PRELIMINARY TECHNICAL PROGRAM (5 plenaries + 72 presentations + 4 Posters as of June 29, 2017) Represented Countries (11): Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Norway, Spain, South Africa, UK, USA Inauguration Ceremony. Wednesday, August 23 Opening Address Foundations and Challenges for Mining Development in Chile Diego Hernández, President of Sonami, Chile Confirmed Plenary Speakers (5) Industrial Strength Mine Operational Simulation-Optimization Hooman Askari-Nasab, School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada Geometallurgical Models Review for Throughput and Copper Recovery in Los Pelambres Mine Héctor Lazo, Minera Los Pelambres, Chile Managing Major Production Incidents: Calibrating the Model to Copper Data Margaret Armstrong, FGV, UFRGS, Brazil; Paristech, France Geo-Information and the Long Term Mine Planning in Codelco José Pesce, Vice President of Mineral Resources Management and Development, Codelco, Chile Exploiting the Uncertainty on Mine Plans: Stochastic Models for Open Pit Mine Scheduling Eduardo Moreno, Deplamin Project, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile Discussion Panel Friday, August 25 Risk and Uncertainty in Mine Plans Mineralogy and Geometallurgy (5) (A30) Multivariate Geometallurgical Modeling in Potassium Alterations for Sulfide Minerals Mauricio Garrido, Fabián Soto, Department of Mining Engineering and AMTC-Universidad de Chile; and Brian Townley, Dept. of Geology, Universidad de Chile (A59) Use of Geometallurgical Variables in the Economic Evaluation of El Peñón Au and Ag deposit Reserves, Chile Javier Órdenes Alegría, Minera Meridian, Yamana Gold, Chile (A69) Mineralogical Association of the Gold-Silver-Lead ores from El Toqui deposit, Aysén, Chile Héctor Suazo, Mauricio Belmar, Centro de Mineralogía Avanzada, SGS Minerals, Chile; and Olga Veloso, Laguna Gold, Chile. (A91) Development of a Geometallurgical Model for the Oxides of Manto Verde, Chile Ximena Madariaga, Mantos Copper, Chile; Javier Pizarro, Romke Kuyvenhoven, Empírica Consultores, Chile; and Orlando Rojas, Geoestima, Chile (A98) Hyperspectral Identification of Clay Minerals: Implications for Improved Geometallurgical Programs and Mine Recovery Samantha Scher, Corescan, Chile; Brigette Martini, Corescan, Chile; and Ronell Carey, Corescan, USA Geotechnics and Geomechanics (7) (A22) Integrating Geo-Mechanical and Slope Properties for Effective and Optimum Mine Planning Mario Morales, Krishna Panthi, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway; and Konstantinos Botsialas, Titania, Norway (A31) Simulation of Preparation Time of a TBM in the Underground Mining Development Considering Rock Mass Variability Mauricio Garrido and Christian Silva, AMTC-Universidad de Chile (A35) Modeling the Uncertainty in the Intensity of Geological Discontinuities in El Teniente Mine, Chile Amin Hekmatnejad, Xavier Emery and Javier Vallejos, Department of Mining Engineering and AMTC-Universidad de Chile; Andrés Brzovic and Paulina Schachter, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile (A62) Geotechnical Faults Characterization and Shear Strenght Estimation at High Stress Mining José Seguel, Andrés Brzovic and D. Sepulveda, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile (A64) Integrated Photogrammetric Data Analysis and Discrete Fracture Network Modeling to Determine Rock Structure Around Excavation at the El Teniente Mine Ítalo León and Andrés Brzovic, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile (A99) Reducing Uncertainty in Structural Models Using Blast Hole Sample Arsenic Data Base: Los Bronces Mine, Chile Daniel Carrizo, AMTC-Universidad de Chile; and Carlos Barros, Los Bronces Operation, Anglo American, Chile (A100) How to Improve the Structural Models in Mining?: Los Bronces Mine, Central Andes, Chile, as a Study Case Daniel Carrizo, AMTC-Universidad de Chile; and Carlos Barros, Los Bronces Operation, Anglo American, Chile Geological Modeling (5) (A10) Geologic Modeling of Complex Orebodies: Combining Deterministic and Probabilistic Models Mario Rossi, GeoSystems International, USA; Timothy Strong, Kangari Consuling, UK; and Peter Brown, PB Geological Consultants, UK (A41) Hierarchical Sequence of 3D Event Surfaces: The Centinela District Integrated Geological Model Ramón Aguirre, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile (A48) Next Generation of Rapid Implicit Geological Modeling Gustavo Pilger, David Place, Jan Noessner and Anthony Jacobs; GEOVIA R&D, Dassault Systèmes, Australia (A86) Express Modelling of Geology, The Road Without a Map Claudia Monreal and Dafne Herreros, Core Mining Studies, Chile (A88) Advanced Magnetotellurics Modelling (AMM) for the Geoelectrical Characterization in Mining Deposits Andrés Acosta, GEO&AMB Consultores, Chile Estimation of Mineral Resources and Reserves (5) (A32) Rapid Multivariate Resource Assessment Fabián Soto, Mauricio