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Influence of Environmental Regulations on the Design of Barrick Goldstrike?s Roaster Off-gas Cleaning Circuit
By Andy Cole
Barrick Gold recently implemented an oxygen roasting process to treat carbonaceous ore from its Goldstrike property in Nevada. One of the key project challenges was the design of the roaster gas clean
May 1, 2002
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Rate Dependence of Flexural Tensile Strength of Laurentian Granite
By F. Dai
Due to difficulties associated with gripping in direct tension, indirect methods are commonly used to measure rock tensile strength. In this work, we adopt an innovative indirect tensile test method:
May 1, 2009
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Effect of process variables in rotary degassing of aluminum
By S. G. Shabestari, S. Saeidinia, P. Mokarian
"The experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of various process parameters in rotary degassing of aluminum alloy AS5U3G. Degassing was carried out by use of argon inert gas. The flow r
Jan 1, 2004
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Minimizing the economic unit cost of dragline-truck-shovel operations at Yatagan-Eskihisar open pit mine, Turkey
By C. O. Aksoy
There is a long history of coal production in Turkey with electric energy generated from power plants since the 1950s. However, the cost of power generation is high. Therefore, it has become necessary
Jan 1, 2005
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Observation of Ore Pass System Performance at Brunswick Mine
Brunswick Mine employs an ore and waste pass system for material transfer. This paper reviews the evolution and performance ore pass systems at the mine. It presents the range of selected configuratio
Feb 1, 2008
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Capital Cost Estimating for Mineral Processing Plants
By R. J. Balfour, T. L. Papucciyan
"INTRODUCTIONCapital Cost considerations are basic to feasibility in the achievement of success for Mineral Processing Projects as much as or more than in many other industries. Capital cost is an imp
Jan 1, 1972
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Geometallurgical Mapping: A New Approach That Reduces Technical Risk
By Jean M. Richardson, Steven R. Williams
"Geometallurgical mapping is a new team-based approach that documents variability within an orebody and quantifies the impact of geology (host rocks, alteration and structure) and mineralogy on grindi
Jan 1, 2004
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Dust Control at Steep Rock Iron Mines Pelletizing Plant
By P. S. Capper
"Generally speaking, the most intensive efforts at dust control in the mining industry have, in the past, been concerned with underground operations and where uranium ore or high silica material is pr
Jan 1, 1976
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Dragline monitoring, control, and navigation
By J. Hansen
"ABSTRACTThe paper addresses the application of automated monitoring, control, and navigation to improve dragline performance. SummaryImproving dragline performance in the Canadian coal mines is criti
Jan 1, 2000
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Assessment of Material Diggability for Shovel Excavation in Oil Sands
By Sibabrata Patnayak
A major problem during shovel excavation in oil sand mining is the variability of material diggability resulting in varying mechanical energy input, cycle time, energy consumption, wear, and stress lo
Apr 1, 2005
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Continuous loading and conveying technology in mining
By Dale Lens, W. S. (Wayne) Cusitar
"The use of continuous loading and conveying technology for mining is currently practiced in relatively few mining environments and, even in these cases, on a non-exclusive basis. For the most part, a
Jan 1, 1987
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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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Porcupine Joint Venture A new birth ? a new venture ? a plan for success!!!
Located in Timmins, Ontario the Porcupine Joint Venture, a pooling of assets between two existing operations (the Dome Operation of Placer Dome (CLA) and the Hoyle Pond Operation of Kinross Gold Corpo
May 1, 2003
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From Dream to Discovery ? or From Resources to Reserves
By Côme Carbonneau
The ten -year case history of La Société Québécoise d'Exploration Minière (SOQUEM) is reviewed under the headings of the company's raison d'être, objectives, policies, structure and fin
Jan 1, 1978
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A Feasibility Study on the Use of Desulphurized Tailings to Control Acid Mine Drainage
By Mostafa Benzaazoua, Bruno Bussière, Philippe Poirier, Denis Bois
"Environmental desulphurisation is an attractive alternative for the management of acid generating tailings. Non selective froth flotation is the most commonly used method to produce desulphurized tai
Jan 1, 2004
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Unlocking Value through Flotation Equipment Maintenance
By P. Tolvanen, A. Jalili
"When hard times strike in the mining cycle, sites tighten their belts and focus on lowering their unit costs. Lower unit costs can be achieved by reducing expenditure, increasing production, or by a
Jan 1, 2015
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Cut off Grade Optimizer Integrating Contaminant Constraints
By Sebastián H. Troncoso
Open pit mine planning is normally based on the selection of an economic envelope that has been generated by the Lerchs & Grossman algorithm, which requires individual economic valuation of each block
Oct 1, 2009
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Improving Safety With GPS-Based Proximity Detection Improving Detection
By Casey Erickson
Goldstrike Property ??Located in Elko, NV USA?Carlin Trend ??Mining Since 1985 ??27 Million Ounces of Gold Mined ??Production of 400,000 tons/day ??1,600 Employees
May 1, 2011
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Decision Support Programs
By Hamid Butt
Information Technology ??Advanced Information Technology is dramatically changing information flow within organizations. This enables employees to have information at their fingertips to make informe
May 1, 2006
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Magnetoflotation in Nickel Ore Processing
By Peter Wells, Adrian Sabau, Turgut Yalcin
"The nickel ores of Sudbury contain substantial amounts of the gangue mineral pyrrhotite (Fe7S&) which causes certain diflculties in the milling of these ores. This paper proposes a process called “ma
Jan 1, 1999