International Mining Congress and Exhibition of Turkey-IMCET

ABSTRACT: A necessary requirement for optimization over the complete mine/mill/leach operation is continuous and accurate data at all steps of the process allowing fragmentation, crushabilily/ grindability/ leachability, slope stability, and safety to be evaluated simultaneously. In an ideal sy.stem, these data would be analyzed centrally and used in a feedback loop to modify mining operations and process-control variables as necessary to improve performance. The objective of the project described in this paper is to demonstrate technologies that can increase the amount of information obtained during drilling, and understand how this information can best be used to improve blasting results, route blasted rock, and increase the efficiency of downstream mineral processing. The technological goals of the project presented in this paper include development of various sensors, data-acquisition systems, and online analysis tools that will allow real-time characterization of the rock mass and bore-hole measurements of mineral content during drilling