Presentation from CIM 2014. CIM 2014 - Ontario milling survey-4a
12-Feb-2014
IM Technology Hall of Fame 2013. Comminution award to Prof Alban Lynch
05-Feb-2014
Mining Magazine Awards 2013 – CEEC is a winner!
The Editor's Award: CEEC International Ltd
"The Coalition for Energy Efficient Comminution (CEEC) was established by a range of companies in the mining sector. It aims to improve understanding of research findings and alternative comminution strate...
04-Feb-2014
Ian Ball has been gaining a lot of attention lately for his success in mining despite his youth. Ian is the new President of McEwen Mining.
"Lately, the 32 year old has been spotted driving a 100-tonne haul truck at the silver mine he discovered in Mexico, and the Bay St. hotshot makes a nice allo...
29-Jan-2014
The introduction of selected blast mining has the potential to reduce the cost of mining narrow-reef gold to the extent of resuscitating South Africa’s ghost towns, says veteran research commentator Dr R E (Robbie) Robinson. In an interview with Martin Creamer, (Mining Weekly Online ), Robinson ide...
28-Jan-2014
47 new green mining technology breakthroughs uncovered and profiled in “Emerging Green Mining Innovation,” a report published last September 2013 by Kachan & Co. Driven primarily by cost savings, mining companies are beginning to adopt new greener technologies. And that’s spawning a cottage ind...
17-Jan-2014
The most recent CEEC newsletter has been published. This issue features news on energy management in Ghana; industry events in Canada, and the most popular discussion on CEEC's LinkedIn group in mid 2013.
[caption id="attachment_2855" align="aligncenter" width="661"] CEEC Newsletter January 2014[...
14-Jan-2014
IM Technology Hall of Fame Comminution inductee Prof Lynch shared his thoughts with John Chadwick as follows:
10-Jan-2014
The Global Comminution Collaborative (GCC) led by The University of Queensland (UQ) welcomed its sixth member university in October 2013.
Technische Universität Braunschweig (TUBS), Germany, brings expertise in ultra-fine grinding and modelling, and fine particle strength, sizing and analysis to...
06-Jan-2014
The 46th Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Conference will be held in Ottawa at the Westin Hotel January 21 to 23, 2014 in the Confederation Ballrooms (4th Floor). The conference will feature presentations on various aspects of mineral processing including grinding, flotation, new technologies, lea...
02-Jan-2014
The 9th International Comminution Symposium (Comminution ‘14), organised by MEI in consultation with Prof Malcolm Powell (JKMRC) and Dr Aubrey Mainza (Centre for Minerals Research, UCT), is on track to be the biggest event in the series. With 4 months still to go before the start of the event in Cap...
30-Dec-2013
For the first time, the global mining industry has a Hall of Fame (www.im-halloffame.com) focussed on recognising the technology innovators and developers that are so important to our future advancement. Members of the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame college of voters from around the wo...
28-Dec-2013
Published earlier this year, this report profiles the work at Chalmers University in Sweden.
"At least ten percent of the electricity produced in South Africa is used to crush and grind rock. This statistic is but one metric of the importance of the mining industry to the country's economy. Here...
23-Dec-2013
Today CEEC International Ltd launched a video addressing the key issues related to comminution: why comminution deserves the attention of senior executives, the potential financial upside and ways in which alternative comminution strategies can alleviate issues such as rising energy prices, lower or...
13-Dec-2013
CEEC's Board sends its hearty congratulations to fellow director Maryse Belanger on her recognition by the Women in Mining UK “WIM (UK)” 100 Global Inspirational Women in Mining Project as one the the most inspirational Global Women in Mining. Maryse is passionate about innovation in the mining in...
11-Dec-2013
A big thanks to the Aspermont team for arranging the outstanding Mines and Money meeting, London 2013. CEEC Director Michael Battersby represented CEEC at this event and reported the following:
".....there seemed to be a very positive outlook from everyone there. I received excellent feedback from...
10-Dec-2013
The Global Mining Standards and Guideline group (GMSG) recently announced the formation of a new working group called the Working Group on “A Standard for Industrial Comminution Efficiency”. The group is to be headed by CEEC advocate Robert E. McIvor, who has devoted his career to the design and imp...
03-Dec-2013
Comminution '14
Vineyard Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa
April 7-10, 2014
www.min-eng.com/comminution14/
The 9th International Comminution Symposium (Comminution '14) is organised by MEI in consultation with Prof Malcolm Powell and Dr. Aubrey Mainza and is sponsored by TOMS, Starkey & Assoc...
02-Dec-2013
I’m pleased to report that Prof Alban Lynch has been chosen by the college of voters around the world as the 2013 inductee for the Comminution category of the International Mining Technology Hall of Fame. Congratulations Prof Lynch! CEEC is proud to have nominated you for this award.
