L. Vollert, B. Akerstrom, B. Seaman, J. Kohmuench
COM Copper 2019 Conference 18 - 21 August Vancouver
ABSTRACT
In August 2018, the first full-scale HydroFloatTM cells for the recovery of coarse composited copper and gold were commissioned at Newcrest’s Cadia Valley operation in New South Wa...
04-Mar-2020
Emerging advances, overall look Amira's point of view
22-Jan-2020
Enery and the Changing Requirements in the SWIS
15-Jan-2020
Recent Developments in Dewatering Technoligies for Tailings Disposal
15-Jan-2020
Already have a plant? What eco-efficient comminution could mean for you.
15-Jan-2020
B Putland & R Sciberras
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
Many ore bodies are getting harder, more abrasive, and lower in grade. One of the issues designers face is minimizing capital and operating costs when treating such ores. Designers often look to secondar...
06-Jan-2020
A. McElroy, M. Powell, J. Tilberg, M. Hilden, M. Yahyaei, M Linna, A. Johnansson
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
The new Aitik autogenous grinding (AG) milling circuit was based on the successful original milling plant at Aitik, with a focus on low life-of-mine o...
06-Jan-2020
EGBERT BURCHARDT & THOMAS MACKERT
*Egbert Burchardt & Thomas Mackertthyssenkrupp Industrial Solutions, Grinding Technology –Mineral Processing, Graf-Galen-Str. 17, 59269 Beckum, Germany (*Corresponding author: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22...
06-Jan-2020
*SAMI MAKNI1, REMI LAPOINTE2, CHRISTINE CROTEAU1 & DAISUKE SATO2
1COREM1180, rue de la Minéralogie, Québec, Québec, Canada, G1N 1X7
2Project Côté Gold(Iamgoldand SMM)1111, Saint-Charles Street West, East Tower, suite 123Longueuil, Quebec, Canada, J4K5G4 (*Corresponding author: sami.makni@corem...
06-Jan-2020
*P. Pearce, C. Gagnon, B. Klein, R. McIvor, S. Makni, F. Wang, A. Kumar
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
The aim of the Crush It! Challenge is to accelerate transformative solutions to reduce energy usage in the mill. Natural Resources Canada supported competition...
06-Jan-2020
*S. ESEN1, M. DANIEL1, B. DZHALOLOV2, B. BACHRAMOV2, J. GERONIMO2, & A. KALMATAYEV2
1Esen Mining Consulting Pty LtdSydney, Australia2JSC AK AltynalmasAlmaty, Kazakhstan (*Corresponding author: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
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06-Jan-2020
C. CARRASCO1, M. GAHONA1, D. LA ROSA2, G. SHAPLAND2, N. BEATON2, & *E. AMINI2
1BHPAv. de la Minería 501, Antofagasta, Chile 2CRC ORETechnology Transfer Centre, Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT)1 Technology Crt., Pullenvale, QLD, 4069, Australia (*Corresponding author: e.amini@c...
06-Jan-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
G. Ballantyne, A. Giblett
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
Newmont has a demonstrated history as a leading investor in comminution technology developments. Most notably the cornerstone high pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) demonstration plant at the Lone Tree operat...
06-Jan-2020
R Butar, M Becker, B Putland, I Lovatt, F Kock
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
Continuous improvement is a major key performance indicator (KPI) for many metallurgical operations. Improvement never happens by itself and is rarely attributed to a single party or p...
06-Jan-2020
G. Ballantyne
ABSTRACT
Assessment of comminution energy intensity has traditionally been confined to the crusher and mill motor power consumption. However, a measure of ancillary equipment power and the embodied energy consumed through media wear is required to compare disparate equipment types an...
06-Jan-2020
S Nadolski, R Haycock, K Li, S Seiler, A Kumar
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
A comprehensive energy study was carried out for the Red Chris mill, which processes copper-gold ore at a rate of 30,000 tonnes per day (t/d) and is located in Northern British Columbi...
06-Jan-2020
P Lind, K Murray, A Boylston, & I Arce
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
Mineral processing consumes significant power, primarily in comminution, as well as significant amounts of water through hold-up in conventional tailings facilities. Reducing power and wa...
06-Jan-2020
GREG LANE1, SIMON HILLE2, JOE PEASE3, & MATT PYLE4
1Ausenco, 2Newmont Goldcorp, 3Mineralis, 4Ausenco
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
A comprehensive energy study was carried out for the Red Chris mill, which processes copper-gold ore at a rate of 30,000 tonn...
06-Jan-2020
HENNING KNAPP1, STEPHAN HANNOT1, & FRANK VAN DER MEER1
ABSTRACT
High pressure grinding rolls (HPGR) are an energy efficient solution for comminution of industrial minerals and metal ores. The technology is successfully applied in an expanding field of applications throughout the minerals indus...
06-Jan-2020
F.P. VAN DER MEER1, R. FERNANDEZ2
1. F.P.van der Meer, Weir Minerals Plc, Minerals Processing and HPGR Technology, Egtenrayseweg 9, 5928 PH VenloThe Netherlands, T: +31 (0)77 3272955, E: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., W: www.weirminerals.com
2. R. Fernandez, Weir Minerals Sud-America, Manager Comm...
06-Jan-2020
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E BAAWUAH1, C KELSEY2, J ADDAI-MENSAH3 AND W SKINNER4
1. PhD student, Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5095. Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. FAusIMM, Technical Director, IMP Technologies P/L, 83A Proctor Rd, Hope Forest, SA 5172. Email: chri...
