Departmental Award Winners 2021-2022
Posted on Jun 28, 2022
Congratulations to this year’s award winners!
Our PhD candidates won MetSoc scholarship awards
Posted on Jun 23, 2022
Atefeh Azizitorghabeh and Fariborz Faraji won MetSoc Scholarship Awards
Prof. Chris Pickles was in the winning team of the Crush it! challenge
Posted on Jun 20, 2022
The CanMicro cleantech solution combines microwave-assisted comminution and multi-sensor ore sorting
2021 Mason Cup Winners
Posted on Jul 29, 2021
This year’s winners chose to work with a professor, Dr. Christopher Pickles, who challenged them with finding a process to extract constituent metals from polymetallic nodules, a novel resource found on the seafloor of the Pacific Ocean.
Dr. Boyd Davis was awarded with a CIM Fellowship and MetSoc Award for Research Excellence!
Posted on Jun 25, 2021
Fariborz has won the 2021 MetSoc/CIM PhD award
Posted on Jun 15, 2021
Only one award is given Canada wide per year!
Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman is using innovation to make the mining industry greener, safer and more efficient.
Posted on Jun 01, 2021
Dr. Ghahreman launched his lab at Queens in 2014, and since that time it has grown to become one of the busiest hydrometallurgy laboratories in North America. Along with his talented group of mostly PhD students, he’s working on several projects that could dramatically lessen the environmental impact of resource extraction.
Departmental Award Winners 2020-2021
Posted on May 11, 2021
Departmental Award Winners have been announced!
Dr. Charlotte Gibson will be speaking at STEMpede on May 5-6!
Posted on Apr 26, 2021
It is a virtual event for young women interested in STEM.
Introducing Nanomaterials into Extractive Metallurgy – Meet Jinsong Xia
Posted on Apr 07, 2021
Jinsong Xia was interviewed by School of Graduate Studies.
Muyoya Dominic Kabinga is one of the CIM MER 2020 Scholarship Winners
Posted on Mar 29, 2021
Dr. Jamie Archibald was on CBC Radio segment called “Element of Surprise” hosted by Alan Neal
Posted on Mar 16, 2021
You can learn more about Radon from today's CBC Radio segment!
Queen's Mining Ranked 7th on the QS Top Universities!
Posted on Mar 08, 2021
We are ranked 7th by subject on the QS Top Universities!
Queen’s alumna Dr. Charlotte Gibson brings “froth flotation” to mining research and the classroom
Posted on Mar 03, 2021
If you think of a stereotypical miner — or mining equipment — your adjective of choice might not be “bubbly.” But air bubbles, and “froth flotation,” are key to the work of Dr. Charlotte Gibson, BSc’09, PhD’16, a new Queen’s Engineering faculty member in the Robert M. Buchan Department of Mining.
Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman was mentioned in The Globe and Mail article
Posted on Mar 01, 2021
"In the race to clean dirty industries, these new technologies give hope for a low-carbon future" by Eric Reguly
Watch: An interview with Dr. Ahmad Ghahreman on mining waste remediation
Posted on Aug 09, 2017
Rockbursts: How Queen's engineers are working to make mining safer
Posted on Nov 23, 2016
Rockbursts are among the most dangerous and unpredictable risks of mining. Queen’s engineers are working to better understand the phenomenon, making mining safer and more efficient.
Research Review: Dr Chris Pickles
Posted on Feb 11, 2015
Professor Chris Pickles is one of the leading engineers in the field of research that uses microwaves to extract metals. The objectives of his research are to better understand new metal extraction processes, while increasing recycled products, and to improve sustainability.
Research Review: Dr Chris Pickles
Posted on Feb 11, 2015
Professor Chris Pickles is one of the leading engineers in the field of research that uses microwaves to extract metals. The objectives of his research are to better understand new metal extraction processes, while increasing recycled products, and to improve sustainability.