by both the quantity and thelocation of energy generating units. A large number of solarpanels or wind turbines, scattered over a large area, will be lesssensitive to clouds or gusts than a small, concentrated set. Thismeans higher costs, however.

In a hybrid renewable-diesel system, the first safeguard tonatural variation is the spinning reserve, which is mostly theremaining capacity in operating diesel gensets. “If a cloudcomes extremely fast, and the power from the PV plant drops,to have grid stability we need to ensure that there is enoughspinning reserve on hand to cover the gap,” says Cronimet’sArmstrong.

But diesel generators are neither infinitely flexible nor can theyinstantly make up for sudden drops in wind or sun. It could takeanywhere from 45 seconds to start a small generator in warmconditions to 20 minutes for the bigger ones when it is very cold.Further, generator output is optimal at 85 per cent of capacityand diesel consumption varies according to how hard the gene-rator is run. Fuel economy for gensets is similar to that of cars,where fuel consumption is optimal at a speed of about 90 kilo-metres per hour but consumption increases rapidly below orabove this point. There is a minimal speed below which genera-tors even risk suffering damage. “We are reducing the gensets’

A lonely historySolar cells, first designed to power satellites in the 1950s,

were later produced commercially and on a larger scale to feedtelecom towers. However, it was the 1973 oil crisis that causedthe first real boom in renewable energy by ending its confine-ment to isolated structures and spreading it rapidly to popula-ted areas.

In 1987, the Canadian government experimented with theuse of wind power for isolated towns, recalls Jimmy Royer,senior technical advisor and program manager at NaturalResources Canada. He points to Cambridge Bay, Nunavut, asan example, where four small vertical turbines were installed.That project fell through due to an underestimation of theeffects of local cold, wind and humidity, and a lack of propermaintenance. “It was common in the early years,” Royer says.

It was only in the 1990s that renewable energy reached apoint in cost and reliability that justified its integration to auto-nomous grids, which were then exclusively fed by fossil fuels.By the end of the decade, Alaska launched the first-ever realhybrid wind-diesel projects in remote communities, thanks toan extensive road network that permitted component trans-portation. “These local populations are responsible for finan-cing their energy needs, which is apowerful incentive to reduce their costs,”says Hydro Québec’s Forcione.

In the last seven or eight years, themining industry has shown a growinginterest for renewable technologies. “Likein the case of Alaska, mines must also takeon all of their energy costs, and thus havea huge interest in reducing them,” For-cione points out. “We are talking aboutfive- to 20-MW projects, with frequentpeaks in power. The industry only needsa few leaders to move from simple curio-sity to concrete action.”

A delicate balanceThambazimbi and Diavik are test cases,

and other renewable- minded miners havebeen keeping a close eye on these develop-ments. “We have learned that it is not quiteas simple as installing a wind turbine, tur-ning it on and shutting down generators,”says Steve Busby, chief operating officer atPan American Silver. His company hasbeen considering hybrid projects for itsDolores mine in Mexico and its ManantialEspejo mine in Argentina.

The complexity of integration comesprimarily from a solar or wind resource’snatural variability. A mine’s power gridmust be stable and adapted to the dailycycle of power demand. Variability of an


Everybody agrees that an increase in penetra-tion rates will come with a decrease in batterycosts. “The storage is higher cost now but it willgo down rapidly,” predicts Osman Sediqi, man-aging partner at Mining Energy Advisors. “Themost dynamic area in this entire renewableenergy arena is storage. Take a look at the [cost]chart for solar panels in the last 20 years – in1990 the installation of a 3- to 10-kWp rooftopsystem cost somewhere around $21,500 perkWp and by 2012 the cost had decreased toless than $2,500/kWp – and then you knowwhat might be still to come for storage.”

Diavik and Thabazimbi both have lowpenetration rates, meaning that renewablesources make up a small portion of their totalenergy output. To increase penetration rate,they could either add a significant number ofunits, or store some of their output using flywheels or batteries.

A flywheel is powered up during energy highs, so that when the wind or thesun resource drops off, the flywheel generates enough energy to fill the gapuntil generators start up, enabling the generators to be turned off withoutcompromising the grid’s stability. As for batteries, they can store energy formuch longer periods, such as whole nights in the case of a solar installation.However, both technologies require significant additional costs. “It adds riskto what is already a risky installation, so we opted for no storage at Diavikas we use all wind power as it gets generated,” says Van Wyk.


total output to 30 per cent,” says Armstrong. “Lower than that,we would compromise them with glazing.”

Unlike Thabazimbi, which has only two generators and cannever turn them off, Diavik can count on numerous generatorswith different capacities. It gives the mine greater flexibility,enabling employees to turn off some units. “It is very beneficialbecause you always choose to turn on the cheapest generatorfirst,” says Van Wyk.

For those considering building new hybrid wind-diesel sys-tems, they really must be conceived on a case-by-case basis. “Thereis a whole range of options,” says Forcione. With fewer wind tur-bines installed, and CAPEX reduced, it may make economic senseto store the energy produced. (see sidebar on Storage, p. 43)

The first lessonsEven though hybrid systems are quite new, mining compa-

nies have been able to draw a few basic principles from theirexperiences over the last decade. “A mining company needs toknow exactly what its costs in energy are,” says Van Wyk. “Donot assume that you know.”

A detailed profile and a complete schedule of power needsare required, adds Busby: “You have to analyze and model thatoutlook in a lot of detail, and understand it hour by hour, sevendays a week, 52 weeks a year.”

The design of the whole system depends on the accuracy ofthis energy modelling. “The margin of error should be of nohigher than 15 per cent,” says Royer.

Considering, for example, that wind turbines usually last for20 to 25 years, this energy profile should also include the futureof the mine: how will the energy demand curve evolve? “It isimportant to look at energy in a holistic way,” says OsmanSediqi, managing partner at Mining Energy Advisors. “Plan yourenergy on a long-term basis. If you have to dig deep er later toget new deposits, or get lower grades, your energy intensity ischanging. An energy project should be modulated according tothese changing needs.” But properly modelling a wind resourcecan take time – up to a year.

The long-time commitment that renewables require alsocomes into play when a mine is shut down. It is easy to stoppurchasing diesel, says Lydan, “but if you still have wind tur-bines running there, they are of no use anymore.” In those cases,a large investment can be lost quickly. Diavik’s wind farm hasan eight-year payback period, at least two years before mineclosure under current plans. “Afterwards, we will have themdecommissioned, removed off site and donated to a communityshould they still be in good mechanical and electrical workingorder,” explains Van Wyk.

Generating payback is itself a function of carefully mana-ged checks and balances in the operation of a power project.“You need systems that can manage energy in a conservative


way for the first weeks, so that you can observe how it isreacting,” says Forcione. Those who act with patience willrapidly increase their efficiency and benefit from theirhybrid system in a year or two. “We learned a lot and madesubstantial improvements,” says Van Wyk. “Wind turbinesare now avail able to supply energy over 90 per cent of thetime. During our first winter, we had availabilities as low as50 per cent in January, which improved to high 90 per centsduring the following winter. Our reliability has gone upquite a lot.”

New energy sources may also change the way miners ope-rate, says Armstrong. “When they use solar, they start to getmore creative and ask: What big loads can we bring in duringthe day? Let’s schedule these big loads when we can use thatfull solar peak.”

Only the beginningAccording to Navigant Research, five to eight per cent of

energy needs in mining will be met by renewable sources by2022, and wind power is the technology that is closest to recei-ving wide-scale investment from mining companies.

Solar energy is being taken seriously as well, due to arapid decline in costs, but solar resources vary with latitudeand other factors. At locations in the southern United States,

costs are now below 20 cents per kilowatt-hour, but solarpower at remote projects in Canada’s North is currentlylikely to cost between 30 and 40 cents per kilowatt-hour,says Royer.

Forcione says he believes solar can and will compete withwind in Canada. “In Germany, there are 50,000 megawattsof solar already installed,” he points out. “It could certainlybe used in some places in Canada that are about the samelatitudes.”

No matter the source, adds Sediqi: “Today, we can generate20 per cent of the total energy demand of a mine with solar andwind technology without the need for storage.” But to whatextent will renewables replace diesel in future mining projects?Is a 100 per cent penetration rate realistic?

“I think in some year in the future, you will see 100 per centavailability for a project like ours, but not in the short term,”says Busby.

It is clear that whatever improvements are made, diesel willalways play a big part in autonomous grids. “You can reach 100per cent renewable energy, but you still never want to removeyour gensets as a backup,” says Armstrong.

Less clear is whether others will be joining companies likeRio Tinto and Cronimet on the frontier of renewable energy inmining very soon. Lydan says it may take some time for leadersto realize the benefits their organizations could reap: “For somepeople, it is too good to be true.” CIM

Toute société minière qui envisage l’utilisation d’énergiesrenouvelables fait face à une question similaire : combiendevrait-elle investir dans ces infrastructures pour être enmesure de réduire ses coûts d’exploitation futurs – principa-lement liés au diesel – et ce, en connaissant les risques d’untel investissement.

Ces coûts en capital vont grandement varier en fonctiondes caractéristiques du site, de l’équipement diesel existant,de la part d’énergies renouvelables souhaitée dans le porte-feuille énergétique (le taux de pénétration) ainsi que du typede technologie choisie. L’équilibre de tous ces facteurs est fon-damental pour l’investissement dans les énergies renouvela-bles.

C’est pour les mines isolées, en réseau autonome, que cetinvestissement se révèle être le plus intéressant. Environ 30 %de leurs coûts découlent de leurs besoins en énergie. Au coursde la dernière décennie, le prix des carburants a presque qua-druplé, bien qu’il ait atteint un plateau en 2011. Les besoinsaussi vont en augmentant. Le déclin constant de la qualité desgisements oblige les sociétés à traiter une plus grande quantitéde roches pour extraire la même quantité de minerai.

Parallèlement, les technologies des énergies renouvelables– le solaire et l’éolien en tête de liste – sont devenuesaujourd’hui très compétitives et ce, quel que soit le milieu.« Le coût du solaire et de l’éolien, au point de vue du capital,


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revient à environ la moitié de son équivalent en carburant »,explique M. Lydan.

Dans le Grand Nord par exemple, il faut compter entre1,50 $ et 2,50 $ par litre de diesel pour un coût de 30 à 45 ¢le kWh, explique Alain Forcione, ingénieur de recherche àl’Institut de recherche d’Hydro-Québec (IREQ), ajoutant« qu’avec l’éolien, on arrive à 20-25 ¢ le kWh, peut-être même15 à 17 ¢ le kWh dans certains cas. »

Ainsi, même s’il est encore aujourd’hui peu réaliste de cou-vrir 100 % des besoins avec les énergies renouvelables, celles-ci peuvent du moins garantir une partie de la demandeénergétique. Pourtant, les projets de jumelage diesel-énergierenouvelable sont encore peu nombreux et personne ne sebouscule vraiment au portillon. Selon un rapport de la sociétéde conseil Navigant Research publié en octobre 2013, moinsde 0,1 % de l’énergie consommée par l’industrie minière pro-vient aujourd’hui de l’énergie renouvelable, en excluant l’énergiehydroélectrique. « C’est encore très récent », déclare M. Lydan.

Beaucoup de sociétés ne mettent simplement pas en placeles ressources nécessaires pour étudier le potentiel des énergiesrenouvelables, précise Liezl Van Wyk, gestionnaire de l’excel-lence opérationnelle à la mine Diavik qui, depuis septembre2012, utilise quatre éoliennes sur le site de son exploitationdans l’Arctique canadien. « Beaucoup de mines n’envisagenttout simplement pas cette solution comme leur activité prin-cipale », ajoute-t-elle.

Le plus grand défi auquel font face les promoteurs des éner-gies renouvelables reste de convaincre le secteur minier de leurdonner une chance. « Personne ne veut être le premier »,explique M. Lydan. « Tout le monde veut être bon second. »

Les chefs de fileHeureusement, toutes les sociétés minières ne pensent pas

ainsi.Début 2012, Rollie Armstrong, alors directeur de SOLEA

Capital, une société de conseil en énergie solaire, arrive à lamine de chrome de Thabazimbi, propriété de Cronimet, sousle soleil plombant de la savane sud-africaine, à quelque 250kilomètres au nord de Johannesburg. Le site lui paraissantidéal pour les panneaux photovoltaïques, il fait à Cronimetune proposition audacieuse : lancer une étude de faisabilitépour déterminer quelle partie des coûts d’exploitation pourraitêtre épargnée en intégrant des panneaux solaires à son systèmeau diesel. « Ils avaient besoin d’environ 1,9 million de litresde carburant par an pour alimenter leurs groupes électrogènesdiesel », se souvient-il.

Cronimet accepte la proposition, et les conclusions del’étude sont si convaincantes que la construction débuteimmédiatement. Avant la fin de l’année, ce projet d’un méga-watt, qui comprend 4 170 panneaux solaires pouvant pro-duire 1,8 GWh par an, est terminé. « L’intégration despanneaux photovoltaïques leur permet d’économiser 450 000litres de diesel par an », explique M. Armstrong.

La compagnie Cronimet a tellement apprécié les résultatsqu’elle a embauché M. Armstrong en 2013 au poste de direc-teur d’une toute nouvelle division, Cronimet Power Solution

GmbH, exclusivement consacrée à promouvoir et à vendre laformule aux autres sociétés minières. « Lorsqu’une mine abesoin d’énergie, nous proposons nos services et la finançons,fournissant ainsi de l’électricité sans injection initiale de fondspar la société minière, ou nous proposons de fournir une ins-tallation hybride par la voie traditionnelle de l’EPC clés enmain », affirme M. Armstrong.

Cronimet va un peu plus loin que les fournisseurs d’énergieclassiques : elle fournit l’énergie à une mine en échange d’unecertaine quantité de sa production, quel qu’en soit le type.« C’est une pratique que l’on observera beaucoup dans lesannées à venir : des sociétés minières qui achètent leur énergieavec ce qu’elles ont à portée de la main », déclare M. Arms-trong. « Elle permet de réduire les frais d’exploitation etd’avoir un cycle de conversion des liquidités plus rapide, carl’énergie qui est utilisée est immédiatement convertie enventes, plus ou moins. »

À l’autre bout de la planète, lorsque Liezl Van Wyk arrivedans les Territoires du Nord-Ouest en 2010 avec la mission detrouver une solution pour diversifier le bouquet énergétiquede la mine Diavik, le vent soufflant sur le sol dénudé de latoundra monopolise son esprit. Perdue sur une île à quelque300 km au nord de Yellowknife, sans accès terrestre autrequ’une route de glace ouverte au mieux une dizaine desemaines par an, la mine de Rio Tinto a terriblement besoin delimiter sa consommation de diesel – dont le coût de transport,en plus du coût de base, est prohibitif, à savoir bien supérieurà 30 ¢ le kWh. Plusieurs solutions sont envisagées et, aprèsavoir analysé en détail le profil énergétique de la mine, c’estfinalement la ressource éolienne qui est retenue, avec un enga-gement de 31 millions $ pour le projet.

« Nous nous trouvions encore en territoire inconnu, carcela n’avait jamais été fait auparavant », déclare Mme VanWyk. La construction a commencé en juin 2011 et les quatreturbines de 2,3 MW Enercon sont entrées en exploitationcommerciale en septembre 2012. Un peu plus d’un an plustard, l’intégration au système diesel de la mine s’avère réussie.« Nous avons remplacé 9 % de notre consommation de die-sel et notre énergie éolienne coûte environ 17¢ le kWh »,affirme Mme Van Wyk.

Un parcours uniqueLes panneaux solaires ont pour la première fois été déve-

loppés en 1954 pour alimenter les satellites spatiaux. Par lasuite, on leur a trouvé des applications de plus grande enver-gure, comme l’alimentation des tours de télécommunications.Mais c’est le choc pétrolier de 1973 qui est à l’origine du pre-mier essor des énergies renouvelables, que l’on a ainsi com-mencé à utiliser ailleurs qu’en milieu isolé.

En 1987, le gouvernement canadien a expérimenté l’utili-sation de l’éolien pour alimenter des villages isolés, expliqueJimmy Royer, conseiller technique principal et gestionnaire deprogrammes à Ressources Naturelles Canada (RNCan),notamment dans Cambridge Bay, au Nunavut, où quatrepetites turbines à axe vertical ont été installées. Malheureuse-ment, une sous-estimation des conditions météorologiques et


de l’entretien nécessaire ont conduit à l’abandon du projet.« C’est arrivé souvent au début », explique-t-il.

Ce n’est que dans les années 1990 que les énergies renouve-lables ont atteint un seuil de coût et de fiabilité suffisant pourque l’on puisse envisager de les intégrer aux réseaux autonomes,alors alimentés au diesel. Vers la fin de la décennie, l’Alaska sedémarque en lançant des projets de jumelage éolien-diesel, aidépar la présence d’un bon réseau routier qui simplifie la livraisondes composantes. « De plus, c’est la population locale qui gèreet assume l’économie de son réseau – une grande incitation àbaisser les coûts », explique le chercheur Forcione.

Depuis sept ou huit ans, le secteur minier a commencé à s’in-téresser à cette option. « Comme en Alaska, les mines assumenttous leurs coûts et ont ainsi tout intérêt à les réduire », men-tionne M. Forcione. « On parle de projets de 5 à 20 MW, avecbeaucoup d’appels de puissance », ajoute-t-il. Encore fallait-ildes chefs de file pour passer du simple intérêt aux actes concrets.

Un équilibre technique délicatLes expériences à Thabazimbi et Diavik sont des cas typique

du jumelage énergie renouvelable-diesel : les autres sociétésminières intéressées par les énergies renouvelables suivent leurdéveloppement. « Nous avons appris qu’il ne suffisait pas d’ins-taller une éolienne, de la mettre en marche et d’éteindre legroupe électrogène diesel », explique Steve Busby, chef des opé-rations chez Pan American Silver. Sa société a étudié la faisabilitédu jumelage énergie renouvelable-diesel pour ses projets deDolores, au Mexique, et de Manantial Espejo, en Argentine.

La complexité de l’intégration de l’énergie renouvelableprovient de la caractéristique naturelle même de la ressource :sa variabilité. Le réseau électrique d’une mine doit être stableet pouvoir s’adapter aux fluctuations de la demande au coursd’une même journée. La variabilité peut être atténuée autantpar la quantité que par la répartition géographique des unitésde production d’énergie. Un plus grand nombre de panneauxsolaires ou d’éoliennes, répartis sur une plus grande surface,seront moins sensibles au passage d’un nuage ou d’une bour-rasque qu’un petit nombre d’unités concentrées. Par contre,cela entraîne évidemment des coûts supplémentaires.

Dans un système de jumelage énergie renouvelable-diesel, lepremier outil disponible pour combattre la variabilité est laréserve tournante, à savoir l’énergie qui reste dans les généra-trices déjà en fonctionnement. « Si un nuage arrive très rapide-ment et que l’approvisionnement des panneaux photovoltaïquess’apprête à décliner, nous devons nous assurer que la réservetournante dont nous disposons est suffisante pour traverser cedélai et assurer la stabilité du réseau », ajoute M. Armstrong.

Un autre élément ajoutant à la complexité est le manquede flexibilité des génératrices diesel, dont l’apport au réseau,en cas de chute abrupte du vent ou du manque de soleil, n’estpas instantané. Il faut compter de 45 secondes pour démarrerune petite génératrice lorsqu’il fait chaud à 20 minutes pourles plus grosses lorsqu’il fait froid. De plus, le rendementd’une génératrice est optimal à 85 % de sa puissance etvariera en fonction du régime à laquelle elle tourne – toutcomme une voiture, dont la consommation de carburant est

optimale autour de 90 km/h et qui consomme plus au-delàde ce point.

Par ailleurs, les génératrices risquent de subir des dom-mages en-deçà d’un certain régime minimal. « Nous pouvonsréduire le rendement total des génératrices à 30 % de leur puis-sance », explique M. Armstrong. « En-dessous de ce point, ellesrisquent de s’endommager en raison d’un encrassement. »

Contrairement à Thabazimbi, qui ne dispose que de deuxgénératrices, Diavik a la chance d’avoir une multitude de géné-ratrices de différentes capacités, ce qui lui confère une flexi-bilité telle qu’elle peut parfois en éteindre certaines. « C’est ungrand avantage, car nous pouvons toujours choisir de démar-rer la génératrice la plus économique en premier », fait remar-quer Mme Van Wyk.

La construction d’un système de génération hybride doittoujours être envisagée au cas par cas. « Toute la gamme desolutions est possible », explique M. Forcione. Ainsi, plus onréduit la quantité d’éoliennes dans le système, plus on justifieéconomiquement des unités de stockage (voir encadréStockage d’énergie), mais moins on économise de carburantà terme.

Les premières grandes leçonsMême si le jumelage énergie renouvelable-diesel est un

domaine relativement récent, les expériences des dix dernièresannées ont permis aux sociétés minières de tirer quelquesgrands principes fondamentaux. « Une société doit êtreconsciente de ses coûts en énergie », affirme Mme Van Wyk.« Ne supposez pas que vous les connaissez ! »

Il convient d’établir un profil réaliste et détaillé des chargesélectriques de la mine, ajoute M. Busby. « Vous devez analyserle profil énergétique dans ses moindres détails, et ainsi le com-prendre heure par heure, sept jours sur sept, 52 semaines paran », dit-il.

Une conception de jumelage réussie ne peut se faire qu’enfonction de ce profil. « La marge d’erreur doit être de 15 %au maximum », précise M. Royer.

Une turbine éolienne a une durée de vie de 20 à 25 ans.Un profil énergétique doit autant que possible prendre encompte l’avenir de la mine : quelle va être l’évolution de lacourbe de la demande ? « Il est très important d’appréhenderl’énergie de façon holistique », explique Osman Sediqi, par-tenaire de gestion chez Mining Energy Advisors. « Anticipezvotre consommation énergétique sur le long terme. Ainsi, s’ilest prévu de creuser plus en profondeur ou de changer lateneur du minerai, votre demande changera en conséquence.Un projet énergétique doit être modulé en fonction de cesbesoins. » Mais modéliser la ressource éolienne peut prendredu temps, parfois plus d’un an.

Il est facile d’interrompre l’achat de diesel, expliqueM. Lydan. « Mais si vos turbines fonctionnent encore, elles nesont dorénavant plus d’aucune utilité. » Dans ces situations,des investissements importants peuvent rapidement perdre enrentabilité. Le projet éolien de Diavik présente un délai deretour sur investissement de huit ans, soit au moins deux ansavant la fermeture prévue de la mine. « Ensuite, nous les

démonterons et les donnerons à la communauté, puisqu’ellesdevraient encore être en bon état de marche des points de vuemécanique et électrique », explique Mme Van Wyk.

Le retour sur l’investissement est lui-même fonction de lagestion de l’équilibre dans un projet d’énergie. « Il faut avoirdes systèmes qui permettent de [le] gérer de façon très conser-vatrice durant les premières semaines, et de tranquillement voircomment réagit le système », explique M. Forcione. Ceux quifont preuve de patience améliorent considérablement leur per-formance et tirent de grands profits du système diesel-éolien aubout d’un an ou deux. « Nous avons beaucoup appris et fait degrandes améliorations », déclare Mme Van Wyk. « Le taux dedisponibilité de nos équipements est maintenant de plus de90 %, alors que l’an dernier, il était de 60 %, donc la fiabilité aconsidérablement augmenté. »

L’utilisation d’une nouvelle source d’énergie peut mêmechanger la façon dont les mines fonctionnent, affirme M. Arms-trong. « Lorsqu’elles utilisent le solaire, elles commencent àdevenir plus créatives et à se demander “Quelles charges élec-triques importantes peut-on planifier pendant la journée,lorsque l’on peut utiliser le maximum de soleil ?” »

Ce n’est que le débutSelon Navigant Research, de 5 à 8 % des besoins énergé-

tiques des mines pourrait provenir des énergies renouvelablesd’ici 2022. L’énergie éolienne est la technologie la plus à mêmed’attirer des investissements à grande échelle.

L’énergie solaire est aussi à prendre au sérieux, en raison dela baisse considérable de ses coûts, mais cette ressource variebeaucoup selon la latitude et d’autres facteurs. Sur les sites dusud des États-Unis, les coûts sont maintenant de moins de 20 ¢le KWh, alors que les coûts pour les projets isolés du Nordcanadien sont de 30 à 40 ¢, à en croire M. Royer.

Selon M. Forcione, le solaire peut et pourra concurrencerl’éolien au Canada. « En Allemagne, l’équivalent de 50 000 MWde solaire est installé », rappelle-t-il. « Il pourrait certainementen être de même dans certaines régions du Canada, qui se trou-vent à la même latitude. »

La source importe peu, ajoute M. Sediqi. « Aujourd’hui, nousn’avons aucun problème à installer des énergies renouvelablesqui couvrent jusqu’à 20 % de la demande. » À quel point rem-placeront-elles le diesel dans les années à venir ? Peut-on envi-sager un taux de pénétration de 100 % ? « D’ici quelques années,nous verrons des cas de disponibilité de 100 % pour des projetscomme les nôtres, mais pas à court terme », déclare M. Busby.

