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  • CIM
    Grinding: Why So Many Tests?

    By Alex Doll, Derek Barratt

    "There is a number of comminution tests commonly used in the mining industry. Many of the tests are used for a particular grinding model or mill sizing program and are incompatible with other tests of

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    From Paper to Digital - The True Value of Historical Mining Information: Glenorchy Scheelite Prospect

    There is a significant amount of historical mining and exploration information available. This information is often distributed throughout a number of reports or plans, available from a variety of sou

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Filtration of coal washery slurries using a horizontal belt filter

    By Slechta J. J

    An evaluation of a pilot scale Delkor horizontal belt filter at Bellambi's South Bulli Colliery showed high productivities and low moisture contents for a range of feed slurries. When treating fl

    Jan 1, 1986

  • CIM
    Comminution Circuit Design Considerations (49th Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Operators Conference©, Ottawa, Ontario, January 17-19, 2017)

    By S. Rivard

    "This paper demonstrates the selection of grinding circuit technology for a number of recent projects including discussion of the key drivers and the role of energy efficiency. Decreasing head grades

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SAIMM
    Metallurgy From Above ? A Google Earth Perspective

    By Q. C. Reynolds

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, plant, photography, GIS, satellite images, Google Earth Google Earth is a piece of software able to display an interactive three-dimensional map of the world, combining a

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME-ICGCM
    Three-Seam Stress Analyses at Bowie Mines, Colorado

    By Hamid Maleki

    In this paper, the authors present a review of data gathering programs and stress analyses for improving mine layout designs at BRL mines located near Paonia, Colorado. BRL and other companies have

    Jan 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Processing Plant Expansion at Kittila Mine Affords Opportunity for Significant Material Handling Improvement

    By T. Holmes, J. Middlemiss

    "Agnico-Eagle (AE) has been operating their Kittila Mine in Northern Finland since 2008. The mine has experienced considerable ore flow problems with ratholing, bridging and freezing in their mill fee

    Jan 1, 2017

  • AIME
    Economics of the Mineral Industry - Changing Conditions Compel New Concepts of Mineral Engineering

    By P. T. Allsman

    INTRODUCTION The honor of being the recipient of the Mining Society's Daniel C. Jackling Award for 1966 imposes on me the responsibility to search for the subject that I would be best qualifie

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SAIMM
    The recovery of platinum group metals from low-grade concentrates to an iron alloy using silicon carbide as reductant

    By G. A. Bezuidenhout, S. Bradshaw, W. Malan

    "The purpose of the study was to investigate the feasibility of SiC reduction of low-grade concentrates from Lonmin’s Rowland and Easterns operations with respect to metal fall and PGM recovery. These

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The Dugald River Zinc-Lead Deposit, Northwest Queensland, Australia

    By Johnson I. R, Muir M. D

    The Dugald River zinc-lead deposit is located 60 km northwest of Cloncurry. It was discovered prior to 1881, and since 1937, has been the subject of several drilling programmcs which have outlined a r

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AUSIMM
    Shaft construction at the Gold Fields Wallaby mine

    By J Graaf, R A. Murrell

    Gold Fields Australia is constructing two major ventilation shafts at the Wallaby gold mine in Western Australia. The new ventilation shafts are required to facilitate the long term ventilation strate

    Oct 16, 2017

  • CIM
    Economic Evaluation of Activated Carbon for Gold Milling Circuits

    By M. Drozd, M. Somppi, Z. Yamak

    "Granular activated carbon is widely used in the gold mining industry for gold extraction from aurocyanide-containing slurry. The extraction process can employ carbon as part of the gold recovery oper

    Jan 1, 2017

  • CIM
    Principal Components Analysis of ToF-SIMS Data: Application to Mineral Recognition, Surface Reaction and Separation by Flotation

    By Brian Hart, Roger St. C. Smart, James Francis, Mark Biesinger

    "There are a number of challenges involved with the surface analyses of different mineral phases from process streams in a flotation facility. The first of course is to collect samples that are repres

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Electrolytic Refining and Smelting at Port Kembla, New South Wales

    SOME notes on the works of the Electrolytic Refining and Smelting Company of Australia will no doubt be of interest to members of the Institute, more especially as much of the work is new to Australas

    Jan 1, 1910

  • NIOSH
    Enhanced Surface Control For Roof And Rib Support

    By Stephen C. Tadolini, Dennis R. Dolinar

    The risk of injury caused by minor roof falls continues to increase in underground mining. Most ground control injuries result from small rock falls that occur in a supported area, but do not involve

  • SAIMM
    Casting And Cooling/Crushing Of Silicon Metal And Silicon Alloy At Bécancour Silicon Inc.

    By D. Ksinsik, R. Boisvert, D. Leblanc

    Casting, cooling and crushing/sieving of ferroalloys has followed a well-established pattern in the whole ferroalloys industry for many years. Usually liquid metal or alloys are cast into flat open m

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    A Study of the Compounds Formed during the Setting of Superphosphate Made from a Blend of Christmas Island "A" and Nauru Ores

    By Walker G. S

    A study of the crystalline materials on or near the surface of freshly made or "green" superphosphate granules and mature, "set" superphosphate granules was undertaken using X-ray

    Jan 1, 1980

  • AUSIMM
    Milling Practice at the Central Mine, Broken Hill, N.S.W.

    CENTRAL mine ore consists mainly of galena and marmatite in a siliceous and rhodonitic gangue, the average assay values being approximately 11.5 oz. per ton Ag, 14.5% Pb, 14.5% Zn, 1.3% Ox Pb, 0.3% Ox

    Jan 1, 1931

  • NIOSH
    Preparation Characteristics Of Some Coals Available For The Synthetic Liquid Fuels Industry ? Introduction

    By Thomas Fraser

    WHEN the Bureau of Mines initiated the program of large-scale research and development in the field of synthetic liquid fuels authorized in the Synthetic Liquid Fuels Act of April 5, 1044, the Coal Pr

    Jan 1, 1950

  • NIOSH
    RI 3042 Extinction of Methane Flame by Dichloro-Difluoro

    By G. St. J. Perrott, G. W. Jones

    "In the course of its investigations pertaining to the promotion of safety the Bureau of Mines is actively engaged in investigating all promising materials that may be of value in rendering methane or

    Oct 1, 1930