Technical and Social Program

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Organized by

Technical and

Social Program

July 10

· 12, 2013

Sheraton Hotel, Santiago, Chile

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Information

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Lost & Found

All lost items should be reported to the Gecamin staff at the registration desk. All found items must be taken to congress registration desk.

Internet

In addition to the computers at the foyer entrance, complimentary Wi-Fi is available in all areas of the seminar.

Parking

Hotel parking is available free of charge to Hydroprocess 2013 participants.

Simultaneous Interpretation

(English and Spanish)

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Recommendations

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General Information

Gecamin Contacts

executivedirector Carlos Barahona +56 9 9887 3986 sponsorrelations René Catalán +56 9 7108 3182 technicalcoordinator Fernando Valenzuela +56 9 8270 4468 seminarcoordinator Fabiola Bustamante +56 9 9597 8271

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Wednesday July 10

TECHNICAL AND SOCIAL PROGRAM

16:00

Registration

Foyer

18:00

Authors and Session Chair Coordination Meeting

San Cristóbal Ballroom A

19:00

Inauguration Ceremony

San Cristóbal Ballroom B & C

Words of Welcome

Carlos Barahona, Hydroprocess 2013 Executive Director, Gecamin, Chile

Courtney Young, Hydroprocess 2013 Co-Chair, Montana Tech, USA Fernando Valenzuela, Hydroprocess 2013 Technical Coordinator, Universidad de Chile

Gabriel Meruane, Hydroprocess 2013 Chair, R&D Project Manager, SQM, Chile

Opening Address

One hundred years of hydroprocess innovation: The case of the nitrate and iodine industry in Chile.

Carlos Díaz, Vice-President of the Iodine Nitrate Operations, SQM, Chile

20:00

Welcome Reception Foyer / Courtesy of SQM

B & C

San Cristóbal Ballroom

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Thursday July 11

PLENARY SESSION 01

Session Chair: Óscar Rosas, Division El Soldado, Anglo American, Chile

08:20

Day 2 program update

Fernando Valenzuela, Hydroprocess 2013 Technical Coordinator, Universidad de Chile

08:30

Impregnated activated carbon for gold extraction from thiosulfate solutions

Courtney Young, Montana Tech, USA; Nick Gow, Hydrometallurgy Group, FLSmidth, USA

09:00

Breaking down some paradigms in copper hydrometallurgy

Gabriel Zárate, Anglo American Chile

09:30

Heap leaching aeration: Science or art?

Jorge Menacho and Wildo Cifuentes, De Re Metallica Ingeniería, Chile

10:00

Poster Session and Coffee Break

Foyer

B & C

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Thursday July 11

SESSION 01

Base metals hydrometallurgy:

Copper leaching processes

Chair: Óscar Ferrada, Minera Escondida, Chile

10:50

Daily process mineralogy – a metallurgical tool for optimized copper leaching

Wolfgang Baum, Kevin Ausburn and Randy Zahn, FLSmidth,USA

11:10

Kinetics of chalcopyrite leaching in either ferric sulfate or cupric sulfate media in the presence of NaCl

Tácia Veloso, Johne Peixoto, Michael Rodrigues and Versiane Albis Leão, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil

11:30

Mineral QT’s in place leaching, standard sector

Hugo Letelier, Patricio Giménez, Carola González, Luis Zenteno and Carlos Castillo, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile

11:50

A step closer to the leaching of primary sulfides

Guillermo Velarde, Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A., Peru

12:10

Copper extraction from oxide ore using sea water

Cynthia Torres, María Elisa Taboada, Teófilo Graber and Héctor Galleguillos, CSIRO-Chile International Centre of Excellence in Mining and Mineral Processing, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile; Helen Watling, CSIRO-Chile International Centre of Excellence in Mining and Mineral Processing, CSIRO Minerals Down Under Flagship, Australian Minerals Research Centre

12:30

Lunch / Pedro de Valdivia Ballroom (level Z)

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Thursday July 11

SESSION 02

Electrometallurgical processing

Chair: Virginia Ciminelli, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

10:50

Practical determination of galvanic corrosion of steel induced by mineral particles

Genny Leinenweber and Luis Cáceres, CSIRO-Chile International Centre of Excellence in Mining and Mineral Processing, Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile

11:10

Tankhouse parameters for transition from lead to alternative anodes

Scot Sandoval, Casey Clayton, Ephrem Gebrehiwotand Jason Morgan, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc., USA