Par contre, il est clair que peu importe les améliorations quiseront faites, le diesel continuera à jouer un rôle important dansles réseaux autonomes. « Vous pouvez atteindre 100 % d’éner-gie renouvelable, mais ne voudrez quand même jamais vousséparer de vos groupes électrogènes diesel, par mesure de sécu-rité », déclare M. Armstrong.

Ce qui est moins clair est de savoir si d’autres sociétés vontfaire le pas, à l’instar de Rio Tinto et de Cronimet. Elles tardentà prendre conscience des bénéfices du renouvelable, penseM. Lydan. « Pour certains, c’est simplement trop beau pour être vrai. » ICM


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Tous s’entendent pour dire quel’augmentation du taux de pénétrationdépend de la baisse prévue du coût desbatteries. « Le stockage représenteaujourd’hui des coûts importants, maisceux-ci diminueront rapidement », prévoitM. Sediqi. « Le stockage est le domaine leplus dynamique de l’ensemble du secteurdes énergies renouvelables. Il suffit dejeter un coup d'œil à l’évolution du coûtdes panneaux solaires ces 20 dernièresannées. En 1990, l’installation d'unsystème photovoltaïque de 3 à 10 kWppour toits coûtait environ 21 500 $ parkWp ; en 2012, ce coût avait atteint 2 500 $par kWp. Cela vous donne une idée del'avenir du stockage. »

Les projets de Diavik et Thabazimbi sontdes cas notoires de faible pénétration, oùles énergies renouvelables ne représententencore qu’une portion relativement faibledu bouquet énergétique. Pour augmenterla pénétration, il faudra considérablementaugmenter la quantité d’unité deproduction d’énergie renouvelable oustocker l’énergie à l’aide d’une roued’inertie ou de batteries.

La roue d’inertie est mis en marchelorsque l’énergie est abondante. Sonmouvement, suite à un déclin du vent ouau manque de soleil, permet de prolongerla production d’électricité pour le tempsnécessaire au démarrage desgénératrices. Cela permet ainsi de leséteindre sans compromettre la stabilité duréseau. Les batteries, quant à elles,permettent de stocker l’énergie pour unedurée beaucoup plus longue, durant lanuit dans le cas d’un système solaire, par exemple. Mais ces technologiesentraînent des coûts supplémentairesconséquents. « Cela ne fait que rendreplus risquée une situation qui l’est déjà »,déclare Mme Van Wyk.

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Built to break throughBy Correy Baldwin

The trend toward bigger mines with lower grade deposits, along with theimprovements in tunnelling technology, is opening up more space for tunnel boringmachines to do their work.

S ince the advent of industrial mining, engineers have relied on drillingand blasting for tunnel development. Although mechanized systemslike tunnel boring machines (TBMs) have long been used for civil

engineering projects and to some extent in the coal industry, they can only befound at a handful of hard rock mines. This could be changing, however.New requirements at mining operations are opening the door to mechanizedtunnelling.

“With ore bodies becoming deeper and more complex, and with industrymineral grades decreasing, such being the case with copper, the need for verylarge underground mines is increasing, and with it the amount of tunnels andshafts,” says Fred Delabbio, general manager for underground mining inno-vation at Rio Tinto. “Some future mines will need hundreds of kilometres oftunnel and shaft just for one operation.” This means that mining companieswill increasingly be looking for tunnel and shaft construction options that gobeyond drill and blast.

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Anglo American’s Grosvenor coalmine is pioneering the use of anexplosion-proof hybrid earthpressure balance/tunnel boringmachine to bore an access tunnel ata decline to new coal drifts.

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“Mechanical excavation will never fully replace drill andblast,” says Delabbio, “but it will provide mining companieswith construction options we previously didn’t have. As aresult, mine layouts and construction sequences will changebased on the options the new technologies will offer.” Heequates it to the way longwall technology impacted the coalindustry.

Current TBMs, however, may not always be appropriate tomining operations. “TBMs have been specifically developed forcivil tunnel applications and not specific to mining applica-tions,” says Delabbio. “As such, they have uses, but are notideal, for a majority of excavations. The key question is: Willthe mining industry be able to create and support technologiesthat leverage the aspects of TBM and civil tunnelling and cre-ate new mine tunnelling and shaft construction technologies?”Delabbio says he believes so.

When appropriately used, the advantages of tunnel boringare numerous. Whereas the advance rate for drill and blast isgenerally between three and nine metres per day, TBMs canaverage between 15 and 50 metres depending on rock con-ditions and provide control over the tunnel profile. Initialcapital costs may be higher, but are quickly recovered in tun-nels of greater length, typically within two kilometres. Theyare also much safer than drill and blast, eliminate hazardousblast gasses, and can require fewer operators, resulting inlabour savings. TBMs cause less damage to the surroundingrock, lessening the need for ground support. (In fact, withTBMs, ground support can be installed simultaneously withexcavation). Boring provides a smoother and more consistenttunnel profile, making the approach optimal for ventilationand transportation of equipment, and allowing for whatDelabbio calls a factory-like process within the mine.

But to deliver all those benefits, TBMs must compete withthe cost-effective and proven drill and blast technique. “Theunderground hard rock mining industry has been excavating

tunnels for hundreds ofyears with drill and blastmethods,” says Delabbio.Drilling and blasting, onthe one hand, allow min-ers to create any excava-tion shape, with anunlimited turning radius,and all for a low capitalequipment requirement.TBMs, on the other hand,have a large turningradius, have difficulty on

steep grades and backing up, have difficulty cre-ating service turnouts and turnaround points,and require a major upfront investment.

Under the right circumstances, however,TBMs result in a better-functioning operation,says Benjamin Künstle, deputy division man-ager mining at Herrenknecht. “Mechanicalexcavation systems are designed to increase the

level of health and safety, provide a better and more modernwork environment, improve production and have a positiveimpact on the overall mine development including anincreased net present value.”

All this is encouraging interest from the industry. Künstlesays he has observed growing demand from Australia, Chile,the United States, Canada, Russia, and South Africa, and morerecently from China. He notes an increased use of TBMs inblock caving and cut-and-fill operations to create inclinedaccess ramps, which he says are becoming the preferred optionover deep vertical shafts. Even large open-pit mines are con-sidering TBM applications, he notes, in order to bring ore andwaste rock directly to the surface through a system of verticalpasses and tunnels.

Delabbio suggests future operations will place new require-ments on technology and equipment, which will necessitatemore innovation. “As with any new technology, usage will startwith specific niches,” he says. “Once mechanical excavationconcepts and prototypes are proven, the usage will probablybe based around the speed of tunnelling, the reduced rockdamage, safety and the improvement in NPV.”

TBMs were first used in mining operations in the late1950s, including at the Steep Rock iron mine in northwesternOntario and their use continued through the 1960s and1970s. They achieved high rates of excavation in soft rock, buttheir applicability was limited and their costs too high.

Since then, technological advances have increased theirapplicability. Some of the machines are designed for tunnellingin different ground conditions, from harder to less-competentto heterogeneous rock, including open-face machines, variousand improved shields, and earth pressure balance technology.There have been advances in automation and continuous min-ing, and in hydraulic and electrical systems, while other inno-vations aimed at increasing power and advance rates, throughchanges in cutter design, have increased cutterhead revolu-tions per minute (RPM) as well as thrust and torque.

Last year, prior to the sale of theNorthparkes mine,Rio Tinto tested atunnel boring systemat the copper-goldproject New SouthWales, Australia. The 64-metre-longmachine wasdesigned anddeveloped incooperation with the German firm Aker Wirth.

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Attention has also been paid to greater maneuverability,specifically in decreasing turning radius and allowing forsteeper inclines and declines. Current prototypes are pushingthe boundaries of maneuverability as well as testing innova-tions for vertical shaft tunnelling, non-circular tunnelling,ground support and further automation.

“Contractors were adventurous in the 1960s and 1970s,when profits were high and there wasn’t as much competi-tion,” says Joe Roby, vice-president of business development atTBM manufacturer Robbins. “Some of those radical conceptsreally advanced the technology and some went in the wastecan of history. Today, the changes are evolutionary rather thanrevolutionary. Contractors want a TBM that is very conserva-tively designed. They want high performance, but first theywant reliability.”

The future for tunnel boring in mining may be bright, butfor right now, equipment suppliers are still looking for a break-through. Roby suspects much of the resistance is historical:“There were some TBMs used in mines in the 1960s and 1970sthat didn’t perform that well in hard rock. But the machinestoday have so much more power and thrust than thosemachines, and ground support systems have significantlyimproved as well.”

Künstle agrees that there is an unfounded distrust ofTBMs. “Choices were sometimes made based on wrong orincomplete figures and maybe guided by some skepticism ofan unknown methodology, and because of positive experi-ences with alternative methods,” he says. “It is our goal toinform all involved parties about the real capacities and lim-its of the TBM technology.”

Suppliers point out that TBMs are mature products,with hard rock machines having been around for 60 years.“The majority of existing equipment is not fundamentallydifferent than the units used 40 years ago,” says Delabbio,“other than being larger and with incremental improve-ments in fuel efficiency and ergonomics.” The machinesoften come from civil engineering, adapted to meet suchrequirements from the mining industry as weight and bulklimitations, and higher maneuverability for tight curvesand steep alignments.


The next big thing in TBM technology may come in verticalexcavation for sinking shafts, which under current methodscreeps downward at around three metres per day. Shaft boringmachines have been developed for civil engineering but nonethat can create large enough diameters or go deep enough tobe applicable to mining projects, optimally 10- to 12-metrediameters and depths of over 2,000 metres. Other shaft-sink-ing concepts like raise boring and vertical moles have specificapplications but are limited in tunnelling size.

“The problem is removing the muck quickly from the full-faced boring head so that you’re not regrinding and causing alot of wear on the cutter head,” says Roby. “When someonesolves that problem, there will be a great deal of interest fromthe mining industry.”

Herrenknecht’s solution is a prototype with the cuttingwheel rotated 90 degrees. Rio Tinto is working with AkerWirth in the testing of shaft and tunnel boring systems at itsNorthparkes copper and gold mine in Australia as a part of thecompany’s Mine of the Future program. Robbins is also work-ing on shaft excavation, alongside developments to its TBMtechnology, including the McNally continuous rock supportsystem, a remote cutter monitoring program, and earth pres-sure balance systems. All this represents a great interest in abroader applicability of TBM technology.

“Recently in Australia there has been an increase in thenumber of TBMs considered for applications around the con-struction of coal mines. Anglo American’s Grosvenor mine isone example,” says Delabbio.

Roby says Robbins TBMs are at work in the Stillwater PGMmine in Montana and in the decline development for Oz Min-erals’ Carrapateena copper-gold project in Australia.

“TBMs can drive declines, run access tunnels along an orebody or put in conveyor haulages a lot faster,” says Roby. “I’dlove to work with a block caving mine to design a fully TBM-excavated draw-point level. I think we could make a machinethat would excavate all the tunnels in a large draw-point levelat an unprecedented rate. That would get a lot more metals tomarket much quicker, making some mine a lot of money.”

“It’s only a matter of time before it’s done,” he says. “It’s justa question of who gets started first.” CIM

Mines like Stillwater in Montana haveused tunnel boring machines for longaccess tunnels.

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INSIDE:

COAL – SASKPOWER’S BOUNDARY DAM CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT

URANIUM – EXPLORATION HEATS UP IN THE ATHABASCA BASIN

OIL SANDS – SELLING THE DREAM

PROJECT PROFILE – K+S POTASH CANADA | THE LEGACY MINE

PRAIRIE POWERHOUSE – A SURVEY OF THE MININGLANDSCAPE

PROFIL DE PROJET – K+S POTASH CANADA | LA MINE LEGACY

TRAVEL – SASKATOON

SASKATCHEWANSPECIAL REPORT

The fundamentals for the province’s key commodities aresound. Potash helps food grow, and everyday there are moremouths to feed. Uranium, coal and oil are vital componentsof the global energy mix. For miners working the province’sprairie, it is the long view that is setting the course for resourcedevelopment.


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Nothing ventured, nothing recoveredSaskPower’s Boundary Dam project a test case

for carbon capture and storageBy Graham Lanktree

THE CARBON CAPTURE PROCESS

Preceding page: The Rafferty pipeline, completed last February, will transportup to 63 million cubic feet of carbon dioxide from the Boundary Dam coal-fired power plant to be used for enhanced oil recovery near Weyburn.

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In some parts of the world, the viability of coal as an energyasset is in doubt. The World Bank, the United Kingdom,and Nordic countries ended financial support for coal-

fired plants in 2013, and the International Energy Agencyhas warned of coal reserves becoming “stranded assets.”

Yet, coal remains a cost-effective source of power. So alleyes are on SaskPower’s Boundary Dam Integrated CarbonCapture and Storage Demonstration project in Estevan,Saskatchewan as international firms and governments lineup to learn from the $1.46-billion emissions-cutting ven-ture that begins operation in mid-2014.

Billed as the world’s largest commercial-scale coal-firedpower plant armed with post-combustion carbon captureand storage (CCS) technology, the CCS plant will scrub 90per cent – around one million tonnes of carbon dioxide(CO2) annually – from the Boundary Dam plant’s Unit 3emissions. It will be the equivalent of taking roughly250,000 vehicles off the road.

Some experts, though, are skeptical of the economicsbehind such projects, since success depends on strong government carbon regulations to quickly scale up thetechnology’s value and make it commercially viable.

The project resulted frotm a decade’s worth of studyingCCS and $50 million in feasibility studies and engineeringdesigns to retrofit Boundary Dam’s Unit 3 lignite-coal-fedgenerator. Inside, flue gas is filtered for sulphur dioxide(SO2), and then a powerful amine-based solvent absorbsthe remaining CO2. The amine-CO2 complex is heated,releasing high-purity CO2 that is then liquefied throughcooling and pressurization. The trade-off is that the filteringprocess will reduce the unit’s power output from 139 to110 megawatts.

Cenovus Energy brokered a 10-year deal withSaskatchewan’s utility, SaskPower, to purchase the full vol-ume of liquefied CO2, which will be piped 70 kilometresnorth to be used for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) at itsMidale-Weyburn oilfield. Any liquefied CO2 that Cenovuscannot take will be injected 3.4 km below ground into asaline formation near the Boundary Dam plant to be stud-ied by the Petroleum Technology Research Centre’s Aquis-tore project.

success, Boundary Dam’s generating Units 4 and 5could also be retrofitted, she added.

What Cenovus will pay SaskPower for liquefied CO2 isa carefully guarded secret. Worldwide, prices range from$15 to $45 per metric tonne, according to David Reiner, asenior lecturer in technology policy at the University ofCambridge and expert in the economics of CCS. The costof enhanced oil recovery is balanced on the cost of crude oiland the amount of liquid CO2 needed to produce a barrelof oil. The plant also plans to sell the 60 tonnes of sulphuricacid it generates daily through SO2 capture.

Liquid CO2 has a wide range of other potential uses,including algae cultivation, enhanced coalbed methanerecovery, mineral carbonation, concrete curing, liquid fuels,and as a chemical feedstock, although these are economi-cally unproven.

What has made Boundary Dam viable, according toReiner, “is a combination of the availability of EOR oppor-tunities in southeast Saskatchewan, a grant from the federalgovernment, and the facts that – for this region at least –coal (even with CCS) was more attractive than gas, and theCanadian government had an emissions performance stan-dard that prohibits completely unabated coal-fired genera-tion.” In June 2010, Canada introduced regulations oncoal-fired generator emissions to cut 175 megatonnes ofCO2 emissions between 2015 and 2030.

The carbon pricing regulations are essential to BoundaryDam’s success, since the rules promote investment to rap-idly scale up the technology. “The federal regulations are animperative,” said Johnson of SaskPower, adding, “it is anadditional variable that supports the need for CCS.”

“As to when the combination of regulation, economicsand technology will come together to make CCS moreattractive,” said Reiner, “[that] will depend on technologicalprogress, but also [the] government's willingness to under-write the costs and the perceived relative attractiveness ofother low-carbon technologies.” CIM

SaskPower has invested $1.11 billion in the project,with a further $240 million coming from a 2011 federalgovernment grant. Cost overruns of $115 million to retrofitthe Unit 3 generator have pushed the project’s overall priceeven higher.

Boundary Dam’s operations will, nevertheless, be in fullswing as dozens of nascent CCS projects get underwayaround the world. In anticipation, SaskPower has launcheda consortium that “should be of interest to any coal pro-ducer or any electric utility that has coal-fired facilities,”according to Bill Boyd, Saskatchewan’s minister of the econ-omy. The consortium will share detailed information on theproject’s progress for a price.

Last May, the U.K. government-funded Carbon Captureand Storage Research Centre signed a three-year researchsharing agreement with the Boundary Dam project.According to a U.K. government analysis, successfullydeploying CCS could cut the state’s cost of meeting its car-bon targets by £32 billion ($58 billion) annually by 2050.

“CCS could be a game changer if we get it to be commer-cially viable,” said Edward Davey, U.K. secretary of state forenergy and climate change, at a University College LondonEnergy Institute talk in mid-December 2013. However,Davey is not convinced that the Boundary Dam project willnecessarily prove out the business case.

For one, CCS technology is still clunky. Bill Spence,manager of strategic issues for Shell’s upstream interna-tional business and former CO2 vice-president for the com-pany, likens it to cellphones that have rapidly improvedover the past 15 years. “We’re building a first of its kind, soit’s not going to be the most cost-effective, but the second,third, fourth of a kind will see that cost come down,” hetold participants at the 2013 Canada Europe Energy Sum-mit of Shell’s CCS efforts, which include contributing theCO2 capture system for Boundary Dam as well as theAlberta Quest Carbon Capture and Storage project comingonline in 2015.

Fluor did the front-end engineering for the carbon cap-ture project. Along with Shell subsidiary Cansolv Technolo-gies, SNC-Lavalin led the engineering, procurement andconstruction of the project, Stantec contributed engineeringduring the design and construction phases.

Since it needs to be competitive with renewables,the speed with which the technology can be ramped upwill be a major factor in its success. SaskPower hasalready learned plenty of lessons from Boundary Damfor future CCS projects. “We’ve identified a number ofefficiencies and we predict we can build our next cap-ture plant for 30 per cent less,” said SaskPowerspokesperson Heather Johnson. Depending on Unit 3’s


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latest test hole is nothing less than phenomenal,” presi-dent and COO Ross McElroy said from Germany, wherehe and other Fission executives were shopping theirprojects.

The samples included a number of wide and particu-larly high-grade intervals. “Such broad mineralization atshallow depth with such a significant zone of off-scaleradioactivity is extremely encouraging,” McElroy stated ina company release that followed the announcement of theresults. Drill core samples were split in half sections onsite. The first set of half-splits was sent to SRC Geoanalyt-ical Laboratories in Saskatoon for analysis. The second setwas kept on site for reference.

McElroy has more than three decades in the industryincluding stints at Areva, BHP Billiton and Cameco, andwhen the Prospectors and Developers Association ofCanada presented him with the 2014 Bill Denis Award for

Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin boasts some of themost attractive uranium deposits in the world andhas seen increased exploration activity in 2013, a

trend that is likely to continue for the rest of this year.While short-term uranium demand remains too low toincentivize the constructions of new mines, the longer-term outlook is far more positive, said Aaron Salz, an ana-lyst with Dundee Capital Markets. The number ofoperable, under construction, planned and proposednuclear reactors rose from 923 in 2009 to 987 as of Feb-ruary, according to the World Nuclear Association(WNA). As a result, WNA projects uranium demand willgrow between 2.5 per cent and 4 per cent per year.

This outlook, combined with Fission Uranium Corp.’simpressive discovery in the Patterson Lake South (PLS)area in the southwest of the basin, has been the catalystfor renewed uranium exploration. “The GT (grade percentage x thickness in metres) value of 992.8 in our

Uranium exploration spikes in Saskatchewan

Long-term demand growth and positive initial results have juniors pouring money into the Athabasca Basin

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The discovery at Patterson Lake South has sparked explorationin the southwestern region of the Athabasca Basin.


“significant mineralization” at Arrow, which is just north-east of Fission’s PLS discovery.

Denison Mines, which bought up all of Fission’s prop-erties but the PLS project, also has big ambitions. “The2014 exploration plan for the Athabasca Basin is one ofthe largest programs undertaken by Denison in severalyears,” said Ron Hochstein, the company’s CEO. TheWheeler River project, a few kilometres northeast ofCameco Corporation’s Key Lake mill, will be the primarytarget for the company’s $15-million program, which callsfor a total 60,000 metres to be drilled on 13 separateproperties in the basin. In late February the companyannounced it had already located some “high-grade inter-sections” at Wheeler River.

As for Fission, according to chairman Dev Randhawa,the company’s main goal is to bring the PLS property as faras it effectively can go. However, the ultimate objective isto sell the asset to a major developer that can leverage itsfull value. “We prefer to concentrate on what we do best,which is finding the resource,” said Randhawa. “After that,others can take it from there.” CIM

Canadian Discovery and Prospecting Success, it was dueto his efforts in leading the PLS team.

The company’s exploration team began work at the31,039-hectare property, which is accessible by road withprimary access from the all-weather Highway 955, inNovember 2012. After drilling an initial four holes thatyear, exploration spiked to 74 holes in 2013 and is slatedto rise to 140 in 2014.

McElroy is confident the deposit will be relatively sim-ple to mine: “While it is located underwater, it is relativelyclose to the surface, and mining under these conditionshas been done before.” Much of the drilling effort this yearwill be directed to figuring out how the ore bodies areconnected together. The idea is to get better visibility ofhow much uranium ore is down there, and how best toget it all out.

The Patterson discovery began a staking rush in thearea and reignited uranium exploration spending in theprovince. Anxious to learn more about the region, a groupof four juniors with more than 240,000 hectares claimedaround Patterson Lake created a partnership to fund air-borne surveys and ground sampling in order to locate ura-nium showings and potential drill targets.

NexGen, which owns the Arrow prospect as part of aportfolio of assets in the Athabasca Basin, also announcedpositive drilling results at the end of February, including

For 2014, Fission has dedicated four drilling rigs to delineating themineralized trend, with a fifth rig doing exploration drilling beyond the trend.

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McMurray, even today technological and logistic limitationshave made the deposits too expensive to extract.

In 2012 two companies stepped up to the challenge, pur-chasing a combined 214,433 hectares of land with oil sandsdeposits – the first deals in the province in five years.

Calgary’s Cenovus Energy was one of them. For $10 mil-lion, the firm bought up a combined 59,000 hectares inthree parcels of land in northern Alberta and Saskatchewanfrom bankrupt Oilsands Quest Inc. Finalized by October2012, the purchase added 17,438 hectares of Axe Lake oilsands to the company’s portfolio.

Before Oilsands Quest went broke in November 2011, itsubmitted a project proposal to the Saskatchewan Ministryof Environment in May 2010 to produce 30,000 barrels ofbitumen per day on the property Cenovus bought.

Oilsands Quest proposed to use steam-assisted gravitydrainage (SAGD) technology to extract the bitumen in a projectthe company said would last 25 to 30 years. Yet a $10.2-millioncourt settlement reached August 26, 2013 alleged that OilsandsQuest and its directors – including embattled Sen. PamelaWallin – overvalued the company’s assets by $136 million.

This was done “through a series of false and misleadingpress releases, investor presentations and accounting manip-ulations,” according to court documents.

Saskatchewan’s oil output is growing. Last year, theprovince produced nearly 178 million barrels of crudeoil, besting the record it set in 2012. Oil makes up a big

slice of gross domestic product and the provincial governmentis working hard to guarantee the industry’s continued growth.

Saskatchewan’s Minister of Economy Bill Boyd travelledto London in November to muster European interest andinvestment in the province’s as yet undeveloped billion-barrel oil sands reserves.

Speaking at the Canada Europe Energy Summit, Boydpitched the opportunity that the estimated 1.2 to 2.3 billionbarrels of oil locked up in the province’s northwest representfor long-term investors.

“We think that if it can be done in an environmentallyresponsible way, clearly we would like to see it developed,”Boyd said of the province’s deposits. “There’s a range ofresource extraction options that are being looked at. There’sa technological question, an engineering problem, whetheror not there is sufficient cap rock to maintain the integrity ofthe reservoir.”

Oil sands bitumen was first discovered in Saskatchewanin several wells drilled in the 1970s, which found 20-metre-thick deposits at a depth of 185 metres. Spread out over27,000 square kilometres centred on Axe Lake in the Clear-water River Valley, about 100 kilometres northeast of Fort

Fuel for the future?The provincial government is pushing the long-term potential

of Saskatchewan’s oil sandsBy Graham Lanktree

Currently,Saskatchewandoes not produceany bitumen fromits oil sandsdeposits thatborder Alberta,but the provincialgovernmentcontinues to pushfor development.

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Since the geology is similar between the two projects,“there might be some lessons from developing those assetsthat we could apply on the Oilsands Quest assets down theroad,” explained Harris.

At the moment, Saskatchewan’s oil sands have nopipeline or rail infrastructure to transport crude oil either.If the leases were developed, “it would make sense to usethe infrastructure built for Telephone Lake,” Harris added.

