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  • AUSIMM
    Audits of Mine Health and Safety using Quality Management Techniques

    The use of walk-through inspections, approvals and ad hoc investigations to ensure risk is kept within acceptable levels is reaching its limits of effectiveness. Further improvement in occupational he

    Jan 1, 1998

  • TMS
    Developments In Manganese Ferroalloy Research And Production In The Last 25 Years

    By Merete Tangstad, Ragnar Tronstad

    Ferromanganese production in electrical furnaces is quite an old process. However, as the furnaces are getting bigger, the requirements of cost, yield, product quality, emissions and security are rais

    Jan 1, 2014

  • TMS
    The Use of Ion Exchange to Improve Revenue via the Removal of Impurities

    By Deventer Johanna van

    Ore bodies around the world are declining in grade, whilst increasing in complexity. The level of impurities relative to the valuable metal is steadily increasing, posing new challenges to existing op

  • IOM3
    Tunnelling in a changing world

    By C. J. Kirkland

    25th Julius Wernher memorial lecture given at Tunnelling '91, sixth international tunnelling symposium held in London, 14-18 April 1991. The title gives the lecturer a chance to share some of the less

    Jun 13, 1905

  • CIM
    Selected, State-of-the Art Mechatronic Systems in Polish Underground Mining Industry

    By K. Stankiewicz

    Projects as regards state-of-the-art mechatronic systems aiming at increase of safety in the mining industry and at improvement of coal production technologies, which have been completed at the KOMAG

    Aug 1, 2013

  • NIOSH
    IC 7227 Dolomite-Base Refractories ? Introduction

    By Alvin Schallis

    Of all the uses for dolomite that depend on its magnesia content, perhaps the most important is its use in basic refractories. The quantities of dolomite (including both that used as crude and that ca

    Jan 1, 1942

  • IMPC
    The Mine of the Future: Will it be Visible? (XXII International Mineral Processing Congress)

    By Robin B. Batterham

    "Since the 1970?s we have seen a marked corporate response in terms of the environment. In part this has come from regulation but it has largely come from stakeholders and the community. Rising expe

    Jan 1, 2003

  • TMS
    Operations at the Doe Run Company's Buick Resource Recycling Division

    By Moenster J. A., M. J. Sankovitch

    Doe Run's Buick Smelter was converted from a primary lead smelter to a secondary lead smelter in 1991. The recycling facility was designed to produce 60,000 tons of refined lead per year from 110,000

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Numerical Parametric Study of Floor Heave in Gate Roads Caused by Longwall-Induced Abutment Loading

    Floor heave events in underground mining often happen suddenly and cause risk to workers and equipment. Reducing the risk of floor heave must be addressed in mining layout design. To improve that desi

    Jan 7, 2020

  • AUSIMM
    Applying Modular Transporters to Relocate Large Hydraulic Excavators

    By B Flynn, P Knights

    Low-loaders or 'floats' for relocating equipment in surface mines are limited to a capacity of approximately 350 t. In the iron ore industry it is desirable to be able to rapidly relocate ex

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Gas Dispersion Studies at Highland Valley Copper

    This paper discusses three case studies conducted at Highland Valley Copper mine (HVC) that illustrate operational improvements and insights which resulted from using the McGill University gas dispers

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Column Flotation Of A Montana Talc Ore

    By R. R. Hall

    Tests were conducted to assess the potential of column flotation for beneficiation of a talc ore from Montana. This ere contained approximately 80% talc, with the gangue comprised mainly of chlorite,

    Jan 1, 1990

  • IMPC
    Quantitative Mineralogy to Assess the Efficacy of Alkyl Hydroxamates in Flotation

    By T. Bhambhani, O. Yavuzkan, D. R. Nagaraj

    "The recovery of oxide Cu minerals by flotation is a longstanding challenge in the minerals industry, especially for high acid-consuming ores which would not be economical for direct acid leaching. Su

    Jan 1, 2018

  • CIM
    High Pressure Grinding Rolls Modelling with Population Balance Models Applied to Tantalum Ore

    By Pura Alfonso, Sarbast Hamid, Hernan Anticoi, Eduard Guasch, Josep Oliva

    "Av. Bases de Manresa 61-63, Manresa (08242) Barcelona, SpainTantalum is a strategic metal and an improvement of the mineral processing is an important issue. The main objective of this work is to opt

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    A Study Of Hydrocyclone Classification Of Coal Fines By CFD Modeling And Laboratory Tests

    By S. Torno

    The elimination of ultrafine (<10 µm) clay particles is essential to the treatment of abandoned coal-washing plant tailings for the recovery of the remaining coal fraction by enhanced gravity processi

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Energy Consumption -Its Growth and Pattern

    By H. B. Merlin

    "The past demands for energy and the contributions by the major sources are shown for the world and regions, and for Canada. Three forecasts of future demand are presented. By the year 2000, the world

    Jan 1, 1969

  • CIM
    The Future Shape of Mineral Processing

    By M. J. Bunyard, I. Mullany

    "The pressures on mine operators are varied and constantly increasing, declining ore grades, more remote locations and increasing environmental concerns. The challenge facing the mining industry is to

    Jan 1, 2017

  • TMS
    Reduction of Carbon-Burdened Chromite Pellets in the Presence of Additives

    By Guohua Bai, Mingjun Rao, Jianchen Lim, Guanghui Li, Tao Jiang

    "By using thermogravimetry, optical microscope and chemical phase analysis, the solid-state reduction of carbon-burdened chromite pellets in the absence and presence of additives were investigated. Th

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Programmable logic control applied to a coal preparation plant complex

    By L. W. Krahenbil

    The programmable Logic Controller (PLC), at its present stage of evolution, is now considered as a mature control system. The PLC combines the solid-state reliability of hardwired logic and computer c

    Jan 1, 1979

  • CIM
    Evaluation of Cave-To-Mill Opportunities at the New Afton Mine

    By M. Samuels

    "Block and panel cave mining methods are being increasingly proposed as they allow massive, deeply situated ore-bodies to be mined economically at a time when discovery rates of significant near surfa

    Jan 1, 2018