Company Overview

MIRARCO is a not-for-profit R&D company owned by Laurentian University, specializing in the natural resources industry, energy and the environment. MIRARCO assists companies and municipalities of all sizes in solving problems through innovative applied research, using customized teams of scientists, engineers and Univeristy/College student researchers.

Research projects may be eligible for tax credits and research subsidies.

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corp.

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Services

• Borehole Acoustic Televiewer (service)

  Acoustic televiewer is one of only a handful available in Canada. Televiewer is available for rent, or teleview services are available on a subcontract basis. Call or email for details.

• Data Visualization / Virtual Reality (services)

  We offer two types of Virtual Reality (VR) services:

  • Benefit from virtual reality in our facility
  • Learn how to set up a facility at your company's site

  Not sure what stereoscopic VR can do for your company? Come for a demo and see how virtual reality can bring real profits to your mine planning or exploration project. Once-skeptical companies try the Sudbury facility and see potential million dollar gains with very little investment. This is the only facility in Canada specializing in mining and mineral exploration applications. Email reality@mirarco. org to book a demo.

  Non-mining applications that can be used in our facility:

  • civil engineering
  • architecture
  • urban planning
  • wind modelling
  • environmental modelling
  • chemistry / biochemistry modelling
  • large-scale data integration and trend identification
• Environmental Monitoring, Problem Solving, R&d

  MIRARCO's Centre for Environmental Monitoring specializes in monitoring, modelling, visualization and facilitated interpretation of complex systems. Particular areas of expertise include: soil, air, and water quality studies; watershed monitoring; water resource management.

  MIRARCO offers skilled HR and leading technical resources, including tools that can handle large-scale environmental monitoring projects with ease and review multiple scenarios based on dynamic datasets.

• Exploration Problem-solving And Research

  MIRARCO -- Mining Innovation solves problems and carries out research in the fields of mine design, exploration, mining, and environmental monitoring. MIRARCO offers the only virtual reality laboratory worldwide that specialises in mining and exploration, providing the opportunity to save time and money during the mine design and exploration phases.

  Companies use the facility as technical tool to plan exploration drillhole programs, review historical data, and evaluate current drilling exercises. As well, our staff are experienced in helping companies sell the potential of their properties to investors in a much more convincing manner using large-scale 3D. Come for a demonstration and see the difference for yourself. Email reality@mirarco. org to arrange a time.

• Geotechnical Consulting

  Do you have a geotechnical challenge? Our Geomechanics Research Centre has been creating innovative applied research solutions for over 15 years. Areas of expertise includes ground control planning, understanding seismic environments, simulation and interpretation, and more. We create customized solutions that meet the needs of your minesite challenge.

• Ground Penetrating Radar

  Try short-pulse ground penetrating radar. Our team is developing a new generation of radar technology, giving you better resolution output than is normally possible depth up to 1.5 metres. Potential applications:

  • Mining: Excellent tool to detect cracks behind spray-on liners
  • Measure shotcrete thickness
  • Mineral exploration
  • Road & railbed surveys
  • Snow & ice thickness
  • Underground utility detection
  • Archeological investigation
• Mining Problem-solving And Research

  MIRARCO -- Mining Innovation solves problems and carries out research in the fields of mine design, exploration, mining, and environmental monitoring. MIRARCO offers the only virtual reality laboratory worldwide that specialises in mining and exploration, providing the opportunity to save time and money during the mine design and exploration phases.

Products

• Borehole Acoustic Televiewer (rental)
• Data Visualization / Virtual Reality (facility Rental)

  Bring your team to our facility and view your data in stereoscopic 3D. This is the only facility in Canada specializing in mining and mineral exploration applications. Once-skeptical companies try the facility and see potential million dollar gains with very little investment. Come for a demo and see how virtual reality can bring real profits to your mine planning or exploration project. info@mirarco. org

  Other non-mining applications:

  • civil engineering
  • urban planning
  • wind modelling
  • environmental modelling
  • chemistry / biochemistry modelling
  • large-scale data integration and trend identification

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