MetPlant 2023: Metallurgists and Modifying Factors: How Mets Can Change the World!

Keynote Presentation: Metallurgists and Modifying Factors: How Mets Can Change the World!

Abstract

A major challenge the resources sector is collectively facing is how technically and economically viable projects are to be developed and operated in a way that meets or exceeds the project Design Criteria and is acceptable to crucial stakeholders. The path to greater acceptance is clear, more metal with less waste, less inputs, and less impacts. The opportunity and challenge are real with global mega-trends of climate change, electrification, digitisation driving resource consumption whilst concurrently exacerbating competition for water and land. The path to the payoff is theory clear but demanding in practice. For society stability a successful transition is vital. For companies that harness the change and deliver, the opportunity is enormous. As part of this process, in the context of the resources sector this requires addressing the considerations used to convert Mineral Resources to Mineral Reserves as defined by The Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (‘the JORC Code’) (2012).