Pre-concentration Video Series: Essentials for Understanding Your Deposit Assessment

Strategies for assessing different pre-concentration options (e.g. bulk vs. particle sorting) are reviewed including what tools/techniques are available. You will learn how variability within a deposit can be quantified and the economic benefits of rejecting waste material before it reaches the process plant.

 

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An introduction to pre-concentration with examples from industry.

 

Discover analytical methods to assess heterogeneity. This session covers heterogeneity and scale, composite-sample relationship, pre-concentration predictions, and sample selection. 

 

Understand how materials can be tested to look at its propensity to improve grade by simply crushing it. Laboratory testing procedures and analysis of results are explained.

 

Learn about the principles to consider in pre-concentration process design and the impact of sorting ore vs. marginal grade material from scenario examples.

 

Economic analysis of different pre-concentration strategies with real-life examples. 

 

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