Sudbury research and innovation group CEMI explores opportunities for Canadian mining companies
In the opening scenes of the 2009 film “Moon,” viewers watch as lunar miner Sam Bell lives a solitary existence while keeping watch over the helium-3 mining operation he’s been sent into space to manage.
“Unlike some of the movies that we’ve all seen, we’re not sending miners, and we’re not sending drillers to go do drilling and extraction techniques as we do them here on earth,” said Morrison, CEO of Sudbury’s Centre for Excellence in Mining Innovation , during an April 13 web call.In hosting the call, Morrison and CEMI opened a discussion about how mining might successfully be done on the moon and how Canada’s terrestrial mining industry can help.
Because of its long history of mining and mineral extraction expertise, Canada is viewed as an important contributor to the conversation around lunar mining, Giguere said. There’s potential through this process to adapt existing mining techniques, while also developing new ones. If they can figure out how to mine the water-ice, they can produce oxygen and hydrogen, which would open the possibilities for longer-term trips.
“That just doesn’t make sense, largely because it’s just too darned expensive to get it there, and it won’t operate anyways,” said Boucher, who’s been working in the space technology field for more than 20 years via his company, Deltion Innovations.
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