MIRARCO Mining Innovation wins a NOBA

Entrepreneurial Community of the Year Award - MIRARCO Mining Innovation, Sudbury

Sponsored by: Cisco Systems Canada

Mining Innovation, Rehabilitation and Applied Research Corporation (MIRARCO) has become one of the North's key economic contributors and a light at the end of the mine tunnel for many companies and workers.

Fully owned by Laurentian University, MIRARCO was launched in 1998 after a handful of professors and researchers argued that the scope of work being done through the school's Geomechanics Research Centre needed to expand.

With funding in hand the work began and has evolved to include countless victories, of which is the first commercial software program, the Schedule Optimization Tool, now used by mining companies worldwide.

The obvious benefits of this work has caught the attention of various levels of government, as well as the collaboration and investment of countless private sector partners from Vale Inco to Rio Tinto.

"Our mission is to the develop the people and the tools to design the underground mines and facilities of the future," says Stephen Hall, president and CEO.

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