Transforming Hard Rock Mining
Continuous, scalable mining and minerals processing at the rock face
i-Mine combines our pulsed power drilling and rock-crushing technologies into one machine to replace costly, energy intensive and dangerous mining processes that haven’t changed for decades, if not centuries.
Pulsed power softens rock before it comes into contact with the drill, reducing the energy required for extraction and extending the life of the equipment. As part of one continuous process, the ore is broken up into smaller particles using electrical streamers that burst the pebbles from the inside, preparing them for minerals recovery.
i-Mine plans to change underground mining from a repeated drill, evacuate blast, clean out process into a smooth, continuous process that significantly reduces time, energy and greenhouse gasses.
A member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ Technical Committee for Pulsed Power Science, Nuclear & Plasma Science Society, Dr. Curry holds 20 patents and has authored/co-authored over 151 research papers. Dr. Curry established the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Center for Physical and Power Electronics and served as its director.
Dr. Curry founded NanoElectromagnetics and has worked with Tetra Corp., TITAN/Pulse Sciences Inc. and Power Spectra Inc.
Dr. Curry holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. He has a M.Sc. and B.Sc. from Texas Tech University.