Improvement Initiatives

Capabilities

Tailings Management

How many department silos are managing risks for your infrastructure? Are you certain all critical risks have effective controls in place? Your tailings management teams may need support to identify their weak spots.

Advancing Sustainability

Do you have improvement priorities related to mine wastes? Let’s bring your teams together to understand your challenges, improvement targets, and possible solutions, so that you can move the needle faster.

Mining Circularity

How might you take a bigger leap towards circularity in mining, and eliminate risks? There are many opportunities for implementing circular approaches and technologies. We’d love to support you.

Industry Contributions

Our CEO has contributed time for over a decade with the executive of the Environmental and Social Responsibility Society of our national mining association, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum (CIM). In this role, she was in charge of the coordination and design of technical content offered through webinars, workshops, dialogue sessions, and the annual convention. This leadership involves a lot of planning with dispersed teams, other societies, and external collaborators to bring this together.

Furthermore, as the current Lead of the CIM Tailings Working Group, our CEO helps design, coordinate, and facilitate the annual Tailings Management Workshops for the CIM Conference.

Our CEO is a member of the Sustainability Steering Committee for the Global Mining Guidelines Group. The Sustainability Working Group aims to develop resources and foster collaboration on operationalizing sustainability, which refers to the process of making sustainability practical, implemented, measurable, technically applied, and integrated throughout operations.

Our CEO was active on the Board of Directors for Women in Mining Women in Nuclear Saskatchewan, Inc. for over 2 years, supporting the coordination of the annual conference and webinars in earlier years as well. With this group of women leaders, women in industry were engaged, and a support network and learning opportunities were offered to women to advance in their roles.

At the graduate level, our CEO has contributed to several professional development and certificate programs. She has designed, developed and delivered content for:

The Tailings Center Tailings Management graduate program curriculum (a collaboration between Colorado School of Mines (Mines), Colorado State University (CSU), and the University of Arizona (Arizona)). The Tailings Management training program was launched in March of 2021 including six short courses of two weeks duration that provide registrants with an understanding of the Fundamentals of Tailings Management.

The AusIMM Tailings Management Certificate program. Featuring internationally-renowned tailings experts and case studies, the course covers geotechnical, geochemical, governance, closure, and socio-economic considerations of tailings management.

The Mining Industry Management Program, for the Masters Environmental, Social and Governance Course. As the global mining industry evolves, there is an increasing recognition of the importance of Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) principles in shaping its future. Created collaboratively by 11 highly qualified, mining industry experts, this course provides a comprehensive exploration of sustainable mining practices, focusing on integrating ESG considerations into mining operations.

To help engage our next professional generation, our CEO has worked with various engineering professors and industry network organizers to speak at the University of Saskatchewan, and the University of British Columbia, playing the role of sessional lecturer, workshop facilitator, project team mentor, and in project management courses, as well as on various industry expert panels.

At a junior level, our CEO has also helped out with bringing greater education about mining into our elementary school programs, such as working with the Girls in the Classroom initiative, which was designed to both inform about mining, but also highlight women working in industry and STEM roles.

Past Programs in Organizational Change

Global Reporting Initiative

As a component of the Environmental Leadership Program with Cameco Corporation, I was involved in the engagement of all operating sites with regard to compiling relevant environmental performance data that would support tracking performance against achieving corporate goals established for reaching Environmental Leadership in the industry.

Sustainability Integration

Over several years working with Cameco Corporation, I was involved in the development and implementation of the Environmental Leadership Program. The program extended to all of Cameco's operating sites, it's corporate offices, and also future projects in the Major Projects portfolio. Integration of long-term goals and the concepts of operational management.

Project Delivery Program

As a component of the Environmental Leadership Program with Cameco Corporation, I was involved in the assessment and improvements to the Major Projects Project Delivery Program. Performed a gap analysis of a major project delivery and design program, to identify opportunities to reduce project risks associated with gaining regulatory and stakeholder approval.

Earth-fill Tailings Dam Construction

• Review of dam design and seasonal construction rates,

• Planning and execution of testing alternate construction techniques,

• Management of Quality Assurance and Control field staff activities.

Oilsands Tailings Deposit Profile

• Planning and execution of traffic-ability testing on soft tailings beaches,

• Planning, development and execution of drilling procurement contracts,

• Assessment and testing of beach capping strategies.

Tailings Impoundment Siting

• Front-end data compilation and stakeholder comprehensive engagement,

• Planning and management of tailings facility siting options studies,

• Planning of field drilling investigations.

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