Faster and more accurate sampling, analysis, and assay
The current need for minerals and metals forces mining companies to sample, analyze, and assay faster and more efficiently. This generates a mindset shift, as the outcomes for mining companies are essential.
However, speeding up the process needs the right technology, which can provide the necessary accuracy and efficiency. IMA Engineering has developed and proved the efficiency of this technology in the last 30 years, in mines, as mentioned by the International Mining Magazine.
That’s why Dan Gleeson, from International Mining Magazine, interviewed Ilpo Auranen, Chairman of the Board of IMA Engineering on this matter. Ilpo emphasized the importance of the sampling, as industry representatives focus on mineral analysis.
“People like to talk about mineral analysis, but the sample itself is more important,” he mentioned. “Once we have the sampling process refined to the point where it is representative of the orebody in question, then we can start to address the need to improve the time it takes to go from exploration to production,” Auranen added.
To also reduce this industry interval, Ilpo emphasizes the most suitable solutions.
“We need to leverage more real-time analysis in the field and reprioritize what we send to a laboratory. To do this, the mining sector needs to understand where lab-scale accuracy is critical to decision-making and where in-field data can be used effectively to accelerate the transition,” he explained.
And this is exactly what IMA Engineering’s smart mining technology helps mining companies do. Download the PDF to read the entire interview.
What is IMA Engineering?
IMA Engineering has used on-line sensors for analyzing ore and waste rock in mining for over 25 years. Today IMA on-line sensors are used in various stages of the mining process including on-line analysis of drill cores, drill chips, ore, and waste in loader buckets, ROM ore analysis on conveyor belts and in bulk ore sorting, as well as in slurry analysis in concentrators.
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