In this episode of the Spotlight Leader Conversations, our communications lead Ailbhe Goodbody speaks with Peter Flanagan, Senior Vice President – Global Project Sales, Executive Accounts and Key Commodities at FLSmidth, a global provider of sustainable productivity to the cement and mining industries for over 135 years.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Dry classification

• Adopting sorting into mainstream

• Attitude to risk

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

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

*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