THURSDAY OCTOBER 25th
07:30 am Registration.
08:30 am Opening. Welcoming words. Dr Pitard and organizing committee.
SESSION I
| 08:50 am | A Guideline for Sampling Systems and Sampling Protocols to Minimize Reconciliation Problems Between Geologists, Miners, and Metallurgists. Francis Pitard. Francis Pitard Sampling Consultants.USA. |
| 09:30 am | Benefits of considering a metallurgical sampling station in norm at the initial stage of the project. Ruben Aravena Z. Rodrigo Morales D. TECPROMIN. Chile. |
| 10:00 am | Copper Mineral Concentrates Sampling scheme simulation. Omar Leva. Sociedad Minera El Brocal. Perú. |
| 10:25 am | QA / QC Reality or Fantasy? Seven years later. Samuel Canchaya. Sampling OK, PERU. |
| 10:50 am | COFFEE BREAK I |
SESSION II
| 11:20 am | Impala Terminals: Pioneers in implementing robotic technology for the sampling of concentrates in Peru. Cristiaan Landeo. Impala Terminals. Perú. |
| 12:00 pm | Metallurgical Accounting. Rodrigo R. Carneiro. SGS. USA. |
| 12:25 pm | Copper concentrate sampler in the reception system La Greda.Patricio Valenzuela. Vicente Esparza. CODELCO. Mc LANAHAN. CHILE. |
| 12:55 pm | FELLOWSHIP LUNCH. |
SESSION III
| 14:10 pm | Validation of a new cross-belt cutter for sampling gold ores. Ana Carolina Chieregati, Edvaldo Alves Amaral Jr., Janine Cerqueira de Oliveira Souza. Yamana Gold Inc. University of São Paulo. BRAZIL. |
| 14:35 pm | Optimal grade control sampling practice in open pit mining – A full-scale Blast Hole vs Reverse Circulation comparison variographic experiment. K. Engström and K. Esbensen. LKAB Mining. SWEDEN. |
| 15:00 pm | The Gravity Gold Concentrator – applications, advantages and optimisation for challenging gold samples. Steve Russell, Ross Cunningham, Andrew Mowlem. Scott Automation. RockLabs. NUEVA ZELANDA. |
| 15:25 pm | Gold Plant feed Sampling Solution for Reconciliation Purposes. Reinaldo Novaes. FLSmidth. |
| 15:50 pm | Quality Control Systems. Reinaldo Novaes. FLSmidth. Brasil. |
| 16:15 pm | COFFEE BREAK II |
SESSION IV
| 16:45 pm | Estimating the Heterogeneity Fluctuation Error of a willemite plant feed. F. Campos, A.C. Chieregati, T. Nunan, W. Rodrigues. Votorantim Metais. BRAZIL. |
| 17:10 pm | Importance of calculation of density estimation of resources, reservations and conciliation for copper deposits in Cuajone Mine, Southern Peru. Juver Vélez Ríos, Yuri Turpo Phuño. Southern Copper. PERÚ. |
| 17:35 pm | Implementation of An Alternative Sampling Protocol at a Typical UG2 Concentrator in South Africa. N. Sukha & C.J. Kruger. Anglo American Platinum. Anglo American. SOUTH AFRICA. |
| 18:00 pm | The Latest on Quantitative Sampling Theory: Liberation, Shape and Granulometric Factorss. Dominique Francois-Bongarcon. AGORATEK International Consultants Inc., CANADA. |
| 18:25 pm | The universal power of Theory of Sampling (TOS) in practice. Kim H. Esbensen. KHE Consulting. DENMARK. |
| 18:55 pm | COCKTAIL. |
FRIDAY OCTOBER 26th
07:30 am Registration.
SESSION V
| 08:30 am | The use of duplicates,Thompson and Howarth method, on evaluation of sampling protocol, Cuiabá mine, Brazil. V. Andrade, F. Villanova, J. Canela. Anglogold Ashanti, Federal University of Minas Gerais. BRAZIL. |
| 09:00 am | Application of Pulp Quartering as an intermediate stage between the Automatic Plant Sampling Stations and the Laboratory. Jorge L. Chávez. JKL Mineral Dressing. PERU. |
| 09:25 am | Sampling for quality control in tailings storage facility. Pablo Hinojosa. San Agustin National University. PERÚ. |
| 09:50 am | The challenge of stationarity of observed process variability when using chronostatistics at the plant. Francis Pitard. Francis Pitard Sampling Consultants.USA. |
| 10:15 am | The nugget effect in geostatistical simulation. Daisy Arroyo. Universidad de Concepción. CHILE. |
| 10:45 am | COFFEE BREAK III |
SESSION VI
| 11:20 am | A sampling practitioner’s essential software toolbox based on the Theory of Sampling. Maxime Pitard. HonuaTek. USA. |
| 11:45 am | Localized sample selection for geometallurgical testing and modelling. Yann Camus. SGS. CANADA. |
| 12:00 pm | The superiority of an equiprobabilistic in-line proportional cone sampling system for both material balance and process control. Francis Pitard & Rolf Steinhaus. Francis Pitard Sampling Consultants. Multotec process equipment. SUDÁFRICA. |
| 12:35 pm | Flaws in the Flows?. Dominique Francois-Bongarcon. AGORATEK International Consultants Inc., CANADA. |
| 13:00 pm | RECESS. |
SESSION VII
| 14:15 pm | Variographic total process - and measurement system characterization across the complete ore-to-shipping value chain at LKAB. K. Engström, and K. Esbensen, K.H. LKAB Mining. SWEDEN. |
| 14:40 pm | Optimization of sampling practices at Corrego do Sitio metallurgical plant. Marcus Félix Magalhães, Ana Carolina Chieregati, Vinícius Moreira Assis, Guilherme Costa Peixoto, Márcio Salgado Pereira. Anglogold Ashanti. BRAZIL. |
| 15:05 pm | Certification of sampling station in accordance to the aluminum standards and the Theory of Sampling. Bernardo Ferreira Bandeira, Ana Carolina Chieregati, Carlos Eduardo Paraizo Borges. Mineração Rio do Norte. BRAZIL. |
| 15:30 pm | (VIDEO CONFERENCE) Quality Management (QM), the engine of the QAQC process. Oscar Dominguez. BHP Billiton Geoscience Centre of Excellence. Australia. |
| 15:55 pm | COFFEE BREAK IV |
SESSION VIII
| 16:30 am | Experts Panel. Discussion and main conclusions. Francis Pitard, Kim Esbensen, Dominique Francois-Bongarcon, Carolina Chieregati, entre otros. |
| 18:30 pm | CLOSURE COCKTAIL |
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EACH SESSION INCLUDES
Keynote Lectures, selected papers, technical - commercial presentations
