CEECing Change - where industry collaborates on eco-efficient minerals

Episode 10 - CEEC Spotlight Leader Conversations - Paul Shelley - VP Innovation - Molycop

Today, our communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody talks with Paul Shelley, Global VP of Innovation for Molycop, an organisation that delivers highly developed and innovative products that ensure high breakage resistance and low consumption rates to deliver value for mines all over the globe.
In the conversation, Paul discusses the impact of the digital transformation that has improved the efficiency and productivity of comminution. For example, Molycop’s P86 SAG mill sensor system, which received a high commendation from the CEEC Medal Evaluation Committee a couple of years ago, can successfully capture and analyse data from inside operating SAG mills.

Episode 9 - CEEC Thought Leader Series - Insights with CEEC Director Marc Allen of engeco

Marc Allen is the Technical Director at engeco, a Singapore-based consultancy providing advisory services primarily in energy and greenhouse gas management and strategy, as well as broader sustainability, across Australasia. Marc has been on the Board of CEEC since 2018
Why Marc became involved in CEEC
Key targets for energy efficiency across a mine site
The impact of low-cost solutions on energy efficiency improvements
The benefits of carrying out an energy efficiency audit
Designing for energy efficiency in greenfield projects
Total cost of ownership analysis
The use of artificial intelligence 9AI)
Plant optimization in metallurgy
The role of sensors in innovation and efficiency
Alternatives to diesel usage and considerations in implementation
Areas of growth in renewables
Payback periods for hybrid set ups
Energy storage considerations
Why renewable uptake has not been as high as it could be and why
Optimizing energy supply to the mine
Examples of mines and METS companies implementing renewables and other efficiency strategies
Why electrifying (and battery) makes good business sense
What’s unique about CEEC
The potential for CEEC online events to drive ESG actions
The role of CEEC into the future of ESG
5 key commodities and their critical minerals for future consumption
The percentage of global energy being used in comminution
The 2 operations that consume the majority of energy in a mine site
Pathways to decarbonization and improving energy efficiency
What could impact the ability to raise debt and equity
What the future looks like and the roadmap – 2030 and 2050
engeco’s new Mining Energy Consumption report in comminution and the mining industry
 

Episode 8 - CEEC Thought Leader Series - Insights with CEEC Director Bryan Rairdan of Teck Resources

CEEC CEO Alison Keogh interviewed CEEC director Bryan Rairdan for the CEEC director series. Some of the key areas covered in this podcast include:-
Why Bryan decided to join the CEEC Board
What value CEEC adds to industry
What impact CEEC can have if industry works together
CEEC’s breadth of tools and resources
Strategies to improve the movement of eco efficient practises
The importance of collaboration to advance the discussion on eco efficient comminution
CEECs 10-year milestones and achievements
Bryan's vision for industry in three years for 2030 and for 2050
What's next for CEEC?
Why join CEEC? As a contributor or a sponsor and opportunities for industry
How we can support leaders to make the best decisions
How technical professionals can articulate business value around managing risk

Episode 7 - CEEC Medal Series - Insights with Prof Neville Plint of UQ Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI)

Professor Neville Plint is the Director of the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI) at The University of Queensland (UQ) in Australia.
Professor Plint’s extensive background focused on delivering improved operational performance on mining sites by developing and implementing new technologies, whilst establishing a global network of research professionals in academic institutes, mining companies and research organisations.
The 2020 CEEC Medal was won by Dr Grant Ballantyne, for his paper titled “Quantifying the Additional Energy Consumed by Ancillary Equipment and Embodied in Grinding Media in Comminution Circuits”. At the time Dr Ballantyne was working for The Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre which is part of the Sustainable Minerals Institute.
What the CEEC medal means and why it’s important for industry
The core purpose of the SMI and its work in energy efficiency, productivity and global sustainability
Grant’s work on energy consumption in comminution and introducing the Energy Curve Benchmarking
Redesigning the value chain such that we minimise the energy footprint
What we can learn from success and benchmarking
Using research data to inform improvements
Implementing change through collaboration
The key factors for success in industry’s uptake of eco efficient processing to strive to meet ESG goals
The challenges of achieving net zero emissions by 2050 and the opportunities this presents
Advice to support senior mining leaders to invest in good changes
The importance of community engagement
SMI’s role in leading change
Key areas of research
The importance of research institutes partnering with industry to advance creative ideas

