MINERALITY

Diagnostic & Corrective Advice Softwarefor Minerals Processing Plants

TORONTO - SANTIAGO - BRISBANE - JOHANNESBURGCONTACT USwww.minerality.com.au info@minerality.com.au

MetSMART includes:

Grinding & Crushing Modules Flotation & Regrind Modules Mass Balancing Calculator

Save timePredict potential problems

Reduce costsIncrease profitability

The only diagnostic minerals processing softwarethat gives Corrective Advice

MetSMART is powerful simulation software from Minerality that quickly and accurately simulates the behaviour of any ore bodywithin grinding & flotation processing plants. Use MetSMART to test and optimize decisions before making changes on the plant.

MetSMART is unlike any other grinding & flotation simulation software. It allows users to easily draw, mass balance, and simulate theeffects of changes to variables on their plant. Simulating the effects of changes to plant variables with MetSMART is easy. MetSMARTactively diagnoses inefficiencies and warns users if problems are likely - highlighting potential trouble spots. It even provides advice andsuggestions on changing variables in order to solve problems. Users can perform complex calculations at the click of a button.

Essentially, MetSMART provides a really useful guide to making correct processing decisions. MetSMART can be bought either as astandard package, or with your plant’s flowsheet fully pre-programmed and customized to your requests.

Guiding processing decisions

Optimize decisions on your grinding& flotation plant with MetSMART

Predict plant behaviour and finetune operational variables

Perform complex calculations quickly & easy

Respond to changes in feed ore

Quick and efficient Mass Balancing

Mass BalanceCalibrateSimulate

Improve throughputImprove recoveries

* Drag & drop flowsheet. Construct any size plant. We can also provide software with models pre-calibrated to your plant.

Crushing, Grinding & Flotation in ONE PACKAGE

Understand your plant’s process:Improve your bottom line

Practical advice, tips, rules of thumb, and things to look out for.from leading industry experts. Operate SMART and get results.

Is your AG or SAG mill slurry pooling?Fix the problem immediately…do the calculation yourself!

Are you achieving the correct final product size for optimumliberation, or do you need to make variable changes? Don’t waste hourswaiting for lab results. Do the calculation now!

Is your feed size optimum for the grinding plant?Do the calculation daily!

Are your recirculating loads too high/low?Get the answer at the click of a button

Getting a build-up of pebbles in your SAG mill?Use MetSMART to identify and correct.

Does your deposit require fine grinding?If so, get it right with MetSMART’s fine grinding models.

Flotation Engineers: Calculate if the reagent additions,residence times and air rates are optimum. Get it right, fast.

Will you process a new section of your ore body soon?Prepare your plant for the change

Are your cyclones performing optimally? Eliminate roping and quicklycalculate solutions with MetSMART

GET ANSWERS with MetSMART

OPTIMIZATION

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Follow instructionsto perform a Plant

Survey & enter data.Minerality can alsosurvey your plant

Mass Balance thesurvey data

(see BalSmartdescription)

Calibrate themodels in

MetSMART toyour plant’s actual

performance

Simulate Plantperformance under

the operatingconditions you

choose

MetSmartcalculates plant

performance underthe conditions you

entered

Shows inefficienciesin your results &

highlights problems

Slurry propertiesfor each stream,

equipmentoutputs, tables,graphs & Excel

results are available

PDF Report.Advice includes

tips to fix problemsidentified in the

simulation

1. Choose optimal operational plant settings for current ore conditions: • Improve throughput • Improve energy efficiency • Improve recovery • Prevent costly mistakes & plant shutdowns.

2. MetSMART Automatically searches for inefficiencies in your results and highlights problems immediately, making MetSmart fast & easy to work with.

3. Predict plant behaviour for processing future sections of the ore body. Simulate the effect of changing feed ore characteristics, and get advice on adapting plant variables to optimize performance.

Use MetSMART for both, OPTIMIZATION & DESIGN

PLANT AND EQUIPMENT DESIGN

• Design studies - faster and easier.