11:30

CoolBar: A new intercell bar for electrolytic processes

Gerardo Cifuentes and Rodolfo Mannheim, G2M Ingeniería Ltda., Chile

11:50

MIRS’ Starter Sheet Robotic Stripping Machine (SSRSM)

Luis Felipe Ramirez, Mining Industry Robotic Solutions, (MIRS), Chile

12:10

SELE® Technology: An alternative to boosting current efficiency and cathode quality in EW plants

Pedro Aylwin, Nicolás Lagos and Patricio Melani, New Tech Copper SpA, Chile

12:30

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Thursday July 11

SESSION 03

Base metals hydrometallurgy:Polymetallic

ore processing

Chair: Guillermo Velarde, Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde, Peru

14:00

Controlling the irrigation flow in heap leach piles of El Soldado mine by canopy system with thermal camera

Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Omar Daud and Mauricio Correa, Advanced Mining Technology Center, Universidad de Chile; Marco Torres, El Soldado Division, Angloamerican, Chile

14:20

Maboumine process: Example of a promising process for developing a polymetallic ore deposit

Florent Delvallée, Valérie Weigel and Antoine Greco, ERAMET, France

14:40

Hydrothermal mineral replacement reactions and their applications in mining and processing

Jing Zhao, Allan Pring, Joël Brugger, Fang Xia and Kan Li, University of Adelaide and Department of Mineralogy, South Australian Museum; Yung Ngothai, University of Adelaide, Australia

15:00

Study of the recovery of silica from the zircon chemical treatment – Part 1

Laura Rocha and Carlos Morais, Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear/Comissão Nacional de Energia Nuclear – CDTN/CNEN, Brazil

15:20

Direct production of high purity cobalt sulphate heptahydrate from a NICO deposit concentrate

Alex Mezei, Michael Johnson and Cornelia Lupu, SGS Mineral Services; Ron Molnar, METNETH2O Inc.; Keith Lee and Robin Goad, Fortune Minerals Limited, Canada

15:40

Poster Session and Coffee Break / Foyer

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Thursday July 11

SESSION 04

Modelling and optimising hydrometallurgical

operations

Chair: María Elisa Taboada, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile

14:00

A theoretical study of SART precipitate generation: Operational and safety impacts

Humberto Estay, Pablo Carvajal, Karina González and Verónica Vásquez, Arcadis, Chile

14:20

Data mining for process analysis and development through historical data

Gabriel Meruane, M. Irrazabal and Juan José Segura, SQM Industrial S.A., Chile

14:40

Rheometallurgical process risk mitigation through engineering data generation

Alex Mezei and Mike Ashbury, SGS Mineral Services, Canada

15:00

Implications of hydrodynamic testing for heap leach design

Stefan Robertson, Mintek, South Africa; Amado Guzmán, HydroGeoSense, USA; Graeme Miller, Miller Metallurgical Services, Australia

15:20

Dynamic model of copper recovery in heaps, Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi

Eduardo Flores, Juan Pablo Garcés and Christan Hu, Compañía Minera Doña Inés de Collahuasi; Jesús Casas, Process Consulting, Chile

15:40

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Thursday July 11

SESSION 05

Non-metals compounds and base metals processes

Chair: Jesús Casas, Process Consulting, Chile

16:30

Study steel dust leaching for the recovery of zinc and cadmium

Ernesto de la Torre, Alicia Guevara and Cynthia Espinoza, National Polytechnic University, Ecuador

16:50

Zinc recovery from electric-arc furnace dust by hydrochlorhic leaching and bi-electrolyte electrolysis

José Ricaurte and Ernesto de la Torre, National Polytechnic University, Ecuador

17:10

Some improvements in Caliche heap leaching

Javier Ordóñez and Silvia Valdez, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile; Luis Moreno, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; Luis Cisternas, Centro de Investigación Científico Tecnológico para la Minería (CICITEM), Chile

17:30

Innovation, research and development in the nitrates and Iodine operations at SQM

Gabriel Meruane, Juan José Segura, M. Irrazabal and R. Vera, SQM Industrial S.A., Chile

17:50

Advances in the treatment of gold refractory ores

Julio Tremolada, Instituto Iberoamericano de Metalurgia Extractiva, Peru

18:10

Cocktail and Seminar Dinner / Pedro de Valdivia Ballroom (level Z)

