CEEC is pleased to share links to abstracts and papers for the 2017-2021 CEEC Medal winning papers, high commendations and a number of inspiring nominated papers. These papers showcase a range of inspiring innovations, case studies, operational improvements, technology and research advances for important consideration by the global mining industry.
2023 CEEC Medal Winners:
Technical Research category: Malcolm Powell, Andy Reynolds, Shannon McCrae, Jennifer Agnew, Ryan Bracey, David Way, Craig Phasey, Thomas Littlechild, David Manning for their paper titled Can We Shift to A New Paradigm of Flexibility in Mining and Processing to Build Mines Powered Exclusively by The Variable Input of Renewables?
Operations category: Ivka-Anna Lovatt, Michael Becker, Brian Putland, Reg Radford, John Robinson for their paper titled Trade-Off Realities in HPGR vs. SAG Milling – A Practical Comparison of Tropicana and Gruyere Comminution Circuits
2022 CEEC Medal Winners:
Technical Research category: John Forster, Adam Olmsted, Xinyi (Wendy) Tian, Darryel Boucher, Matthew Goldbaum, Chris Pickles, Erin Bobicki for their paper titled Microwave Heating Behaviour of Ores and its Application to High-power Microwave Assisted Comminution and Ore Sorting.
Operations category: Karina Arburo, Jaime Zunigo, Adrian McDonald, Felipe Vades, Jose Concha, Eric Wasmund for their paper titled Commissioning a HydroFloat© in a Copper Concentrator Application.
2021 CEEC Medal Winners:
Technical Research category: Marcos Bueno, Janne Torvela, Rajiv Chandramohan, Tábatha Chávez Matus, Toni Liedes and Malcolm Powell for their paper titled The Double Wheel Breakage Test. This was published in Minerals Engineering, Volume 168, July 2021
Operations category: Ben Wraith, Justin Resta, Johan Welmans from Bluestone Mines Tasmania Joint Venture, Australia for their paper Recent improvements in ore sorting at the Renison Tin Concentrator - target 1 Mt/a. This was presented at the AusIMM Mill Operators' Conference in Brisbane, Australia in June 2021.
2021 Medal High Commendations:
Technical Research category: Dr Paul Shelley and Eugene Davies from Molycop, Global; Jacques Olivier, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University; and Mark Atta Danso, Westgold Resources, Australia for their paper SAG mill energy and wear insights derived from measuring inside the Mill. This paper was presented at the online Comminution ’21 conference.
Operations category: Umut Erol and Curtis Wettstein from Capstone Mining Corporation’s Pinto Valley copper mine in Arizona, US, and Adrian Dance, SRK Consulting, Canada for their paper Throughput improvements at the Capstone Pinto Valley Operation, a video presentation delivered at the online Comminution ‘21 conference.
2020 CEEC Medal Winners:
Technical Research category: Dr Grant Ballantyne for his paper titled “Quantifying the Additional Energy Consumed by Ancillary Equipment and Embodied in Grinding Media in Comminution Circuits”. This was also presented at the 7th SAG Conference in Vancouver. Abstract/paper details link here
Operations category winner: Peter Lind and Kevin Murray of Newmont and Alan Boylston and Isaias Arce of Metso Outotec, 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. Abstract/paper details link here
2020 Medal High Commendations:
Operations category: Ben Adair, Luke Keeney, and Michael Scott from CRC ORE, and David King from Minera San Cristóbal operations for their paper titled "Gangue rejection in practice - the implementation of Grade Engineering® at the Minera San Cristóbal Site". This was presented at Physical Separation 2019, Cornwall, United Kingdom. Abstract/paper details link here
Operations category: Malcolm Powell, Ceren Bozbay, Sarma Kanchibotla, Benjamin Bonfils, Anand Musunuri, Vladimir Jokovic, Marko Hilden, Jace Young and Emrah Yalcin, for their article titled "Advanced Mine-to-Mill Used to Unlock SABC Capacity at the Barrick Cortez Mine". This was presented at the 7th SAG Conference in Vancouver. Abstract/paper details link here
Technical Research category: Paul Shelley and Ignacio Molina (Molycop) and Dimitrios Patsikatheodorou (Westgold Resources), for their paper titled "SAG mill optimization insights by measuring inside the mill". This was presented at the Procemin-Geomet Conference in Santiago, Chile in 2019. Abstract/paper details link here
2019 CEEC Medal Winners:
