Colin Morrish's Portfolio

Welcome to my portfolio. Here you’ll find summaries of work I’ve authored or co-authored, including papers and my thesis, with links to full texts where available, either through publishers or direct download.

PUBLICATIONS

A Novel Robotic Technology for Surveying Flooded Underground MinesPresented at CIM BC 22, 2022Purchase from the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and PetroleumURL: https://tinyurl.com/mry3s4ekSynopsis: Reopening old mines is dangerous because the tunnels are often flooded and maps are out of date. To solve this, UNEXMIN GeoRobotics built robots that can dive deep, see in all directions, and gather the facts needed—without risking human lives.

Buoyant Aircraft for Mineral Exploration ProjectsPresented at the 11th International Airship Convention and Regatta, 2017Direct download via pCloudURL: https://tinyurl.com/y6uf8nsrSynopsis: Building roads and runways in remote places is costly and slow, which does impede short-term mineral exploration. This paper shows how cargo airships could do the job more cheaply and safely, without tearing up the land or putting people at risk.

Incident Prevention Tools: Incident Investigations and Pre-Job Safety AnalysesPublished in the International Journal of Mining Science and Technology, 2017Download from ResearchGateURL: https://tinyurl.com/bdu3j2ahSynopsis: Thorough safety planning and clear investigations by trained workers can prevent many workplace accidents. This paper uses real mining incidents to show how coordinated teams and proper pre-job safety analyses could have stopped them before they happened.

Avoiding Workplace Accidents: The Importance of Pre-Job Safety AnalysesPresented at the 3rd International Symposium on Mine Safety Science and Engineering, 2016Download from Academia.eduURL:
https://tinyurl.com/ybbczxuxSynopsis: Doing a proper safety check before starting work—whether alone or in a group—can prevent accidents, cut costs, and boost morale. This paper shows how trained workers using systems like the Neil George Five Point Safety method could have avoided real accidents from Saskatchewan mines.

Mining Techniques for Uranium Ore Pod RecoveryMaster of Engineering Thesis, McGill University, 1997Download from ResearchGateURL:
https://tinyurl.com/4a4rvftySynopsis: Small, high-grade uranium pods are hard to mine. They require heavy development for little ore and often sit in unstable ground. This thesis finds jet boring with ground freezing to be a practical way to mine pods at the Cluff Lake site. It also outlines recommendations for future areas of study in blind boring, jet boring, grouting, and freezing.

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