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.

    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:
    1. Modernize mining
    2. Improve the cost-effectiveness of mining
    3. Increase the rate of ore-body discovery
    4. Improve energy and water utilization
    5. Manage the impact of mining on the environment
    6. Sustain the low carbon economy
    7. Attract the next generation of talent, jobs, companies
    8. Other benefits

    CEMI’s Innovation Equation

    Every element of CEMI’s Innovation Equation is an essential building block to innovation

    INNOVATION =

    RD + I&C

    Each element helps to ensure the innovation is sustainable and economically feasible:
    1. Research (R): An essential component, it includes academic research for the identification of new ideas; and applied research to address practical applications.
    2. Demonstration (D): assures the application and workability of the idea.
    3. Implementation (I): addresses the operational viability of the innovation. It answers the question, “is it applicable in the real-world environment?”
    4. 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.
    “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