Dear Mirarco team and stakeholders, It is with a mix of sadness and gratitude that the Board of Directors announces Vic Pakalnis’s retirement as CEO of MIRARCO Mining Innovation, effective July 31, 2019. Since 2012, Vic has played a critical role in the development and success of the organization, and while we will miss him […]
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Historic panel talks “reliable, clean and cost-effective” energy being researched partly in Sudbury Nuclear power is grabbing the attention of the mining industry, to the point where there is a real possibility there could be portable reactors powering mines in less than 10 years. That was the news delivered at a first-of-its-kind panel discussion at
New Direction for Energy Centre and Bruce Power Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems SUDBURY, ON – Dr. Francois Caron will join MIRARCO as the Director of the Energy Center and as the Bruce Power Chair in Sustainable Energy Systems as of January 7th, 2019. Caron holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of
On April 9th, 1998, the Mining Innovation Rehabilitation and Applied Research Centre (MIRARCO), opened its doors in Sudbury, Ontario. The organization was created and led by Peter Kaiser, P. Eng, as a means to explore solutions to the mining industry’s challenges and as an environment to conduct applied research. MIRARCO, which operates as a unique
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On Dec. 7th, 2017, a high level delegation from Northeastern University (NEU) in China came to Laurentian University in Sudbury, to sign an international agreement to establish the China Canada Centre for Deep Mining Innovation (CCCDMI). Mutual interests Three areas of interest initially identified were rock mechanics, geology and safety. At the request of one
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