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The Effects of Nuggety Gold on Gold Deportment – Lessons from Beaton Creek Paleo-Placer Gold Project, Australia
By Mark McComb, Geoffrey R. Lane
"Over the years many differing approaches have been developed to clearly understand the nature, mode of occurrence, associations and deportment of both free-milling and refractory gold in a wide varie
Jan 1, 2015
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Improvements in Column Flotation Through the Use of Microcel™ Spargers at Antamina
By David Estrella, Hector M. Lizama, Jhonny Carrión
"Microcel™ sparging systems were installed on one column of the molybdenum cleaner circuit and one column of the copper first cleaner circuit at Antamina. The Microcel™ system is known to generate fin
Jan 1, 2008
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Escondida – Phase IV Grinding Circuit
By Walter S. Bergholz, Michael L. Schreder
"Since Escondida began operations in fiscal 1991, a series of aggressive expansion projects have enabled market share to be increased and ever larger profits to be realized. This was possible due to t
Jan 1, 2004
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The Importance of Structural Geological Mapping and Slope Monitoring in Open Pit Slope Stability
By Nick D. Rose
The importance of structural geology in open pit slope stability is overlooked in many mining operations due to pressures to cut costs and minimize mine personnel. As a result, mine geology staff are
May 1, 2002
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Development of an On-line Vibration Based Fault Detection Systems for an Electric Mining Shovel
By Markus Timusk
This paper describes a research project that focuses on developing a diagnostic routine to assist in decision support for the condition based maintenance of mobile mining equipment subject to unsteady
May 1, 2004
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Design, Commissioning, and Operation of a Heavy Rare Earth Separation Pilot Plant
By Jack Zhang, Yunguo Tang, Baodong Zhao
"Rare earth elements (REEs) have numerous key applications in both traditional and advanced technologies. A shortage of some critical REEs is expected due to the discrepancy between the REE abundance
Jan 1, 2017
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Western Mines- Myra, Lynx and Price deposits
By R. H. Seraphim
"Western Mines Limited produces gold, silver, copper, lead and zinc from a number of Paleozoic volcanogenic deposits near Buttle Lake on Vancouver Island. The deposits were emplaced along a series of
Jan 1, 1980
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An interpretation of regional northwest-southeast folding in North America with special emphasis on Ontario: Structural and economic implications
By S. V. Burr
"A 28-year study of cross folds leads to the conclusion that the northwest-southeast folds recognized in many areas of North America are part of a regional pattern. Detailed examination of over 650 ge
Jan 1, 1980
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Improving Mining & Minerals Plant Performance ? Operations and Maintenance Working Together using new Information Technology
By Gregory A. Johnson
Operations and Maintenance departments have long had an adversarial relationship. The widespread evolution and adoption of modern management techniques such as Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) a
Feb 1, 2008
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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
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Research and Development for an Ultra-Low Profile LHD
By Patrick F. R. Murphy
An ultra-low profile LHD has been developed by EJC Mining Equipment of Burlington, Ontario for narrow-reef mining applications. This paper discusses the challenges encountered during the evolution of
May 1, 2004
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On-Line Material Balance Calculation for Mass Flow Rate Estimation and Flotation Process Diagnosis an Application to Copper-Flotation Circuit at East-Malartic Plant
By Dany Pelletier, Yeves Breau, Ahmed Bouajila, Claude Gagnon
"In flotation circuits, direct measurement of the volumetric flow rate delivered by electromagnetic flowmeters is often difficult to obtain particularly due to piping and flow constraints. However, on
Jan 1, 2000
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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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CO Oxidation Activity and Temperature-Programmed Reduction Study of Au/CuZnOx Catalysts
By Stephen J. Roberts
Gold catalysts were prepared on co-precipitated, calcined copper oxide - zinc oxide support by an inverse deposition-precipitation method. These catalysts were characterised by X-ray diffraction (XRD)
Oct 1, 2003
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The Design, Commissioning and Operation of the Golden Giant Paste Backfill Plant
By Jim Dodd, Jim Paynter
"We would like to acknowledge the efforts of the following key people who helped to make this project a success.Ron Jung, instrumentation supervisor for the Golden Giant Mine, spent many hours reviewi
Jan 1, 1997
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Hardness Model and Reconciliation of Throughput Models to Plant Results at MINERA Escondida LTDA., Chile.
By Leonardo Flores
"Minera Escondida operates two open pits on a porphyry copper district, southeast of Antofagasta, Chile. During 2005, ore will be delivered exclusively from one pit to two concentrators, while from 20
Jan 1, 2005
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Aerophine® 3418A Promoter – The Canadian Collector – 50 Years of Improved Metallury in Various Applications
By F. Bruey, T. Bruce, D. R. Nagaraj, W. Thomas, P. Riccio, E. Guitard
"AEROPHINE® 3418A Promoter is a flotation collector that has been an industry standard in the Canadian mineral processing industry since its first commercial use at the Kidd Creek concentrator in 1980
Jan 1, 2015
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Welcome to Newfoundland
By Robert B. Parsons
"The Canadian mining industry is not off to a good start in the 1993/94 budget season. Of the five provinces and territories to table budgets as of March 31, 1993, the industry's scorecard shows:
Jan 1, 1993
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GET: A Function for Preferential Site Selection of Additional Borehole Drilling
By M. Sharafodin, A. A. Hassanipak
Abstract - The essential aims of additional borehole drilling are to improve the reliability of grade and tonnage estimates in each reserve class and to increase ore tonnages. The "GET" function prese
Jan 1, 2004
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Design, Construction and Commissioning of Gold Tailings Plant at Mazowe Mine, Zimbabwe
By Peter Makuvise, Alain M. Bantshi
"The Mazowe Gold Mine is managed by Metallon Gold (Zimbabwe) and is situated in the west-central part of the Harare greenstone belt. Orebodies here generally comprise shear zones which are in-filled w
Jan 1, 2017