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“The main contribution that seminars like Hydroprocess can make is to pose problems, needs and challenges for the mining industry”

Romero, a member of the Hydroprocess 2015 Advisory Committee, believes that the automation of hydrometallurgical plants helps to stabilize processes, reducing the variability of both the quantity and the quality of the final product.

Do you think that hydrometallurgical processes, in the case of base and precious metals, employ adequate process control technology?

Speaking from experience with mainly hydrometallurgical processes for base metals, particularly copper, I´d like to make clear that the correct use of process control technologies allows one to stabilize processes, in the most basic cases. In this sense, one can say that hydrometallurgical processes for medium and large mining companies do have suitable technology for this purpose: sensors, actuators and basic control stabilizing loops.