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Major Happenings

• ai.sys to assist Newmont, the world largest gold miner, with AI
• The basic version of BoxRF, Windows tool for grade estimation, is now available for download for free.
• Our free machine learning software, UteAnalytics, has been released. Click here to download.
• Dr. Rajive Ganguli gave the keynote address at the 7th Advanced Process Control Congress in Lima, Peru, in June 2023. Click here to see the address.
• Dr. Rajive Ganguli presented the results from the Newmont Penasquito project at the World Mining Congress in Brisbane in June 2023.
• Dr. Rajive Ganguli gave the keynote address at the 6th Advanced Process Control Conference, Peru, on June 24, 2022.
• ai.sys to assist Newmont with mine to mill relationships at Penasquito, one of the largest gold mines in the world.
• In a fun project for the University of Utah Marriott Library, the ai.sys group produced a profile of miners employed at the Bingham Canyon mine in the early 1900s.
• ai.sys to assist environmental justice researchers at the University of Utah on several projects.
• WINNERS! Our poster (Pothina et al) on COVID-19 and its effect on society was among the winners in the COVID-19 symposium. We provided the analytics support to the multi-disciplinary research team. This work has now been published as a peer reviewed paper.

Personnel and Other Updates

• Ishmael Anafo graduates from the MS (mining engineering) program. He is a gold miner now.
• Raviteja Tatikonda graduates  the MS (mining engineering) program. He is a gold miner now.
• Elijah Marshall from the MS (mining engineering) program. He is a metal miner now.
• Narmandakh Sarantsatsral graduates from the PhD (Mining Engineering) program.

Download Our Papers

• BoxRF – A New Machine Learning Algorithm for Grade Estimation, Applied Sciences, 2025
• Contextual Representation in NLP to Improve Success in
  Accident Classification of Mine Safety Narratives, Minerals, 2023
• Development of a Data Analytics & Machine
  Learning Tool for the Mining Industry, Aspects in Mining & Mineral Science, 2022
• Gaining Insight from Semi-Variograms into Machine Learning
  Performance of Rock Domains at a Copper Mine, Minerals, 2022.
• The Importance of Specific Phrases in Automatically Classifying Mine Accident Narratives Using Natural Language Processing, Knowledge, 2022.
• A Case Study of Rock Type Prediction Using Random Forests: Erdenet Copper Mine, Mongolia, Minerals, 2021.
• Effectiveness of Natural Language Processing Based Machine Learning in Analyzing Incident Narratives at a Mine, Minerals, 2021
• Detection of Subtle Sensor Errors in Mineral Processing Circuits Using Data-Mining Techniques, MMEX, 2020.
• "Modification and Enhanced Testing of Data Mining Based Algorithm to Detect Subtle Errors in Temperature Sensors in Gold Stripping Circuit", MMEX, 2020. Request a copy from rajive.ganguli@utah.edu