At Lule University of Technology the CAMM – Centre of Advanced Mining and Metallurgy has recently been established, based on funds from the Swedish government within the strategic area Sustainable use of natural resources: mining and minerals. One of the CAMM workpackages is dedicated to the emerging field of geometallurgy.
Geometallurgy brings together geological sciences, mineral processing and metallurgy in order to characterize the properties of rocks and ore from the in-situ ore stage through extraction and beneficiation stages to the final product. This is done through ore characterization, geostatistics and laboratory testing to create a spatially-based predictive model for simulation. The aim is to maximize resource utilization, optimize processes and reduce the economic risk.
We are looking for a PhD student in Mineral Processing with an emphasis on comminution. The student will work in a project aiming on the development of ore characterization methods for forecasting the comminution behaviour of an ore with respect to mineral liberation, throughput and energy demands. Results from experimental work shall be analyzed and used within the scope of geometallurgical modelling to provide a data base for predicting mineral processing performance and mine planning thereby considering the geological variability of the ore body.
This project is part of the geometallurgy work package of the CAMM.
Mineral processing belongs to the Division of Minerals and Metallurgical Engineering, being part of the Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering with about 280 employees. As a PhD student, you will be involved in teaching in mineral processing related study programmes.
