Paracatu is a long life, cornerstone operation located near the City of Paracatu in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region. Paracatu is the largest gold mine in Brazil and one of the largest in the world.
With the training and assistance from MCB´s consultants, Kinross’s Morro do Ouro mine has been using Deswik Tools getting great results in their mining planning also achieving great improvements in Engineering and Haulage productivity, directly impacting positive in the Project NPV.
The case study talks about how the adherence to cycle time is improved and proposes an accurate estimate method to estimate a fuel burn rate.
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