NSW Central West Minerals Forum

About this event

Thursday, 14 November:

Cowal Gold Mine Site Tour

The tour will include visitors inductions, presentation on Cowal, bus tour to South Dump lookout, paste plant and mill area.

Participants are required to get themselves to and from the West Wyalong car park. A mini bus will then pick them up from the car park at 9:30 and return them there at approx 1pm.

West Wyalong is approx 3 hours from Dubbo or 2 and a half hours drive from Orange.

Time: 9.30am - 1.00pm

Short Course

This short course provides metallurgists and plant managers with a basic understanding of data analytics and tools for processing plant data to benchmark process performance and identify improvement opportunities.

Participants of this short course will be able to gain an introductory understanding of data cleaning and analysis of process data to calculate the stability of various operating units in a mineral processing circuit and calculate performance indicators for mineral processing units.

More information available here.

Time: 12.30pm - 4.30pm

Friday, 15 November:

NSW Central West Minerals Forum

Central and Western NSW is bursting with new projects and increasing activity in the minerals sector. This year's Lachlan Branch event will focus on showcasing the projects in our region and give delegates a unique opportunity to meet and establish new network connections throughout the region.

We will have two keynote speakers:

• Christopher Greet will be presenting the AusIMM Metallurgical Society Delprat Distinguished Lecture for 2024 titled The perils of conducting plant trials - It's at times like these that a Jim's mowing franchise starts to look good!
• Peter Fairfield who will be presenting a talk titled Resource Industry Studies – Managing Risk, doing the right work at the right time, where he will share his insights and experiences on Resource Project studies developed from being an operator, study team member and independent reviewer.

Program Update: Presentations confirmed so far: This will be updated as other sites register their presentations.

Operational results of the Rougher Jameson and Concorde installations at Cadia - Campbell Haines
Northparkes Process water dam dredging and recovery - Ben Milton
CSA Mine New SAG Mills Optimisation Using Grindcurves - German Figueroa
Cowal Gold Mine Gold Recovery Optimisation Project - James Didovich
Cadia Moly Plant Recovery Improvements - Courtney Dobson
Is it Clay? Sometimes the cause of poor performance is not the obvious one! - Bianca Newcombe
Gold recovery testwork program at Northparkes Part 2 – Plant trial verification - Masashi Yamane
Development of geometallurgy models at CSA - Brendon Palmer
Coarse Ore Flotation at Cadia - Campbell Haines
Enter the Wolff - Dirty Water Batch Centrifugal Concentrator (BCC) - Austell Lanyon
Sunrise Project Update - Mike Wood
The genesis of Geomet at Northparkes operations - Harry Beal

Time: 11.00am - 7.30pm

Tomlingley Plant Tour

A tour of Tomingley is planned for the morning of November 15^th. Numbers are limited for this tour so please reserve your place early to avoid disappointment.

Time: 7.00am - 10.30am