A helping hand for businesses worldwide

MIPAC is working at full pace creating business solutions for clients in Australia and across the world.

In addition to landmark mining operations, we are working on refrigeration plant relocation, ISAMILL projects, including engineering and equipment supply, and ISASMELT plants.

We recently gained significant new clients in mining as well as in the food and beverage industry, oil and gas, and water treatment.

We are also seeing increased interest in our cost-effective, innovative products including CellView™ and MIPAC Process Advantage™.

A road paved in gold: MIPAC is working on a gold mine process control project in Armenia.

At the moment, MIPAC staff are working in:

• Khazakhstan, providing instrumentation and process control automation engineering at a lead smelter, copper smelter and copper refinery
• Toronto, Canada on ISAMILL systems for mines in Chile and Peru
• Senegal on the optimisation of SAG mill controls at a gold mine
• Armenia on a feasibility study for a gold mine's process control, instrumentation and engineering using the Albion Process, as well as the project's electrical engineering
• Mexico where we have just finished work on ISAMILL commissioning for a copper and gold mine.

We are also active across Western Australia, New South Wales and Queensland, where, among other projects, we are working on the installation and commissioning of an oil-processing demonstration plant in Gladstone.

MIPAC has the skills and experience to improve your company's processes. To learn more about how we can help your business, please do not hesitate to contact us or visit www.mipac.com.au

Eddie DeRivera, Managing Director

Thinking ahead about energy

The workshop focused on reducing energy consumption in SAG Mills.

The mining industry's desire to reduce its energy footprint has led MIPAC to join with Russell Mineral Equipment and energy management consultancy Energetics to host a solutions-orientated workshop for select clients.

The Optimisation through Operational Strategy and Efficiency / Implementation event was held in Brisbane in February.

Almost 20 representatives from a variety of mining companies attended, including key people from Rio Tinto, Xstrata Copper and Newcrest Mining.

"The mining industry is looking for ways to address legislative trends about energy use and carbon footprints," MIPAC managing director Eddie DeRivera says.

"We have to create new technology and fresh ways of doing things. This workshop is part of our efforts to identify and encourage new thinking."

Professor Tim Napier-Munn, director of the Julius Kruttschnitt Mineral Research Centre (JKMRC) at the University of Queensland, introduced the workshop and also outlined current and emerging challenges.

Notable presentations included that of JK Tech's Chris Bailey discussed Grinding Circuit Optimisation: Design for profitability, options for analysis and specification. He outlined new thinking on plant design that will be crucial to significantly reducing energy consumption in grinding.

RME's managing director John Russell spoke about how grinding mill operation and maintenance is central to asset management.

MIPAC's Bill McKeague and Dr Andrew Thornton considered capability, strategies and support. Andrew presented a case study of his work at Century Mine and the control strategies MIPAC has introduced. His address contrasted the differences in operating under an original plant design and plant upgrades.

"The workshop was a great success and we hope to conduct it again," MIPAC managing director Eddie DeRivera says.

"Our clients expect cost-effective and easily implemented solutions for their businesses. This workshop allowed us to work with like-minded organisations to consider new opportunities in design and installation, keeping us steps ahead of our competition."

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