Pilots and Testwork

Pilots and Testwork

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Blouin, Gagnon, El-Haddad, Soares de Lima Filho, Vanier, Harhira, Bouchard, Boismenu, Hamel, Beauchesne, Padioleau, Vaillancourt, Plugatyr, Sabsabi, Wilkie Presented at the Preconcentration Digital Conference November 2020 ABSTRACT Quantitative mineralogy is an established discipline in the geosc...
13-Apr-2021
Coghill, Cutmore, Carter, Millen, Haarlem Presented at the Preconcentration Digital Conference November 2020 ABSTRACT Due to the low concentration of gold, ore sorting for gold has always required measuring indirect properties, such as density or colour, to allow separation on a rock by rock basi...
13-Apr-2021
*K. Bru, M. Beaulieu, R. Sousa, M. Leite, A, De Sousa, E. Kol, J. Rozenkranz, D. de Parvaz Minerals Engineering ABSTRACT Electric Pulse Fragmentation (EPF) is an innovative technology that uses High-Voltage Pulsed Power (HVPP) for the selective comminution of a material. This paper aims to compa...
23-Jun-2020
M. Bueno, B. Foggiatto, G. Lane SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019 ABSTRACT This paper presents an assessment and trade-off study of high-pressure grinding rolls (HPGR)-based vs. autogenous grinding (AG)-based milling options for a 65 kt/d copper/gold project. The study rel...
05-May-2020
M Powell, C Bozbay, S Kanchibotla, B Bonfils, A Musunuri, V Jokovic, M Hilden, J Young, E Yalcin SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019 ABSTRACT In expanding the mine to process considerably more competent ore sources, this semi-autogenous-ball mill-crusher (SABC) circuit with a...
06-Jan-2020
Abstract More complex ore bodies with lowering grades increase the challenges of maintaining high throughput, energy efficiency and required particle size for optimal downstream processing in grinding circuits. Continuous and often rapidly changing characteristics of the mill feed requires consta...
26-Nov-2015