Despite Boyd’s pitches in November, not many foreignfirms bit at the oil sands bait at the Energy Summit. “Wehad the opportunity to showcase Saskatchewan's vastresource potential,” Boyd explained, adding “there wassubstantial interest in Saskatchewan's carbon captureand storage project, which will be used in enhanced oilrecovery.”

Still, the province has hopes that the current players inSaskatchewan are setting the table for what could be afuture boon to public coffers. “[We expect] that [Cenovus]are doing the resource reservoir testing right now to see ifthey can successfully extract oil from the oil sands,” saidBoyd. “There’s a very large resource there.” CIM

Cenovus withdrew Oilsands Quest’s Axe Lake projectproposal in August 2013. “It's far too early to say what rolethe Oilsands Quest assets might play in our long-term oilsands development strategy or what kind of technologymight be used if they are developed,” said Brett Harris, Cen-ovus Energy’s senior media relations advisor, adding “a lotcould change between now and then.”

Although SAGD is being considered, the technologywould need to be modified to deal with characteristics thatdiffer from Alberta’s oil sands. But the only realistic option isin-situ extraction since “it would be too expensive to movethe overburden,” Boyd said, adding that, “a strip miningtype operation is just out of the question.”

Saskatchewan’s deposits are continuous, homogenous,and have high porosity and oil saturation, with the main dif-ference from Alberta’s deposits being a lack of Clearwatershale overlying the bitumen. A 2009 Pembina Institute studysuggests that this “means conventional SAGD techniquesused for in-situ extraction in Alberta may not be suitable.”

Oilsands Quest began to experiment with modifiedSAGD processes as it drilled a few hundred exploratorywells on the Axe Lake property. These included an electro-thermal process, as well as others injecting solvents such aspropane and butane into the deposits to reduce viscosity,without disturbing the overlying geology. However, thecompany was unable to test these technologies on a largescale before running out of money in 2011.

The SAGD process typically recovers between 60 and 80per cent from deposits and requires a large energy input.Around 2.5 to four cubic metres of steam, heated by 1,000cubic feet of natural gas, are needed to extract one cubicmetre of bitumen.

“At present there is no proven technology that has beenfound to be able to commercially extract the bitumen fromthe known oil sands deposits in Saskatchewan,” Boyd noted.

A second company, which bought up 196,995 hectaresof oil sands land in December 2012, soon after Cenovus’purchase, remains unidentified. Located north of the Prim-rose Lake Air Weapons Range, no exploration activity hasbegun on the two five-year land leases. Cenovus and the sec-ond company are the only ones that currently hold Crownoil sands exploration permits, the government said.

Cenovus does not have plans to start developing its AxeLake deposit in the near future. “We see them as a potentialbolt-on acquisition or extension to our Telephone Lake proj-ect that is directly adjacent to the Oilsands Quest leases onthe Alberta side of the border,” said Harris. Cenovus hopesfor Alberta’s regulatory approval of the Telephone Lake proj-ect in 2014, with site dewatering to begin in 2017.

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That means one well can extend into all three members,allowing greater potassium chloride extraction for the sameinvestment. The overall combined thickness of the miningzones within the deposits is 33 metres. The ore consistsmainly of a mix of potassium-bearing sylvinite and sodium-based halite, as well as a number of interbedded clay seamsand anhydrite content. Across all three members, the aver-age potassium oxide content is 18 per cent (or 29 per centpotassium chloride), which is significantly higher than inthe German mines operated by K+S.

SOLUTION MININGWith an average depth of 1,500 metres, Legacy has the

hot temperatures suitable for solution mining, in whichinjections of hot water will slowly dissolve potassium chlo-ride to form brine-filled caverns. The solution mining

A t the time of acquisition, Legacy had Proven andProbable Reserves of 160 million tonnes of potas-sium chloride and another 981 million tonnes of

Inferred and Indicated Resources. “It's a huge deposit,” saysSam Farris, vice-president and general manager of opera-tions at K+S Potash Canada. “And that's consistent throughSaskatchewan. The quantity and the quality of depositswere two important reasons that brought K+S toSaskatchewan,” says Farris. Currently, he says, assumingannual production of 2.86 million tonnes per year, themine will have a life of more than 55 years.

Saskatchewan’s potash deposits are the largest in theworld. The Legacy property has an advantage in that threelayers, also known as members, of the vast Prairie Forma-tion overlap: Esterhazy, Belle Plaine, and Patience Lake.

Long-term solutionK+S is building its Legacy potash mine to last

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When the German firm K+S set up shop in Saskatchewan,

some of the mines under its control in Europe had been operating for a hundred years.

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it, but a lot of it was focused on understanding the geolog-ical characteristics,” explains Farris. Early work was doneon core samples in a research facility in Germany, but K+Salso has a full-scale test cavern in operation. “This allows usto test maybe a few different ideas and also to verify the per-formance of the cavern,” according to him.

Some of the R&D aims to increase mining rates, or morethorough extraction, from caverns at some point in thefuture; Legacy has many decades of life (more than 50years) based on its current Proven Reserves, and Farrisanticipates that there will be continuous improvement of itsexisting methods.

Cavern development starts in halite and lower gradepotassium chloride zones of the deposit, using water as theprimary solvent. During the last stage of the cavern’s life, asthe ore grade rises, brine solutions are used instead; thesodium chloride in the brine prevents the halite in the orefrom dissolving, helping keep the cavern stable. When cav-erns reach their full size, they are “on par with some of thelargest sports stadiums in the world,” says Farris.

For now, the plan is to begin creating caverns in 2014,starting with the higher-grade Patience Lake layer. It will

process will inevitably pick up sodium as well aspotassium chloride, but the design bypasses a 19-metre thick section of halite between the Esterhazyand Belle Plaine members. Pumped out throughextraction wells, the ore in solution will travelthrough a network of pipelines to surface, where itwill be dried out and then further processed intothree different products: standard and granularpotash for the fertilizer market, and a higher-gradeindustrial product.

Solution mining has lower capital costs and ashorter ramp-up period than conventional mining,and it allows K+S to extract all three potash mem-bers simultaneously. Legacy aims to be one of theworld’s largest by-design solution potash mines,comparable in size to the Belle Plaine mine oper-ated by the Mosaic Company. Farris stresses thatthe technology involved has been proven duringthe last several decades of solution mining else-where, particularly for salt mining.

Although the exploration end and the dryprocess plant look broadly similar to conventionalpotash mining, the solution approach makes use ofdrilling and well logging practices common in theoil and gas industry.

“The most specialized thing about it is the cav-ern engineering,” says Farris. “Solution mininginvolves monitoring the dissolution process. Thereare key performance indicators that are beingactively monitored for each cavern. The cavern engineersare analyzing and interpreting the results from well-returnbrine samples and downhole well logs, and adjusting oper-ations based upon these results.” K+S, which operates anumber of salt solution mines, has expertise to share withthe cavern engineering team, most of whom have alreadybeen hired.

K+S has close ties to Germany-based Koeppern, whichis supplying the dry process engineering and compactionequipment through a joint venture with March Engineeringin Saskatoon. “They’ve supplied much of the compactionequipment in the potash industry over the last number ofyears,” says Farris.

The wet process equipment and detailed design work isbeing handled by Veolia, which is working with AMECdesign teams in Oakville, Ontario. AMEC is the umbrellacontractor for engineering, project management, and siteconstruction management.

CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENTAlthough the basic technology is proven, K+S has

research and development projects investigating ways toimprove the mining process. “There are multiple aspects to

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markets its products as raw materials for aluminumrecycling, electroplating, water treatment, de-icing,soap manufacturing, food production and many otherpurposes.

HIGHER COSTSThe new process plant design accounts for part of the

increases to the estimated capital expenditures that K+Shas revealed over the last few years. When it first tookover the project, the estimated capital cost was $3.25 bil-lion. In 2013, the company revised that number to $4.1billion.

Farris says there are three main inputs to the increase.First, Potash One had planned to make a single, uncom-pacted product; the new design contains significantlymore processing equipment. Second, Farris says there wasalso a “rationalization” from the original estimate to amore up-to-date assessment of the material and labourcosts, particularly the cost of building the processing plant.

And third, he says, “a lot of the change is because we’veinvested in our own infrastructure.” As a greenfield project,Legacy requires rail and port connections to be built fromscratch. K+S has struck a deal to transport its products viaCanadian Pacific Railway to domestic markets and to a portin British Columbia where it will need to develop facilities.Canadian Pacific is building a spur line, but K+S has to pro-vide the export facilities.

In a time when greenfield development projectsworldwide have been suspended, and the potash marketin particular has taken a beating, K+S is confident thatits billions will pay off in the long term. “It isn’t just a10-year investment for us,” says Farris. K+S has spent acentury mining Germany, but Saskatchewan holds itsnew legacy. CIM

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take about two years for water injections to gradually dis-solve the caverns to a workable volume. Meanwhile, thecompany will be building the process plant for a summer2016 commissioning date.

“The first caverns are ready to produce potash in thesummer of 2016,” explains Farris. “And then there's aramp-up until we reach our full capacity of two milliontonnes in 2017. And beyond that, there's a secondary min-ing phase where we switch to brine-based mining for thosecaverns that are ready, and we gradually expand to 2.86million tonnes.” Looking further into the future, the com-pany has the potential to expand production to up to fourmillion tonnes per year.

Potash One had originally planned for the deposit toproduce only one type of potash product for the fertilizermarket. When K+S came in, that changed. “We have theability to turn down or ramp up production fairly easily,”points out Farris. “So in times of lower overall marketdemand, if we choose to turn down production, there'ssome capability to reduce variable costs.”

For that reason, the process plant is designed forflexibility. On a given day or week, the proportion ofdifferent products might change. The originally plannedstandard potash formula, used for fertilizer, is typicallythe least processed. A second compacted fertilizer-gradeproduct is sized to enable it to be blended with nitrogenor phosphorus products for large-scale agriculturalapplications. That product has to be run through a com-pactor first, as does the third, industrial-grade potashproduct, which additionally goes through a leachingstep to improve its purity to greater than 99 per centpotassium chloride. Industrial potash accounts foraround a tenth of the total potash market; it is used as araw material by the electrolysis industry, which in turn

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Estimated 2013 U3O8 production

23.1 million lbs Expected annual production from Cigar Lake

+18 million lbsStart up H2 2014

Claude Resources, currently theprovince’s only operating goldminer, expects to producebetween 47,000 and 51,000ounces of gold in 2014. Lastyear the company increased its mineral reserves by 78 per cent or243,000ounces.

GOLD Potash producers inSaskatchewan plan toinvest $13.9 billion to

upgrade and expand productioncapacity by more than 90% by 2023.Ten facilities in the province producenearly one-third of the world’s potash.

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A drill core sample from North Arrow Minerals

Pikoo project yielded 745 diamonds larger

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MINES ON THE HORIZON 2016 K+S Canada’s Legacy mine:

2.8 million tonnes per year

2018 BHP Billiton’s Jansen mine: 8 to 10 million tonnes per year

2013 (est.)Saskatchewan’s sole coal producer SherrittInternationalCorporation sold itsthree mines at BoundaryDam, Bienfait, andPoplar River toWestmoreland Coal in late 2013.

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Last February, the provincial environmentministry OK’d the construction of a +$200-million hydrometallurgy plant toprocess the concentrate from FortuneMinerals’ gold-copper-bismuth-cobaltNICO project in the Northwest Territories.

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potassium pour le même investissement. L’épaisseur com-binée totale des zones d’exploitation minière au sein desgisements est de 33 mètres. Le minerai comprend princi-palement un mélange de sylvinite contenant du chlorure depotassium et de halite composée de chlorure de sodium,ainsi qu’un certain nombre de couches d’argile interstrati-fiées et d’anhydrite. Dans chacun des trois membres, lateneur moyenne en oxyde de potassium est de 18 % (ou 29% de chlorure de potassium), une teneur bien plus élevéeque celle des mines allemandes exploitées par K+S.

L’EXTRACTION PAR DISSOLUTIONLe projet Legacy, dont la profondeur moyenne de forage

est de 1 500 mètres, présente des températures élevéesidéales pour l’extraction par dissolution, dans laquelle desinjections d’eau chaude dissoudront lentement le chlorurede potassium pour former des cavernes sursalées. Leprocédé d’extraction par dissolution recueillera inévitable-ment du chlorure de sodium et de potassium, mais la con-ception permet de contourner une section de 19 mètresdépaisseur de halite entre les couches d’Esterhazy et de BellePlaine. Pompé par des puits d’extraction, le minerai en solu-tion sera transporté par un réseau de canalisations vers lasurface, où il sera séché et ensuite transformé en trois pro-duits : de la potasse standard et granuleuse pour le marchédes engrais, et un produit industriel à plus haute teneur.

La société allemande K+S régissait des mines en activitédepuis près d’un siècle en Europe quand elle s’estinstallée en Saskatchewan. Pour son projet de mine de

potasse Legacy, elle prévoit le même potentiel à long termeque celui qu’elle avait tiré de son projet Potash One en 2011.

Au moment de l’acquisition, le projet Legacy disposaitde réserves prouvées et probables de 160 millions detonnes de chlorure de potassium et de ressources pré-sumées et indiquées de 981 millions de tonnes. « C’est ungisement considérable », explique Sam Farris, vice-prési-dent et directeur général des opérations à K+S PotashCanada. « La Saskatchewan regorge de ressources. La quan-tité et la qualité des gisements constituaient deux motiva-tions importantes pour l’installation de K+S dans laprovince. » Il déclare qu’actuellement, en supposant que laproduction annuelle atteigne 2,86 millions de tonnes, lamine aura une durée de vie de plus de 55 ans.

Les gisements de potasse de la Saskatchewan sont lesplus importants au monde. La propriété Legacy a cet avan-tage que trois couches (que l’on appelle aussi membres) dela grande formation de la Prairie, à savoir Esterhazy, BellePlaine et Patience Lake, se chevauchent. Ceci signifie quel’on peut foncer un puits à travers ces trois membres, ce quipermet une extraction plus importante de chlorure de

Une solution à long termeLa mine de potasse Legacy de K+S – Construite pour durer

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Certaines des activités de R&D visent à augmenter lestaux dexploitation minière ou à parvenir à l’avenir à uneextraction plus méthodique dans les cavernes. Sur labase de ses réserves prouvées, le projet Legacy a devantlui de nombreuses décennies de vie (plus de 50 ans), etM. Farris prévoit une amélioration continue des méth-odes existantes.

Le développement de la caverne commence dans deszones du gisement contenant de la halite et du chlorure depotassium à plus faible teneur, en utilisant l’eau commeprincipal solvant. Durant la dernière étape de la vie de lacaverne, alors que la teneur du minerai augmente, on utilisedes solutions hypersalines. Le chlorure de sodium dans lasaumure empêche la dissolution de la halite contenue dansle minerai, ce qui contribue à la stabilité de la caverne.Lorsque les cavernes atteignent leur grandeur nature, ellessont « comparables aux plus grands stades de sport dumonde », explique M. Farris.

Pour le moment, le projet est de créer des cavernes en2014, en commençant par la couche à la teneur la plusélevée de Patience Lake. Il faudra compter environ deux anspour que les injections d’eau dissolvent progressivement lescavernes et que l’on parvienne à un volume exploitable.Parallèlement, la société construira l’usine de transforma-tion pour une mise en service prévue en été 2016.

« Les premières cavernes seront prêtes à produire dela potasse au cours de l’été 2016 », déclare M. Farris. «Nous prévoyons ensuite une période d’accélérationjusquà ce que nous atteignions notre pleine capacité dedeux millions de tonnes en 2017. Ensuite, une secondephase est prévue, durant laquelle nous passerons à l’ex-ploitation de la saumure dans les cavernes qui serontprêtes, et nous développerons notre capacité à 2,86 mil-lions de tonnes. » À l’avenir, la société pourrait accroîtresa production annuelle pour atteindre quatre millions detonnes.

Potash One avait initialement prévu que le gisementproduise un seul type de produit à base de potasse pourle marché des engrais. Mais l’entrée en scène de K+S achangé la donne. « Il nous est relativement facile deralentir ou d’accélérer la production », fait remarquer M.Farris. « Ainsi, durant des périodes de demande dumarché globalement plus faibles, nous avons la possibil-ité de réduire les coûts variables si nous décidons deralentir la production. »

C’est pour cette raison que l’usine de transformation estconçue de manière à être flexible. En fonction du jour ou

L’extraction par dissolution, par rapport aux méthodesd’extraction classiques, a des coûts d’investissements plusfaibles et une période de démarrage plus courte, aussi cettetechnique permet à K+S d’extraire simultanément les troismembres de potasse. Le projet Legacy envisage de devenirl’une des mines de potasse à extraction par dissolutionparmi les plus grandes au monde, dont la taille sera com-parable à la mine de Belle Plaine exploitée par la sociétéMosaic. M. Farris insiste sur le fait que la technologie util-isée a été éprouvée ailleurs au cours des dernières décenniesd’extraction par dissolution, particulièrement pour lesmines de sel.

Bien que les travaux d’exploration et l’installation pourle procédé par voie sèche rappellent l’extraction tradition-nelle de potasse, l’approche par dissolution adoptée dans leprojet Legacy se fonde sur des pratiques de forage et de dia-graphie des sondages communément utilisées dans l’indus-trie du pétrole et du gaz.

« Son aspect le plus spécialisé concerne les travaux tech-niques dans la caverne », déclare M. Farris. « L’extractionpar dissolution implique de surveiller le processus de dis-solution. On contrôle activement les principaux indicateursde la performance dans chaque caverne. Les ingénieurs tra-vaillant dans les cavernes analysent et interprètent les résul-tats à partir d’échantillons de saumure extraits des puits etdes diagraphies de forage, puis ils adaptent les opérationsen fonction de ces résultats. » K+S, qui exploite plusieursmines à solutions salines, possède l’expertise nécessairepour la partager avec l’équipe d’ingénieurs travaillant dansles cavernes, lesquels ont pour la plupart déjà étéembauchés.

K+S entretient des liens étroits avec Köppern, unesociété établie en Allemagne qui fournit les techniques deprocédé par voie sèche et l’équipement de compactage autitre d’une entreprise commune avec March Consulting àSaskatoon. « Cette société a fourni la majeure partie del’équipement de compactage à l’industrie de la potasse cesdernières années », explique M. Farris.

L’équipement utilisé pour le procédé par voie humide etles travaux de conception détaillée sont gérés par Veolia,qui collabore avec les équipes de conception d’AMEC àOakville, en Ontario. AMEC est le sous-traitant qui coor-donne les travaux techniques, la gestion de projet et la ges-tion de construction du site.

DES PROGRÈS CONTINUSLa technologie fondamentale est éprouvée, mais K+S

mène des projets de recherche et développement (R&D)pour déterminer les façons d’améliorer le procédé d’exploitation minière. « Ce procédé englobe de multiplesaspects, mais la plupart visaient à comprendre les carac-téristiques géologiques », explique M. Farris. Les premierstravaux ont été faits sur des carottes de forage dans un cen-

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de la semaine, la proportion de produits divers peut varier.La formule standard de potasse initialement prévue, quel’on utilise pour les engrais, est généralement la moinstransformée. Un second produit compacté de teneur satis-faisante pour les engrais est mesuré afin de permettre sonmélange avec des produits à base d’azote ou de phosphorepour des applications agricoles à grande échelle. Ce produitdevra tout d’abord être soumis au compactage, de mêmeque le troisième produit de potasse de qualité industrielle,qui doit en outre passer par une étape de lixiviation afind’améliorer sa pureté pour atteindre une teneur en chlorurede potassium supérieure à 99 %. La potasse de qualitéindustrielle représente environ un dixième du marché totalde la potasse. On l’utilise comme matière première dansl’industrie de l’électrolyse, qui commercialise à son tour sesproduits en tant que matières premières pour le recyclagede l’aluminium, l’électrodéposition, le traitement de l’eau, ledégivrage, la fabrication de savon, la production alimen-taire, et à bien d’autres fins.

DES COÛTS PLUS ÉLEVÉSUne partie des augmentations des dépenses en capital

estimées révélées par K+S ces dernières années estimputable à la nouvelle conception de l’usine de transfor-mation. Lorsqu’elle a commencé le projet, le coût en capitalestimé était de 3,25 milliards $. En 2013, la société a revuson budget, qui est désormais estimé à 4,1 milliards $.

D’après M. Farris, cette augmentation s’explique partrois facteurs. Tout d’abord, Potash One avait prévu de faireun seul et unique produit non compacté ; l’équipement detransformation nécessaire à la nouvelle conception est bienplus important. Ensuite, le projet a également « rational-isé » l’estimation initiale à une évaluation plus récente descoûts du matériel et de la main-dœuvre, et notamment ducoût de construction de l’usine de transformation.

Enfin, M. Farris ajoute que « de nombreux changementsd’écoulent du fait que nous avons investi dans notre propreinfrastructure ». En tant que projet sur un site vierge,Legacy implique que les connexions ferroviaires et portu-aires sont construites ex nihilo. K+S a conclu un accordavec Canadien Pacifique pour transporter ses produits parvoie ferroviaire vers les marchés intérieurs et vers un porten Colombie-Britannique où il devra développer des instal-lations. Canadien Pacifique construit actuellement uneligne de collecte principale, mais K+S devra fournir l’infra-structure pour les exportations.

À une époque où les projets de développement des sitesvierges ont été suspendus partout dans le monde, et où lemarché de la potasse plus particulièrement est mis à mal,K+S reste confiant que ses milliards investis seront payantsà long terme. « Pour nous, il ne sagit pas d’un simpleinvestissement sur dix ans », déclare M. Farris. K+S a unsiècle d’exploitation minière en Allemagne à son actif, maisc’est la Saskatchewan qui hérite de son expérience. ICM


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Find out why TheHollows was voted“Best Restaurant forOut-of-Towners.” Themenu changes daily atthis locally ownedand operated restau-rant in Riversdale.

Visit Saskatoon’s “bigfish in a small pond,”celebrity chef DaleMacKay at his newlyopened AydenKitchen and Bar. Thefirst winner of TopChef Canada, MacKayis a welcome additionto the restaurant scenein his hometown.

Keo’s Kitchen onBroadway is a localfavourite for authentic

Thai food; the greencurry is rivaled onlyby the Pad Thai! Else-where on Broadwayare a variety ofoptions ranging fromhigh-end fare at Calo-ries to pub meals atthe Yard and Flagon. State and Main is anewcomer to down-

town Saskatoon.Enjoy artfully pre-pared food in this chickitchen and bar.

The Spadina Free-house is in the heartof downtown, bestknown for its wood-oven pizza and cre-ative cocktail menu.

WHERE TO DINE

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The massive expansion of potash operations as well as the development of majorgreenfield projects have made Saskatoon a major mining destination. With manyengineering consulting firms located downtown or at nearby Innovation Place, a business

visit to Saskatoon easily lends itself to after-work exploration and recreation. Take time todiscover the natural beauty of the Meewasin River Valley and the 60-plus kilometres of trails,take in a live show or catch a summertime riverboat tour. In winter, embrace the cold withthe many cross-country ski paths, outdoor skating rinks and the annual winter festival.

Guests of Saskatoon’s downtown hotels haveaccess to various shopping and entertainment out-lets and the beautiful riverside Meewasin Trails –all within walking distance.

The Radisson Hotel boasts an on-site businesscentre, a three-storey waterslide, a pool, awhirlpool and a fitness centre. And its long-timeexecutive chef recently beat out 450 others to winthe Saskatoon Gold Plate competition. Enjoy therelaxing atmosphere at the Aroma Resto-Bar andsee what all the hype is about.

Opened as a grand railway hotel in 1935, the ele-gant Delta Bessborough Hotel sits on the banksof the river and is surrounded by acres of gardens.Equipped with a fitness centre, pool, steam roomand day spa, the hotel offers modern conveniencesagainst the backdrop of historic Saskatoon.

The newly renovated Sheraton Cavalier Saska-toon features contemporary and comfortable guestrooms and luxurious furnishings to make guestsfeel at home. Get some work done at your over-sized work desk before hitting the large indoorwater park.

Enjoy beautifully appointed and comfortable guestrooms at the James Hotel, Saskatoon’s boutiquehotel where travellers can soak up the fantasticriver view from the James Penthouse, or enjoy avintage cocktail in the casual James Lobby Bar.

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Stretch the legsAll paths lead to the riverfront, which hasbeen reclaimed into the bustling River Land-ing. This project features a new park, villagesquare and farmers market. The PersephoneTheatre is one of the largest theatres inCanada and includes a main stage series anda second stage series – so there’s plenty ofselection. Future plans for River Landinginclude restaurants and innovative live/workestablishments.

The annual Potash Corp. Wintershines Festi-val showcases an international ice carvingcompetition, ice park and winter playground.Headquartered out of the Saskatoon farmersmarket building at 414 Ave B South, this fes-tival runs during the last week of January.

