MINEXCHANGE 2027 SME Annual Conference & Expo will run from 28 February to 3 March 2027 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, bringing together thousands of mining professionals, students and suppliers. The event will feature more than 100 technical sessions spanning mine planning, drilling and blasting, mineral processing, tailings, automation and ESG. For engineers, it offers concentrated access to current practice, emerging technologies and peer case studies in a single venue-scale programme.

AngloGold Ashanti’s Obuasi gold mine in Ghana will commission a fourth Gekko InLine Leach Reactor (ILR) in 2027, expanding a circuit that already runs three ILRs alongside a BIOX® refractory ore treatment plant. The decision extends more than two decades of site experience with ILR technology, originally adopted at Obuasi in its early commercial rollout. Additional ILR capacity should increase gravity gold recovery from concentrates, reduce lock-up in the BIOX® circuit and give metallurgists more flexibility in treating variable high-sulphide ore.

Evolution Mining’s Cowal Gold Operations in New South Wales has improved ramp-up and throughput in its large-scale gold processing plant using Molycop’s MillROC support on a conventional comminution circuit. The plant runs primary crushing followed by SAG and ball mills treating a blended open pit and underground ore feed ahead of flotation and leaching. For process engineers, the key change is tighter control of SAG–ball mill performance, directly affecting grind size, downstream recovery stability and overall plant throughput.