Economics of pre-concentration in mining: Bulk Ore Sorting in a copper mine
In October 2021, IMA Engineering participated in the 17th International Conference on Mineral Processing and Geometallurgy, Procemin-Geomet 2021 and presented a keynote on the Economics of pre-concentration in mining: Bulk Ore Sorting in a copper mine.
Pre-concentration by Bulk Ore Sorting (BOS) has gained interest in the mining industry over the past few years due to its environmental and economic benefits. The BOS method utilizes natural rock heterogeneity to separate the waste rock from the ore before it enters the energy-intensive grinding and mineral processing process.
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IMA Engineering has used on-line sensors for analyzing ore and waste rock in mining for over 25 years. Today IMA on-line sensors are used in various stages of the mining process including on-line analysis of drill cores, drill chips, ore, and waste in loader buckets, ROM ore analysis on conveyor belts and in bulk ore sorting, as well as slurry analysis in concentrators.
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