http://www.miningexcellence.ca/rss/news.xml http://www.miningexcellence.ca/images/cemi_vertical_88x96.png http://www.miningexcellence.ca/rss/news.xml CEMI News & Events Channel CEMI and INORD invite you to attend a Symposium about using the economic potential created by the Ring of Fire mineral deposits as a catalyst to examine a range of options that will help northern communities determine their path to economic development; building community while building wealth on February 9, 2012. Registration is Open! /events/2012/Far North Symposium 20120209-final.pdf CEMI, Golder Associates, and MIRARCO invite you to attend a one day workshop on Weather Variability and Climate Change: Challenges and Solutions for the Mining Sector on February 8, 2012. Registration is Open! /events/courses CEMI is proud to announce the completion of the Structural Geology Guidelines for Aiding Characterization of Deep Mining Fault Behaviour. This comprehensive manual, prepared in partnership with Golder Associates and Queen's University, is available for purchase starting January 2012. Order your copy today! /knowledge/reports/Structural_Geology_Manual/ On November 30, 2011 from 8:30-12:00pm, CEMI invites you to join us in providing an opportunity for CEMI sponsored/supported students to come together to speak about their Exploration and Geophysics related research projects. Special Guest Speaker - R. Mohan Srivastava President, Benchmark Six, "Fracture modeling: New ideas for mineral deposit development and production planning". events/lectures/ On October 12th, 2011, CEMI hosted its 4th AGM and presented four of its strategic research programs: GeoRisk, Ventilation on Demand, the Rio Tinto Centre for Underground Mine Construction, and Smart Underground Monitoring and Integrated Technologies (SUMIT) for Deep Mining which highlighted technical achievements and work in progress. /knowledge/reports/links/CEMI_Annual_Report_2011.pdf Vice President Douglas Morrison speaks at the Northern Ontario Business Awards gala at the Caruso Club Sept. 27th, 2011. CEMI was presented with the Judges' Choice Award at the event. CEMI would like to thank Northern Ontario Business, our award sponsor, Morris Modular, and our nominator, BESTECH. /news/releases/ On October 13-14, 2011, you are invited to attend a 1.5 day technical short course: "Lidar Imaging for Mining: Expanding the state-of-practice with state-of-art tools" delivered by Dr. Matt Lato, NGI in the Willet Green Miller Centre - Auditorium. Registration for this course is now open! $100.00 and students are free! http://www.miningexcellence.ca/events/courses/ On Wednesday, August 24th, 4:00pm, CEMI welcomes Dr. Steve Rogers, Senior Geoscientist, Golder Associates, as our guest lecturer presenting, "Applications of Discrete Fracture Network (DFN) modeling to Mining Geomechanics", in the Willet Green Miller Centre - Auditorium. http://www.miningexcellence.ca/events/lectures/ On Thursday, August 25th, 4:00pm, CEMI welcomes Dr. Willem De Beer, Principal of Golder Associates, as our guest lecturer presenting, "Geophysics for Rockmass Characterization", in the Willet Green Miller Centre - Auditorium. http://www.miningexcellence.ca/events/lectures/ On July 27th, 2011, the provincial government announced it's supporting the mining research project called, "SUMIT" with an investment of $2.24 million from the Ministry of Research and Innovation's Ontario Research Fund-Research Excellence program. /news/releases/ The McGuinty Government is providing $823,000 to CEMI toward a Research Chair for Holistic Mining Practices, Sudbury MPP Rick Bartolucci made the official announcement on July 26th, 2011. /news/releases/ On Thursday, July 7th, 2011 at 3:00pm, John McGaughey, President at Mira Geoscience presents: "Mira Geoscience's Rock Property Database, Geohazard and Geotechnical Data Management Systems". /events/2011/MiraGeoscience20110707.pdf On Wednesday, July 6th, 2011 at 3:00pm, Dr. Florian Amann, Senior Scientist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Geological Institute, Engineering Geology presents: "The role of brittle failure in sedimentary rocks in Swiss tunnel projects". http://www.miningexcellence.ca/events/lectures/ Inside the 2011 Innovation Showcase, we have featured some of the flagship projects and collaborative activities both currently in progress and completed, a result of the efforts of the Solution Team Network... the Innovators. We invite you to learn more about the highlighted projects, and for your convenience, have included key contacts for each innovation project should you wish to find out more. http://edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk/Launch.aspx?PBID=e6ce37b3-3176-4605-b686-69f2d6e0f6cd CEMI is presenting three technical papers at the 2011 CIM Conference in Montreal (May 22-25). For those attending this conference, we welcome you to attend these technical sessions highlighting some of CEMI's strategic research programs and/or visit the CEMI booth #900. /events/2011/CEMI Technical Abstracts for the CIM Conference 2011.pdf On May 2, 2011 at 8:30-1:00pm, CEMI invites you to join us in providing an opportunity for CEMI sponsored/supported students to come together to speak about their GeoRisk related research projects; receive feedback from interested parties; and to generally get to know each other. CEMI is proud to work with the next generation of up and coming researchers. Special Guest Speaker - Stephen Flewelling, Xstrata Nickel presents "Xstrata Nickel - Our New Mines". http://www.miningexcellence.ca/events/lectures/