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In this episode we are joined by CEEC International Director, Eric Wasmund, and VP of Business Development - Mineral Processing from DISA Technologies, Tim Lundquist, as we discuss how High Pressure Slurry Ablation could improve mineral liberation and support more efficient flowsheets.
In this episode we are joined by CEEC International Director, Grant Ballantyne, and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensand and CEEC Advocate, Malcolm Powell as we discuss the 2023 CEEC Medal winning paper for Technical Research, Can we shift to a new paradigm of flexibility in mining and processing to build mines powered exclusively by the variable input of renewables?
In today’s episode we are joined by CEEC International Director, Grant Ballantyne, and Technical Consultant, Comminution, from Ausenco, Campbell Haines as we discuss the recent 2024 CEEC Medal winning paper for Operations & Design, Pioneering Coarse Particle Flotation – Transformative Insights from five years of operation.
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In this episode we are joined by CEEC International Executive Director, Philip Bangerter, CEEC Advocate and Principal from Resourceful Paths Laurie Reemeyer, and Technical Services Specialist, Craig Davies from Whittle Consulting.
This episode features key insights from the Neo-Marvin Porphyry Case Study, a recent collaboration between CEEC International and Whittle Consulting as part of the Global Water Initiative.
In this episode we are joined by CEEC International Director Grant Ballantyne, and Principal Metallurgist from Orway Mineral Consultants, Ivka Lovatt as we discuss their recent paper “Trade-Off Realities in HPGR vs. SAG Milling - A Practical Comparison of Tropicana and Gruyere Comminution Circuits”.
In this episode, we're joined by CEEC International Executive President & Director, Janine Herzig, and Tom Payten, the newest Advocate at CEEC International. Tom, who serves as the Managing Director at Nova Terra, shares his insights and motivations for joining the CEEC team.
In this episode, we're joined by CEEC International Director, Philip Bangerter, and Lead Facilitator and Principal from Tri Helix, David Jenkins. Today's discussion is centered on the digital evolution of collaboration, David shares insights on Tri Helix's hybrid approach of virtual and face-to-face interactions, the role of technology in project facilitation, and the power of campaigns in the Global Water Initiative.
In this episode we are joined by CEEC International Executive President & Director, Janine Herzig, and Global Product Director, REFLUX Technologies from FLSmidth, Lance Christodoulou as we discuss the energy and water reduction benefits of the REFLUX Flotation Cell (RFC).
In this episode, we're joined by CEEC International Director, Grant Ballantyne, and Evert Lessing, the newest Advocate at CEEC International. Evert, who serves as the VP for Product Engineering Pumps Business Line at Metso, shares his insights and motivations for joining the CEEC team.
In this episode we are joined by CEEC International Director Philip Bangerter, and representatives from Weir, Paula Cousins, Chief Strategy and Sustainability Officer, and John McNulty, VP of Global Engineering and Technology, as we discuss the Global Water Initiative, and the role of technology in enabling more sustainable mining.
In this episode we are joined by CEEC International - Executive President & Director, Janine Herzig, alongside a new Advocate, Sarah Boucaut. Together they offer insights in Sarah’s history with CEEC, her motivations for rejoining the CEEC International team, and aspirations for future collaboration.
In today’s episode we are joined by CEEC International Director Grant Ballantyne, and Principal Process Development from Anglo American, Karina Arburo as we discuss their recent paper “Commissioning a HydroFloat® in a Copper Concentrator Application”.
In today’s episode we are joined by CEEC International Director Grant Ballantyne, and Technical Lead from Sepro Systems, John Forster as we discuss their recent paper “Microwave Heating Behaviour of Ores and its Application to High-Power Microwave Assisted Comminution and Ore Sorting” which received the 2022 CEEC Medal for Technical Research.
In today’s episode we are joined by CEEC International Executive President & Director, Janine Herzig, and Master of Philosophy Candidate at the Sustainable Minerals Insitute, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Angelica Amanda Andrade as we discuss her studies and the impact of tailings failures.
In today’s episode we are joined by CEEC International Director, Joe Pease, and Director of Technical Solutions from Ausenco, Matt Pyle as we discuss his recent paper “Improving Tailings Outcomes with Next Generation Concentrators”.
