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  • SAIMM
    Safety Considerations When Blasting Off The Solid In Underground Fiery Coal Mines

    By G. V. R. Landman

    In the early days of underground coal mining, the use of explosives to break coal resulted in a large number of disastrous methane and coal dust explosions and consequential loss of life. Research by

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SAIMM
    Establishing A New Metric For Mineral Resource Management

    By A. S. Macfarlane

    Mineral resource management (MRM) practice has developed in South Africa over the course of the last ten years, with the purpose of integrating previously isolated technical functions into a value cha

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Systems simulation for dragline selection in open cast mines

    By K. M. Li, Y. D. Zhang

    The selection of stripping dragline is a complicated problem. Several factors, such as the deposit buried conditions, the demand of mine production rate, cast blasting result, the mining/stripping ope

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Metals And Alloys Water Solidification A Bridge From Pyro- To Hydro-Metallurgy

    By David Norval

    The increased tendency to use hydrometallurgy as an extraction step towards final refining following a pyrometallurgical smelting process requires melts which have to be cast and or comminuted which c

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    FISH - State-Of-The-Art Technology In Final Diamond Recovery

    By L. du Plessis

    The name FISH (Fully Integrated Sort House) refers to a class of technology deployed at Jwaneng Mine final diamond recovery. The FISH concept is based on three pillars, namely: ?Improved sorting ef

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Measurement Of Material Resistivity And Contact Resistance Of Metallurgical Coke

    By J. A. Bakken, M. Tangstad, P. A. Eidem

    In the submerged arc production of ferromanganese, sillicomanganese and ferrochromium, the coke bed characteristics play an important role. The basic mechanisms of electric current conduction in the c

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    About common principles of developed geomechanical classifications and discrepancies in estimation of strength of rock masses

    By Y. P. Shoupletsov

    ABSTRACT. A retrospective analysis of some geomechanical classifications for rock masses is presented. It is shown that estimates of rock mass strength according to geomechanical classifications devel

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Limestone quarry quality optimization for a cement factory in Turkey - Synopsis

    By A. H. Onur

    Many factors govern the size and shape of an open pit, and these must be properly understood and used in the short and long-term planning of any open pit and quarrying operation. The importance of eac

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Ventilation systems in dead-end headings with coal dust and methane hazard

    By J. Szlazak, A. Tor, M. Borowski, N. Szlazak, D. Obracaj

    This article presents the analysis of ventilation systems used in dead-end headings, while being drilled, in coal mines. Special emphasis is put on methane and dust hazard. Mathematical model for dist

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The Application Of In-Mine Electrical Resistance Tomography (ERT) For Mapping Potholes And Other Disruptive Features Ahead Of Mining

    By M. van Schoor

    The bulk of the world?s platinum production originates from the Merensky and UG2 reefs within the Bushveld Complex, South Africa. Both the Merensky and UG2 reefs are disrupted by faults, dykes, pothol

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Developments In Furnace Technology For Ferro-Nickel Production

    By T. Gerritsen, A. Matyas, F. Stober, I. Candy

    This paper describes developments in ferro-nickel furnace technology, specifically improvements to cooling methods, furnace controls, and high voltage furnace operating regime. The evolution of these

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Classification Of Process Dynamics With Monte Carlo Singular Spectrum Analysis

    Paper written on project work carried out in partial fulfilment of M.Sc. (Chemical Engineering)degree Identification of non-linear systems can be a daunting task and in the process industries the p

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Insight Into The Anglo Platinum Mine Optimisation Tool

    By G. R. Lane, A. Vermeulen, S. van de Venter, S. Bhoowanpursadh

    Over the past two years Anglo Platinum made use of the specialist skills of Cyest Corporation to develop a Mine Optimization Tool (MOT) to enhance the current suite of in house mine planning tools and

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Use A Cansolve SO2 Scrubbing System To Better Link Your Batch-Operated Furnace With Its By-Product Sulphuric Acid Plant

    By P. Roy

    Smelting or converting of sulphide concentrates and mattes in a batch operation presents a challenge when directing the off- gas to a conventional acid plant. The Hindustan Zinc Ltd. (a division of th

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Use a Can solve SO2 scrubbing system to better link your batch-operated furnace with its by-product sulphuric acid plant - Synopsis

    By P. Roy

    Smelting or converting of sulphide concentrates and mattes in a batch operation presents a challenge when directing the off- gas to a conventional acid plant. The Hindustan Zinc Ltd. (a division of th

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Improving Cfd Analysis Of Dc Furnace Operation By Refining And Addition Of Transportation Phenomena Models

    By M. Shapiro, L. A. le Grange, B. Henning

    A paper was presented by Bateman Minerals and Metals at INFACONX (2004) describing a simplified Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Model for predicting the temperature and velocity distributions in al

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Structural Analysis Of Molten Na2O-NaF-SiO2 System By Raman Spectroscopy And Molecular Dynamics Simulation

    By H. Urata, K. Ishii

    To determine the effect of F ions in the molten alkali silicate systems on their structures, quenched Na2O-SiO2-NaF systems were investigated by Raman spectroscopy and molecular dynamics simulation. T

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Mine Development - Access To Deposit

    By S. M. Rupprecht

    A deposit to be mined by underground methods can be accessed by a number of methods: ? Adit ? Decline or ramp ? Inclined shaft ? Vertical shaft. Adits are an economical approach when the

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Virtual Reality For Mine Safety Training In South Africa

    By A. P. Squelch

    The high incidence of accidents and fatalities in the South African mining industry, in particular those associated with falls of ground, is often attributed to ineffective and/or inappropriate traini

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    Exploration and extraction of mine gas in Germany—New significant energy source and contribution for safety and climate protection

    By J. Kraemer, A. Preusse

    In the federal state of North Rhine Westphalia (Germany) small and medium sized companies are beginning to extract the related gas via old shafts or boreholes and to use it as a source for the product

    Jan 1, 2003