Social Program
October 15 18, 2013
Sheraton Hotel,
Santiago, Chile
Organized by
Tuesday, October 15 San Cristbal
General Information Technical and Social Program Ballroom B & C
Information
16:00 Registration, Foyer
Please approach the registration desk with any enquiries or
comments.
18:00 Authors and Session Chair Coordination Meeting
Lost & Found O`Higgins Ballroom
registration desk.
Words of Welcome
Parking Willy Kracht, Procemin 2013 Directing Member,The Mining
Engineering Department, Universidad de Chile
Hotel parking tickets for Procemin 2013 participants can be
Romke Kuyvenhoven, Procemin 2013 Technical Coordinator,
bought at the registration desk.
Gecamin, Chile
Simultaneous Interpretation Cyril OConnor, Procemin 2013 Co-Chair, Cape Town
(English and Spanish) University, South Africa
Cristian Jos Lira, KGHM International, Chile
If you plan to use the simultaneous interpretation services, please
have your Identification Card with you when requesting your Opening Address
headset. Headsets must be returned at the end of each day.
Chile: A window into the universe.
Internet Dr. Maria Teresa Ruiz, Lecturer of the Department of
In addition to the computers at the foyer entrance, complimentary Astronomy, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Mathematics,
Wi-Fi is available in all areas of the seminar. University of Chile
Recommendations
20:00 Welcome Reception, Foyer
For safety reasons, please keep your personal belongings with
you at all times. Gecamin is not to be held responsible for any
stolen property. Please wear your delegate badge at all times in
order to facilitate your access to the technical and social activities.
Please keep your lunch and dinner tickets with you as they will be
requested at the entrance.
Gecamin Contacts
executive director technical coordinator
Carlos Barahona Romke Kuyvenhoven
+56 9 9887 3986 +56 9 6192 0663
operations manager seminar coordinator
Nicols Corts Fabiola Bustamante
+56 9 9499 5487 +56 9 9597 8271
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Wednesday, October 16 San Cristbal
Hotel Floor Plan Plenary Session 1 Ballroom B & C
Access / Exit
Session Chair: TBC
(Lobby) Platinum Sponsor
EXIT
1 METSO
08:20 Day 2 program update
Gold Sponsors Romke Kuyvenhoven, Procemin 2013 Technical
Elevator Coordinator, Gecamin, Chile
To Pedro
de Valdivia
1 THERMO SCIENTIFIC
08:30
Ballroom
2 ERIEZ KGHM expansion strategy to become a global copper
and silver producer
Poster Session
3 WEIR-VULCO
Herbert Wirth, Wojciech Kedzia and Dorota Wloch, KGHM
Lunch & Dinner
4 OUTOTEC
Polska Miedz S.A., Poland
5 CITIC HIC
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XSTRATA TECHNOLOGY
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Capital cost escalation in the mining industry
7 FLSMIDTH John Wells, Independent Metallurgical Consultant, Canada;
Preview Coffee Break Silver Sponsors Kenneth Thomas, Ken Thomas and Associates Inc., Canada;
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room 10 Leticia Conca, Alquimia Conceptos S.A., Chile
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Poster Session and Coffee Break, Foyer
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PLATINUM
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15 RUSSEL MINERAL EQUIPMENT
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Technical Sessions
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Coffee
Break
San Cristbal B
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Lobby Level
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Technical Sessions 28 21 LA CAV
San Cristbal C 22 VERNE
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Work
Stations
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25 MEI