In today’s episode we are joined by CEEC International Director Eric Wasmund, and Head of Innovation from Anglo American, Phil Newman as we discuss the benefits of the Anglo American Hydraulic Dewatered Stack (HDS) technology.
In today’s episode we are joined by CEEC International Director Philip Bangerter and CEEC Advocate and Principal Consultant at Resourceful Paths, Laurie Reemeyer, as we discuss an exciting new project lead by CEEC International - the Global Water Initiative.
In January, we sat down with CEEC International’s Chair, Marc Allen and Executive President, Janine Herzig to discuss recent changes at CEEC, acknowledge generous contributions, and look forward to an exciting year ahead.
In this episode of the Spotlight Leader Conversations series, CEEC communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody speaks to Eduardo Coloma, CEO of Maptek, which provides software, hardware and services for the resources sector.
In the conversation, they discuss how technology is making the sector safer and more sustainable, why inclusion and diversity are important in the industry, and the importance of collaboration for the future success of the resources sector.
In this episode of the Spotlight Leader Conversations series, CEEC communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody speaks to Dr Chris Greet, Manager, Minerals Processing Research at process optimisation solutions provider Magotteaux.
In the conversation, they discuss how the company is taking net zero very seriously and has drastically reduced its energy consumption by using solar energy at its plants. Dr Greet also shares why he thinks mineral processing has a bright future as a key part of the energy transition.
In this episode of the Spotlight Leader Conversations series, CEEC communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody speaks to Brian Cornish, José Pablo Domínguez and Roberto Lecaros from ME Elecmetal, a leading global supplier of integrated wear solutions for mining, construction and industry.
In the conversation, they discussed renewables and grinding innovations, including how ME Elecmetal is working towards a long-term vision regarding carbon emissions, recycling and the circular economy. They also talked about how making small changes to reduce energy and steel consumption can result in big improvements in the efficiency of operations.
In this episode of the Spotlight Leader Conversations series, CEEC communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody speaks to Scott Marshall, Scott Ferguson and Ellen Thomson from Thermo Fisher Scientific, a global supplier of scientific instrumentation, reagents and consumables, and software services.
In the conversation, they talked about the latest sensor technologies for ore sorting, and how the company’s mining division is focused on developing technologies that can help its customers achieve their own net zero 2050 targets. For example, the PSM-500 particle size analyzer that Thermo Fisher Scientific launched in 2020 is specifically designed for comminution circuits, and optimises energy efficiency by ensuring that plants are not over-grinding their ore.
In this episode of the Spotlight Leader Conversations, our communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody speaks with Eric Wasmund, VP Global Flotation of Eriez, a world authority on complete magnetic separation, metal detection, fluid recycling, feeders & conveyors, material handling equipment, size reduction and metal recycling solutions.
In the conversation, Eric focuses on how Eriez is delivering breakthrough technologies like StackCell and HydroFloat that are allowing the extractive industries to use less energy and water. He also talks about how the role of non-competitive NGOs like CEEC is key in building collaboration across industry.
In this episode of the Spotlight Leader Conversations, our communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody speaks with Peter Flanagan, Senior Vice President – Global Project Sales, Executive Accounts and Key Commodities at FLSmidth, a global provider of sustainable productivity to the cement and mining industries for over 135 years.
Peter provides a rich and really informative discussion about how big processing equipment is changing to rise to the challenge of net zero and less water use in mining.
In the conversation, Peter talks about FLSmidth’s MissionZero sustainability program to achieve net zero by 2030, and how a holistic pit-to-plant focus can incorporate technologies such as HGPRs, coarse particle flotation, in-pit crushing and conveying and preconcentration can eliminate water and energy waste.
Today, our communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody talks with Paul Shelley, Global VP of Innovation for Molycop, an organisation that delivers highly developed and innovative products that ensure high breakage resistance and low consumption rates to deliver value for mines all over the globe.
In the conversation, Paul discusses the impact of the digital transformation that has improved the efficiency and productivity of comminution. For example, Molycop’s P86 SAG mill sensor system, which received a high commendation from the CEEC Medal Evaluation Committee a couple of years ago, can successfully capture and analyse data from inside operating SAG mills.
