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  • CIM
    Weak Rock Mass Span Design ? Best Practices

    By A. Ouchi

    This paper presents ground control best practices in weak rock environments including the "Unsupported" Weak Rock Updated Span Design Curve and awareness pertaining to the potentially detrimental effe

    May 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Optimizing Performance in Heavy Equipment Teleoperation

    By Jean-François Lapointe

    Many advances have been made concerning the automation of heavy equipment teleoperators such as those found in mining. Complete automation, however, is not achieved yet and the operation of these vehi

    May 1, 2001

  • CIM
    The use of Personal Computers at Kidd Creek for Process Data Monitoring and Analysis

    By Gordan Marrs, O. Matwijenko

    "The Kidd Creek metallurgical site has been highly integrated to maximize revenues from its base metals mines. The site's operations include a Concentrator processing 4.3 million tonnes per year of co

    Jan 1, 1989

  • CIM
    Re-entry Protocols for Seismically Active Mines: An Update

    By J. A. Vallejos

    Re-entry protocols are a tactical approach for controlling risk after blasts or large events in seismically active mines. Based on the results of a survey on 18 seismically active mines, mostly in Ont

    May 1, 2009

  • CIM
    The Stillwater Paste Backfill Plant

    By Frank Yu, Bob Fukuhara

    "The Stillwater mine is a 3,000 tons/day platinum/palladium underground mine and flotation concentrator located in the Beartooth mountain range in south-central Montana. The site elevation is 5,000 fe

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Altered Mining Extraction Sequence and Rock Mass Response in Vale 402 OB at Creighton Mine

    By Denis Thibodeau

    his paper describes a study of an altered mining extraction and the resulting Rockmass response at VALE?s Creighton Mine. Typically, the deep mining zones have strict stope extraction guidelines to

    May 1, 2013

  • CIM
    Adapting to Ore Characteristics at Lac des Iles Mine

    By Erin N. Legault-Seguin

    The Lac des Iles Mine (LDI) is located approximately 100 km northwest of Thunder Bay, ON. The mine has been in operation since 1993. The initial mine production was 2,300 mtpd and increased to 15,000

    May 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Lamella Thickener Performance in Potash Refining (eda27180-f1f6-4ab3-854e-c986b2a1249d)

    By Douglas M. Smith, G. A. Maki

    "The initial development of the massive potash deposits of the prairie evaporite formation took place over a decade ending in 1970. The potash mining and refining facility near Rocanvi11e, Saskatchewa

    Jan 1, 1983

  • CIM
    Grindability Assessment Using Particle Size or Particle Surface Area

    By Baoquan An

    The energy required to fragment a rock is proportional to the increase in the fracture surface area and hence is proportional to the rock?s surface area. In comminution, the slope of the linear relati

    May 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Community Engagement Best Practice in the mining sector: What?s recommended and who?s using it?

    By Ben Bradshaw

    Context ? Community engagement has become an increasingly significant and challenging part of mineral exploration and mine development; indeed, opposition from communities proximate to a proposed min

    May 1, 2010

  • CIM
    The Red Dog VIP mill optimization project. Part B: An integrated approach to modelling and design of the flotation plant

    By B. K. Gorain, A. W. Stradling

    "The traditional metallurgical scale-up techniques for flotation plants are based on lumped flotation rate constants, dimensionless hydrodynamic numbers and the use of safety factors. Once the plant h

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Progress on Stainless Steel as Bipolar Electrode Plate Material for PEM Fuel Cells

    By R Zavadil, S Kuyucak, F Fazeli

    Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells generate electricity by reacting hydrogen and oxygen. A thin, bipolar electrode material provides a medium for electron exchange with the electrolyte, alterna

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Water Management in Hydraulic Fill Operations

    By M. Helinski

    In the authors? experience inappropriate water management in hydraulic fill masses has been the root cause of most barricade failures. Inappropriate water management can lead to high water pressures,

    May 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Concepts for Remote Mineral Projects

    By L. J. Vincze

    The high cost of constructing mineral processing plants in remote locations warrants a close examination of the alternatives available for reducing the amount of on-site construction work. Among the a

    Jan 1, 1980

  • CIM
    Comparative Metallurgical Performance in Zinc Flotation

    By A. W. Stradling, M. J. Fairweather

    "The selective flotation of lead, zinc and iron sulphide minerals is key to the economic performance of concentrators treating zinc-lead ores. Diagnostic metallurgy is a tool to quantify mineral behav

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Towards Sustainable Mining (9df47007-236e-4582-97e3-4ef917e2e48a)

    By Pierre Gratton, Gordon Peeling

    The Mining Association of Canada launched the Towards Sustainable Mining initiative in 2004. TSM’s goal is to improve the mining industry’s performance by aligning its actions with the priorities and

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Process Development for Milling B-Zone Ore at Rabbit Lake

    By S. Dicarlo

    "In late 1985, B-zone ore was first processed through the Eldor Mines mill at Rabbit Lake. Extensive modifications had been completed in order to mill this ore. In-plant process development was initia

    Jan 1, 1988

  • CIM
    Committee Bay Project ? Gold and Diamonds in Nunavut

    By Dean McDonald

    The Committee Bay Greenstone Belt extends over 300km and is one of the largest unexplored greenstone belts in North America with excellent gold and diamond potential. Committee Bay Resources Limited h

    May 1, 2004

  • CIM
    The Afton Concentrator

    By J. Lovering, M. Allan

    "INTRODUCTIONThe Afton Mines property is located 180 air miles east-northeast of Vancouver and nine miles west of Kamloops, a city of 60,000 people in south central British Columbia. The deposit is lo

    Jan 1, 1979

  • CIM
    The Adams Mine Iron Ore to Pellets

    By G. B. Bell

    "INTRODUCTION On February 1, 1962, after five years of exploration and research, Jones & Laughlin Steel Corporation announced that they would develop the Adams Mine. Plant construction began immediate

    Jan 1, 1973