The Cameco Meewasin Skating Rink is a win-ter wonderland overlooking the river near theUniversity Bridge downtown. Thousands ofpeople skate here during winter, takingadvantage of free skates and the warm-upshack. The Meewasin Trail Authority main-tains more than 60 km of pathways lining theSouth Saskatchewan River. Trails wind underthe bridges and through beautiful parks andnatural areas, and are well used by cyclists,joggers and sightseers year round.

Find the tempoFor its small size, Saskatoon’s music scenepacks a punch. The annual Saskatoon BluesFestival in late February showcases bothhomegrown and international talents at ven-

ues around the city. Both Amigos Cantina andthe Bassment are great places to enjoy a bev-erage and take in a show most nights of theweek. Jazz, blues, funk, pop – check out the SaskTelSaskatchewan Jazz Festival each July to seeartists from all over the world perform inmany genres. This multi-day festival has freestages, late night DJ events and main stageperformances that attracts more than 85,000music fans each year.

For the curiousThe ancient meeting place of WanuskewinHeritage Park is a must see. Learn about theNorthern Plains Indians and take in an arche-ological excavation and the newly renovatedinterpretive centre just a few minutes outsidethe city. If you are a science geek, plan a tour of theCanadian Light Source facility that houses thecountry’s only synchrotron particle accelerator.

Groups of eight to 12 are considered ideal.Contact [email protected] or phone306-657-3644.

A visit to Saskatoon would not be completewithout taking in the energy and charm ofBroadway. The area boasts one-of-a-kindshops and boutiques, great night life, finedining and plays host to many of Saskatoon’sbiggest events. The Broadway Theatre is bothhistoric and progressive; this community-owned venue screens indie movies, hosts liveperformances and is now the first inSaskatchewan to serve alcohol at late-nightshowings.

WHERE TO EXPLOREThe Saskatoon John G. Diefen-baker International Airport hasdirect flights from major Cana-dian cities as well as a numberof U.S. locations. The recentlyrenovated and expanded termi-nal is located about a 15 min-utes’ drive from the city centre.

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7th International Symposium on Hydrometallurgy

The industry’s exclusive conference focused on hydrometallurgy

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June 22-25, 2014Victoria Conference Centre • Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Hydrometallurgy 2014 will provide a forum for the dissemination of allresearch relating to hydrometallurgical extraction, purification andrecovery of base and precious metals. Technical topics include:

k Extraction (oxides/sulphides)k Separation (solvent extraction/ion exchange)k Recovery (electrowinning and electrorefining)k Environmental aspectsk Teaching/research in hydrometallurgyk Controls and automationk Operations/start-up/project updates

Organizing CommitteeConference Co-ChairsEdouard AsselinDavid DreisingerUniversity of British Columbia

Technical Program Co-ChairDavid DixonUniversity of British Columbia

TMS Representative and Technical Program Co-ChairFiona DoyleUniversity of California

SME RepresentativesMatthew JeffreyNewmont

Michael MoatsMissouri University of Science and Technology

Asia RepresentativeFeng XieSchool of Materials and Metallurgy,Northeastern University

Short CourseBerend WassinkUniversity of British Columbia

Industrial TourHenry Salomon-De-FriedburgTeck Ltd.

Student Activities/RelationsAlex BurnsUniversity of British Columbia

Publicity/SponsorshipNathan StubinaByron Capital Markets

GOLD S ESponsorship

opportunities stillavailable. Contact Nathan Stubina([email protected]).

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Plenary Plenary session topics will encompass the conferencetheme and spotlight five of the industry’s pioneers:

k George Demopoulos, McGill University TOPIC: From hydrometallurgy to advanced energy

material and environmental technology development –an odyssey of research risks and opportunities!

k John Monhemius (Emeritus), Imperial College TOPIC: A changing environment: reflections on 50 years

of hydrometallurgy

k Mike Nicol (Emeritus), Murdoch University TOPIC: Kinetics in hydrometallurgy – models,

mechanisms and mystery

k Nick Hazen, Hazen Research TOPIC: Agile process development and early use of

solvent extraction in the mining industry

k Kaixi Jiang, Beijing General Research Institute of Miningand Metallurgy (BGRIMM)

TOPIC: Hydrometallurgical developments in the zincindustries in China

Short Course A three-day short course focusing on recent keytechnological developments and current industrial trendswill be given by highly qualified experts.

Further details and a complete list of speakers are availableonline.

Industrial ToursAt Teck Metals Ltd’s Trail Operations, located in BritishColumbia’s beautiful Kootenay region, participants will seeand learn about one of the world’s largest integratedzinc/lead smelting and refining complexes.

The tour will be held on Wednesday, June 25 and Thursday,June 26. See the conference website for the itinerary andcomplete details.

Social ProgramBe sure to reserve your social activities tickets – spaces arelimited.

Opening Reception All delegates are invited to enjoy acomplimentary drink and hors d’oeuvres at the OpeningReception on Sunday, June 22.

Hydrometallurgy Luncheon Join us at this network lunch onMonday, June 23 featuring a guest speaker. Tickets areavailable for purchase.

Awards Banquet & Reception On Tuesday, June 24, theHydrometallurgy Section of MetSoc will honour itsoutstanding members by presenting the HydrometallurgyAwards. Tickets are available for purchase.

Student Program Poster Competition Students will be presenting theirposters on Monday, June 23. Instructions and judgingcriteria are available online.

Student Fun Night Kick the week off with a student get-together on Sunday, June 22. This event is free for studentsand spaces are limited.

Student/Industry Mixer Students and industryrepresentatives are invited to meet informally on Monday,June 23. Winners of the poster competition will beannounced and door prizes will be drawn. This event is freefor students.

Financial assistance is available to support student travel tothe conference. To be eligible, students should beregistered in a Canadian university at the time of theconference, in a Masters or PhD program related to thefield of hydrometallurgy. Visit www.hydrometallurgysection.org/student_support.phpfor further information. Students may partially defrayexpenses by also serving as session monitors.

Registration now open!


CIM communityCIM community

CIM Toronto leads “studentfriendly” tour

For the uninitiated, the PDAC Conventioncan seem like a swirling vortex of suits – peoplepushing and promoting projects, products andpotential profits from every booth, room andlounge at the Toronto Convention Centre. Navi-gating this environment can be intimidating,especially when it is your first time or when youare not here to talk business.

With this in mind, the CIM Toronto Branch,along with PDAC, organized trade show tours,bringing students face to face with self-identified“student-friendly” companies. The branch puton five guided tours, giving students the oppor-tunity to meet with a variety of mining and serv-ice companies as well as governmentdepartments.

“The impression is these people bark,” saidRick Hutson, CIM Toronto Branch volunteerand Central District vice-president, “but they’reactually really nice people.” Registration for thefirst three tours was nearly full, with roughly 20students participating in each. The guided toursmade eight stops, giving students around 10minutes to chat with company representatives.“It helps students find their way around here,”said Hutson.

First-time PDAC attendee Ben Lee, a master’sstudent at the University of Alberta specializingin electromagnetic methods in geophysics, saidhe came to the convention, in part, to start net-working: “I definitely talked to some people thatI would not have otherwise, since there are justso many different companies out there.” CIM

McEwen matters

More than 120 government and industry representatives discussedmining opportunities and shared challenges in Francophone Africa atFranco-Mine 2014 hosted by CIM during the PDAC Convention.

Franco-Mine 2014 counted delegations from Mali, Guinea, BurkinaFaso, Cameroon, Senegal, Mauritania, Gabon, Niger, Egypt, and Congo,and included the signing of a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protec-tion Agreement (FIPA) between Canada and Cameroon. EmmanuelBonde, Cameroon’s mines minister, said the mining sector will be the“motor” of the country’s economic development. Despite its potential, hesaid, roughly 60 per cent of the country is underexplored. Bonde high-lighted the government’s recent partnership with the World Bank to con-duct an airborne geophysical survey for 20 per cent of the country, as anexample of Cameroon’s commitment to growing the sector. CIM

Opening up opportunities at Franco-Mine 2014

Cooperation key with new Canadian REE networkThe Canadian Rare Earth Elements Network (CREEN) has a lofty

goal: to have Canada produce 20 per cent of the world's separated rareearth elements by 2018. This is indeed ambitious considering Canadacurrently has no producing rare earth mines. To make this happen, thenetwork, an industry-led initiative launched at the 2013 Conference ofMetallurgists in Montreal, is looking to pool talent and resourcestogether to overcome some of the biggest hurdles for kick-starting rareearth production in Canada.

Ian London, CREEN chair, said the spirit of the network is to getcompeting juniors to work together on cracking pre-competitive tech-nologies that will reduce capital and operating costs for all potential pro-ducers. “None of the majors are involved in rare earth mining orprocessing,” he said. “Most of the juniors don’t naturally collaborate well.But it was clear, especially with the softening of some of the financialmarkets, there were a number of shared problems.” Rare earth elementsare notoriously difficult to separate and process, as each deposit’s miner-alogy is unique.

The network – in collaboration with governments, end-users (likeGeneral Electric) and academia – has prioritized roughly a dozen proj-ects, including research into specific separation, processing and chemi-cal reagent processes. The network is looking to build membership andwill be presenting at the CIM Convention in Vancouver in May. CIM

Alicia Ferdinand, CIM Toronto Branch chair, left, presents MiningCEO Rob McEwen with a certificate of appreciation following a lunchpresentation that he gave to branch members in December. Thebranch made a donation to “Mining Matters” on behalf of McEwen.

International Trade Minister Ed Fast signs a Foreign Investment Promotion and ProtectionAgreement (FIPA) with Cameroon’s Economy and National Planning Minister Nganou Djoumessi.Fast also announced the commencement of FIPA negotiations with Kenya.

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The pioneer spirit

Maureen Jensen started her career35 years ago as an exploration geolo-gist, then moved up to president andCEO of Noble Peak Resources, beforecrossing over to the regulations side tocollaborate on what would ultimatelybecome NI 43-101. She is currentlyexecutive director of Canada’s largestsecurities regulator, the Ontario Securi-ties Commission (OSC). Jensen

recently received the Women in Mining Trailblazer Award andCIM Magazine had a chance to speak with her to learn whereshe thinks the industry is headed.

CIM: Congratulations on the Trailblazer Award.Jensen: This is quite something for me. I’m not really in mininganymore, so it is fantastic, but of course, I’m still very involved.I’m absolutely thrilled to get it, especially when I wasnominated by some people that I mentored early on.

CIM What advice do you give young professionals?Jensen: Don’t think of your career as very narrow. Try differentoptions and look around at the people that you’re working withwho you admire and find out how they got to where they are.Look for mentors, somebody who will really have your backand try and help you make some tough decisions as you moveforward. I don’t think there’s one perfect career. The best thingto do is to be thoughtful about it and try new opportunities.

CIM : The OSC has recently proposed regulations that wouldmake its listed companies report on their board nomination andsenior management hiring processes. How did that come about?Jensen: The Ontario budget came out last May and it noted thatwe really wanted to have more women in executive positions.

Northern Gateway mixes it upThe promise of seafood and jazz brought out roughly

200 North Bay residents to the CIM Northern GatewayBranch’s fifth annual CIM Seafood Mixer. Paul Chivers,branch volunteer, said the event is one of two majorbranch fundraisers, with funds supporting many initiatives

in the region designed to educate the public and par-ticularly young people about the mining industry.“The chapter runs courses at the Canadian EcologyCentre near Mattawa, during which we bring teach-ers into local mines to dispel myths and show themhow important our industry is to the well-being ofall,” said Chivers. He added that the money also goesto supporting the Canadore College Trades Trailer,which “travels around Ontario to introduce tradesand jobs to young people in various communities.”

This is about the health of the Ontario economy. Canada, outof all of the developed nations, is really lagging in the numberof women on boards of directors, so the government asked usto do something about it, and we decided that we would putforward a proposal for a rule that says that companies, throughtheir governance – and this would be their reporting in theproxy season – have to report the number of women on theirboard and in senior management and what policies they have,if any, to encourage gender diversity.

CIM : What are some of the barriers that women still face in themining world?Jensen: Let’s talk about the tangibles. First of all, there are fewerwomen in the business than men. But that’s changing. Who’sgraduating out of school these days, whether you’re looking atHR, geology, engineering, is 50:50 (men and women). There isalso a bit of a culture in the mining industry, and in allindustries, that women are not as committed because they havefamilies and other things in their lives. Personally, I think that’sridiculous and it’s an old way of thinking. What you want inyour firm, regardless of if it’s a mining company or a bank, arepeople who are completely committed to the success of theorganization and they can come in all shapes and sizes.

Have we seen a change? I will tell you the change that I’veseen is the amount of people that are talking about it. It’s justamazing. We, in the mining industry, are faced with a realdifficulty of having the right experienced people in thepipeline as we move forward. The baby boomers are goingto retire and we need to keep companies operating. From aregulatory perspective, and from a perspective of a province,we need to make sure that corporate Canada is healthy. Theonly way that we’re going to find enough people who are tal-ented and have the right skills is to look broader than justone gender. CIM

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Visitors will meet new exhibitors and reconnect with their loyal suppliers, contractors andconsultants. It’s the place to learn about the tools, technologies and services available forfostering strength in your operations and profession. A number of exhibitors are groupedunder regional and international pavilions, and this year’s job fair recruiters will havehundreds of mining positions available.

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L’EXPO! organisé par l’ICM, exhibera cette année des équipements, de la technologie,des processus et des services à la fine pointe !

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Monday, May 1210:00 - 17:00

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ventes et salons commerciaux

48e Nord International70, avenue du LacRouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X 5C1T. 819-762-492348inter.com

Chaussures Royer712, rue PrincipaleLac-Drolet, QC, G0Y 1C0T. 819-549-2100, x710royer.com

Delom Services13065, rue Jean-GrouMontreal, QC, H1A 3N6T. 514-642-8220, x227delomservices.com

Eclipse Combustion Canada Inc.4155, boulevard MatteSuite 4167Brossard, QC, J4Y 3C2T. 450-619-6900eclipsenet.com

Euclid Chemical2835, boul. Grande-AlléeSt-Hubert, QC, J4T 2R4T. 514-208-4346euclidchemical.com

Fabspec Inc.160, rue du RoiSorel-Tracy, QC, J3P 5N6T. 450-742-0451fabspec.ca/index.html

Flairbase Inc.6600 Trans-Canada HwySuite 519Montreal, QC, H9R 4S2T. 514-695-0352flairbase.com

Fournier Industries3787, boul. Frontenac O.Thetford Mines, QC, J9P 6X6T. 418-423-4241fournierindustries.com

GDD Instrumentation860, boul. ChaudièreSuite 200Quebec, QC, G1X 4B7T. 418-877-4249gddinstrumentation.com

H2O Innovation330, rue St-Vallier EstSuite 340Quebec, QC, G1K 9C5T. 418-688-0170h2oinnovation.com

InnovExplo Inc.560-B, 3e AvenueVal-d'Or, QC, J9P 1S4T. 819-874-0447innovexplo.com

Les Forages L.B.M. Inc.CP 740Victoriaville, QC, G6P 7W7T. 819-758-7883lesforageslbm.com

Machines RogerInternational Inc.1161, rue des ManufacturiersVal-d'Or, QC, J9P 6Y7T. 819-825-4657machines-roger.ca

Mecanicad559-A, boul. TémiscamingueRouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X 7C8T. 819-797-2009mecanicad.ca

Meglab96, boul. Armand-GilbertVal-d'Or, QC, J9P 5K6T. 819-824-7710meglab.ca

Metallurgie Castech Inc.500, boul. Frontenac EstThetford-Mines, QC, G6G 7M8T. 613-521-2345castechinc.com

Services Industriels BEST H2O Inc.101A, Montée de la Rivière desFèvesSaint-Urbain-Premier, QCJ0S 1Y0T. 450-427-1440best-corp.com

STC Footwear10100, rue ColbertAnjou, QC, H1J 2J8T. 888-686-1286stcfootwear.com

Technosub Industrial Pumps1156, avenue LarivièreRouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X 4K8T. 819-797-3300technosub.net

AH Industries A/S Industrial SolutionsIndustrivej 11Ribe, DK-6760, DenmarkT. +45-7688-8800ah-industries.com

Bruel & Kjaer Sound andVibration Measurement A/S1050 Fulton AvenueSuite 213Sacremento, CA, USA, 95825T. 916-265-7712bksv.com/mining

Danish Mining Technology GroupGlarmestervej 20 ASilkeborg, 8600, DenmarkT. +45-87-20-45-65dk-mining.dk

Royal Danish Consulate General2 Bloor Street WestToronto, ON, M4W 3E2CanadaT. 416-962-5661canada.um.dk

Skako Vibration384, boulevard de I'ÎlePincourt, QC, J7V 9Y3CanadaT. 514-646-0636skako.com

Svendborg Brakes A/S -Cheminova A/SJernbanevej 9Vejstrup, 5882, DenmarkT. +45-63-255-255svendborg-brakes.com


PAVILIONSIndustry innovators from around the worldQuebec Pavilion 48e Nord International is a non-profit organization whosemission is to be the catalyst for growth in foreign trade in Abitibi-Témiscamingue. 48e Nord International works closely witheconomic stakeholders and government partners, offering itsexpertise in the exportation of goods and services. Theorganization also represents Quebec-based companies offeringproducts and services to the mining and minerals industriesand at the international level.

48e Nord international est un organisme à but non lucratif quia pour mission d'être le catalyseur de la croissance des activitésde commerce extérieur en Abitibi-Témiscamingue. 48e Nordinternational travaille de façon étroite avec les intervenantséconomiques de la région et les partenaires gouvernementauxdans le but d’offrir aux entreprises de la région une expertiseles préparant à l’exportation. L’organisme représente égalementles entreprises québécoises offrant des produits et services àl’industrie minérale et ce, à l’échelle internationale.

Danish PavilionThe Danish Mining Technology Group has existed for severalyears but recently has renewed its international focus on themining industry.

Denmark has many specialized product offerings andequipment related to the mining industry and has the possibilityto deliver high-quality and flexible solutions to miningcompanies globally.

The Danish Mining Technology Group gathers Danishcompanies in its network and encourages them to share anddiscuss information about novel technologies and its globalprojects in both new and existing markets. The companiesshare activities and participate in trade fairs all over the world.

Saskatchewan PavilionSaskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership (STEP) champions theprovince’s export industry and assists provincial businesses inrealizing global marketing opportunities. Members are providedwith core delivery programs and services focused on their needs.STEP offers trade development, market intelligence, internationalfinance and logistics consulting services as well asindustry/sector specific funding and training programs.

Canada NorthEnvironmental Services211 Wheeler StreetSaskatoon, SK, S7P 0A4T. 306-652-4432cannorth.com

Clifton Associates Ltd.340 Maxwell CrescentRegina, SK, S4N 5Y5T. 306-721-7611clifton.ca

Contango Strategies Ltd.15-410 Downey RoadSaskatoon, SK, S7N 4N1T. 306-978-3111contangostrategies.com

FortisPO Box 6401Saskatoon, SK, S7K 6C7T. 306-242-4427fortiscorporation.com

Hitachi Power SystemsCanada Ltd826-58th Street EastSaskatoon, SK, S7K 5Z4T. 306-242-9222hitachi.com

Norseman Structures3815 Wanuskewin RoadSaskatoon, SK, S7P 1A4T. 306-385-2742norsemanstructures.com

Pioneer Performance401 Packham PlaceSecond FloorSaskatoon, SK, S7N 6Z7T. 306-526-4165pioneerperformance.ne

Saskatchewan Ministry of the Economy500-2103 11th AvenueRegina, SK, S4P 3Z8T. 306-787-5578economy.gov.sk.ca

Saskatchewan ResearchCouncil (SRC)125-15 Innovation BlvdSaskatoon, SK, S7N 2X8T. 306-933-5400src.sk.ca

Saskatchewan Trade & Export Partnership320-1801 Hamilton StreetPO Box 1787Regina, SK, S4P 3Y6T. 306-787-7928sasktrade.sk.ca

Saskatoon RegionalEconomic DevelopmentAuthority103 - 202 4th Avenue NorthSaskatoon, SK, S7K 0K1T. 306-664-0706sreda.com

Shutout Solutions Inc.2815 Lorne AvenueSaskatoon, SK, S7J 0S5T. 306-683-8888shutoutsolutions.com

Western Heritage8322 Duchess StreetSaskatoon, SK, S7K 0R1T. 306-975-3860, x301westernheritage.ca

Betterwear New Material Co. Ltd.South Wutong AvenueHigh-tech DistrictJingdezhen City, ChinaT. +86-798-838-3808betterwear.cn

Changsha HeijingangIndustrial Co. Ltd.Shuangfeng Country, No. 901Road, Wushan TownWangcheng, ChangshaHunan, ChinaT. +86-731-8391-8178hjgdrill.com

Excellence Pump Industry Co. Ltd.No. 368, Xinshi North RoadShijiazhuang, Hebei, ChinaT. +86-311-8383-3358excellencepump.com

Fuzhou Yitai Trading Co. Ltd.100 Hualin Road, Suite 812Fuzhou City, Fujian, ChinaT. +86-591-8740-3179fzyitai.com

Great Int'l Holdings LimitedNo. 230 Changjiang Road1305RM, International TradeCenterShandong, China, 266555T. +86-532-8699-3701great-group.net

Guiyang Jiesheng Tech-IndDevelopment Co. Ltd.11F, Jiulian BuildingNo. 213, North Baoshan RoadGuiyang, Guizhou, China 550004T. +86-851-678-0897jsintl.com.cn

Henan Liming HeavyIndustry Science &Technology Co. Ltd.169 Kexuedadao RoadNational Hi-Tech IndustryDevelopment Zone Zhengzhou, ChinaT. +86-371-8616-2503break-day.com

Huge Base Industrial1607 HanZhong Plaza158 HanZhong RoadShanghai, ChinaT.+86-21-6354-9110cn-hugebase.com

Longhi Magnet Co. Ltd.6 Wenhua Road, FushunEconomic Development AreaLiaoning, China, 113122T. +86-24-5670-0058en.ljmagnet.com

Maxdrill Rock Tools Co. Ltd.Room 408, 4/F, Tower AChengshi Fangzhou BuildingNo. 25 Zunyi RoadGuiyang, Guizhou, ChinaT. +86-851-863-9106max-drilling.com

Ningbo WOZOM Industry & Trade Co. Ltd.Nan'ao, Baidu, Xiwu IndustryArea, Fenghua EconomicDevelopment ZoneNingbo, China, 315558T. +86-574-8854-6788wozom.com

ShandongSinomin Rubber Group Co. Ltd.300 Hengdong RoadDezhou, Shandong China, 253022T. +10-8760-4156en.sinomin.com

Shijiazhuang Zhongmei Coal Mine Equipment89 Huanghe RoadNational Hi-Tech IndustryDevelopment ZoneHebei, China, 50035T. +86-311-8532-3556en.sjzzm.com

Techking Tires LimitedBldg 2#, Tianbo Intl MansionNo. 61 Haier Rd, QingdaoShandong, China, 266061T. +86-532-5558-8888techking.com

Weihai HaiwangHydrocyclone Co. Ltd.975 Keji RoadWeihai, Shandong, ChinaT. +86-631-562-1553wh-hw.com

Yantai Xinhai MiningMachinery Company188 Xinhai RoadFushan DistrictYantai, Shandong, ChinaT. +86-535-630-3268ytxinhai.com

Yantai Xingye Machinery Co., Ltd186 Street, Muping DistrictYantai, Shandong, ChinaT. 86-535-339-7721ytxingye.com/en

Chinese PavilionThe Chinese government aims to strengthen internationalcooperation. Its domestic conditions demands that theyprioritize mining and need to positively participate in in -ternational cooperation to support and achieve winningconditions. At the EXPO!, China will exchange and communicatewith all countries to promote mining, processing, innovation andknow-how. They encourage sustainable development and lookforward to mutual benefiting, joint-venture development.



JOB FAIRCIM is pleased to welcome 15 high-caliber employers /recruiters who will benefit from a whopping 7,000+ visitors andprospective employees on the trade exhibition show floor. TheCIM Job Fair is an excellent venue to meet and network withmining company representatives and to interact with topcorporate recruiters.

We are continually adapting to the changing conditions of themining job market, and our recruiters understand andrecognize all facets of the job-search process and will help withyour career development.

With a growing need for skilled workers, the mining industry islooking to hire! Whether you want to embark on a new career orgrow your existing skills, the CIM Job Fair is a must-attend event.

