Ontario Mines Minister George Pirie said today Ontario is committed to strengthening the province’s critical minerals strategy in the global race to ensure there is a stable supply chain for battery electric vehicles by spending millions in new science and technology to help do that.
Pirie was speaking to a group of mining supply and service representatives at Dynamic Earth on May 6. The innovation fund has already provided $500,000 to Vale Base Metals, which is collaborating with MIRARCO at Laurentian University to do research on a bioremediation project exploring the idea of using bacteria to extract useful minerals from old mine tailings in Sudbury.
"I've been in Sudbury nearly 20 years, and I've been studying those tailings and the bacteria that occur there for those 20 years.