Innovation in mining technology

This episode features a round-table discussion on clean mining recorded live at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2018.

The panelists are: Jason Goodhand, vice-president of business development at e-Zn Inc.; Cory McPhee, vice-president of corporate affairs, communications and sustainability at Vale Canada; John Mullally, vice-president of corporate affairs at Goldcorp; Nathan Stubina, managing director of innovation at McEwen Mining at the time of recording; Carl Weatherell, executive director and CEO of Canada Mining Innovation Council; Raziel Zisman, co-founder and partner, sustainable governance initiative, Whittle Consulting.

The panel is moderated by Northern Miner staff writer Richard Quarisa.

We also have the eighth in our series of "Sponsor Spotlight" promoted-content segments: brief interviews with key personnel from the top sponsors of the Progressive Mine Forum. This episode has two managers from drilling company Major Drilling: Marc Landry, vice-president responsible for technology and supply chain; and Ian Wilson, innovation manager.

The episode has our third in a month-long series of promoted-content "Mining Minute" segments with Cobalt 27 Capital chairman, CEO and founder Anthony Milewski talking the reasons behind his firm's growing exposure to nickel in addition to cobalt.

This podcast is sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (www.yukonminingalliance.ca).

Music Credits:

"Miami Nights - Main Theme" and "Hiding Your Reality" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

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Episode 129: Clean mining ft Goodhand, McPhee, Mullally, Stubina, Weatherell and Zisman

GeoMega Resources (TSXV: GMA) president and CEO Kiril Mugerman discusses the problems with the current mining and processing of rare earth elements (REEs) that are critical to making rare earth magnets used in advanced technology such as clean power generation, smartphones and electric vehicles.

Over the past five years, his Montreal-based firm has developed a proprietary, clean rare earths separation technology and has a goal of scaling it up to commercial production levels.

This is an edited portion of a sponsored presentation Mugerman gave  at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2018.

Visit ressourcesgeomega.ca for more information.

This podcast is sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (www.yukonminingalliance.ca).

Music Credits:

"Jet Fueled Vixen" rhythm tracks by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

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Miner Moment #17: Rare earth's clean mining problems and solutions ft GeoMega's Kiril Mugerman

Peak Power COO Matt Sachs talks about how industrial users of electricity can use predictive technology to move off grid power during peak load times, and save money.

This is an edited portion of a sponsored presentation Sachs gave at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2018.

Visit www.peakpowerenergy.com for more information.

This podcast is sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (www.yukonminingalliance.ca).

Music Credits:

"Jet Fueled Vixen" rhythm tracks by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

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Miner Moment #18: Getting savvier with energy consumption ft Peak Power's Matt Sachs

This episode features a round-table discussion on "Big Data"  recorded live at The Northern Miner's Progressive Mine Forum held at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto in October 2018.

The panelists are: Talia Dabby, director in the Technology Consulting, and People and Organization Practices at PwC Canada; Humera Malik, founder and CEO of Canvass Analytics; Glenn Mullan, president of the Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and president and CEO of Golden Valley Mines; Gordon Stothart, executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Iamgold; and Shelby Yee, co-founder and CEO of RockMass Technologies.

The panel is moderated by Northern Miner editor-in-chief John Cumming.

We also have the last in our series of "Sponsor Spotlight" promoted-content segments: brief interviews with key personnel from the top sponsors of the Progressive Mine Forum. This episode has Kiril Mugerman, president and CEO of GeoMega Resources, explaining how his company has developed a new, clean approach to mining and refining Rare Earths in North America.

The episode has the fourth and final promoted-content "Mining Minute" segment with Cobalt 27 Capital chairman, CEO and founder Anthony Milewski talking about the team that's been assembled to push his streaming and royalty company forward.

This podcast is sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (www.yukonminingalliance.ca).

Music Credits:

"Miami Nights - Main Theme" and "Hiding Your Reality" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

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Episode 130 - Big Data in mining ft Dabby, Malik, Mullan, Stothart & Yee

This episode features an in-depth interview with Andrew Swart of accounting and management-consulting giant Deloitte on the topic of major trends that miners need to keep an eye on in 2019.

Based in Toronto, Andrew is Deloitte's Canadian Leader for Mining & Metals, and its Global Consulting Leader for Mining & Metals. 

Andrew emphasizes the need for miners to improve strategies regarding the emerging technologies of analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to boost operational performance and to better manage risk. Other topics include water and power usage, changes in corporate social responsibility (CSR), and the evolving workforce. 

The interview coincides with the publication by Deloitte's global mining team of its 11th annual report, "Tracking the trends: the top 10 issues transforming the future of mining" which is available for free download at: https://www2.deloitte.com/ca/en/pages/energy-and-resources/articles/tracking-the-trends.html

The podcast begins with an update on Vale's Feijao tailings spill disaster in Brazil, which at the time of recording had left 84 dead and 276 missing, most of whom were Vale employees. 

Read more on the disaster at : 
https://www.northernminer.com/news/editorial-tailings-spill-at-feijao-is-vales-worst-yet/1003803607/ 

This podcast is sponsored by the Yukon Mining Alliance (www.yukonminingalliance.ca).

RELATED ARTICLE:
Commentary: Mining in the digital age by Andrew Swart
https://www.northernminer.com/news/commentary-mining-in-the-digital-age/1003804015/

Music Credits:

"Miami Nights - Main Theme" and "Hiding Your Reality" by Kevin MacLeod (www.incompetech.com)

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Episode 131: Mining trends to watch in 2019 ft Deloitte's Andrew Swart

This episode features the provincial mining panel discussion from The Northern Miner’s annual Canadian Mining Symposium held at Canada House in London, U.K., earlier this year. The panel consisted of Chad Norman Day, President, Tahltan Central Government; Steve Burleton, President and CEO, GT Gold; Dave Nikolejsin, Deputy Minister, Province of British Columbia, Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources; and Walter Coles Jr., President and CEO, Skeena Resources. The panel moderator was Mining.com executive editor Frik Els.

Also, the latest news on social media and the website with this week’s host, online editor Adrian Pocobelli.

Music Credits:

“Rattlesnake Railroad”, “Big Western Sky”, “Western Adventure” and “Battle on the Western Frontier” by Brett Van Donsel (www.incompetech.com).

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Episode 151: Mining in harmony with the environment, ft. Day, Burleton, Nikolejsin, Coles

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