✨ We are looking forward to SAG 2023, the event brings together mineral processing professionals from around the world with a focus on evolving comminution towards a sustainable future. It's an opportunity to expand your knowledge base and learn about advances in innovation, and the key changes happening in crushing and grinding that will help shape mining for the next decade!
✅ General Information:
- Date - 24th - 28th Sept, 2023
- Venue - JW Marriott Parq hotel, Vancouver
- Registration - LINK
💙 Information about Dassault Systèmes, GEOVIA's participation:
- Presenter - GEOVIA Industry Process Senior Consultant, Farhad FARAMARZI
- Author - Farhad FARAMARZI & Ralph SMITH
- Poster Presentation Title - Forecasting Value Chain Performance for Strategic and Operational Evaluations
- Abstract - Optimizing the mining value chain, commonly known as mine-to-mill, conventionally aims at unlocking additional milling capacity by applying high-energy blasts, which deliver relatively finer size distributions in favour of autogenous and semi-autogenous grinding mills. In general, optimizing the mining value chain requires the optimal contribution of each stage towards maximizing overall value across the value chain rather than realizing the silos’ distinct objectives. Although mine-to-mill conventionally focuses on leveraging drill-and-blast as an upstream option, mine-to-mill should also benefit from other improvement techniques throughout the value chain. Today’s technology has made developing consoles easy and cost-effective. With technological advancements, such as increased computing power and improved software capabilities, implementing and using consoles have become more accessible to mining professionals. In this context, forecasting consoles are vital in enhancing mining practices by enabling mining and process engineers to effectively test hypotheses and make informed decisions that benefit the entire operation. Consoles also help identify risks and opportunities, enabling proactive problem solving and continuous improvement in mining operations. Additionally, the notable benefit of cross-disciplinary consoles may reside in augmenting the comprehension among upstream and downstream engineers concerning operational challenges using enhanced communication. This paper proposes a technology-driven solution, the mine-to-mill analytics console created to forecast process plant key performance indicators (KPI). In addition, we discuss the mine-to-mill analytics console's application in mine-to-mill evaluation studies. The console is an easily customizable and extendable solution which allows exploring the impact of feasible blast design alternatives for different ore domains and ore-breakage variability on key process KPIs—specifically helping with not only typical mine-to-mill studies, but also reinforcing strategic optimization plans using stochastic approaches.
📌 About SAG 2023:
This targeted conference draws from a wealth of world-leading technical experts specializing in the art and science of comminution.
The SAG Conference is the premier international technical conference on comminution and related subjects. The most recent conferences have included subject matter relating to energy management, mine-to-mill strategy, pre-concentration, and ore sorting.
