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Nevsun Resources NSU ? TSX & AMEX Mission: To build a mining company taking exploration discoveries into productionTABAKOTO / SEGALA ? Annual gold production approximately 100,000 oz ? Debt free ? Unhedged ? Combined surface reserves 949,000 oz ? Combined 9 year life Tabakoto open pit reserve 568,000 oz (3.4
May 1, 2006
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Namew Lake Mill ProjectBy K. Hoover, G. Labarre, S. Rantanen
"As part of the Namew Lake project a mill was constructed to treat 1900 tpd of ore grading approximately 0.90% CU and 2.45% Ni to produce copper and nickel concentrates.Nickel occurs mainly as pentlan
Jan 1, 1990
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Embedding Sustainability into Environmental and Social Impact AssessmentsBy Louise Pearce
?Environmental and social impact assessments (ESIAs) are: ??process-driven and scientific processes ??The process entails a number of steps and procedures which result in obtaining a licenceto ope
May 1, 2011
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Comparing the Behaviour of Modeled Paste in 2D and 3D, using Both Simplified and Complex Stope GeometriesBy Ryan L. Veenstra
This paper presents a modelling study of a cemented paste backfill in an underground stope. The model was developed to help provide a better understanding of what is happening in the stope during the
Jun 1, 2012
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Narrow vein mine design at the Hoyle Pond mineBy John G. Henning
The Hoyle Pond underground mine is located in the Porcupine Gold Camp, 18 km east of downtown Timmins. Since the initiation of production in 1985, the operation has produced in excess of 1.9 million o
Oct 1, 2004
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Grinding Calculations Related to the Application of Large Rod and Ball MillsBy C. A. Rowland Jr
"I. INTRODUCTIONFred C. Bond's ""Third Theory of Comminution"" (1) was published in 1952. The mathematical statement of the Third Theory is the well-known Bond Formula:where W - Kw H per short tonWl -
Jan 1, 1972
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Subaqueous Deposition of Acid Generating Tailings into an Acidic Lake Environment: Pilot Column Test ResultsBy Linda C. M. Elliot, Liangxue Liu
"The deposition of tailings under water is considered to be one of the most environmentally promising and potentially cost effective methods to reduce or eliminate acid mine drainage from tailings. On
Jan 1, 1997
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Geostatistical simulation of optimum mining elevations for nickel laterite deposits (b9d9907f-58af-4f31-a4f0-796631528f37)By J. A. McLennan, J. M. Ortiz
Nickel laterite deposits are typically formed from tropically weathered mafic-to-ultramafic complexes. The resulting nickel concentration is found within soil horizons and is mineable with regular doz
Jan 1, 2006
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Replacement of Classification Screens with Cyclones in the McArthur River Uranium Mine Grinding CircuitBy Ken Dyck, Chuck Edwards
"Cameco's McArthur River is the world's largest high grade uranium mine. Production started in late 1999. Cameco carried out the engineering design and construction management for the McArthur River p
Jan 1, 2004
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The Evolution of Falcon Continuous Concentrators at Tantalum Mining Corporation of CanadaBy Claude Deveau
"With ever decreasing feed grades, finer mineralogy and increased demand for product, it became obvious that a major step in equipment performance was required to reduce operating costs and increase p
Jan 1, 2000
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100 Years of Blowing Bubbles for ProfitBy Jan E. Nesset
It is just over 100 years since the practice of blowing small bubbles into a mixture of ground ore and water revolutionized the mining industry, resulting in uneconomic deposits becoming highlyprofita
Jan 1, 2009
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UNIFLOT SP129 - Copper Sulphide CollectorBy S. Auger, S. McDonald, K. Ward
"This preliminary paper provides a summary of lab and mill flotation investigations into the copper collector at two Canadian operations. The orebodies illustrated in these studies both contain mainly
Jan 1, 1992
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Towards a Worldwide Network of Education in Mineral EngineeringBy Hans de Ruiter
"Delft University of Technology, RWTH Aachen, Helsinki University of Technology and Imperial College established the Federation of European Mineral Programs (FEMP) in 1999 as a legal body to coordinat
Jan 1, 2004
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Tyrethane for Screening FabricationBy S. L. Aaroe
"TYRETHANE PRODUCTSTyrethane® is the family brand name which has been adopted by The W. S. Tyler Company of Canada, Limited to identify its polyurethane products. Since we have been manufacturing Wove
Jan 1, 1976
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Stope Sequence Optimization for Narrow Vein, Long Term Mine PlanningBy André van Wageningen
Long term mine scheduling is one of the most difficult optimization problems. The problem is said to be NP-complete in that the best possible solution cannot be found any quicker than checking all pos
Oct 1, 2004
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A Queuing Network Model for Shovel-Truck-Crusher Systems in Open-pit MiningBy Jiwen Zhang
Abstract Due to the blocking nature at the crusher station, straightforward application of queuing theory cannot give realistic results on the performance of a shovel-truck-crusher system. A new queu
Oct 1, 2009
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A Queuing Network Model for Shovel-Truck-Crusher Systems in Open-pit MiningBy Jiwen Zhang
Due to the blocking nature at the crusher station, straightforward application of queuing theory cannot give realistic results on the performance of a shovel-truck-crusher system. A new queuing networ
Oct 1, 2009
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Cyclone modelling: A review of present technologyBy L. R. Plitt, A. A. Turak, B. C. Flintoff
"Since the publication of empirical cyclone models by Lynch and Rao in 1975 and by Plitt in 1976, the technical literature on this subject has consisted primarily of reports of applications, with only
Jan 1, 1987
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Commissioning of a Brownfield CDS Plant: Victories and Pitfalls (48th Annual Canadian Mineral Processors Operators Conference)By N. Romani, R. Provost
"Commissioning of a circulating dry scrubber (CDS) plant was recently completed at an existing facility in Québec, Canada. The CDS plant treats the sulphur dioxide off-gas emitted from rotary kilns i
Jan 1, 2016
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The Pebble Copper-Gold-Molybdenum Porphyry, AlaskaBy John G. Payne
The Pebble deposit contains three contiguous zones. In the Pebble West zone, granodiorite stocks intrude gently warped volcanosedimentary rocks that had been intruded by diorite sills and two felsic i
May 1, 2006