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Thursday July 11

SESSION 06

Modelling hydrometallurgical operations

and SX Processes

Chair: Francisco Arriagada, Arcadis, Chile

16:30

Dynamic simulator of ore preparation processes and leaching

Francisco Reyes, Gabriel Tejeda, Pablo Karelovic and Aldo Cipriano, DICTUC S.A.; Miguel Herrera, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez; Fernando Romero, Solange Rojas and Cristian Salgado, Anglo American, Chile

16:50

DROP Project: Leaching process optimization for reducing water consumption in copper mining

Ulrike Broschek, Jorge Lobos, Jorge Cornejo, Luis Bravo, Josué Lagos and Karien Volker, Fundación Chile

17:10

Mo recovery process from high acidity solutions via solvent extraction using CYANEX®600

Mauricio Salamanca, Alejandro Quilodrán and Osvaldo Castro, Cytec Chile Ltd

17:30

Analysis phase separation profiles in copper extraction

Patricio Navarro and Sebastián Jara, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

17:50

Advantages and contributions of modifiers to copper extraction

Rodrigo Zambra, Alejandro Quilodrán, Osvaldo Castro and Sara Pascuale, Cytec Chile Limitada

18:10

Cocktail and Seminar Dinner / Pedro de Valdivia Ballroom (level Z)

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Friday July 12

PLENARY SESSION 02

Session Chair: Gabriel Meruane, SQM, Chile

08:20

Day 3 program update

Fernando Valenzuela, Hydroprocess 2013 Technical Coordinator, Universidad de Chile

08:30

Geotechnical lessons learned from the operation of Cerro Verde’s crush leach pad 4-A

Helbert Galdos, Javier Guevara and Arnaldo Saavedra, Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde S.A.A., Peru

09:00

Biohydrometallurgy: The state of the art and industrial operation

Cecilia Demergasso, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile

09:30

New frameworks for copper mining projects

Nelson Pizarro, Minera Lumina Copper, Chile

10:00

Poster Session and Coffee Break

Foyer

B & C

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Friday July 12

SESSION 07

Cyanidation: Leaching of gold ores

Chair: Courtney Young, Montana Tech, USA

10:50

Copper cyanocomplexes adsorption on activated carbon: Effects on the selectivity of gold dicyanide adsorption

Clauson de Souza, Virginia Ciminelli and Daniel Majuste, Federal University of Minas Gerais and the National Institute of Science and Technology on Mineral Resources, Water and Biodiversity (INCT-Acqua), Brazil

11:10

Cyanide leaching of copper-gold-silver ores

Humberto Estay, Pablo Carvajal, Karina González, Héctor Yáñez, Waldo Bustos, Sergio Castro and Francisco Arriagada, Arcadis, Chile

11:30

Leaching of sulphide gold ores using dithiooxamide, a noncyanide solvent of low-toxicity

Juan Pablo Serrano and Ernesto de la Torre, DEMEX/ National Polytechnic University, Ecuador

11:50

Successful application of SART technology for gold-copper ore deposits

Kresimir Ljubetic and Óscar López, BioteQ Water Chile SpA; David Kratochvil and Andrew Hall, BioteQ Environmental Technologies, Canada

12:10

Development of a new technique to recover cyanide for gold mining using membranes contactors

Humberto Estay, Laboratory of Membrane Separation Processes, University of Santiago de Chile and Arcadis, Chile; Miguel Ortiz and Julio Romero, Laboratory of Membrane Separation Processes, University of Santiago de Chile

12:30

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Friday July 12

SESSION 08

Solvent extraction and electrometallurgy

Chair: Fernando Valenzuela, Universidad de Chile

10:50

Regeneration process for copper solvent extraction reagents

Piritta Salonen and James Kabugo, Outotec Oy, Finland

11:10

Metallurgical performance of small and medium size copper SX plants: Relevance of the SX reagent formulation

Philippe Joly and Francisco Reyes, BASF Mining Solutions, Chile

11:30

Use of NR® reagents in presence of nitrate ion in SX: A revision of the present moment

Rodrigo Zambra, Alejandro Quilodrán, Gonzalo Rivera and Osvaldo Castro, Cytec Chile Limitada

11:50

Electrochemistry of Enargite: Reactivity in alkaline solutions

Nick Gow, FLSmidth, USA; Courtney Young and Hsin-Hsuing Huang, Montana Tech, USA and Greg Hope, Griffith University, Australia

