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  • AUSIMM
    Hydrocyclone Classification Studies of a Complex Nickel Ore

    By Nageswararao K

    A series of tests was carried out on one of the rock-pebble milling circuits treating complex nickel ores at Kambalda Nickel Operations of Western Mining Corporation. A mathematical model to describe

    Jan 1, 1981

  • AUSIMM
    Direct Chill Casting of Aluminium and its Application at Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay) Limited

    Over half of the molten aluminium produced at the 52,000 tons/ year eapacity plant operated by Comalco Aluminium (Bell Bay) Limited in Tasmania is cast into saleable produets by the direct chill proce

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SAIMM
    Presidential Address: Rock Engineering - Good Design Or Good Judgement?

    Rock engineering has now been practised as a discipline for about50 years, and many sophisticated methods of analysis for use in rock engineering design have been developed. However, analysis is only

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Laboratory Studies of the Treatment of Liquid Waste Streams from Uranium Milling Operations

    Neutralization with lime is a simple, cheap, and effective means of treating acid raffinates from uranium processing to' raise the pH, reduce the concentrations of dissolved salts (including heav

    Jan 1, 1975

  • NIOSH
    RI 4068 Catron and Sierra Counties Tin Deposits, N. Mex

    By P. L. Russell, M. E. Volin, F. L. C. Price, D. H. Mullen

    Tin deposits in Catron County, New Mexico, were explored by the Bureau of Mines under authority of the Strategic Minerals Act of August 1939. The investigation covered both lode and placer deposits an

    May 1, 1947

  • NIOSH
    RI 3227 Trade Trends In The Lime Industry ? Introduction

    By Paul Hatmaker

    Lime was a highly useful commodity thousands of years before the simple chemistry of its manufacturing process was known. The employment of lime for agriculture, building, and even certain essentially

    Jan 1, 1934

  • SME
    Optimum Sublevel Height and Drift Spacing in Sublevel Cave Mining Based on Random Medium Theory Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (6ee2c5d0-4d40-4945-8e70-9bbd8477aa28)

    By Fengyu Ren, Ruslan Puscasu, Kunpeng Yu, Gideon Chitombo, Liangliang Kang

    Weak rock mass and poor flow of material can cause excessive ore loss and dilution in sublevel caving. This paper proposes a method to establish design parameters for an inclined deposit within a weak

  • CIM
    In Pit Crushing & Conveying in hard rock applications Todays? challenges ? future?s chances

    By Andreas Oberrauner

    Content ? What is? an introduction ? Crushing technology ? Conveying in pits ? Pit-exiting strategies ? Mine Planning in IPCC ? Summary/Conclusions EHS slide ? Sandvik?s objective is zero harm

    Aug 1, 2013

  • CIM
    An Overview of the Lithium Carbonate Process Flow Sheet for Concentrates Derived from Hard Rock Lithium Sources

    By Tassos Grammatikopoulos, Gary Pearse, Massoud Aghamirian, Charlotte Forstner, Stephen Mackie

    "SGS Minerals Services (Lakefield, Ontario site) has conducted a number of developmental and pilot programs that examined methods for the beneficiation, extraction and recovery of lithium from a varie

    Jan 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Enhanced Drilling in Rio Tinto

    Rio Tinto has embarked on a journey to use automation to improve the performance of its surface mines. The driver for automation is to improve the accuracy and consistency of mining processes and less

    May 1, 2010

  • IMPC
    The Crucial Role of Elemental Sulphur Formation on Self-Heating of Sulphides

    By K. E. Waters, J. E. Nesset, F. Rosenblum, R. Langlois, J. A. Finch

    "Some sulphide mineral mixtures when exposed to air and a warm and humid environment can exhibit a self-generating temperature rise, referred to as self-heating or spontaneous heating. The observed se

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Sampling Methods for Seamount Cobalt-rich Crusts and Determination of the Minimum Reliable Assay Sample Quantity

    By Xuehua Zhang, Shengxiong Yang, Huiqiang Yao, Gaowen He

    "Seamount cobalt-rich ferromanganese crusts (hereafter crusts) are authigenic iron/manganese hydroxide/oxide deposits formed from direct precipitation of minerals from seawater onto a hard substrates

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    Building the East-West Cross Drift Tunnel at Yucca Mountain

    By Brian Fulcher

    In April 1997, Kiewit/Parsons Brinckerhoff (K/PB) completed the 7,600-m (25,000-ft) primary access tunnel for the Yucca Mountain, NV proposed high-level nuclear waste site. K/PB then began boring an

    Jan 1, 2000

  • NIOSH
    IC 8684 Analyses Of Natural Gases, 1974 ? Introduction

    By B. J. Moore

    This publication contains analyses and related source data for 352 natural gas samples from wells and pipelines in 18 States and 5 foreign countries. All of the samples were obtained and analyzed duri

    Jan 1, 1975

  • CIM
    Study of Gold Leaching with Bromine and Bromide and the Influence of Sulphide Minerals on this Reaction

    By Mani Manimaran, Inna Dymov, Mariam Melashvili, Chris Fleming, Joe O’Day

    This paper presents experimental evidence that supports the use of bromine/bromide as a potential alternative to conventional cyanidation for gold leaching. The study evaluated a brominebased lixivian

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Features of the New Lead Refinery at Port Pirie

    A new lead refinery with a capacity of 230,000 tons per year commenced operation at Port Pirie in October, 1959. This plant superseded the refinery which had operated from 1933 with the advent of the

    Jan 1, 1963

  • NIOSH
    Silicosis

    By S. L. Weber, D. E. Banks

    "Silicosis was first reported by the ancient Greeks and is apparently as old as human history. The prevalence of this illness peaked in the last half of the 19th century and the early part of this cen

    Dec 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Characterising the mineralogy of iron ore sinters – state-of-the-art in Australia

    By L Matthews, D O’Dea, P C Hayes, J Manuel, B Monaghan, T Honeyands, D Pinson, J Leedham

    Many different approaches have been used in the past to characterise iron ore sinter mineralogy to predict sinter quality and elucidate the impacts of iron ore characteristics and process variables on

    Jul 24, 2017

  • ISEE
    Pressures on Targets from Buried Explosions

    By L C. Taylor, H U. Lesiste

    This is a preliminary study of the statistical variation of the pressures on a target above a buried explosion. The data were taken at various distances from the charge centerline for three heights of

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Human Vibration Levels In The South African Mining Industry

    By J. L. van Niekerk

    The research project reported on represents the first comprehensive attempt to measure the vibration levels of a variety of tools and equipment in the South African mining industry to determine the ef

    Jan 1, 2000