method and autonomous system for determining the elemental composition of an ore

摘要

patent abstract: "method and autonomous system for determining the elemental composition of an ore". The present invention relates to method (10) for autonomously determining an elemental composition of an ore which involves an initial step (12) of conveying an ore stream in front of a moisture measurement system and an analyzer. In step (14), the moisture measurement system operates to obtain moisture content data from the ore. As the ore stream subsequently passes through the analyzer, the analyzer operates in step (16) to obtain raw ore elemental composition data. The moisture content data and the raw elemental composition data are provided as inputs to the compensation step (18). In the compensation step (18), one or more data compensation or correction methods or techniques are performed to provide moisture corrected elemental composition data of the ore. These offset data are provided in step (20). 21071069v1