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Mining Recovery of Tonnages or Loss of Tonnages Respectively
Mining Recovery of Tonnages or Loss of Tonnages Respectively
Having dealt with grade and tonnage in the preceding sections, and having converted
these into mine production data in Chap. 4, we now have all the necessary information
to start our economic evaluation at whichever exploration stage we choose. The pro-
cedure we will adopt is shown in the flow sheet in Fig. 5.1.
1. Let us consider revenues frst. For this we have to calculate the net smelter return
which represents the financial return to the mine on the sale of its products, such
as concentrates. This is done in Chap. 7. First, however, we have to assume a com-
modity or metal price, as the case may be. We will show in Chap. 6 how to derive a
reasonable future metal price taking into account the fact that the planned mine is
not likely to come on stream for 5 to 10 years.
2. From the point of view of revenues it does not matter if we have a small mine with
perhaps 1000 t/day productions or a large mine with say 150000 t/day production.
Fig. 4.1. General relationship between exploration results/exploration information, mineral resources
and ore reserves/mineral reserves acc. to Canadian and Australian definitions (CIM 2004 and JORC
2004). (Ore reserves is the Australian term, mineral reserves the Canadian term) (originally published
in 2004 Australasian Code for Reporting Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves
(The JORC Code) and in theCIM Definition Standards on Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves.
Reproduced with permission of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy and the Canadian
Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum)
4.2
Mining Recovery of Tonnages or Loss of Tonnages Respectively
4.3
Metal Recovery in the Beneficiation Plant
The varying rates of recovery during beneficiation have already been mentioned in
Sect. 3.5.2. Recovery ( ) can be determined by the following formula:
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This has nothing to do with theproblem of vanishing or missingtonnes which is widely discussed
in geostatistical literature (see e.g. David, 1977) and which can be solved using proper geostatistical
evaluation tools.
Recurso minero
Masa mineralizada que tiene continuidad geolgica espacial y que tiene
en forma muy clara confable y muy bien sustentado todos sus
parmetros tcnicos, como el tonelaje, la densidad ,leyes, recuperacin
metalrgica, no hay datos econmicos, atributos tcnicos geolgicos,
dureza de roca, granulometra, etc.
Que tenga un potencial econmico
Reserva
Es esa parte del recurso que es la parte que si incorpora precios del
metal , gastos por contaminacin , plan minero, secuenciamiento minero
, incluye ttoda la economa del proyecto para hacer ese recurso
extrable.
Los recursos medidos dan origen a la reserva probada y los recursos
indicados(menos conocidos) , constituyen reservas probables.
Costo de Inversion
I(t)= C0+C1*t^(gama)
Es una funcin que se da en todas las industrias, de acuerdo a la escala
productiva, representa bien como van aumentando las inversiones a
medida que laproduccion anual se incrementa, el gama depende de la
industria, en algunos caso ser 0,5 , 0,7,0,9, nosotros para facilitar
supondremos que gama=1, por lo tanto quedara I(t)=C0+C1*t, y va
quedar como el grafco donde hay una sola lnea recta,
V(c) = 2205*(P-G)*(C-Q)-S