• Draw any flowsheet configuration.

• Test the performance of equipment at different operational settings.

• Pinpoint potential problems instantly.

• Automatic reporting.

Plant Survey

DataAnalysis

Report with Solutions

Draw or edit theplant’s flowsheet

Set the structuraldimensions &

operational limitsof each equipment

piece

FeATUReSBUILDING MODEL

OF PLANTSETTING

SCENARIOSIMULATING & SEEING RESULTS

& WARNINGS / ADVICE

SURVEY MASS BALANCE CALIBRATE CONDITIONS SIMULATE SUMMARY RESULTS REPORT

SETUP

DRAW SETUP

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FEATURES of MetSMART

MetSMART... helping engineers get it RIGHT

Whole PlantSimulation

Crushing / GrindingSimulation

FlotationSimulation

Results

Crushing, grinding, classification, physical and magnetic separation, dewatering, regrind and flotation.

Quickly see the effects of changes in (for example):• New feed conditions• Different operating variables• Ore hardness• F80 changes on the feed belt• Increased / Decreased feed rates• SAG Mill ball size, ball load and speed

• Mill discharge panels• Cyclone Vortex, Spigot and number operating• Ball mill ball top size and ball load• Crusher, open side setting / closed side setting• HPGR speed• Different circuit configurations

Easily simulate items such as:• New feed rates• Varying grind sizes• Changing grades• Increasing water to recleaners• Flotation circuit configuration: recycling concentrate from second stage of cleaning• Increasing capacity in re-cleaners

• Adding a cell at the head of the scavenger circuit• Feed-size distribution• The impact of installing flash on cylone underflow• Immediately access historical ore data trends: MetSMART has a flotation kinetics calculator. The results can be exported to a kinetics database.

• Immediately see where equipment limits are breached• Automatic highlighting of problem areas and inefficiencies• Expert suggestions and advice to solve issues (eg what you should do to fix high recirculating loads)• Expert reporting of slurry properties and equipment outputs, including interactive graphs, tables and charts.

• Overall grades, flows and recoveries• Individual cell grades, flows and recoveries• Interaction between gangue and valuables• Automatically see in which cells the gangue is floating faster than valuables• Cumulative recovery and grade vs recovery curves• Exportable to PDF and Exel

Avoid slurry pooling inside mill Choose the optimum Feed Size Calculate & Optimize recirculating loads

Prevent bad decisions with MetSMART Respond to Ore Changes Improve Recovery

BalSmart: Mass Balancingwith MetSMART

CALCULATE VALUABLES IN EACH STREAM OF YOUR PLANT

PINPOINT PROBLEMS

PROVIDE ACCURATE AND TIMELY INFORMATION TO MANAGEMENT

LIBERATE YOUR ENGINEERS FROM MUNDANE TASKS

MetSMART includes a powerful mass balancing module for your plant’s data.

• It allows you to keep track of your valuables.

• It provides you with crucial information: - Know exactly what is happening with your valuables; - Use this information to make important decisions; - Pinpoint problems accurately;

• It provides automatic reports – saving valuable engineering hours.

Calculaterecirculating

loads Identify thelocation of the

valuables in theconcentrate

Are youdiscarding

valuables to thetailing streams?

Is the residencetime long enough

to remove thevaluable?

While samples can be taken around the plant to measure assay and sizing information, calculating missing streamproperties can be difficult. This isespecially the case in recycle circuits.

Moreover, it is not always pos-sible to sample every stream in the plant. BalSmart’s powerful mathematical modelingcapabilities calculate thisinformation for you quicklyand easily.

MUESTREO CALIBRAR CONDICIONES SIMULAR RESUMEN RESULTADOS REPORTEDIBUJAR CONFIGURAR

How is BalSmart used?

