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  • CIM
    Carmen De Andacollo ? Start-Up of Teck?s New Copper Concentrator

    By C. S. R. Rondestvedt

    In February 2010, Teck?s newest Concentrator at Mina Carmen de Andacollo (CDA), Andacollo, Chile was commissioned. The Concentrator is a single line configuration, comprising of one 36 ft diameter x 2

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Model Predictive Control as a Tool For Production Ramp-Up and Optimization at the Nkomati Nickel Mine

    By D. G. Almond

    Nkomati Nickel Mine in South Africa processes one of the world?s hardest ores in a 375k TPM autogenous grinding circuit. The plant employs an unconventional processing circuit, comprising a primary au

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Aluminum and Its Applications

    By James W. Cameron

    DESPITE the fact that, after oxygen and silicon, aluminum is the most abundant and widely distributed element in the earth's crust, it is, commercially, a modern metal. Attempts were made by Sir

    Jan 1, 1939

  • CIM
    Grinding Circuit Improvements at Barrick Goldstrike’s Roaster Facility

    By Jim Wickens, Andy Cole, John Pekrul

    "The roaster facility at Barrick Goldstrike Mine treats double-refractory sulfidic/carbonaceous gold ore. Prior to oxidation in the roasters, the ore is ground in two parallel dry grinding circuits ut

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Settlement of Tailings Slurries by Creep Compression

    By J. Don Scott

    Analytical predictions of the rate and magnitude of settlement of deposited oil sands tailings slurries generally overestimate how fast pore pressures will dissipate. Field deposits of nonsegregating

    May 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Starting Koala North ? North America?s First Underground Diamond Mine

    By Paul Harvey

    Following initial discovery in 1991, BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc opened Canada?s first diamond mine, the Ekati Diamond Mine TM (Ekati) in the Northwest Territories on October 14th, 1998. Four short year

    May 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Save Time and Money in Industrial Mineral Plant Start-ups

    By Michael G. Rulff, Tracy M. Holmes

    "Vast amounts of time and money are spent fighting flow problems in plants that involve the handling or processing of industrial minerals. Because these types of projects tend to be capitalintensive,

    Jan 1, 2008

  • CIM
    Mining Operations and Slurry Pipelines Update and Future

    By R. A. Hill, J. D. Pitts

    "Long distance slurry pipeline systems have been successfully trans-porting steam coal, iron concentrates, copper concentrates and limestone for an aggregate of nearly 60 years and nearly three billio

    Jan 1, 1978

  • CIM
    BC Mining and Implications of Climate Action

    By Gavin C. Dirom

    ? The Mining Association of British Columbia (MABC) was established through an Act of Parliament in 1901 ? The MABC represents the interests of B.C.?s ? Coal and mineral mining companies ? Smeltin

    May 1, 2008

  • CIM
    Great Bear Lake -Coppermine River Area

    By D. F. Kidd

    Introduction In a companion article, Surveys at Great Bear Lake, 1931, R. C. McDonald has described the general character, topography, and climate of the Great Bear Lake-Coppermine River area and the

    Jan 1, 1932

  • CIM
    Toward a unified and digital communication system for underground mines

    By P. -M. Tardif, S. Outalha, R. Le

    "This paper proposes a new direction to implement an underground mine communication system. It presents actual underground communication systems and discusses their technological limits. A new system

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    The Bullmoose Mine project

    By R. Drozd

    "The Bui/moose Mine is in the northeast coal area of British Columbia, and less than $300 million was spent to bring this 2.3 million-tonnes-per-year metallurgical and thermal coal mine into productio

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Is Your Management Control Loop Functioning

    By John D. Campbell

    "IS YOUR MANAGEMENT CONTROLLOOP FUNCTIONINGMineral processors make use of hundreds of control circuits in their mills, process plants, smelters and refineries, to optimize throughput and recovery and

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Production of High-Quality Electrorefined and Electrow on Copper at Inco?s Copper Cliff Copper Refinery

    By A. S. Gendron

    A brief description of Inco's ORC copper refinery tankhouse and the electrowinning tankhouse is followed by a comparison of the requirements for the production of the high-quality copper in both

    Jan 1, 1977

  • CIM
    Mapping the Future of Occupational Health and Safety in the Nigerian Mining Sector

    By Iwueze Anaekperechi Rose

    The International Labor Organization has declared mandatory adequate provision of safe workplace and safety for all workers in all occupations including the mining sector. Early scientists like Agrico

    Aug 1, 2013

  • CIM
    The recovery and utilization of fine coal

    By W. L. Thayer, K. A. Jonasson, R. D. Coleman, J. D. Hazlett, C. E. Capes

    "Loss of coal fines in reject slurries limits the yield of coal cleaning operations. Difficulties in handling fines also limit the extent of physical cleaning in treating coals with finely-disseminate

    Jan 1, 1988

  • CIM
    Application of Process Integration Based Models to Optimise Energy Consumption in Integrated Steelworks

    By Habib Zughbi, Paul Zulli

    "A key step towards sustainability in iron and steelmaking is to optimise the use of raw materials and energy consumption, and consequently minimise CO2 emissions. Models based on a Process Integratio

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Suitability of on-Belt Elemental Analysis for Real-Time Ore Quality Measurement and Bulk Sorting

    "Real time analysis of conveyed bulk materials can be used to improve process performance by reducing variability and upgrading ore quality through selective removal of increments of flow that do not

    Jan 1, 2017

  • CIM
    Pilot-Scale Frother Testing at Highland Valley Copper

    By S. D. D. Welsby

    "A pilot-scale flotation column was used to evaluate four polyglycol frothers at Teck’s Highland Valley Copper Mine. The column was fed with flotation plant feed from the grinding circuit cyclone over

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Heat Flow and Permafrost

    By Alan M. Jessop

    This paper discusses the distribution of frozen ground in the zone of discontinuous permafrost in relation to the pattern of surface temperature. The importance of understanding permafrost in relation

    Jan 1, 1972