Mineral Economics, Mine Reliability, and Asset Management Laboratory
Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University
Research Areas
- Mineral economics
- Reliability analysis and maintenance optimization of mining systems
- Sustainable mining
- Mine risk management
- Mine design and production scheduling
- Bed-blending and homogenisation operations
Projects
1. NSERC CRD, Design optimization of access roads and networks in hard-rock underground mines
2. NSERC/RGPIN, Novel project and operations management strategies to adapt cyclical mineral industries to Industry 4.0 and the circular economy
3. NSERC RTI, Development of novel 100 kW microwave-assisted rock excavation system for large scale proof-of-concept, Co-Investigator
4. NSERC Engage, Maximizing mine-mill reconciliation through a new cut-off grade and capacity setting model
5. NSERC/RGPIN, Novel project and operations management strategies to adapt cyclical mineral industries to a new industry age and circular economy
6. Compute Canada's Resources for Research Groups 2017, Co-Investigator
7. NSERC Engage Cost analysis, mining techniques and mineral extraction of near-Earth asteroids
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8. NSERC Engage Plus, Robust stope optimization: Extension to orebody uncertainty for practical risk and dilution management |
9. NSERC CRD, Reliability based multi-objective strategic and operational mine planning through parallel meta-heuristics
10. NSERC CRD, Innovative mine optimization tailored to iron ore operations: Long and short term planning with dynamic truck dispatching
11. NSERC Engage, Production strategy associated with quality requirements in iron ore open pit mines under price sensitivity
12. NSERC CRD, Tri-cone rotary drill bit wear monitoring, in-situ geology recognition, vibration analysis and control, Co-Investigator
13. FRQNT, Define, develop, deploy, test, and validate technologies and proceeds advanced monitoring, control, and automation to enable remote operation of rotary drills, Co-Investigator
14. NSERC Engage, A new stope optimization for underground mining operations
15. NSERC/RGPIN Enterprise-wide risk management of mining operations in a value chain environment
16. CFI/LOM, Reliability assessment and maintenance optimization of mining systems
Facilities
The laboratory is equipped with computational facilities including software such as ReliaSoft, Promine, Arena, CPLEX, What’sBest!, JMP and ModelRisk and equipment such as a thermal imager, scopemeter kit, vibration meter, thickness gage and energy analyzer.