Marc Allen is the Technical Director at engeco, a Singapore-based consultancy providing advisory services primarily in energy and greenhouse gas management and strategy, as well as broader sustainability, across Australasia. Marc has been on the Board of CEEC since 2018
- Why Marc became involved in CEEC
- Key targets for energy efficiency across a mine site
- The impact of low-cost solutions on energy efficiency improvements
- The benefits of carrying out an energy efficiency audit
- Designing for energy efficiency in greenfield projects
- Total cost of ownership analysis
- The use of artificial intelligence 9AI)
- Plant optimization in metallurgy
- The role of sensors in innovation and efficiency
- Alternatives to diesel usage and considerations in implementation
- Areas of growth in renewables
- Payback periods for hybrid set ups
- Energy storage considerations
- Why renewable uptake has not been as high as it could be and why
- Optimizing energy supply to the mine
- Examples of mines and METS companies implementing renewables and other efficiency strategies
- Why electrifying (and battery) makes good business sense
- What’s unique about CEEC
- The potential for CEEC online events to drive ESG actions
- The role of CEEC into the future of ESG
- 5 key commodities and their critical minerals for future consumption
- The percentage of global energy being used in comminution
- The 2 operations that consume the majority of energy in a mine site
- Pathways to decarbonization and improving energy efficiency
- What could impact the ability to raise debt and equity
- What the future looks like and the roadmap – 2030 and 2050
- engeco’s new Mining Energy Consumption report in comminution and the mining industry
CEEC CEO Alison Keogh interviewed CEEC director Bryan Rairdan for the CEEC director series. Some of the key areas covered in this podcast include:-
- Why Bryan decided to join the CEEC Board
- What value CEEC adds to industry
- What impact CEEC can have if industry works together
- CEEC’s breadth of tools and resources
- Strategies to improve the movement of eco efficient practises
- The importance of collaboration to advance the discussion on eco efficient comminution
- CEECs 10-year milestones and achievements
- Bryan's vision for industry in three years for 2030 and for 2050
- What's next for CEEC?
- Why join CEEC? As a contributor or a sponsor and opportunities for industry
- How we can support leaders to make the best decisions
- How technical professionals can articulate business value around managing risk
Professor Neville Plint is the Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia.
Professor Plint’s extensive background focused on delivering improved operational performance on mining sites by developing and implementing new technologies, whilst establishing a global network of research professionals in academic institutes, mining companies and research organisations.
The 2020 CEEC Medal was won by Dr Grant Ballantyne, for his paper titled “Quantifying the Additional Energy Consumed by Ancillary Equipment and Embodied in Grinding Media in Comminution Circuits”. At the time Dr Ballantyne was working for The Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre which is part of the Sustainable Minerals Institute.
- What the CEEC medal means and why it’s important for industry
- The core purpose of the SMI and its work in energy efficiency, productivity and global sustainability
- Grant’s work on energy consumption in comminution and introducing the Energy Curve Benchmarking
- Redesigning the value chain such that we minimise the energy footprint
- What we can learn from success and benchmarking
- Using research data to inform improvements
- Implementing change through collaboration
- The key factors for success in industry’s uptake of eco efficient processing to strive to meet ESG goals
- The challenges of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and the opportunities this presents
- Advice to support senior mining leaders to invest in good changes
- The importance of community engagement
- SMI’s role in leading change
- Key areas of research
- The importance of research institutes partnering with industry to advance creative ideas
Zimi Meka, Managing Director of Ausenco is interviewed by CEEC Director Joe Pease following the 2020 CEEC Medal for technical research presentation to Dr Grant Ballantyne of Ausenco.
With over 35 years’ experience in design, construction and operation of minerals processing plants, and infrastructure globally, he's overseen Ausenco’s diversification into a global business today.
Zimi has been recognized globally with many awards. He was inducted in the Engineer's Australia Hall of Fame in 2019 today's modern was listed by engineers Australia as one of the country's top 100 most influential engineers and is recognized by the AusIMM with the Institute Medal in 2009.
