CEECing Change - where industry collaborates on eco-efficient minerals

CEECing Change - where industry collaborates on eco-efficient minerals

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CEECing Change - where industry collaborates on eco-efficient minerals episodes

  • 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
    • 10 min
  • 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
    • 8 min
  • 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

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    24 min
  • 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
    • 37 min

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