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Coarse Liberation and Recovery of Free Gold and Gold Sulfide Carriers for Energy Reduction in Process Plants
By M Davies, G Theletsane, A H. Gray
Recovery of gold from gold ores has been driven by the available technology and its configuration in the process plant flow sheet.Conventional practice in test work programs has the ore being ground f
Sep 1, 2014
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The Greymouth Coalfield - A Photographic Record of the Changing Face of Exploration and Mining
Slide presentation at conference
Jan 1, 1996
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Ventilation Officers or Mine Managers? Who should Ultimately be Responsible for Mine Ventilation? A Comparison between Western Australia and Queensland
By A Halim
"There is still debate about who should ultimately be responsible for the ventilation system in anunderground mine. The Queensland Coal Mining Safety and Health Regulation 2001, states that adedicated
Jun 1, 2012
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Performance of Vertical Flow Systems for Passive Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage
Vertical flow systems (SAPS, vertical flow wetlands) are increasingly used for passive treatment of mine drainage that is net acid. Data on 30 systems in eastern US show that well designed systems typ
Jan 1, 2003
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Phase relationship of quaternary system FeO-Al2O3-SiO2-‘V2O3’ at 1873 K and its impact during melting of H-DRI for possible vanadium extraction
By A Vickerfält, J Huss, J Martinsson
The European Union has listed vanadium (V) as one of the critical raw materials for the transition to a future green society, as stated in the Critical Raw Material Act, written by Grohol and Veeh (20
Aug 21, 2024
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Ausenco Carbon Reactivation Design Criteria
By D Preedy, J K. Claflin, S R. J La Brooy
This paper summarises the lessons learned during a recent carbon reactivation kiln upgrade project at the Sukari Gold Mine in Egypt. The kiln is being replaced to ensure that the plant achieves full v
Sep 26, 2013
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TiRON – A New Process for the Production of High-Grade Feedstock for TiO2 Pigment Manufacture
By J M. Shekiro
In the chloride process to manufacture TiO2 pigment, feedstocks containing higher TiO2 contents (high-grade ores or HGOs) are favoured in order to minimise production of undesirable by-products. Most
Oct 5, 2011
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Structural Controls on Gold Mineralisation in the South-eastern Truong Son Fold-thrust Belt and its Significance in Regional Metallogeny
By T X. Le, H T. Tran, K Zaw, T Manaka
"An EXTENDED ABSTRACT is available for download. A full-length paper was not prepared for this presentation. The Truong Son fold-thrust belt (TSFTB) is a prominent tectonic component of mainland Indoc
Mar 18, 2015
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Development of the production optimiser through collaboration between Evolution Mining and Minnovare
By C McCracken, R Landers, B Hesse
Minnovare identified the potential to improve production drilling outcomes in underground long-hole stopes through the adaptation of new technology which was under ongoing development. An approach to
Mar 15, 2021
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Field Parametric Geostatistics Geostatistical Rigorous Solutions Dealing with Extreme Grades During Resource Estimation
By M Armony, J F. C L Costa, J C. Koppe
Linear kriging methods fail to estimate local grades and local reserves for highly skewed variables due to three reasons: it uses only part of the available data information, it has no physical princi
Sep 26, 2011
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Application of enterprise optimisation considering ultra high intensity blasting
By J Pan
This case study assesses the application of Mine-to-Mill optimisation combined with Whittle Consulting’s Prober<sup>®</sup> economic optimisation for the purpose of economic value upl
Nov 21, 2018
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Rheological Investigation of the Flotation Performance of a High Clay Containing Gold Ore from Carlin Trend
By D Bradshaw, R Dunne, S Farrokhpay
It is well known that clays affect the flotation performance, and many of the refractory gold ores around the world contain clay minerals. Therefore, an ore sample from the Carlin Trend was selected f
Sep 26, 2013
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Adaptation of an Open Pit Optimiser for Underground Strategic Planning
By M Bloss, B Roberts
BHP Billiton Olympic Dam required a well-tested software product suitable for strategic optimisation and scheduling of options for a potential underground mining project. The company has a standard so
Nov 24, 2014
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Microwave heating behaviour of ores and its application to high-power microwave assisted comminution and ore sorting
By X Tian, J Forster, A Olmsted, E R. Bobicki, M Goldbaum, D Boucher, C A. Pickles
As the global demand for metal values expands, it becomes increasingly important to create more sustainable mining operations. Consequently, considerable research and technology development is require
Aug 24, 2022
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Multiphysics modelling and virtual motion simulation to optimise mining systems in extreme conditions – insights from Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover
By S Padekar, C Tapia, D Likhachev, S Harlikar, D Sapkale
In the quest to access valuable critical minerals, humankind is expanding the frontier into extreme environments like space and deep-sea mining. These ambitious enterprises involve considerable costs
Sep 1, 2024
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Geology and Gold Mineralisation at Mount Leyshon, North Queesland
By Hodkinson I, Teale GS
Mount Leyshon is an open cut-heap leaching operation that commenced production in early 1987. Open pit reserves are 6.3 m.t. grading 1.8 g/t Au and 4.8 g/t Ag and expected annual production is 68,
Jan 1, 1987
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Impact of Co-disposing Mixed Plant Rejects on Spoil Pile Settlements
By D J. Williams, A K. Kho, A Shokouhi, N Tucker
The disposal of dewatered coalmine tailings and coarse reject within spoil piles is gaining popularity as a means of eliminating separate surface tailings storage facilities or dams. The contrasting c
Jul 27, 2015
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Iron Sinter Process Control Using X-ray Diffraction
By U König, N Norberg
Traditionally, quality control of iron sinter has relied on time-consuming wet chemistry. However, the mineralogical composition that defines the physical properties, such as strength or reducibility,
Jul 13, 2015
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Third World Mineral Development Strategies for Twenty First Century
By Adusumilli M. S, Subrahmanyam T. V, Rao V. D
Chance find of an economically important mineral on the sur- face and its exploitation without proper exploration work, has become the habit of humanity since the Bronze Age. The explora- tion and ex
Jan 1, 1988
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Using Life Cycle Analysis to Assess the Toxicity Impacts of Waste Streams from Metal Production Processes
By N Haque
Base metal ores contain low levels of toxic/hazardous elements such as arsenic, antimony, bismuth, cadmium, lead and mercury. Given the large tonnage of base metal ores mined and processed each year g
Jan 1, 2009