Background to...
27-Nov-2013
Ian Smith, Managing Director and CEO, CEEC Sposnor Orica Ltd addressed 500 guests at Melbourne Celebrates Mining dinner on 30 October 2013 on the theme of innovation excerpts from Smith's speech follow:
"Innovation is the application of better solutions that meet new requirements or existing mark...
19-Nov-2013
The November 2013 issue of Materials World, the member magazine of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. has a key feature on eco-efficent comminution. Journalist Guy Richards quotes global industry leaders in his profile of Eco-efficient comminution.
Crushing victories - comminution...
19-Nov-2013
[caption id="attachment_2580" align="aligncenter" width="700"] L-R: Owen Hegarty, CEEC Patron; Sandy Gray Gekko Systems and Joe Cucuzza AMIRA prepare to address the delegates at Mines and Money Melbourne 2013.[/caption]
CEEC Patron Owen Hegarty, AMIRA's Joe Cucuzza and Gekko Systems's Sandy Gray...
02-Nov-2013
[caption id="attachment_2573" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Queensland Premier Campbell Newman congratulates representatives of the Metso PTI team. Left to right: Kristy- Ann Duffy (Mineral Process Engineer), Walter Valery (Senior Vice President - Global), Premier Campbell Newman, David La Rosa (...
31-Oct-2013
[caption id="attachment_2384" align="aligncenter" width="700"] The CEEC Medal[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_2373" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Winning Authors: L-R Klein, Wang Nadolski, Drozdiak (NB O Mejia absent)[/caption]
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31-Oct-2013
CIM's October 2013 Magazine published an excellent feature addressing comminution. The report quotes operators, service providers and equipment manufacturers as well as CEEC Director Joe Pease (CEO Xstrata Technology).
[caption id="attachment_1281" align="alignleft" width="247"] CEEC Di...
25-Oct-2013
Download details here: CallforNominationsCEECBoard
Nomination & Expression of Interest – CEEC Board
Please be advised that the Annual General Meeting for CEEC International Ltd (CEEC) will be held on Thursday, 21st November, 2013, at 5.00 p.m. (AEDT).
In accordance with the Cons...
24-Oct-2013
The 2013 CEEC Medal presentation on October 11th drew many from North America: here are pictures some of our guests.
[caption id="attachment_2466" align="aligncenter" width="700"] Sandy Gray from Gekko Systems chatting with Andy Maclean and Gavin Ritson (Hatch)[/caption]
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22-Oct-2013
The 2013 CEEC Medallists were recognised at a " by invitation only" industry event hosted by Ausenco at their Vancouver offices. Ed Meka, Ausenco's President, Minerals and Metals, Americas welcomed the assembled guests, before introducing CEEC Chair, Elizabeth Lewis-Gray who gave an overview of C...
22-Oct-2013
Attending Procemin 2013?
Make sure you register for the course being run by Alex Doll, Comminution Consultant, Canada, and Peter Amelunxen, Aminpro Chile.
The course is for engineers with intermediate or advanced understanding of grinding circuits:
EPCM engineers who will be designing and...
08-Oct-2013
[caption id="attachment_2293" align="alignleft" width="300"] Kyle Bartholomew Metcom Technologies; Mike Daniel CMD Consulting; Bill Johnson,[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_2278" align="alignright" width="300"] Lt: Tom Hunter Outotec Rt Sandy Gray Gekko Systems[/caption]
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08-Oct-2013
[caption id="attachment_2320" align="alignleft" width="300"] Elizabeth Lewis-Gray Gekko and Wayne McFaull Newmont meet special guest Mark Morcombe AngloGold Ashanti[/caption]
[caption id="attachment_2317" align="alignright" width="300"] CEEC Directors: Mike Daniel, Sarah Boucaut (EO) Mike Batters...
04-Oct-2013
CEEC sponsors and supporters joined CEEC's Board to hear CEEC Chair Elizabeth Lewis-Gray interview Mark Morcombe SVP, AngloGold Ashanti on the challenges and opportunties for energy efficiency in comminution at AGA's Obuasi mine. Located in Ghana, the mine has been operating since 1897, and was acqu...
02-Oct-2013
International Mining Hall of Fame nominations have now closed: details will be published in the November 2013 issue of International Mining. CEEC's founding Chair Elizabeth Lewis-Gray and co-director Joe Pease are nominated in the Comminution section, along with CEEC sponsor RME's John Russell.
"C...