Brunel1405, AutorouteTranscanadienneSuite 610Montreal, QC, H9P 2V9T. 514-396-7890, x118brunelcanada.ca

Cameco Corporation2121-11th Street WestSaskatoon, SK, S7M 1J3T. 306-956-6383cameco.com

Canadian Natural Resources Limited324-8th Avenue SWSuite 1800Calgary, AB, T2P 2Z2T. 403-386-5389cnrl-careers.com

Detour GoldRoyal Bank PlazaSouth Tower200 Bay Street, Suite 2200Box 23, Toronto, ON, M5J 2J1T. 647-847-2089, x2643detourgold.com

Goldcorp130 Adelaide Street WestSuite 2301Toronto, ON, M5H 3P5T. 647-729-4461goldcorp.com

Imperial Oil Limited Kearl Oil Sands240 - Fourth Avenue SWPO Box 2480, Stn MCalgary, AB, T2P 3M9T. 403-766-1609imperialoil.ca

KGHM International Ltd.145 King Street WestSuite 1500Toronto, ON, M5H 1J8T. 416-642-9201kghminternational.com

The Mosaic Company2010 12th AvenueSuite 1700Regina, SK, S4P 0M3T. 306-523-2847mosaicco.com

Norwest Corporation2700 - 411 1st Street SECalgary, AB, T2G 4Y5T. 403-237-7763norwestcorp.com

Sherritt InternationalCorporation1600 - 10235 101 StreetEdmonton, AB, T5J 3G1T. 780-420-5834sherritt.com

Suncor Energy Inc.150 6th Avenue SWCalgary, AB, T2P 3E3T. 403-296-8945suncor.com

Syncrude Canada Ltd.PO Bag 4023, MD 3300Fort McMurray, AB, T9H 3H5T. 780-790-6411syncrude.ca

Teck Resources Ltd.RR#1 Hwy 3 Central Recruiting OfficeSparwood, BC, V0B 2G1T. 250-425-6305teck.com

IMPORTANT

HOTELS | HÉBERGEMENTConference Direct is the official housing bureau for theCIM Convention. The online one-stop reservation centralmakes it seamless for you to reserve your room at thegroup rate. Space is limited so reserve early! Please referto our hotel reservation webpage: vancouver2014.cim.org,and book via QUICKLINKS at the bottom of the page.

AIR TRAVEL INFORMATION |TRANSPORT AÉRIENWe have appointed Air Canada as the official airline forthe CIM 2014 Convention & Expo! in Vancouver. For onlinereservations, go to www.aircanada.com and enter theconvention code K246DMB1 in the search engine.

CONTACTSDIRECTOR OF CONVENTIONS & TRADE SHOWSDIRECTRICE DES CONGRÈSLise Bujold, [email protected]

M4S SHOWLucie Vincent, [email protected]

THE EXPO! & CIM JOB FAIRL’EXPO! ET LA FOIRE DE L’EMPLOI DE L’ICMMartin Bell, [email protected] Bakka, [email protected]

CONVENTION COORDINATOR COORDONNATRICE DU CONGRÈSChantal Murphy, [email protected]

REGISTRATION & CUSTOMER CARE INSCRIPTIONS ET ASSISTANCE À LA CLIENTÈLECarol Lee, [email protected]

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Now in its ninth year, CIM’s M4S show is expected to welcomemore than 4,000 students, teachers and members of the generalpublic over the course of three days. M4S features eightinteractive pavilions exploring the wide range of activities thatrepresent the full mining cycle: from exploration, mining andprocessing to product fabrication, safety, sustainability andeducation, and space and deep sea mining. M4S demonstratesthe importance of the mining industry in our daily lives andpresents some of the diverse career opportunities offeredthrough this enviable industry. With an estimated 140,000 jobs tofill in the mining and minerals sector by 2020, educating andtraining the future workforce about the wide variety of professionsrelated to the sector has become more important than ever. M4Sis made possible through the collaboration, participation andgenerous support of numerous industry, academic andgovernment exhibitors, sponsors and volunteers.

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M4S SCHEDULE | CÉDULE

THE EDUCATIONAL SHOW ON MINING, MINERALS, METALS AND MATERIALS | LE SALON ÉDUCATIF SUR LES MINES, MINÉRAUX, MÉTAUX ET MATÉRIAUX

VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE HALL A

SUNDAY, MAY 11 10:00 to 16:00 Open to the general public

MONDAY, MAY 12 9:00 to 16:00 & TUESDAY, MAY 13 Scheduled visits by registered schools

www.m4society.org

MINE 4 BUSINESSExplore what 500 exhibitors have to offer.




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GET THE CONVENTION APPAccess Canada’s Mining Marketplace as of April 15, 2014


BOOTH 3393DP8 Manning Close NESuite 200Calgary, AB, T2E 7N5CanadaT. 800-955-93373d-p.com

BOOTH 15153M300 Tartan DriveLondon, ON, N5V 4M9CanadaT. 519-451-2500, x22493M.ca/mining

BOOTH 120848e Nord International70, avenue du LacRouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X 5C1CanadaT. 819-762-492348inter.com

BOOTH 1606ABC Canada TechnologyGroup Ltd.1802 Quebec AvenueSaskatoon, SK, S7K 1W2CanadaT. 306-653-4303abccanada.ca

BOOTH 746ABEL Pumps79 North Industrial Park207 Overlook DriveSewickley, PA, 15143USAT. 412-741-3222abelpumps.com

BOOTH 1007Accenture145 King Street WestSuite 1401Toronto, ON, M5H 1J8CanadaT. 416-641-5220accenture.com

BOOTH 1039Accurassay LaboratoriesLtd.1046 Gorham StreetThunder Bay, ON, P7B 5X5CanadaT. 519-266-4640accurassay.com

BOOTH 604ACR Group Inc.12771 #5 RoadRichmond, BC, V7A 4E9CanadaT. 604-274-9955acrgroup.ca

BOOTH 1346ACS Valves611 Argyle StreetNorth Caledonia, ON, N3W 1M1CanadaT. 604-882-8886acsvalves.com

BOOTH 928Aecon Mining301 - 1003 Ellwood Road SWEdmonton, AB, T6X 0B3CanadaT. 780-395-3201aecon.com

BOOTH 1638AFM Industries828 Ritson Road SouthOshawa, ON, L1H 5L4CanadaT. 905-443-150afmindustries.com

BOOTH 1544AH Industries A/S IndustrialSolutionsIndustrivej 11Ribe, DK-6760, DenmarkT. +45-7688-8800ah-industries.com

EXHIBITORS LISTING

SATURDAY, MAY 10 | SAMEDI 10 MAI 8:00–17:00 Workshops 13:00–17:00 Registration

SUNDAY, MAY 11 | DIMANCHE 11 MAI 7:30–13:00 Leadership Congress for CIM Officers 8:00–17:00 Workshops 8:00–20:00 Registration 8:00–20:00 International Delegation Lounge 10:00–16:00 M4S show – General Public Day 11:30–15:00 Guest Program: Nature and Art Boat

Cruise 13:00–14:00 CIM Annual General Meeting 14:00–16:00 Surface and Underground Mining

Societies’ Reception 15:00–20:00 Business Class Lounge/Media Room 15:00–20:00 Presenters’ Preparation Room 16:30–17:00 SMS Equipment & Komatsu Welcome

Ceremony 17:00–20:00 Opening Reception in the Expo!

MONDAY, MAY 12 | LUNDI 12 MAI 7:00–8:30 Breakfast for Monday’s Presenters

and Session Chairs 7:30–8:30 Knowledge Breakfast: Canada’s

Anti-Spam Legislation 7:30–9:00 CEO and Plenary Speakers’ Breakfast 7:30–10:00 Guest Hospitality Room 7:30–17:00 Registration 7:30–17:00 Presenters’ Preparation Room 7:30–17:00 Business Class Lounge/Media Room 8:00–17:00 International Delegation Lounge 9:00–11:30 Plenary Session 9:00–16:00 M4S show – Schools 10:00–17:00 The Expo!/CIM Job Fair/Student Poster

Program 12:00–14:00 Lunch in the Expo! 13:00–14:45 Guest Program: Walking Tour of Granville

Street 14:00–16:30 Technical Program: - Global Dimensions of Mining - Innovations - Harnessing our Diverse World - Construction to Production - Managing Operations from Mine to Mill - Ethics in Mining Symposium 15:30–17:00 Networking Cocktail Reception in the

Expo! 18:00–19:00 CIM Awards Gala Reception 19:00–23:00 CIM Awards Gala

CIM CONVENTIONSCHEDULE AT A GLANCEAPERÇU DU PROGRAMMEDU CONGRÈS DE L’ICM


TUESDAY, MAY 13 | MARDI 13 MAI 7:00–8:30 Breakfast for Tuesday’s Presenters

and Session Chairs 7:30–8:30 Knowledge Breakfast: A Changing

International Landscape 7:30–10:00 Guest Hospitality Room 7:30–17:00 Registration 7:30–17:00 Presenters’ Preparation Room 7:30–17:00 Business Class Lounge/Media Room 8:00–17:00 International Delegation Lounge 8:30–16:30 Technical Program: - Global Dimensions of Mining - Innovations - Harnessing our Diverse World - Construction to Production - Managing Operations from Mine to Mill - Rock Engineering - Ethics in Mining Symposium 9:00–16:00 M4S Show – Schools 10:00–15:00 Guest Program: Morning at the Museum 10:00–17:00 The Expo!/CIM Job Fair/Student Poster

Program 12:00–14:00 Lunch in the Expo! 12:00–14:00 Student-Industry Luncheon 15:30–17:00 Networking Cocktail Reception in the

Expo! 17:00–19:00 Women in Mining Reception and VIP

Reception 20:00–00:00 Joy Global Gala

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14 | MERCREDI 14 MAI 7:00–8:30 Breakfast for Wednesday’s Presenters

and Session Chairs 7:30–14:00 Registration 7:30–14:00 Presenters’ Preparation Room 7:30–14:00 Business Class Lounge/Media Room 8:30–12:15 Technical Program - Global Dimensions of Mining - Innovations - Harnessing our Diverse World - Managing Operations from Mine to Mill - Ethics in Mining Symposium - Management & Finance Day 12:00–13:30 Closing Luncheon hosted by CIM and

Vancouver Board of Trade 14:00–17:00 Technical Program: Management &

Finance Day 14:00–17:00 Special Session: Extractive Sector

Multi-stakeholder Dialogue Session

BOOTH 227Alaska Structures9024 Vanguard DriveAnchorage, AK, 99507, USAT. 907-344-1565aks.com

BOOTH 1038Allied Construction Products LLC3900 Kelley AvenueCleveland, OH, 44114, USAT. 216-431-2600, x 210AlliedCP.com

BOOTH 325Amalgamated Mining Group9303 - 28 AvenueEdmonton, AB, T6T 1N1CanadaT. 780-701-1990ams-ltd.ca

BOOTH 715AMECSuite 400, 111 Dunsmuir StreetVancouver, BC, V6B 5W3CanadaT. 604-664-4134amec.com/mining

BOOTH 230Amix Systems Ltd.33250 Ravine AvenueAbbotsford, BC, V2S 1V6CanadaT. 604-746-0555amixsystems.com

BOOTH 507Anchor Danly95 Lyon Avenue NorthPO Box 790Tilbury, ON, N0P 2L0CanadaT. 519-682-0470, x1231anchordanly.com

BOOTH 647Andritz13700 International PlaceSuite 100Richmond, BC, V6V 2X8CanadaT. 604-214-9248andritz.com

BOOTH 1848APS Automated PositioningSystems14 Inverness Drive EastSuite G124Englewood, CO, 80112, USAT. 720-234-2383apsmining.com

BOOTH 707Aquatech69 Connie CrescentConcord, ON, L4K 1L3CanadaT. 905-907-7852AquatechPumpandPower.com

BOOTH 1022ARI1270 Central Parkway WestSuite 600Mississauga, ON, L5C 4P4CanadaT. 905-804-2129arifleet.ca

BOOTH 1721Armour Valve126 Milner AvenueToronto, ON, M1S 3R2CanadaT. 416-299-0780, x11armourvalve.com

BOOTH 1818ASDR Environnement691, Rue RoyaleCP 760Malartic, QC, J0Y 1Z0CanadaT. 819-757-3039asdr.ca

BOOTH 942ASGCO301 Gordon StreetAllentown, PA, 18102, USAT. 610-821-0216asgco.com

BOOTH 940Assa Abloy611 Highway 74 SouthPeachtree City, GA, 30269, USAT. 678-782-4777assaabloyentrance.com

BOOTH 1008Atlantic Industries Limited3155 Route 935Dorchester, NB, E4K 3J5CanadaT. 506-379-2456, x123ailmining.com

BOOTH 1315Atlas Copco Mining and RockExcavation Canada200 Mumford Road WaldenIndustrial ParkLively, ON, P3Y 1L2CanadaT. 705-669-2940atlascopco.com


BOOTH 340Aumund GroupWilhelminapark 40Venlo, Noor, 5911 EEthe Netherlands T. +31 77 3200111aumund.com

BOOTH 630Ausenco855 Homer StreetVancouver, BC, V6B 2W2CanadaT. 604-684-9311ausenco.com

BOOTH 1829Austin Powder910 Dew Drop RoadSudbury, ON, P3G 1L2CanadaT. 705-688-8314austinpowder.com

BOOTH 1837Australian EquipmentEngineering P/L11 Burns RoadArmadale, WA, 6112, AustraliaT. +08-9399-8844aeeng.com.au

BOOTH 1835Autopro AutomationConsultants Ltd.4370 Dominion StreetSuite 600Burnaby, BC, V5G 4L7CanadaT. 604-419-4354autopro.ca

BOOTH 1734Axter Coletanche1030, rue Beaubien EstSuite 301Montreal, QC, H2S 1T4CanadaT. 514-566-3262coletanche.com

BOOTH 1005B.I.D. Canada Ltd.171 Hemlock StreetWoodstock, NB, E7M 6B5CanadaT. 506-328-4381, x510bidcanadaltd.com

BOOTH 1105Baldor Electric Co.5711 RS Boreham Jr. StreetFort Smith, AR, 72901, USAT. 479-648-5995baldor.com

BOOTH 136Barr / Roche4700 W 77th StreetSuite 200Minneapolis, MN, 55435, USAT. 952-832-2619barr.com

BOOTH 808BASF Corporation23700 Chagrin BoulevardBeachwood, OH, 44122, USAT. 216-839-7268master-builders-solutions.basf.us

BOOTH 1725Bata Shoes - Hugh Fox &Sons Inc.44 Blenheim RoadCambridge, ON, N1S 1E8CanadaT. 226-220-4363bataindustrials.ca

BOOTH 807BBA375, Sir Wilfrid LaurierBoulevardMont-St-Hilaire, QC, J3H 6C3CanadaT. 450-464-2111, x8954bba.ca

BOOTH 1027Becker Canada22 Brady StreetUnit 4Sudbury, ON, P3E 6E1CanadaT. 705-674-8111, x216beckerwms.com

BOOTH 1641Bellemare Transport8750, boulevard IndustrielTrois-Rivieres, QC, G9A 5E1CanadaT. 819-379-2535, x253groupebellemare.com

BOOTH 811Belt Conveyor Guarding3478 Penetanguishene RoadRR#1Barrie, ON, L4M 4Y8CanadaT. 705-725-9950conveyorguarding.com

BOOTH 407Betterwear New Material Co.Ltd.South Wutong AvenueHigh-Tech DistrictJingdezhen City, ChinaT. +86-798-838-3808betterwear.cn

BOOTH 1815Beumer Kansas City LLC4435 Main StreetSuite 600Kansas City, MO, 64111, USAT. 816-245-7262beumergroup.com

BOOTH 729BHP Billiton Canada Inc.130-3rd Avenue SouthSaskatoon, SK, S7K 1L3CanadaT. 306-385-8912bhpbilliton.com

BOOTH 131Big Rock Consulting Inc.868 Lone Pine DriveKelowna, BC, V1P 1A1CanadaT. 250-765-0924Bigrockconsultinginc.com

BOOTH 1047BKT55 York StreetSuite 401Toronto, ON, M5J 1R7CanadaT. 780-888-5667bkt-tires.com

BOOTH 624Blair Rubber Company5020 Panther ParkwaySeville, OH, 44273, USAT. 330-256-4442blairrubber.com

BOOTH 804BlueScope Global BuildingSolutions1540 Genesse StreetKansas City, MO, 62044, USAT. 905-464-0161bluescopebuildings.com

BOOTH 538BMH Systems71, chemin du TremblayBoucherville, QC, J4B 7L6CanadaT. 450-449-4770, x219bmhsystems.com

BOOTH 1842BMT WBM Canada611 Alexander StreetSuite 401Vancouver, BC, V6A 1E1CanadaT. 604-683-5777bmtwbm.com

BOOTH 1541Borealis Precision185-911 Yates StreetSuite 205Victoria, BC, V8V 4Y9CanadaT. 855-636-4677borealisprecision.com

BOOTH 145Boundary Electric (1985) Ltd.7990 Columbia DriveBox 758 Grand Forks, BC, V0H 1H0CanadaT. 800-663-5598boundaryelectric.com

BOOTH 115Brandt Group of Companies13th Avenue & Pinkie RoadBox 317 - Station MainRegina, SK, S4P 3A1CanadaT. 306-525-1314brandt.ca

BOOTH 1101Breaker Technology Ltd.35 Elgin Street NorthThornbury, ON, N0H 2P0CanadaT. 519-599-2015, x2285rockbreaker.com

BOOTH 1627Brevini Canada Ltd.236 Galaxy BoulevardToronto, ON, M9W 5R8CanadaT. 416-674-2591brevini.com

BOOTH 515Bridgestone Americas TireOperations535 Marriott DriveNashville, TN, 37214, USAT. 615-937-3626bridgestone-firestone.com

BOOTH 1602Brook Crompton Ltd.264 Attwell DriveToronto, ON, M9W 5B2CanadaT. 416-675-3844, x224brookcromptonna.com

BOOTH 1549Bruel & Kjaer Sound andVibration Measurement A/S1050 Fulton AvenueSuite 213Sacremento, CA, 95825, USAT. 916-265-7712bksv.com/mining

BOOTH JF10Brunel1405, AutorouteTranscanadienneSuite 610Montreal, QC, H9P 2V9CanadaT. 514-396-7890, x118brunelcanada.ca

BOOTH 1748Cab Products175 Industrial Park RoadEbensburg, PA, 15931-4109,USAT. 814-472-5077cabproducts.com


BOOTH 1715CAE Mining Canada Inc.866 Newgate AvenueUnit 2Sudbury, ON, P3A 5J9CanadaT. 705-688-0101cae.com/mining

BOOTH JF08Cameco Corporation2121 - 11th Street WestSaskatoon, SK, S7M 1J3CanadaT. 306-956-6383cameco.com

BOOTH 829Canada North EnvironmentalServices 211 Wheeler StreetSaskatoon, SK, S7P 0A4CanadaT. 306-652-4432cannorth.com

BOOTH 835CAMESE101 - 345 Renfrew DriveMarkham, ON, L3R 9S9CanadaT. 905-513-0046, x305camese.org

BOOTH 147Canadian Dewatering LP8350 1st Street NWEdmonton, AB, T6P 1X2CanadaT. 780-400-2233canadiandewatering.com

BOOTH 809Canadian Mining Journal(CMJ)80 Valleybrook DriveToronto, ON, M3B 2S9CanadaT. 416-510-6768canadianminingjournal.com

BOOTH JF11Canadian Natural ResourcesLimitedSuite 1800, 324 - 8th Avenue SWCalgary, AB, T2P 2Z2CanadaT. 403-386-5389cnrl-careers.com

BOOTH 509Canadian Pump &CompressorBay 101, 5025 90th Avenue SECalgary, AB, T2C 2S9CanadaT. 587-433-7867canadianpumpandcompressor.com

BOOTH 1004Canam270, chemin du TremblayBoucherville, QC, J4B 5X9CanadaT. 450-641-4000canam-construction.com

BOOTH 728Carlson Software102 West - 2nd StreetSuite 200Maysville, KY, 41056, USAT. 606-564-5028, x235carlsonsw.com

BOOTH 1746Carver PA Corporation300 - 14815 119 AvenueEdmonton, AB, T5L 2N9CanadaT. 780-489-4444carvercorporation.com

BOOTH 1323Cavotec Canada Inc.6 - 860 Denison Street Markham, ON, L3R 4H1CanadaT. 905-415-2233, x222cavotec.com

BOOTH 638CBCL Limited ConsultingEngineers164 Charlotte StreetPO Box 567Sydney, NS, B1P 6H4CanadaT. 902-539-1330cbcl.ca

BOOTH 345CEC Mining Systems400 - 602 West HastingsVancouver, BC, V6B 1P2CanadaT. 604-685-7823cecminingsystems.com

BOOTH 427Cementation Canada Inc.590 Graham DriveNorth Bay, ON, P1B 7S1CanadaT. 705-472-3381, x2244cementation.com


BOOTH 907Centre for Excellence inMining Innovation (CEMI)935 Ramsey Lake RoadWillet Green Miller CentreSudbury, ON, P3E 2C6CanadaT. 705-673-6568miningexcellence.ca

BOOTH 406Changsha HeijingangIndustrial Co. Ltd.Shuangfeng Country, No. 901RoadWushan Town, WangchengChangsha, Hunan, ChinaT. +86-731-839-181-78hjgdrill.com

BOOTH 1219Chaussures Royer712, rue PrincipaleLac-Drolet, QC, G0Y 1C0CanadaT. 819-549-2100, x710royer.com

BOOTH 719Chemline Plastics Limited55 Guardsman RoadThornhill, ON, L3T 6L2CanadaT. 905-889-7890, x112chemline.com

BOOTH 502China National Tyre &Rubber Guilin Co. Ltd.80 Hengtang RoadGuilin, Guangxi, 541004, ChinaT. +86-773-588-9818torchotr.com

BOOTH 244CHINT Electric855 Wenhe Road, SongjiangDistrict2/F,Bldg 3, 3255 Sixian RoadShanghai, 201614, ChinaT. +86-21-6777-7777- 89078chintelectric.com

BOOTH 1119CK Logistics6750, chemin St-FrancoisSt-Laurent, QC, H4S 1B7CanadaT. 514-856-7580cklogistics.ca

BOOTH 549CKR Global1 - 5925 12th Street SECalgary, AB, T2H 2M3CanadaT. 403-262-4545ckrglobal.com

BOOTH 1639CLG500 Cherrington ParkwaySuite 350Pittsburgh, PA, 15108, USAT. 412-269-7240, x2038clg.com

BOOTH 830Clifton Associates Ltd.340 Maxwell CrescentRegina, SK, S4N 5Y5CanadaT. 306-721-7611clifton.ca

BOOTH 1628Coast Automation Inc.313-2071 Kingsway AvenuePort Coquitlam, BC, V3C 6N2CanadaT. 604-777-4447, x2coasteng.com

BOOTH 1735COGEP825 Lebourgneuf BoulevardSuite 400Quebec, QC, G2J 0B9CanadaT. 418-626-2503cogep.com

BOOTH 1730Columbia Steel Casting Co.Inc.PO Box 83095Portland, OR, 97283, USAT. 800-547-9471columbiasteel.com

BOOTH 1023Conspec Controls Ltd.25 Klondike DriveToronto, ON, M9L 1S1CanadaT. 416-661-0500conspec.ca

BOOTH 823Contango Strategies Ltd.15 - 410 Downey RoadSaskatoon, SK, S7N 4N1CanadaT. 306-978-3111contangostrategies.com

BOOTH 1635Continental Conveyor Ltd.470 Saint Alphonse Street SouthThetford Mines, QC, G6G 3V8CanadaT. 418-338-4682continentalconveyor.ca

BOOTH 1840Control System Internationala.s.Papirenska 114/5166 11 Praha 6Papírenská , PR, 16000 Czech RepublicT. +420-222-364-526controlsystem.cz

BOOTH 321Corix Water Products19900 - 84 AvenueLangley, BC, V2Y 3C2CanadaT. 604-455-3527corix.com

BOOTH 1024Cummins Western CanadaLP18452-96th AvenueSurrey, BC, V4N 3P8CanadaT. 604-882-5000westerncanada.cummins.com

BOOTH 708CWA Engineers Inc.2925 Virtual WaySuite 380Vancouver, BC, V5M 4X5CanadaT. 604-637-2275cwaengineers.com

BOOTH 121Cypher Environmental Ltd.1149 St. Matthews Avenue2nd FloorWinnipeg, MB, R3G 0J8CanadaT. 204-489-1214, x100cypherenvironmental.com

BOOTH 1546Danish Mining TechnologyGroupGlarmestervej 20 ASilkeborg, 8600, DenmarkT. +45-87-20-45-65dk-mining.dk

BOOTH 1742Davey Bickford4444 South 700 EastSuite 200Salt Lake City, UT, 84107, USAT. 801-562-3045, x103daveybickford.com

BOOTH 530De Beers Group Services59 Crownwood RoadJohannesburg, Gaut, 2013,South AfricaT. +27-11-374-7333debtech.com

BOOTH 1214Delom Services13065, rue Jean-GrouMontreal, QC, H1A 3N6CanadaT. 514-642-8220, x227delomservices.com

BOOTH 723Delsan-A.I.M. EnvironmentalServices Inc.7825, boulevard Henri-Bourassa EstMontreal, QC, H1E 1N9CanadaT. 514-212-6834delsan-aim.com

BOOTH 141Deswik Canada Inc.1909-17th Avenue SWCalgary, AB, T2T 0E9CanadaT. 403-455-0112deswik.com

BOOTH JF16Detour GoldRoyal Bank PlazaSouth Tower 200 Bay StreetSuite 2200, Box 23Toronto, ON, M5J 2J1CanadaT. 647-847-2089, x2643detourgold.com

