The grade control bottleneck | Tom Guy, Continuous Improvement Manager, OceanaGold Macraes
Grade control samples took 48+ hours under fire assay. That meant dig blocks held up and excavators walking to another area while they waited. Tom Guy, Continuous Improvement Manager at OceanaGold’s Macraes mine, on the grade control bottleneck and what changed when PhotonAssay™ went in: same-day turnaround, exploration results in four days instead of months, and enough flexibility that the mining team stopped planning around delays.
