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The Development of Pyritic Smelting: An Outline of its HistoryThere is a well-known saying, variously attributed to the great King Solomon and other sages of antiquity, to the effect that 'there is nothing new under the sun'. The inventive genius of ma
Jan 1, 1994
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Floating a Mining Company in the 1980sAlthough mining, particularly of gold and coal, played a significant role in the development of New Zealand, from the time of the spectacular gold rushes of the 1860s its economic importance to the co
Jan 1, 1982
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Influence of Section Intake Dust Levels as an Exposure Assessment Parameter in Dust Exposure Level Index (DELI) ModelBy H R. Phillips
Fresh air intake in an underground coal mine is of critical importance to the occupational health and safety of workers due to the dynamic, confined and dangerous nature of the mining environment. In
Jan 1, 2005
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Non-Mining Costs Associated with a Mine DevelopmentAll companies and individuals who embark on a business venture incur costs. For the most part these costs can be conveniently categorised, firstly into capital and operating costs and then into the va
Jan 1, 1977
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Quantifying the energy efficiency transformation at Cadia due to HPGR crushingBy J Seppelt, G S. Lane, E Wang
Newcrest’s Cadia concentrator operated from 1998 to 2012 with a traditional SABC grinding circuit treating Cadia open pit ore. The Cadia comminution circuit was well characterised through surveys and
Aug 29, 2018
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Concept and Operation of the New Conventional Cell House of Asturiana de Zinc at San Juan de Nieva, SpainBy LefTvre Y
In May 1991, AZSA commissioned a new conventional Cell House. This paper focuses on the major improvements introduced in the design and the construction of the equipment, machinery and control. An e
Jan 1, 1993
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Developing Australia's First Block Caving Opeartion at Northparkes Mines - Endeavour 26 DepositThe introduction of a new mining method to Australia is not without its risks and challenges. This paper discusses the processes of planning a new operation, with particular emphasis on block caving
Jan 1, 1995
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Multiparallel Fan Method to Prevent Significant External Air Leakages through a Goaf Area of a Shallow Covered CoalmineBy F Wu, H Wang, W Chen
A pressurisation method with multiparallel fans has been adopted at HongLiuLin Coalmine to control the significant external air leakage through the goaf area of coalface 15207. Potential damaging effe
Aug 31, 2015
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Materials Handling at Olympic Dam Mine - Olympic Dam Aiming for æGoldÆWMC Limited, owner/operator of Olympic Dam, the worldÆs largest underground uranium mine and the fourth largest underground copper mine has now completed an expansion that has been classed as a benchm
Jan 1, 2000
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Union Reefs: A Project Assessment and Development Case HistoryBy Giles D, Wegmann D
The Mt Todd Gold Project is located 42 km northwest of the township of Katherine within the Northern Territory of Australia. It is situated in the southeastern portion of the Pine Creek Geosyncline.
Jan 1, 1994
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Slag-metal interfacial reactions in pyrometallurgical processing of industrial wastes for recovery of valuable metalsBy J H. Park, R R. Kim, H S. Park, H J. Kim
This study focuses on the recovery of valuable metals, specifically silver (Ag) and palladium (Pd), from copper-containing sludge (with copper content less than 20 per cent) generated during PCB proce
Jun 19, 2024
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Microwave heating behaviour of ores and its application to high-power microwave assisted comminution and ore sortingBy X Tian, J Forster, A Olmsted, E R. Bobicki, M Goldbaum, D Boucher, C A. Pickles
As the global demand for metal values expands, it becomes increasingly important to create more sustainable mining operations. Consequently, considerable research and technology development is require
Aug 24, 2022
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Prediction of Burden at the Sungun Copper Mine by Artificial Neural NetworkBy H Khoshrou, A Siamaki
Blast designs can have productive and non-productive impacts on downstream stages, mine productivity and operating costs. On the other hand, ground vibration, fragmentation, and back break caused by b
Sep 26, 2011
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Tectonics and Gold Mineralisation in East ChinaChina has been producing gold for more than 4000 years with gold production increasing substantially since the 1980s, from about 25 tonnes in 1980 to some 160 tonnes in 1998. More than 80 per cent of
Jan 1, 1999
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Looking for an Adequate Drilling Spacing and Heterotopic Sampling û An Iron Ore ExampleBy D T. Ribeiro, J F. C L Costa, J C. Koppe
Drilling and sampling are responsible for most of the costs during mineral exploration, especially in multi-elements and polymetallic deposits, such as iron, manganese and bauxite deposits. On these d
Sep 26, 2011
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Temporary Support Design for the Largest Road Caverns Ever Built in Australia – The Lutwyche CavernsBy N McKenzie, E Taylor, S V. L Barrett, H Lagger, A Purwodihardjo
This paper discusses the temporary support design methodology for the largest road caverns ever built in Australia—the Lutwyche Caverns—part of the Airport Link project in Brisbane, Australia. The Lut
Sep 17, 2014
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Investigations on Fume Losses at the Sulphide Corporation's Works at Cockle Creek, N.S.W.The paper continues an account, begun in a previous paper, of experimental work carried out by the author whilst a member of the metallurgical staff at the Cockle Creek Works. The general method of th
Jan 1, 1925
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Beneficiating a Low Yield Coking Coal at Iscor's Grootegeluk Coal MineThe Grootegeluk coal beneficiation plant is situated near Ellisras in the Waterberg coal= field in the Transvaal, RSA. At this plant 15 million tons of coal bearing material per annum are benefici
Jan 1, 1987
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Passivation effect of immobilised ferric (hydroxy-)xanthate upon calcium/magnesium precipitates on the pyrite depression in alkaline conditionsBy T Suwa, S Ishida, J Xue, S Fuchida, H Shimada, Y Aoki, C Tokoro
Pyrite depression with prolonged pre-conditioning treatment in high salinity water has attracted much of researchers’ interest in recent years considering the increased utilisation of multiple stage f
Aug 24, 2022
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A Methodology for Rock Mass Characterisation to Control Blast-induced VibrationsBy A Karrech, E Hamdi
The uncertainty of geomaterials properties is commonly encountered in resource engineering applications, especially in mining engineering where the rock mass texture, joints, fractures and damage zone
Aug 24, 2015