From its extensive hands-on experience, 911 Metallurgist has a clear understanding of what successful mineral processing engineering looks like and how to achieve it. Your goal is to produce a material that is marketable and returns sustainable income to you and your investors.

Despite improvements in metallurgical processes that have been made over the years, the reality is that unit operations, machines, and often called «black boxes» have not evolved or changed much. The ore is reduced in size, chemicals and separate and concentrated minerals are added to produce a marketable product. Much of this process is mechanical and generally mistaken for dark alchemy. We are not alchemists.

Our vast experience has been acquired through the operation and start-up of small and large-scale mining operations in a wide range of base metals (Cu, Pb, Zn) and precious metals (Au, Ag,).

A good metallurgist understands that the most important aspect of a running process is its stability. Easy to say, but generally the most overlooked in mineral processing. The units linked to operations require each to be stable, and each contains a different set of variables that have to be faced. Thanks to a certain degree of stability: operational changes can be made and evaluated; performance increase can be done; and the team can improve its efficiency. The most complicated processes are the most difficult to achieve and maintain stability. In mineral processing, unlike most processing operations, we have limited control of the main input, the ore feed.

Because you are very close to your own story, you may not see the forest for the trees and chaos can confuse stability. We, you and your group have been struggling with plant problems for weeks, you begin to accept chaos as a daily state of romance and consider it to be your newfound stability.

911 Metallurgist can enter the scene and see what has not been seen or detected. We can solve problems in ways you never thought possible. Our fresh eyes will open new opportunities for your plant

Each mineral processing plant is different: with various types of minerals, equipment and mode of operation. The evaluation and prioritization of variables that affect plant performance is the primary function. Implementing changes within the constraints imposed can be difficult, since resources can be limited.

Inevitably, the ability to solve problems can be confusing due to the large number of variables that can affect processes. In most cases, the problems are not metallurgical in nature but operational and mechanical. It is a problem solving process and in many of the operations this ability is absent. Too often many changes have been made together without a solution being in the greatest confusion. Most plants learn to live and survive their problems, not to solve them.

The main strengths of our metallurgists are in Grinding and flotation systems, the main ones being:

• Evaluate processes.
• Prioritize problems
• Evaluate resources to solve problems
• Never finish looking for process stability
• Implementar cambios progresivos, uno a la vez, buscando mejorar la estabilidad y logrando los objetivos de producción
• Educar al personal para «pensar» antes de solucionar un problema junto con la filosofía de estabilidad.
• Evitar soluciones gerenciales a los problemas del proceso.
• Fomentar la actitud que otros grupos dentro de la organización para que sean responsables al servicio de la planta de procesos metalúrgicos hacia la obtención de los objetivos de producción
• Asegúrese de que hay una planificación adecuada para todos los grupos ya que se trata de una función vital para el logro de los objetivos a largo plazo