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27 U. DE CHILE
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Wednesday, October 16 San Cristbal
Wednesday, October 16 San Cristbal
Session 1 Ballroom B Session 2 Ballroom C
10:50 Sierra Gorda mine-to-mill lean pull strategy: Value 10:50 Flotation process analysis with global sensitivity
stream management analysis
Alfonso Muoz, Germn Labarca and Laura Mottola, Sierra Felipe Seplveda and Luis Cisternas, Universidad de
Gorda SCM, Chile; Gregory Gonzlez, KGHM International, Antofagasta, Chile; Edelmira Glvez, Universidad Catlica
Canada del N
orte, Chile
11:10 Commissioning and start-up of 2 x M3000 high flow 11:10 Measurement of bubble loading in coal flotation:
IsaMills in the Antapaccay Concentrator A comparison of laboratory test work with plant
Juliano Villanueva, Dante Garcia, Manuel Pareja and measurements
Pedro Castellares, Glencore, Antapaccay, Per Michael Moys, University of the Witwatersrand, South
Africa; Anubhav, Beena Rai, Ravi Dutta and Pradip, Tata
Consultancy Services, India; P.R. Ray, M.P. Sinha and
A. Kumar, Tata Steel, India
11:30 Prediction of mineral liberation for geometallurgical 11:30 Particles at interfaces: The effects of shape and
applications contact angle
Nimal Subasinghe and Jian Zhang, Curtin University of Jan Cilliers, Gareth Morris and Stephen Neethling,
Technology, Australia; Robert Dunne, Newmont Mining Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Corporation, USA
11:50 Mineralogical modal analysis: An introduction 11:50 Understanding mineral interaction mechanisms by zeta
potential and surface force measurements
Robert Sloan and Justin Lee, ALS Minerals Division, Canada
Andreas Kusuma, Hongbo Zeng and Qingxia Liu, University
of Alberta, Canada
12:10 Ore processing technology development in KGHM PM 12:10 Critical coalescence theory in variant size scale
S.A. concentrators -responding to contemporary market phenomena
demands and decreasing ore grades Zoltn Jvor, Nra Schreithofer and Kari Heiskanen, Aalto
Pawel Kurzydlo, Rafal Kaleta and Bartosz Bazan, KGHM PM University, School of Chemical Technology, Finland
S.A., Poland
12:30 Lunch, El Bohio Park (pool area), Courtesy of 12:30 Lunch, El Bohio Park (pool area), Courtesy of
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Session 3 Ballroom B Wednesday, October 16 Ballroom C
14:00 A pilot scale comparison of various HPGR operating 14:00 Discussion Panel 1 Tailings Filtration and Dry Stacking
configurations Chair: Sergio Prado, FLSmidth, Chile
Alex Jankovic and Walter Valery, Metso, Australia;
Birol Snmez, Metso, Turkey; Renato Oliveira, Metso, Brazil;
Hakan Dndar, Hacettepe University, Turkey
15:40 Poster Session and Coffee Break, Foyer 15:40 Poster Session and Coffee Break, Foyer
Courtesy of Courtesy of
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Session 4 Ballroom B Session 5 Ballroom C
Comminution Equipment and Media Wear Laboratory Testing and Flotation Scale Up
Session Chair: Karina Arburo, Xstrata Technology, Chile Session Chair: Claudia Velsquez, ASMIN, Chile
16:20 Field welding of ball mill shells: A technology for shell 16:20 Air-assisted solvent extraction: Scale-up attempt with
supported ball mills the Jameson downcomer
Andreas Echelmeyer, Eduard Nagler, Herbert Pingel and James Finch and Seng How Kuan, McGill University, Canada
Ulrich Storck, Thyssenkrupp Resource Technologies, Germany
16:40 Empirical correlation for estimating grinding media 16:40 Scaling laboratory results to the plant: A methodology
consumption Christopher Greet, Jessica Kinal and Grant Small,
Carlos Rabanal and Levi Guzmn, Moly Cop Adesur S.A., Peru Magotteaux, Australia
17:00 An overview of grinding media wear assessment in 17:00 The use of a flotation column to investigate entrainment
