MINING GEOLOGY: OPERATION FROM UNEARTHING TO MILL
Before commencing production with your planned underground or open-pit mining design, you need to develop an effective grade control program. Following up the ore body, fault-related ore body displacements, preventing ore excavation dilution, maintaining up-to-date stockpiling and feeding reconciliations, and handling unforeseen issues and so on… With modern mining techniques, your production team can overcome all of these challenges. Regardless of where your operation is or at which stage it is, let us help you develop your site-specific grade control program, enabling you to manage your entire production process with maximum efficiency.
You want to excavate ore in the cleanest way and stock it in accordance with the standards in the grade ranges you want. Sampling is a process that takes a long time and requires habit and meticulousness. Your team must perform this task smoothly without disrupting production. You encountered many faults during production and maybe you lost track of the orebody. You must have absolute knowledge of your mine plans, execution and ore bodies, so you chose one of the computer-aided 3D design programs and created a database. You can now make decisions by holding on-site or remote (online) meetings with all relevant executive and supervisory staff on a screen. It is also possible to receive remote consultancy to audit your project and solve problems in the digital environment, as well as to conduct personnel training.
The grade control program (and mapping) is the most critical task in mine production, where your geoscience team plays a leading role. The basis of this work, which must be constantly monitored in 3D design programs, is the ore body model (See Resource Modeling) created after the exploration phase.
Constant communication between geologists and mining engineers on this model will be extremely useful in controlling the production process.
During the ore and waste excavation, you reached many new and reliable data that you could not obtain from above through drilling, and these naturally offered you new opportunities. It is possible to test these with shorter drillings that you plan at the point where you are in the underground. You must ensure sustainability by testing certain layers lateral and vertical extensions with new drillings. While this process continues, structural elements in your pit/drives (fault, crack, crushed zone, boudinage, etc.)
affect your production and reaching your commitments on time. These faults and other geological negative factors will endanger your business in the future. If you overlooked it in the past and did not include it in the plan, geotechnical problems may knock on your door at an unexpected moment in the future.
Knowing how much ore you produce day by day, the current and periodic status of stocks, haulage records, and what you obtain on which production floors or in which zones will make your job easier in terms of management. You should keep systematic records so that you will need all this data later, your return should be easy. There are many interconnected, disorganized digital records and documents that your staff must input.
Public relations aside, it is not possible to compromise on your occupational health, safety and environmental policies. You should record your procedures and ensure that your staff implements them without neglecting them.
If your story is similar, you must be thinking that an experienced team should create the most appropriate system, monitor and supervise this entire process. You may also aim to review your current system and modernize it. In short, our goal is: regular and clean ore production focused on price and performance.
IMPORTANT: If listing your company on the stock exchange is among your plans or if you already have a public offering, you may be subject to certain regulations in accordance with the relevant institutional regulation when it comes to public disclosure. As a guarantee that the data you provide is not misleading, the ways in which you obtain your data and the individuals and institutions reporting it may be required to meet certain standards. Based on the principles of “transparency, consistency of information and expertise”, your resources and production may need to be reported periodically by impartial experts who are subject to inspection and sanction and who are competent in their field. This reporting will require the signature of individuals competent in relevant fields who are registered with reputable organizations in multiple disciplines. Please note that the data calculated from your model will be used in the report under the resource and production subject headings, and that QA/QC compliance must be ensured in the entire mine production process, starting from the exploration stages, in order to create your ore model. In summary, the necessity of control and assurance standards will emerge in many chained earth sciences (Mining geology) steps to reach the final product report.
Even if you have nothing to do with the stock market or public offering, applying the controls and standards mentioned in the note above will have a positive impact on your mining investment and decisions. The data obtained and reports created with these standards are at the highest level of confidency in the market during the mining project purchase and sale stages.
Contact your investment advisor for all detailed information about your company’s public offering issues and requirements.
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