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  • SAIMM
    The Smelting Operations Of Anglo American?s Platinum Business: An Update

    By R. J. Hundermark

    Keywords: Anglo American, Anglo Platinum Ltd, Waterval, Mortimer, Polokwane, ACP, pyrometallurgy, platinum, PGMs Anglo Platinum Ltd is the largest primary platinum producer in the world and operat

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    A Review of Work-Integrated Learning in South African Mining Engineering Universities

    By L. A. Maseko

    "As part of the mining engineering curriculum, students are required to be placed in industry for vacation work or work-integrated learning (WIL). In this paper we review work-based placement as done

    Dec 1, 2018

  • SAIMM
    A few remarks on storage of low temperature materials in rock caverns

    By N. Kinoshita, Y. Inada

    The authors have proposed and discussed storage of low temperature materials such as LNG, LPG and frozen food in rock caverns. In this case, as the rock mass around the caverns will receive effects of

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    A three-dimensional tessellation boundary element method for simulation of fracture zone around openings

    By K. -J. Shou

    A special three-dimensional boundary element method has been developed for the simulation of the development of fracture zone in rock mass. This approach comprises a boundary element method and a thre

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Numerical modelling of brittle rock failure using a combined finite-discrete element approach: implications for rock engineering design

    By R. J. Pine, J. M. Rance, J. S. Coggan

    ABSTRACT: The safe design of excavations created in a fractured rock mass is of paramount importance in rock engineering. Depending on the nature of the stress regime acting on an excavation, and the

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The Proposed 2016 SAMREC Code

    By Steven Rupprecht

    "The South African Code for the Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves (the SAMREC Code or the Code) sets out minimum standards, recommendations and guidelines for pu

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Probabilistic approach in rock slope stability analysis for Himalayan conditions

    By S. Pathak, B. Nilsen

    Abstract: In recent years, probabilistic approach with the calculation of probability of failure instead of a factor of safety against failure is emerging in practice. The main objective of the paper

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Climate impacts of fossil fuels in today’s electricity systems

    By L. Schernikau, W. H. Smith

    Oil, coal, and gas account for approximately 80% of global primary energy, but only a portion of total airborne CO2 eq (approx. 35% at GWP20 to 65% at GWP100), even though they account for 95% of tota

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SAIMM
    Methodology for Assessing the Benefits of Grind Control Using Particle Size Tracking Technology for True On-Line Particle Size Measurement

    By J. Sepulveda

    "Despite the recognized influence of product fineness on line capacity and downstream process performance, few mineral concentrators today use particle size measurement of the final product in automat

    Nov 1, 2018

  • SAIMM
    Numerical identification of the excavation damaged zone in rock salt

    By K. -H. Lux, Z. Hou

    ABSTRACT: It is well known in underground mining and waste disposal that the development of excavation damaged zones (EDZ), and thus, hydraulic pathways, is closely related to the excess in the corres

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Engineering diagnostic features of a vibrating sieving screen’s advanced monitoring system in a mineral processing plant APCOM 2021

    By N. Duda, W. Koperska, S. Anufriiev, P. Stefaniak

    In mineral processing plants ore extracted from mines is processed to obtain a concentrate with the highest possible concentration of this valuable product. It is a complicated multi-stage process. U

    Sep 1, 2021

  • SAIMM
    Sulphuric Acid Manufacture

    By M. J. King, A. Weissenberger, W. G. Davenport

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, sulphuric acid, sulphur dioxide The raw material for sulphuric acid manufacture is clean SO2 gas. It comes from (i) burning molten by-product sulphur; (ii) roasting or s

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Stability evaluation for Jinping arch dam by using bifurcation model in 3D FEM analysis

    By C. Steve

    ABSTRACT: In this paper, the stability evaluation and bifurcation criteria are presented for the Jinping arch dam structure. The bifurcation models in failure status of the arch dam are derived from t

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Berg Bock Freeway Tunnel: Optimizing the Heading Technique and the Operational Safety for the Tunnel built by the Shotcrete Method

    By C. Erichsen

    ABSTRACT: The Berg Bock Freeway Tunnel represents the southernmost link of the "Thuringian tunnel chain" of the new freeway A71 located in the eastern part of Germany. It comprises two tubes each 2700

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Research on visual simulation of coupled solid deformation and gas leak flow in parallel coal seams

    By P. Sun

    Abstract: From the viewpoint of interaction mechanics of solid and gas, a coupled mathematical model is presented for coal/rock mass deformation and gas leak flow in parallel deformable coal seams. Nu

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Mechanical behaviour of rock salt masses under high stress to strength ratio (damaging) and under very low stress to strength ratios with high confining pressure (healing)

    By Z. Hou

    ABSTRACT: Short-term strength, damage and healing boundaries for rock salt are experimentally determined and integrated into the Hou/Lux-MDS damage-healing model. This model can be used to describe th

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Time-space effect and principle of variation loading analyses and application cases

    By W. Zhu

    ABSTRACT: This paper presents further developments of the principle of Construction Process Mechanics of rockmasses, The principle of loading variations analyses in space-time is systematically descri

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Excavation simulation for information-oriented construction of large powerhouse caverns at depth

    By J. Xiao, Y. Jiang, Y. Tanabashi, Z. Song

    Modelling the effect of blasting-caused damage, anisotropy of rock masses and excavation sequence on deformational behaviour and stability of large-scale underground caverns is important in the design

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Determination of in situdeformation modulus for cemented rockfill

    By D. R. Tesarik, F. M. Jones, J. B. Seymour

    As part of safety and stability studies at three underground mines in the United States, researchers installed earth pressure cells and embedment strain gauges in cemented rockfill to measure stress a

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The viability of using the Witwatersrand gold mine tailings for brickmaking

    By S. Ndlovu, M. Malatse

    "The Witwatersrand Basin is the heart of South Africa’a gold mining industry. The cluster of gold mines located in the Witwatersrand Basin generates a significant amount of mine tailings, which have a

    Jan 1, 2015