CANMET - MMSL
CANMET Mining and Mineral Sciences Laboratories, a division of Natural Resources Canada, is a leading Canadian R&D organization with world-class expertise in a variety of areas related to minerals, metals and energy.
Much of CANMET's research is done in partnership with industry, provincial governments, other federal departments, universities and international agencies. These activities cover a broad range of in-house research and contracting-out on a cost-shared, task-shared or cost- recovery basis.
CANMET offers opportunities in many current fields of interest, including R&D consortia, personnel interchanges, simulation software and modelling, technical assessments and field trials, standards, and technology transfer. Clients include mining and mineral processing companies, environmental and engineering consultants, and government agencies.
Areas of expertise in minerals sciences are: acid mine drainage; biotechnology (bioleaching, biocorrosion, effluent treatment, biodegradation and bioflocculation); mining and mineral processing effluents management; enhancement and optimization of mineral and metal recovery; advanced concrete research; advanced materials and ceramics research; recycle technologies for minerals and metals; analytical standards and services; applied mineralogy.
Company Details
Company Information
John Macmillan
Title:
Manager
Telephone:
(613) 947-0798
Fax:
(613) 947-0983
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Tom Hynes
Title:
Director
Area of Responsibility:
Research/Development/Engineering
Telephone:
(613) 995-4776
Fax:
(613) 992-8928
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Products
Environmental Products And Services
Effluent Treatment Systems.
CANMET's mineral sciences expertise reflects a multidisciplinary capability in the development of custom-designed effluent treatment approaches for mining and mineral-processing operations. A superior staff and excellent facilities enable CANMET to discover innovative solutions to problems associated with metals, ammonia, cyanide, nitrate, suspended solids and other substances in mine and mineral-processing effluents, tailings piles, sludges and slags. CANMET emphasizes reducing the net costs of treatment technologies and effluent management approaches.
CANMET mineral sciences activities have developed methods for measuring and removing substances from effluent and emission streams, as well as for evaluating environmental effects monitoring tools. These activities have also been instrumental in providing the science required for sensible environmental regulation and policies.
Recycle Technologies For Minerals And Metals.
CANMET recycle activities are lessening the environmental impacts of Canadian minerals and metals industries. New CANMET technologies enable these industries to re-use basic materials, reducing process wastes and recovering valuable resources. CANMET also acts as a technology gatekeeper to major recycle programs in the U.S., European Economic Community and Japan.
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