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  • CIM
    Subaqueous Deposition of Acid Generating Tailings into an Acidic Lake Environment: Pilot Column Test Results

    By Linda C. M. Elliot, Liangxue Liu

    "The deposition of tailings under water is considered to be one of the most environmentally promising and potentially cost effective methods to reduce or eliminate acid mine drainage from tailings. On

    Jan 1, 1997

  • CIM
    Isasmelt™ - Smelting more with Less

    By Biplop Das, E. Herrera, A. Burrows, P. J. Mackey, G. R. F. Alvear Flores

    Since the first commercial plant was built at Mount Isa, another twenty ISASMELT™ furnaces have come into commercial operation, and construction of new plants continues. The primary copper ISASMELT™ t

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Frozen Lump Generation of Oil Sands ? Climatic Challenges and Solutions

    By Derek J. Cyr

    Climate has an immense impact on the properties of Athabasca oil sands and the ease or difficulty with which it is excavated and extracted. During the winter months, exposed oil sands surfaces freeze.

    May 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Coarse Lead Flotation Practice at Polaris

    By R. Simkus, J. K. Gowans

    Polaris Operations, a Cominco Ltd. lead-zinc mine, is located on Little Cornwallis Island, Northwest Territories, at Latitude 75°23' N and Longitude 96°75' w. When the Polaris Mine went into operation

    Jan 1, 1984

  • CIM
    The Evolution of Falcon Continuous Concentrators at Tantalum Mining Corporation of Canada

    By Claude Deveau

    "With ever decreasing feed grades, finer mineralogy and increased demand for product, it became obvious that a major step in equipment performance was required to reduce operating costs and increase p

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Reducing Dust from Leyner Drills

    By R. J. Craig

    Introduction All mining operations produce rock dust. Inhalation of rock dust, particularly if it has a high silica content, causes silicosis. Silicosis is, therefore, recognized as a hazard of th

    Jan 1, 1947

  • CIM
    Concentrate Leach Plant Startup, Operation and Optimization at the Phelps Dodge Bagdad Mine in Arizona

    By John C. Wilmot, Robert E. Brewer, Royce J. Smith

    In March 2003, Phelps Dodge started up an innovative pressure leach facility for processing copper concentrates at the Bagdad mine in Arizona. This paper describes the development of the concentrate l

    Jan 1, 2004

  • CIM
    The use of wetlands for effluent polishing at Placer Dome, Campbell Mine

    By Benoit Bissonnette, David Gelderland

    "The Campbell Mine Constructed Wetlands has been in full operation, processing effluent from the water treatment plant of the mill circuit for the last two years.The overall results are extremely posi

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Nanoparticle Flotation Aids for Pentlandite Fines

    By Manqiu Xu, Songtao Yang, Zongfu Dai, Robert Pelton, Carla Abarca

    "Fine mineral particles are difficult to process by flotation because of their low collision efficiencies with air bubbles. Decreasing air bubble size and increasing mineral particle size through floc

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Is Your Management Control Loop Functioning

    By John D. Campbell

    "IS YOUR MANAGEMENT CONTROLLOOP FUNCTIONINGMineral processors make use of hundreds of control circuits in their mills, process plants, smelters and refineries, to optimize throughput and recovery and

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Roasting of Beattie Concentrate

    By F. R. Archibald

    SINCE the opening of the Beattie mine, in 1933, the concentrate produced by flotation has been considered refractory. As the gold extraction by cyanidation was poor, the concentrate, during the first

    Jan 1, 1939

  • CIM
    The Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Harricanaw And Bell River Basins

    By George W. Bain

    Summary During the last three years the discovery of gold in the belt of volcanic and sedimentary rocks extending eastward from the Porcupine and Kirkland Lake gold-fields has caused a great deal o

    Jan 1, 1927

  • CIM
    Gravity Recovery of Gold-Bearing Sulphides in a Milling Circuit

    "In many gold deposits, a reasonable amount of the gold that remains in the cyanide leach tailing is associated with pyrite. Some gold plants have found it economical to incorporate gravity circuits o

    Jan 1, 2017

  • CIM
    The Winnipeg Market for Alberta Coal

    By George R. Pratt

    Although the title of this paper focuses attention to the Winnipeg coal market the following remarks should be considered applicable not only to conditions in Winnipeg but to the whole western coal in

    Jan 1, 1925

  • CIM
    Beneficiation of the Clear Hills Ironstone

    By T. H. Etsell, P. Kerr

    Over the past 50 years, there have been a number of geological, mineralogical and metallurgical studies carried out on the Clear Hills ironstone deposits in northern Alberta, Canada. Due to the low gr

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Comparison of Ore Reserve Grades with Mill Head Grades Using Statistics in Two Gold Mines, Sudbury District, Ontario

    By Elaine Ellingham, Francis T. Manns

    "Abstract -The Orostar and Scadding were two small gold mines owned and operated by Orofino Resources Limited. Conventional statistical treatment indicates an identical arithmetic mean grade of 0.22 o

    Jan 1, 1992

  • CIM
    Effects of Fabrication Process Parameters on the Microstructure of Ferritic/Martensitic Oxide Idspersion Strengthened (ODS) Steel Components for Future Nuclear Reactor System Applications

    By S. Noh, T. K. Kim, B. O. Lee

    Future nuclear reactor systems such as a sodium-cooled fast reactor are being designed under severe conditions in terms of operating temperature and irradiation fluence compared to current commercial

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Assessing Vertimill Ultrafine Grinding Performance: The Gibraltar Mine Case

    By Keith Merriam, Jim McDonnell, Peter Radziszewski, Rob Rotzinger, Ian DeHart

    "Taseko Mines Limited Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine recommenced operation in 2004 with the initiation of a series of development projects to increase throughput capacity as well as modernize the mi

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    CuPRO MEX™ Extractants as Equivalent Alternatives for Copper Recovery

    By R. B. Sudderth, A. Quiroz G., M. Torres M., C. Salgado Q., J. Fernández O., H. Bravo P., M. Torres B.

    SNF FloMin, Inc. has introduced a complete line of extractants for recovery of various metals. Among them are the CuPRO MEX™ Brand of copper extractants that are based on the well- known 2- hydroxy 5-

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Base-Metal Deposits of the Bathurst-Newcastle District: Characteristics and Depositional Models

    By Steven R. McCutcheon

    ABSTRACT - The Bathurst-Newcastle district, a subcircular area approximately 50 km in diameter, contains 37 massive-sulfide Zn-Pb-Cu deposits that have defined tonnages, and has 58 additional signific

    Jan 1, 1992