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  • SAIMM
    A note on predicting the performance of large flotation machines

    By B. K. Loveday

    The use of large flotation machines is well established, resulting in substantial savings in both capital and operating costs. Therefore, when a new plant is designed, laboratory and pilot-plant tests

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Evaluation of heat-acclimatization procedures at wet-bulb temperatures below 31,7 °C

    By P. C. Schutte, N. B. Strydom, A. J. Kielblock

    Three groups of unacclimatized men were subjected to five-day climatic-room procedures at wet-bulb temperatures of 29,30, and 31 C respectively. The findings indicated that individuals reach a satisfa

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    A critical evaluation of methods applicable to the determination of cyanides

    By C. Pohlandt

    A literature survey of methods suitable for the determination of cyanides in process streams and effluents is presented. Of the large number of methods published, 92 are examined in detail, emphasis b

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    The prereduction and smelting of chromite concentrate of low chromium-to-iron ratio

    By A. R. Barnes, C. W. P. Finn

    The prereduction and smelting characteristics of UG-2 ore were studied and compared with those of Winterveld chromite ore. The UG-2 ore proved more reducible, and substantial prereduction (over 70 per

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Book News

    1. New books Specialty steels and hard materials, edited by N. R. Comins and J. B. Clark. Oxford, Pergamon, 1983.482 pp. Hardcover £55.50. Papers presented at an international conference on advances i

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Book news

    1. Book reviews Quantitative texture analysis, edited by H. ,}. Bunge and C. Esling. Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Metallkunde, 1982. 551 pp. Reviewer: L. 1\'1.Matthews Boundary element methods in so

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Book news

    1. Book reviews A report by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission on the efficiency and. costs in the development, production and supply of coal by the NCB (Chairman G. Le Quesne). London, Her Majesty

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Book News

    1. Book reviews Mill Operators' Conference. Parkville (Australia), Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1982. 425 pp. Reviewer: B. K. Loveday Off highway truck haulage. Newman Combine

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Book News

    1. New publications International minerals/metals review - 1982. Washington D.C., McGraw-Hill, 1983.720 pp. U.S.$1l7. Mining subsidence engineering, by Helmut Kratzsch. New York, Springer, 1983.580 pp

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Annual General Meeting of the Institute

    The 86th Annual General Meeting of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy was held in Kelvin House, Johannesburg, on Wednesday, 17th August, 1983. Professor A. N. Brown (President) was

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Book News

    1. Book reviews Underwater tools, by Donald J. Hackman and Don W. Candy. Columbus (D.S.A.), Battelle Press, 1981. 152 pp. $32,95. Reviewer: B. Schmitz Uranium exploration case histories. Proceedings o

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Spotlight on Councillors' Visit to Franz Hoenig Haus

    By John Freer

    As an innovation on the annual programme, the Excursions Sub-Committee organized a social get together of the Institute's Councillors and their families on Sunday, 27th February, 1983. Asian Mini

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Theoretical considerations of the cementation of copper with iron

    By R. D. Agrawal, M. L. Kapoor

    Cementation has been used extensively by chemists and metallurgists as an economical process for the purification and recovery of metals from dilute solutions. The paper deals. firstly. with the therm

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    Some considerations in the use of gravity concentration for the recovery of gold

    By J. E. Forbes, B. K. Loveday

    The role of gravity concentration in the recovery of gold from typical South African gold ores is described. The location of the concentrator in the grinding circuit is discussed, and typical capaciti

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    Contribution to the previous paper

    By G. L. C. Young

    The first full-scale Reichert cone concentrating plant to be erected at a large South African gold mine was at President Steyn Gold Mining Company, Welkom. ThiR plant was installed as a part of the ru

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    A contactor for liquid-liquid extraction from slurries

    By H. W. Byerlee

    A contactor has been designed that avoids solvent loss due to coalescence and other causes. This consists of a column packed with grids. Slurry enters at the top and flows as films down the inclined s

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    The planning and establishment of the coal-beneficiation plant at Grootegeluk

    By J. Gilliland

    The Grootegeluk coal-beneficiation plant was erected in the Waterberg coalfield, near Ellisras in the Transvaal, to supply Iscor's steelworks with a predetermined tonnage of coking coal in accord

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    The effect of head grade on recovery efficiency in a gold-reduction plant

    By M. Splaine, C. E. Dohm, S. J. Browner

    As the grade of the gold (head grade) in the ore supplied to a reduction plants falls, the efficiency of recovery of the metal drops. This is not simply due to a fixed grade lost in the residue, since

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    SPOTLIGHT on new office-bearers of the Chamber of Mines

    At the Annual General Meeting of the Chamber of Mines of South Africa, held in Johannesburg on 29th June, 1982, the following leading members of the mining industry were elected to office for the 1982

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    A review of the deposits and beneficiation of lower-grade chromite

    By Ralph H. Nafziger

    This paper reviews the major deposits of lower-grade chromite in the world, and a wide variety of methods used for the recovery of chromium from them. Gangue materials in more coarsely sized ores can

    Jan 1, 1982