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...conducting innovative research for the Mining Industry! |
The Centre for Environmental Research in Minerals, Metals, and Materials |
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September, 2002.
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Industrial Growth from Pollution
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Bern Klein, Assistant Professor, Mining Engineering Director, CIMI (Centre for Industrial Mineral Innovations) Head, CERM3 Environmental Technology Laboratory
Don Hallbom, Graduate Student, Mining Engineering
Jian Yue, Graduate Student, Mining Engineering
Alireza Entesari Graduate Student, Mining Engineering
Background
The field of Industrial Minerals includes a wide variety of substances used to create building materials such as bricks, concrete, roads, glass, and other essentials. There are certain Industrial Minerals however, that have properties that lend themselves to helping to protect and cleanup the environment.
In 1998, Professor Klein together with Professor Marcello Veiga started up a research group in the Mining Engineering department called CIMI (Centre for Industrial Mineral Innovations). This facility was also awarded a Canada Foundation for Innovation grant from its New Opportunities Fund.
The work centres around the application of industrial minerals to mitigate ARD and heavy metal pollution as well as studies into the rheological properties of slurries - a subject area that has broad application across the industry.
To see a pictorial presentation on the Rheology of Laterite Slurries, click here.
To see a report on Rheological Effects in Jet-Mill Grinding, click here. (PDF format)
To see a pictorial presentation of how industrial mineral can help remove metals from waste water, click here.
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Email: cerm3@mining.ubc.ca
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Permission is given to reproduce all or any of the contained materials provided due credit is given to CERM3 as the source.
Revised: September 28, 2002.
