Canadian Malartic

increased recovered value by

CA$7 Million in Q1 2018

Commodity Ore Grade Geology Powder Factor Location

Gold 1.10* g/t Disseminated Porphyry 0.69 – 0.96 kg/m3 Canada
Canadian Malartic, Canada’s largest operating gold mine, is located in Quebec, Canada.
• Bulk-tonnage, low-grade Archean gold system mine
• Mineralisation is disseminated gold-bearing pyrite hosted in porphyritic felsic
• Ten-metre benches are mined in a single pass

Challenges Solution
Blast movement of ore was not accurately measured BMM System accurately translated post-blast dig lines
or accounted for
Blast movement of ore was estimated1 and not accurately • Blast movement monitors (BMMs) are installed in
measured, which resulted in: monitoring holes throughout the shot
• Misclassification of ore (i.e. high grade ore is stockpiled • Installation and detection as per site standard
as low grade or low grade ore is sent to the mill as operating procedures
high grade) • BMM Explorer software calculates new dig lines, and
• Ore loss, with gold bearing ore sent to the waste pile areas of ore loss and dilution that would have occurred
• Dilution, with tonnes of waste being treated as ore without monitoring
Results
Increased recovered value by up to 7 Million2 CAD, “BMT has made a significant improvement to grade and
during Q1, 2018 recovered tonnes. I would definitely recommend BMT.”
Mr. S. Lajoie, Technicien Géologie – BMM, Canadian Malartic
Accurate monitoring of blast movement helped Canadian
Malartic recover 217,000 tonnes of ore, valued at CA$7
Million, in Q1 2018.

An example blast, shown right, demonstrates how

monitoring blast movement recovers more ore.

Significant movement occurs within all blasts. Variation of

±50% from the mean horizontal movement is common and
occurred in this blast.
• Measured horizontal movement3 ranged from 3.8 – 7.9
m (12 – 26 ft) and vertical movement was up to 1.5 m
(5 ft)

As a result of accurately accounting for movement in this

blast, Canadian Malartic:
• Avoided 6% dilution because 11,688 tonnes of waste
were diverted from the mill
• Prevented 14,138 tonnes (8%) of ore being
misclassified and sent to the wrong stockpile
• Maximized ore yield—6,858 tonnes (4%) of ore, valued
at CA$159,8854, was not sent to the waste pile
*
In this blast, Canadian Malartic avoided the potential loss of CA$159,885 (4% of
Average grade of ore polygons; 1. Prior to implementing the BMM System in December 2012; ore was not sent to waste) and prevented 6% dilution (11,688 tonnes) and 8%
2. Calculated from 70 production blasts Jan – Mar, 2018;
3. Movement measured by BMT’s BMM System; 4. Calculated at a gold price of CA $1,800/oz. misclassification (14,438 tonnes).

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