Mineral Processing Lab

The Mineral Processing Lab engages the province’s mining industry to explore mineral processing challenges and their solutions. The lab is home to several mining research projects, including as the NSERC funded “Improving Methods for Grade Determination and Ore Characterization” and the development of an Autosampler - an automatic sorting and bagging device to improve sample representation from blast hole and RC drilling.

The Mineral Processing Lab houses a lab-size Knelson Concentrator. Several mining operations have availed of the concentrator and gained valuable knowledge about their processes. The lab also assists with the development and testing of innovative equipment and technology. A miniature ball mill was designed, fabricated and extensively tested at the lab along with an underground rock face sampler.

The lab is instrumental in facilitating and hosting work terms students where students have performed geomatics-related internships with local mining operations (GIS, LIDAR, survey, etc) and also has been the setting for mining sector workshops.