Workshops
Pre-Conference Short Course
Optimise Returns through Good Sampling Practices - Project Evaluation to Operations
Sunday 9 – Monday 10 May 2010
This course requires minimum numbers to be viable. Please register early to ensure your place.
About The Course:
This course is for exploration and resource geologists, mine planners, process plant design engineers and metallurgical managers. It will focus on sampling problems and their consequences for resource determination, feasibility studies, mine planning and process plant design. The course is designed both for professionals who seek a refresher on practical application of good sampling practice in the industry, and those who wish to extend their understanding to ensure that good sampling protocols are incorporated into the project evaluation and project design processes.
Course Outcomes:
Participants will develop enhanced understanding of the theory of sampling and its practical application to sampling for exploration, resource delineation and the subsequent processes that lead to project development.
Course Content:
- Introduction to the main sources of variability
- Optimisation of sampling and subsampling protocols
- Practical implementation of sampling protocols
- Sampling and resource evaluation
- Sampling to determine of economic cut-off grades
- Sampling for metallurgical testwork
- Sampling for grade control
- Sampling of flowing streams
- Sampling for process control
- Conventional Statistical Process Control vs Chronostatistics
- Taking advantage of existing chronological data.
Course Leader:
Francis Pitard is an international consultant with major resource company clients in North and South America, Australasia and South Africa. His background is Industrial Chemistry, and he worked with Pierre Gy while with the French Atomic Energy Commission. He spent 15 years with AMAX R&D before starting his own consultancy. He presents short courses for in-house clients, for the Colorado School of Mines, and for 10 years, for the Australian Mineral Foundation. His consulting has helped clients to improve planning and operations, with consequent improvements in recovery and profit. His short courses assist professionals and managers to understand the benefits of well understood sampling protocols and to communicate effectively.
Further Details:
David Pollard, Ph: +61 8 8362 5545, david.pollard@internode.on.net
Date: Sunday 9 – Monday 10 May 2010
Times: 8.30 am – 5.00 pm
Venue: Sheraton Hotel Perth
Cost: A$2,145 (incl. GST) per person
Register via the registration form.
Pre-Conference Workshop
Quality Management of RC Drill Sampling
Monday 10 May 2010
This short course requires minimum numbers to be viable. Please register early to ensure your place.
Many geologists currently supervising RC drill programmes need a better grounding in the basic fundamentals of good sampling and the associated QAQC approaches to demonstrating it. RC drill sampling constitutes a large proportion of the sampling data available to many resource estimates. Ultimately, the reliability of sampling is a limiting factor in the resource estimate reliability.
This course is intended for geologists involved in the design and supervision of drilling RC drilling programmes. It will also benefit resource geologists, managers and others who must make decisions based on drilling data. It is strongly focused on giving participants a set of practical tools for the design and implementation of effective sampling programmes, based on understanding of the underlying theory. The following topics are covered in the course:
- Understanding the importance of drill sampling in business decision making
- Managing drilling, drillers and the delivered sample
- Sampling errors – what are they
- The notion of correct sampling
- Sampling practices
- Field splitting
- Laboratory sample preparation and analysis
- Quality management
- Quality Assurance (QA) – avoiding the known pitfalls
- Quality Control (QC) - objectives and limitations
- Analysing, interpreting and reacting to QC data
- Assessing bias
- Assessing precision
- Wet sampling
- Effective reporting
This course will suit those with little background in sampling theory, who wish to get an accelerated start in applying better science to the critical operation of RC sampling.
Presenter will be Michael Stewart of Quantitative Group (QG). Mike’s CV can be found on the web at ww.qgroup.net.au/ourpeople.asp
Further information is available from Janelle Clifton, phone (+61 8) 9433 3511, Fax (+61 8) 9433 3611.
Date: Monday 10 May 2010
Times: 9.00 am – 5.00 pm
Venue: Sheraton Hotel Perth
Cost: A$ $1,375 (incl. GST) per person
Register via the registration form.
Post-Conference Workshop
Grade Control in Underground Gold Operations
Thursday 13 May 2010
This one-day course will show you how to control ore in your underground gold mine.
You will learn:
- Best practice in geological mapping and data capture
- How to sample correctly in an underground gold environment
- Specialist programmes- bulk sampling and trial mining
- QAQC systems to monitor precision, accuracy, contamination and bias
- Ore control process
- Designing and implementing grade control systems
- Interfacing between geology and mine design
- Stockpile management and plant issues
- Reconciliation
The presenter will make extensive use of case studies to illustrate the development of relevant topics. In particular, discussions on how to deal with difficult high-nugget coarse gold ore bodies will be presented.
Who Should Attend?
All those affected by grade control issues on site - mine geologists, mining engineers, mine planning engineers, metallurgists and mine managers – but especially anyone involved with, or about to become involved with, the design, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of an underground gold mine grade control system.
Presenter:
Dr Simon Dominy – Executive Consultant & General Manager (UK)
BScHons (Geology); MSc (Mining); PhD (Resource/reserve evaluation); FAusIMM (CP); FGS (CGeol); MIMMM (CEng)
Simon Dominy is a geological engineer with over 21 years experience based in operations, consulting and R&D. He has interests in economic geology, geometallurgy, resource and reserve estimation, grade control and reconciliation, mine planning and design, and mine and project management. He is an acknowledged expert in the evaluation and exploitation of complex gold deposits, including lode-gold, shear-zone, mesothermal and epithermal systems. Simon has extensive practical experience in the design, implementation of underground sampling and mining programmes. Recent operational assignments have included integrated studies of sampling and metallurgical ore characterisation, sample size determination and protocol optimisation, underground geological mapping, trial mining and bulk sampling programme design and implementation, grade control system development, QAQC and resource development and estimation. Simon has worked on various goldfields worldwide, including in those in Australia; Canada; Colombia; Great Britain; Greenland; Norway; Peru and South Africa. Widely published, he has authored more than 70 peer reviewed conference and journal papers on topics ranging from gold and tin economic geology, gold sampling and grade control, bulk sampling programmes, resource estimation and narrow vein mining. Simon recently chaired the highly successful AusIMM 7th International Mining Geology Conference in Perth, Australia.
Further Details:
For more information on Snowden’s Training and Mentoring programmes, please contact Diana Titren, Training Division Manager, on +61 8 9211 8670 or training@snowdengroup.com. Please visit www.snowdengroup.com for more information about our training course.
Date: Thursday 13 May 2010
Times: 08:30 - 16:30/17:00
Venue: Sheraton Perth Hotel, 207 Adelaide Terrace, Perth WA
Cost: A$1,540 (incl. GST) per person (20% disc for AusIMM members).
Fee includes a reference manual, refreshments and lunch.
Register via the registration form.
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