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  • SAIMM
    SPOTLIGHT on the Accounting for Gold School

    By D. L. Morrison

    The School on the Accounting for Gold, which was organized under the auspices of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy by Dr Hugh E. Bartlet, Consulting Metallurgist of Johannesburg Con

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SAIMM
    Optimization Of Mechanized Mining Layout Within Anglo American Platinum

    By P. Valicek

    Anglo American Platinum Limited is constantly striving to improve safety and productivity. There are many different initiatives taking place within the organization in order to ensure continued safe

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Berg Bock Freeway Tunnel: Optimizing the Heading Technique and the Operational Safety for the Tunnel built by the Shotcrete Method

    By C. Erichsen

    ABSTRACT: The Berg Bock Freeway Tunnel represents the southernmost link of the "Thuringian tunnel chain" of the new freeway A71 located in the eastern part of Germany. It comprises two tubes each 2700

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Early shaft reef removal at Beatrix No. 3 Vertical Shaft

    By J. W. Klokow, S. L. Mulder

    Early removal of the shaft reef is usually considered necessary on deep level South African gold mines to avoid damaging stress build-up associated with traditional shaft-protection pillars. In the ca

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Determination of in situdeformation modulus for cemented rockfill

    By D. R. Tesarik, F. M. Jones, J. B. Seymour

    As part of safety and stability studies at three underground mines in the United States, researchers installed earth pressure cells and embedment strain gauges in cemented rockfill to measure stress a

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The Introduction of a Stiff Rockbolt and Hanging Wall Control Management System at a Platinum Mine in South Africa

    By P. Altounyan, K. Akermann, T. Van den Berg

    Amandelbult Mine is currently undertaking a trial to mechanise the mining of the UG2 reef through the introduction of room and pillar mining. As part of the trial, a system of managing the control of

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Book Review

    Broken Hill Mines-1968, edited by M. Radmanovich and J. T. Woodcock, published by The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, 613 pages. Price $A15. This volume, containing some

  • SAIMM
    Comparison of the Effect of Particle Size on the Flotation Kinetics of a Low-Rank Coal Using Air Bubbles and Oily Bubbles

    By C. Liu, G. Zhu, Y. Liao

    "The effect of particle size on the flotation kinetics of a low-rank coal was compared using air bubbles and oily bubbles. Five kinetic models were applied to the data from the tests to derive the rel

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SAIMM
    Annual General Meeting of the Institute

    The Annual General Meeting of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy was held in Kelvin House, Johannesburg, on Wednesday, 27th August, 1980. Mr D. A. Viljoen (President) was in the c

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SAIMM
    Automated probabilistic domain assignment to production blast hole assays APCOM 2021

    By A. Melkumyan, K. Silversides

    Chemical assays collected from blast holes have the potential to greatly improve the local accuracy of grade models. Assays must be assigned to the correct domain or they will introduce errors. Bounda

    Sep 1, 2021

  • SAIMM
    Introducing new members of Council. . .

    Mr G. Maude was educated at Huish's Grammar School (Taunton) and Leeds University. He graduated in 1961 with a B.Sc. degree in Mining. Mr E.B. Crocker was educated at Florida Park High School, Wi

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SAIMM
    The Oxidized Ores Of The Main Sulphide Zone, Great Dyke, Zimbabwe: Turning Resources Into Minable Reserves ? Mineralogy Is The Key

    By T. Oberthür

    The Great Dyke of Zimbabwe constitutes the world?s second largest reserve of platinum group elements (PGE) after the Bushveld Complex in neighbouring South Africa. Within the Great Dyke, economic conc

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Age hardening of the aluminium alloy EN 4017 - Synopsis

    By D. B. Swanepoel

    Hulamin Rolled Products (Ltd) developed a high Mn and Si containing alloy, EN 4017 as a scrap consuming alloy from the waste generated in producing their range of clad products for brazing of inter al

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    New directions for the effective analysis of stress and strain induced by tabular mining

    By J. A. L. Napier

    One of the most important characteristics of tabular mine stress analysis is the need to represent the complex evolution of mining face positions and the accompanying induced stress changes in the roc

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Study of the effects of shaft pillar extraction on a vertical shaft located in highly stratified and poor quality rock masses

    By G. du T. Judeel

    An investigation was carried out to determine whether a numerical model could be constructed that would produce results that realistically represent actual ground deformations in and around a vertical

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Book review

    Book review Pearson, J. S. Ocean floor mining. Park Ridge (New Jersey), Noyes Data Corporation, 1975. 201 pp. NIM reports Report no. 308 A mineralogical study of gold particles in pulp residues from t

    Jan 2, 1976

  • SAIMM
    Probabilistic approach in rock slope stability analysis for Himalayan conditions

    By S. Pathak, B. Nilsen

    Abstract: In recent years, probabilistic approach with the calculation of probability of failure instead of a factor of safety against failure is emerging in practice. The main objective of the paper

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The free ligand model to describe and design cobalt extraction and nickel scrubbing in a base metal refinery

    By O. S. L. Bruinsma, M. J. Matsela, D. J. van der Westhuizen

    The free ligand (FL) model is an intuitive model to calculate the equilibrium concentrations in solvent extraction (SX) based on the distribution coefficient (Kd) at infinite dilution and the fraction

    Dec 11, 2024

  • SAIMM
    Analysis of a rock slope failure in a feldspar open pit mine

    By G. Iabichino, M. Cravero, F. Nacci, L. Rinaldi, L. Vigliero

    ABSTRACT: The proposed paper is aimed at analysing the failure of a steep cliff slope that, in the past, was exploited for open pit mining operations. A volume of over 400,000m3 of gneissic aplitic ro

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Corrosion of rock bolts and the effect of corrosion protection on the axial behavior of cable bolts

    By I. Satola, J. Aromaa

    In this work we have reviewed methods to classify corrosivity of ground waters. Weight loss and stress corrosion cracking (SCC) corrosion tests have been done for rebar and steel strand. No clear indi

    Jan 1, 2003