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  • SAIMM
    Novel Basket Design For Fine Coal Centrifuges

    This paper summarizes the results from a project aimed at adapting scroll centrifuges for application to the dewatering of flotation concentrates. The main impetus for the project was to reduce the hi

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    End-Of-Life Mode Of Failure Of A Zinc Sulphide Concentrate Fluidised Bed Roaster And Its Rebuilding

    By N M. Vegter, C B. Kohler, E H. O Meyer

    Zincor operates four Lurgi fluidised-bed roasters at its roast-leach-electrowin refinery in Springs, South Africa. In 2006, Zincor?s four roasters had reached ages ranging between 26 and 38 years, whi

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Thermophysical properties of rocks from the Bushveld Complex

    By M. Q. W. Jones

    This paper presents a compilation of physical properties of rocks from the Bushveld Complex. The database consists of more than 900 measurements each of thermal conductivity and density. The data are

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    When Is A Workplace Safe Or Unsafe?: The Safety Criterion In Terms Of The Occupational Health And Safety Act And The Mine Health And Safty Act - Mine And Occupational Health And Safety 2010 - 1 Statute And Common Law

    By Willem Le Roux

    Occupational health and safety is regulated by statute and common law. South Africa has, like many other countries, legislated extensively on occupational health and safety. Despite the body of legisl

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    In Situ Studies On Service Life And Pick Consumption Characteristics Of Shearer Drums

    By B. Tiryaki

    Longwall shearers usually suffer from excessive pick and pickholder consumptions and severe wear of the back plate of the clearance ring section of shearer drums. In practice, most of the drums were s

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Innovations In Precious Metal Recovery

    By C. van Tonder

    Paper written on project work carried out in partial fulfilment of B Tech (Engineering Metallurgy) degree This investigation relates to a multi-purpose electrolytic system. Its primary purpose is t

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Verification Of Pillar Life Prediction Method

    By J. N. Van der Merwe

    The principal goal of the research described in the paper was to determine, by measurement of pillar scaling on pillars that have not failed, whether the pillar life prediction method developed by van

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    The Effect Of Electrolyte Additives On Cathode Surface Quality During Copper Electrorefining - Synopsis

    By T. A. Muhlare

    The use of electrolyte additives to smoothen cathode deposits during copper deposition is practised worldwide. These additives absorb on the cathode surface and take part in the electrochemical crysta

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Project Valuation, Capital Investment And Strategic Alignment - Tools And Techniques At Anglo Platinum (defa1552-deac-43da-9958-aabe8c199db2)

    By G. L. Smith

    Central to the success of any mining company is the ability to manage capital investment effectively so as to ensure acceptable stakeholder returns within an overall strategic context. Critical to thi

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Cyanidation Of Reef And Surface Gold Ores ? Synopsis

    By L. Rademan

    The kinetic leaching behaviour of a low-grade surface gold ore and a high-grade reef ore were evaluated to determine the achievable gold recovery from these ores and particularly mixtures of these ore

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Cut-off grade determination for the maximum value of a small Wits-type gold mining operation

    Work undertaken in the field of cut-off grade optimization has not advanced much beyond the work undertaken by Lane in 1988. His definitive work is based on the calculus of the Net Present Value crite

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Copper losses to slags obtained from the E1 Teniente process

    By M. Sanchez, I. Imris, G. Achurra

    The Smelting and Converting El Teniente Process for copper concentrates as well as Slag Cleaning Furnace Technologies to treat slags coming out from the El Teniente Furnaces are widely applied today i

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Concentration Profiles Of Gold Inside Activated Carbon During Adsorption

    The gold concentration profiles which develop inside the activated carbon particles during the adsorption process were measured, so as to obtain additional direct proof of intra-particle mass transfer

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SAIMM
    Evaluation Of The Indirect Measures Of Rock Brittleness And Fracture Toughness In Rock Cutting

    By B. Tiryaki

    Performance prediction models for partial face mechanical excavators, when developed in laboratory conditions, depend on relating the results of a set of rock property tests and indices to specific cu

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Gautrain Tunnels: Surface Vibration And Ground-Borne Noise

    By J. L. van Niekerk

    The proposed Gautrain Rapid Rail Link (GRRL) will require approximately 15 km of double or twin high-speed rail track tunnels located for the greater part beneath the northern suburbs of Johannesburg,

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Copper Recovery Using Leach/Solvent Extraction/Electrowinning Technology: Forty Years Of Innovation, 2.2 Million Tonnes Of Copper Annually

    By G. A. Kordosky

    The concept of selectively extracting copper from a low-grade dump leach solution followed by stripping the copper into an acid solution from which electrowon copper cathodes could be produced occurre

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SAIMM
    A new evaluation method of JRC and its size effect

    By T. Saito, S. Murata

    An original concept of JRC-diagram that can evaluate JRC and its size-effect by using a fractal model was proposed. In order to confirm the applicability of the JRC-diagram, first, JRC of the tensile

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Thermophilic Mineral Bioleaching Performance: A Compromise Between Maximizing Mineral Loading And Maximizing Microbial Growth And Activity

    By A. Sissing

    Paper written on project work carried out in partial fulfilment of M.Sc. (Chemical Engineering) degree Thermophilic bioleaching, conducted at temperatures in excess of 65°C, provides considerable b

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Heavy minerals from Alberta’s oil sands—setting new standards?

    By Q. Lui, J. Oxenford

    The occurrence of heavy minerals in the oil sands of Alberta has long been known and has been well documented in the literature. Unfortunately most of the researchers working on this resource have bee

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Equilibrium Interactions Between Freeze Lining And Slag Inilmenite Smelting

    In ilmenite smelting, the FeO content of the feed material (nominally FeO.TiO2) is decreased by reduction with carbon. In a parallel reaction, a significant amount of the TiO2is reduced to Ti2O3.One o

    Jan 1, 2004