CEEC has finally released its Annual Report for the 2020-21 financial year, which includes a note from the Chair and CEO, information about CEEC, and events from the year.
Unfortunately this is much later than hoped, due to the operational and leadership changes announced a few months ago. It refle...
21-Jul-2022
Bueno, Torvela, Chandramohan, Liedes, Powell, Chavez Matus,
Published in Minerals Enginering April 2021
ABSTRACT
The mining industry needs a low-cost and reliable breakage characterization test which can rapidly process a large number of samples for geometallurgical modelling. The more samples a...
09-May-2022
Erol, Wettstein, Dance
Presented at Comminution '21 - April 2021
ABSTRACT
Over the past few years, Pinto Valley Mine of Capstone Copper has made steady improvements in mill throughput from a combination of blasting, crushing and grinding operational changes. Detailed data collection exercises (in...
09-May-2022
Shelley, Davies, Olivier and Atta Danso
ABSTRACT
This paper reflects on how measurements from inside an operating SAG mill might be used to better understand throughput, mill wear and energy dissipation within the mill. The paper discusses how the measurements might influence and enhance approach...
09-May-2022
Chandramohan, Bodurov, Kolev, Weerasekara, Lane
Presented at MEI Comminution '21 - April 19 - 22
ABSTRACT
Improving the grinding efficiency in tumbling mills is essential to minimising comminution energy consumption. Over the years, fundamental insights gained from ball mill operation provided en...
09-May-2022
D R Seaman, Li, Lamson, B A Seaman and Adams
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference Brisbane, Australia 23 - 25 June 2021
ABSTRACT
Red Chis Mine, operated by Newcrest Mining Ltd, is a copper-gold mine located in Northern British Columbia, Canada. The process plant produces an auriferou...
09-May-2022
Faramarzi, Napier-Munn, Morrison, Kanchibotla
Published in Minerals Engineering July 2020
ABSTRACT
The heterogeneous nature of orebodies introduces large uncertainties into all quantitative evaluations, process design and process predictions. Measuring the extent of the variability of ore compe...
09-May-2022
Camalan & Önal
Published in Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration October 2020
ABSTRACT
Mineral liberation is one of the primary objectives in comminution circuits for the downstream separation of valuable minerals. Breaking minerals through their grain boundaries (grain-boundary breakage) ena...
09-May-2022
Evangelista, Moreira, Moura, Souza, Resende, Lisboa, Corsini, Ribeiro, Valery, Valle, Hayashida, Plasencia
Presented at Procemin-GEOMET 2021
ABSTRACT
Hatch and Enaex conducted a joint Mine-to-Mill optimization project at Lundin Mining’s Chapada operation in Brazil. The main objective was to maxim...
29-Nov-2021
Valery, Valle, Roberto, Duffy, Holtham, Tabosa, Plasencia
Presented at Procemin-GEOMET 2020
ABSTRACT
At a time when the industry is faced with declining head grades, increasing operating costs, and problems associated with water and energy supply, pre-concentration offers hope. Pre-concentration...
22-Nov-2021
Reposted with permission from this original source - International Mining Magazine
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/international-mining_im-october-2021-flotation-ugcPost-6851501159165779969-8wuy/
Our annual article covers everything from new cell designs & innovations for coarse & fines flo...
02-Nov-2021
Regino, Wong, Lopez, Adams, Hobert, Wasmund
ABSTRACT
The use of fluidized beds to enhance the flotation efficiency of coarse particles has been practised industrially using Eriez’ HydroFloat® separator in phosphate and potash for many years and has recently been successfully extended to sulfide m...
12-Oct-2021
Jaques, Vollert, Akerstrom, Seaman
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
In August 2018 the first full-scale pneumatically assisted fluidised bed flotation cells for the recovery of coarse composited gold and copper were commissioned at Newcrest’s Cadia Valley opera...
27-Jul-2021
Bonfils, Valery, Jankovic, Duffy, Tabosa, Holtham
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
The benefits of Mine-to-Mill optimisation have been understood by the industry for many years. If well executed, with a structured methodology, the overall operation throughput (...
20-Jul-2021
Wraith, Resta, Welmans
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference, Brisbane Australia June 23 - 25 2021
ABSTRACT
Bluestone Mines Tasmania JV, Tasmania Tin Operations recognised value in mining at or near to 1Mt/a. However, the Renison Tin concentrator is restricted at 750kt/a. The solution...
