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  • SAIMM
    Books Review

    Fathi Habashi, Chalcopyrite. Its chemistry and metallurgy. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1978. 165 pp. RI9,95. Loss prevention and safety promotion The Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Loss

    Jan 1, 1979

  • 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
    Fracture displacement due to thermal load from nuclear waste at a repository

    By E. Hakami

    The objective of the study was to estimate the largest shear displacement that could be expected on a pre-existing fracture located in the repository area, due to the heat release from deposited waste

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Focal Depths of South African Earthquakes and Mine Events

    By M. B. C. Brandt

    Focal depths of 15 tectonic earthquakes and 9 mine-related events were determined for South Africa using data recorded by the South African National Seismograph Network. These earthquakes and events w

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Pit Wall Failures On ?Unknown? Structures

    By Phillip M. Dight

    A number of impending and actual pit wall failures have been observed and documented which have been interpreted to initiate on newly generated structural features. This infers failure through intact

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Fan-Structure Shear Rupture Mechanism as a Source of Shear Rupture Rockbursts

    By B. G. Tarasov

    This paper proposes the further development of a recently identified shear rupture mechanism (fan mechanism) that elucidates a paradoxical feature of hard rocks ? the possibility of shear rupture prop

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Assessing risk in grade-tonnage curves in a complex copper deposit, northern Brazil, based on an efficient joint

    By M. B. Fonseca

    Risk quantification in grade-tonnage curves is critical for capital investment in mining projects and can be obtained through geostatistical simulations of orebodies. A practical difficulty may arise

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Personeelbestuur in die mynboubedryf

    By F. S. A. de Frey, F. C. Kruger

    Personnel management has undergone a remarkable change over the course of the past ten years. Personnel departments have played an increasingly important role, which today requires highly trained peop

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    Laser surface alloying of Al with Cu and Mo powders

    By S. T. Camagu, J. Dutta Majumdar, S. L. Pityana

    Laser surface alloying was used to develop copper and molybdenum aluminides by injecting premixed copper and molybdenum powder particles into a laser-generated melt pool on an aluminium substrate. Dif

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Merensky pillar strength formulae based on back-analysis of pillar failures at Impala Platinum - Synopsis

    By B. P. Watson

    The Bushveld platinum group metal deposits are two distinct, shallow-dipping stratiform tabular orebodies and strike for many hundreds of kilometres. Mining is extensive, with depths ranging from clos

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Development and application of new technology for 3D Geomechanical model test of large underground group caverns

    By S. Jiansheng, H. Nakayama, D. Lu, A. Wang

    ABSTRACT: New techniques and methods for 3D geo-mechanical model test are presented in this paper. The new model material NIOS with high density and low cost; the so-called DPSS (Discrete Principal St

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Flotation At Goedehoop Colliery

    By S. N. Opperman

    Testwork at Goedehoop Colliery showed that fine coal, essentially?150 microns can be successfully beneficiated using froth flotation. Both conventional and column flotation were tested. It was found t

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SAIMM
    Development of Best Practice Guideline for the management of hot holes in surface coal mines

    By M. Mpofu, G. Stenzel, F. Magweregwede, B. Maphalala, T. Kgarume

    Surface coal operations in which mining activities are conducted above old underground workings experience hot holes after drilling. In a coal mine, hot holes are defined as shot holes, which after be

    Sep 9, 2024

  • SAIMM
    Innovations In Ferro Alloys Technology In India

    By C. N. Harman

    Steel is the most versatile material which has made the progress in every aspect on this earth possible. There are hundreds of varieties of steel because for each application it has to be made with sp

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Non-Linear System Identification Of An Autocatalytic Reactor Using Least Squares Support Vector Machines

    Paper written on project work carried out in partial fulfilment of B.Sc. Eng. (Extractive Metallurgy)degree The concepts behind support vector machines are very interesting both in theory and in pr

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    A review of the State's role in assisting gold mines in South Africa

    By C. A. Border

    This paper is a brief record of the State's involvement in the problems that have faced Iow-grade mines in the South African gold-mining industry for a period of more than sixty years. Not all th

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SAIMM
    Increasing efficiency of conveyor belt transporting system 4 Belt Lonmin - Synopsis

    By G. G. le Roux

    The purpose of the investigation was to assess various options for increasing the efficiency of the conveyor belt transporting system used at 4 Belt Shaft at Lonmin?s Marikana operations. The reason f

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Descaling Behaviour Of Stainless Steel Following Simulated Reheating

    Experimental results are presented that test the hypothesis that the descaling behaviour of stainless steel slabs following reheating is controlled by interfacial roughening at the scale-steel interfa

    Jan 1, 2003

  • 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 Application and Economics of Industrial Alkaline Leaching of Copper Enargite Concentrates

    By C. G. Anderson

    "As demand for copper and precious metals continues to grow, the need to develop new supplies increases. In the imminent future, the new large global ore bodies are more complex, with enargite, tennan

    Jan 1, 2015