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  • SAIMM
    Keynote Address: The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act of 2002: Likely impact on black economic empowerment in South Africa

    By F. T. Cawood

    Inauguration of the new political dispensation in South Africa in 1994 initiated a dynamic shift in the ownership, management and development of the country’s affluent mineral heritage. The process of

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Green Pages - Interactive Industrial Theatre In Environmental Education

    Using the philosophy that 'change cannot be introduced through memos-you have to get people emotionallyinvolved', SRK's Environmental Group in South Africa is helping clients communicat

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SAIMM
    Hydraulic Hoisting Technology For Platinum Mines (3622213b-45e5-4e01-99ed-721e60559e61)

    By G. van den Berg

    Anglo Platinum has initiated a project to investigate hydraulic hoisting technology for platinum mines. Hydraulic hoisting systems are categorized as pumping, fluidizing feeder or displacement feeder

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    High Density Slurry And Paste Tailings, Transport Systems

    By A. J. C. Paterson

    High density slurry and paste tailings systems offer significant environmental benefits primarily related to reduced water consumption. However, these potential advantages need to be evaluated on a pr

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Evaluation Of The Effect Of Coal Chemical Properties On The Hardgrove Grindability Index (HGI) Of Coal Using Artificial Neural Networks

    By S. Khoshjavan

    In this investigation, the effects of different coal chemical properties were studied to estimate the coal Hardgrove Grindability Index (HGI) values index. An artificial neural network (ANN) method fo

    Jun 1, 2013

  • SAIMM
    The Effect Of Mode Of Occurrence Of Galena And Sphalerite On The Selective Flotation Of Ore Samples From The Rosh Pinah Mine (062bc6c9-1759-4403-85ed-af96a64d42c3)

    By M. D. Seke

    The flotation response of a Pb-Zn sulphide ore from the Rosh Pinah Mine (Namibia) was studied in the presence of inorganic depressants such as sodium cyanide and zinc sulphate. Poor flotation selectiv

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Grade Control Blending And Selectivity For Optimal Process Performance At The Skorpion Zinc Mine, Namibia

    By G B. Gnoinski

    The Skorpion Zinc Mine and Refinery is situated approximately 25 km north of Rosh Pinah, south-western Namibia. The supergene zinc oxide deposit at Skorpion is hosted in a volcano-sedimentary success

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Stabilizing And Bracket Pillar Design To Reduce Seismicity

    By F. M. C. C. Vieira

    The work described forms part of a Safety in Mines Research Advisory Committee (SIMRAC) funded project, currently an ongoing programme of research aimed at providing ?improved criteria, guidelines and

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SAIMM
    J Acid Plant Capacity Increase - 1. Introduction

    By Siyabonga Malevu

    Chemical Initiatives? Umbogintwini plant is the production facility of Chemical Initiatives? business. Umbogintwini?s J Plant manufactures sulphuric acid. The plant was designed and built by Simon Car

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    A case study of geotechnical conditions affecting mining-induced seismicity in a deep tabular mine

    By D. F. Malan, L. Scheepers

    Seismic risk in the deep gold mines of South Africa has been studied for many decades. A clear understanding of the effect of geotechnical conditions on the seismic hazard nevertheless remains elusive

    Mar 2, 2022

  • 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
    Stability design of slopes in carbonatite complexes characterised by brecciation

    By D. Moses, J. A. Onyango

    Carbonatites are generally competent rock masses with rock mass rating class II rating 60–74. In spite of their competency, they tend to be affected by weak features like manganese-iron veins and/or i

    Sep 1, 2025

  • SAIMM
    Proceedings Special General Meeting and February General Meeting

    A Special General Meeting, followed by the February General Meeting of the Institute, was held in Kelvin House, Johannesburg, on 18th February, 1970, at 4.30 p.m. Mr J. K. E. Douglas (President) wa

  • SAIMM
    The influence of stemming practice on ground vibration and air blast

    By M. Mpofu, B. Maphalala, S. Khan, S. Ngobese, D. Roberts

    This paper details an assessment of stemming practices at a South African opencast coal mine and their influence on ground vibration and air blast. Quantitative and qualitative analysis methods were u

    Jan 1, 2021

  • SAIMM
    The Simulation of Crushing Plants with Models Developed using Multiple Spline Regression (6f225d4e-c714-4b32-97c8-4db17382e4fc)

    By W. J. Whiten

    "Models of cone crushers and vibrating screens are described. These models have been constructed from actual plant data using a systematic model-building technique. Included in this technique is regre

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Computer Control of the Semi-autogenous Grinding Mill at Benguet Corporation's Kaline Concentrator, Zambales, Philippines

    By E. M. Sacris

    The semi-autogenous grinding mill is the bottleneck whenever treating hard and finely fragmented ore at Benguet Corporation's Kaline Concentrator. Low milling rates result from very high and fluc

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    Various Techniques To Produce Low Carbon Ferrochrome

    By A. M. Ghodgaonkar, P. J. Bhonde, R. D. Angal

    Primarily ferrochrome is used to introduce chromium into steels and alloys. Chromium enhances hardness, hardenability, corrosion, abrasion and wear resistance of the steel. High carbon ferrochrome

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Flotation flowsheet development for a refractory Cu-Pb-Zn complex polymetallic ore in China, Z.G. Song, Q. Cui, B.Z. Zhou, G.B. Zheng, and Y.G. Zhu

    By Q. Cui, B. Z. Zhou, Z. G. Song, Y. G. Zhu, G. B. Zheng

    The complex refractory Cu-Pb-Zn polymetallic ore in Xinjiang, China is a massive sulphide ore with complex mineral components. In the past two years, the ore mineralogy has changed, resulting in a dec

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    A Mining Perspective on the Potential of Renewable Electricity Sources For Operations in South Africa: Part 2 – A Multi-Criteria Decision Assessment

    By R. G. Votteler, A. C. Brent

    "The first in this series of two papers, on the potential of renewable electricity sources for mining operations in South Africa, investigated the internal structure of mining corporations to evaluate

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SAIMM
    The adsorption mechanism of 2-(benzylthio)-acetohydroxamic acid to diaspore, Q. Sun, H. Zhong, and S. Wang

    By H. Zhong, S. Wang, Q. Sun

    The flotation performance of 2-(benzylthio)-acetohydroxamic acid (BTHA) to diaspore was first evaluated by micro-flotation tests. The adsorption mechanism was further investigated through adsorption e

    Jan 1, 2020