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The Alsands Project
By C. R. Edwards, J. R. Smith
"INTRODUCTIONThe purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the ALSANDS PROJECT, with emphasis on the approach taken in the design of the Primary Extraction and Froth Treatment Plants.The Alsands
Jan 1, 1982
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Development of New Frothers through Hydrodynamic Characterization of Frother Chemistry
By J. A. Finch
"Much progress has been made over the last several years in the ability to measure flotation cell hydrodynamic parameters in both the laboratory and plant. These techniques have allowed fundamental re
Jan 1, 2007
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Origins of Electrorerefining: Birth of the Technology and the World's First Commercial Electrorefinery
By A. E. Wraith, J. Protheroe Jones, P. J. Mackey
The world’s first copper electrorefinery started production in 1869 at Burry Port in South Wales. Built within the Pembrey Copper Works which had commenced smelting operations in 1849, the new refiner
Jan 1, 2019
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Classification of quartz veins in turbiditehosted gold deposits, greenschist facies, eastern Nova Scotia
By S. J. Haynes
"This paper documents the characteristics of the different quartz veins, and their relation to gold, in the turbiditic Meguma domain of eastern Nova Scotia. Eleven different types have been distinguis
Jan 1, 1987
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How the Mining Industry is Responding to Pressures for Change in the Management of Mine Waste
By Don Welch
Pressures for change ?Land use constraints ?Project financing ?Local communities ?Environmental issues ?Sustainability requirements ?Stricter regulatory procedures ?Technical excellence ?Reduc
May 1, 2010
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Comparative economics of bacterial oxidation and roasting as a pre-treatment step for gold recovery from an auriferous pyrite concentrate
By S. R. Gilbert, C. O. Bounds, R. R. Ice
"Many ores are upgraded to produce auriferous sulphide concentrates (principally pyrite) which are not amenable to direct cyanidation. Often these refractory gold-bearing concentrates contain undesira
Jan 1, 1988
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Alimak Mining at the David Bell Mine
By Andrew G. Patton
The Alimak mining method was introduced at the David Bell mine in 1998 to extract an otherwise uneconomic and inaccessible reserve. The success associated with the extraction of these reserves led to
Oct 1, 2001
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Applied Mineralogy in Industrial and Metallic Mineral Deposits: Examples from Wollastonite, V-magnetite and Muscovite
By Panagiota Tsolis-Katagas, Basilios Tsikouras, Tassos A. Grammatikopoulos, C. Katagas
"Mineralogical techniques including microscopic methods, reflected and transmitted light microscopy, Cathodoluminescence (CL) and Scanning Electron Microscopy equipped with an Energy Dispersive Spectr
Jan 1, 2003
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MLA: The New Sherlock Holmes of the Mining and Metallurgical Engineering Industry
By Paul Miranda, Corby Anderson
"The Center for Advanced Mineral and Metallurgical Processing (CAMP) has recently obtained a Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA). CAMP has utilized the technology for several projects with excellent res
Jan 1, 2007
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Minage des zones étroites à la Mine Bousquet
By Paul Gauthier
Aujourd?hui, avec un faible prix de l?or sur le marché, les opérateurs miniers doivent revoir leur façon de faire. La méthode de minage «Eureka» permet de réduire les coûts de production et d?accélére
Oct 1, 2001
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A Standards Based Approach to Mobile Equipment Data
By Peter Cunningham
General Description of Projects The objective is to streamline data transfer within our Process Control and Business Systems for the purposes of tracking actual production, reducing manual record kee
May 1, 2013
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Partial Roasting of Copper Concentrate with Stabilisation of Arsenic and Mercury
By K. Lundholm, M. Andersson, L. Nevatalo, Å. Holmström, L. Hedström
"Several copper deposits have the arsenic bearing minerals enargite (Cu3AsS4) and tennantite (Cu12As4S12). Since this mineral contain both arsenic and copper, it is not possible to remove the arsenic
Jan 1, 2014
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Design techniques for sublevel caving layouts
By D. A. Trotter, G. J. Goddard
"This paper describes a method of deciding on various design parameters for a sublevel caving layout. Layout design curves are obtained from the output of a computer optimization program. The program
Jan 1, 1981
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Novel High Efficiency Gold Extraction Process Using Nanotechnology
By Adil Aledresse, Louis Mercier, Laxman Amaratunga
"The development of high capacity adsorbents with uniform porosity denoted, MP-HMS (Mercaptopropyl – Hexagonal Mesoporous Structure) using nanotechnology, and their ability to extract gold from soluti
Jan 1, 2008
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Borehole seismic survey for mineral exploration: Case histories from Norman West and Halfmile Lake
By G. Bellefleur, K. Stevens, E. Adam, D. Synder, G. Perron, C. Müller
The Downhole Seismic Imaging consortium was initiated by the Geological Survey of Canada and three Canadian mining companies to assess the usefulness of borehole seismic techniques for the exploration
Jan 1, 2004
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Performance and Field Testing of the Service Brakes of Mining Trucks in B.C.
By V. E. Dawson
Brake testing of large mining trucks was initiated in British. Columbia in 1969 following an accident involving the failure of the service brakes of a l00-ton electric-drive truck. Some selected resul
Jan 1, 1977
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Validation of High Fidelity Simulation Wear Predictions in Various Types of Mineral Processing Equipment
By John A. Herbst, Xiangjun Qiu
"Prediction of wear on a microscale level in mineral processing equipment turns out to be a challenging undertaking. This is particularly true for cases in which the objective is to use such predictio
Jan 1, 2007
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Reducing Miners? Exposure to Diesel Particulate Matter Using Real-time Measurement
By Michel G. Grenier
Compliance with Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) exposure regulation is currently performed using timeweighted average (TWA) sampling on underground mine workers. These samples are collected in the spa
May 1, 2010
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Adaptive control in mineral processing
By K. Najim, D. Hodouin
"The raw ores which are processed in mineral processing plants exhibit very strong variations of their physical and chemical properties. As a consequence, the performances of the comminution and separ
Jan 1, 1992
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The Upgrading of Primary Gold Gravity Concentrates
By Bryn Harris, Liming Huang, Andre Laplante
"This paper reviews flowsheets generally used in gold rooms to upgrade primary gravity concentrates particularly those of Knelsons. It is concluded that even for small operations, which treat between
Jan 1, 1999