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  • CIM
    Optimization of Capital Cost and Smelter Revenue - Integrated Team Rebuild of Barro Alto Furnaces

    By K Belanger, J. Mclachlan, F. Stober, G. Norval, B. Snider, A. Munsch, T. Koehler, E. Piantino, J. Carlos Queiroz

    The project to rebuild the smelting furnaces at the Anglo American - Barro Alto ferronickel smelter, located in Goias, Brasil, was initiated in September 2013. To optimize the capital cost, while maxi

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AIME
    Minerals Beneficiation in 1962

    In 1962, minerals beneficiation showed definite signs of coming out of the doldrums into which it has drifted after the uranium boom. Demand by steelmakers for high-grade iron pellets has created

    Jan 2, 1963

  • NIOSH
    IC 7015 Gold Mining And Milling In Northeastern Oregon ? Introduction

    By S. H. Lorain

    This paper is a preliminary report on recent lode gold mining activity, operating conditions, and mining and milling methods at properties in production in September 1936 in the gold belt of northeast

    Jan 1, 1938

  • SME
    Using lean six sigma techniques for projects at a Canadian uranium mine, mill

    By S. G. Britton

    "Strategies to improve performance in mining production, maintenance and mineral processing operations have evolved over time from straightforward time studies of individual machine performance in the

    Nov 1, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Prospecting and Development of an Alluvial Tin Mining Area in Tasmania

    As a result of the world depression and the consequent heavy fall in the price of tin, Malaya joined with other great tin producing: countries of the world in a restriction scheme that heavily restric

    Jan 1, 1934

  • SME-ICGCM
    Truss Systems For Longwall Tailgate Support - Update

    By John C. Stankus

    At the 13th Conference on Ground Control in Mining, a paper was presented detailing a successful test in which a new truss system was utilized, in lieu of wood cribs, for tailgate support in the Pitts

    Jan 1, 1995

  • NIOSH
    IC 8385 Review Of Bureau Of Mines Coal Program, 1967 ? Introduction

    By John D. Spencer

    Air and water pollution and land reclamation relating to coal mining and utilization continued to be featured in research and technologic work on coal by the Bureau of Mines in 1967. Details of the en

    Jan 1, 1968

  • NIOSH
    Employment And Injuries In The Mineral Industries (8ee09731-ac68-4c21-b0ae-5f71a0789c5f)

    By John C. Machisak

    THIS CHAPTER of the Minerals Yearbook (Volume III) contains overall injury experience for coal mines, both anthracite and bituminous, coke plants, petroleum and natural gas, peat, and asphalt and rela

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SME
    Crud Processing Improvements Using ACORGA® CB - 1000 Crud Busting Reagent

    By T. McCallum

    Crud is a common concern in SX processes and is formed as a complex solid stabilized emulsion of aqueous and organic.1,3 Crud formation is highly dependent on the amount of solids entering the circuit

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SAIMM
    Case Study On Quantitative Risk Modelling To Obtain A Realistic Risk-Adjusted Project Valuation ? Synopsis

    By G. R. Lane

    A large opencast gold mining company in Africa had just completed a feasibility study for an expansion of the operations. A traditional net present value project valuation methodology had been used th

    Jan 1, 2013

  • CIM
    Development of Geometallurgical Comminution Mapping and Modelling

    By Luke Keeney, Stephen Walters

    "The start up of a new mining and metallurgical facility is a crucial step in the life of any mining project. The mining industries record is poor when evaluating processing plant operation relative t

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Manganese Recovery from Tyrrhenian Nodules by Hydrometallurgical Treatment

    By D Pilone

    The Tyrrhenian micro-nodules, findable at low depths (200/600 m under s l) are a reasonable reserve of manganese. They can be easily and cheaply recovered but do not contain valuable metals as in the

    Jan 1, 2000

  • NIOSH
    IC 7265 Trends In Consumption And Prices Of Building Materials ? Introduction

    By Oliver Bowles

    [The inorganic nonmetallics - that is, all minerals aid their primary products except metallic ores and fuels - have an important place in industrial life of any country. They are essential to a multi

    Jan 1, 1943

  • CIM
    Western Mines- Myra, Lynx and Price deposits

    By R. H. Seraphim

    "Western Mines Limited produces gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc from a number of Paleozoic volcanogenic deposits near Buttle Lake on Vancouver Island. The deposits were emplaced along a series of

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SAIMM
    Challenges And Solutions In PGM Furnace Operation: High Matte Temperature And Copper Cooler Corrosion - Synopsis

    The key aspects of process metallurgy that distinguish platinum group metal (PGM) concentrate smelting from that of other base metal sulphide concentrates are presented. These differences include cons

    Jan 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    The Bayswater Coal Member of the Singleton Coal Measures of New South Wales

    The Bayswater seam of the Singleton Coal Measures is discussed in relation to its field occurrence and related li~hotype profiles. The seam is correlated throughout widely separated areas of the Hunte

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    A Speacil Report China's Emerging Mining Industry - A Long March Towards Modernization

    By K. P. Wang, Ta M. Li

    The Chinese energy and mineral industries are readying themselves for a period of dynamic transition, unprecedented in the country's long and sometimes turbulent history. The transition comes as

    Jan 3, 1980

  • ISEE
    Geotechnical Influences on Blast Induced Stress Wave Propagation, Copper Cliffs, Ontario

    By Roger S. Jackson

    "This study interprets vibrations produced by single underground shots, recorded on surface by 135 digital seismographs laid out in four linear arrays. Several vibration anomalies were observed and ar

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Copper Scrap Marketing

    By Paul B. Warrington

    This paper presents a discussion of the factors affecting copper scrap markets, including such items as price levels, freight. grades of material, sources and packaging. Reference will also be made to

    Jan 1, 1977

  • NIOSH
    IC 8147 List Of References To Metal-Halide Vapor Pressures With Bibliography ? Introduction

    By F. D. Stevenson

    Thermodynamic properties of metal halides and, in particular, vapor pressures have become of great importance in recent years owing to increased application of chemical processing to extraction of met

    Jan 1, 1963