Ore Control Process in Mining Operations
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What is Ore Control?
Ore control is a quality control process that must ensure us
that the mineral complies with the reserve law, for which it is necessary
delimit and extract the economic zones of the veins defined as
ore (ore), in such a way as to obtain a profitable product using
tools of technical excellence within acceptable margins.
The objective of Ore Control is to define and control the mining of the ore,
to monitor the movement of mineral that is extracted and incorporated into the
processing plant, for this the ore control process begins at the
mine and finish on the plant.
The first two concepts to define in ore control are vein and ore.
VETA
It is a tabular mass of mineral deposited in fractures,
cracks or fissures, of a rocky body, the veins
are the result of the gradual precipitation of ions
metallics from hydrothermal solutions in
quantities that can make them economical or not
ORE
It is the segment of the vein that by its content
metallic is economical, defined based on the Cut Off or
cut-off law. When the mineralization is economical in
the entire vein will then be considered as ORE in its
totality, based on geological concepts-
economic models of sales and gold are defined
Currently in MHM the following are managed:
Long-Term Model - Inferred Resource.
Long-Term Model - Indicated Resource.
•Reservation model - definition of reservations
Short-term models, planning of the
production
Ore Control Model
Excavation Model
Organization of the ore control area
•Área de Geología de Minas
Sampling area
Topography area
Ore Control Area
Molding Area
Planning area
Mining Area
The main task of an ore control in the mine is to
evaluate the material to be extractable as
high, medium and/or low mineral, otherwise
dismantle, the ore control has the capability to
differentiate each of these categories and it has to
to be looking at the load that will be extracted from the mine.
The task of daily control is to evaluate all the
loads at each extraction site and carry a notebook
of the report which indicates each one of the
activities at each site that is located in
operations. The classification of the mineral as low,
medium and/or high refers to the percentage of
mineral content.
Opening of the trench in the bank
for the respective sampling the Preparation of the channel for the
depth of the trench must
to be between one meter and one meter and sampling at the bank
medium
Labeled sample
and closed Sampling process
in channels
Mining Polygon Generation
Ore Control Plans Once all the
information generates two plans, the first is the
the actual Ore Control plan, which is given to the
Ore Control technician to define the Ore polygon
generated. This plan includes the power of the Ore and is
highlight the economic in red and what is in green
sterile, it is also complemented by the progressive ones to
a better location.
Also obtaining all the information from the
blast holes (well collars, geochemical data,
laboratory results and geo segments), we upload
this information to the software being used for
actualizar el modelo de bloques que considerara toda la
Geo-statistical information of the mine for updating:
Then we proceed to generate polygons, being careful to follow the contours of
separation between mineral and waste (sterile), also considering the operable widths.
Control of mining fronts
Control of mining fronts, this work is
does daily, with the help of a sketch of
the polygons and consists of marking the progress of
mined in a referential manner and together
with the available mineral sheet you go
controlling the available tonnage of ore in
the polygon, and the most important thing is that the
Geologist check the quality of the mineral that is
is transporting.
Mesh Design of
Drilling
Application of RC Drilling in Exploration
Underground Water Wells
Reverse circulation drilling is one in which it forces the fluid to
drilling went down through the annulus between the casing and rock, and manage to bring up the
detritus inside the rod system.
Normally, the annular space section is larger than that of the interior of the
valving, which increases the flow rate of the fluid.
sweeping, and as a consequence, an increase in ascending capacity of
transport of the detritus.
This system allows:
. A faster cleaning of the bottom of the well
. Surface recovery of a larger and uncontaminated detritus
. Higher drilling speed.
. Recovery of detritus in highly fractured areas, or with mines or caves
intermediates
OPERATION SCHEME
There are three types of drilling systems with this type of circulation:
Reverse circulation by depression in the head
Reverse circulation by forced injection
Reverse circulation with piping
One of the main applications of drilling
RC is the exploration of groundwater either in
unconsolidated formations (Quaternary) and in rock,
the advantage that this drilling system has is the
use of dual piping and regarding wells of
5 ¼” exploration, does not require casing placement in
the training.
In the image, the drilling fluid can be seen as
it can be air or water entering through an internal system
double-walled (downward arrows) and returns with
the cuttings (detritus) to the surface through the interior of the
dual bar (upward arrows), which is a
advantage since the exploration well does not require
casing.
Completed the exploration drilling with this.
system and crossing the target in quaternary
sandy formations or gravels and in rock fractures with
good flows of water, the well is drilled
of production widening the exploration well, it is
talk about the same point.
According to the field logging carried out by the
geologists in charge of the drilling, considering everything
Information (geophysical, flow gauging, etc.) is carried out.
the design of the well and subsequent construction of the well of
production; lowering casing or smooth pipe (blank) in
sections without water content and slotted pipe in
producer sections, in the next step we proceed to the
packaging of the well with gravel that serves as a filter in the
water production.