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Mine to Mill Powered by ShovelSense leverages off shovel-based information at the face to provide both geologists and metallurgists with actionable data( photo courtesy of Newmont)
diversions; they act as data control points to help optimise flotation in most instances.” The company is also expanding this offering, separately selling“ datasets” that leverage this ShovelSense data for metallurgical optimisation.
More predicted in this same feature last year that South America would take over North America as MineSense’ s biggest region from a
‘ deployedd units’ perspective in 2024. In early March, he confirmed this had transpired, while also reflecting on a big win in Indonesia where it had deployed a ShovelSense unit to the Batu Hijau copper-gold mine.
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Not all
that far away from Batu Hijau, the company continues to make strides with its ShovelSense Underground solution.
Back in
2023, MineSense signed a contract with PT-FI’ s huge Grasberg copper-gold mine, with the huge block cave operation testing out what Mor re referred to as“ ShovelSense
Underground 3.0” in batch operations on Caterpillar loaders.
This was deemed a technically successful trial by all parties, according to Mo ore, with MineSense now looking to redesign the solution considering a planned autonomous loading move at the operation.“ This effectively removes a little bit of the real estate we have to put the sensor in,” More explained. Meanwhile, the ShovelSense Underground unit IM reported on last year is still running at New Gold’ s New Afton gold-copper mine in British Columbia.
“ We have other customers as well that are interested, and we expect to be running other underground installations in South America before the year is over,” he said.“ As the diversion optionality underground is not the same as it is in surface mining
, I would suspect the commercial proposition may influence more
downstream activities than diverting tonnes underground. That’ s at least the case in a block cave type of application.”
There was also news on the company’ s plans to deploy a HSI unit across both BeltSense and ShovelSense when IM caught up with More.
This sensor development – predicated on offering up information that could be used to add value in the process plant – has got to the point where the company is now looking for a product development trial with a partner.
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