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  • SAIMM
    Key Performance Indicators ? A Tool to Assess ICT Applications in Underground Coal Mines

    By C. Dauber

    Implementing new technologies in industrial operations entails the challenge of measuring the improvements gained by the applied technology. Nevertheless, it is absolutely essential to assess the tech

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Case Study Of The Rockpass System At Kloof No. 3 Shaft

    By R. Hart

    In this paper, problems that have been experienced with the rockpass system at Kloof Mine No. 3 Shaft are described. Actions that have been taken to overcome the problems are also described. These inc

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Developments Of Mechanized Technologies For Low Seam Height Mining In Platinum

    By P. Bracher

    Most efforts to mechanize low seam (narrow reef) mining of platinum ore are presently based on board-and-pillar methods with1.6?1.8 m in reef excavation. This paper attempts to substantiate the benefi

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Cracking A Hard Nut: An Overview Of Lonmin?s Operations Directed At Smelting Of UG2-Rich Concentrate Blends - Synopsis

    Lonmin, earlier than any other primary platinum producer, had to deal with the concentrating and smelting of UG2-rich ores and concentrates respectively. Smelting was performed at a fairly modest scal

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Underground storage in Sydney, some uncommon rock mechanics features of an uncommon project in Australia

    By N. Gatelier, T. You, J. C. Kandel

    ABSTRACT: Underground hydrocarbons storage is a very specific domain for the designer. He is usually free to adjust the section, shape and layout to cope with the geological and geotechnical condition

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Potential Applications of Nanofiltration Membranes in Copper–Cobalt Processing

    By L. A. Thompson, A. J. Linington

    "Copper–cobalt extraction is a reagent-intensive process resulting in acid consumption greatly contributing towards production costs, which in the current market conditions curtail profitability. Nano

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    SPOTLIGHT on readership survey

    By R. W. O. Kersten, J. D. Austin

    A questionnaire was circulated in 1986 that had the objective of establishing the type of material that members would like to see featured in the Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and M

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    Subsidence analysis and prediction based on a real case

    By B. Solar Menéndez, M. B. Díaz Aguado, I. Á. Fernández, C. González Nicieza

    The analysis of subsidence due to the opening of an underground void (mining, water exploitation or civil works hole) is a problem usually hard to solve. First of all, it requires a predictive model,

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Effect of the strain rate and water stauration for the tensiles strength of rocks

    By I. Matsunaga, K. Aoki, W. -j. Jung

    Blasting is widely used in mining and basic construction because of its speed and economy to destroy the rocks. Blasting has the advantages of reduced excavation costs and shorted construction time wh

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Outotec Direct Leaching Application In China

    Outotec?s direct leaching process is an atmospheric leaching process for sulphidic zinc concentrates. The direct leaching process, based on special leaching reactors developed by Outokumpu, is the mos

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Fundamental Analysis Of The Interaction Between Overburden Behaviour And Snook Stability In Coalmines

    By J. N. Van der Merwe

    In the process of pillar extraction, pillars are seldom if ever extracted completely. The pillar remnants, or snooks, play an important role in the extraction process. At the working face, they need t

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Rock avalanche run out prediction: combined application of two numerical methods

    By R. Poisel, C. Scavia, Preh A., W. Roth, M. Pirulli

    ABSTRACT: Two methodologies for the three-dimensional simulation of the run out of rock avalanches are presented: one based on a granular approach and the other based on a continuum equivalent approac

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Evaluation Of Oxine-Type Ligand Coordination To Zirconium (IV) - Synopsis

    By M. Steyn

    [Zr(C9H6NO)4]?(HCON(CH3)2)?(H2O), where (C9H6NO) = 8-hydroxy quinoline (oxH), was synthesized and characterized. This tetrakis-coordinated zirconium complex crystallized in the triclinic crystal syste

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SAIMM
    Introducing new members of Council. . .

    Mr G. Maude was educated at Huish's Grammar School (Taunton) and Leeds University. He graduated in 1961 with a B.Sc. degree in Mining. Mr E.B. Crocker was educated at Florida Park High School, Wi

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SAIMM
    Experimental and numerical modelling of the tunnel face stability

    By J. Trckova, P. Prochazka

    Physical models from equivalent materials satisfying geometrical and physical similarity have been constructed. A special technology of simulating the excavation of an opening at the front part of a t

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Wind Erosion Of Tailings Dams And Mitigation Of The Dust Nuisance

    By G. E. Blight

    Wind erosion can be a major cause of the loss and dispersion of tailings material from a tailings dam into its surrounding environment. Such dust dispersion can be a serious nuisance, as well as a hea

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Kell Hydrometallurgical Process For Extraction Of Platinum Group Metals And Base Metals From Flotation Concentrates ? Synopsis

    By K. S. Liddell

    The Kell Process has been developed for the extraction of platinum group metals (PGMs) and base metals from sulphide flotation concentrates. The process has been successfully tested on several differe

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    The effect of slimes content on the rougher spiral circuit in a heavy mineral sands operation

    By R. Abela

    Heavy mineral sands are usually beneficiated in a spiral concentrator circuit prior to separation of heavy minerals into streams of zircon, rutile and ilmenite. The performance of the spiral concentra

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Book news

    Report M294 A mineralogical investigation of potential gold-sorbing minerals and shales, by c.T. Logan. Dec. 1986. 12 pp. Computer software The Fifth IFAC/IFIP Symposium on Software for Computer

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    Mineral Resource Throughput Management: From An Iron Ore Mine To Steel In India (b7c708d0-4ac4-4078-9cb8-41844cba4156)

    Mineral Resource Throughput Management is based on the extraction of the maximum potential value from an ore reserve with the emphasis to generate maximum ROI and ROR (return on reserve). A stee

    Jan 1, 2007