BalSMART

enter Flows | Assays

Reporting

Calculates stream info you cannot measure andsmooths the data

Enter data manually or electronically(Inputs measurable from your plant)

BalSmart calculates information for every stream

Flows: m3/hr Densities: % solids Particle Size Distribution Head Grades Assays: (g/t, ppm)

Recirculating Loads Recoveries Product Grades Tailing Grades Mass Pull

Graphs Tables PDF Report Export to Excel or other

platforms

Immediately Pinpoint ProblemAreas – Automatic Warnings:

The Benchmark in Mass Balancing Software

BalSmart will warn you in advance if stream data exceeds specified limits (eg particle size, flows, densities etc).

If the grades or recoveries are outside required bounds it will also warn you.

Investigate opportunities for plant improvement.

Stop tracking your valuables using unreliable spreadsheets.

The only mass balancing tool for the full processing plant together in one package.

Super fast data entry – copy & paste assay results direct from Microsoft excel (and other systems).

No more tricky data smoothing calculations – BalSmart automatically identifies and removes bad data from your data set.

No more time wasted doing mass balancing reports. Reports in PDF in your company’s format. Reports include tables & graphs. excel Compatible.

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BalSMART Calculates:

BUILDING MODELOF PLANT

SETTINGSCENARIO

SIMULATING & SEEING RESULTS& WARNINGS / ADVICE

SURVEY MASS BALANCE CALIBRATE CONDITIONS SIMULATE SUMMARY RESULTS REPORT

SETUP

DRAW SETUP MASS BALANCE

How will MetSMART help me get more from my ExpERT ConTRol SySTEm?

1. mETSmART iS CApAblE oF A bRoAdER RAngE oF TASkS ThAn ThE ExpERT SySTEm

2. mETSmART CAn impRovE pRoCESSing dECiSionS by AnAlyzing impoRTAnT FACToRS, whiCh ThE ExpERT SySTEm doES noT TAkE inTo ACCoUnT

3. mASS bAlAnCing CApAbiliTiES

4. moRE CompREhEnSivE opERAToR TRAining SySTEm (“oTS”) CApAbiliTiES

MetSMART guides the human engineering decisions on the plant – the decisions that an Expert System cannot make.

Expert systems do not take into account factors they cannot measure. Some factors, critical to the plant’s performance can only be modelled, but not accurately measured – for example slurry pooling in the SAG mill and recirculating loads around cyclones. MetSMART models these factors, while the expert system cannot.

While samples can be taken around the plant to measure assay and sizing information, it is not always possible to measure every stream. Calculating missing stream properties can be difficult – especially in recycle circuits. Met Smart’s Mass Balancing module, BalSMART calculates this information quickly and easily. Expert systems are not capable of Mass balancing, while MetSmart is.

MetSMART has excellent application as a teaching tool - clearly demonstrating to your team the downstream effects of changes they make in plant variables - from feed ore through to grinding ball size, cyclone characteristics through to flotation reagents and residence times.

How does MetSMART complement your Expert Control System?

MetSMART is a laptop application that guides engineering decisions. MetSMART guides the human decisions that your expert control system cannot make.

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EXPERT CONTROL SYSTEM

Expert Control Systems set an optimum set-point on a specific parameter and then automatically adjust variables to maintain that set-point. For example, the Expert Control System sets the mill load set-point, and then adjusts the feed rate to maintain that load.

METSMART SOFTWARE

MetSMART can simulate the following scenarios, which the expert controlsystem cannot:• Changes in ore hardness on breakage equipment performance• F80 changes on the feed belt• Changes in blast patterns• Increased / Decreased feed rates• SAG Mill ball size, load and speed• Change in mill discharge panels• Changes in water additions• Changes in cyclone vortex, spigot and number operating• Ball mill top size and load• Crusher speed, open side setting / closed side setting• HPGR Speed• Feed ore grades vs final product grades & recoveries• Ore kinetics vs flotation performance• Flotation conditions vs interaction between gangue & valuables• Changes in flotation tank design & operating conditions• Reagent vs ore kinetics... and many more

TORONTO - SANTIAGO - BRISBANE - JOHANNESBURGCONTACT USwww.minerality.com.au info@minerality.com.au