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Innovation that works. In the real world.

From identifying the right challenge to commercializing the right solution, we help bridge the gaps that hold innovation back.

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Technical success is
only the beginning.

Even a great technology needs a route to market.

Scaling up, operational integration, market acceptance and business strategy can all stand between an innovation and commercial viability. CEMI helps identify those obstacles and build a path through them.

Priority-led innovation / proposed portfolio

Find the pathways that work on Canada's priorities.

Explore critical minerals, Indigenous partnerships and the energy, environmental, digital and human capabilities that enable sustainable mining. These are proposed focus areas, not approved new programs.

Explore the focus areas and proposed delivery process

Supply chain connections

Connect suppliers with mining’s needs.

CEMI can help identify supplier gaps, connect Canadian SMEs with operators and prospective buyers, and support the testing and qualification that move promising solutions closer to adoption.

These connections support market readiness; they do not guarantee procurement, contracts or offtake.

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Our services

The support you need to take the next step.

01Looking outward

Innovation scouting

A global search for current and emerging pre-commercial solutions to the challenges that matter to mining.

  1. Scouting mandate
  2. Global search
  3. Screening & scoring
  4. Engagement & diligence
  5. Landscape & recommendation
Indicative timing
6–12 weeks per search
You leave with
A scored short list and landscape report
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02Looking inward

Challenge identification

Technology road maps and our Innovation-GPS systems analysis help uncover and validate operational challenges.

  1. Intake & framing
  2. Systems analysis
  3. Value at stake
  4. Prioritize & validate
  5. Challenge briefs & road map
Indicative timing
4–8 weeks per site
You leave with
Prioritized, solution-ready challenge briefs
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03Where the two meet

Solution matching

Connecting validated industry challenges with emerging technologies and the people who can deliver them.

  1. Fit assessment
  2. Introduction & alignment
  3. Pilot design
  4. Funding & consortium
  5. Demonstrate & evaluate
Indicative timing
3–6 months to a field pilot
You leave with
An evaluated pilot and an adoption decision
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One connected pathway

Two streams. One route to adoption.

Our services work on their own or together. Industry challenges and emerging technologies meet in solution matching, then move toward commercial adoption.

  1. 01Looking outwardInnovation scouting
  2. 02Looking inwardChallenge identificationOperators often start here
  3. 03Where the two meetSolution matching
  4. 04Taking it to marketCommercialization supportInnovators often start here

Industry pull / For operators

Start with the problem.

Find and quantify the constraints that matter, search globally for answers, then prove the best match on site.

Begin with challenge identification

Technology push / For innovators

Start with the technology.

Close the technical and commercial gaps, build buyer-validated evidence, and meet operators with real needs.

Begin with commercialization support

From the CEMI archive / MI-GPS

See the whole mining system.

A technology only becomes a successful innovation when it improves the way the whole operation performs.

CEMI’s earlier Mining Innovation GPS material described mining as an interconnected system. It emphasized understanding operational needs and constraints across the process, then implementing changes that improve business results—not treating a technical solution as the finish line.

Illustration of a route across a map, preserved from CEMI’s legacy Mining Innovation GPS material
Historic illustration associated with CEMI’s Mining Innovation GPS material.

Earlier strategic framework

Five areas of focus.

These program names and focus areas are preserved from the previous site as historical context. They are not a statement of current programs or services.

01

FindMine

Ore discovery

02

DeepMine

Heat and rock stress

03

ValueMine

Mine productivity

04

SustainMine

Environmental impact

05

BizMine

Commercial viability

Archived conceptual chart illustrating how innovation can influence net present value over time
Archived conceptual illustration; it does not show current project results or financial forecasts.

Commercialization, in context

Technical progress needs a path to adoption.

Legacy CEMI materials also emphasized the barriers between a working technology and a commercially viable solution: scaling up, operational integration, market acceptance, and a well-executed business plan. That perspective remains useful context for the commercialization support described above.

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For technology businesses

A partner on your
commercialization journey.

CEMI works with mining equipment, technology and service companies to meet their specific commercialization needs. We build long-term collaborative relationships, with support determined through consultation and focused on each business's technical and commercial gaps.

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What we work towards

  • Better operational performance
  • Increased production at lower cost.
  • Increased revenue from existing assets
  • Lower costs without compromising safety
  • Faster discovery and less time to first revenue
  • Reduced energy and water utilization
  • Reduced environmental impact, more sustainable practices.
  • Greater productivity and return on investment

Commercialization support

Ready to move an innovation forward?
Let's talk commercialization.

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