Course directors
:
Vječislav Bohanek , University of Zagreb, Croatia
Eric Pirard , University of Liege, Belgium
Course
description:
This workshop will address in an integrated manner innovative ore processing technologies, focusing on the most technologically and economically sustainable cases of ore exploitation as well as topics related to Environmental Impact Assessment, Circular Economy aspects and Economic assessment.
Workshop Innovation in ore processing will cover several topics:
- Process innovations of selected ore exploitation cases
- Mineral/metal value potential
- Modern ore mining extration technologies
- Ore processing for the production of marketable concentrates
- Metallurgical processing for basic metals and CRMs recovery
- Environmental Impact and Circular economy
- Introduction to waste disposal regulations
- Environmental impact assessment of process and products
- Circularity in mining and ore processing areas
- Investment economic assessment
- Potential value of minerals contained and recovered from a deposit
- Mining and processing operating cost (labor, materials, energy, etc.)
- Processing equipmen
- Estmation of critical economic parameters (CAPEX, OPEX, potentialmargin , NPV, IRR, Analyse the EPIROC Mobile Miner system
More info can be found here.