Sustainable Mineral Development- A Theoretical Paradigm for Compliance of Strategic and Short-term Mine Plans

可持续矿产开发 - 符合战略和短期采矿计划的理论范式

• 批准号: RGPIN-2018-05171
• 负责人: AskariNasab, Hooman
• 金额: $ 2.62万
• 依托单位: University of Alberta
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2018-01-01 至 2019-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=644219
• 关键词: Sustainable; Mineral; Development; Theoretical; Paradigm

According to Canada's Economic Action Plan the energy and mining sector provides approximately $25 billion a year in revenue to governments — money that supports critical social programs such as health care, education, and public pensions. Over the next decade, more than 600 major resource projects, worth over $680 billion, are planned to move ahead. Canada has a global responsibility to develop and utilize its mineral resources sustainably and optimally. The proposed research is aligned with the Sustainable Mineral Development Initiative, under the collaborative leadership of Natural Resources Canada, to create a competitive advantage in mineral resource development and planning for Canada. The suggested research program aims to develop an integrated mine systems planning, whereby a mineral is extracted and prepared within a desired market specification, with the minimum repercussions on the environment, maximum economic return, and within acceptable social, legal, and regulatory constraints. This proposal is an extension to our past research and findings on long-term, short-term and operational mine planning. The goal is to develop an integrated mine planning framework that can produce feasible, reliable, and achievable mine plans to avoid project disruptions and improve operational efficiencies in order to generate maximum economic returns within acceptable social and environmental constraints. It is anticipated that the outcome of this research will contribute to responsible resource development by transferring knowledge to practitioners and end-users through prototype open-source software applications in the industry. It is foreseen that three PhD and three Master's students will be trained through this program.

根据加拿大的经济行动计划，能源和采矿部门每年为政府提供约250亿美元的收入，这些资金支持关键的社会计划，例如医疗保健，教育和公共养老金。在接下来的十年中，计划向前迈进600多个主要资源项目，价值超过6800亿美元。加拿大有责任可持续，最佳地开发和利用其矿产资源。拟议的研究与加拿大自然资源的合作领导下的可持续矿产开发计划保持一致，以在加拿大的矿产资源开发和规划中创造竞争优势。建议的研究计划旨在制定综合的矿山系统计划，从而在所需的市场规范中提取并准备矿物，并在环境，最大的经济回报以及可接受的社会，法律和监管限制内产生最小影响。该提案是我们过去的研究和发现的长期，短期和运营矿山计划的扩展。目的是开发一个综合的矿山计划框架，该框架可以产生可行，可靠和可实现的矿山计划，以避免项目中断并提高运营效率，以在可接受的社会和环境限制内产生最大的经济回报。可以预料，这项研究的结果将通过将知识通过业界的原型开源软件应用程序转移给从业人员和最终用户，从而为负责任的资源开发做出贡献。可以预见的是，将通过该计划对三位博士学位和三名硕士学生进行培训。