Episodes
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
CEEC CEO Alison Keogh interviews Simon Hille of Eldorado Gold and Mark Adams of Metso Outotec after the presentation of the 2020 CEEC Medal to winners for outstanding work.
They discuss innovation and supporting commercialization to scale with success, energy and water efficient approaches to mineral processing, the drivers of change, CEEC, and the benefits of collaboration.
Disruptive breakage approaches of the future
Overcoming limitations
Dry classification
Better separation
Pre-concentrated material
What’s limiting a step change in efficiency
Time to commercialise considerations
Adopting sorting into mainstream
Is getting existing technologies in place key?
The focus on incremental improvements
Industry challenge of lower grades and higher tonnages
Why we need to redesign mines
The focus on water in mineral processing
The culture shifts required for change
Attitude to risk
Empowering new ideas
Compressing time to commercialisation
How CEEC can shed light on opportunities to improve
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
In today’s episode of the 2020 CEEC Medal insights series, CEEC CEO Alison Keogh interviews Peter Lind of Newmont and Bryan Rairdan of Teck Resources after the presentation of the 2020 CEEC Medal to winners for outstanding work.
Hear miner’s inside views – on decarbonizing energy systems into mine sites, and improving water efficiency. Some of the ways important investor and community ESG and net zero expectations are being considered by technology leaders. They are finding new opportunities as they engineer ways to reduce mining’s footprint.
Creating a compelling financial business case versus managing risk for senior leaders
How do we better articulate the value of projects so that senior leaders can achieve their ESG actions?
The difference between energy efficiency and carbon footprint
Making processing decisions that benefit industry as a whole
The emerging theme of integrating renewables and hybrid primary energy solutions into mine sites to reduce carbon footprint
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
In today’s episode of the 2020 CEEC Medal insights series, CEEC Director Simon Hille does an impromptu interview of Operations Medal winners on the occasion of their Medal presentations in North America. You’ll hear from winners Alan Boylston, Kevin Murray, Isaias Arce and Peter Lind, as well as Mark Adams.
Winners of the 2020 CEEC Medal for operations come together after the medal presentation to discuss the inspiration behind their medal win.
Simon Hille – VP Technical Services, Eldorado Gold
Alan Boylston – VP Process Engineering & Comminution Metso Outotec
Kevin Murray – Principal Advisor Metallurgy Newmont*
Isaias Arce - Hydrocyclone Process Engineer at Metso Outotec
Peter Lind – Director Metallurgy Newmont*
Mark Adams – VP Proposals Management at Metso Outotec*
Bryan Rairdan – Technical Director Processing at Teck Resources
*Positions at the time of the medal win
The inspiration for the winning paper for their paper titled “Reducing Energy and Water Consumption through Alternative Comminution Circuits”. This was presented at the 7th SAG Conference in Vancouver, Canada, in 2019
Ore sorting’s role into the future
Technologies that will inform step changes in water and energy efficiency
Roadblocks to technological breakthrough
Technological challenges around sorting (front end and back end)
Developing a mentality of long-term gains
Insights on new technologies
How the medal winners collaborated on their project
Limitations to companies adopting more energy-efficient flowsheets
How Metso & Outotec complement each other and new opportunities with the combined company
Considerations and trade offs with mega projects
Monday May 02, 2022
Monday May 02, 2022
In today’s episode of the CEEC Thought Leader Series, we bring you an interview with Alison Keogh, CEEC’s CEO and Dean Gehring, Executive Vice President of Newmont.
Dean Gehring is Executive Vice President of Newmont. Newmont teams were CEEC Medal winners in 2017 & 2020. Dean discusses their work, Newmont's ESG targets, and champions the value of collaborating across industry, especially on shared industry challenges such as safety, energy and water improvement. He talks about how Newmont drives best practice, and its improvement and innovation approach.
Dean also talks about the value of sponsoring CEEC’s not for profit work and collaborative projects such as Energy and Water Curves, which also help sites benchmark and improve. He shares why he believes more open knowledge sharing on shared industry challenges is so important. He touches on technologies and embedding best practices and improvements across mine sites worldwide, to help reduce mining’s footprint, and why accelerating innovative eco efficient comminution and processing are key.
Newmont & Metso Outotec 2020 CEEC medal winners for operations
Why sharing best practice is so important
What winning the CEEC medal means
Creating a culture of collaboration
Acknowledgement of medal winners Peter Lind, Kevin Murray (Newmont) Alan Boylston and Isaias Arce (Metso Outotec)
The value of partnership
Evaluating alternative comminution circuits with business justifications
Energy and water consumption
A focus on innovation
The obligation to set standards and improve the industry
Training and mentoring through the Metcellerate program
Reducing the overall footprint
The importance of collaboration and partnership sin leading change
Willingness versus risk of investing in step-change technologies
The installation of HPGR’s at Lone Tree Mine Nevada
Why collaboration is key
Energy climate targets to reduce greenhouse gas by 30% by 2030 and reach net zero emissions by 2050
The Borden mine in Canada as a showcase and test bed for improved energy efficiency
Solving for productivity efficiency and ESG performance
Pathways to the 2030 targets
Improving success across multiple sites
Rapid replication of business operating practices
The role of digitisation
Water and industry collaboration supporting social license to operate
Developing common intensity measurements
Future industry challenges
The things that are too important not to collaborate on
CEEC’s energy and water curves initiatives
The business case for change
What’s key to leading change for success
What it takes to envision a different future
What needs to happen to share best practice
Minimising the impact on environment while maximising value to society