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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2010
Kent Lang, Denver, CO (US);
Gilles Mathieu, Meudon, FR;
Roland Banas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert A. Will, Littleton, CO (US);
Kent Lang, Denver, CO (US);
Gilles Mathieu, Meudon, FR;
Roland Banas, Tucson, AZ (US);
Robert A. Will, Littleton, CO (US);
Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Sugar Land, TX (US);
Abstract
A method of heap leaching including forming a heap lift, installing a horizontal solution collection system between the heap layers including a horizontal tubing with a wireline data collection tool disposed therein, providing a heap leach model for modeling the heap leach operation including a solvent formulation and a irrigation setting, obtaining collected data from the wireline data collection tool while irrigating the heap lift, the collected data including in-situ material parameters of the heap layers and in-situ solution parameters of the solution flowing in the heap layers, modeling the heap leach operation using the collected data based on the heap leach model to generate a result, and adjusting the heap leach operation based on the result.