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Geometallurgy

The often misunderstood tailings sampling and workflow for geometallurgical studies

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Critical Minerals

Resource endowment requires resource capability for value addition

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Metallurgy

Solutions to optimisation challenges in the mining and minerals industry

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Resource Estimation

On the case for integrated probabilistic mining workflows

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Critical Minerals

The Critical Minerals Debate Is Missing the Point

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Geometallurgy

SAIMM Geometallurgy Conference 2025: Post Conference Review

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AI for Mining

Innovations in Geometallurgy and Machine Learning for GeoData: 2024 Research Recap

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AI for Mining

Wits Mining Institute: Turning Research curiosity into mining and minerals industry solutions

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Exploration

Mineral Prospectivity Mapping: Beyond Camps and Toward Coherence

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AI for Mining

Machine learning algorithms for target exploration and prediction of gold ores

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Geometallurgy

Geometallurgy versus Process Mineralogy in well-constrained ore deposits

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Exploration

Is there a future for gold mining in the Witwatersrand?

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