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  • CIM
    Towards a Robotic Refurbishment Process of Industrial Buildings

    By K. Iturralde

    The topic of this article is the automation and robotization in refurbishment processes of industrial buildings. The need to mold these production spaces is quite universal. Particularly in the region

    Aug 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Towards Achieving Sustainable Water Management for an Acidic Open Cut Pit at Mount Morgan, Queensland

    By T Laurencont, C Unger

    The Mount Morgan minesite, located approximately 40 km SW of Rockhampton in Central Queensland, comprises 270 ha of unrehabilitated land which is the currently the major source of acid mine drainage r

    Jan 1, 2003

  • TMS
    Towards Ad 2000

    By T. R. A. Davey

    The technologies of lead, zinc and tin extraction have made varying degrees of progress over the past twenty years. Producers of all metals have faced increasing demands for reduction of pollution and

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SAIMM
    Towards An Integrated Approach To Tailings Management - Synopsis

    By A. Chryss

    Tailings management aims to dispose of tailings at the minimum cost consistent with meeting or exceeding imposed standards, including legislative obligations. This simple business objective requires m

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Towards An Understanding Of Giant Gold Systems

    By G. C. Hall, B. E. Hobbs

    Giant gold deposits are considered products of crustal-scale systems. Reduced fluids stored in mid to lower crustal reservoirs were discharged into mid to upper crustal sites of deposition. Elements

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Towards An Understanding Of Giant Gold Systems (6885826b-06dc-4b67-9666-e12357cc739f)

    Giant gold deposits are considered products of crustal-scale systems. Reduced fluids stored in mid to lower crustal reservoirs were discharged into mid to upper crustal sites of deposition. Elements o

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SAIMM
    Towards best practice for routine seismic hazard assessment in mines

    By G. van Aswegen

    Seismic monitoring became commonplace in the deep South African gold mines in the early 1990’s. The discipline has, to a large extent, developed beyond the ‘research’ stage, and a ‘Guide to Seismic Mo

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    Towards Deterministic Fragmentation Models for Surface Mines

    By Galetakis M., Deligiorgis B., Xiroudakis G.

    Fragmentation prediction is important in surface mining to optimize downstream processes such as loading, hauling, comminution, and beneficiation processes. Traditional approaches, such as the Kuz-Ram

    Jan 26, 2026

  • CIM
    Towards Formalizing Qualitative Operations Input into Mine Planning

    By T. G. Joseph, E. Lampard

    ABSTRACT: Surface mining operations must manage variability from within their operations as well as variability imposed upon them by external forces. A framework to manage both internal and external v

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Towards Improving Gearless Mill Drive Availability (2298e871-dad9-4799-b879-9d826d43039d)

    By P. R. Warner

    This paper reviews the development of certain aspects of the electrical specifications of Anglo American?s suite of specifications for gearless mill drives (?GMDs?). These specifications are based on

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Towards Industrial Implementation of Glycine Based Leach and Adsorption Technologies for Gold-Copper Ores

    By T. Newton, G. A. Bezuidenhout, P. J. Tauetsile, F. Trask

    The technology to selectively leach gold, silver and base metals from ores, concentrates, and wastes, using an alkaline glycine solution, has initiated significant interest in using the new technology

    Jan 1, 2017

  • IMMS
    Towards Operational Environmental Threshold Levels for Exploitation of Mineral Resources in the Deep Sea

    By Karsten Hagenah, Tor Jensen, Jens Laugesen, Øyvind Fjukmoen, Lucy Brooks

    This paper discusses operational environmental threshold levels for exploitation of mineral resources in the deep sea. Such criteria are needed to be able to monitor and control deep sea mining with r

    Jan 1, 2018

  • IMMS
    Towards Operational Environmental Threshold Levels for Exploitation of Mineral Resources in the Deep Sea (71089290-180d-4f28-918b-1a970dec41b1)

    By Karsten Hagenah, Tor Jensen, Jens Laugesen, Øyvind Fjukmoen, Lucy Brooks

    This paper describes operational environmental threshold levels for exploitation of mineral resources in the deep sea. Such criteria are needed to be able to monitor and control deep sea mining with r

    Jan 1, 2018

  • CIM
    Towards Petrophysical Characterization of Comminution Behavior

    By Peter Fullagar, Adel Vatandoost, Steve Walters, Toni Kojovic

    "Traditional comminution tests are a vital component in every mine plant design. Comminution behavior governs both the cost of equipment and its operating efficiency. Most comminution tests are conduc

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Towards Sustainable Development: Conflict Management Practice and Education

    By E. McCullough

    "Fostering positive community relations is a principal tenet of sustainable development, but conflict can test even the strongest of relationships. While conflict surrounding resource development proj

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SAIMM
    Towards sustainable processing of vanadium-bearing titaniferous magnetite deposits – an overview of barriers and opportunities, I.J. Geldenhuys, G. Akdogan, and Q.G. Reynolds

    By G. Akdogan, I. J. Geldenhuys, Q. G. Reynolds

    Efficient recovery of titanium from titaniferous magnetite ores continues to be a promising, yet unrealised opportunity, despite significant occurrences of titaniferous magnetite deposits worldwide an

    Jan 1, 2020

  • ABM
    Towards The Development Of Design Criteria For Reduced Wear In Iron Ore Transfers

    By Dusan Ilic

    Conveyor system wear of belts and transfers attribute to a significant proportion of the maintenance costs and lost productive hours when handling hard abrasive ores at high unit rates typical of the

    Aug 17, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Towards the Elimination of Conventional Surface Slurried Tailings Storage Facilities

    By D J. Williams

    The approach to the disposal and storage of mine tailings is slowly evolving. Tailings disposal has been based on minimising short-term capital and operating costs, with rehabilitation costs discounte

    Jul 27, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Towards the Implementation of Discrete Fracture Network Modelling as a Geotechnical Design Tool – Case Study of Callie Underground Mine

    By S F. Rogers, K Doumis, J H. Graaf, B J. Barsanti

    Advances in technology now allow geotechnical practitioners to better describe the properties and variability of a rock mass through advances in surface and underground mapping, borehole technology an

    Nov 5, 2014

  • IMPC
    Towards the use of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy data as a metallurgical tool in froth flotation

    By Nicolás Luis, Qi Liu, Gonzalo Montes-Atenas

    "The prediction of froth flotation performance is still an unresolved topic. Classic industrial models based on particle size, elemental and mineralogical information provides recovery results with de

    Jan 1, 2014