Methodology offers a slew of advantages to proponents looking to lift performance

摘要

Geometallurgy - as the name suggests - is the understanding of the variability in metallurgical parameters based on geological information such as mineralogy, grade and lithology. According to Snowden Mining Industry Consultants Pty Ltd, to have a grip on an ore body's geometallurgy is to provide the practitioner with the means to optimise both scheduling and metallurgical processing. Speaking during the inaugural ALTA Gold Conference held in Western Australia earlier this year, Snowden's Dr Leon Lorenzen said it was evident from case studies that good mineralogical information garnered during the early stages of a project (such as that from drill core samples) was of the utmost importance when it came to correctly identifying the type and quantity of other mineralogical analyses to be conducted, the metallurgical testwork to be utilised as well as the geometallurgical information to be collected.