Technical Research category: Laureate Professor Graeme Jameson AO and Dr Cagri Emer from the Centre for Multiphase Processes, University of Newcastle for their publication “Coarse chalcopyrite recovery in a universal froth flotation machine”. Abstract/paper details link here
Operations category: Kyle Bartholomew, Rob McIvor and Omar Arafat from Metcom Technologies, Grand Rapids, Minnesota, US for their publication “A guide to maximising ball mill circuit classification system efficiency (CSE), for operators and equipment designers”. Abstract/paper details link here
2019 Medal High Commendations
Technical Research category: Hamid Manouchehri for the paper “How Far the Crushing Performance Can be Pushed? Cone Crusher vs Vertical Shaft Impactor (VSI) ”. This paper was presented at Comminution ‘18, in Cape Town, South Africa. Abstract/paper details link here
Operations category: Malcolm Powell, Sarma Kanchibotla, Vladimir Jokovic, Marko Hilden, Benjamin Bonfils, Anand Musunuri, Pamela Moyo, Sam Yu, Jace Young, Paul Yaroshak, Emrah Yalcin and Barun Gorain for their paper, “Advanced mine to mill application at the Barrick Cortez Mine”. This paper was presented at the 14th AusIMM Mill Operators’ Conference 2018 in Brisbane, Australia. Abstract/paper details link here
Operations category: Berge Simonian, “Mount Milligan Mine Performance Update”. Presented in January 2019 at the 51st Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Operators Conference, Alberta, Canada. Abstract/paper details link here
2018 CEEC Medal Winners:
Operations category: Sam Palaniandy, Matthew Spagnolo, Rinto Napitupulu Halomoan, Huiwen Zhou and Hidemasa Ishikawa (a collaboration between Karara Mining Limited and Nippon Eirich) for their presentation “Fine grinding circuit process improvement at the Karara Mine concentrator”. The presentation was given at the 2017 MetPlant Conference in Australia. Abstract/paper details link here
Technical Research category: No medal awarded
2018 Medal Highly Commendations:
Grant R Ballantyne for his paper “Introducing variable electricity cost into the comminution energy curves”. This paper was presented at Comminution ’18 in Cape Town, South Africa. Abstract/paper details link here
Robert McIvor, Kyle Bartholomew, Omar Arafat and Jim Finch for their paper “Ball mill classification system optimization through functional performance modelling” published in SME’s Mining Engineering Magazine. Abstract/paper details link here
2017 CEEC Medal winners:
- Technical Research category winner: Fengnian (Frank) Shi, Weiran Zuo and Emmy Manlapig for their paper titled “Pre-concentration of copper ores by high voltage pulses. Part 2: Opportunities and challenges”, published by Minerals Engineering in 2015. Abstract/paper details link here.
- Operations category winner: Aidan Giblett and Steven Hart for their paper titled “Grinding Circuit Practices at Newmont”, presented at the AusIMM’s Mill Operators Conference in 2016. Abstract/paper details link here.
2017 Medal high commendations:
- Technical Research category: C G Kelsey and J R Kelly for their paper titled “Super-fine crushing – Pivotal comminution technology from IMP Technologies Pty. Ltd.”, presented and published at International Mineral Processing Congress 2016 in Quebec City, Canada. Abstract/paper details link here.
- Operations category: G R Ballantyne, N Clarke, P Elms, A Anyimadu and M S Powell for their paper titled “Application of Research Principles to Identify Process Improvement at Sunrise Dam Gold Mine”, presented and published at MetPlant 2015 in Perth, Australia. Abstract/paper details link here.
- Operations category: A Giblett and M Daniel for their paper titled “Global Mining Standards and Guidelines for Determining Comminution Circuit Efficiency”, presented and published at The AusIMM’s 2016 Mill Operators Conference in Perth, Australia. Abstract/paper details link here.
- Operations category: C Carrasco, L Keeney, T J Napier-Munn and P Bode for their paper titled “Unlocking additional value by optimising comminution strategies to process Grade Engineering® streams”, published in Minerals Engineering journal 103-104 (2017), 2-10. Abstract/paper details link here.
- Operations category: J –F Dupont, J McMullen and D Rose for their paper titled “The Effect of Choke Feeding a Gyratory Crusher on Throughput and Product Size”, presented and published at the 49th Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Operators Conference in Ottawa 2017. Abstract/paper details link here.
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