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traditional methods. Nicholas Kenny hears from Yair Frastai, co-founder and CEO at VerAI Discoveries, to learn more about the benefits that AI can provide when it comes to critical mineral discovery.
Health & safety 32 The boiling point
Heat stress is a serious occupational health problem across mining – and with climate change increasing the regularity of hot weather events, is only becoming more and more of an issue. Andrea Valentino chats with Glen Kenny of the University of Ottawa, and Kristin Yeoman of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), to learn more about the challenges the mining industry faces over protecting workers from rising temperatures, how the so-called ‘buddy system’ might prove more successful than mere rules – and why climate change means the problem of heat stress is only going to continue.
Sustainability
35 Big things from small packages
Around the world, mining operators are waking up to the potential value left in their waste products. The process of bioleaching, where microbes are used to extract valuable leftover metals from mine tailings, is a far more environmentally friendly process than the acids that have typically been used in the past.
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Nicholas Kenny speaks with Ross Orr, president and CEO of BacTech, and Radhakrishnan Mahadevan, professor at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto, to learn more about the benefits this process can offer the mining industry.
39 Leave the earth as you found it Cleaning up Australia’s 80,000 disused mines is a huge job – but the payoffs can outweigh the costs. Mohan Yellishetty, co-founder of Critical Minerals Consortium and associate professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University, and Peter
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Marcus Bach, senior research scientist, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences and adjunct research fellow, Monash University, explore the various ways reclaiming abandoned mines can offer environmental, social and economic benefits.
Events 41 Euro Mine Expo
The Euro Mine Expo returns to Skellefteå, Sweden, on 28–30 May 2024.
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