20-Jul-2021
Radford, Lovatt, Putland, Becker
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
The Gruyere Gold Project was discovered by Gold Road Resources Limited in October 2013 on the Yamarna Belt 200km east of Laverton in Western Australia. The Feasibility Study for Gruyere, which wa...
20-Jul-2021
Edmunds, Wilkens, Akerstrom, Haines
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
The Ridgeway Concentrator at Newcrest Cadia was commissioned in 2002 as an ABC circuit to treat the ore from the Ridgeway sublevel cave (SLC) at around 5MTPA. Consisting of a single pinion 32’...
20-Jul-2021
Yahyaei, Ye, Hilden, Ruiz, Gavelan
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
Stockpiles and bins are an integral part of every mineral processing plant, and their design and operation play a significant role in plant performance. Size segregation, which is a common phen...
20-Jul-2021
Powell, Yahyaei, Mainza, Tavares
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference Brisbane, Australia 23 - 25 June 2021
ABSTRACT
Maintaining the work balance between the primary SAG mill and secondary ball mill(s) is an overlooked bottleneck, and thus opportunity, in an increasing number of circ...
20-Jul-2021
Paz, Ypelaan, Ryan, McInnes
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
The Anglo Gold Ashanti (AGA) Sunrise Dam Gold Recovery Enhancement Project (REP) was an upgrade project to the existing process plant to increase gold recovery. The project required the existing scree...
20-Jul-2021
Palaniandy, Carr, Johns, Williams
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
Haile Gold Mine is an open pitgold mine located in the state of South Carolina, USA. The concentrator consists of a semi-autogenous mill–ball mill–pebble crusher (SABC) circuit, flash flotation,...
20-Jul-2021
Oblokulov, Green, Van Der Spuy, Becker
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
One of the blessings associated with operating a modern metallurgical facility is the multitude of technologies, techniques and processes available to improve and optimise circuits. Circuit...
20-Jul-2021
McIvor, Bartholomew, Arafat, Daavettila, Savola
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
Ball mill media sizing investigations were carried out for the ball mill circuits grinding minus 12.5mm crushing plant product at Lundin’s Eagle Mine base metal concentrator in Hum...
20-Jul-2021
Ballantyne, Foggiatto, Staples, Lane
Presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators Conference June 2021
ABSTRACT
Vertical stirred mills are more frequently being applied at coarser grinding duties as a replacement for ball milling. This trend is being driven by reductions in footprint and operating cost...
20-Jul-2021
Wang, Vazirizadeh, Rosario
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Advances in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence are transforming mining and mineral processing, and making them more algorithm intensive. The paradigm is shifting from one of detec...
19-Jul-2021
Bartiea, Reutera
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Metals make modern societies function, and increasingly, various high purity precious and special metals endow sustainability-driving technologies with specific functionalities. These metals become heavily intertwi...
19-Jul-2021
Llamas, Korolev, Altinkay, Nikolopoulos, Haapalainen, Kolehmainen, Lundström, Geitenbeek, Weckhuysen, Stelter, Reuter
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Having a circular society where the residue generation is minimised is one of the challenges of our society. The...
19-Jul-2021
Di Feoa, Volcheka, Morina, Demersa, Mortazavia
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
The objective of this paper was to investigate the possibility of reducing process (fresh) water and increasing recycled water (thickener tank overflow water). As part of the investiga...
19-Jul-2021
Papadopoulou, Asbjörnsson, Hulthén, Evertsson
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Crushing plant managers need to assess, manage, and communicate the environmental impact induced by their crushing plant operations as a step towards the sustainable development of the...
19-Jul-2021
Pechea
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Since 1952, Bond’s equation has been used as a standard to predict the specific energy of grinding for a given duty. The Bond’s equation considers that the exponent is constant for all conditions. Hukki, in 1961, pointed out...
19-Jul-2021
Jiancheng He, Shijie Lu, Qiheng Zhu, DuboWang, Xiaoxu Sun, Jianchao Yao
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Tower mill is considered to have a better regrinding and fine grinding effect compared with ball mill, and its application is much broader. The spiral agitator...
19-Jul-2021
Ghoreishi-Madiseha, Shadi, Rafezi, Sasmito, Manouchehri, Hassani
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Weakening rocks by taking advantage of microwave-induced microcracks is a promising solution for comminution processes. This paper investigates the effects of microwa...
19-Jul-2021
Agbenuvor, Antonio, Jokovic,and Morrison
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Body breakage usually involves breakage of particles by compression between two surfaces or impacted against a rigid surface, with the latter of interest in this current study. This mode of...