BOOTH 1646DGI Geoscience119 Spadina AvenueSuite 405Toronto, ON, M5V 2L1CanadaT. 705-523-1782dgigeoscience.com

BOOTH 1011DMC Mining Services9555 Yonge StreetSuite 200Richmond Hill, ON, L4C 9M5CanadaT. 905-780-1980dmcmining.com

BOOTH 1724DMK Inc.4917 Coye DriveStevens Point, WI, 54481, USAT. 715-344-8600dmkinc.com

BOOTH 423Dok-Ing Ltd.Kanalski put 1Zagreb, HR-10000, CroatiaT. +385-91-482-3889dok-ing.hr

BOOTH 1442Doppelmayr Canada Ltee.800, rue St-NicholasSaint-Jérôme, QC, J7Y 4C8CanadaT. 450-432-1128doppelmayr.com


BOOTH 1347DRA Americas Inc.44 Victoria StreetSuite 300Toronto, ON, M5C 1Y2CanadaT. 416-800-8797draa.ca

BOOTH 420DSI Mining Canada3919 Millar AvenueSaskatoon, SK, S7P 0C1CanadaT. 306-244-6244dsigroundsupport.com

BOOTH 1504Dumas Contracting Ltd.Royal Bank PlazaSouth Tower, 200 Bay StreetSuite 2301Toronto, ON, M5J 2J1CanadaT. 416-594-2525, x3233dumasmining.com

BOOTH 915Dyno Nobel Canada2795 East Cottonwood ParkwaySuite 500Salt Lake City, UT, 84121, USAT. 801-328-6477dynonobel.com

BOOTH 448Ebco Industries Ltd.7851 Alderbridge WayRichmond, BC, V6X 2A4CanadaT. 604-278-5578ebco.com

BOOTH 1209Eclipse Combustion CanadaInc.4155, boulevard MatteSuite 4167Brossard, QC, J4Y 3C2CanadaT. 450-619-6900eclipsenet.com

BOOTH 845Eirich Machines Inc.4033 Ryan RoadGurnee, IL, 60031, USAT. 847-336-2444eirichusa.com

BOOTH 1608Endress+Hauser1075 Sutton DriveBurlington, ON, L7L 5Z8CanadaT. 905-681-4359ca.endress.com

BOOTH 335Enduride Canada USA1880 Provinciale StreetQuebec, QC, G1N 4A2CanadaT. 418-266-7777enduridecanadausa.com

BOOTH 705Engart Global DustExtraction TechnologyOne White Oak TraceBeckley, WV, 25801, USAT. 304-253-0777engartinc.com

BOOTH 1615Engineering SeismologyGroup Canada Inc. (ESG)20 Hyperion CourtKingston, ON, K7K 7K2CanadaT. 613-548-8287 x239esgsolutions.com

BOOTH 1631Environmental ResourcesManagement1111 West Hastings Street6th floorVancouver, BC, V6E 2J3CanadaT. 604-689-9460erm.com

BOOTH 605Enviroslip ManufacturingLtd.2930 Marmot LaneWestbank, BC, V4T 1T8CanadaT. 250-769-4645westmfg.net

BOOTH 1348ETP Energy Technology /Torit107 - 9295 198th StreetLangley, BC, V1M 3J9CanadaT. 604-882-8886etpbc.ca acsvalves.com

BOOTH 1223Euclid Chemical2835, boulevard Grande-AlléeSt-Hubert, QC, J4T 2R4CanadaT. 514-208-4346euclidchemical.com

BOOTH 409Excellence Pump IndustryCo. Ltd.No. 368, Xinshi North RoadShijiazhuang, Hebei, ChinaT. +86-311-8383-3358excellencepump.com

BOOTH 1624F.F.P. Systems Inc.2542 Wharton Glen AvenueMississauga, ON, L4X 2A9CanadaT. 905-270-9872ffpsystems.com

BOOTH 1207Fabspec Inc.160, rue du RoiSorel-Tracy, QC, J3P 5N6CanadaT. 450-742-0451fabspec.ca/index.html

BOOTH 1440Falcon PerformanceFootwear27 Wrights LandingAuburn, ME, 4210, USAT. 207-784-9186falconpf.com

BOOTH 126Festo Inc.5300 Explorer DriveMississauga, ON, L4W 5G4CanadaT. 905-614-2764festo.ca

BOOTH 1728Filterfab/NFM16 Seapark DriveSt. Catharines, ON, L2M 6S6CanadaT. 905-684-8363, x226filterfab.ca

BOOTH 1643Filtramax5789 Coopers AvenueMississauga, ON, L4Z 3S6CanadaT. 905-501-5983, x22filtramax.com

BOOTH 1001Finning16830 - 107th AvenueEdmonton, AB, T5P 4C3CanadaT. 780-930-4800finning.ca

BOOTH 1705Firestone Building ProductsCanada2835 Argentia Road, Unit 2Mississauga, ON, L5N 8G6CanadaT. 888-292-6265, x77675firestonebpco.ca/default.aspx

BOOTH 128FKC - Lake Shore1695 Allen RoadEvansville, IN, 47710, USAT. 812-426-2741frontierkemper.com

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BOOTH 1204Flairbase Inc.6600 Trans-Canada HighwaySuite 519Montreal, QC, H9R 4S2CanadaT. 514-695-0352flairbase.com

BOOTH 1226Flanders Electric MotorService13419-149 Street NWEdmonton, AB, T5L 2T3CanadaT. 780-616-8099flandersinc.com

BOOTH 135Flexco2525 Wisconsin AvenueDowners Grove, IL, 60515, USAT. 630-971-6478flexco.com

BOOTH 607Flexpipe Systems3501-54th Avenue SECalgary, AB, T2C 0A9CanadaT. 403-930-1954flexpipesystems.com

BOOTH 1343Flip Productions Ltd.601 West BroadwaySuite 400Vancouver, BC, V5Z 4C2CanadaT. 604-675-6920flipproductions.com

BOOTH 801FLSmidth7158 South FLSmidth DriveMidvale, UT, 84047-5559, USAT. 801-871-7108flsmidth.com

BOOTH 1714FMC TechnologiesPO Box 1370Tupelo, MS, 38802, USAT. 662-869-7436fmctechnologies.com

BOOTH 831FortisPO Box 6401Saskatoon, SK, S7K 6C7CanadaT. 306-242-4427fortiscorporation.com

BOOTH 1211Fournier Industries3787, boulevard FrontenacOuestThetford Mines, QC, J9P 6X6CanadaT. 418-423-4241fournierindustries.com

BOOTH 1121Fraco Products Ltd.91, chemin des PatriotesSt-Mathias-sur-Richelieu, QC,J3L 6B6CanadaT. 450-658-0094fraco.com

BOOTH 738Friesen Group of Companies4100 Richmond Avenue EastBrandon, MB, R7A 7P8CanadaT. 800-339-4908, x110friesendrillers.com

BOOTH 1747Fuchs Lubricants CanadaLtd.19829-99A AvenueLangley, BC, V1M 3G4CanadaT. 604-888-1552fuchs.com

BOOTH 1525Fuller Industrial Corp.65 Nelson RoadLively, ON, P3Y 1P4CanadaT. 705-682-2777fullerindustrial.com

BOOTH 714Fuzhou Yitai Trading Co. Ltd.100 Hualin RoadSuite 812Fuzhou City, Fujian, ChinaT. +86-591-8740-3179fzyitai.com

BOOTH 727FWS Group of Companies475 Dovercourt DriveWinnipeg, MB, R3Y 1G4CanadaT. 204-928-8726fwsgroup.com

BOOTH 421Galaxy BroadbandCommunications Inc.4020A Sladeview CrescentUnit 4Mississauga, ON, L5L 6B1CanadaT. 877-463-9728, x236galaxybroadband.ca

BOOTH 1221GDD Instrumentation860, boulevard ChaudièreSuite 200Quebec, QC, G1X 4B7CanadaT. 418-877-4249gddinstrumentation.com

BOOTH 1404GE Mining2300 Meadowvale BoulevardMississauga, ON, L5N 5P9CanadaT. 905-858-5448ge.com

BOOTH 1845GEA Westfalia Separator1885 Club StreetStatham, GA, 30666, USAT. 770-725-8612wsus.com

BOOTH 637General Cable156 Parkshore DriveBrampton, ON, L6T 5M1CanadaT. 905-494-5330generalcable.com

BOOTH 1637General Kinematics5050 Rickert RoadCrystal Lake, IL, 60014, USAT. 815-455-3222generalkinematics.com

BOOTH 839GeoSight Inc71 Albert StreetOshawa, ON, L1H 4R1CanadaT. 905-436-6528geosight.ca

BOOTH 327GIW Industries Inc.5000 Wrightsboro RoadGrovetown, GA, 30813, USAT. 706-863-1011giwindustries.com

BOOTH 937GKM Consultants Inc.1430 Hocquart StreetSuite 100St-Bruno, QC, J3V 6E1CanadaT. 450-441-5444, x203gkmconsultants.com

BOOTH 739Gladiator Equipment Inc.6603-44th StreetLeduc, AB, T9E 7E5CanadaT. 780-980-7555gladiatorequipment.com

BOOTH 718Global Inspections-NDT Inc.108-1950 Durnin RoadKelowna, BC, V1X 7W6CanadaT. 250-762-5525global-ndt.ca

BOOTH 1342Global Mining Standards andGuidelines Group3500, de MaisonneuveBoulevard WestSuite 1250Westmount, QC, H3Z 3C1CanadaT. 514-984-8775globalminingstandards.org

BOOTH JF05Goldcorp130 Adelaide Street WestSuite 2301Toronto, ON, M5H 3P5CanadaT. 647-729-4461goldcorp.com

BOOTH 1317GoldenWest Lubricants Inc.1937 Mount Vernon AvenuePomona, CA, 91768-3312, USAT. 909-865-1937, x1185prolong.com

BOOTH 1115Golder Associates Ltd.500-4260 Still Creek DriveBurnaby, BC, V5C 6C6CanadaT. 604-296 6807golder.com

BOOTH 1401Graham Industrial Services8404 McIntyre RoadEdmonton, AB, T6E 6V3CanadaT. 780-577-7053graham.ca

BOOTH 846Great Int’l Holdings LimitedNo.230 Changjiang Road1305RM, International TradeCenterShandong, 266555, ChinaT. +86-532-869-937-01great-group.net

BOOTH 1237Grindex Pumps18524-81st AvenueTinley Park, IL, 60487-6256,USAT. 708-781-2135grindex.com/us

BOOTH 747Guiyang Jiesheng Tech-IndDevelopment Co. Ltd.11F, Jiulian Building, No. 213North Baoshan RoadGuiyang, Guizhou, 550004,ChinaT. +86-851-678-0897jsintl.com.cn


BOOTH 1235Gundlach Crushers One Freedom DrivePO Box 385Belleville, IL, 62222, USAT. 618-641-6963terrasource.com

BOOTH 1221H2O Innovation330, rue St-Vallier EstSuite 340Quebec, QC, G1K 9C5CanadaT. 418-688-0170h2oinnovation.com

BOOTH 215Hard-Line53 Main StreetPO Box 908Dowling, ON, P0M 1R0CanadaT. 705-855-1310hard-line.com

BOOTH 1329Hatch2800 Speakman DriveMississauga, ON, L5K 2R7CanadaT. 905-855-7600hatch.ca

BOOTH 1434Haulmax (Aust) Pty Ltd.91 Terra Nova DriveWynyard, TAS, 7325, AustraliaT. +61-3-6442-7777haulmax.com

BOOTH 548Hayward Gordon Ltd.5 Brigden GateHalton Hills, ON, L7G 0A3CanadaT. 604-364-6495haywardgordon.com

BOOTH 224Hein Lehmann Canada Inc.130 - 4395 Fraser StreetVancouver, BC, V5V 4G4CanadaT. 604-879-3804heinlehmann.ca

BOOTH 1422Hella Mining Canada201 Kelly DrivePeachtree City, GA, 30269, USAT. 770-631-7557hellamining.com

BOOTH 401Henan Liming HeavyIndustry Science &Technology Co. Ltd.169 Kexuedadao RoadNational Hi-Tech IndustryDevelopment ZoneZhengzhou, ChinaT. +86-371-8616-2503break-day.com

BOOTH 1410Hepburn Engineering Inc.73 Six Points RoadToronto, ON, M8Z 2X3CanadaT. 416-638-4425, x103hepeng.com

BOOTH 1708Herrenknecht TunnellingSystems Canada Inc.5353 Dundas Street WestSuite 200Toronto, ON, M9B 6H8CanadaT. 416-231-2555herrenknecht.com

BOOTH 819Hitachi Power SystemsCanada Ltd.826 - 58th Street EastSaskatoon, SK, S7K 5Z4CanadaT. 306-242-9222hitachi.com

BOOTH 521Honeywell Process Solutions300-250 York StreetLondon, ON, N6A 6K2CanadaT. 519-679-6570honeywellprocess.com

BOOTH 235Horne Group14 Winstar RoadShanty Bay, ON, L0L 2L0CanadaT. 705-487-3007horne-group.com

BOOTH 1224Huesker Inc.10701 South CommerceBoulevardCharlotte, SC, 28273, USAT. 800-942-9418huesker.com

BOOTH 404Huge Base Industrial1607 HanZhong Plaza158 HanZhong RoadShanghai, ChinaT. +86-21-6354-9110cn-hugebase.com

BOOTH 242Hydra-Tech InternationalCorporation6060 - 86 Avenue SECalgary, AB, T2C 4L7CanadaT. 403-720-7742hydra-tech.net

BOOTH 1344IBM Canada Ltd.227 - 11th Avenue SWCalgary, AB, T2R 1R9CanadaT. 403-539-0982ibm.com

BOOTH 1345IDS North America Ltd.152, rue Notre-Dame EstSuite 500Montreal, QC, H2Y 3P6CanadaT. 514-789-0082, x450idscorporation.com/na

BOOTH 1718IMAFS Inc.937, rue BoissySt-Lambert, QC, J4R 1K1CanadaT. 514-683-6775imafs.com

BOOTH JF07Imperial Oil Limited–KearlOil Sands240-Fourth Avenue SWPO Box 2480, Station MCalgary, AB, T2P 3M9CanadaT. 403-766-1609imperialoil.ca

BOOTH 701Imperial Oil Ltd.BPC, 8th Floor #8066PO Box 2480, Station MCalgary, AB, T2P 3M9CanadaT. 403-766-1889mobil.ca

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BOOTH 643INCO Engineering s.r.o.3717 W Sherbrooke DriveMequon, WI, 53092, USAT. 414-690-6540incoengineering.cz

BOOTH 1110Independent MiningConsultants Inc.3560 East Gas RoadTucson, AZ, 85714, USAT. 520-294-9861imctucson.com

BOOTH 620Industrial Fabrication Inc.240 Fielding RoadLively, ON, P3Y 1L6CanadaT. 705-523-1621, x222ificanada.com

BOOTH 1727Industrial Info Resources2277 Plaza DriveSugar Land, TX, 77479, USAT. 713-783-5147, x3413industrialinfo.com

BOOTH 936InfoMine Inc.#900-580 Hornby StreetVancouver, BC, V6C 3B6CanadaT. 604-683-2037infomine.com

BOOTH 1216InnovExplo Inc.560-B, 3e AvenueVal-d'Or, QC, J9P 1S4CanadaT. 819-874-0447innovexplo.com

BOOTH 927Intergraph1120 68th Avenue NECalgary, AB, T2E 8S5CanadaT. 403-569-5512intergraph.com/global/ca

BOOTH 1441Intersystems9575 North 109th AveOmaha, NE, 68142, USAT. 214-495-9713intersystems.net

BOOTH 1838Iracore International MN3516 East 13th AvenueHibbing, MN, 55746, USAT. 218-263-8831iracore.com

BOOTH 1126Isaac Instruments240, Fréchette BoulevardChambly, QC, J3L 2Z5CanadaT. 450-658-7520isaac.ca

BOOTH 1847ISCO Industries, Inc.926 Baxter AvenueLouisville, KY, 40204, USAT. 800-345-4726isco-pipe.com

BOOTH 843Isograph Inc.2020 Main StreetSuite 1180Irvine, CA, 92614, USAT. 949-502-5689isograpn-software.com

BOOTH 935Jebco Industries111 Ellis DriveBarrie, ON, L4N 8Z3CanadaT. 705-797-8888jebcoindustries.com

BOOTH 734Jennmar Canada2435 LaSalle BoulevardSudbury, ON, P3A 2A9CanadaT. 705-521-1415jennmar.com

BOOTH 1037Jetco Heavy Duty Lighting17311-109 AvenueEdmonton, AB, T5S 1H7CanadaT. 780-732-4277jetcolighting.com

BOOTH 500Jiangxi Aili Casting Co. Ltd.1 Century Avenue, Industry ParkJing An, JiangXi, 330600, ChinaT. 0791-88536727ailicasting.com

BOOTH 948John Brooks CompanyLimited2625 Meadowpine BoulevardMississauga, ON, L5N 8C7CanadaT. 905-624-4200johnbrooks.ca

BOOTH 1405Johnson Industries Ltd.6500 Dennett PlaceDelta, BC, V4G 1N4CanadaT. 604-940-4555jbrakes.com

BOOTH 1029Joy GlobalBay 10, 2256-29th Street NECalgary, AB, T1Y 7G4CanadaT. 780-447-8137joyglobal.com

BOOTH 901Kal Tire1540 Kalamalka Lake RoadVernon, BC, V1T 6V2CanadaT. 250-558-3200kaltire.com

BOOTH 905Kalenborn AbresistCorporation755, boulevard St-JeanSuite 602Pointe-Claire, QC, H9R 5M9CanadaT. 514-426-0460kalenborn.de

BOOTH 428Kamag TransporttechnikGmbH & Co. KGListstr. 3Ulm, 89079, GermanyT. +49 (0) 731-409-80kamag.com

BOOTH 139KamaticsRWG - EngineeredPerformance1330 Blue Hills AvenueBloomfield, CT, 6002, USAT. 860-243-9704kaman.com

BOOTH 529KBR601 Jefferson StreetKT-2760Houston, TX, 77002, USAT. 713-753-3323kbr.com/canada

BOOTH 1843KETO FAP Mining Pumps &Systems10 Picadilly PlaceGuelph, ON, N1G 2P9CanadaT. 519-831-0942ketopumps.com

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BOOTH 1647Key MaintenanceTechnologies204 Carmichael Close NWEdmonton, AB, T6R 2K6CanadaT. 780-437-7659kmt1.ca

BOOTH JF03KGHM International Ltd.145 King Street WestSuite 1500Toronto, ON, M5H 1J8CanadaT. 416-642-9201kghminternational.com

BOOTH 442KGO Group Ltd.1200 Speers Road, Unit 52Oakville, ON, L6L 2X4CanadaT. 905-847-1544, x100kgogroup.com

BOOTH 539Knight Piésold Ltd.750 West Pender StreetSuite 1400Vancouver, BC, V6C 2T8CanadaT. 604-685-0543knightpiesold.com

BOOTH 1314Krupp Canada Inc.405-1177 11th Avenue SWCalgary, AB, T2R 0G5CanadaT. 403-209-4431krupp.ca

BOOTH 1524Lafarge North America334 avenue AvroPointe-Claire, QC, H9R 5W5CanadaT. 514-428-7352lafarge-na.com

BOOTH 426Laidig Systems Inc.14535 Dragoon TrailMishawaka, IN, 46544, USAT. 574-256-0204, x220laidig.com

BOOTH 943Laird Technologies3481 Rider Trail SouthEarth City, MO, 63045, USAT. 636-898-6047lairdtech.com

BOOTH 144Laser Distance SpectrometryLtd.9 Mota Gur, Olympia Building BPetah Tikva, 49528, IsraelT. 613-276-5595laser-distance-spectrometry.com

BOOTH 424Layfield Geosynthetics &Industrial Fabrics Ltd.11603-180 Street NWEdmonton, AB, T5S 2H6CanadaT. 780-451-7226layfieldenvironmental.com

BOOTH 921Ledcor Group of Companies9910-39th AvenueEdmonton, AB, T6E 5H8CanadaT. 780-485-8310ledcor.com

BOOTH 1221Les Forages L.B.M. Inc.CP 740Victoriaville, QC, G6P 7W7CanadaT. 819-758-7883lesforageslbm.com

BOOTH 531Levert Personnel Resources Inc.17 Frood RoadSudbury, ON, P3C 4Y9CanadaT. 705-525-8367, x223levert.ca

BOOTH 1423Liebherr-Canada Ltd.1015 Sutton DriveBurlington, ON, L7L 5Z8CanadaT. 780-962-7743liebherr.ca

BOOTH 1609Line Power Mfg. Corp.329 Williams StreetBristol, VA, 24201, USAT. 276-645-8825linepower.com

BOOTH 400Longhi Magnet Co. Ltd.6 Wenhua RoadFushun Economic DevelopmentAreaLiaoning, 113122, ChinaT. +86-24-5670-0058en.ljmagnet.com

BOOTH 434Luff Industries Ltd.235010 Wrangler RoadCalgary, AB, T1X 0K3CanadaT. 888-349-5833luffindustries.com

BOOTH 744Lycopodium MineralsCanada Ltd.5060 Spectrum WaySuite 302Mississauga, ON, L4W 5N5CanadaT. 905-206-2616lycopodium.com.au

BOOTH 1623Lynn Co. Ltd.470, St. Alphonse StreetThetford Mines, QC, G6G 5V2CanadaT. 418-338-4501lynnco.ca

BOOTH 248Maccaferri Canada Ltd.400 Collier MacMillan DriveUnit BCambridge, ON, N1R 7H7CanadaT. 519-623-9990maccaferri.ca

BOOTH 1200Machines RogerInternational Inc.1161, rue des ManufacturiersVal-d'Or, QC, J9P 6Y7CanadaT. 819-825-4657machines-roger.ca

BOOTH 1035MacLean Engineering &Marketing Co. Limited1067 Kelly Lake RoadSudbury, ON, P3E 5P5CanadaT. 705-670-8014, x480macleanengineering.com

BOOTH 1418Mainland Machinery2255 Townline RoadAbbotsford, BC, V2T 6H1CanadaT. 604-825-4244mainlandmachinery.com

BOOTH 1040Mammoet Canada West12920-33 Street NEEdmonton, AB, T6S 1H6CanadaT. 780-485-8568mammoet.com

BOOTH 439MAN Diesel & Turbo CanadaLtd.3430 Superior CourtSuite 5Oakville, ON, L6L 0C4CanadaT. 289-835-1003mandieselturbo.ca

BOOTH 1034Maptek165 South Union BoulevardSuite 888Lakewood, CO, 80228, USAT. 303-763-4919, x113maptek.com

BOOTH 1529Martin Engineering USA1 Martin PlaceNeponset, IL, 61345, USAT. 309-852-2384, x239martin-eng.com

BOOTH 1428Matrix Design Group771 Corporate DriveSuite 800Lexington, KY, 40503, USAT. 859-967-1711matrixteam.com

BOOTH 1744Matterhorn Mining274 Main StreetAshland, PA, 17921, USAT. 203-521-5913hhbrown.com

BOOTH 615Maxdrill Rock tools Co. Ltd.Room 408, 4/F, Tower AChengshi Fangzhou BuildingNo. 25 Zunyi RoadGuiyang, Guizhou, ChinaT. +86-851-863-9106max-drilling.com

BOOTH 441McLanahan Corporation200 Wall StreetHollidaysburg, PA, 16648, USAT. 814-695-9807mclanahan.com

BOOTH 1436McLellan Industries Inc.13221 Crown AvenueHanford, CA, 93230, USAT. 530-795-3019mclellanindustries.com

BOOTH 1306MDL Canada1165 Beaverwood RoadPO Box 143Manotick, ON, K4M 1A2CanadaT. 613-692-0132, x301mdlcanada.com

BOOTH 315ME Elecmetal3901 University Avenue NEMinneapolis, MN, 55421, USAT. 705-575-5158me-elecmetal.com

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DIMENSIONS MONDIALES DEL’EXPLOITATION MINIÈRE

Wes Carson

INNOVATIONSAndy Lemay

HARNESSING OUR DIVERSE WORLDMAÎTRISE DE LA DIVERSITÉ

MONDIALEPatty Moore & Christy Smith

OPENING PLENARY

Global Projects UpdateMise à jour de projets internationaux

Mike Petrina

Transforming the Mining Industry throughInnovations

Transformer l’industrie minière grâce à des innovations

Janice Zinck & Carl Weatherell

Mining for Accountants, Bankers, Brokers and Lawyers

L’exploitation minière pour les comptables,banquiers, courtiers et avocatsCarlos da Costa & Keith Spence

Global Landscapes & TransparencyPortrait global et transparence

Alan Franklin

Innovation in Energy MineralsInnovation dans les minéraux

à propriétés énergétiquesBrent Hilscher & Melanie MacKay

Diversity 101 - Part 1Diversité 101 - 1ère partie

Lana Eagle

NGOs - Partners in DevelopmentONG : partenaires du développement

Alan Franklin & Matthieu Asselin

Power Your MineMise en fonction d’une mine

Gareth Clarke

Diversity 101 - Part 2Diversité 101 - 2ième partie

Lana Eagle

Social & Environmental StewardshipDirection sociale et environnementale

William Napier

Innovations in Maintenance & ReliabilityInnovations en maintenance et Fiabilité

Ted Knight

Maximizing the Workforce - Part 1Maximisation de la main d’oeuvre -

1ère partieKerris Hougardy

Water, Mining & AgricultureGestion de l’eau, l’industrie

minière et l’agricultureMonica Ospina & Mireille Goulet

Bridging the Research to Innovation GapCombler le fossé entre la recherche

et l’innovationAndrew Bamber


2ième partieKerris Hougardy

Tailings Management and Pushing theBoundaries

Pousser les limites de la gestion des résidusAlistair Kent

Innovation for Corporate SustainabilityInnovation pour la durabilité d’entreprise

Michelle Levesque


3ième partieKerris Hougardy

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MANAGING OPERATIONS -MINE TO MILL

GESTION DES OPÉRATIONS- DU TRAITEMENT À LA

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ROCK ENGINEERING &MINE DESIGN

MÉCANIQUE DESROCHES ET CONCEPTION

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ETHICS IN MINING SYMPOSIUMSYMPOSIUM : ÉTHIQUE ET

INDUSTRIE MINIÈREWesley Cragg, Janis Shandro

& Angelique Slade Shantz

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Case Studies - Part 1Études de cas - 1ère partie

Rahul Lakhote

Safety - Tools and CultureSécurité - Outils et culture

Jeff Colden

Data Mining – An Integral Toolfor Mine Design

Data Mining – Une partieintégrante de la conception

d’une minePeter Golde

Mining, Ethics and the Challenge ofDiverse Needs and Perspectives

L’exploitation minière, l’éthique et ledéfi des besoins et des perspectives

diversifiéesWesley Cragg

Case Studies - Part 2Études de cas - 2ième partie

Rahul Lakhote

MiningExploitation minière

Jeff Colden & Anoush Ebrahimi

Optimization in Resource or Prospect Assessment

Optimisation des ressources ou évaluation en prospection

Andrew Dasys

Building Equitable PartnershipsBâtir des partenariats équitables

Jim Cooney

Developing in Non-Mining Cultures

Développement dans descommunautés non minières

Barnard Foo

ProcessingTraitement

Janice Zinck

Case Studies in Rock EngineeringÉtudes de cas en

mécanique des rochesDoug Milne

Where is the Market Value forEthical Performances?

