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Sustainable Development Technology Canada


Innovation in Mining

Flora Livesey

Sustainable Development Technology Canada Sustainable Development Technology Canada 2

Introduction to SDTC

• Funded by the Government of Canada to help commercialize innovative clean technology through financial and non-financial support

• SDTC’s Mission: “The Foundation will act as the primary catalyst in building a sustainable development technology infrastructure in Canada”

• Operates as an arm’s-length independent organization


#ThisIsCleantech

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Clean technologies (cleantech) improve business performance while using resources more responsibly, and reduce or eliminate negative environmental impact.

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The SD Tech Fund™ supports projects that address climate change, air quality, clean water and clean soil. The Government of Canada has allocated a total of $915 million for the fund.

SDTC has Three Funds that Support Canadian Cleantech

The SD Natural Gas Fund™ supports the development and demonstration of new downstream natural gas technology with up to $15 million each from the Canadian Gas Association (CGA) and the SD Tech Fund™.

SDTC’s NextGen Biofuels Fund™ supports the establishment of first-of-kind large demonstration-scale facilities for the production of next-generation renewable fuels. It is no longer accepting applications.


SDTC Mandate

•  Supporting Canadian companies developing innovative, pre-commercial technologies

•  Bridging the financing gap •  Reducing the financial risk •  Building cleantech capacity in

Canada

Level Technology Readiness Level (TRL)

1 Conceptual articulation

2 Technology and Applications described

3 Laboratory studies and analysis

4 Limited capability prototype validation in laboratory (pre-alpha version)

5 Full capability prototype validation in laboratory (alpha version)

6 Prototype validation in relevantenvironment (pre-beta version)

7 Actual system validation in a relevant environment (beta version)

8 Initial production and rollout

9 Full production mode

SDTC funding will help de-risk clean tech demonstration

projects, speeding adoption and commercialization

“The Foundation will act as the primary catalyst in building a sustainable

development technology infrastructure in Canada.”


SDTC Fills a Critical Capital Gap


SD Tech Fund™ Investments

Leveraging Our Investment

$740 Million from SDTC

$2 Billion Leveraged from Public and Private Sources

285 Projects

$2.7 Billion

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SDTC works with industry and partners to support technologies that meet market needs and have environmental benefits.

Total Portfolio Project Value


Economic Benefits

By the end of 2014, SDTC-supported companies had annual revenues of $1.1 billion and employed 8,200 people.

68% Increase in Revenues

9% Increase in Jobs

2013 $750 M

2014 $1.1 B

2013 7,700

2014 8,200

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Our Investments by Sector

$31 M $119 M

$4 M $33 M

$115 M $122 M

$32 M $52 M

$67 M $129 M

$36 M

Water & Wastewater Transportation

Remediation and Soil Treatment Recycling & Recovery

Power Generation Industrial Processes & Products Energy Infrastructure/Smart Grid

Energy Efficiency Cleaner Fossil Fuels Biorefinery Products

Agriculture

SDTC in all of Canada’s major economic sectors.

Figures as of December 2014


Virtual Incubator™

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Through our Virtual Incubator™, we offer cleantech entrepreneurs support as they form strategic relationships and formalize their business plans, helping to prepare them to apply to one of our funds.

We also offer prospective applicants practical guidance on the application process and evaluation criteria.


Enabling market entry to Drive Revenue

Attracting Private Sector Capital to Fuel Growth

SDTC Acts as a Bridge to the Marketplace

Opening up Global Markets for Scale Up

Supporting Market Transactions of Portfolio Companies

SDTC Project

Market Ready

Technology / Customer Adoption

Export Market Access

Follow-on Financing


SD Tech FundTM: Priority Areas

SDTC supports technologies that address the challenges of clean air, soil, water and climate change, including technology solutions

focused on these current technology priority areas.

• Responsible resource development

• Next generation transportation

• Resource and energy efficiency

• Clean energy

• Northern and remote communities

• Agriculture

Relevant to Mining


SD Investment Priorities – Mining


The SD Investment Priorities identified seven key priority investment areas

Areas of priorities identified: •  Smart mining or complete site process integration in real-

time control •  Waste management and closed loop optimization •  Energy efficiency: reducing energy required per unit •  Enhanced extraction, processing & production: increasing

production at a decreased emission intensity •  Conversion of waste into revenue or benign byproducts •  Extending life or accelerating closure of a mine •  Optimizing infrastructure, energy and services for remote

locations


The 6 Stages of the Mining Process


1.  Geoscience – Improved Methods to Focus Mining Strategies 2.  Exploration – Quantifying Valuable Mineral Deposits 3.  Discovery – Evaluating Viability of Investment 4.  Development – Investment, Engineering & Construction 5.  Production – Extraction, Processing & Refining of Minerals 6.  Reclamation – Waste Avoidance, Waste Processing, Tailing Remediation,

Mine Closure and Environmental Maintenance

The SD Investment Priorities align with three stages of the mining process


Innovation Across the Process

- Waste Avoidance - Waste Processing - Waste-to-Product Conversion - Tailing Remediation - Mine Closure - Environmental Maintenance

SDTC has supported many demonstration projects, with a cumulative impact of 24.7 Mt of GHGs reduced and revenues of $440.7M/yr by 2020.

