CEMI / Challenge and evidence
Specify operational decisions, data requirements and acceptance tests; bring operations, IT, operational technology and workers into validation.
Focus area / Digital mining and responsible AI
Make mine data useful. Keep people in control.
Move from isolated digital pilots to secure, interoperable tools that operators can trust and maintain.
Discuss this priority
Why this focus
The opportunity behind the headline.
Digital pilots often stall because data access, integration, cyber risk and frontline adoption were not part of the original business case. AI adds model validation and oversight requirements.
Government of Canada context
The Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy connects commercialization, standards, talent and research. CEMI can translate that adoption agenda into mining-specific validation and buyer requirements.
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Our proposed response
What CEMI and MICA would bring.
MICA / Route to market
Connect digital SMEs with customer discovery, integration partners and reference deployments that can support repeatable sales.
Proposed delivery roles only. Confirm MICA governance, active scope and available capacity for each engagement.
Where to start
Practical opportunities to explore.
Predictive maintenance
Test alerts against actual failure history, false positives and maintenance decisions rather than model accuracy alone.
Interoperable operations
Validate data exchange and integration with existing equipment and workflows before expanding a pilot.
Responsible decision support
Use shadow-mode trials, human review, drift monitoring and clear limits on model use.
- Practical output
- A data-use agreement, integration and cyber review, operational validation report and monitored rollout/rollback plan.
- Area-specific decision gate
- Move into production only after the operator approves security, human oversight, failure handling and a measured advantage over the baseline.
Evidence, not promises
How we would measure progress.
Agree baselines, targets, measurement methods and reporting permissions before work starts. These are proposed measures, not achieved results.
- Unplanned downtime (hours) and maintenance cost ($) versus baseline
- False-alarm and missed-event rates using representative operating data
- Sustained user adoption (%) and integration cost ($), with a stated reporting period
Responsible delivery
Boundaries that matter.
No autonomous safety-critical control on the strength of a prototype. Require operator authorization, qualified safety review, least-privilege access and explicit data/IP agreements; protect worker privacy.
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Discuss digital mining and responsible aiConnected services
Use the pathway that fits the need.
Challenge identification
Technology road maps and our Innovation-GPS systems analysis help uncover and validate operational challenges.
See the service processSolution matching
Connecting validated industry challenges with emerging technologies and the people who can deliver them.
See the service processCommercialization support
Identifying technical and commercial gaps, then building the partnerships and plans to bridge them.
See the service processConnected priorities
No challenge stands alone.
Critical minerals
Build the technical evidence, commercial partnerships and adoption pathways that help strengthen responsible Canadian mineral supply chains.
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Create space for First Nations, Inuit and Métis rights-holders and Indigenous businesses to shape innovation, participation and benefits on their own terms.
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Turn mine electrification, energy efficiency and remote-power ideas into integrated, commercially credible deployment plans.
Explore this priorityWater and nature
Help operators and participating communities evaluate water treatment, reuse and environmental monitoring with evidence suited to local conditions.
Explore this priorityCircular mining and tailings
Evaluate recovery from tailings, recycling and reuse as complete technical, environmental and commercial systems.
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Treat skills, worker participation and safe operating practice as part of commercialization, not a task left until deployment.
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