Où est la valeur marchande de laperformance éthique?

Assessing the Construction ProjectÉvaluation du projet

de constructionLon Plaskett

Integration for OptimizationIntégration pour optimisation

Adam Hesse &Julia Gartley

Rock Engineering Practices and TechniquesPratiques et techniques

de la mécanique des rochesMartin Grenon

Indigenous and Non-IndigenousCommunities: Rights and Regulations

Communautés autochtones et nonautochtones : droits et règlements

Lana Eagle

Economic OutlookPerspectives économiques

Jane Spooner

Lowest Cost Mine ServicesLes coûts les plus bas

pour des services miniersDean Millar

Project Management -Challenges we FaceGestion de projet -

défis qui nous attendent

Low-Cost Mine EnergyFaible coût de l'énergie

dans les minesVic Pakalnis

Community Experiences with theExtractive Sector

Expériences communautaires avec lesecteur de l’extraction

Janis Shandro

Expecting the UnexpectedS’attendre à l’inattendu

Larry Smith

Safety - New Technology andApplication

Sécurité - Nouvelle technologie et application

Glenn Lyle

The Past, Present & FuturePassé, présent et futur

Gary MacDonald

Due Diligence – Watch Your Step!

Vérification diligente –attention!

Mauro Chiesa

Panel DiscussionPanel de discussion

David Jennings

Reception & NetworkingRéception et réseautage

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BOOTH 1218Mecanicad559-A, boulevardTémiscamingueRouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X 7C8CanadaT. 819-797-2009mecanicad.ca

BOOTH 1709Mechanix Wear Canada103-2762 190th StreetSurrey, BC, V3S 3W6CanadaT. 604-542-7055mechanixwear.ca

BOOTH 1201Meglab96, boulevard Armand-GilbertVal-d'Or, QC, J9P 5K6CanadaT. 819-824-7710meglab.ca

BOOTH 1206Metallurgie Castech Inc.500, boulevard Frontenac EstThetford-Mines, QC, G6G 7M8CanadaT. 613-521-2345castechinc.com

BOOTH 220Metso4000 Town Center BoulevardSuite 400Canonsburg, PA, 15317, USAT. 412-269-5298metso.com

BOOTH 1824Met-Solve20120 102nd AvenueLangley, BC, V1M 4B4CanadaT. 604-888-0875, x1105met-solvelabs.com

BOOTH 929Michelin North America Inc.One Parkway SouthGreenville, SC, 29602-9001, USAT. 864-458-5242michelinearthmover.com

BOOTH 1324Mincon Mining Equipment9669-201 StreetLangley, BC, V1M 3E7CanadaT. 604-881-4476minconmining.com

BOOTH 635Mine Cable Services Corp7731-16 Street NWEdmonton, AB, T6P 1M1CanadaT. 780-439-1113minecableservices.ca

BOOTH 1122Mine Design Technologies1045 John Counter BoulevardUnit 6Kingston, ON, K7K 6C7CanadaT. 613-549-5223, x2mdt.ca

BOOTH 1020Mine Site Technologies1085 Kelly Lake RoadSudbury, ON, P3E 5P5CanadaT. 705-675-7468, x231minesite.ca

BOOTH 1535Mine Source Inc.30 Cedar StreetSuite 804Sudbury, ON, P3E 1A4CanadaT. 705-671-2100minesource.com

BOOTH 1109Minemax9137 S. Ridgeline BoulevardSuite 135Denver, CO, 80129, USAT. 720-287-8250minemax.com

BOOTH 815MineSense Technologies Ltd.122-1857 West 4th AvenueVancouver, BC, V6J 1M4CanadaT. 604-987-9999minesense.com

BOOTH 143MiniBulk Inc.601 Manitou Road SECalgary, AB, T2G 4C2CanadaT. 403-228-9555minibulk.com

BOOTH 1334-1337Mining Media Inc.8751 East Hampden AvenueSuite B-1Denver, CO, 80231, USAT. 303-916-9022mining-media.com

BOOTH 1125Mintec Inc.3544 East Fort Lowell RoadTucson, AZ, 85716, USAT. 520-795-3891minesight.com

BOOTH 1826Mitsubishi Materials U.S.A.Corporation2690 Salisbury HighwayStatesville, NC, 28677, USAT. 800-423-1358mmus.com

BOOTH 1229MMD Mineral Sizing(Canada) Inc.22511-112 AvenueEdmonton, AB, T5S 2M4CanadaT. 780-451-5100mmdsizers.com

BOOTH 904Motion Metrics Int'l Corp.c/o ICICS 289-2366 Main MallVancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4CanadaT. 604-822-5842motionmetrics.com

BOOTH 431Moventas Ltd.1615 Bishop Street NorthPO Box 20100Cambridge, ON, N1R 8C8CanadaT. 418-651-1414santasalo.com

BOOTH 221MPI Mobile Parts Inc.2472 Evans RoadPO Box 327Val Caron, ON, P3N 1P5CanadaT. 705-897-4955mobileparts.com

BOOTH 601MTU39525 MacKenzie DriveNovi, MI, 48377, USAT. 248-560-8614mtu-online.com

BOOTH 600Mullen Trucking LP1 Maple Leaf RoadAldersyde, AB, T0L 0A0CanadaT. 403-652-8875mullentrucking.com

BOOTH 704Multicrete Systems Inc.360-555 Hervo StreetWinnipeg, MB, R3T 3L6CanadaT. 204-262-5900multicretesystems.com

BOOTH 343Multi-Power Products Ltd.975 Crowley AvenueKelowna, BC, V1Y 9R6CanadaT. 250-860-6969multipowerproducts.com

BOOTH 1106Multotec Canada Ltd15841-116 AvenueEdmonton, AB, T5M 3W1CanadaT. 780-433-8825multotec.com

BOOTH 129Murray Latta ProgressiveMachine8717-132nd StreetSurrey, BC, V3W 4P1CanadaT. 888-298-9877mlpmachine.com

BOOTH 445MWH Global370 Interlocken BoulevardSuite 300Broomfield, CO, 80021, USAT. 303-533-1927mwhglobal.com

BOOTH 1537Natural Resources Canada -MMS / IPD580 Booth StreetOttawa, ON, K1A 0E4CanadaT. 613-947-4556nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/canmet-mmsl

BOOTH 1134New Brunswick Trade &Export Development675 King StreetPO Box 6000Fredericton, NB, E3B 1E9CanadaT. 506-444-5973gnb.ca

BOOTH 447New Concept Mining109 Adcock Ingram RoadJohannesburg, GT, 2013 SouthAfricaT. +27-11-494-6000ncm.co.za

BOOTH 711Newalta Corporation1100 Burloak Drive5th FloorBurlington, ON, L7L 6B2CanadaT. 905-315-2247newalta.com

BOOTH 1124Newtrax Technologies3674, rue St-HubertMontreal, QC, H2L 4A2CanadaT. 514-994-0633newtrax.com

BOOTH 428Nicolas Industrie S.A.SRN 6 BP 3Champs-sur-Yonne, Bourgogne,89290, FranceT. +33 (0) 386-53-52-00nicolas.fr


BOOTH 1706Nidec Industrial Solutions7555 East Pleasant Valley RoadBuilding 100Independance, OH, 44131 USAT. 216-642-1230, x1221nidec-avtron.com

BOOTH 344Nilex Inc.9304-39 Avenue NWEdmonton, AB, T6E 5T9CanadaT. 780-463-9535nilex.com

BOOTH 402Ningbo Wozom Industry &Trade Co., Ltd.Nan'ao, Baidu, Xiwu IndustryAreaFenghua EconomicDevelopment ZoneNingbo, 315558, ChinaT. +86-574-885-467-88wozom.com

BOOTH 1736Nordex Explosives Ltd.1191 Lansing AvenueUnit 1Sudbury, ON, P3A 4C4CanadaT. 705-885-1257nordexexplosives.com

BOOTH 1147Nordmin Engineering Ltd.160 Logan AvenueThunder Bay, ON, P7A 6R1CanadaT. 807-683-1730nordmin.com

BOOTH 625Normet Canada Ltd.1 Columbus CourtPO Box 4361Lively, ON, P3Y 1N3CanadaT. 705-692-2800, x205normet.com

BOOTH 828Norseman Structures3815 Wanuskewin RoadSaskatoon, SK, S7P 1A4CanadaT. 306-385-2742norsemanstructures.com

BOOTH 1006North Fringe IndustrialTechnologies Inc.PO Box 1540Nipawin, SK, S0E 1E0CanadaT. 306-862-5900northfringe.com

BOOTH 720Northern Light Technologies33 Laird DriveToronto, ON, M4G 3S9CanadaT. 905-287-3552nltinc.com

BOOTH JF12Norwest Corporation2700-411 1st Street SECalgary, AB, T2G 4Y5CanadaT. 403-237-7763norwestcorp.com

BOOTH 138NSL Engineering Pte Ltd.26 Tanjong Kling Road628051, SingaporeT. +65-68-673-380ramspreaders.com

BOOTH 839Ollerhead & Associates Ltd.17 Coronation DriveYellowknife, NT, X1A 2N8CanadaT. 867-873-9690ollerhead.ca

BOOTH 1415Orica Canada Inc.33101 East Quincy AvenueWatkins, CO, 80137, USAT. 303-268-5057oricaminingservices.com

BOOTH 805OSIsoft (Canada) ULC1155, rue UniversitySuite 612Montreal, QC, H3B 3A7CanadaT. 514-493-8393OSIsoft.com

BOOTH 1501Outotec (Canada) Ltd.1551 Corporate DriveBurlington, ON, L7L 6M3CanadaT. 905-335-0952, x3261outotec.com

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BOOTH 435Pacific Bit of Canada Inc.9485-189 StreetUnit 204Surrey (Port Kells), BC, V4N 5L8CanadaT. 604-513-4292pacific-bit.com

BOOTH 520Pacific Blasting & DemolitionLtd.3183 Norland AvenueBurnaby, BC, V5B 3A9CanadaT. 604-291-1255pacificblasting.com

BOOTH 1739Parker160 Chisholm DriveMilton, ON, L9T 3G9CanadaT. 905-693-4804parker.com

BOOTH 449Parts Headquarters Inc.1175 Appleby LineUnit C2Burlington, ON, L7L 5H9CanadaT. 905-332-3271partshq.com

BOOTH 1828PBE394 Highway 47Goodwood, ON, L0C 1A0CanadaT. 905-640-1839mineradio.com

BOOTH 226PCI12201 Magnolia AvenueRiverside, CA, 92503, USAT. 800-309-8935, x251pcigases.com

BOOTH 1500Petro-Canada Lubricants2310 Lakeshore Road WestMississauga, ON, L5J 1K2CanadaT. 905-804-3631lubricants.petro-canada.ca

BOOTH 546Pex Industrial PipingSolutions9627 - 41 AvenueEdmonmton, AB, T6E 5X7CanadaT. 780-450-1155qisupply.com

BOOTH 1507Phoenix Conveyor BeltSystems - AlternativeBelting19762-98th AvenueLangley, BC, V1M 2X5CanadaT. 604-513-2368phoenix-conveyorbelts.com

BOOTH 1707Phoenix Process EquipmentCo.2402 Watterson TrailLouisville, KY, 40299, USAT. 502-499-6198, x168dewater.com

BOOTH 1319PhotoSat1188 West Georgia StreetSuite 580Vancouver, BC, V6E 4A2CanadaT. 604-681-9770photosat.ca

BOOTH 825Pioneer Performance401 Packham PlaceSecond FloorSaskatoon, SK, S7N 6Z7CanadaT. 306-526-4165pioneerperformance.ne

SOCIAL PROGRAM | PROGRAMME SOCIAL

SUNDAY, MAY 11CIM SURFACE & UNDERGROUND MINING SOCIETIES RECEPTION Mix and mingle at the CIM Surface Mining & Underground Mining Societies Reception. Come enjoy theentertainment and have a drink on us. Gifts are up for grabsso be sure to bring extra business cards to enter the draws.

TIME: 14:00 TO 16:00 | LOCATION: VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE |COST: INCLUDED IN THE DELEGATE AND EXHIBITOR REGISTRATION

OPENING CEREMONY & WELCOME RECEPTION This grand networking event is sponsored by SMS Equipment& Komatsu. Year after year, participants gather at the openingreception of the CIM Convention for an evening of guestspeakers and live entertainment. You will be treated to horsd’oeuvres and buffet stations in the exhibition. TIME: 16:00 TO 20:00 | LOCATION: THE EXPO! IN EXHIBIT HALL B & C |COST: INCLUDED IN THE DELEGATE REGISTRATION FEE

MONDAY, MAY 12 & TUESDAY, MAY 13CIM NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIESLunch and cocktail receptions in the Expo! are being held onMonday and Tuesday, 12:00 to 14:00 and 15:30 to 17:00. Lunchand one drink ticket per day are included with each delegateregistration.

MONDAY, MAY 12CIM AWARDS GALAThe CIM Awards Gala celebrates the true leaders of theCanadian mining industry – both past and present. This year’sheadline entertainment features Canadian comedian andimpressionist extraordinaire André-Philippe Gagnon. Asumptuous dinner will be served. RECEPTION: 18:00 TO 19:00 | DINNER: 19:00 TO 23:00 | LOCATION:VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE | COST: $175

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BOOTH 816Piteau Associates788 Copping StreetSuite 300North Vancouver, BC, V7M 3G6CanadaT. 604-986-8551, x237piteau.com

BOOTH 611Placer Gold Design702-602 West Hastings StreetVancouver, BC, V6B 1P2CanadaT. 604-531-3149placergolddesign.com

BOOTH 1601Polar Mobility Research Ltd.7860 62nd Street SECalgary, AB, T2C 5K2CanadaT. 403-279-3633polarmobility.com

BOOTH 234Polycorp Ltd.33 York StreetElora, ON, N0B 1S0CanadaT. 519-846-2075poly-corp.com

BOOTH 1123Polydeck Screen Corporation1790 Dewberry RoadSpartanburg, SC, 29307, USAT. 864-579-4594, x171polydeckscreen.com

BOOTH 1009Pompaction Inc.119 Hymus BoulevardPointe-Claire, QC, H9R 1E5CanadaT. 514-697-8600, x237pompaction.com

BOOTH 814PR Engineering Limited249 Toronto AvenueOshawa, ON, L1H 3C2CanadaT. 905-579-9721prengineering.com

BOOTH 1104Praetorian ConstructionManagement201-10441 178 StreetEdmonton, AB, T5S 1R5CanadaT. 780-989-0289praetoriancm.com

BOOTH 1636Praher Valves GmbHPoneggenstrasse 5Schwertberg, 4311, AustriaT. +43-72-62-61-179praher-valves.com

BOOTH 238Precision Pulley & Idler300 14th Street SEPO Box 287Pella, IA, 50219, USAT. 641-628-3115ppipella.com

BOOTH 1726ProcessBarron2770 Welborn StreetPelham, AL, 35124, USAT. 514-500-1991processbarron.com

BOOTH 724Procon Mining & Tunneling108-4664 Lougheed HighwayBurnaby, BC, V5C 5T5CanadaT. 604-291-8292procongroup.net

TUESDAY, MAY 13STUDENT-INDUSTRY LUNCHEONThis luncheon has proven to be the perfect opportunity forstudents to meet industry leaders and establish indispensablecontacts. Stars of the ever-popular “Rick and Larry Show” –Rick Hutson and Larry Smith – will provide relevantinformation on networking, resumé writing, creating effectivebusiness cards, and other useful career-building tips andhints. You do not want to miss it! TIME: 12:00 TO 14:00 | LOCATION: VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE |COST: INCLUDED IN THE STUDENT REGISTRATION FEE

WOMEN IN MINING RECEPTIONJoin us for a drink, appetizers and a chance to win one ofmany door prizes at the Women in Mining & VIP Reception.This year, Women in Mining Vancouver is partnering with theCIM 2014 Convention to host our annual event. Come meetand network with a rich and diverse group of industryprofessionals. Keynote speaker: Anna Tudela, Vice-President, Regulatory Affairs & Corporate Secretary,Goldcorp Inc.TIME: 17:00 TO 19:00 | LOCATION: VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE |COST: $35

VIP RECEPTIONSenior industry leaders and contributors, and invited guestswill gather for a high-powered networking session.TIME: 17:00 TO 19:00 | LOCATION: VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE |BY INVITATION ONLY

JOY GLOBAL GALAGet ready for an evening of non-stop entertainment. The JoyGlobal Gala features live music, delectable finger foods andrefreshments. This event closes the social program with abang – literally!TIME: 20:00 TO MIDNIGHT | LOCATION: VANCOUVER CONVENTIONCENTRE | COST: INCLUDED IN THE DELEGATE AND EXHIBITORREGISTRATIONS

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14CLOSING LUNCHEONThe CIM Closing Luncheon will be held in conjunction withthe Vancouver Board of Trade. Luncheon speaker KarinaBriño, president & CEO of the Mining Association of B.C., willpresent “Mining builds communities.” TIME: 12:00 TO 14:00 LOCATION: VANCOUVER CONVENTION CENTRE COST: $75

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BOOTH 1642Procon Systems Inc.6138 Crescent DriveDelta, BC , V4K 4B7CanadaT. 604-940-8757proconsystems.com

BOOTH 1522ProMinent Fluid Controls490 Southgate DriveGuelph, ON, N1G 4P5CanadaT. 888-709-9933, x300prominent.ca

BOOTH 1634Provix6436 Highway 89 EastAlliston, ON, L9R 1V2CanadaT. 705-434-0253provix.net

BOOTH 1236QinetiQ Ltd.12501-12565 Research ParkwayOrlando, FL, 32826, USAT. +44-7747-101-067qinetiq.com

BOOTH 429Queen's University Goodwin Hall, 25 Union StreetRoom 354Kingston, ON, K7L 3N6CanadaT. 613-533-2230mine.queensu.ca

BOOTH 1141R.A.S. Industries Ltd.8020-128th StreetSurrey, BC, V3W 4E9CanadaT. 604-590-0404, x204RASpulleys.com

BOOTH 1135R.D.H. Mining Equipment904 Highway 64Alban, ON, P0M 1A0CanadaT. 705-857-2154rdhminingequipment.com

BOOTH 1041Rajant Corporation400 King Street EMalvern, PA, 19355, USAT. 484-595-0233rajant.com

BOOTH 522Reinforced Earth CompanyLtd.5940 Macleod Trail SWSuite 500Calgary, AB, T2H 2G4CanadaT. 587-952-5053ReinforcedEarth.ca

BOOTH 140Remote Helicopters Ltd.Hangar 15, Airport RoadPO Box 1340Slave Lake, AB, T0G 2A0CanadaT. 780-849-2222remotehelicopters.com

BOOTH 1841Reutech Radar Systems35 Elektron AvenueStellenbosch, 7599South AfricaT. +27-21-880-1150reutechmining.com

BOOTH 132Rexnord Canada Limited201-2497 Clearbrook RoadAbbotsford, BC, V2T 2Y3CanadaT. 604-852-9545rexnord.com

BOOTH 1640Rhewum GmbHRosentalstrasse 24Postfach 12 05 63Remschied, D-42899 GermanyT. +49-2191-5767-0rhewum.com

BOOTH 1540Richwood Industries Inc.707 7th Street WestHuntington, WV, 25704, USAT. 304-525-5436richwood.com

BOOTH 909Rimex Supply Ltd.9726 186th StreetSurrey, BC, V4N 3N7CanadaT. 604-888-0025rimex.com

BOOTH 1704Ritchie Bros.9500 Glenlyon ParkwayBurnaby, BC, V5J 0C6CanadaT. 778-331-5500rbauction.com

BOOTH 1542RNE Pumps Americas Inc.12-60 Thornhill DriveDartmouth, NS, B3B 1S1CanadaT. 902-817-6011rneamericas.com

BOOTH 543Rock Construction & MiningInc.734-2 Laval CrescentKamloops, BC, V2C 5P3CanadaT. 250-828-1946rcmi.ca

BOOTH 526Rock-Tech87 Magill SteetLively, ON, P3Y 1K6CanadaT. 705-692-7625rock-tech.net

BOOTH 1509Rockwell Automation360 Holiday Inn DriveCambridge, ON, N3C 3Z9CanadaT. 519-244-5321rockwellautomation.com

BOOTH 124Roevin10 Bay StreetSuite 330Toronto, ON, M5J 2R8CanadaT. 416-646-3322, x5449roevin.ca

BOOTH 114Rossi North America805 Satellite BoulevardSuwanee, GA, 30024, USAT. 678-288-3611rossi-group.com

BOOTH 1814Rousseau Metal105, ouest avenue de GaspéSt-Jean-Port-Joli, QC, G0R 3G0CanadaT. 866-463-4270rousseaumetal.com

BOOTH 1545Royal Danish ConsulateGeneral2 Bloor Street WestToronto, ON, M4W 3E2CanadaT. 416-962-5661Canada.um.dk

BOOTH 1702RST Instruments Ltd.11545 Kingston StreetMaple Ridge, BC, V2X 0Z5CanadaT. 604-540-1100rstinstruments.com

BOOTH 939RubberSource Inc.11-1195 Franklin BoulevardCambridge, ON, N1R 7R7CanadaT. 519-620-4440rubbersource.ca

BOOTH 1339Rulmeca Canada75 Mason StreetWallaceburg, ON, N8A 4L7CanadaT. 519-627-2277rulmeca.ca

BOOTH 918RungePincockMinarco304-Atrium Square, 4014MacLeod Trail SWCalgary, AB, T2G 2R7CanadaT. 403-217-4981runge.com

BOOTH 1839Russell Mineral Equipment149 Hursley RoadToowoomba, QLD, 4350,AustraliaT. +46-98-91-00rmeGlobal.com

BOOTH 125Ruukki Canada Inc.Suolakivenkatu 1Helsinki, 810, FinlandT. +35-850-314-3592 ruukki.us

BOOTH 725S.Huot1000, rue Raoul-JobinQuebec, QC, G1N 4N3CanadaT. 418-681-0291shuot.com

BOOTH 122Safety Whips2115 West Mountain View RoadPhoenix, AZ, 85021, USAT. 604-560-5080safetywhips.com

BOOTH 641Sandale Utility Products39 Eagle DriveWinnipeg, MB, R2R 1V4CanadaT. 204-697-6110sandale.ca

BOOTH 1129Sandvik Mining100 Magill StreetLively, ON, P3Y 1K7CanadaT. 905-816-4908mining.sandvik.com

BOOTH 431Santasalo 1615 Bishop Street NorthPO Box 20101Cambridge, ON, N1R 8C9CanadaT. 418-651-1414Santasalo.com

BOOTH 818Saskatchewan Ministry ofthe Economy500-2103 11th AvenueRegina, SK, S4P 3Z8CanadaT. 306-787-5578economy.gov.sk.ca


BOOTH 822Saskatchewan ResearchCouncil (SRC)125-15 Innovation BoulevardSaskatoon, SK, S7N 2X8CanadaT. 306-933-5400src.sk.ca

BOOTH 826Saskatchewan Trade &Export Partnership320-1801 Hamilton StreetPO Box 1787Regina, SK, S4P 3Y6CanadaT. 306-787-7928sasktrade.sk.ca

BOOTH 821Saskatoon RegionalEconomic DevelopmentAuthority103-202 4th Avenue NorthSaskatoon, SK, S7K 0K1CanadaT. 306-664-0706sreda.com

BOOTH 120Scantech International PtyLtd.PO Box 1485Underwood, QLD, 4119,AustraliaT. +61-7-3710-8403scantech.com.au

BOOTH 428Scheuerle FahrzeugfabrikGmbHOtto-Rettenmaier-Str. 15Pfedelbach, 74629, GermanyT. +49 (0) 7941-691-2scheuerle.com

BOOTH 1429Schneider-Electric825, rue BancroftPointe-Claire, QC, H9R 4L6CanadaT. 514-697-4790schneider-electric.com

BOOTH 545Schurco Slurry9410 Florida Mining BoulevardEastJacksonville, FL, 32257, USAT. 904-356-6840schurcoslurry.com

BOOTH 1710Schweitzer EngineeringLaboratories2350 NE Hopkins CourtPullman, WA, 99163, USAT. 509-336-7038selinc.com

BOOTH 1304Schwing Bioset Inc.350 SMC DriveSomerset, WI, 54025, USAT. 715-406-4679schwingbioset.com

BOOTH 1539Senett Controls (GessmannGroup)225 Admiral BoulevardMississauga, ON, L5T 2T3CanadaT. 905-564-0167senett.ca

GUEST PROGRAM | PROGRAMME DES INVITÉSMONDAY, MAY 12WALKING TOUR OF GRANVILLE STREETCome take a walk along historical Granville Street.Hear stories about when the area was home toVancouver’s Vaudeville Theatre, as seen through theeyes of Lord Fothrington-Appleby. The tour will lastclose to two hours, so wear comfortable walking shoes.

