Experience

Experience

BC Mining Research has 25 years of combined experience in over 400 metallurgical projects around the globe. We have worked with such companies as INCO Ltd, Placer Dome, Shell Canada, Skyline Gold, and Selkirk Metals.

Innovation

Innovation

We engineer innovative new technologies to help companies lower cost- and energy-consumption in metal extraction. We specialize in the design of underground pre-concentration and waste disposal systems and have expertise in sensor-based sorting, high pressure grinding, high-speed stirred mills, and vibratory mills. Currently, we are operating the first commercial pilot High Pressure Grinding Roller Press (HPGR) test facility in North America.

Flexibility

Flexibility

As an offshoot of the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at UBC, BC Mining Research is a small and flexible engineering company with specialization in many areas, including ore pre-concentration, metallurgical and geo-metallurgical engineering, and mineral deposit evaluation.

About BC Mining Research

We are a Vancouver-based company delivering engineering, research and development services to the minerals industry.

  • Our Areas of Specialization
    • Mine/mill integration
    • Geo-metallurgical engineering
    • Ore evaluation and sorting technologies
    • Integrated pre-concentration and composite fill systems design
    • Process design
    • Process testwork: protocol design, supervision & evaluation of results
    • HPGR testwork and circuit design
    • Process design & equipment selection
    • Mineral deposit evaluation
    • NI 43-101 compliant studies
    • Plant and infrastructure cost estimation & economic evaluation

BC Mining Research also has access to additional resources through close associations with the Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering at UBC.

Recent Engineering Projects at BC Mining Research
  • Placer Dome - Underground pre-concentration study for Musselwhite and South Deep Mines
  • International Wayside - Gold pre-concentration project
  • Shell Canada - Process development of innovative tar sands treatment process (with Wardrop)
  • Skyline Gold - Bronson Slope Cu/Au porphyry ore pre-concentration project
  • Doe Run Company - Lead/zinc ore pre-concentration and waste disposal study for SEMO Operations
  • Metallurgical consulting for Golder Ore Evaluation Services
    • Kubi Gold Project (Ghana) for PMI
    • Cameron Lake Gold Study for Nuinsco
    • New Brittania Gold Study for Alexis Minerals
    • Cerro Corona Due Diligence
    • Black Angel Pre-Feasibility Study
    • Silvercorp "Silvertip" Preliminary Assessment
  • Process evaluation and improvements to HCA Mountain Minerals Dry Vibratory Silica Grinding Circuit, Golden, BC