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  • CIM
    Brass making in medieval western Europe

    By Sandra K. Zacharias

    Brass, a deliberate alloy of copper and zinc, has been known since before Roman times. There are two main methods of making brass: (1) Cementation or calamine process - crushed zinc ore (calamine, Zn

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Radiation Grafted Structures - A New Tool for Recovery of Precious Metals from Dilute Solutions

    By G. Shore

    Radiation grafted structures my be fabricated to contain ion exchange groups selective to an ion complex. Proper choice of substrate and monomer will provide selective ion exchange with differing phys

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Mineralogy and pre-concentration of the chromite overburden of the Sukinda Ultramafic Belt, Orissa, India

    By R. B. Rao, B. Das, J. K. Mohanty, D. S. Rao

    Physical, mineralogical and geochemical characterization, along with some beneficiation approach to pre-concentrate the Ni content of the chromite overburden material of the Sukinda Valley, India, hav

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Roasting Renaissance- Fluid Bed Roasting For Enhanced Gold Recovery from Double Refractory Ores

    By A. R. Barnes, N. Stubina

    Increasingly, gold producers are forced to treat ever more refractory ores. While ores containing pyrite, arsenopyrite and carbonaceous material have been subjected to complete pressure oxidation (PDX

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    The Lithium Industry

    By R. B. Ellestad

    Introduction Lithium has been known since 1817, when it was discovered by the Swedish chemist, Arfvedson, while working in the laboratory of Berzelius on the chemical analysis of the mineral petali

    Jan 1, 1948

  • CIM
    Heap Leaching in Ontario - An Example

    By W. J. Witte, M. K. Witte

    "The purpose of this report is to present a generalized preliminary design and cost estimates for a typical heap leach operation such as might be undertaken in Northern Ontario. This report should be

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Gold Extraction from Refractory Ore by Pressure Oxidation and Thiourea Leach

    By D. M. Wyslouzil

    "Micron or sub-micron size gold inclusions in sulphide minerals cannot be extracted by conventional cyanidation. The gold surfaces must first be exposed by decomposition of the sulphides. As an altern

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Mill Speed Control for More Efficient Grinding

    By V. K. Gupta

    "Effect of mill speed on grinding kinetics has been investigated with a view to using mill speed as a manipulated variable for control and optimization of the grinding circuit performance under variab

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Risk Adjusted Cash Flows: Discount Rates, Risk & Long Life Projects

    By L. D. Smith

    Net Present Value Impact of Discount Rate The Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method of valuations is universally used and accepted. The main criticism of the method is that it does not recognize the val

    May 1, 2013

  • CIM
    Design & Development of the Barmac Rotopactor

    By Bryan A. Bartley

    "Jim Macdonald was promoted from Waterworks Engineer to Streetworks Engineer for the Wellington City Council. He thus took over the City quarry and responsibility for its performance. The crushing pla

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Development and Implementation of an Operating Concept and Training Program for the Start-Up of the Stanleigh Mill

    By H. Ewaschuk

    "INTRODUCTIONRio Algom's Stanleigh Mill in Elliot Lake began production in June of 1983. The highly instrumented mill treats uranium ore at an average rate of 3900 metric tons per day. To help ensure

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Centrifugal Concentration and Separation of Precious Ores

    By B. V. Knelson

    "GENTLEMEN:This paper will deal with centrifugal separation - theory and practical, and since the Knelson Concentrator is the only centrifugal concentrator with a properly fluidized bed, this paper wi

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Violence Per Ounce: Is There a Correlation Between Mineral Values and Conflict Intensity?

    Despite the fact that mined minerals and gemstones have allowed human beings to continuously improve their standard of living throughout the ages, mining has also been implicated in violent conflict f

    Aug 1, 2013

  • CIM
    Metallurgical Strategy at Sturgeon Lake Mill

    By C. P. Patel

    "The Sturgeon Lake Joint Venture volcanic massive sulpide deposit was discovered in 1970. Milling was started by Falconbridge Copper Ltd. at Sturgeon Lake in September 1974. The Sturgeon Lake pit and

    Jan 1, 1980

  • CIM
    Aggregate Operators Best Management Practices Handbook Presentation

    By Thom Sedun

    No sector of the mining industry is more closely tied to local communities than aggregates. Noise, dust, traffic, visuals aesthetics and environmental impacts all fall under the purview of neighbours,

    May 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Applications of microwave energy in extractive metallurgy, a review

    By C. A. Pickles, D. K. Xia

    "In the last few decades, microwave energy has been widely employed in food processing, rubber and plastics curing, and in ceramic sintering. Recently, the application of micro waves as an energy sour

    Jan 1, 1997

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    The Mechanics of Operation of Column Flotation Machines

    By R. L. Amelunxen

    "In January 1983, Gibraltar Mines Ltd. started an exploratory program on Column Flotation with hopes of improving performance of the Molybdenum Cleaning circuit. The encouraging results led to a colum

    Jan 1, 1985

  • CIM
    Physical Metallurgy: I.-Recent Developments; II.-Diagnosis of Mechanical Failures

    By Gordon Sproule

    THE papers presented to the Institute, and published in the BULLETIN, in the past three years, may be classified as follows: Geology, Mining, and Milling 89 or 58.5 per cent Smelting, Refining, an

    Jan 1, 1936

  • CIM
    Impact and Benefit Agreements: Are they working?

    By Jason Rrno

    The emergence of Impact and Benefit Agreements (IBAs) in the Canadian mining sector has been read by many as a positive governance innovation. Negotiated directly between mineral resource developers a

    May 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Power Quality and Production Improvement of an Iron Ore Mine by the use of an SVC

    By Niklas Willemsen

    Introduction to SVCs ? SVC = Static var Compensator ? Dynamic step-less control of reactive power without switching of passive components: ? Voltage control/stabilization ? Harmonics- and flicker

    Aug 1, 2013