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  • CIM
    Environmental Planning in Mine Waste Management - The Huckleberry Mines Experience

    By Henri F. Letient

    At the 25th Annual B.C. Mine Reclamation Symposium in September 2001, Huckleberry Mines Limited received the Jake MacDonald Reclamation Award for its exemplary mine waste management plan, conceived to

    May 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Knowledge Management for Organizational Learning and Innovation

    By Kimiz Dalkir

    Some things to keep in mind? ! What is your role in knowledge management? ! What knowledge-related challenges are you facing today? ! How does important knowledge get shared in your organization?

    May 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Lessons Learned from Measuring and Monitoring the Social License to Operate

    By Ian Thomson

    The Social License to Operate ? We are operating in an era where social license in the resource industry is as important ? if not more important ? than mineral potential ? Concept proposed by Plac

    Aug 1, 2013

  • CIM
    CANMET-MMSL Alternative Binder Technology

    By A. Pratt

    Portland cement is primarily used to solidify backfill in underground mine workings and it represents a major cost in mining operations. CANMET-MMSL has invented an alternative binder technology that

    May 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Probabilistic practical optimization of production scheduling for multi-element deposits

    Optimizing production scheduling in open pit mines is important for managing cash flows of mining operations. This paper describes a new, probabilistic, mixed integer programming (MIP) formulation whi

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Essakane Mine Project

    By Charles A. Taschereau

    Burkina Faso ? Formerly known as Upper Volta; Country is landlocked and dry (Sahel sub-Sahara zone); ? Among poorest countries in the World, according to the United Nations Human Development Index (

    May 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Was that Locked Cycle Test Any Good?

    By Mike Ounpuu

    "Locked cycle testing has become more common practice in the last 10 years. Reasons vary from a desire to avoid pilot plant testing, demand for more variability testing within deposits, and perhaps mo

    Jan 1, 2001

  • CIM
    Human Aspects of Automation - The Diamond Drilling Case Study

    By Helen Francis

    Over the last decade, lower ore grades and deeper mine environments have demanded that mining companies develop new technologies (tools and processes) to ensure a mine?s economic sustainability. At In

    May 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Flotation of Base Metals from Grinding Mill Discharges

    By A. J. Williams

    "Conventional base metal milling practice normally consists of crushing, grinding and cyclone classification followed by flotation. It is the authors' belief that the commencement of flotation after c

    Jan 1, 1984

  • CIM
    Mine Waste Management Planning for an Arctic Environment

    By William J. Purdy

    Successful design, operation and completion of a surface waste management facility for a diamond mine located in Canada?s northern environment requires careful planning to minimize short and long term

    May 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Geology and Mineral Deposits of the Gallinas Mountains REE Deposit, Lincoln and Torrance Counties, New Mexico, USA

    By Virginia T. McLemore

    The Gallinas Mountains are in northern Lincoln County and southern Torrance County, New Mexico, USA where a series of alkaline igneous bodies, including porphyritic latite, trachyte/syenite, andesite,

    May 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Case Study of Plant Trial on the Improvement of Gold Recovery of Preg-Robbing Ores by Surfactant

    By H. Cay, J. Zachwieja, T. Esplin, R. Ravenelle, T. Olsen-Tank

    Barrick Goldstrike mine utilizes a carbon-in-leach (CIL) circuit to simultaneously leach gold into solution with cyanide and adsorb the gold-cyanide complex onto activated carbon for further refinemen

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Process Design Consideration for a Small Gold Mill in the Northwest Territories

    By A. M. Childs, R. F. Mather, K. R. Rawling

    "The challenges encountered in the design and construction of mines and their process facilities today are becoming more intense and the engineering more competitive. The need to incorporate new techn

    Jan 1, 1983

  • CIM
    Self-optimizing Grinding Control for Maximising Throughput while Maintaining Cyclone Overflow Specifications

    By Eduardo Nunez, Asim Tuzun, Dan Graffi, Glenn MacPherson

    "In preparation for the milling of a new nickel and copper mine ore, Nickel Rim South, Xstrata’s Strathcona Mill is undertaking numerous process improvement projects. Within the grinding circuit, seve

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Modification of the Stillwater Base Metals Refinery Process

    By L. Newman, R. Wyrick, R. Berezowsky

    The Stillwater Mining Company operates an integrated mines, mill, smelter and base metals refinery complex in Montana, USA for the production of a high-grade platinum group metals (PGM) bearing concen

    Jan 1, 2004

  • CIM
    High SO2 Feed Gas Sulfuric Acid Plant Design Option

    By D. J. McLaws

    "Recent innovations in metal smelting technology utilize continuous oxygen-enriched smelting and converting processes which are capable of producing off-gases containing up to 60% SO2 or more. Other S

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Financing From the Perspective of Mining Companies

    By Eric Low

    Raising capital by issuing debt or equity is necessary in almost every corporation. In the field of corporate finance, the raising of capital is a heavily-studied topic. However, some of what is studi

    May 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Two-Stage Crushing For Concentrating Minor Rare Metals from E-Scrap

    By Kosuke Hosoda, Shuji Owada, Hiroyuki Tokuichi, Hirobumi Ohta, Chiharu Tokoro, Moto-o Sato, Katsushi Okumura, Hiroto Ogawa, Hideaki Umezawa

    The Japanese government enforced the "Small Domestic Appliances (SDAs) Recycling Law" in 2013. The law targets metals such as Ta, Nd, Dy, Co, and W to be recycled. Considerable amounts of these minor

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Project Execution & Cost Escalation in the Mining Industry

    By John A. Wells, Leticia Conca, Kenneth G. Thomas

    "Since about 2002 there has been significant capital cost escalation, not inflation, in the mining industry causing turmoil for successful project completion. Project capital costs have more than doub

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Simulating the Mine-Mill Interface

    By J. A. Meech, G. R. Baiden

    "A dynamic simulation of a mine-mill complex has been conducted using networked microcomputers (IBM PC/AT and IBM PC/XT). These models allow simultaneous operation of an open pit using shovels and tru

    Jan 1, 1987