Topics covered in this podcast include:-
- How Grant Ballantyne’s 2020 CEEC Medal win is helping industry to make the right moves in improving energy efficiency
- The journey of CEEC over the past 10 years
- How Ausenco encourages collaboration and partnering with their clients
- What’s required in the coming years to meet ESG objectives
- An industry to look to in order to benchmark best practice
- Carbon footprint versus environmental and social stewardship
- The need for industry to collaborate
- Examples of innovation at Ausenco
- Energy efficient operations for the future
- Enhanced process recovery
- Ausenco’s approach to helping operating companies think differently about energy efficient processing
- The future of emerging technologies in energy and water conservation in mineral processing for major savings
- Best economic outcome versus highest recovery
- Investor influences and barriers to adoption
- Under-utilized considerations
- Challenges for industry leaders and opportunities to create the best environment for the future
- Zimi’s advice for CEEC
In today’s episode of the 2020 CEEC Medal insights series, CEEC Director Joe Pease interviews Dr Grant Ballantyne, Head of Technical Solutions with Ausenco after the presentation of his 2020 CEEC Medal for outstanding work.
Grant shares exciting technologies key to reduce mining’s footprint, including options that can reduce water, tailings or energy by 50%. As we strive towards net zero design and operation of processing plants, we must account for embodied energy in ancillary equipment such as steel grinding media and conveyors, which can add 30 to 50 per cent more energy use.
Topics covered in this podcast include:-
- An overview of Grant’s Medal Winning paper Quantifying The Additional Energy Consumed By Ancillary Equipment And Embodied In Grinding Media In Comminution Circuit
- Grant’s work on developing CEEC’s Energy Curves project with the Sustainable Minerals Institute
- Why you need to consider the bigger picture of the energy footprint
- What’s involved in designing an energy efficient comminution circuit
- Ways to reduce media consumption
- The origin of the drive to go to embodied and ancillary equipment
- Core separation as one way to reduce energy and water consumption
- Benefits of coarse particle flotation or other coarse separation technologies.
- New technologies coming in that complement the bulk ore sorting and coarse particle flotation
- Assessing the NPV of major projects
- The benefits of staging implementations for de-risking
- Modeling different technical techniques
- The future of copper mining
- Getting a higher grade feed to the processing plant to make it more economic
- Why sag and ball milling are not the enemies many people think that they are
- What we can learn from work that was done in the 1950’s
- Equipment around dry comminution
- Eriez Hydrofloat separator at the Cadia operation in NSW
- Technologies and strategies that can result in reducing energy, water and tailings by 50%
- Addressing the financial implications of new technologies
- The changes that industry needs to be adopting the next 10 years
- The biggest challenges facing mines
CEEC CEO Alison Keogh interviews Simon Hille of Eldorado Gold and Mark Adams of Metso Outotec after the presentation of the 2020 CEEC Medal to winners for outstanding work.
They discuss innovation and supporting commercialization to scale with success, energy and water efficient approaches to mineral processing, the drivers of change, CEEC, and the benefits of collaboration.
- Disruptive breakage approaches of the future
- Overcoming limitations
- Dry classification
- Better separation
- Pre-concentrated material
- What’s limiting a step change in efficiency
- Time to commercialise considerations
- Adopting sorting into mainstream
- Is getting existing technologies in place key?
- The focus on incremental improvements
- Industry challenge of lower grades and higher tonnages
- Why we need to redesign mines
- The focus on water in mineral processing
- The culture shifts required for change
- Attitude to risk
- Empowering new ideas
- Compressing time to commercialisation
- How CEEC can shed light on opportunities to improve
In today’s episode of the 2020 CEEC Medal insights series, CEEC CEO Alison Keogh interviews Peter Lind of Newmont and Bryan Rairdan of Teck Resources after the presentation of the 2020 CEEC Medal to winners for outstanding work.
Hear miner’s inside views – on decarbonizing energy systems into mine sites, and improving water efficiency. Some of the ways important investor and community ESG and net zero expectations are being considered by technology leaders. They are finding new opportunities as they engineer ways to reduce mining’s footprint.