19-Jul-2021
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
Filippov, Tripathy, Filippova, Diot
ABSTRACT
Among different pre-treatment methods, a high voltage electric pulse was recently developed and is gaining popularity due to multi-benefits such as pre-weakening along the grain boundaries, as we...
12-Jul-2021
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Flotation concentrate originating from the Asarel-Medet porphyry copper mining and processing complex in Bulgaria has been subjected to regrinding using a Ro-Star mill; the effects of which on the downstream metallurgical behaviour...
12-Jul-2021
Friedland, Royal
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Energy & Densification Systems (EDS) has developed patented new technology crushing/milling equipment. The EDS MultishaftMill is a compact vertical mill –utilising high-speed impacts to break down particles wit...
12-Jul-2021
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
Authors
Senchenkoa, Kulikov
ABSTRACT
The relationships revealed between ore hardness and specific energy consumed by crushing and grinding are described in the paper. A comparison of key technical and economical parameters of SAG and HPGR...
12-Jul-2021
CEEC has compiled some great examples of some of last year’s activities and contributions, including workshops, speakers, 2020 CEEC Medal winning work, sponsors, collaborators, projects and our collective approach to accelerating eco-efficient comminution for you to download here.
The annual report...
15-Jun-2021
Hassani, Shadi, Rafezi, Sasmito, Ghoreishi-Madiseh
ABSTRACT
Enhancing the energy-effectiveness of microwave-assisted fragmentation is one of the overlooked areas in the published literature. A novel calorimetric technique is proposed to quantify the effect of inductive heating within a microwave c...
07-Jun-2021
Frausto, Ballantyne, Runge, Powell, Wightman, Evans, Gonzalez, Gomez
ABSTRACT
The heuristic of a constant liberation by size independent of the degree of comminution has been established as a robust assumption over time. Therefore, when assessing the comminution circuit performance, achieving a fi...
07-Jun-2021
Gao, Qina, Hana, Han, Lia
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
In the present study, an innovative comminution technology of high-voltage pulse discharge was proposed for galena to weaken the mechanical property. The results of pre-treatment experiments indicated tha...
18-May-2021
Roper, Borissenko, Daniel
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Eccentric High Pressure Centrifugal Comminution (eHPCC) is a novel comminution device that provides a single step to achieve a desired target grind size. The mechanisms within the unit mirror particle brea...
18-May-2021
Mousavia, Parsapourb, Tafvizia, Mahmoudic, Banisid
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Generally, regrind circuits are used to increase the degree of liberation of value minerals which are fed to flotation circuits. At the regrind circuit of the Sarcheshmeh copper co...
18-May-2021
Ross. Bergmann
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
The concept of underground ore processing, in which valuable ore and waste are separated at a coarse particle size to improve the economics of operations and minimisethe environmental impact, seems attractive from a...
18-May-2021
Wilkie, Keeney, Walters, Dyer, Tadesse
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Grade Engineering® is a term trademarked by the Cooperative Research Centre for OptimisingResource Extraction (CRC ORE) and includes five key levers for upgrading ores and rejecting waste prio...
18-May-2021
Pyle, Valery, Holtham, Duffy
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
A conceptual scoping study was conducted to investigate pre-concentration options for upgrading ore from an Ag-Pb-Zn deposit. The low grade of the ore would result in only modest economic returns, given...
17-May-2021
Amini, Beaton
Presented at the Preconcentration Digital Conference November 2020
ABSTRACT
Application of ore pre-treatment technologies such as Grade Engineering and in-pit ore treatment require comprehensive analysis to show proven value is being generated by switching away from the current pr...
17-May-2021
Valery, Duffy, Holtham, Tabosa, Andrade
Presented at the Preconcentration Digital Conference November 2020
ABSTRACT
Pre-concentration has potential to significantly improve Mineral Resource efficiency by removing gangue early in the process, before energy intensive and expensive comminution and...
17-May-2021
Ehrig, Liebezeit, Macmillan, Li, Pewkliang, Smith
Presented at the Preconcentration Digital Conference November 2020
ABSTRACT
Pre-concentration of low grade ores via the rejection of low/no value materials based on fragment size is the subject of many published papers and studies over the past de...
17-May-2021
Scott, Amini
Presented at the Preconcentration Digital Conference November 2020
ABSTRACT
Grade Engineering® involves the planning, integration and operation of coarse preconcentration techniques to reject uneconomic material as early as possible in the mining value chain to improve the quality of...
17-May-2021