In February 2019, WipWare Technical Specialists Marty Wanner and Thomas de Sousa completed commissioning of a three-camera Momentum Online Conveyor Particle Size Analysis System at Detour Lake Mine in northeastern Ontario, Canada. Following an initial installation visit in December 2018, the team returned to commission the third camera and calibrate all three systems, establishing real-time particle size monitoring at the gold processing operation.
Detour Lake Mine is located in northeastern Ontario, approximately 300 kilometres northeast of Timmins and 185 kilometres by road northeast of Cochrane, within the Abitibi Greenstone Belt. At the time of WipWare’s installation, the operation was owned by Detour Gold Corporation. The mine subsequently became part of Agnico Eagle Mines in 2022.
With assistance from the Detour Gold team, WipWare completed commissioning of the third Momentum camera and successfully calibrated all three systems during the February visit.
Following commissioning, the three cameras were collecting real-time particle size data, providing the operation with continuous measurements of material size and shape on its conveyors. Some of the new Momentum cameras were installed to replace older WipWare systems like the Solo 3 system pictured above just behind the newer Momentum system.
WipWare thanks the Detour Gold team for their support throughout the installation and commissioning process.
For WipWare’s current generation of automated conveyor monitoring technology, explore the Solo Conveyor Analysis System, designed to continuously measure particle size distribution and other material characteristics to support process monitoring and optimization.
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