Mining Engineering GEOMETALLURGY

INDEX

0. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 2
1. GEOMETALLURGY ............................................................................................... 3
1.1 GEOMETALLURGY COMPONENTS: ............................................................ 3
1.2 BENEFITS OF GEOMETALLURGY ................................................................... 4
2. PLANIFICACION GEOMETALLURGICAL ........................................................... 4
3. CONCLUSIONS .......................................................................................................... 5

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INTRODUCTION

Discrepancies of operation occur frequently in mining activity when those responsible for
geological, mining and metallurgical work disagree as to the characteristics of the mineral
processing in Metallurgical Plant.

Such situations, which are clearly difficulties in the overall planning of mining activity, can
be overcome largely by incorporating the concept of Geometallurgy.

The Geometallurgy is a discipline that is intended to incorporate aspects of integrated

planning of mining, since the phase of mineral exploration, including mine plans and
identifying production levels that depend on the hardness, moliendabilidad, recovery and
the quality of the concentrate, etc.

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1. GEOMETALLURGY

Geometallurgy is a cross-discipline within mining, which aims to systematize and determine

the value of the resource as well as economic exploitation. By integrating Geology, Mining
Operations, Mineral Processing and Metallurgy, geometallurgy aims to improve the
assessment process of economic resources. This includes traditional attributes and less
traditional variables such as:

Concentration of harmful elements

Hardness
Moliendabilidad
mineral species
Mineral liberation
metallurgical recovery
drillability
Fragmentation
Reagent consumption GEOLOGY
EXPLORATION
GEOLOGY
MINE
AND
In the stages of plant operation, the GEOMETALURGIST
Geometallurgy improves communication
between geologists, mining planners and METALLURGY MINE
metallurgists. PLANT BUSINESS PLANNING
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1.1. COMPONENTS GEOMETALLURGY

It consists geometallurgy various activities:

Sampling
Testing variability.
Related data collection and correlations
Adding data in a block model or mine plan
geostatistical data management

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1.2. BENEFITS OF GEOMETALLURGY

Geometallurgy reduces the impact of spatial uncertainty in planning the mine. This
minimizes project risk by allowing the following:

Geological and mineralogical documentation impact on metallurgical performance

and grinding.
Plant design that recognizes the inherent variability of the deposit
Forecast production parameters
Plant performance optimization with regard to the variability of the mineral.
Mine resource and optimized plant performance.

2. PLANIFICACION GEOMETALLURGICA

The geometallurgical evaluation involves changes in traditional procedures "core

logging". These techniques should be introduced mineralogical evaluations associated
with metallurgical processes and introduction of the definition of geometallurgical blocks,

Orn is a tridimensional block portion geometallurgical ore deposit which has been
characterized as its various properties, both as Metalrgicas Geolgicas. This allows the
complete record of the site so that the metallurgical performance and economic value are
determined long before entering the ore Metallurgical Plant.

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La successful mine planning requires information from several different disciplines

(geology, chemistry, mineralogy)

GEOLOGY CHEMISTRY

Field relations law

Preparation Zoning
GEOTECNIA Of the place MINERALOGY
MINERAL

Grinding
Recovery

PHYSICAL ANSWER
PROPERTIES METALLURGICA

Disciplines and their interaction in the geometallurgical characterization.

3. CONCLUSIONS

Geometallurgy is a discipline that aims to incorporate aspects of planning of mining.

The geometallurgical variables are important elements in determining the costs and
profits of the mining project.

It is a cost to optimize production of mine through the characterization and

quantification of ore variability technique.

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