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For decades now, open pit mining operations have been losing hundreds of millions of dollars each year through ore losses, dilution and mixing. And while these losses are well understood, such costs have proven challenging to avoid, despite the best efforts of mining personnel. Augment Technologies have created a solution...

Open pit mining operations lose hundreds of millions of dollars each year through ore losses, dilution and mixing. And while these losses are well understood, such costs have proven challenging to avoid, despite the best efforts of mining personnel. Blasting is not an exact science, so accurately understanding and modelling...

Mineralised rocks shift around during blasting, and this movement significantly impacts every mine. However, while all mines encounter dilution and losses during blast movement, the style of mineralisation dictates the scale of lost revenue. While material within a blast typically moves in an overall dominant direction, rocks also move locally...

When waste or below-grade material is taken in during ore extraction, money and time are wasted on material that has little or no value. Assuming a solid geological model and good mining practices, the highest proportion of dilution is typically introduced during blasting. Operational requirements mean that some rocks will...

Material within the blast will mix as it moves. Previously, however, mixing could never be accurately modelled, so misclassification has often taken a backseat to dilution and losses. Until now. With OMP, mixing can now be understood in 3D and at high granularity throughout the whole blast. There are a...