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Highland Valley Copper generates $100,000 additional value in one blast

Highland Valley Copper generates $100,000 additional value in one blast

Blast Movement Technologies 26 Spine Street Sumner Queensland, 4074 AUSTRALIA www.blastmovement.com 11/2018 In this blast, accounting for movement diverted 22,716 t of waste from the mill and recovered 15,469 t of high grade ore. Highland Valley Copper generates $100,000 additional value in one blast Commodity Geology Powder Factor Location Copper Disseminated porphyry 1.2 kg/m 3 Canada Teck’s Highland Valley Copper Operations, an open-pit mine located in British Columbia, Canada, produces copper and molybdenum. · Drills and blasts 15m benches, which are mined in a single pass · Gradational porphyry copper-molybdenum deposits Challenges Solution Maximising recovered value The BMM System accurately translated post-blast dig lines · Given the

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