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  • CIM
    A Review of Iron Oxide Copper-Gold Deposits, with Focus on the Wernecke Breccias, Yukon, Canada, as an Example of a Non-Magmatic End Member and Implications for IOCG Genesis and Classification

    By D. J. Thorkelson

    New data indicate Wernecke Breccia-associated iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposits likely formed from moderate-temperature, high-salinity, non-magmatic brines. The breccias formed in an area underla

    Jan 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Development of a Two-Stage Middlings Circuit at Inco’s Clarabelle Mill Part 1: Laboratory Studies

    By Manqiu Xu, Glen Robertson, Steve Wilson, Pete Quinn

    "The middlings circuit, once called the pyrrhotite rejection circuit, at Inco’s Clarabelle mill was a single flotation stage. It used to process a combined feed consisting of the main flotation scaven

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Managing Pit Slope Displacements: Highland Valley Copper?s Lornex Pit Southwest Wall

    By H. Warren Newcomen

    The southwest wall of the Lornex Pit at the Highland Valley Copper mine has been experiencing slope displacements since 1978. Measures to manage the displacements on previous pushbacks have included s

    May 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Development of a Thiosalt Treatment System at Xstrata Copper Kidd Metallurgical Site

    By Andréa Lagacé

    "The milling of sulphide ores inherently generates “thiosalts”, a series of partially oxidized sulphur oxyanions (S2O3 2-, S3O6 2-, S4O6 2- etc.), which make control of effluent treatment systems diff

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    An Overview of Optimizing Strategies for Flotation Banks

    By M. Maldonado, J. A. Finch

    "A flotation bank consists of a serial arrangement of cells. How to optimally operate a bank remains a challenge. This article reviews three strategies for optimizing bank performance: air profiling,

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Coal 1n Western Canada and Its Uses

    By M. M. Williams

    WESTERN CAN ADA'S coal industry has experienced a serious set-back since 1949, following a pattern well known to its counterpart in the United States. The loss in coal markets in Western Canada h

    Jan 1, 1958

  • CIM
    Recovery of thermal coal from waste dumps near Stellarton, Nova Scotia

    By L. C. Bird, N. T. L. Landgren, M. W. Mikhail

    "Through funds made available in 1972 by the Nova Scotia Department of Mines and Energy (DME) and the federal Department of Regional Economic Expansion, a program was initiated to recover saleable coa

    Jan 1, 1981

  • CIM
    Closure Plan for the proposed Millennium Project

    By S. Tuttle, R. Sisson

    "Suncor Energy Inc. has proposed a 2.2 billion dollar expansion to the current oil sands operation, which will more than double the productive capability of the facility. As part of the application fo

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Grain Refinement in Austenitic and Ferritic Stainless Steels

    By R. G. Zaripova, N. D. Ryan, H. J. McQueen

    The austenitic and ferritic stainless steels do not undergo any phase transformation that induces very fine grains in the product through thermomechanical processing as practiced in most other steels.

    Jan 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Hydrometallurgical Process for Rare Earth Elements Recovery from Spent Ni-Hm Batteries

    By Eduardo A. Pérez, Alejandro R. Alonso, Rosa María Luna-Sánchez, Gretchen T. Lapidus

    Rare earth elements have been widely used in various sectors, from the aerospace and steel industries, to electronic applications, particularly in displays and batteries for portable devices. The high

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Hardening of Low-Alloyed Gold

    By Jörg Fischer-Bühner

    Conventional 22ct Au jewellery alloys are comparably soft in the as-cast and soft-annealed state and hardening by cold-working is the only way of giving strength to the jewellery. The paper first focu

    Oct 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Mohawk Garnet

    By Jim Sadowski, Steve Stewart, Bob McMurdy, Martin Nevens

    "Mohawk Garnet has been operating a small pilot plant near Sudbury, Ontario for several years attempting to produce commercially viable garnet. The challenges of operating a pilot scale mining, proces

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Numerical Analysis of the Early Response of Paste Backfill in a Vertical Stope

    By N. E. Mkadmi

    Backfilling increases the stability of underground stopes and may help reduce the environmental footprint from the mining operation. The barricades holding the backfill in place must be designed to pr

    May 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Diggability of plains overburden with bucketwheel excavators

    By A. M. Krzanowski, T. S. Golosinski

    "This paper presents results of a study undertaken to determinethe feasibility of mining plains overburdens with bucket wheel excavators. Based on extensive geotechnical testing of overburdens under s

    Jan 1, 1987

  • CIM
    Galvanic Interaction and Particle Size Effects in Self-Heating of Sulphide Mixtures

    By Jan E. Nesset, James A. Finch, Frank Rosenblum, Rebecca Payant

    "Under certain conditions of moisture and oxygen, sulphides can spontaneously heat, a phenomenon known as self-heating. In this paper, we test a hypothesis that galvanic interaction between some sulph

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    The Stillwater Paste Backfill Plant

    By Frank Yu, Bob Fukuhara

    "The Stillwater mine is a 3,000 tons/day platinum/palladium underground mine and flotation concentrator located in the Beartooth mountain range in south-central Montana. The site elevation is 5,000 fe

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    The Development and Commissioning of Ontario’s First Diamond Mine: Victor Diamond Mine

    By N. Morrison, I. Holl, R. Welyhorsky, A. Hempstock

    ABSTRACT: The Victor diamond mine is located in the James Bay lowlands, 90 km west of the First Nations village of Attawapiskat. The project was the first of its kind in northern Ontario. The process

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Innovations In Hydrometallurgical Performance Management: Heap Leaching Solvent Extraction And Electrowinning Plants

    By O. A. Bascur

    Several new hydrometallurgical plants have been built in the past years, new processes and equipment as well as advanced process control systems are being used to deal with the increasing requirements

    Jan 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Development of a Cadmium Removal Process for Vale’s Long Harbour Hydrometallurgy Plant

    By P. C. Holloway, A. Tshilombo, T. Xue, M. J. Collins, R. Lopetinsky, I. Mihaylov, I. M. Masters

    The Voisey’s Bay deposit contains a trace amount of cadmium, which reports to solution during pressure leaching of the nickel concentrate at Vale’s Long Harbour Hydrometallurgy Plant, and must be remo

    Jan 1, 2019

  • CIM
    Greenhouse Gas Abatement Through Energy Optimization

    By David Clarry

    ?The issue ?reduction requirement ?Planning abatement steps ?Energy Management & Energy Efficiency ?Energy Recovery / Utilization ?Alternative Energy Professional Services Overview ?Capital Pro

    May 1, 2009