01-Oct-2013
[caption id="attachment_2236" align="aligncenter" width="700"] CEEC Director Dr Mike Daniel (Rt) and CEEC Advocate Levi Guzman (Lt) meet with colleagues in Peru in August 2013[/caption]
Founding CEEC Director Dr Mike Daniel met one of CEEC's South American advocates Levi Guzman recently while in...
24-Sep-2013
The IMPC 2014 is expected to gather over 1,000 professionals and academics from the mining industry representing approximately 60 countries. Top universities specialising in mineral processing,all major mining companies, plus the leading providers in the world of services and technologies will att...
10-Sep-2013
12 case studies show sustained improvement of 15% - 48% throughput over last 10 years at sites including Mt Rawdon, Henty, Kambalda, Sepon Gold and more, reports Orway Mineral Consultants.
Table 1 below is taken from Orway Mineral Consultants (WA) Pty Ltd white paper recently published. It provid...
10-Sep-2013
From Author: Clara Ferreira-Marques (Reuters)
Posted: Thursday , 22 Aug 2013
LONDON (REUTERS) -
After extensive cost cuts in a bid to woo investors, the low hanging fruit has been plucked, but more is needed if the major producers are to recover fully.
Mining firms are wooing investors with...
27-Aug-2013
This month's issue of International Mining has a good round up of the latest news in processing, including a review of new technology, new alliances and new ideas. News of Outotoec's acquisition of Scanalyze and cooperation with Koppern; Weir Minerals' licence with KHD and partnership with Minyu Mac...
01-Aug-2013
JKTech's Diana Drinkwater, Metallurgical training manager, reported on the JKTech Eco-Efficient Comminution workshop held after MetPlant2013 in Perth, Western Australia.
The Workshop saw 16 delegates, divided pretty evenly between engineers, vendors and operators sharing knowledge and defining o...
22-Jul-2013
The following article appeared in the July 2013 issue of Mining, People and the Environment. Thanks to author Graham White, and Ruth Green at Aspermont for a great feature.
Classic economic theory tells us that competition and the profit motive should herd every enterprise along the ro...
09-Jul-2013
he Cooperative Research Centre for Optimising Resource Extraction is pleased to announce the publication of “Understanding Mine to Mill”, a publication written by Don McKee documenting the history of the Mine to Mill concept.
Don McKee is an expert in research and education within the mining and...
03-Jul-2013
Download the CEEC July 2013 Newsletter
This newsletter shares updates in CEEC's governance, new communication tools and exciting global initiatives to achieve step change in Comminution energy efficiency.
July 2013 CEEC Newsletter Find the savings!
26-Jun-2013
Birol Sönmez PhD, PTI Manager – Turkey, Metso Process Technology & Innovation sent the following report on the XV Balkan Mineral Processing Congress (BMPC 2013) held in International Congress Centre Sozopol, Bulgaria during June 12-16, 2013.
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26-Jun-2013
A paper presented at the 45th Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Operators Conference in Ottawa Canada this year has been awarded the 2013 CEEC Medal.
C. Wang, S. Nadolski, O. Mejia, J. Drozdiak, B. Klein co-authored the paper titled “Energy and Cost Comparisons of HPGR based circuits with the SABC...
18-Jun-2013
This month's edition of Mining Magazine features an excellent review of energy consumption in copper concentrators for the 70's to the present. Written by Michael Nelson, Associate Professor and Chair of the Mining Engineering Department at the University of Utah; Dariusz Lelinski, Global Flotation...
11-Jun-2013
The Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN) is a platform for on-going collaboration between Kellogg faculty, corporate innovation leaders and government. Founded in 2003, the KIN facilitates strategy and management dialogue to promote innovation led growth and build long-term value.
In 2012 a Kellogg...
24-Apr-2013
The Investor Group on Climate Change IGCC represents institutional investors with total funds under management of approximately $900 billion, and others in the investment community interested in the impact of climate change on investments. The IGCC aims to encourage government policies and investmen...
18-Apr-2013
CEEC was officially two years old on April 1st, and look at how we've grown!
Over 15 industry sponsors
Three comminution efficiency workshops across the globe
Over 650 members participating in CEEC's LinkedIn group discussions
Publication of the CEEC Roadmap resulting from the 2012 CEE...
03-Apr-2013
The striking infographic released today by CEEC International Ltd (Coalition for Energy Efficient Comminution) illustrates the immense opportunity for mining companies to improve earnings by optimizing their crushing and grinding practices known as comminution. Proven ore processing alternatives...
13-Mar-2013
As reported by Omar Arafat, Project Metallurgist & Marketing Manager, Metcom Technologies Inc.
This year's SME Conference in Denver was a success- below are a few photos of some key people that stopped by to chat at the Metcom Technologies Inc booth. (Image definition limited by Iphone and th...
04-Mar-2013