- Creating a compelling financial business case versus managing risk for senior leaders
- How do we better articulate the value of projects so that senior leaders can achieve their ESG actions?
- The difference between energy efficiency and carbon footprint
- Making processing decisions that benefit industry as a whole
- The emerging theme of integrating renewables and hybrid primary energy solutions into mine sites to reduce carbon footprint
In today’s episode of the 2020 CEEC Medal insights series, CEEC Director Simon Hille does an impromptu interview of Operations Medal winners on the occasion of their Medal presentations in North America. You’ll hear from winners Alan Boylston, Kevin Murray, Isaias Arce and Peter Lind, as well as Mark Adams.
Winners of the 2020 CEEC Medal for operations come together after the medal presentation to discuss the inspiration behind their medal win.
- Simon Hille – VP Technical Services, Eldorado Gold
- Alan Boylston – VP Process Engineering & Comminution Metso Outotec
- Kevin Murray – Principal Advisor Metallurgy Newmont*
- Isaias Arce - Hydrocyclone Process Engineer at Metso Outotec
- Peter Lind – Director Metallurgy Newmont*
- Mark Adams – VP Proposals Management at Metso Outotec*
- Bryan Rairdan – Technical Director Processing at Teck Resources
*Positions at the time of the medal win
- The inspiration for the winning paper for their paper titled “Reducing Energy and Water Consumption through Alternative Comminution Circuits”. This was presented at the 7th SAG Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2019
- Ore sorting’s role into the future
- Technologies that will inform step changes in water and energy efficiency
- Roadblocks to technological breakthrough
- Technological challenges around sorting (front end and back end)
- Developing a mentality of long-term gains
- Insights on new technologies
- How the medal winners collaborated on their project
- Limitations to companies adopting more energy-efficient flowsheets
- How Metso & Outotec complement each other and new opportunities with the combined company
- Considerations and trade offs with mega projects
In today’s episode of the CEEC Thought Leader Series, we bring you an interview with Alison Keogh, CEEC’s CEO and Dean Gehring, Executive Vice President of Newmont.
Dean Gehring is Executive Vice President of Newmont. Newmont teams were CEEC Medal winners in 2017 & 2020. Dean discusses their work, Newmont's ESG targets, and champions the value of collaborating across industry, especially on shared industry challenges such as safety, energy and water improvement. He talks about how Newmont drives best practice, and its improvement and innovation approach.
Dean also talks about the value of sponsoring CEEC’s not for profit work and collaborative projects such as Energy and Water Curves, which also help sites benchmark and improve. He shares why he believes more open knowledge sharing on shared industry challenges is so important. He touches on technologies and embedding best practices and improvements across mine sites worldwide, to help reduce mining’s footprint, and why accelerating innovative eco efficient comminution and processing are key.
- Newmont & Metso Outotec 2020 CEEC medal winners for operations
- Why sharing best practice is so important
- What winning the CEEC medal means
- Creating a culture of collaboration
- Acknowledgement of medal winners Peter Lind, Kevin Murray (Newmont) Alan Boylston and Isaias Arce (Metso Outotec)
- The value of partnership
- Evaluating alternative comminution circuits with business justifications
- Energy and water consumption
- A focus on innovation
- The obligation to set standards and improve the industry
- Training and mentoring through the Metcellerate program
- Reducing the overall footprint
- The importance of collaboration and partnership sin leading change
- Willingness versus risk of investing in step-change technologies
- The installation of HPGR’s at Lone Tree Mine Nevada
- Why collaboration is key
- Energy climate targets to reduce greenhouse gas by 30% by 2030 and reach net zero emissions by 2050
- The Borden mine in Canada as a showcase and test bed for improved energy efficiency
- Solving for productivity efficiency and ESG performance
- Pathways to the 2030 targets
- Improving success across multiple sites
- Rapid replication of business operating practices
- The role of digitisation
- Water and industry collaboration supporting social license to operate
- Developing common intensity measurements
- Future industry challenges
- The things that are too important not to collaborate on
- CEEC’s energy and water curves initiatives
- The business case for change
- What’s key to leading change for success
- What it takes to envision a different future
- What needs to happen to share best practice
- Minimising the impact on environment while maximising value to society