Garrido, Gonzalo Díaz and Cristóbal Silva, AMTC-Universidad de Chile (A63) The Impact of Geometric Variation on the Resource Estimation Quality Using an Unfolding Methodology Andrés Vicencio, Marcia Ojeda, Daniel Baeza and Felipe Navarro, AMTC-Universidad de Chile (A72) Resource Categorization in Narrow Vein Deposits, How to Balance the Estimation and the Uncertainty in the Presence of Sparse Data Cristian Pérez and Marcos Valencia, Minera Meridian, Yamana Gold (A80) Inferred Resources New Requirements of the Regulation and the Use of the Stope Optimizer Mauricio Muñoz, Universidad Andrés Bello, Chile; and Marcos Valencia, Yamana Gold, Chile (A16) Modeling Geological Uncertainty in an Iron Ore Deposit for Long-Term Planning Belén Marchant and Xavier Emery, AMTC-Universidad de Chile; and Marcos Goycoolea, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Chile Sampling and Geostatistics (5) (A08) Modelando Dominios de Mineralización con Superficies de Isoley: el Valor de las Hipótesis Geológicas Ramón Aguirre, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile (A14) Application of the Gibbs Sampler to the Conditional Simulation of Geological Domains Alan Troncoso, Xavier Emery, Alejandro Cáceres and Daisy Arroyo, Department of f Mining Engineering and AMTC- Universidad de Chile (A28) How Coherent Are Geological Logs with Geochemical Assays or Metallurgical Tests? Amir Adeli and Xavier Emery, AMTC-Universidad de Chile (A46) GPGPU-Based Parallel Variogram Calculation and Automatic Model Fitting David Valenzuela and Daniel Pola; GeoInnova Consultores, Chile; Alejandro Cáceres, AMTC-Universidad de Chile (A90) Calculating the Value of a Drilling Campaign Claudio Bisso and Felipe Ibarra, Minera Los Pelambres, Chile Geology for Mine Production (5) (A17) Evaluation of New Ore Body for Future Exploitation at Nº 5 Shaft of Blyvooruitzicht Gold Mine, South Africa Ntiyiso Ally Mahlaule and Francis Amponsah-Dacosta, University of Venda, South Africa (A57) The Ore Fitting Curve Function for Ore Destination Sebastian Ramirez, Marco Velasquez and Cristian Perez, Yamana Gold, Chile (A60) Potential Mudrushes Risk at El Teniente Mine Roberto González and Andrés Brzovic, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile (A67) Characterization of the Geological Structures that Control Over Break During Overstressed Tunnel Excavation at the El Teniente Mine Emiliano Vega, Universidad de Concepción; Italo Leon and Andres Brzovic, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile (A78) Fragmentation and Secondary Reduction at Esmeralda mine, El Teniente, Chile Marcelo Ramírez and Manuel Salazar, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile Models and Technologies for Mine Planning (7) ((A02) Semi-Automatic Generation of Ramps in Open Pit Mining by Means of a Mathematical Program Cristopher Díaz, DELPHOS, Universidad de Chile (A09) Unmanned Air Vehicles in Earth Science Geraldo Pinto, GEM Systems, Canada (A44) Evaluation of Grade Engineering® Using the Enterprise Optimisation Framework Michael Scott, CRC ORE, Australia; Nick Redwood, Whittle Consulting, Australia (A66) Management for the Improvement of Slope Performance in the Ministro Hales Division of Codelco Chile Jorge Tapia and Eric López, Ministro Hales Division, Codelco, Chile (A71) Planning Tools Used to Generate Medium-Term Scenarios Francisco Salgado and Sebastian Balart, Los Pelambres Mine, Antofagasta Minerals, Chile (A85) Scanner Laser Technology Applied to the Dam Monitoring Patricio Moreal, Core Mining Studies; and Marcelo Arancibia, Maptek, Chile (A101) BCRISK®: Software for Risk Assessment in Mining Francisco Armijo, BCTEC Ingeniería y Tecnología, Chile; Raúl Castro and Diego Garcés, Universidad de Chile Production Planning and Scheduling (4) (A05) The Effect of Information on the Short-Term Scheduling in an Open Pit Mine Gonzalo Nelis and Nelson Morales, DELPHOS, Universidad de Chile (A21) Standardization of the Creation of the Pre-Mix Model, El Teniente Mine Claudio Soto, Universidad de Chile; Javier Cornejo, Christian Caviedes, Ernesto Arancibia, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile (A25) Productive System Simulation of Diablo Regimiento Mine, El Teniente Felix Valenzuela and Nelson Morales, DELPHOS Laboratory and AMTC-Universidad de Chile; Javier Cornejo, Felipe Hidalgo and Christian Caviedes, El Teniente Division, Codelco, Chile (A29) Optimization of Planning and Scheduling of Ore Body With Open Pit Extraction Considering Homogeneity in Clays as a Geometallurgical Variable Mauricio Garrido and Felipe Navarro, AMTC-Universidad de Chile; and Exequiel Sepúlveda, The University of Adelaide, Australia; and Universidad de Talca, Chile (A94) Revisiting Lane’s Model: an Optimization Approach Bernardo Pagnoncelli, Patricio Lamas, Marcos Goycoolea and Adriana Piazza, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez Strategic Mine Planning (5)