Canada’s mining and quarrying sector is full of opportunity, but navigating regulations, funding, and technology can be challenging. Ayming helps companies access tailored funding programs and expert guidance to accelerate growth, modernize operations, and stay competitive.
Mining & Quarrying
Addressing the key challenges
Canada’s mining and quarrying sector is full of opportunity, but companies must navigate a series of challenges to turn potential into growth. From complex regulations and long permitting timelines to financing gaps, infrastructure constraints, and talent shortages, these hurdles can slow projects and limit innovation.
- Regulatory and Permitting: Securing approvals in Canada can take years, and navigating federal, provincial, and Indigenous requirements is often complex.
- Financing and Investment: Raising capital for exploration, expansion, or transitioning to low-carbon operations is difficult, particularly for junior and mid-tier companies.
- Infrastructure and Logistics: Remote sites often lack roads, rail, ports, and refining capacity, increasing costs and slowing production.
- Talent and Workforce: Attracting skilled professionals, upskilling for digital mining and AI, and addressing an aging workforce are ongoing challenges.
- Digital Adoption and Innovation: Technologies like automation, IoT, AI, and advanced analytics can provide a strong competitive advantage. However, adoption is often slowed by high costs and limited connectivity. Integrating these tools into legacy systems adds another layer of complexity, especially at remote sites.
- Funding and Program Access: Fragmented programs, complex eligibility rules, and administrative demands make it hard to fully access available incentives.
With the right support, these challenges become opportunities. At Ayming, we help mining companies navigate a variety of funding programs to accelerate exploration, adopt clean technologies, modernize operations, and invest in digital transformation. Our expertise ensures you access the financial resources needed to turn ideas into growth and stay ahead of the competition.
How we can help maximize your results
We help mining companies identify and capture all eligible activities embedded in their exploration, development, and operational projects. From early-stage exploration, process optimization, and low-carbon initiatives to digital mining and automation upgrades, we ensure you maximize funding opportunities.
Our Full-Service Support Includes:
- Framing SR&ED-Eligible Activities: Mining projects often involve overlapping exploration, production, and environmental compliance activities, making it difficult to isolate SR&ED-eligible work. We work with your technical teams to identify, isolate, and properly frame the eligible portions of your projects. This may include process innovations, mineral extraction methods, automation trials, or sustainability initiatives. Ayming also trains and coaches your teams to recognize eligible activities in real time, building internal capacity for future claims.
- Technical Expertise and Project Framing: Our experienced consultants bridge the gap between technical teams and CRA auditors, framing complex innovation in compliant language. We translate your R&D into CRA’s three-part test: technological uncertainty, systematic investigation and technological advancement, and help differentiate eligible experimental work from routine operations. We also help you structure projects strategically to maximize eligibility and avoid common pitfalls. This is particularly important in long-term, multi-phase mining projects.
- Clarifying Eligibility for Client-Funded or Partnered Projects: Mining companies often collaborate with contractors, joint ventures, or Indigenous partnerships. Many assume certain activities are not eligible because they involve partners. In reality, R&D can still qualify if risk and experimentation are retained in Canada. We assess contracts, technical scope, and partnership structures to determine eligibility and optimize future projects.
- Accurate Cost Tracking Across Projects: Accurately tracking eligible SR&ED costs, particularly across large-scale or multi-site mining operations, can be challenging. We help separate eligible SR&ED costs from non-eligible operational expenses, including staff time, subcontractor fees, and consumed materials. We advise you on tracking methods to clearly reflect SR&ED activities across multiple projects and collaborations that reduce audit risk and increase claim accuracy.
- Audit Defense and Compliance Strategy: The SR&ED program is technical and continually evolving. Ayming monitors policy changes and audit trends affecting mining operations. If selected for review, we manage the end-to-end audit response to minimize disruption and protect your claims.
Whether you are exploring new deposits, improving extraction processes, integrating low-carbon technologies, or digitizing field operations, we help position your projects for success. Our experts transform your efforts into high-impact funding claims. These claims maximize financial returns while ensuring compliance every step of the way.
We guide mining companies through the full spectrum of direct funding. From government grants and repayable loans to strategic programs that accelerate exploration, process optimization, clean technology adoption, and operational efficiency.
Our mission is to secure the capital you need to advance mining projects, modernize operations, and drive sustainable growth. We work closely with your leadership to align projects with federal and provincial priorities such as critical minerals development, low-carbon initiatives, digital mining, and regional infrastructure. Our team builds compelling applications that maximize funding success while positioning your company at the forefront of Canada’s mining innovation strategy.
Our comprehensive support includes:
- Grant Applications
- Pre-Application Strategy & Positioning
- Government Relationships & Advocacy
- Funding Landscape Mapping & Strategy
- Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Funding Strategy
- Post-Approval Compliance & Claim Support
- Increased operational performance
Whether you’re developing a critical minerals supply chain, piloting digital mining technologies, decarbonizing operations, or partnering with Indigenous communities, we help you build a strategic funding roadmap that accelerates projects, maximizes financial support, and drives long-term growth.
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Government Grants & Loans | Our Full-Service Approach
We deliver a tailored funding strategy that aligns tax incentives, government grants, and loans across your projects, maximizing total recoverable funding while minimizing administrative complexity.
Our Consulting Services Include
- Integrated Funding Strategies: Ayming works with your finance and technical teams to develop holistic funding strategies that combine SR&ED tax credits, government grants, and repayable loans designed specifically for mining and quarrying companies. We ensure compliance across programs while optimizing total funding potential.
- Stage-Based Alignment: Align funding sources with your project milestones, from early-stage exploration and process optimization to full-scale production, digital mining initiatives, and decarbonization projects.
- Risk Reduction & Cash Flow Optimization: Layer incentives to reduce upfront capital risk, improve cash flow, and extend your project runway, enabling investment in innovation and sustainable operations.
- Policy-Informed Positioning: Ensure projects align with evolving federal and provincial priorities such as critical minerals development, clean technology, automation, and Indigenous partnerships to boost competitiveness and funding approvals.
With deep expertise in mining innovation and government funding, Ayming is your trusted partner in turning complex technical and operational challenges into financial opportunities, accelerating your path from project concept to operational impact.
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