Metallurgy workshop calls for industry standard

摘要

A mineral-processing workshop held in Cape Town recently, has identified the pressing need for an industry-wide standard in metallurgical accounting. The SAIMM Challenges in Metallurgical Accounting and Information Management workshop identified, for urgent attention, the largely unaccounted factor of comparing metal-out against metal-in at a typical processing or smelting operation. AMIRA International research coordinator, Richard Beck, says a problem for many mining and processing operations is to get a balance at the end of each month, particularly in smelters and hydrometallurgical plants where it isn't easy to sample intermediate products.