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About the event

This seminar will be hosted by Cristian Quinones in the CSM geology lab in Penryn campus, the seminar will run from 09:00 to 17:00 and will have an hour break for lunch from 13:00 - 14:00. We will provide hot drinks and a pasty for each attendee (optional).

The tickets are limited to 25 attendees with cheaper tickets available for members of the SEG CSM society. 

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch with us at, Jm1401@exeter.ac.uk

Event details:

Cristian has 25 years of experience in consultancy (Wood and AsGeoMin) and operational roles (Codelco, BHP, and TECK), primarily in geometallurgy. He has extensive experience in geological and geometallurgical modelling, exploration campaigns, surface, bench and drill mapping, reconciliation pro cesses and sampling and QA/QC protocol. He is currently the Technical Director of the consulting company AsGeoMin and has participated in more than 40 mining projects in recent years. Cristian graduated as a geologist from the Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile and obtained his master’s degree in mining Geology from the University of Exeter. He is also a Qualified person accredited by the Commission for Competence in Mineral Resources and Reserves of Chile.

This seminar has already been delivered to many universities/companies with participants from Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Indonesia, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, among others.

This seminar addresses the essential components that must be incorporated into a geometallurgical model. The following sections will be examined:

· Introduction:

o Presentation of the content, objectives, and scope of the seminar. Definition and significance of geometallurgy; geometallurgical unit.

· Projects, Mineral Resources, Mineral Reserves and Geometallurgy:

o Presentation and discussion of current codes used by the modern mining industry for Mineral Resource and Mineral Reserve declaration, and their relationship with geometallurgy.

· Geometallurgical Value Chain:

o The Role and Relationships of Geometallurgy within the Mining Industry Value Chain.

· Geometallurgical sampling:

o Sample requirements and limitations in geometallurgical sampling.

· Geometallurgical sample characterization:

o Metallurgical, geological, mineralogical, and chemical characterisation of geometallurgical samples.

· Geometallurgical modelling:

o Exploratory Data Analysis of Geometallurgical Units.

· Geometallurgical parameter estimation:

o Geostatistical and machine learning approaches: advantages and disadvantages.

· Geometallurgical audit:

o Aspects reviewed during geometallurgical audits, along with the applied methodology.

· Final study case:

o Audit and subsequent geometallurgical evaluation of a mining project, including throughput, metal recovery, and financial impact.