12:10

Effects of organic impurities on zinc electrowinning

Daniel Majuste and Virginia Ciminelli, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil and INCT – Acqua, National Institute of Science and Technology on Mineral Resources, Water and Biodiversity, Brazil; Eder Martins and Adelson de Sousa, Votorantim Metais – Zinc, Brazil

12:30

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Friday July 12

SESSION 09

Bioleaching processes

Chair: Cecilia Demergasso, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile

14:00

Bioleaching of covellite from low grade copper sulfide ore and tails

Víctor Zepeda, Pedro Galleguillos and Cecilia Demergasso, Universidad Católica del Norte and the Centro de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica para la Minería; Dina Cautivo, José Soto and Yasna Contador, Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile

14:20

A real-time method for detecting active microorganisms in commercial-scale biohydrometallurgical processes

Davor Cotoras and Pabla Viedma, Biohidrica, Biotecnologías del Agua Ltda., Chile

14:40

The effect of temperature on column bioleaching of secondary copper sulfide ores

Michael Rodrigues, Klinger Lopes, Hamilton Leôncio, Tácia Veloso and Versiane Albis Leão, Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil

15:00

Bioaccelerant: A new biotechnological product for bioleaching process optimization

María de la Luz Osses, Matías Saavedra and Simón Beard, Biotecnologías Antofagasta S.A., Chile

15:20

Mineral analysis on conveyor belts using V/NIR spectroscopy

Claudio Sagredo, Soltex Chile

15:40

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Friday July 12

DISCUSSION PANEL

Use of sea water in hydrometallurgical plants

Chair: Jacques Wiertz, Universidad de Chile

16:20

Topics and panellists

Impact of sea water on hydrometallurgical processes

Jorge Menacho, General Manager, De Re Metallica Ingeniería, Chile

Mantoverde experience sea water

Gabriel Zárate, Senior Process Engineer, Anglo American, Chile

Michilla, 25 years of experience in sea water leaching

Pablo Schmidt, Metallurgist Advisor, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile

18:00

Closing Ceremony / San Cristóbal Ballroom B&C

Seminar Balance and Final Comments

Carlos Barahona, Hydroprocess 2013 Executive Director, Gecamin, Chile

Fernando Valenzuela, Hydroprocess 2013 Technical Coordinator, Universidad de Chile

Courtney Young, Hydroprocess 2013 Co-Chair, Montana Tech, USA Gabriel Meruane, Hydroprocess 2013 Chair, R&D Project Manager, SQM, Chile

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POSTER SESSION / FOYER

1. Mathematical testing and adjustment to measure the in situ soaking of a halite brines salts.

Andrés Soto, Sun iL Kim and Patricio Olivares, Universidad Mayor, Chile

2. Influence of seawater on chalcopyrite leaching.

Pía Hernández and María E. Taboada, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile

3. Chalcopyrite bioleaching in the presence of NaCl.

Johne Peixoto, Tácia Veloso, Flávio Martins, Michael Rodrigues and Versiane Leão,

Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil

4. Behaviour of oxidation reduction potential in a copper concentrated-chloride-sulphuric solution.

Juan P. Ibáñez, Felipe Guerrero, Juan I. González and Javier Vásquez, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile

5. Removal of some heavy metals from a sulphate-containing residual mining solution using nano-structured calcium silicates.

Fernando Valenzuela, Viviana Ide, Jaime Sapag, Carlos Basualto and Luis Verdugo,

Universidad de Chile

6. Study of the transport of the lighter lanthanide metal ions through Emulsified Liquid Membrane by means of CYANEX 272 extractant.

Carlos Basualto, Lorena Molina, Jaime Sapag and José Gaete, Universidad de Chile

7. Practical determination of galvanic corrosion of steel induced by mineral particles.

Genny Leinenweber and Luis Cáceres, CSIRO-Chile International Centre of Excellence in Mining and Mineral Processing, Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile

8. Controlling the irrigation flow in heap leach piles of El Soldado mine by canopy system with thermal camera.

Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Omar Daud and Mauricio Correa, Advanced Mining Technology

Center, Universidad de Chile; Marco Torres, El Soldado Division, Angloamerican, Chile

9. A real-time method for detecting active microorganisms in commercial-scale biohydrometallurgical processes.

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