Ep 38: Mining Made Human From Voice-Driven Safety to Tailings Revival
From ORE-ATORY: Elevating Mining Minds by Lindsey Schultz
March 5, 2026 · 51 min · Season 2 · Episode 38
About this episode
Lindsey talks with Jack Kellner about humanizing mining through innovative safety solutions and community-driven approaches to tailings reprocessing.
👤 Jack Kellner , Senior Director of regeneration & Co-Founder of CanaryWaves 🎙️Lindsey Schultz, CEO of MRC Recruiting From memes to mine sites, Jack Kellner shows how humor, human voice, and smart tech can transform safety, tailings, and talent in mining. This episode spotlights solutions that start small, scale smart, and put people first. Episode summary: Lindsey talks with Jack Kellner of Canary Waves and Regeneration about humanizing mining, smarter safety, and community driven closure. Jack shares the origin of Canary Waves, a voice AI platform that captures radio chatter to add context to KPIs, surface repeat issues, and move sites from reactive to predictive. He unpacks Regeneration's stakeholder first approach to tailings reprocessing, pairing restoration with modular, capital light execution, and creative offtake models. They riff on gamifying mining to build the future talent pipeline, challenge the reflex of de risking as a kill switch, and make the case for starting small, communicating clearly, and keeping it fun, with real value for operators, innovators, and leaders. Our Promise: We aim to engage with the most creative minds in mining, from engineers and…
People in this episode
Host: Lindsey Schultz
Guest: Jack Kellner
Topics covered
- voice-driven safety
- tailings revival
- humanizing mining
- community-driven closure
- gamifying mining
- predictive safety
Keywords
- mining
- safety
- tailings
- voice AI
- community
- innovation
- humor
- talent pipeline
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: CanaryWaves, MRC Recruiting, Regeneration
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