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  • AUSIMM
    The Ultimate Sustainability of Mining - Linking Key Mega-Trends with 21st Century Challenges

    The widely accepted concept of mineral resources are that they are finite - mining therefore being intrinsically unsustainable. Yet the modern global mining industry continues to grow production at st

    Jun 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Continuous Blasting Improvements At Landau Colliery ? Synopsis

    By M. Rakoma

    Following the blasting fatality on 17 December 2009, Landau Colliery was forced to change from the blasting practices that had been utilized since the start-up of the mine. Since then, attempts have b

    Jan 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Experimental Validation of a Flotation Cell Model

    Experimental Validation of a Flotation Cell Model

    Sep 13, 2010

  • NIOSH
    IC 8808 In-Mine Evaluation Of Underground Fire And Smoke Detectors (6f17c200-99f7-4b63-9502-cedfeb78fb40)

    By Russell E. Griffin

    The current state-of-the-art of fire and smoke detection technology is reviewed from the standpoint of suitability for use in underground metal and nonmetal mines. Detection modes, fire signatures, an

    Jan 1, 1979

  • ISEE
    Explosively Loaded Vessel for Dynamic Experiments at Advanced Photon Source

    By Christian J. Sorensen, Christopher Armstrong, Andrew Matejunas

    A team consisting of junior and senior mechanical engineering students at New Mexico Tech worked on the design of an explosively loaded vessel, with a maximum load of 15 grams (0.53 oz) TNT equivalent

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Flotation Kinetic Studies -Going from Laboratory to the Plant

    By Richard Klimpel

    "Over the last 15 years, there has been a number of plant scale sulfide mineral flotation tests organized by this author specifically aimed at understanding how flotation rate varies with reagent type

    Jan 1, 1997

  • CIM
    Gold Deposits of the Matachewan Area, Ontario

    By W. D. Sinclair

    "Between 1934 and 1956, nearly 31 million grams of gold were produced in the Matachewan area from deposits on properties belonging to Young-Davidson Mines Limited and Matachewan Consolidated Mines Lim

    Jan 1, 1982

  • CIM
    Start-Up and Early Optimization of the New Afton Concentrator

    By C. O’Hara, S. Roy, K. Swedburg, J. Katchen

    "New Gold Inc.’s New Afton concentrator commenced operation in June 2012, producing a copper-gold-silver concentrate. During the first two years of operation, various optimization efforts have improve

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Recovery of Copper from Reverberatory Copper Slag and Production of a Leach Residue used as a Portland Cement Additive

    By T. A. Muhlare

    "Large quantities of slag are produced every year and dumped on slag heaps around the world, posing a potential environmental threat due to contained heavy metals content. Slags are waste minerals pro

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Technology For Community Development in Central Asia

    By Morris T. Worley

    Editor’s note: Mining companies doing business in Central Asia, and parts of the developing world, should look for ways to promote community development through the introduction of appropriate technol

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Evaluation Of A Limit Equilibrium Model To Simulate Crush Pillar Behaviour - Synopsis

    By M. du Plessis

    This paper describes the evaluation of a limit equilibrium model to simulate the behaviour of crush pillars in platinum mines. An analytical model was derived to calculate the residual average pillar

    Jan 1, 2011

  • TMS
    Phase Changes During Heating Of Illite

    By Xiaowen Liu

    The DSC/TG, IR and XRD analysis were used to characterize the heating phase transformation of illite, which came from Ouhai deposit, China. It was discovered that the dehydration and de-hydroxylation

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Kell Hydrometallurgical Process For Extraction Of Platinum Group Metals And Base Metals From Flotation Concentrates ? Synopsis

    By K. S. Liddell

    The Kell Process has been developed for the extraction of platinum group metals (PGMs) and base metals from sulphide flotation concentrates. The process has been successfully tested on several differe

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Changes in grade, volume and contained gold during the mining life-cycle of gold placer deposits

    By J. D. Bliss, G. J. Orris, W. O. Menzie

    "Analysis of gold placer data from gold placers throughout the world suggests that gold grades and volumes cannot be used to distinguish between most types of gold placers. Only the alluvial plain and

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    Stress Induced Damage In Tunnels In A Cave Mining Environment In Kimberlite

    By P. J. Bartlett

    Premier Diamond Mine exploits a kimberlite orebody using cave mining methods. A drilling level is established at the base of a block of ore to effect undercutting that leads to caving of the overlying

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SAIMM
    Underwind And Overwind Protection Systems With Enhanced Self-Sufficiency (030db833-15eb-45bc-a368-bd664b61eafa)

    By N. D. L. Burger

    Underwind and overwind protection system concepts for mine hoist shafts were developed in conjunction with and for the Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee (SIMRAC). End-of-wind operation of mi

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Overburden stripping using large slushers

    By Lumley G, Rowlands D

    The overburden slusher (OS) is proposed as a stripping tool that is expected to find application in overburden stripping operations including open cut coal and oil shale mines. OS is expected to comba

    Jan 1, 1986

  • CIM
    Improving the Material Flow in the Fox Mine Concentrate Bins

    By J. Chlopas, D. J. Barratt, M. V. Sharp

    "This paper describes the modifications made to the Fox Mine copper concentrate bin in order to obtain a continuous flow condition. The design of these modifications is based on test results obtained

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AUSIMM
    Optimization and Control of Laboratory Sulphidization of Oxidized Copper Ores with an Ion Selective Electrode

    By Woodcock J. T

    A sulphide ion selective electrode (ISE) is suitable for control of sodium sulphide additions in flotation because it has a rapid response to changeS in S2- concentrations, can indicate -low concentra

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SAIMM
    Equipment Selection For High Selective Excavation Surface Coal Mining

    By H. Aykul

    The choice of which mining method to use at many large surface coal mines is often dicated by what machinery is available or what experience the mine management can offer. One of the most significant

    Jan 1, 2007