Check-in is required for all participants on the first day of attendance. A continental breakfast is available before class on each day. 30-minute breaks are scheduled for each morning and afternoon session.
Mineral Processing Agenda |
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Tuesday |
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| 8:00 | Registration, Coffee and Snacks | |
| 8:30 | Introduction | Erik Spiller |
| 8:45 | Basics, Vocabulary, and Concepts | Erik Spiller |
| 9:15 | Sampling: Metallurgical Accounting – End the Debate – Better Data from Your Operations | Mick McCaslin |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 10:45 | Introduction to Liberation | Erik Spiller |
| 11:00 | Primary Crushing with Gyratory | John Googins |
| 11:15 | Primary Jaw & Secondary Units (Cone Crushers) | John Googins |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Fundamentals and Applications of Hydrometallurgy & Biohydrometallurgy | Jaeheon Lee |
| 2:15 | Coffee | |
| 2:30 | Comminution in Tumbling Mills – SAG & Ball | Erik Spiller |
| 3:30 | Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy (KIEM) Laboratory Tour – Hill Hall | |
| 4:00 | End | |
Wednesday |
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| 8:00 | Arrive, Coffee and Snacks | |
| 8:30 | Introduction to Separations | Erik Spiller |
| 8:45 | Gravity, Magnetic, Electrostatic and other Physical Separation Unit Operations | Erik Spiller |
| 9:15 | Coffee | |
| 9:30 | Bench Scale Testing for Flotation Concentrator Development | Phil Thompson |
| 10:30 | New and Innovative Flotation Equipment | Natska Ericson |
| 11:00 | Coffee and Walk to Brown | |
| 11:15 | Flotation Demonstration | Phil Thompson |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | The Future of Mining IS the Future of Tailings Management | Priscilla Nelson |
| 2:00 | Coffee | |
| 2:15 | Regolith Processing for Space Resource Utilization | Kevin Cannon |
| 3:30 | End | |
Thursday |
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| 8:00 | Arrive, Mingle, and Breakfast | |
| 8:30 | Blasting for Optimal Gradation | Matt Miller |
| 9:15 | Dylan Everly | |
| 10:15 | Evolution of Process Models to Digital Twins | Alex Holtzapple |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 | The Sorting Revolution: An Epic Tail of Liberation, Separation and the Pursuit of Sustainability | Harold Kline and Drew Duffy |
| 12:00 | Lunch | |
| 1:00 | Mineral Processing in Recycle | Erik Spiller |
| 1:45 | Slurry Transport and Mineral Processing | Rob Cooke |
| 2:45 | Coffee | |
| 3:00 | Process Control | Caelen Anderson |
| 4:00 | End | |
Friday |
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| 8:00 | Arrive, Mingle, and Breakfast | |
| 8:30 | Plan Design and Operation | Brock O’Kelley |
| 9:30 | HPGR & Fine Grinding (Stirred Milling) | Alan Boylston |
| 10:30 | Coffee | |
| 10:45 | Plant Audits | Deepak Malhotra |
| 11:30 | Plant Cost Estimation | Corby Anderson |
| 12:15 | End | |