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  • AUSIMM
    How Much Do We Need to Drill?

    By C Taylor, E Retz

    Sequential Gaussian conditional simulation of wide-spaced exploration data has been completed in order to optimise a drilling grid at Fortescue’s Eliwana deposit. The aim of this drill grid is to impr

    Jul 13, 2015

  • IMPC
    Comprehensive Utilization of Tin, Zinc-bearing Complex Iron Ores by Selective Reduction Process

    With rapid development of Chinese iron & steel industry, it is of significance to intensify the utilization of domestic complex iron ore resources. The tin, zinc-bearing complex iron ores are typical

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AIME
    Minerals Beneficiation - Physical Chemical Aspects of Flocculation by Polymers

    By R. B. Booth, W. F. Linke

    The continuous interest of the American Cyanamid Company in producing superior polymeric flocculants and dispersants for the mining industry has resulted in a broad, general study of the physical chem

    Jan 1, 1961

  • CIM
    Etudes de libération des minerais à I'Université Laval (Quebec)

    By J. C. Marchand, M. A. Berube

    "L'objectif principal recherché lors du broyage d 'un minerai est de libérer adéquatement ses valeurs utiles en vue de leur concentration ultérieure. La pratique courante consiste à tenter d

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    Cape Lambert Port B Shiploading, Sampling and Analysis

    By M Graham, R Brunning, C Andringa-Bate, S Westergren

    In 2010, Rio Tinto Iron Ore’s operations commenced the planning and design of a sampling and analysis system for the new 50 Mt/a Cape Lambert Port B (CLB) facility. Current sampling systems at the por

    Jul 29, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    On the stability of CaS in liquid steel containing alumina or spinel inclusions

    By N N. Viswanathan, D Kumar, S Kumar

    In secondary steelmaking, calcium treatment is practised to modify the solid alumina or spinel inclusions into liquid or partially liquid calcium aluminates. It has been seen that the dissolved calciu

    Jun 19, 2024

  • DFI
    PSC Piles Overcome Challenges for $650m Power Plant

    By Tim Siegel, III Fondren, Billy Camp

    "INTRODUCTIONThe new $650 million power block at Santee Cooper’s Cross Generating Station in Cross, South Carolina is being constructed on driven pre-stressed concrete (PSC) piles. S&ME, as geotechnic

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Development, Performance, And Application Of High Capacity Portable Bulkspray Coolers At Mt. Taylor Mine

    By Romeo S. Jurani

    Bulkspray cooling has been economically applied in cooling the hot environment of South African gold mines for the past two decades. Its success in that country led to its introduction at Gulf Mineral

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    ACORGA® OPT5540: Advantages and Contributions to Copper Extraction in the African Copperbelt

    By L. Thomas, A. Argyn, B. Mbao, G. Longo Banza

    Since the first application of solvent extraction as part of the hydrometallurgical processing of copper, several studies have been carried out to optimize extractant formulations. In 2006, Solvay dev

    Jan 1, 2023

  • CIM
    Gold as a Novel Catalyst in the 21st Century : Preparation, Working Mechanism and Applications

    By Masatake Haruta

    Gold can be deposited as nanoparticles on a variety of support materials by coprecipitation or deposition-precipitation of Au(OH)3, grafting of organo-gold complexes such as dimethyl-Au(III)-acetylace

    Oct 1, 2003

  • AIME
    Use of Coal in Zinc Production

    By W. M. Peirce

    COAL'S importance in the metallurgy of zinc may be gauged by the fact that approximately a million and a half tons is so employed annually in the United States. This brief paper will show in what

    Jan 1, 1948

  • NIOSH
    RI 6684 A Study Of Radioactive Contamination Resulting From The Use Of Nuclear Explosives For Stimulating Petroleum Production

    By C. E. Arthur

    The Bureau of Mines has investigated the problem of radioactive contamination using nuclear explosives to fracture petroleum reservoirs in an attempt to stimulate production. It was concluded that som

    Jan 1, 1965

  • AIME
    Minerals Beneficiation - Dynamic Equilibria in the Solar Evaporation of the Great Salt Lake Brine

    By Pablo Hadzeriga

    Great Salt Lake brine was subjected, in laboratory scale, to conditions simulating solar evaporation. Solid phases and the variation in composition of the liquid phase throughout the potassium salts c

    Jan 1, 1968

  • AUSIMM
    Geology and Extraction of the Northland Halloysite Deposits

    New Zealand China Clays produces a unique halloysite clay product at Matauri Bay, Northland.   The company has licences over four deposits that were derived from the weathering of rhyodacite dome

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    The Uranium Industry In An Era Of Rapid Change

    By T. Pool

    Introduction After two decades of contraction and consolidation, the uranium industry has seen a recent major expansion. Rapidly increasing uranium prices and the ability to raise speculative capita

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AIME
    The Rôle And Fate Of The Connate Water In Oil And Gas Sands (c465335a-74c0-4363-a34d-e8e12d72d82a)

    By C. W. Washburne

    Continued discussion of the paper Of ROSWELL H. JOHNSON, presented at the New York meeting, February, 1015, and printed in Bulletin No. 98, February; 1915, pp. 221 to 226. See also Bulletin No. 101, M

    Jan 9, 1915

  • CIM
    Effects of Borehole Deviation on Blasting Results and the Tolerable Error in Borehole Surveying

    By Jerry J. Ran

    In open stope mining borehole deviation is one of the main factors affecting the blasting results. Though previous research has identified some actual deviation patterns, these studies are unable to r

    May 1, 2002

  • SME
    Evaluating Ventilation Parameters For Extended-Cut Mining

    By J. P. Rider

    The number of extended cut mining systems has increased significantly in coal mines over the last decade, and there is a constant push to extend the face ventilation systems to even greater setback di

    Jan 1, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    The Development of L.D. Slag as an Aggregate for Road Construction

    By Stephenson IM

    Research to develop the use of L.D.slag as an aggregate in road construc-tion is described. The chemistry and mineralogy of L.D. slags are shown to be generally similar to S. Yorkshire arc furnace sla

    Jan 1, 1979

  • ISEE
    Epic Blast of 275 US Ton (250 tonnes) Sets Benchmark in Opencast Mining Arena in Environmental Sensitive Area With Desired Fragmentation and Muck Profile.

    By Tapas Kumar Mukherjee, Sujit Kumar, Sanjay Kumar Singh

    This paper dwells on the epic blast conducted at Tata Steel’s captive coal mine in India and the insights drawn from it. Optimal blast design parameters had to be ascertained for operating benches (6.

    Jan 1, 2019