Join us for an afternoon of humor and history. TIME: 13:00 TO 15:00 COST: $35 DEPARTURE: THEHOSPITALITY SUITE AT THE VANCOUVER CONVENTIONCENTRE

TUESDAY, MAY 13MORNING AT THE MUSEUMJoin us on a private tour of the Museum ofAnthropology (MOA) at the University of BritishColumbia. The museum houses one of the world’sfinest displays of First Nations art in a spectacularbuilding overlooking the mountains and the sea. A90-minute tour will be followed by lunch and freetime to explore the museum or browse the MOAshop. Transportation will be provided from theconvention centre.TIME: 10:00 TO 15:00 COST: $65 DEPARTURE: THEHOSPITALITY SUITE AT THE VANCOUVER CONVENTIONCENTRE

SUNDAY, MAY 11NATURE AND ART BOAT CRUISEEnjoy the panoramic views of the city skyline, thesurrounding Coastal Mountain Range and many ofVancouver’s most famous landmarks on anafternoon cruise with one of Canada’s topnaturalists, Rob Butler, managing director of TheNature Trust of British Columbia. The three-hourcruise will take you past Granite Falls Marine Park,to Bishop’s Creek and on to Silver Falls. LocalCanadian artists from the Artists for Conservationwill also be onboard to exhibit and sell their work.Lunch will be served.TIME: 11:30 TO 15:00 COST: $150 DEPARTURE: THEHARBOUR NEAR THE VANCOUVER CONVENTIONCENTRE

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BOOTH 1825Sepro Mineral Systems Corp9850-201 StreetUnit 101A Langley, BC, V1M 4A3CanadaT. 604-888-5568, x184seprosystems.com

BOOTH 1222Services Industriels BESTH2O Inc.101A Montée de la Rivière desFèvesSaint-Urbain-Premier, QC J0S1Y0CanadaT. 450-427-1440best-corp.com

BOOTH 1301SEW-Eurodrive Co. ofCanada Ltd.210 Walker DriveBramelea, ON, L6T 3W1CanadaT. 905-791-1553, x214sewcan.ca

BOOTH 925Shaft Drillers International130 Meadow Ridge RoadMt. Morris, PA, 15349, USAT. 304-599-5900shaftdrillers.com

BOOTH 245Shadong Sinomin RubberGroup Co. Ltd.300 Hengdong RoadDezhou, Shandong, China253022 T. +010-876-041-56en.sinomin.com

BOOTH 415Shell Canada1101 Blair RoadBurlington, ON, L7M 1T3CanadaT. 905-466-4948shell.ca/lubricants

BOOTH JF15Sherritt InternationalCorporation1600-10235 101 StreetEdmonton, AB, T5J 3G1CanadaT. 780-420-5834sherritt.com

BOOTH 504Shijiazhuang MineralsEquipment Co. Ltd.688 Zhongshan West RoadShijiazhuang, Heibei, 50000,ChinaT. +86-311-666-923-98slurrypump.co

BOOTH 410Shijiazhuang Zhongmei CoalMine Equipment89 Huanghe RoadNational Hi-Tech IndustryDevelopment ZoneShijiazhuang, Heibei, 50035,ChinaT. +86-311-853-235-56en.sjzzm.com

BOOTH 506Shougang Guiyang Special SteelCo. Ltd.10 Youhza SreetGuiyang, Guizhou, 550005,ChinaT. +86-851-550-5094sggg.com.cn

BOOTH 824Shutout Solutions Inc.2815 Lorne AvenueSaskatoon, SK, S7J 0S5CanadaT. 306-683-8888shutoutsolutions.com

BOOTH 1836Siemag Tecberg Inc.2969 South Chase AvenueMilwaukee, WI, 53207, USAT. 414-727-5728siemag-tecberg.com

BOOTH 444Siemens Canada Limited7303 Warden AvenueMarkham, ON, L3R 5Y6CanadaT. 905-305-1021siemens.ca

BOOTH 1719Simsmart Technologies4, Place du CommerceSuite 100Brossard, QC, J4W 3B3CanadaT. 450-923-0400simsmart.com

BOOTH 1328Simson Maxwell5711-80 Avenue SECalgary, AB, T2C 4S6CanadaT. 403-259-7300simson-maxwell.com

BOOTH 640Site Monitor SystemsUnit 1, Moorbridge CourtMoorbridge Road EastBingham Nottingham, NGM,NG13 8GG, United KingdomT. +44-194-9838, x0043dlasermapping.com

BOOTH 644Six Safety Systems Inc.34 Griffin Industrial Point EastUnit 1Cochrane, AB, T4C 0A3CanadaT. 403-932-7955sixsafetysystems.com

BOOTH 1548Skako Vibration384, boulevard De I'IlePincourt, QC, J7V 9Y3CanadaT. 514-646-0636skako.com

BOOTH 349SmartRiver Industrial Ltd.235-6705 Tomken RoadMississauga, ON, L5T 2J6CanadaT. 905-696-0111smartriver.ca

BOOTH 626SM-Cyclo Canada1453 Cornwall RoadOakville, ON, L6J 7T5CanadaT. 905-469-1050smcyclo.com

BOOTH 908SME - Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration8307 Shaffer ParkwayLittleton, CO, 80127, USAT. 303-948-4243smenet.org

BOOTH 1015SMS Equipment Inc.53113 Range Road 263AAcheson, AB, T7X 5A5CanadaT. 780-948-2512smsequip.com

BOOTH 1225SNC-Lavalin1111 West Georgia StreetVancouver, BC, V6E 4M3CanadaT. 604-662-3555, x52159snclavalin.com

BOOTH 440SNF Canada Ltd.2525, place Léon-TrépanierTrois-Rivières, QC, G9A 5E1CanadaT. 416-486-7853snfcanada.com

BOOTH 346SNF FloMin PerformanceMining Reagents3819 Heather StreetVancouver, BC, V5Z 3l4CanadaT. 778-870-3116flomin.com

BOOTH 623Southwire Canada5705 Cancross CourtSuite 100Mississauga, ON, L5R 3E9CanadaT. 289-777-7557southwire.ca

BOOTH 621SPI60, rue Gaston-DumoulinBlainville, QC, J7C 0A3CanadaT. 450-420-2012, x4362spi-s.com

BOOTH 1246Split Engineering, LLC.2555 N Jackrabbit AvenueTucson, AZ, 85745, USAT. 520-327-3773, x8102spliteng.com

BOOTH 246Spraying Systems CanadaLtd.108-7198 Vantage WayDelta, BC, V4G 1K7CanadaT. 604-960-2762spray.com

BOOTH 1139Sprung Instant StructuresLtd.PO Box 62Aldersyde, AB, T0L 0A0CanadaT. 403-601-2292sprung.com

BOOTH 1443SPX135 Mount Read BoulevardRochester, NY, 14611, USAT. 585-527-1658spx.com

BOOTH 837SSAB1031 Cliveden AvenueDelta, BC, V3M 5V1CanadaT. 604-526-3700ssab.com

BOOTH 1205STC Footwear10100, rue ColbertAnjou, QC, H1J 2J8CanadaT. 888-686-1286stcfootwear.com

BOOTH 748StonCor Group - Canada95 Sunray StreetWhitby, ON, L1N 9C9CanadaT. 905-430-3333, x 3018stoncor.ca

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BOOTH 1701Strata Worldwide8995 Roswell RoadSandy Springs, GA, 30115, USAT. 770-321-2526strataworldwide.com

BOOTH JF01Suncor Energy Inc.150 6th Avenue SWCalgary, AB, T2P 3E3CanadaT. 403-296-8945suncor.com

BOOTH 1743Superior Propane6750 Century AvenueMississauga, ON, L5N 2V8CanadaT. 905-542-5483superiorpropane.com

BOOTH 1547Svendborg Brakes A/S -Cheminova A/SJernbanevej 9Vejstrup, 5882, DenmarkT. +45-63-255-255svendborg-brakes.com

BOOTH 1600Symboticware Incorporated83 Durham StreetSudbury, ON, P3E 3M5CanadaT. 800-519-5496, x101symboticware.com

BOOTH JF14Syncrude Canada Ltd.PO Bag 4023MD 3300Fort McMurray, AB, T9H 3H5CanadaT. 780-790-6411syncrude.ca

BOOTH 1720Synergy Engineering Ltd.135 Glacier StreetCoquitlam, BC, V3K 5Z1CanadaT. 604-464-3663synergy-eng.com

BOOTH 1625Target LogisticsManagement, LLC500 Lincoln streetBoston, MA, 2135, USAT. 617-586-1100TargetLogistics.net

BOOTH 947Techking Tires LimitedBldg 2#, Tianbo Intl MansionNo. 61 Haier RdQingdao, Shandong, 266061,ChinaT. +86-532-5558-8888techking.com

BOOTH 1215Technosub Industrial Pumps1156, avenue LarivièreRouyn-Noranda, QC, J9X 4K8CanadaT. 819-797-3300technosub.net

BOOTH JF17Teck Resources Ltd.RR#1, Hwy 3 Central RecruitingOfficeSparwood, BC, V0B 2G1CanadaT. 250-425-6305teck.com

BOOTH 926Teco-Westinghouse Motors(Canada) Inc.1165 Franklin BoulevardUnit A-CCambridge, ON, N1R 8E1CanadaT. 519-624-1616, x2072tecowestinghouse.ca

BOOTH 534Tega Industries Limited1305 Kelly Lake RoadUnit 1Sudbury, ON, P3E 5P5CanadaT. 705-523-4158tegaindustries.com

BOOTH 841Teledyne VariSystems5304 Hubalta Road SECalgary, AB, T2B 1T6CanadaT. 403-272-0318varisystems.com

BOOTH 1103Telsmith, Inc.10910 Industrial Drive NorthMequon, WI, 53092-0539, USAT. 262-242-6600telsmith.com

BOOTH 1307Tema Systems Inc.7806 Redsky DriveCincinnati, OH, 45249, USAT. 519-584-5773tema.net

BOOTH 1239Tenova Mining and Minerals6929 Royal Oak AvenueBurnaby, BC, V5J 4J3CanadaT. 604-451-7767tenova.com

BOOTH 1235TerraSource GlobalPO Box 385One Freedom DriveBelleville, IL, 62222, USAT. 618-641-6963terrasource.com

BOOTH 1749Tervita Corporation140-10th Avenue SESuite 500Calgary, AB, T2G 0R1CanadaT. 403-233-7565tervita.com

BOOTH 1310Tetra Tech800-555 West Hastings StreetVancouver, BC, V6B 1M1CanadaT. 604-408-3788tetratech.com

BOOTH 645Texcan - Division of SoneparCanada Inc.1420 Derwent WayDelta, BC, V3M 6H9CanadaT. 604-528-3659texcan.com

BOOTH 541TF Warren Group57 Old Onondaga Road WestBrantford, ON, N3T 5M1CanadaT. 519-757-3565tfwarren.com

BOOTH 1611TGood North America Inc.105-78 Industrial Avenue WestPenticton, BC, V2A 6M2CanadaT. 778-476-5833tgood.com

BOOTH 443The EIMCO-K.C.P. Ltd.239 Ramakrishna BuildingsAnna SalaiChennai, TN, 600 006, IndiaT. (44) 28518458ekcp.com

BOOTH JF13The Mosaic Company2010 12th AvenueSuite 1700Regina, SK, S4P 0M3CanadaT. 306-523-2847mosaicco.com

BOOTH 710The Northern Miner80 Valleybrook DriveToronto, ON, M3B 2S9CanadaT. 416-510-6768northernminer.com

BOOTH 1318Thermo Scientific (Thermo Fisher ScientificGroup)501 90th Avenue NWMinneapolis, MN, 55433, USAT. 800-445-3503thermoscientific.com/bulkweighing

BOOTH 914Thunderbird Mining Systems2635-151st Place NERedmond, WA, 98052, USAT. 425-869-2727tbirdpac.com

BOOTH 629Thyssen Mining2409 Albert Street NorthRegina, SK, S4P 3E1CanadaT. 306-949-5929thyssenmining.com

BOOTH 525Tiley / MHIPO Box 392Callander, ON, P1B 8H5CanadaT. 705-495-8587minehoist.com

BOOTH 1243TMEIC2060 Cook DriveSalem, VA, 24153, USAT. 540-283-2364tmeic.com

BOOTH 1648Tomra SortingFeldstrasse 128Wedel, 22880, GermanyT. +49-410-318-881-02tomrasorting.com/mining

BOOTH 540Total Electrical Systems Inc.3695 Ford DriveChelmsford, ON, P0M 1L0CanadaT. 705-855-4254tesinc.ca

BOOTH 1414Total Safety3001 Wayburne DriveSuite 125Burnaby, BC, V5G 4W3CanadaT. 604-292-4700totalsafety.com

BOOTH 1140Toyo Pumps North America2853 Douglas RoadBurnaby, BC, V5C 6H2CanadaT. 604-298-1213toyopumps.com


BOOTH 941Tramac Equipment Ltd.12 Orben Drive # 3Landing, NJ, 7850, USAT. 973-526-3837tramac.com

BOOTH 619Trimble Navigation2555 North Coyote DriveSuite 115Tucson, AZ, 85745, USAT. 520-792-0162trimble.com

BOOTH 1438TS Manufacturing2 Fleetwood RoadLindsay, ON, K9V 6H4CanadaT. 705-324-3762tsman.com

BOOTH 1821U.S & Foreign CommercialService315, Place d'YouvilleSuite 500Montreal, QC, H2Y 0A4CanadaT. 514-908-3662buyusa.gov/canada

BOOTH 438Unit Electrical EngineeringLtd.1406 Maple StreetRR1, S1, C80Okanagan Falls, BC, V0H 1R0CanadaT. 250-497-5254uee.com

BOOTH 609Urecon Ltd.PO Box 210Calmar, AB, T0C 0V0CanadaT. 780- 985-2466urecon.com

BOOTH 1644Usha Martin (UMAI)701 Plastics AvenueHouston, TX, 77020, USAT. 830-755-2346ushamartinus.com

BOOTH 501Veolia Water Solutions &Technologies2000 Argentia Road Plaza IVSuite 430Mississauga, ON, L5N 1W1CanadaT. 514-334-7230, x330veoliawaterstna.com

BOOTH 1228Vertical Building SolutionsInc.PO Box 366Grande Prairie, AB, T8V 3A5CanadaT. 780-532-0366verticalbuildings.com

BOOTH 228VF Imagewear Canada, Inc.9146 Yellowhead Trail NWEdmonton, AB, T5B 1G2CanadaT. 780-477-9401vfimagewear.com

BOOTH 849Victaulic123 Newkirk RoadRichmond Hill, ON, L4C 3G5CanadaT. 905-884-7444victaulic.com

BOOTH 1846VMAC1333 Kipp RoadNanaimo, BC, V9X 1R3CanadaT. 250-740-3200vmacair.com

BOOTH 1309Voith Turbo Inc.171 Ambassador DriveUnit 1Mississauga, ON, L5T 2J1CanadaT. 905-670-3122canada.voithturbo.com

BOOTH 241Wabi Iron & Steel CorpPO Box 1510330 Broadwood AvenueNew Liskeard, ON, P0J 1P0CanadaT. 705-647-4383, x 264wabicorp.com

BOOTH 735Wajax Equipment30-26313 Township Road 531AAcheson, AB, T7X 5A3CanadaT. 780-948-5487wajaxequipment.com

BOOTH 408Weihai HaiwangHydrocyclone Co. Ltd.975 Keji RoadWeihai, Shandong , ChinaT. +86-631-562-1553wh-hw.com

BOOTH 1729Weir Minerals - NorthAmerica2701 S Stoughton RoadMadison, WI, 53716, USAT. 651-262-3137weirminerals.com

BOOTH 606Wenco International MiningSystems Ltd.100-10271 Shellbridge WayRichmond, BC, V6X 2W8CanadaT. 604-270-8277, x211wencomine.com

BOOTH 1700WESCO Distribution, Inc.6000 Lougheed HighwayBurnaby, BC, V5B 4V6CanadaT. 604-299-5566wesco.ca

BOOTH 1820West River Conveyors &Machinery Company8936 Dismal River RoadOakwood, VA, 24631, USAT. 276-259-5353, x305westriverconveyors.com

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BOOTH 1305WesTech Engineering Inc.3625 South West TempleSalt Lake City, UT, 84115, USAT. 801-265-1000, x285westech-inc.com

BOOTH 1822Westech Industrial Ltd.5636 Burbank Crescent SECalgary, AB, T2H 1Z6CanadaT. 403-259-9750westech-ind.com

BOOTH 827Western Heritage322 Duchess StreetSaskatoon, SK, S7K 0R1CanadaT. 306-975-3860, x301westernheritage.ca

BOOTH 1444Western IndustrialEnterprises Ltd.7962 Winston StreetBurnaby, BC, V5A 2H5CanadaT. 604-936-4217westernindustrial.ca

BOOTH 639Westlund Industrial5188A Everest DriveMississauga, ON, L4W 2R4CanadaT. 905-624-4575westlundpvf.com

BOOTH 1605Westpro Machinery Inc.PO Box 726Vernon, BC, V1T 6N6CanadaT. 250-549-6710, x22westpromachinery.com

BOOTH 505WestRon PumpsCompressors and Blowers3-3600 21 Street NECalgary, AB, T2E 6V6CanadaT. 403-291-6777gotpump.ca

BOOTH 1138Westwind Performance201-2438 Marine DriveWest Vancouver, BC, V7V 1L2CanadaT. 604-761-0978westwindperformance.com

BOOTH 1424Wire Rope Industries Ltd.5501 Transcanada HighwayPointe Claire, QC, H9R 1B7CanadaT. 514-426-6442wirerope.com

BOOTH 1619WireCo WorldGroup12200 NW Ambassador DriveKansas City, MO, 64163, USAT. 816-270-4911wirecoworldgroup.com

BOOTH 1247Wolseley Canada20175 102nd AvenueLangley, BC, V1M 4B4CanadaT. 604-513-4300hdpe.ca

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BOOTH 922WSP Group1600 René-Lévesque BoulevardWest, 16th FloorMontreal, QC, H3H 1P9CanadaT. 514-340-0046genivar.com

BOOTH 1300Xylem300 Labrosse AvenuePointe-Claire, QC, H9R 4V5CanadaT. 514-428-4826xylemwatersolutions.com/ca

BOOTH 411Yantai Xinhai MiningMachinery Company188 Xinhai RoadFushan DistrictYantai, Shandong, ChinaT. +86-535-630-3268ytxinhai.com

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BOOTH 527ZCL Composites Inc.1420 Parsons Road SWEdmonton, AB, T6X 1M5CanadaT. 780-466-6648zcl.com

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For much of the 19th and 20thcenturies, pit ponies workedunderground, hauling ore in

coal mines throughout Great Britainand Eastern Canada. Small enoughto walk the narrow passageways butstrong enough to haul tubs of coal,the diminutive horses – no morethan 1.4 metres tall, from hoof to thetop of their shoulder blades –worked long hours, living the bulkof their lives in darkness. In the mid-1800s, pit ponies were a morehumane alternative to existingpractices and proved to be a usefulinnovation, nearly outlasting the dot-com bubble of the 1990s.

In the early 1800s, child labour was common in coal minesacross Britain. Due to their size, children could navigate amine’s tight passages, and relaxed labour laws meant theycould be worked for long hours in punishing conditions.Many children employed in coal mines worked as “hurriers.”They would be harnessed to a tub of coal that they had to pullthrough tiny passageways, sometimes less than a metre high.Others were “thrusters,” tasked with pushing ore cars frombehind. In 1838, 26 children were killed in a well-publicizedincident at a mine near Barnsley, instigating Queen Victoria torequest a public inquiry on working conditions for children inthe mines. After a Royal Commission reported on the matter,the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed the Mines andCollieries Act of 1842, which prohibited boys under 10 yearsand all females from working in the mines. Pit ponies hadplayed a role in mining prior to 1842, but the new law madethe small-statured horses necessary as replacements for thesmall-statured hurriers and thrusters.

Over the next century, ponies and horses became an inte-gral part of coal mining, with some estimates pegging thenumber of pit ponies in British mines in 1913 at 70,000. InCape Breton, many of the “ponies” were actually small feralhorses captured from Sable Island. Generally, any horse thathad yet to be tamed was broken above ground before beingtaken below the surface, where it would spend most of its lifein darkness. The horses were stabled underground and oftenallowed only a few hours of rest a day. A dedicated staff of sta-blehands tended to the horses while they ate and rested, butduring the workday, they would be put to work around themine by “drivers,” who were entrusted with the horses’ safetyand productivity as they transported coal.

Working conditions were harsh. In Britain, the NationalEquine Defence League was formed in 1909 to advocate for


the welfare of pit ponies andother working horses. In 1910, amember of the defence leaguewrote to Humanitarian magazine,explaining that the average pitpony was destined to “work for-ever in unchanging darkness,scarred with unhealed, unhealingand putrescent wounds; maimedin limbs to be energized only bytorture; blind, by malice or acci-dent; unfed, ill-fed and workeduntil they succumbed in utterexhaustion, or drop dead in theirharness!”

Eventually, the lives of the horses got better. By the 1940s,they were given short “vacations” above ground. The horseshad to have their eyes covered before they were brought to thesurface, since seeing the sunlight after so much darkness couldsend them into a frenzy.

The end of the use of pit ponies came about as muchbecause of the mechanization of mining processes as for thewell-being of the animals. The horses were replaced withhoisting engines that pulled cars full of ore from the mine faceto the surface on a rope-managed conveyer system. By theearly 1960s, the last of the pit ponies in Cape Breton wereretired, but in Britain, the horses were used for much longer;the last two pit ponies were not retired until 1999, from thePant y Gasseg mine in Wales. Tony, the last living pit pony inBritain, died in 2011 at the age of 40, after spending itsremaining years in an animal shelter.

People who worked in the mines and especially thoseemployed in the underground stables often reported strongbonds to the horses, and these animals have been honoured inmany ways. Welsh artist Mick Petts created a 200-metre figu-rative earth sculpture of a pit pony in Wales. The sculpture isso large that it can easily be viewed on Google Earth. As for thepit ponies of Cape Breton, their legacy was enshrined with PitPony by Joyce Barkhouse, an award-winning children’s novelabout the bond between a Sable Island horse and an 11-year- old boy working in the mines. The novel was adapted into atelevision series by the CBC in the late-1990s.

Prince mine, the last colliery in Cape Breton, shut its doorsin 2001, but Cape Breton’s Miners Museum in Glace Bay hon-ours its long mining history. The museum sits on top of OceanDeeps Colliery, a replica mine, and visitors can still experiencethe darkness and claustrophobia of the life of a 1930s’ miner,replete with the neighs and whinnies of an animatronic horsekept in an underground stable. CIM

Pit ponies: real horsepower undergroundBy Alan Jones

British coal miners with Little Tick, a favourite pit pony, in 1913

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