mineral processing of a hydrophilic gangue: A case of study
Jiaren Jiang, National Research Council Canada Mayeli lvarez, U. Tcnica Federico Santa Mara, Chile;
Jenny Wiese and Cyril OConnor, U. of Cape Town, South Africa
17:20 Worlds largest manufactured mills by CITIC HIC 17:20 Comparative study of the flotation performance of
and installed at Sino Iron Magnetite 80 Mt/a plant orestreated in an IsaMill and a ball mill
in Australia Jenny Wiese, Tsepang Khonthu and Cyril OConnor,
Rajiv Kalra, CITIC Heavy Industries, China and Australia; University of Cape Town, South Africa
Claudio Delgado, CITIC Heavy Industries, Chile
17:40 GeoMetsoTM : A site-specific methodology to optimize 17:40 Effect of calcium on sphalerite flotation
production and efficiency over the life-of-mine Gloria Dvila, Alejandro Uribe and Fabiola Nava, Centro de
Suzanne Lynch-Watson, Roberto Valle, Kristy Duffy, Investigacin y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politcnico
David La Rosa and Walter Valery, Metso, Australia and Peru Nacional, Mexico
18:00 IMPC 2014 Committee Members Meeting 18:00 IMPC 2014 Committee Members Meeting
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Thursday, October 17 San Cristbal
Plenary Session 2 Ballroom B & C
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Thursday, October 17 San Cristbal
Thursday, October 17 San Cristbal
Session 6 Ballroom B Session 7 Ballroom C
10:50 A comparison of SAG mill power models 10:50 Effect of crust formation on the recovery in the
Alex Doll, Alex G. Doll Consulting, Canada
molybdenum flotation plant at Los Pelambres
Andrs Nez, Rodrigo Pasten and Carlos Jamet,
Los Pelambres Mining Company, Chile; Miguel Mardones,
Pacific Chemical Ltd., Chile; Gonzalo Montes-Atenas,
Universidad de Chile
11:10 Power-based comminution calculations using Ausgrind 11:10 Current practice on structuring, conducting and
interpreting a flotation survey
Greg Lane, Bianca Foggiatto and Marcos Bueno, Ausenco
Services Ltd., Australia David Di Sandro, Daniela Laskovski and Sarah Schwarz,
JKTech Pty Ltd, Australia
11:30 Design SAG mill production when you need it most: 11:30 On the mineral recovery estimation in Cu/Mo
In day 1 and year 1 flotation plants
John Starkey, Michel Brissette and Kingsley Larbi, Luis Vinnett and Juan Yianatos, Universidad Tcnica Federico
Starkey & Associates, Canada; David Meadows, FLSmidth, USA Santa Mara, Chile
11:50 Vertimill pilot plant operational review for grinding 11:50 A case study on the effect of recycled process water on
studies Cu-Mo sulphide flotation
Ian DeHart and Daniel Suarez, Metso Minerals Industries, USA Maria Sinche, George Levay and Massimiliano Zanin,
University of South Australia
12:10 Metallurgical models for Minera Los Pelambres 12:10 Flotation performance of a complex silver ore
Jorge Misle and Csar Jimnez, Minera Los Pelambres, Chile; Jocelyn Quinteros, D. Bradshaw and E. Wightman, SMI-
Paul Daz and Daniel Luer, Ingeniera y Tecnologa Ltda., Chile JKMRC, Australia; N. W. Johnson, Mineralurgy Pty. Ltd,
Australia. Presented by Gerson Sandoval, Aminpro, Chile
12:30 Lunch, El Bohio Park (pool area) 12:30 Lunch, El Bohio Park (pool area)
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Session 8 Ballroom B Thursday, October 17 Ballroom C
14:00 Automatic control of impact crushers using size 14:00 Discussion Panel 2 Value Creation and Operational
distribution measurement from a Visiorock camera Risk Reduction through Effective Fine Grinding
Antti Jaatinen, Metso Automation, Finland; Tero Onnela, Chair: Donald Leroux, Triple Point Technology, Canada
Metso Minerals, Finland
14:20 Plant-wide process control design for crushing and Technical Presentations:
screening processes
