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  • SAIMM
    Briquetted Chrome Ore Fines Utilisation In Ferrochrome Production At Zimbabwe Alloys

    By N. N. Malila, N. R. Shoko

    The ever-increasing pressure on the profit margins of ferro-chrome producers and the gradual depletion of deposits of rich hard lumpy chrome ores calls for the ferrochrome industry to maximise the use

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    The ?Other Class? Of Pipeline Coatings

    By Gerard de Vries

    pipeline industry and are still growing in size. Liquid epoxy and polyurethanes are an excellent choice for whatever the aggressiveness of the substance transported and whatever the harmful outside in

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Pre-sink shaft safety analysis using wireline geophysics

    By N. Andersen

    During the preliminary design phases and feasibility study of a proposed vertical shaft, a vertical diamond drill-hole is normally drilled on the site. This paper outlines how rock mass characteristic

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    The practicality of using rock mass classification in a narrow tabular orebody at depth extracting the Ventersdorp Contact Reef

    By R. van Heerden, T. R. Stacey

    In the challenging environments of deep-level, narrow tabular orebody gold mines in South Africa, rock mass classification offers a potential method for predicting hazardous areas and optimising rock

    Oct 24, 2025

  • SAIMM
    Process Description And Short History Of Polokwane Smelter

    By J. Ndlovu, R. Hundermark

    Keywords: Anglo Platinum, Polokwane Smelter, pyrometallurgy, metallurgy, platinum, platinum group metals, PGM, base metals, nickel, copper, sulphide smelting, electric furnace, Söderberg, electrode, m

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Xstrata Alloys In Profile

    By O. Naiker, T. Riley

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, furnace, Xstrata, ferrochromium, Premus Technology The presentation will give a basic overview of Xstrata Alloys. Included will be a brief history of the Alloys division

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Alarm and evacuation systems in underground mining

    By J. L. Fuentes-Cantillana, Á. Rodríguez, P. Morillo

    Evacuation operations from work places in the case of an emergency are the key to minimising the effects of catastrophic type accidents such as fires, explosions, cave-ins, floods, etc. The correct pl

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Advanced Methods To Characterize Thermal Properties Of Quartz

    By E. H. Myrhaug, K. Aasly, T. Malvik

    Six different types of quartz and quartzites used as raw materials by ferroalloy plants have been investigated with respect to their thermo mechanical properties. In order to investigate the effect of

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Optimization of coal mine parameters to provide safe operation

    By A. M. Bryukhanov, A. G. Mnukhin

    The report states accident rates for gassy/dusty coal mines represented as an ergatic system "man – machine - environment" with further analysis by the method of conditional probabilities. A coal

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Utilization of scripting languages for customization of mine planning packages by specialized users

    By D. R. Hack

    The complexity of commercial mining software has gained rapidly over the past decade as hardware developments have surpassed software capabilities at a staggering rate. Software users, recognizing the

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Integrated Furnace Controls: Implementation On A Covered-Arc (Shielded Arc) Furnace At Cerro Matoso

    By T. Gerritsen, R. C. Delgado, J. Janzen, E. R. Veloza

    The paper describes the components of an Integrated Furnace Control system for covered-arc (shielded arc) smelting with results from the recently started 75 MW Cerro Matoso Line 2 Furnace. The paper s

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Pitfalls In Vezin Sampling For Finely Crushed Materials (4f77bfd3-c00c-4e22-9de0-dc8343fb6770)

    By C. Kruger

    Anglo American Platinum has adopted a strategy of best practice principles (BPP) for sampling, mass measurement, analysis, and metal accounting for more than a decade now. When new plants are designed

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Cracking A Hard Nut: An Overview Of Lonmin?s Operations Directed At Smelting Of UG2-Rich Concentrate Blends

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, furnace, Lonmin, platinum, PGM, UG2 Lonmin, earlier than any other primary platinum producer, had to deal with the concentrating and smelting of UG2-rich ores and concent

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Needs Analysis for Capacity Building of Artisanal Miners in Central Africa

    By Steven M. Rupprecht

    "The artisanal mining sector in Central Africa is largely informal, yet provides an essential livelihood for many (directly or indirectly) participants, as well as facilitating an important source for

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Arc-Electrode Interactions In Silicon And Ferrosilicon Furnaces

    By J. Bakken, M. Th. Jonsson, G. Sævarsdottir

    A typical three-phase submerged-arc furnace for production of silicon metal and ferrosilicon has arc currents ~100 kA, phase voltages ~100 V and total furnace power ~10 - 60 MW. The arcs burn in gas f

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Production Reconciliation of a Multivariate Uniform Conditioning Technique for Mineral Resource Modelling of a Porphyry Copper Gold Deposit

    The paper provides a brief review of a multivariate uniform conditioning and a localized multivariate uniform conditioning (LMUC) technique, and presents a production reconciliation case study based o

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Application Of Nanofiltration In Metal Recovery

    By I. W. van der Merwe

    Recently, a new kind of filtration has emerged, namely nano-filtration (NF). It is a membrane-based process which exhibits totally unique separation characteristics for dissolved salts as well as for

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SAIMM
    Seismic monitoring of the Northparkes lift 2 block cave?part I undercutting ? Synopsis

    Caving of the second lift of the E26 orebody at Northparkes Mines was monitored with a comprehensive package of instrumentation, including an ISS seismic monitoring system. Seismicity was collected by

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    TEM Study Of Solid Titanium Oxides Inclusions In Steel Melt At 1600°C

    By C. -T. Mutale, A. S. Tuling

    Titanium can exist in three different oxidation states. Its oxides are numerous and in presence of iron and oxygen, iron-titanium oxide compounds can also form. Some of the oxides are non-stoichiometr

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Recent Improvements In The Kumera Steam Dryer

    By J. Talja

    Keywords: drying, steam drying, concentrates, copper, lead During the past twenty years steam drying has become a prominent technology for drying of non-ferrous metals concentrate. This is mainly

    Jan 1, 2011