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  • SAIMM
    Rotary Mill Liner Practice in the South African Gold Mining Industry

    By J. H. French, O. E. Lissner

    S. J. Venning (Member): The authors should be congratulated on producing such concise data from the plethora of experimental report results. Their observations on the cost of liners calls for some co

    Jan 9, 1968

  • SAIMM
    Developing New Approaches To Rock Slope Stability Analyses

    By J. R. L. Read, A. N. Ogden

    This paper describes mining industry funded research that is being undertaken to address the critical gaps and uncertainties in our knowledge so that we can develop new approaches and create more effe

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Numerical Simulation Of Shear Fracture Evolution In Laboratory-Scale Samples ? Synopsis (9ca5bf01-1bcd-434c-af39-6138319e60f9)

    By D. P. Roberts

    This investigation aimed to simulate the experiments performed by Nic Gay (Gay, N.C.1976. Fracture growth around openings in large blocks of rock subjected to uniaxial and biaxial compression. Interna

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    The Application Of Modifying Factors To The Merensky Reef And UG2 Chromitite Layer

    The application of modifying factors to the Merensky Reef and UG2 Chromitite Layer has a number of challenging aspects as the deposits are tabular and consist of a number of separate geological entiti

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Detailed Design Ground Investigation ? Tunnel Section Ground Investigation

    DD3-tunnels (PD BH's) ? Rotary coreholes 111no. (124) ? Percussion holes Ono. (37) ? Sampling (rock and soil) ? Soil and rock permeability ? testing ? BH Televiewer Surveys [ ]

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Investigation of physical and mechanical properties of polymer based composite material using volcanic tuff dust in Cappadocia, Turkey

    By I. Çinar

    Cappadocia is not only a region of Turkey with historical and touristic importance. During the cutting and processing of volcanic tuff, quarries in this region release large amounts of tuff into the e

    Mar 5, 2025

  • SAIMM
    Leeuwpan Fine Coal Dense Medium Plant

    Exxaro installed their first ultra fines treatment plant at Leeuwpan Coal mine. The plant is now fully operational and results already show that the plant has great potential. The plant was designed a

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Presidential Address: Collaboration and Diversity in STEM

    By Z. Botha

    Sheryl Sandberg, the COO of Facebook, published a book titled 'Lean In', where she invites women to sit at the table. In summary, to 'sit at the table' entails not only embracing opportunity, but to a

    Sep 1, 2022

  • SAIMM
    Concentration and distribution of cobalt in pyrites of the IOCG La Estrella ore deposit, Atacama Region, Chile J. Quevedo, R. Kuyvenhoven, X. Prieto, A. Parbhakar-Fox, and L.V. Danyushevsky

    By R. Kuyvenhoven, A. Parbhakar-Fox, X. Prieto, J. Quevedo, L. V. Danyushevsky

    This paper presents the results of a study focussed on determining the distribution of cobalt in different types of pyrite of the La Estrella IOCG deposit in Chile. In the IOCG mineral deposits, where

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    Comparison between traditional coal washability determination methods and the RhoVol density analyser, Q.P. Campbell, M. le Roux, and M. Fofana

    By M. Le Roux, Q. P. Campbell, M. Fofana

    The determination of densimetric information to predict coal washabilities is an important step in characterising the feed material, as well as the performance of operating plants. However, traditiona

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    A Comparison of Indirect Lognormal and Discrete Gaussian Change Of Support Methods for Various Variogram Estimators

    By D. Marcotte, R. V. Dutaut

    "In mineral resource evaluations, geostatistical methods known as global change of support allow prediction of the theoretical histogram and gradetonnage curves prior to interpolations or simulations

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SAIMM
    Sulphur From Smelter Gases And Sulphate-Rich Effluents

    By Jannie Maree, Dieks Theron, Ryneth Nengovhela, Patrick Hlabela

    In extracting base metals from ore bodies, sulphide as well as oxide, the main environmental concern is sulphur, whether in the form of sulphurous gases or sulphate in liquid form. Generally sulphur

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Age hardening of the aluminium alloy EN 4017 - Synopsis

    By D. B. Swanepoel

    Hulamin Rolled Products (Ltd) developed a high Mn and Si containing alloy, EN 4017 as a scrap consuming alloy from the waste generated in producing their range of clad products for brazing of inter al

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Preparation and properties of slag-tailings based artificial reef concretes, X.J. Lyu, B.O. Erdenekhuyag, Q. Liu, M.J. Lian, H.Y. Zang, X.Q. Cao, and X.F. You

    By X. J. Lyu, Q. Liu, M. J. Lian, X. Q. Cao, X. F. You, B. O. Erdenekhuyag, H. Y. Zang

    The slag-tailings based artificial reef concrete (ARC) is made of CaO-CaSO4 activated granulated blast furnace slag (GBFS) as cementitious material and deslimed gold ore tailings as aggregate. In orde

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    A genetic algorithm model for optimising long-term open-pit mine production scheduling APCOM 2021

    By C. Musingwini, A. S. Nhleko, P. M. Muke

    Open-pit mine planning includes the determination of a long-term open-pit mine production scheduling (OMPS) plan. The OMPS plan is generally a three-dimensional (3D) block extraction sequence that see

    Sep 1, 2021

  • SAIMM
    SA coal resources and reserves, a present-day outlook

    By X. M. Prévost

    The reassessment of coal reserves has become a matter of urgency and has come as a result of the present situation of the industry, in the context of globalized coal economies, as well as new mining l

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    A review of EN 16907 on earthworks (extractive waste) in the context of South African mine residues

    By F. Hörtkorn, Y. Narainsamy

    Rather quietly, a new generation of European norms dealing with earthworks has been developed over the past few years, in particular a part of EN 16907 pertaining to extractive waste. Whereas the majo

    Jun 2, 2022

  • SAIMM
    Fines generation from South African manganese ores during preheating in a rotary kiln

    By M. S. Moholwa, J. D. Steenkamp, H. L. Rutto

    Manganese ores are the major source of manganese for the production of manganese ferroalloys. There is a gap in the knowledge of the decrepitation behaviour of manganese ores, which presents a problem

    Nov 30, 2022

  • SAIMM
    Orange Free State Branch Proceedings of the February General Meeting

    The February General Meeting of the Branch was held at the St. Helena Club on Wednesday, 19th February, 1969. Present were: Twelve members: Mr J. G. Kirchner (Chairman of the O.F.S. Branch), Messrs

  • SAIMM
    Deformability analysis of infinite jointed rock mass by the RCOD

    By K. Sugawara, Y. Hirakawa, A. Sato

    The rock mass properties such as deformability and permeability are highly dependent on the existence of cracks. The Ratio of Crack Opening Dependency (RCOD) was proposed as a new index to evaluate th

    Jan 1, 2003