Pasi Airikka, Metso Automation, Finland Update on Metso stirred milling technologies
Brian Knorr, Metso, USA
14:40 Milling and flotation advanced process control system
at a base metals concentrator Fine Grinding: All is not what it seems
Sydney Mantsho, Loutjie Coetzee and Candice Subramany, Karina Arburo, Xstrata Technology, Chile
Mintek, South Africa; Mario Ochoa, Peoles Tizapa, Mexico
Fine grinding seen from an operational point of view
15:00 Advances in integrating control strategies for Dante Garca, Antapaccay, Glencore Peru
flotation process
Luis Bergh, Juan Yianatos and Catalina Pino, Universidad How to control re-grinding to reach optimal process results and
Tcnica Federico Santa Mara, Chile energy efficiency
Ilkka Roitto, Outotec, Finland
15:20 Dynamic simulation for verification of gains with the
Discussion Panel
implementation of advanced process control for a nickel
sulphide ore beneficiation plant
Andr Nogueira, Mnica Guimares and Marco Martins,
CEMI - Process Technology and Engineering, Brazil
15:40 Poster Session and Coffee Break, Foyer 15:40 Poster Session and Coffee Break, Foyer
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Thursday, October 17 San Cristbal
Thursday, October 17 San Cristbal
Session 9 Ballroom B Session 10 Ballroom C
16:20 Implementation of an integrated management system 16:20 Seepage from Thickened Tailings Disposal (TTD) over
at San Cristbal concentration processing plant natural soils
Wilber Churata and Rafael Miranda, Minera San Ricardo Valdebenito and Luis Paredes, SMD,
Cristbal, Bolivia SNC-Lavalin, Chile
16:40 Optimizing gangue rejection at the Vaal River East Gold 16:40 Cost and energy efficient hydrotransport by double
acid and flotation plant hose-diaphragm pumps
Massimiliano Zanin and Sabina Gredelj, University of South Rudolf Gnsl, FELUWA Pumpen GmbH, Germany
Australia; Rollet Masakona, AngloGold Ashanti Vaal River,
South Africa
18:00 Cocktail and Seminar Dinner, El Bohio Park (pool area) 18:00 Cocktail and Seminar Dinner, El Bohio Park (pool area)
Courtesy of Courtesy of
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Friday, October 18 San Cristbal
Poster Sessions, Foyer Plenary Session 3 Ballroom B & C
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Session 11 Ballroom B Friday, October 18 Ballroom C
Flotation Equipment
Session Chair: Kari Heiskanen, Aalto University, Finland
10:50 Development of the largest flotation machine: 600 10:50 Discussion Panel 3 Geometallurgy in
series SuperCell TM from FLSmidth Mineral Processing
Dariusz Lelinski, Asa Weber, Don Foreman, Alan Camomile, Session Chair: Romke Kuyvenhoven, Gecamin, Chile
Tyson Baker and Frank Traczyk, FLSmidth, USA
11:10 The column cell and contact cell, comparison, beliefs Technical Presentations:
and operation
Roger Amelunxen, Aminpro, Canada and Gerson Sandoval, Geometallurgy: The vision of Collahuasi
Aminpro, Chile Constantino Suazo, Ca. Minera Doa Ins de Collahuasi, Chile
11:30 Solving challenges in copper cleaning circuits with the Geometallurgy: Where is it going, and why?
Jameson Cell Peter Amelunxen, Aminpro, Peru
Rodrigo Araya, Xstrata Technology, Canada; Le Huynh and
Michael Young, Xstrata Technology, Australia; Karina Arburo, Project Development and Concentrator Operations
Xstrata Technology, Chile Juan Carlos Villarroel, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile
11:50 Optimization of the flotation process through the Geometallurgy at Teck Chile
development of purpose specific flotation machines
Presenter to be confirmed, Teck, Chile
Harold Wyslouzil, Eriez Flotation Division, Canada;
Nilce dos Santos, Eriez Flotation Division, Brazil;
Discussion Panel
Cristian Zamorano and Thiago Valle, Eriez Flotation
Division, Chile
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