Less dilution, less misclassification and more ore US$294,000 profit from one blast
Less dilution, less misclassification and more ore US$294,000 profit from one blast
1 PagesBlast Movement Technologies 2 / 67 Bluestone Circuit Seventeen Mile Rocks Queensland, 4073 office@bmt.com.au AUSTRALIA www.bmt.com.au 06/2017 Commodity Ore Grades Geology Powder Factor Location Gold 1.0 g/t ** Structured 0.84 kg/m 3 Eastern Europe This operation is one of the top producing open-pit gold mines in Eastern Europe. ? The mineralisation is structural ? Ore shots are blasted in 7.5 m benches, which are then mined in a single pass Substantial movement of ore was not monitored or accounted for BMM System accurately translates post-blast dig lines ? Misclassification of ore (i.e. high grade ore is stockpiled as low grade or low grade ore is sent to the mill as high grade) ? Ore loss, with gold being sent to the waste pile ? Dilution, with tonn