Episode 6 - CEEC Medal Series - Insights with Zimi Meka Co-founder, CEO & Managing Director of Ausenco

Zimi Meka, Managing Director of Ausenco is interviewed by CEEC Director Joe Pease following the 2020 CEEC Medal for technical research presentation to Dr Grant Ballantyne of Ausenco.
With over 35 years’ experience in design, construction and operation of minerals processing plants, and infrastructure globally, he's overseen Ausenco’s diversification into a global business today.
Zimi has been recognized globally with many awards. He was inducted in the Engineer's Australia Hall of Fame in 2019 today's modern was listed by engineers Australia as one of the country's top 100 most influential engineers and is recognized by the AusIMM with the Institute Medal in 2009.
Topics covered in this podcast include:-
How Grant Ballantyne’s 2020 CEEC Medal win is helping industry to make the right moves in improving energy efficiency
The journey of CEEC over the past 10 years
How Ausenco encourages collaboration and partnering with their clients
What’s required in the coming years to meet ESG objectives
An industry to look to in order to benchmark best practice
Carbon footprint versus environmental and social stewardship
The need for industry to collaborate
Examples of innovation at Ausenco
Energy efficient operations for the future
Enhanced process recovery
Ausenco’s approach to helping operating companies think differently about energy efficient processing
The future of emerging technologies in energy and water conservation in mineral processing for major savings
Best economic outcome versus highest recovery
Investor influences and barriers to adoption
Under-utilized considerations
Challenges for industry leaders and opportunities to create the best environment for the future
Zimi’s advice for CEEC
 
 

Episode 5 - CEEC Medal Series - Insights with Dr Grant Ballantyne from Ausenco and 2020 CEEC Medal Winner

In today’s episode of the 2020 CEEC Medal insights series, CEEC Director Joe Pease interviews Dr Grant Ballantyne, Head of Technical Solutions with Ausenco after the presentation of his 2020 CEEC Medal for outstanding work.
Grant shares exciting technologies key to reduce mining’s footprint, including options that can reduce water, tailings or energy by 50%. As we strive towards net zero design and operation of processing plants, we must account for embodied energy in ancillary equipment such as steel grinding media and conveyors, which can add 30 to 50 per cent more energy use.
Topics covered in this podcast include:-
An overview of Grant’s Medal Winning paper Quantifying The Additional Energy Consumed By Ancillary Equipment And Embodied In Grinding Media In Comminution Circuit
Grant’s work on developing CEEC’s Energy Curves project with the Sustainable Minerals Institute
Why you need to consider the bigger picture of the energy footprint
What’s involved in designing an energy efficient comminution circuit
Ways to reduce media consumption
The origin of the drive to go to embodied and ancillary equipment
Core separation as one way to reduce energy and water consumption
Benefits of coarse particle flotation or other coarse separation technologies.
New technologies coming in that complement the bulk ore sorting and coarse particle flotation
Assessing the NPV of major projects
The benefits of staging implementations for de-risking
Modeling different technical techniques
The future of copper mining
Getting a higher grade feed to the processing plant to make it more economic
Why sag and ball milling are not the enemies many people think that they are
What we can learn from work that was done in the 1950’s
Equipment around dry comminution
Eriez Hydrofloat separator at the Cadia operation in NSW
Technologies and strategies that can result in reducing energy, water and tailings by 50%
Addressing the financial implications of new technologies
The changes that industry needs to be adopting the next 10 years
The biggest challenges facing mines

Episode 4 - CEEC Medal Series - Insights with CEEC Director Simon Hille and Mark Adams formerly of Metso:Outotec

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

Episode 3 - CEEC Medal Series - Insights with Peter Lind (2020 Medal Winner) and Bryan Rairdan of Teck Resources

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

Episode 2 - CEEC Medal Series - Interviews with 2020 Medal Winners for Operations

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
 

Episode 1 - CEEC Thought Leader Series - Insights with Dean Gehring Executive VP - Newmont Corporation

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