Turner Caldwell
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 5 Aug
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And it's actually part of the problem and what makes kind of the minerals industry so complicated is that the flow sheet, which is ultimately how you go from the ore all the way through to the refined metal, is designed for that specific asset.
You will have concentrations of impurities that you have to manage.
The concentration, obviously, of the target metal is different.
And
There's like a library of metallurgical unit operations that are kind of all stitched together to build a refining operation or a processing operation.
But how those are stitched together, that's bespoke for the individual unit operation and tied to the kind of chemical metallurgist process engineer that designed the circuit in the first place.
So there's a lot of like human impact on what that flow sheet ultimately looks like.
But yes.
That's right.
And so, you know, part of what we're working on and what we'll talk about a little bit later, I'm sure, is how do you define circuits or design circuits that have a little bit more flexibility to be able to process ore as it changes over time as you mine through the ore body?
Because one mine does not actually have consistent ore coming out of it.
The earth is heterogeneous.
The ore grades are changing.
The impurity concentrations are changing.
There are different ore zones that have different properties and how they are
floated or how they're concentrated, how they perform in a leaching circuit.
And all of those things are kind of custom built for a specific asset.
Yeah, I mean, calcified is a good word.
I think the, you know, the way that it's this is construction companies and mining companies and really a lot of big companies is that the way that they'll identify and evaluate risk is, you know, fixing the status quo or making like a step change improvement in the status quo kind of requires doing like a thousand things.
but you'll evaluate risk on each individual thing of that thousand things.
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