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  • SAIMM
    Analytical Hierarchy Process For Selection Of Roadheaders

    By O. Acaroglu

    Selection of the most suitable roadheaders (boom type tunnelling machines) for the galleries/tunnels to be excavated in certain rock and under known project conditions is important for avoiding proble

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Merensky pillar strength formulae based on back-analysis of pillar failures at Impala Platinum - Synopsis

    By B. P. Watson

    The Bushveld platinum group metal deposits are two distinct, shallow-dipping stratiform tabular orebodies and strike for many hundreds of kilometres. Mining is extensive, with depths ranging from clos

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Towards Predictive Control Of Ferroalloy Furnaces: Combining Thermochemistry, Inventory Modelling And Systems Engineering

    By S. J. Frank

    Ferroalloy furnaces are well known to be extremely difficult to control from a metallurgical perspective. Mostly metallurgical control is still reactive in nature, causing a significant amount of rewo

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Quantifying Morphology Of Nickel Crystals

    By A. E. Lewis

    Particle morphology is a term that is used to describe the overall external shape and appearance of particulate solids. From the physical point of view, a precipitated solid is characterized primarily

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    An Overview Of The Heavy Mineral Potential Of Liberia

    By P. J. Hancox

    Heavy mineral deposits have been known from Liberia since the1950s from both river and beach placers. The heavy mineral content of beach sands ranges between 28?62% and the suite includes ilmenite, ru

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SAIMM
    Review Of The Development Work On The Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process (MTMP) - Synopsis

    By M. Abdellatif

    The Mintek Thermal Magnesium Process (MTMP) process is based on DC open arc metallothermic smelting of calcined dolomite at normal pressure and temperatures of 1650?1750°C. The process was demonstrate

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Estimation of Future Ground Vibration Levels in Malmberget Town Due to Mining-Induced Seismic Activity

    By T. Wettainen

    Malmberget town is located in northern Sweden, approximately 70 km north of the Arctic Circle. Parts of the town overlie more than 20 iron orebodies, consisting mainly of magnetite with smaller quanti

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Occupational health and safety management tool

    By T. Güyagüler, A. Güngör

    Labour protection, that is prevention of occupational disease and reduction in the frequency of accident, has always been a matter of major concern of mining industry. Management and the government sh

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Improving Financial Returns From Mining Through Geostatistical Simulation And The Optimized Advance Drilling Grid At El Tesoro Copper Mine ? Synopsis

    By J. M. Ortiz

    Grade control and short-term planning are usually based on the samples obtained from blastholes. These samples may carry a large sampling and sample preparation error. At El Tesoro copper mine in nort

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Plenary Speaker-Technical Aspects Of Closed Loop Cooling Water, Associated With The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor Demonstration Power Plant

    By Carl Havemann

    [PAPER PRESENTED AT THE 8thINTERNATIONAL CORROSION CONFERENCE HELD AT THE SA NATIONAL MUSEUM OF MILITARY HISTORY, SAXONWOLD JOHANNESBURG DURING 14-15 NOVEMBER, 2006.]

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Key Performance Indicators ? A Tool to Assess ICT Applications in Underground Coal Mines

    By C. Dauber

    Implementing new technologies in industrial operations entails the challenge of measuring the improvements gained by the applied technology. Nevertheless, it is absolutely essential to assess the tech

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    An Investigation Into The Optimization Of Personnel Transportation To Level 15 And Below At Khuseleka No. 1 Shaft, Anglo Platinum ? Synopsis

    By M. S. P. Rampedi

    The paper reports on a vacation work project conducted at Khuseleka No. 1 Shaft, Anglo Platinum, where there was a need to optimize the transport of personnel to level 15 and below. Approximately 900

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    The Optimisation Of Hexadecanethiol Coatings To Improve The Tarnish Resistance Of Sterling Silver.

    By J J. McEwan

    Silver tarnishes readily in common atmospheres and is accelerated in humid atmospheres. Tarnish is the formation of silver sulphide on the surface of silver when it is exposed to a wide range of sulph

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Fatigue Knowledge?A New Lever In Safety Management - Synopsis

    By W. J. Theron

    The purpose of the paper is to give an introduction to the concept of fatigue and its causes in the mining industry. By knowing the fundamental role it plays, together with its dynamics, can positivel

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    4.2 Woods -Quality Control Procedures at Gold Fields Ghana Limited, Tarkwa Mine

    By Reginald N. Boryor, Steven D. Woods

    1.0 Introduction ?Low grade, high tonnage, open pit gold mine. ?Gold bearing Tarkwaian conglomerates. ?Reverse Circulation percussion drilling (25m X 25m grid). ?Composite 1m intervals, logged a

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    The Process Design Of Gold Leaching And Carbon-In-Pulp Circuits - Introduction

    Assuming that a gold ore has been effectively ground to ensure maximum economic liberation of gold, the circuits that will have the most effect on the successful operation of a gold plant will be that

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SAIMM
    Avoiding structural failures on mobile bulk materials handling equipment

    By B. W. J. van Rensburg, M. J. Schmidt

    Bulk materials handling systems are extensively used in the mining and minerals industry, where a fairly high incidence of structural failure is experienced, notwithstanding design compliance with app

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Energy considerations in the current PGM processing flowsheet utilizing new technologies ? Synopsis

    By C. M. Rule

    Energy efficiency is currently a significant area of interest due to the Eskom power situation, which led to severe power impacts to the PGM, and indeed whole SA primary industries, in early 2008. An

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    The Practical Application Of The Wemco Hms Drum Separator In The Mining & Metals Recycling Industries - 1. Introduction

    By K D. Wilkes

    The WEMCO Heavy Media Drum Separator was first introduced by WEMCO in California in the 1940`s, initially from their base in San Francisco and later when the company moved to Sacramento. The WEMCO Co

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    An Overview Of PGM Smelting In Zimbabwe - Zimplats Operations

    By L. Mabiza

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, circular furnace, PGM, platinum, Peirce-Smith converter, Zimbabwe The Zimplats Smelter, located on the northern part of the Great Dyke, at the Selous Metallurgical Comple

    Jan 1, 2006