A Real Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor, Technical Report: July - August 2004 (open access)

A Real Time Coal Content/Ore Grade (C2OG) Sensor, Technical Report: July - August 2004

This thirteenth quarterly technical report describes data collection at the Stillwater Mine and an additional improvement to the lighting system. The data collection system was returned to the Stillwater Mine during this reporting period and a large amount of data was collected. The data will be analyzed and correlated with fire assays in the next reporting period. The majority of work done this quarter has been devoted to collecting data from cores scanned in the Stillwater Mining Company core room. This work is somewhat tedious and tiresome, but essential to: (1) obtain enough data to reliably determine the correlation between assay results and spectral imaging results; (2) find bugs and glitches in the system that arise only periodically or after long periods of use; and (3) obtain data on the natural (and man-made) variations in the Stillwater ore that may confuse the machine vision algorithms.
Date: October 22, 2004
Creator: Swanson, Rand
System: The UNT Digital Library