CEMI
CEMI ACCELERATES THE COMMERCIALIZATION OF INNOVATIONS INTO MINING
About Cemi

Advancing Commercially Viable Innovations

CEMI helps advance commercially viable innovations to improve safety, productivity and environmental performance. We help mining companies achieve better operational performance for a faster rate of return.

CREATIVITY IS THINKING UP NEW THINGS. INNOVATION IS DOING NEW THINGS.
- Theodore Levitt
Who We Are
CEMI helps close the innovation and commercialization gap
We advance innovations to:
  • Find more ore
  • Mine ore more effectively and safely
  • Generate more value from mines
  • Get a more benign impact on the environment
    • Established in 2007, CEMI’s mandate is to accelerate step-change innovation by introducing new practices, procedures, tools, techniques, and technologies to help generate a significant improvement in the performance of mines.
    What We Do
    CEMI’s approach is to lead and co-ordinate innovations that can be integrated into mining operations.
    CEMI’s innovation focus is across the mining cycle with 4 strategic technical mining categories – underground and surface mining, mineral exploration, improving end to end productivity & operational performance and reducing the environmental impact & improving sustainability.
    Essential to successful innovation is market acceptance. CEMI works to ensure that these mining innovations are commercially viable and achieve a level of operational integration into day-to-day mining activities.
    Our approach is purposeful, to accelerate the commercialization of innovations that are sustainable and economically feasible for the global mining industry.
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    CEMI understands that innovation is essential for improving the overall performance of the Canadian and global mining industry
    Introducing innovations into mining will help to:
  • Modernize mining
  • Improve the cost-effectiveness of mining
  • Increase the rate of ore-body discovery
  • Improve energy and water utilization
  • Manage the impact of mining on the environment
  • Sustain the low carbon economy
  • Attract the next generation of talent, jobs, companies
  • Other benefits
    • CEMI’s Innovation Equation
    Every element of CEMI’s Innovation Equation is an essential building block to innovation
    Innovation Equation
    Each element helps to ensure the innovation is sustainable and economically feasible:
  • Research (R): An essential component, it includes academic research for the identification of new ideas; and applied research to address practical applications.
  • Demonstration (D): Assures the application and workability of the idea.
  • Implementation (I): Addresses the operational viability of the innovation. It answers the question, “is it applicable in the real-world environment?”
  • Commercialization (C): Ensures that the innovation will be accepted or adopted by the mining operation. This final step is the proof of a successful innovation.
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    “82% of Evidence Network Survey respondents believe that CEMI contributed to their ability to innovate in the development of new products, processes or services”
    Evidence Network Survey 2014
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    © CENTRE FOR EXCELLENCE IN MINING INNOVATION (CEMI) 2024
    Sudbury: 105 Elm Street, Unit A, Sudbury, ON, Canada P3C 1T3
    Toronto: 2275 Lakeshore Blvd. W. #238, Toronto, Canada M8V 3Y3
    EMAIL: info@cemi.ca
    CALL: 705.673.6568
    FAX: 705.671.3878