General Manager, Brisbane
AMC Consultants
Robert Chesher, Principal Consultant and Brisbane office General Manager. Rob has over 35 years of operational, management and technical experience in minerals processing. His expertise is in corporate and technical (metallurgical) consulting, focusing on operational and performance reviews, improvements, and optimization. In his roles, he has been involved in studies and reviews at all levels in copper, gold, platinum, coal, nickel, and other base metals.
Transforming operations with geometallurgy examples of how geomet is used.
Geometallurgy is transforming mine operations and mine profitability across the globe. In this presentation, Rob Chesher discusses various ways that mining companies are exploiting the natural geological characteristics of their orebodies to increase throughput and reduce operating costs. With improved sensors and modelling capability, technologies such as mine-to-mill optimisation and ore sorting are finding new applications and turning waste into ore. These step-change improvements are based on geometallurgical characterisation of the orebodies and recognition of strategic opportunities. Recent developments and some case histories will be presented.