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Aspects of Design and Operation of Heap Leach Pad and Spent Ore Dump

April 2021

Publication - Article

Heap leach pads are composed of mined ore, usually crushed, disposed on drainage system to be processed with leach solutions. In the case of dynamic heap leach, after the leaching process, spent ore is transported by conveyor belts to be disposed into dumps.

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Cost-Effective and Efficient Geotechnical Classification Using Machine Learning

Edward Saunders, Sam Tims, Antoine Caté, Andrew LeRiche - February 2022

Publication - Article

Dedicated geotechnical drilling for exploration projects generally form a small percentage of the overall drilling conducted for exploration, resource definition, and metallurgical testing.

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Peter Mikes

 Consultant - Vancouver, Canada

Peter has over 20 years’ experience in waste facility design and cost estimation in the mining industry.

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Paul-Johan Aucamp

 Consultant - Johannesburg, South Africa

Paul has 20 years of experience as an engineering and contaminated land geologist.

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Guillermo Albornoz

 Consultant - Santiago, Chile

Guillermo has over 20 years’ experience in different mining projects, mainly in open pit mining systems, specializing in different areas of geotechnical engineering applied to mining designs.

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Melanie Cox

 Consultant - Cardiff, UK

Melanie Cox (BSc) is a Geochemistry Consultant with over 15 years of experience within the mining industry.

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Snap Lake

Kimberlite 3D Structural Geology Model

Project - Northwest Territories, Canada

Analysed the pattern and continuity of complex geological structures and geotechnical domains.

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Underground Mining at Ekati and Diavik Diamond Mines

Jarek Jakubec, Philip Lewis - September 2017

Publication - Article

Primary diamond deposits have been mined on an industrial scale only within the past 150 years, mainly as open pit operations.

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Asia: Chromite Feasibility Study

SRK Global

Publication

Balasore Alloys (BAL) commissioned SRK to undertake a feasibility study and prepare a Detailed Project Report (DPR) for its underground chromite properties in Odisha.

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Australasia: Ok Tedi Copper-Gold

SRK Global

Publication

Between 2006 and 2013, SRK supported studies for this large copper-gold open-pit operation in Papua New Guinea, through geological mapping, hydrogeological testing and rock mass characterisation.

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