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This week’s 30 Seconds of Info is about Reconciliation and heap leach mining

This week's 30 Seconds of Info is from Ian Glacken our Director of Geology. Reconciliation and heap leach mining: For all of its apparent simplicity as an extraction method, heap leaches (progressive extraction of metal from dumped – and perhaps crushed – material through chemical dissolution of valuable components) can cause real problems for reconciliation.
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Videos: 30 Seconds of Info. Chinese with English subtitles

Our 30 Seconds of Info videos are presented in Chinese, with English subtitles, by our Consultant Gregory Zhang. The videos are full of useful tips and technical tricks compiled by Ian Glacken our Geology Director and Paul Blackney our Principal Consultant. These videos cover Sampling, QAQC, Resource Estimation and Reconciliation.
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30 Seconds of Reconciliation info: The frequency of reconciliation

This week’s 30 Seconds of Reconciliation Info is from Ian Glacken our Geology Director. The frequency of reconciliation:  This is an area where practice varies enormously; some organisations believe that reconciliation on anything less than a three-month increment is meaningless…

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30 Seconds of Info: Reconciliation of planned and unplanned dilution for underground stopes

This week’s 30 Seconds of Reconciliation Info is from Ian Glacken our Director of Geology. Reconciliation of planned and unplanned dilution for underground stopes:  Typically, underground stopes of relatively limited dimensions (i.e. not sublevel or block caving shapes) are designed…

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30 Seconds of Info: Remember the ore blocks you design might not be the ore blocks you mine.

This week’s 30 Seconds of Reconciliation Info comes from Ian Glacken our Director of Geology. Remember that the ore blocks you design may not be the ore blocks you mine:  Always remember that ‘as-designed’ may not (usually will not) be…

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