Leon Lorenzen (Lorenzen Consultants and Mintrex) began the last day of World Gold 2019 by welcoming us and introducing the presenter of the third Plenary Presentation, Elizabeth Lewis-Gray (Gekko Systems) who spoke to us about Accelerating innovation in the gold mining sector.
Then we broke for the usual half hour coffee break where I caught up with some more delegates.
Then it was back in for Technical Session 7a: Process flowsheet optimisation II and Technical Session 7b: New developments in comminution (crushing & grinding) & Pre-concentration and coarse particle gangue rejection, each with 5 papers presented. It was then time for an hour's lunch and networking.
After lunch, we were back to one stream for Technical Session 8: Gold Mine optimisation (mining, processing and exploration) IV.
Kicking it off was Daniel van der Spuy (Process IQ) with Keynote Presentation 6: The story of digital. Daniel was followed by a short presentation from Scott Wotherspoon (Alcoa of Australia) about the AusIMM's Health and Safety Society.
There then followed 3 papers before another half hour coffee break.
After coffee, the remaining delegates gathered for the hour long Panel Session, chaired by Peter Lind (Newmont Goldcorp). The panel discussed some of the key takeaways from the conference, which included how to attract and retain talent into the industry.
Many thanks to the AusIMM for the smooth running of this event and allowing me to come and report on it. I had a great time catching up with new friends and old.
Amanda Wills @MEI_Conferences
Elizabeth was followed by Jacques Eksteen (Western Australian School of Mines) with Keynote Presentation 5: Fit-for-purpose gold leach systems.
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| Jacques Eksteen (Western Australian School of Mines) |
Then we broke for the usual half hour coffee break where I caught up with some more delegates.
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| Walter Valery (Hatch Australia) |
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| Kristian Monteiro, David Willoway and Harley Davies at the Metallurgy stand |
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| The ALS stand |
Then it was back in for Technical Session 7a: Process flowsheet optimisation II and Technical Session 7b: New developments in comminution (crushing & grinding) & Pre-concentration and coarse particle gangue rejection, each with 5 papers presented. It was then time for an hour's lunch and networking.
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James Tickner (Chrysos Corporation), Mike Adams (Lifezone & KellTech), Stephen Flatman (Maelgwyn Minerals) and Kinga Galka (Chinova Resources)
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| Juan Carrillo and Barrie Watson at the ConSep stand |
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| Tryphena Mitchell (Solvay) who won the Magotteaux 'Guess the weight of the grinding ball' competition Solvay are sponsors of Flotation '19 while Magotteaux are sponsors of Flotation '19 and Comminution '20 |
After lunch, we were back to one stream for Technical Session 8: Gold Mine optimisation (mining, processing and exploration) IV.
Kicking it off was Daniel van der Spuy (Process IQ) with Keynote Presentation 6: The story of digital. Daniel was followed by a short presentation from Scott Wotherspoon (Alcoa of Australia) about the AusIMM's Health and Safety Society.
There then followed 3 papers before another half hour coffee break.
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| Ashleigh Collins and Bjorn Dierx at the Weir Minerals stand |
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| MinAnalytical stand |
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| Rod Price, Oscar Vasquez and Giehard Nebre at the Molycop stand |
After coffee, the remaining delegates gathered for the hour long Panel Session, chaired by Peter Lind (Newmont Goldcorp). The panel discussed some of the key takeaways from the conference, which included how to attract and retain talent into the industry.
Many thanks to the AusIMM for the smooth running of this event and allowing me to come and report on it. I had a great time catching up with new friends and old.
Amanda Wills @MEI_Conferences
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My questions may not be directly related to what was reported on gold. I am curious to know whether any attempts are being made to replace cyanide in gold processing? Are there any places where attempts are being made to recover gold from old reject ponds? Any new techniques in assaying gold because sometimes gold gets completely surrounded by silca even after grinding the sample given for analysis.
ReplyDeleteJust for my knowledge only pl.
https://www.mining.com/cyanide-free-gold-processing-technology-hits-the-market/ is an interesting read.
ReplyDeleteThank you,Amanda; these "recent Comments" help us to catch up if we miss some link and I am sure this new reagent would greatly help.
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