Exploring Innovations Program
Invested to Date – $217,646
IMII’s Exploring Innovations Program supports potentially transformative innovations, based in new science or new technologies, to meet the needs of the minerals industry.
These projects are a short-term engagement, suitable for an academic term or a maximum of six months for supply chains and other research entities. Grants range from $2,500 (for an academic term) up to $25,000 (for an intensive, 6-month investigation).
The Exploring Innovations Program should be utilized to investigate a problem, build knowledge of the existing problem, and develop potential solutions. Key elements to a project could include:
- Identifying the problem
- Literature/technology review
- Development of theories/methodology or technology ideas
- Preliminary testing of theories/methodology/technology
- Results – this could be the elimination of a theory or a path for future research or technology development
Projects are supported by IMII member’s industry experts and the IMII team.
Areas of interest are:
- Analytics solutions
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Digitization and automation
- ESG – environmental, social, and governance
- Extraction and processing
- Greenhouse gas emissions
- Modernizing core technologies
- Rock mass and geology technologies
- Sustainability
- Tailings management
- Workplace health and safety systems
