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Canada?s Minerals And Metals Indicators (MMI) Initiative
By W. Ripmeester
Canada is committed to the development of indicators to measure the contribution of its minerals and metals sector to sustainable development. The Minerals and Metals Indicators (MMI) Initiative is de
Jan 1, 2003
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Coalbed Methane Potential In The Northern And Central Parts Of The Appalachian Basin
By L. F. Ruppert, R. C. Milici
Coalbed methane (CBM) is currently being produced from a relatively small area in the Dunkard and Pocahontas basins, in the northern and central parts of the Appalachian Basin, respectively. In gener
Jan 1, 2003
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Behaviour Of Thallium During Lead Smelting (Invited)
Thallium is a very minor element found in lead ores. It's behaviour during lead smelting has recently become of much greater interest due to the effects it had on the health of waste heat boiler
Jan 1, 2003
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Risk and Accepted Practice in Open Pit Mining Geomechanics
The paper examines the current status of risk and accepted practice in mining geomechanics. It explores some deficiencies in human capital, risk analysis and our future technical needs, and suggests w
Jan 1, 2003
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Adsorption of Sodium Oleate onto Spinel Oxides
By Raquel Franco de Souza Lima, Isao Matsuoka
"Microflotation studies and abstraction experiments were conducted with synthetic oxide spinels relating to chromite (MgCr2O4, FeCr2O4, FeFe2O4 and FeAl2O4), using sodium oleate as collector. An attem
Jan 1, 2003
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An Investigation On The High-Mg-Content Slag In Jinchuan Nickel Flash Smelting Furnace
By Wang Zhi
High-Mg-content concentrates are usually treated in Jinchuan flash smelting Furnace. Because the viscosities of high-Mg-content slag is very high, the operation of flash smelting becomes very difficul
Jan 1, 2003
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QueenslandÆs Experience in Implementation of Risk Based Safety and Health Legislation and Development of Future Strategies
By B Lyne
In 1990, the Queensland mining industry had come to the conclusion that new safety and health legislation based on risk identification and control was required if the mining industry was to be effecti
Jan 1, 2003
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Iron slag dump material and leachate treatment
By A. C. Moorgas, J. Divall
This study investigates the feasibility of using waste iron slag, the by-product from a mineral sands processing works, in road construction. The study includes the different options investigated for
Jan 1, 2003
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Ground Freezing for Deep Shafts at the Mill Creek Tunnel Project
By Richard Switalski, Mark R. Kritzer, Boro J. Lukajic, Robert Pintabona
Ground freezing was chosen as an initial support method during construction of two deep shafts at the Mill Creek project. The Mill Creek, Phase 2 tunnel (MCT-2) is utilized to convey and store combine
Jan 1, 2003
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Problems And Options In Relation To Abandoned Mine Sites (Asturias, Spain)
By J. Loredo
Asturias, in Northwestern Spain, has an extensive mining history. As a result of these historical mine activities where operations have been usually developed with little control on effluents or emiss
Jan 1, 2003
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The local prognosis of the hazard of coal self-ignition in the course of carrying out the mining operations
By P. S. Pashkovsky
Theoretical and experimental investigations of the process of self-heating the coal accumulation with use of geological and mining conditions of development of the seams, as well of mass recoil parame
Jan 1, 2003
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Evaluation Of Proposed Panel Closure Modifications At The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
By L. E. Allen, J. F. Abel, D. R. Morgan
The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a geologic repository for disposal of transuranic waste and is operated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The repository is located at a depth of 655 m
Jan 1, 2003
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Kinetics of chromite vs. ilmenite magnetization during oxidative roasting of ilmenite concentrates
By J. D. Steenkamp
In a paper presented at the Heavy Minerals Conference 2001 a laboratory scale investigation on the beneficiation of an ilmenite containing waste stream by magnetizing roasting was reported1.This waste
Jan 1, 2003
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New Test Method for Investigation of Grindability in Alkaline Media at High Temperature
By József Faitli, Barnabás Csoke, Károly Solymár, Zoltán Hatvani, Dimitri Papanastassiou
In most cases, the sizing of dry or wet mills for ore processing is primarily based on the determination of the Bond grindability index, using the Bond-Kjos-Rowland relations. In several cases, grindi
Jan 1, 2003
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Modelling Of Chalcocite Concentrate Flash Smelting
By Zdzislaw Miczkowski
At KGHM Polska Miedz S.A, a direct flash smelting process is used for smelting of chalcocite concentrate for the production of blister copper. The paper presents a model of complex oxidation process
Jan 1, 2003
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Fundamental And Applied Research On Tin Electrorefining Employing Stainless Steel Cathodes (Invited)
By Paulo von Krüger
This paper deals with the cell design and operation of a tin electrorefining 1:5 pilot plant. The purpose of the work was the fitting of the basic parameters to be used in a full-scale tankhouse from
Jan 1, 2003
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Kinetics And Morphological Studies Of A Carbon Composite Briquette Aiming The Emergent Ironmaking Technologies
By José Carlos Abreu
This work presents a kinetics study covering the effects of temperature over the reduction rates of a carbon composite briquette, aiming its use as burden in some of the new alternate ironmaking techn
Jan 1, 2003
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Lowering Orebody Risk in Complex Gold Veins ù Application of Underground Mobile Supersucker Winzing
By S C. Dominy
A high nugget effect and the presence of coarse gold characterises many vein-gold deposits. The effective sampling of these deposits is often difficult because of the relatively low concentrations inv
Jan 1, 2003
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Deformation analysis for the middle pier of the Permanent Ship Lock of Three Gorges Project
By H. Zhu, F. Xu, T. Wang
Abstract : The deformation monitoring data of the middle pier of the in permanent ship lock in Three Gorges revealed several interesting deformation phenomena. Conclusions and explanations are made co
Jan 1, 2003
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Feasibility Studies: Just How Good Are They?
By Mark F. Vancas
Virtually every new process plant project goes through the ?Feasibility Study? phase before actually being built. The Feasibility Study is used by the owners and the bankers to evaluate the economics
Jan 1, 2003