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  • CIM
    The Abatement of Acid Mine Drainage in Ontario

    By John R. Hawley

    "This paper is intended as a review of the progress that has been made in the Province of Ontario in the field of acid drainage waste treatment technology.Three years ago, at the Third Annual Meeting

    Jan 1, 1974

  • AUSIMM
    Prospective Electric Pulse Processes for Sustainable Processing of Mineral Raw Materials

    By V A. Tsukerman

    Prospects a new energy saving method for an efficient destruction of the sturdy and hard materials (rocks, ores, frozen soils, concrete blocks, etc) û the Electric Pulse Discharge (EPD) method of mate

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SAIMM
    A Case Study Of High-Temperature Corrosion In Rotary Cement Kilns

    By J. H. Potgieter

    This paper describes two cases of corrosion that occurred in dry-process, rotary, cement-clinker kilns. In the case of the kiln with five pre-heater stages, the attack occurred primarily from sulphate

    Jan 1, 2004

  • TMS
    Building a Sustainability Strategy into a Consumer Products Business

    By Leon H. Bruner

    This paper presents a case study describing how a global consumer products company with 138,000 employees that markets over 300 brands in 180 countries is building sustainability into the rhythm of it

    Jan 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Independent Review of the VALMIN Code

    The paper outlines the history and current status of the VALMIN Code and sets out the background, methodology, results and recommendations of the Independent Review of the VALMIN Code undertaken durin

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AIME
    Underground Mining - Percussive Wear Properties of Cemented Carbides

    By R. S. Montgomery

    Laboratory experiments simulating rock drilling were conducted on a number of commercial grades of tungsten carbide in order to determine their wear rates when they are used as inserts in percussive r

    Jan 1, 1970

  • IMPC
    A “Checking System” for Circuit Control and Grade Estimation in Fluorite Flotation Plants

    By Takashi Furuyama, Sukeyuki Mori, Abel Bissombolo

    "In flotation practice, a good recovery of minerals largely depends on the degree to which the valuable minerals have been liberated from the associated gangue during the grinding process. Therefore,

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    The Flotation Capacity Project to Increase the Recovery in the Mount Isa Mines Copper Concentrator

    By D R. Carr

    The installation of the Flotation Capacity Project flow sheet in the copper concentrator at Mount Isa Mines Limited has recently been completed. The project involved increasing the flotation capacity

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Biodiversity Offsets - An Overview of Selected Recent Developments New Zealand - Where to From Here?

    By M Baker

    Biodiversity offsets are conservation actions intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects. The use of biodiversity offsets in the context o

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Whim Creek Copper Project û StraitÆs Bridesmaid Gets to the Altar

    By P Storey, B Deans, T Lancaster

    Straits completed its Feasibility study on the Whim Creek Copper Project in 1996. At this stage WCCP provided Straits with an open pit mine - heap leach - SX-EW copper project to follow on from its su

    Jan 1, 2004

  • CIM
    New Technologies for Improved Processing of Base and Precious Metals Containing Ores

    By J. Lee, M. Peart, T. Bhambhani, D. R. Nagaraj, P. Riccio

    "Over the past decade or so, our efforts have focused on developing the rationale and concepts for new technology in reagent development and optimization in the processing of base and precious metals.

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SAIMM
    The Tap-Hole — Key to Furnace Performance

    By R. J. Hundermark, L. R. Nelson

    "The critical importance of tap-hole design and management for furnace performance and longevity is explored through examining some of the specific matte, metal, and slag tapping requirements of non-f

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SAIMM
    Interaction Between The Block Cave And The Pit Slopes At Palabora Mine (9bc522bc-fe6d-493d-b039-b6a950e034a4)

    By A. Moss

    The Palabora Mining Company has successfully extended the life of its operation by developing a 30 000 tpd block cave underground mine below the now closed open pit. The process of transitioning from

    Jan 1, 2006

  • NIOSH
    Analysis Of Multiple Seam Stability

    By Frank E. Chase, Deno M. Pappas, Christopher Mark

    Multiple seam interactions are a major ground control hazard in many U.S. underground coal mines. The two most common types are: • Undermining, where stress concentrations caused by previous full

  • SAIMM
    In-Service Monitoring Of Water Barrier Project At South Deep Gold Mine

    By L. J. Olivier

    The possible closure and subsequent flooding of South Deep Gold Mine?s (SD) neighbouring Randfontein Estates Limited No. 4 Shaft (REL 4) necessitated the construction of five concrete plugs in the con

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Kaolin and paper : Quality of both products will improve with more sophisticated printing techniques

    By Kenneth J. Hartman

    Introduction The term kaolin is derived from kauling, a Chinese word meaning high ridge. This was the name of a hill in China where kaolin was first mined several hundred years ago (Murray, 1976). Ot

    Jan 4, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Size Patterns of Gold-Silver Deposits in the Hauraki Goldfield, Coromandel Peninsula

    This paper presents an analysis of the production data for the period 1861 - 1953 from hydrothermal gold-silver deposits of the Hauraki Goldfield. To directly compare the metal content of the deposits

    Jan 1, 1981

  • CIM
    Improving Mining & Minerals Plant Performance ? Operations and Maintenance Working Together using new Information Technology

    By Gregory A. Johnson

    Operations and Maintenance departments have long had an adversarial relationship. The widespread evolution and adoption of modern management techniques such as Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) a

    Feb 1, 2008

  • SME
    Discussion - Development of the Screen Bowl Centrifuge for Dewatering Coal Fines Technical Papers, MINING ENGINEERING, Vol. 35, No. 4 April 1983, PP. 333-336

    By N. D. Policow, J. S. Orphanos

    D.A. Dahlstrom In the paper, a comparison was made between flowsheets using the screen bowl centrifuge and disc filters, respectively, as the primary dewatering device. The authors very effectively

    Jan 12, 1983

  • CIM
    The World Markets of Ferroniobium

    By Claude Dufresne

    The technical development of the niobium-bearing products is to a great extent influenced by the striving of the respective industries to maintain or strengthen their positions in all fields of applic

    May 1, 2003