• Mining Technologies • Yava Technologies • MineSense • Dundee Sustainable

Technologies

- Extraction - Processing - Refining - Waste Management

• Yava Technologies • Orbite Aluminae • Macrotek

- Plant Design - Smart Mining - Real-Time Control - Infrastructure - Energy Management - De-skill Operations

• Bestech • MineSense • Yava Technologies • Westport Research Inc. • Tenova


Consortium members: Bestech (Boudreau-Espley-Pitre Corporation ) Vale Inco Limited Xstrata Center of Excellence In Mining Innovation - CEMI MIRARCO

Bestech is developing a “Dynamic Ventilation on Demand” (DVOD), which provides an automated deep mine ventilation control system. The technology will lead to significant energy savings as well as climate change and clean air benefits. VOD has been developed to control ventilation in traffic and other purpose tunnels and will address and control air quality conditions in underground mines where gases from blasts and diesel emissions from loading equipment caused serious health risks. The software and related gas monitoring equipment developed will provide the necessary automated controlling of the mine gases. The VOD system measures vehicle emissions throughout the mine and directs ventilation only to points of need, replacing existing blanket ventilation strategies. The DVOD technology will reduce ventilation costs (in terms of energy input) by 40%.

Mining Ventilation

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Process Optimization and Waste Management

Yava Technologies has developed a low-cost, environmentally-friendly process that could allow producers to avoid smelting entirely while enabling the processing of low content waste rock and minimizing comminution of head ore that further reduces cost and increases the profitability of the mine. This project will see the design, building and testing of a pilot plant to produce zinc in a form that will not require further refinement, can be refined at point of extraction and could potentially be applied to recovering other metals like lead, copper, manganese, nickel and silver.

Yava Technologies Inc. Aurcana Corp.

Consortium members:


Energy Savings & Tailings Management

Cyanidation is energy-intensive and results in a large amount of highly contaminated tailings. Dundee Sustainable Technologies' are using chlorination to extract precious metals. Besides the operational savings and benefits to the environment, the process will allow the exploitation of gold deposits that are not extractable using conventional methods. The primary benefits are increased profitability by 15%, shorter processing time, reduced emissions from avoided energy consumption for conventional refining, increased mine productivity by reclaiming process waste and remediating waste ore – all of which increases the life expectancy of the mining operation.

Consortium members: Dundee Sustainable Technologies Creso Exploration Inc. Dundee Corporation Inc.


Consortium members: Mining Technologies International Inc. Institut du Transport Avancé du Québec (ITAQ) Natural Resources Canada (CANMET-MMSL) Société de Recherche et Développement minier inc.(SOREDEM)

Mining Technologies International Inc. is developing diesel electric hybrid technology in a medium size underground loader, and incorporate an advanced propulsion system to maximize efficiency and energy recovery with minimal exhaust emissions and reduced fuel consumption. The system will use advanced battery technology with high energy and power capabilities combined with a high efficiency drivetrain to minimize losses in the transfer of power to the wheels. This is expected to result in reduced operating costs, improved health and safety, decreased greenhouse gas emissions, improved environmental sustainability, while creating a market-leading product for a Canadian-owned mining equipment manufacturer.

MTI HLT-270 Light Underground Loader

Mining Transportation


Consortium members: Westport Research Inc. Enbridge Gas Distribution Inc. Challenger Motor Freight Inc.

Westport Research Inc. is demonstrating a novel fuel injector technology which will prove the economic viability of operating heavy-duty (Class 8) trucks in a line-haul application using liquefied natural gas as the primary fuel instead of pure diesel. By using LNG, truck operators will be able to meet the upcoming low-emissions standards without incurring significant post-treatment costs.

Mining Transportation


Real-time Control, Energy Savings & Tailings Management

Canadian mining operations produce 2 million tonnes of waste rock a day. MineSense will develop their High-Frequency Electromagnetic Spectrometry (HFEMS) technology to measure the amount of a given mineral at the point of extraction, allowing operators to better sort the rock based on mineral content prior to processing, thus saving costs and requiring less energy to process the rock. Thanks to increased metal recovery, longer life of the mine and decreased environmental damage, the technology could increase the total value of the mine by as much as 50 percent, as well as revive mines considered “end of life” with a more accurate assessment of mineral content. Once widely used, this technology could save a typical base metal operation mining 10,000 tonnes of rock per day as much as 15 GWh/yr or 8.16 Mt CO2e/yr.

Consortium members: MineSense Technologies Ltd. Norman B. Keevil Institute of Mining Engineering (UBC) Canadian Arrow Mines (CAM)


Remote Mining Opportunities & Needs

An abundance of natural resources with limited local infrastructure, and amidst a delicate ecosystem presents a significant Cleantech opportunity


Solutions for Remote Infrastructure

Renewable Energy

•  Solar

•  Biomass

•  Micro & Mini Hydro

•  Wind

Energy Storage

•  Battery, Hydrogen

•  Compressed air

•  Flywheel

Waste Management

•  Mixed solid waste

•  Waste water

•  Waste to energy

Food Production

•  Aquaculture

•  Indoor greenhouses

Freight Transportation


SD Tech Fund: Technology Solutions

Technologies are needed to improve the performance throughout the mining process : -  Increase the competitiveness of the industry

-  Compensate for the declining mineral reserve

-  Provide complete solution onsite – Extraction to finished product

-  Maximize infrastructure and services to remote locations

-  Provide real-time monitoring and automation to compensate for

diminishing available skilled manpower

-  Providing environmental benefits and waste conversion

-  Improve economic value propositions to compete worldwide


Partnerships Drive Success

Industry has an important role to play in developing and supporting clean technology de-risking and adoption in the mining sector

Bridging the ‘funding gap’ De-risking innovative technologies

Increasing industry competitiveness Supporting technologies with

environmental benefits

Developing clean technology solutions

Adoption of new technology solutions Financing scale up and pre-commercial demonstration

Channel partnerships

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