Resources Mining Cost-share and Development More . . . Funding for Plant Wide Assessments More . . . DOE Office of Industrial Technologies (ITP) Mining Best Practices ITP Mining Vision and Roadmap Case Studies Modernization of Electrolysis System Reduces Costs and Waste. MagCorp Case Study.(pdf) Retrofit Smelting Applications from Air-Fuel to Oxy-Fuel Burners. Kennecott Utah Copper. (pdf) Distributed Generation with Combined Heat and Power. Utah Magnesium Corporation of America (Magcorp) Uses (MS Word) Mining Pump Systems Optimized at Coal Slurry Preparation Plant - DOE Case Study. (pdf)

Utah Mining and Processing Industry Collaborative Mining is important to Utah’s economy and the needs and interests of Utah’s mining industry intersect significantly with the visions and roadmaps the mining industry developed with the Department of Energy’s Office of Industrial Technologies. The fit is so good that in 2000 we launched the Utah Mining and Processing Industry Collaborative Minerals (UMPIC) with support from ITP and the State of Utah. The University of Utah Engineering Experiment Station leads the collaborative. The collaborative with its partners will work with the mining, metals and processing industries to enhance waste minimization, energy efficiency, process productivity, and competitiveness. More . . . Mining in Utah The Utah’s mining industry is a significant part of the State’s industrial economy, accounting for 1.8 billion of the 8 billion dollar industrial sector, and 8,000 of the 274,800 industrial sector jobs (Utah Department of Workforce Services 1999p). . Mining workers had the highest average annual wage ($46,200), significantly higher than the average $26,500 annual wage. (Department of Workforce Services 1999) Many of Utah’s largest private-sector employers are mining operations. Nearly half of the sixteen industrial businesses with over 500 employees are in the mining and metals sectors. Four are in mining and three in primary and fabricated metals. Utah’s mining industry is of national importance. At $1.76 billion in 1997, Utah’s non-fuels mineral-industry production value was fifth in the nation. More . . . Capabilities Matrix Mining Prepared by the Laboratory Coordinating Council August 2000, this matrix estimates the mining research and development capabilities of the Laboratory Coordinating Council National Laboratories. The technology need areas listed were given highest priority by the mining industry while it was developing its Mining Industry Roadmap for Crosscutting Technologies (PDF 99 KB). Please note that many of the capabilities are in related applications and may not have been applied directly to mining research and development. More . . . ITP Mining - Project Fact Sheets More . . . Robotics Technology For Improving Mining Productivity Selective Flocculation Of Fine Mineral Particles Three Dimensional Simulation Increases Energy Efficiency And Decreases Equipment Wear Mining By-Product Recovery Development And Deployment Of On-Board Machine Fluid Analysis Systems High Temperature Superconductors In Underground Communications Drilling And Blasting Optimization Hydride-Fuel Cell Mining Vehicles Mine Compatible Laser Analysis Instrument For Ore Grading