16-Dec-2019
T. Robinson, B. Widdows and J. Rosenberg
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
POSTER ABSTRACT
Increasing mill availability is a key improvement to the productivity of most mine sites. Mills are often running at maximum capacity, consequently any downtime reduces the mine output. O...
25-Sep-2019
G Borg, O Scharfe, A Kamradt, and N Meyer
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
POSTER ABSTRACT
High-velocity impact breakage is an option to increase comminution efficiency significantly. The widespread application of traditional ball mills and SAG mills in comminution is cha...
25-Sep-2019
R Diaz-Colunga, S Gomez-Hernandez and R Espinosa-Gomez
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
ABSTRACT
Fresnillo Plc (Fresnillo) is a Mexican Company owned by the “BAL Group”, focused on the production of gold and silver. It was established in 2008, initially consisting of three com...
24-Sep-2019
C J Greet, D Morgan, J Davis, G Small and X du Toit
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
ABSTRACT
Laboratory test work completed on samples of Northparkes ore indicated that shifting from forged steel to more electrochemically inert high chrome grinding media produced a more oxidi...
24-Sep-2019
S.Morrell
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
ABSTRACT
Whether it is for the purposes of the design of new comminution circuit, a brownfield expansion or a geometallurgical program, one of the principal keys to success is to “know your orebody”. To do so requires the formulation and e...
24-Sep-2019
K Ehrig, V Liebezeit, M Smith, B Pewkliang, Y Li and E Macmillan
MetPlant 2019, September 9-10, Perth, Australia
ABSTRACT
Copper-(Fe)-sulfide ore deposits typically have Cu grades varying from 0.5 to 5%. This equates to approximately 1.5 to 15% sulfide minerals, hence 85 to 98.5% of the rema...
24-Sep-2019
Hamid Manouchehri
Comminution '18, April 16-19, Cape Town, South Africa
ABSTRACT
As an energy intensive industry, mining consumes about 6-7% of total world’s energy to produce raw materials for subsequent industries. Grinding, however, is the most energy intensive process in mining which is respo...
25-Jul-2019
Gregor Borg, Oscar Scharfe, Felix Scharfe, Pablo Gonzalez Jimenez, Salvador Gomez
Physical Separation 2019, June 13-14, Falmouth, UK
ABSTRACT
Efficiency improvement in the comminution of ores has been on the international agenda of the mining industry for some time but substantial advances are st...
09-Jul-2019
Graeme J. Jameson, Cagri Emer
ABSTRACT
A new froth flotation machine has been developed, known as the NovaCell, which can recover mineral particles over a wide particle size range, from the lower limit of flotation, to an upper limit which depends on the liberation characteristics of the ore. In a...
09-Jul-2019
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T. Waters, A. Rice, J. Seppelt, J. Bubnich, B. Akerstrom
14th AusIMM Mill Operators' Conference 2018, 29-31 August, Brisbane
ABSTRACT
The Concentrator 1 plant at Cadia transitioned from Cadia Hill open pit to the Cadia East block cave ore body in 2013. As a result of this change, major plant upgr...
01-Jul-2019
Y. Dumais, R. Lemire, T. Banerjee and H. Weitz
Canadian Mineral Processors Conference, 23-25 January 2018, Ottawa, Canada
ABSTRACT
Agnico Eagle LaRonde produces over 300,000 ounces of gold annually, along with silver, zinc and copper by-products. The LaRonde plant consists of a conventional SAG a...
28-Jun-2019
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Farhad Faramarzi*, Vladimir Jokovic, Robert Morrison, Sarma S Kanchibotla
Comminution '18, 22-25 January 2018, Ottawa, Canada
ABSTRACT
The standard JK drop weight test breaks single particles at five size fractions at different energy levels by dropping a given weight from a certain h...
24-Apr-2019
F.C.F. Batista, R. deS. Almeida, L. deA. Silva, T. Banerjee, D. Gudgeon
CMP 2018, 23-25 January 2018, Ottawa, Canada
ABSTRACT
Yamana Chapada’s mine is one of the larger copper-gold mines in Brazil. The mine is located in Goias state, in the central part of Brazil. The mine has estimated Mineral R...
24-Apr-2019
K. Bhadani, G. Asbjörnsson, E. Hulthén, M. Bengtsson, M. Evertsson
Comminution '18, 16-19 April 2018, Cape Town, South Africa.
ABSTRACT
Optimization is a pivotal point in distinguishing the competitiveness between industries that are developing, designing and operating products and pro...
24-Apr-2019
A Hinde, E. Ford, J. Makola, A. Jain
Copper Cobalt Africa, 10-12 July 2018, Livingstone, Zambia
ABSTRACT
A large contributor to the energy consumption of metallurgical plants is the mill circuit. A popular circuit configuration is one involving a primary open-circuit semi-autogenous mill fol...
23-Apr-2019