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  • SAIMM
    Deportment of Gold and Silver in the Pinos Altos Composite and Leach Residues: Implications for Recovery Improvement

    A mineralogical study was conducted on the feed (3.51 g/t Au and ~90 g/t Ag) and four leach residue samples (assaying 0.09 to 0.19 g/t Au and 30.0 to 61.5 g/t Ag) from the Pinos Altos silver-gold depo

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Book News

    1. New Publications Tin and its uses no. 140. Greenford (England), International Tin Research Institute, 1984. Catalogue. English translations of German standards 1984. Berlin, Beuth Verlag GmbH, 1984

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SAIMM
    Proceedings October General Meeting

    The October General Meeting of the Institute was held in Kelvin House, Johannesburg, on 15th October, 1969, at 4.30 p.m. Mr J. K. E. Douglas (President) was in the Chair. There were also present

  • SAIMM
    Soluble metal recovery improvement using high density thickeners in a CCD circuit: Ruashi II case study - Synopsis

    By M. C. Mulligan

    Counter current decantation (CCD) thickener circuits are used to recover soluble metal as pregnant liquor solution from ore leach residue. The basis of CCD operation is to concentrate suspended solids

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Viscosities, electrical resistivities, and liquidus temperatures of slags in the system CaO-MgOA12O3TiO2-SiO2 under neutral conditions

    By D. D. Howat, J. van der Colf

    This paper is the first in a series of three dealing with this subject and also with the rate of oxygen removal from the slags in the presence of solid carbon and with the physicochemical properties o

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SAIMM
    Computer Aided Demand Management for Large Scale Gold Mining Operations

    By I. E. Lane

    Conventional demand management techniques invariably fail to offer optimum control flexibility in an operationally complex gold mining environment. An improved control system for electrical demand man

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    A Managed Approach To Project Insurance

    By N. Watson

    Historically the insurance industry's involvement in any project has been relatively late in the process. Often it was a case of the last item to be ticked off the checklist has been to ensure th

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Comparison of continuous and discontinuous modelling for computational rock mechanics

    By T. Scheldt, M. Lu, A. Myrvang

    Abstract: In this paper both continuous and discontinuous modelling are utilised in order to analyze the stability of the Gjøvik Olympic Mountain Hall. The large span cavern (62 m) was built for the 1

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The Role Of The Mineralogist In The Minerals Industry

    By H. V. R. Von Rahden

    The expertise of the industrial mineralogist has not always been sufficiently used in decision-making in the minerals industry in South Africa. The mineralogist can make a contribution at al stages of

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SAIMM
    Coal preparation research in South Africa - Synopsis

    By G. J. de Korte

    South Africa is reliant on coal for the generation of almost all the electricity used in the country, and several large industrial concerns such as Sasol are also coal based. Research relating to the

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Hopper clarification of gold pregnant solution at Vaal Reefs South

    By L. E. Kun, R. O. Oelofsen, E. J. J. van Vuuren

    High-rate floc-blanket clarification of gold pregnant rotary filtrate was introduced at the Vaal Reefs South gold plant of the Anglo American Corporation during February 1978. A. daily 12 000 to 15 00

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SAIMM
    The development of rock-burst control strategies for South African gold mines

    By R. Heunis

    The hazard of rock bursts and rock falls as experienced in South African gold mines is examined in the light of recent research findings. The problem areas include high fatality rates, losses in produ

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SAIMM
    Recovery of unburned carbon by conventional flotation of bottom ashes from Tuncbilek Thermal Power Plant - Synopsis

    By A. Yamik

    This research study includes studies carried out on the recovery of unburned carbon in the ashes of Tuncbilek Thermal Power Plant. Bottom ashes have been identified by X-ray diffraction and X-ray fluo

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Fishy samples: how big a sample to avoid the infamous ?Poisson effect??

    By D. Francois-Bongarcon

    The ?Poisson effect? is defined and characterized. It takes place even when the material to sample is not liberated. Gy, Pitard, Ingamells, and others, including the author, recommend that a minimum a

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Estimation of the sampling constants for grains contaminated by mycotoxins and the impact on sampling precision

    Grains are subject to contamination by mycotoxins which are metabolic by-products of various fungi. The fungal infestations produce local concentrations of the mycotoxins thousands of times higher tha

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Material and personnel transport by endless rope haulage—the 21st century approach

    By G. L. du Plessis

    This paper describes the design, installation and operation of an endless rope haulage system recently built for and commissioned at Evander Gold Mines in Mpumalanga, South Africa. The factors which l

    Sep 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    Leaching of the arsenopyrite/pyrite flotation concentrates using metallic iron in a hydrochloric acid medium

    This paper describes experimental investigations into the reductive decomposition of arsenopyrite/pyrite (FeAsS/FeS2), a gold and silver bearing iron/arsenic sulphide using metallic iron powder. The m

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Threats To The South African Minerals Sector ? An Independent View On The Investment Environment For Mining ? Synopsis

    By F. T. Cawood

    This article offers a personal and independent view on the threats to the sustainability of the South African minerals industry. It argues that if the six identified threats of insufficient spending o

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Rate-Determining Mechanisms For The Adsorption Of Gold Di-Cyanide Onto Activated Carbon

    The kinetics of adsorption of gold di-cyanide onto activated carbon has been investigated extensively over the past two decades. These studies have demonstrated that both film and intra-particle mass

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SAIMM
    Effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity of rock mass on in-situ permeability tests

    By Y. Mitani, M. Zhang, M. Takeda, T. Esaki

    Despite their inadequacy, assumptions of isotropy and homogeneity are often applied to the analyses of in situ permeability tests. In this paper, we exam the effects of anisotropy and heterogeneity on

    Jan 1, 2003