CUSTOMER PRESENTATION BRIEF

As presented at the 2016 Users Conference

SUMMARY

Barrick Gold - Goldstrike The PI System Enables Sustainable Operations at

INDUSTRY Goldstrike
Metals and Mining In 2015, Barrick Gold produced approximately 6.12 million ounces of ore with
more than 75% production coming from the Americas region. Their Goldstrike
mine is the most prolific gold-mining district in the Western Hemisphere and
includes the Betze-Post open-pit mine, a truck and shovel operation, and the
BUSINESS VALUE
Meikle and Rodeo underground mines. Ted Olsen-Tank described how the
Sustainability PI System enabled Barrick Gold to operate more efficiently while complying
with strict environmental regulations.
Environmental Compliance
Olsen-Tank began by explaining why Goldstrike used the PI System to track
Quality Assurance
environmental compliance. As the Goldstrike deposit went deeper and deeper
Data Democratization over time, the composition of the gold ore changed. It contained increasing
levels of total carbonaceous material (TCM) that preferentially adsorbs gold
Change Management and gold cyanide complexes, making it more difficult to recover gold. Once
stockpiles of low-TCM ore ran low, Barrick Gold initiated a $610 million capital
Reporting project, the TCM Leach Project, to leach ore in the presence of thiosulfate
and resin, not cyanide. The new system allowed Goldstrike to recover gold
Workforce Engagement
from material that was not usable before, but it brought with it a new set of
challenges, particularly
around environmental
PI SYSTEM COMPONENTS compliance.

PI Server Automating the

Process
Data Archive
The TCM Leach Project
Asset Framework (AF)
built upon assets that
Notifications were already in place.
Olsen-Tank explained
that the new thiosulfate
resin process was "very
complex compared
to cyanide. There are
numerous recirculating streams, each with their own complex sulfur-based
chemistry." In addition, the expansion basically doubled the total equipment
with minimal to no increase in operator manpower. Olsen-Tank relayed that
the operators "were spread out over the additional circuits, learning new
maintenance requirements for all the pumps, valves, pipes, fans, screens, etc."
They were also responsible for design targets and monitoring temperature,
pressure, concentration, pH throughout the new process. Ensuring
environmental compliance while monitoring the new process was challenging.

Making the New System Meet Environmental Standards

For environmental compliance, Goldstrike's environmental group is responsible
for all official record keeping and official reporting to state and federal
agencies. Olsen-Tank said, "the official record keeping that environmental CUSTOMER PRESENTATION BRIEF
reports to the required agencies are put together from a web of interlinked
Excel files. They've grown and evolved through the ages, and it just keeps
building." He added that, "These records are put together days or weeks after
the end of each month."

The operations group was responsible for day-to-day environmental monitoring "Asset
and reporting. Before the expansion project, operators who "had been running
the circuits for 25 years knew in and out what [would cause a] permit deviation." Framework, it
Despite extensive training sessions on new system, "the operations group
would find out weeks later from the environmental group when there had had astounding
been deviations." As Olsen-Tank said, "Luckily, I was learning about the new
advanced features in the PI System. So, I built something to do something impacts. It
about it."
created a culture
Building a Real-Time Reporting System
shift in the
Olsen-Tank recounted, "The main issue was that there was an organizational
and workflow disconnect. The operations group was not able to identify when organization. "
deviations were occurring in real time. Since they didn't know a deviation had
occurred, they couldn't report on it. And that's just not acceptable."
Ted Olsen-Tank, Barrick Gold
At first, Goldstrike improved situational awareness by building dashboards that
showed how hourly averages and current operational parameters compared to
environmental deviation states. While it was accurate, Olsen-Tank said, "the
dashboard was just another thing squawking in the busy control room. So we
had to come up with something else."

To send out proactive notifications that alerted the team to environmental

permit deviations in real time, Olsen-Tank built their environmental permit
information into Asset Framework (AF). He listed each circuit as an element,
with individual permit line item as child attributes. He explained, "within each
one of those, we determined if there was a deviation or not based on the set
permit limit. The output was a Boolean yes/no." If the system deviated, the
analysis would trigger a notification to shift supervisors. Since the deviations
could be identified in real time, operators could make adjustments quickly. The
notifications were also sent to the environmental group so they could review
the data before reporting.

Benefits and Future Directions

Olsen-Tank concluded, "Comparing before to after AF implementation,
the total number of deviations decreased by 45%, and the total fan trips
decreased by 61% comparing similar eight month periods." In the future,
Goldstrike plans to:

Expand the system to other permits at Goldstrike and sister mines

Create text message Notifications for operators
Revamp the environmental record-keeping
" For business purposes, we ensured our license to operate, which is an
ongoing corporate initiative in the mining industry. From a management level,
we shifted and streamlined the organizational structure. Operations now
knows definitively when they've deviated. Once the record-keeping project is
completed, engineers' time will be freed up from performing paperwork, and
they can focus on adding real value."

Olsen-Tank, T., Environmental Compliance Monitoring at the Goldstrike Mine. OSIsoft.com. 4 April 2016. Web. 27 July
2016. http://www.osisoft.com/Presentations/Environmental-Compliance-Monitoring-at-the-Goldstrike-Mine/

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