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SAG grinding mills represent critical energy-intensive operations in copper concentrators, accounting for 30%–50% of total plant energy consumption. The accurate prediction of mill power draw and production rate under varying operational conditions is essential for real-time control, production planning, and energy management. This study presents a comprehensive comparison of ML algorithms for modeling Production and Power in a Chilean copper mining industry. Deterministic and stochastic models were fitted and validated using industrial data from a Chilean copper operation. More representative models were re-estimated and subsequently evaluated under different operating regimes to examine their predictive performance under aggregated conditions of the feeding variables.
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