Altynalmas Gold Mine in Kazakhstan
A case study in increasing Grinding Circuit throughput and reducing mill stoppages.
Customer Challenge
Increase Throughput & Reduce Stoppages
Lack of knowledge of incoming material leads to frequent mill overloads.
Unwanted mill stoppages due to lack of insight into mill condition (liner wear) and ball charge level.
Operators struggle to determine optimum control parameters for the current mill feed.
How We Helped
Grinding Scientific-AI Optimization
Dynamic ball charge and liner wear condition enables reduced mill stoppages and increased throughput.
Mill prediction of 20 mins into the future prevents overload events from occurring.
Recommendation of optimum mill control variables stabilizes the feed and maximizes throughput.
The Outcome
1% Increase in Throughput
- 1% throughput increase by maintaining productivity at the circuit and reducing the number of mill shutdowns
- Reduced energy consumption and cost
- Better planned and reduced levels of mill maintenance
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