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  • SAIMM
    Recycling And Environmental Issues Of Metallurgical Slags And Salt Fluxes

    By M. Reuter, U. Boin

    The target of the current metallurgical industry is to recycle and utilize all their by-products, so as to close the sustainable production loop. Slags are the important wastes and by-products of meta

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    An investigation on hydrocylone wear using micro computed tomography, S. Combrink and N. Naude

    By S. Combrink, N. Naude

    Hydrocyclones are widely used in wet mineral classification applications and can be notoriously prone to wear. The methods currently used for quantifying hydrocyclone wear profiles are mostly twodimen

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    Testing Of Temporary Face Support Systems Under Rockfall Conditions

    By J. L. Human, N. Fernandes

    The rockfall hazard is the major contributing agency to fatal accidents in South African platinum mining operations. The majority of these accidents occur in close proximity to the working stope face.

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Factors influencing ore breakage in High Voltage Pulse pre-treatment, D. Lay, F. Shi, and C. Antonio

    By F. Shi , D. Lay, C. Antonio

    High Voltage Pulse (HVP) technology has the potential to transform traditional mineral processing practice in the mining industry. HVP pre-treatment has been shown to enable ore preconcentration, achi

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    A New Viscometric Technique To Successfully Measure Shear Thickening Behaviour, If And When It Occurs

    By A. Chryss, L. Pullum

    Shear-thickening suspensions abound throughout the hydraulic conveying industry; at least this is the perception of many engineers running plants where hydraulic conveying is commonplace. In reality,

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Liquidus temperature and viscosity of melter slags

    By M. Somerville, S. Sun

    The liquidus temperature and viscosity of a range of melter slags produced in South Africa were determined. Drop-quench experiments were carried out on the supplied plant samples to determine the liqu

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Numerical simulation of large-scale pillarlayouts

    By D. F. Malan, J. A. L. Napier

    A number of shallow coal or hard rock mines employ pillar mining systems as a strategy for roof failure control. In certain platinum mine layouts, pillars are designed to ‘crush’ in a stable manner as

    May 3, 2023

  • SAIMM
    Tata Steel?s Titania Project - Challenges In Slimes Disposal

    By R. Gurung, S. Asokan, Ch. V. G. K. Murty, R. Upadhyay

    Tata Steel Limited which is Asia?s first and India?s largest integrated private sector steel company, as part of its vision to grow in related industries is also undertaking the Titania project. The p

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Narrow-vein mining project: A special initiative of Natural Resources Canada

    By S. Poirier, J. -M. Facteau

    The gold mine sector is presently facing low gold prices as well as technological challenges. Its competitiveness and survival will depend on new mining methods and equipment to improve ore extraction

    Sep 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    Checking precision and accuracy of an automatic ore sampler

    Most processing plants use automatic samplers to extract ore aliquots along a producing shift. These aliquots are combined into a sample normally sent to lab analysis. The sampler used in the extracti

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Anomaly Enhancement in 2D Electrical Resistivity Imaging Method Using a Residual Resistivity Technique

    By H. Ramazi, A. Amini

    "This article is devoted to the introduction of a new technique of electrical resistivity data processing called residual resistivity (RR). We define RR as measured resistivity minus background resist

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SAIMM
    Dragline and drill production monitors

    By L. Raaths

    This paper outlines the process of improvement utilizing performance monitors and GPS systems on an opencast strip mine. Its primary focus is to maximize coal exposure by draglines and secondly to imp

    Sep 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    Investigation and FEM Analysis of Mineshaft Rope Safety Platforms in Underground Mining

    By C. Debek, A. Wasilewicz, T. Czysz

    "Both Polish and European hard coal mining nowadays faces the need of deepening shafts (significantly in some cases) or extending mining hoists, due to the exploitation of deeper coal deposits.In orde

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SAIMM
    Mine Design, Scheduling, And Modifying Factors Methodology Applied To Big Blocks Compared With Individual Panels

    By D. Hanekom

    Over the past couple of years, Anglo Platinum has made extensive use of technology within the core disciplines (geology, evaluation, survey, and planning) that collectively form part of mineral resour

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Rockbolts in shear

    By J. Hadjigeorgiou, G. Knox

    There is a considerable wealth of information on the behaviour of rockbolts under axial loading conditions both in situ and under controlled laboratory conditions. However, there is comparably less da

    Nov 24, 2025

  • SAIMM
    Hydrogeology and groundwater control at Chambishi mine, Zambia

    By Y. Fan, D. H. Zhang, J. Y. Xu

    The hydrogeological conditions in the Chambishi mine area in Zambia. were investigated. Chambishi is a very wet mine and groundwater discharge costs are high. The research goal was to identify methods

    Jun 10, 2024

  • SAIMM
    Selective dispersion-flocculation and flotation studies on a low grade copper ore, L. Mweene and S. Subramanian

    By S. Subramanian, L. Mweene

    A siliceous low-grade copper ore from Mpanda Mineral Field (MMF), located in south west Tanzania consisting of SiO2 (58.3%), Fe (10.4 %) and Cu (0.9 %) was initially subjected to selective dispersion-

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    Effect of sodium persulphate on blister copper anode passivation, M. Karimi, H. Naderi, M.H. Nikzad, H. Zare, and J. Petersen

    By J. Petersen, H. Naderi, H. Zare, M. H. Nikzad, M. Karimi

    In the copper electrorefining process, the dissolution of anodes is significantly reduced or even stopped when the passivation phenomenon occurs. The results of this phenomenon are increasing energy c

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    Tailings Disposal: An Approach To Optimize Water And Energy Efficiency

    By P. L. Moolman

    An approach to the design of a tailings disposal system is presented using an example from a platinum project on the eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex as a base case. The design is driven by two in

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Traversing a tumbling mill: an ore particle’s perspective, O.O. Ogunmodimu, D.K. Weatherley, and M.S. Powell

    By O. O. Ogunmodimu, D. K. Weatherley, M. S. Powell

    Discrete element methods (DEM) have provided the ability to resolve the complex phenomena experienced by ore within comminution devices such as tumbling mills. The new developments in DEM techniques a

    Jan 1, 2020