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  • SAIMM
    The gravity recovery of cassiterite

    By L. M. Falcon

    Cassiterite is considered to be the only economically significant tin mineral in the earth's crust. In its purest form, cassiterite contains 76 per cent tin. The mineral is hard and heavy but als

    Jan 1, 1982

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    Prediction Of Pressures Losses In Straight-Through Diaphragm Valves - Nomenclature

    By V. G. Pienaar, B. M. Mbiya, P. T. Slatter

    [a constant b constant cc onstant c' constant D pipe diameter (m) Dshear shear diameter (m) E error function fth theoretical friction factor F function F' function K fluid consiste

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Mining By Rock Cutting In Narrow Reefs

    By K. Moxham, A. Smit, R. Pickering

    Since the early 1970s research has been ongoing to develop a cost-effective way of continuously mining the narrow reef, hard rock, typical of South African gold and platinum mines. In the late1980s it

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Factors Affecting the Mechanical Efficiency of Men Shovelling Rock in Stopes

    By J. F. Morrison, C. H. Wyndham, N. B. Strydom

    INTRODUCTION The shovelling of rock in stopes is still a basic and important operation in many gold mines in the removal of gold-bearing rock from the stopes. There is, however, little factual knowle

  • SAIMM
    A Forecast of the Coal and Uranium Requirements for Electric Power Generation in South Africa

    By E. J. Maunders

    This paper describes briefly a computerised model of the South African electricity system which has been developed jointly by the Atomic Energy Board and the Electricity Supply Commission. The results

  • SAIMM
    Foreword (76519fe2-cf3b-4f68-8acd-ff9836b49675)

    By Mike Rogers

    Platinum production in Southern Africa amounted to 80% of world production in 2005with a small increase from 5 117 000 ounces to 5 275 000 ounces. For the seventh consecutive year the platinum market

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    The joining of tungsten carbide hardmetal to steel

    By Northrop. I. N.

    Hardmetals possess extremely high hardness and wear resistance, which render them ideal for applications such as metal-cutting tools, rock-drilling tools, and industrial wear-resistant parts like dies

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    Notice The Lucien Denoel Prize

    As a token of their gratitude, former pupils of Professor Lucien Denoel, a lecturer on coal-mining in the University of Liege, over a period of forty years, have founded the LUCIEN DENOEL prize. It is

  • SAIMM
    Air Pollution Perceptions And Their Impacts On The Coal Industry - Synopsis

    By P. Lloyd

    Perceptions of disaster caused by burning fossil fuels have reached such a pitch that they seriously threaten the very future of the industry. Coal is a dirty word. A leader in Business Day(January 19

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Simulation Of Sub-Sea Gravel Removal Using The Coupled Computational Fluid Dynamics - Discrete Element Method

    By D. Ackerman, S. Cole, G. Langefeld, I. Parker

    The removal of gravel from the seabed using a hydraulic mining tool is a complex multi-phase problem that cannot be analysed using traditional continuum based simulation techniques. One potential appr

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    The Social Impact Of Diamond Mining -Is It Time To Revisit The Scorecard?

    By N. Morris

    In South Africa, diamonds are mined predominantly in rural areas. Kimberlitic diamonds dominate in Limpopo and the Northern Cape Provinces whereas alluvial diamonds are mainly sourced from the North W

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Increasing efficiency of the regrind circuit of the Sarcheshmeh copper complex, S.M. Mousavi, Gh.A. Parsapour, S.D. Tafvizi, M. Mahmoudi, and S. Banisi

    By S. Banisi, S. M. Mousavi, S. D. Tafvizi, Gh. A. Parsapour, M. Mahmoudi

    Generally, regrind circuits are used to increase the degree of liberation of value minerals which are fed to flotation circuits. At the regrind circuit of the Sarcheshmeh copper complex, four ball mil

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    The application of XRT in the De Beers Group of Companies

    By G. Dellas, R. Mangera, A. Voigt

    "X-ray transmission (XRT) sorting has become the preferred recovery technology option in several parts of the diamond-winning flow sheet. In the De Beers Group, applications of XRT are found across ki

    Feb 1, 2019

  • SAIMM
    Importance and Method of using Reference Materials in measuring reliability of Analytical results and Why Custnmers should use them.

    By Stuart Marsland

    "Reference materials have always been important for validating and controlling analytical methods', They have recently become even more important as quality requirements have become more stringen

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    XMT based assessment of the performance of agglomerated sulphide ores: The impact of long curing times and the addition of chloride ions, L.E. Salinas-Farran and S.J. Neethling

    By L. E. Salinas-Farran, S. J. Neethling

    Key variables in heap leaching include permeability, mechanical stability and mass transport. All of these properties can be manipulated by agglomerating and curing the ore before stacking it into hea

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    International Scientific Symposium on Mine Surveying, Mining Geology and the Geometry of Mineral Deposits

    This International Mine-Surveying Conference will take place in Budapest (Hungary) from 5 to 14 June, 1972. Detailed information can be obtained from the Mine-Surveying Working Committee of the Hungar

  • SAIMM
    Books

    By A.M. Edwards

    1. Book reviews Platinum in South Africa, compiled by A.M. Edwards and M.H. Silk. Randburg, Council for Mineral Technology (Private Bag X3015, Randburg, 2125 South Africa), 1987. 55 pp. U$30. Reviewer

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SAIMM
    Blast furnace tapping practice at ArcelorMittal South Africa, Vanderbijlpark Works

    By Z. Halifa, P. G. Geyer

    Tapping a blast furnace is necessary not only to deliver the product, but is also essential for the safety of the furnace and workers in the cast-house. This paper will highlight the practices at Arce

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Material fingerprinting as a potential tool to domain orebody hardness and enhancing the prediction of work index APCOM 2021

    By M. S. Shishvan, J. R. van Duijvenbode, L. M. Cloete, M. W. N. Buxton

    Geochemical and mineralogical datasets from Tropicana Gold Mine, Australia, have been used to define ore fingerprints. VNIR/SWIR spectral data were represented by four normalised wavelength regions an

    Sep 1, 2021

  • SAIMM
    Heap leaching of carbonaceous ores using a blinding agent, P. Koblova, G. Voiloshnikov, and Y. Musin

    By G. Voiloshnikov, P. Koblova, Ye. Musin

    Preg-robbing activity of the carbonaceous matter negatively impacts the process of precious metals recovery from gold-bearing ores and concentrates. In this paper, ore heap leaching (HL) using a blind

    Jan 1, 2020