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2015

Nimalaratne, Chamila, Wu, Jianping

Intake of antioxidants through diet is known to be important in reducing oxidative damage in cells and improving human health. Although eggs are known for their exceptional, nutritional quality, they are not generally considered as antioxidant foods. This review aims to establish the importance...

1950-07-01

Halpern, Joel Martin

(this photograph was used in Halpern's 1951 article \"Arctic Gold\", which appeared in 'Rocks and Minerals')

Spring 2024

Kim, Jinpyo

Multiple data types should be used simultaneously to improve resource estimation models. The multivariate relationship between the data is required. One common approach involves using decorrelation transformation techniques to simplify complex relationships, but this method relies on having...

2024-09-25

Lefsrud, Lianne M., Sattari, Fereshteh, Gellatly, Ian R., Wasel, Claire, Charuvil Elizabeth, Rose Marie, Abdolmaleki, Amir, Jones, Samantha, O’Neill, Thomas

Executive Summary On January 13, 2021, a contractor, Patrick Poitras was operating a John Deere bulldozer on a frozen tailings pond at the Suncor base mine, when the ice broke and the dozer fell through, drowning the operator. Suncor and the contractor Christina River Construction each pled...

Fall 2014

Kakan, Marjan

The ever increasing size of mining equipment has caused many instability concerns both on board and in the ground underneath. This highlights the need for more in-depth knowledge of variation in the properties of the ground as it has direct influence on the durability and life span of mining...

Spring 2021

Witiw, Taylor Kermit Christopher

Transnational corporations promise win-win development, but extractive projects often deliver dispossession, displacement, impoverishment, environmental degradation, and disrupt social relations in rural localities. These conditions can in turn engender contestation and resistance to...

Fall 2017

Kerr, Cayce L.

A mine’s haul road network has a large influence upon the success of a mine, and aside from occasional visual inspections, a significant number of mines put little emphasis on monitoring the condition of haul surfaces. The opportunity exists for a haul road benchmarking system, which can be...

1950-07-01

Halpern, Joel Martin

(this photograph was used in Halpern's 1951 article \"Arctic Gold\", which appeared in 'Rocks and Minerals')

Fall 2013

Collins, Catherine Elizabeth Victoria

Surface mining for bitumen extraction results in production of tailings that are deposited into large ponds. Tailings in the ponds support diverse microbial communities capable of metabolizing organic compounds and producing biogenic gases (methane, CH4 and carbon dioxide, CO2). Because of low...

Spring 2020

Samson, Matthew

Mineral resource estimation is an integral part of making informed decisions while evaluating the feasibility of a mining operation. Geostatistical tools estimate geological and spatial features with the assumptions of first and second‑order stationarity. In the modelling process,...