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Social Implications of Mining Operations on Nearby Communities - A Case Study
By Steven Townend
Mining-related activities have been known to create a challenging operating environment for mining companies located in close proximity to communities. Issues such as noise, vibrations from mining ope
May 1, 2011
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Integrated Computer Aided Open Pit Design and Planning ?A Case Study?
By Oyku Selimoglu
The key to successful mine production plan and subsequent operation is efficient mine layout design and optimization. Pit layout design and optimization allow the delineation and extraction of mineab
May 1, 2007
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Concentrate Sales Management
By H. McSorley
"I note that many of you are involved in the production of zinc, lead and copper concentrates and metal, which I am the most familiar with among the non-ferrous metals. This afternoon, I will describe
Jan 1, 1988
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Learning From Experience: Aboriginal Programs In The Resource Industries
By Barrie Robb
Outline 1. Mackenzie Aboriginal Corporation (MAC) 2. ACR background 3. ?Learning from Experience? project - What - Why - lessons 3. How Industry could contribute to sustainable Aboriginal comm
May 1, 2008
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Iron Bleed in the Maboumine Process
By Philippe Ribagnac, Bruno Courtaud, Jean-Marie Lambert, Valérie Weigel
Mabounié is a polymetallic deposit in Gabon containing niobium (1.2 wt.%), tantalum (0.03 wt.%), rare earth elements (REE) (1.4 wt.%) and uranium (0.03 wt.%) that are mostly carried by pyrochlore mine
Jan 1, 2016
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Unsustainability of Very Large Gold Producers—12 Years Later
By H. R. Bullis
"A 2003 paper discussed the idea that as gold mining companies grow larger it becomes more difficult for them to discover or acquire new gold deposits large enough to replace extracted reserves on an
Jan 1, 2019
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Design of a Leaching Strategy to Extract Gold from Eleonore Mine Ultrafine Sulphide Concentrate
By G. Deschênes
The Eleonore property (James Bay district of Northern Québec), owned by Goldcorp, hosts gold within stockworks of quartz-tourmaline-arsenopyrite veins and veinlets contained within microcline (potassi
Jan 1, 2013
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Projet De Modification De La Directive 019 Modifications Proposées
By Francis Perron
The Directive 019 on mineral industry, which was officially adopted in 1989, is the main tool used by the Quebec Ministry of Environment for the environmental evaluation and control of mineral exploit
Nov 1, 2002
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Heli-portable Resonant Drilling Environmentally Friendly 100 % Core Recovery Overburden Drilling
By Matthew Janes
Advantages: Clean samples Low sample disturbance Very low spoil Versatile Fast Penetrates all formations Resonant Drill 100 or 150 kW Self tuning to resonance Rotation to 100 rpm
May 1, 2013
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The Glacier Gulch (Hudson Bay Mountain or Yorke-Hardy) porphyry molybdenum-tungsten deposit, west-central British Columbia
By D. Atkinson
"Porphyry molybdenum-tungsten mineralization on the east flank of Hudson Bay Mountain crops out over 5 km2 and is intersected to depths of 2 km. Features such as a hornblende-biotite aureole, mineralo
Jan 1, 1995
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New Locked Charge Protection System Prevents Damage to 14MW Geared Mill (7b868bde-460b-4446-94f2-2b070ebb2f1b)
By P. van Zyl, M. Lombaard
The 14MW SAG mill at Tarkwa, Ghana, experienced a frozen drop charge incident on 10 February 2010. This caused downtime of 112 hours, a repair cost of $200k and production loss of 162,000 tons, corres
Jan 1, 2012
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New Locked Charge Protection System Prevents Damage To 14mw Geared Mill
By H De Beer
The 14MW SAG mill at Tarkwa, Ghana, experienced a frozen drop charge incident on 10 February 2010. This caused downtime of 112 hours, a repair cost of $200k and production loss of 162,000 tons, corres
Nov 1, 2011
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New Locked Charge Protection System Prevents Damage to 14mw Geared Mill (e36f627b-5857-4b5e-9b18-31db39c538e3)
The 14MW SAG mill at Tarkwa, Ghana, experienced a frozen drop charge incident on 10 February 2010. This caused downtime of 112 hours, a repair cost of $200k and production loss of 162,000 tons, corres
Jan 1, 2012
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The Effects of Compositional and Structural Characteristics of Scorodite on its Leaching Stability
By Li Qihou, Li Yuhu, Liu Zhihong, Liu Zhiyong, Yang Xiaofeng
Scorodite samples were synthesized, in adding or without crystal seed respectively by using Atmospheric Scorodite Process (ASP), Hydrothermal Scorodite Process (HSP), and Improved Atmospheric Scorodit
Jan 1, 2015
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The Responsibilities of a Mill Superintendent
By G. J. Hawkes
"We all know that every man who works for us should have a thorough knowledge and understanding of his responsibilities. But how about ourselves? Du we have a thorough knowledge and understanding of o
Jan 1, 1965
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Hybrid Laser-GMAW Welding of Aluminum Alloys: A Review
By L. Dubourg, H. Habibi, D. Rasmussen
The combination of laser welding with Gas Metal Arc Welding (GMA W) forms the hybrid laser-OMA W welding. This process is an attractive tool with a high potential in welding lightweight structures, es
Jan 1, 2006
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Use of X-Ray Computed Tomography to Quantify the Diffrences in Cracks and Pores of Sphalerite Ore Particles when Comminuted using an HPGR and Cone Crusher for Heap Leach Feed Preparation
Particles for heap leaching in conventional circuits are prepared using Cone crushers. Cone crushers are used to crush the ore to the size range between 12-25 mm for heap leaching operations. Leaching
Jan 1, 2012
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Statistical Multi-Scale Method of Mechanics Parameter Prediction for Rock Mass
By J. Z. Cui
In this paper a statistical multi-scale method for the mechanics parameter prediction of the rock mass with random distribution of multi-scale cracks/joints is presented. First the micro-structure of
May 1, 2009
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Development of a robust PTA hardfacing process using the Taguchi method
By J. Day, Matthew X. Yao, Lijue Xue
Hardfacing overlays are commonly applied on the shroud Z-section of turbine blades for enhanced wear resistance. Among various processes that are used to apply the hardfacing overlays, the plasma tran
Jan 1, 2004
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Gold Gravity Recovery in Copper Circuits at BHP Tintaya
By Valentin Choquenaha Bombilla, Oscar Alvarez Muiloz
"Tintaya’s basic production line is copper concentrate, which has an important gold content. The process used is flotation; the objective of the metallurgical department is to obtain the best results
Jan 1, 2002