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HETEROGENEITY: THE MINE’S REALITY... AND OPPORTUNITY

Heterogeneity – the material variation within an ore body – is both the challenge and the purpose of all miners. How do you best utilize and exploit the natural heterogeneity of your asset to maximize ore extraction and optimize processing?

One fact is clear. This heterogeneity is at its highest at the face. Every step after that – starting with primary crush - acts as a mixing step to reduce this heterogeneity and the ability to exploit it. Waste is mixed in and reduces head grade. Deleterious elements that could be detected at their maximum levels become harder to remove downstream. And, of course, good ore that could have been recovered is already out of the processing stream and on its way to the dump.


Without the tools to identify ore from waste, mines lose money and waste resources

AT THE FACE

New Ore Body Data to Make Informed Decisions

At the extraction face, ShovelSense real-time data routes trucks by characterizing ore from waste and waste from ore. This is the only location to capture ore in designated waste, before it is hauled to the dump. This creates significant value to most mines in terms of additional metal production, revenue and profit. It is also the most impactful location to remove waste from designated ore before any additional costs are incurred to process uneconomic material. Plus this data provides dramatic new orebody knowledge that improves short-term mine planning, downstream processes and overall reconciliation.



COMMODITIES

Measuring valuable metals and deleterious elements

The MineSense system measures a range of payable metals as well as problematic deleterious elements. The result is improved recovery and reduced penalties.

This includes polymetallic ore bodies with multiple commodities and elements. Data on all individual metals is readily available. And operational algorithms developed to based cut-off decisions on any combination the mine wants to utilize, all digitally and in complete real-time.