Sample Collection, Reduction, Division
<p>Ensure the representativeness of your samples and improve the reliability of reserve estimation and process design, a key step in your mining projects.</p>
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- Avoid major errors caused by poor sampling practices.
- Obtain representative, reasonably sized samples from deposits or stockpiles amounting to several thousand tonnes.
- Secure reserve estimation and the design of processing flow sheets.
- Reduce uncertainties in process definition and equipment selection.
- Guarantee traceability of sampling and sample reduction steps.
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- Rely on CIME’s expertise to design and supervise your sampling plans.
- Have your samples collected directly on site by our specialized teams.
- Optimize sample reduction and splitting in accordance with Gy’s sampling theory, to control associated errors.
- Entrust your crushing and screening operations either on site or at CIME’s laboratories, depending on the tonnages to be processed.
- Ensure that the tests used to define your ore treatment process are carried out on composites representative of the area under study.
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- Wide range of equipment: crushers, mills, sieve shakers, riffle splitters, rotary splitters.
- Characterization tools: laser or optical particle size analyzers, image analyzers.
- Rigorous methodology based on Gy’s sampling theory to quantify and minimize sampling error.
- Over 40 years of experience in sampling and mining process design.
- References: process flow sheet design for all Orano’s uranium and gold mining projects, as well as for other projects such as contaminated soil treatment.
- Recognized expertise in evaluating sampling errors and ensuring the reliability of sampling plans.
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