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  • SAIMM
    Open Access To Metallurgical Publications - Synopsis

    By R. T. Jones

    Technical publications in the field of mining and metallurgy have existed for a long time. Recent developments in electronic publishing on websites make it possible to disseminate information more wid

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    The Corrosion Behaviour Of Steel In Seawater

    By H Möller

    The purpose of this paper is to give an overview of the corrosion behaviour of steel in seawater. It is shown that the corrosion products (oxy-hydroxides and calcareous deposits) that are formed durin

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Employee engagement among women in technical positions in the South Africa mining industry

    By N. Mashaba, D. Botha

    The aims of this study were to investigate the factors that influence women’s engagement in technical positions in the South African mining sector and to determine what could be done to promote their

    Nov 6, 2023

  • SAIMM
    Long Term Laboratory Strength Tests in Hard Rock

    By Z. Szczepanik, D. Milne, K. Kostakis

    Abstract This paper presents the results of a series of creep tests performed on a total of nine samples of Lac du Bonnet granite from the Underground Research Laboratory near Pinawa, Canada. Eac

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The response of shotcrete to blast induced vibrations in mining

    By L. Malmgren, A. Ansell

    This paper deals with the influence from blast induced stress waves on the performance of shotcrete support in the Kiirunavaara mine. Time histories of stress waves from blasting were obtained from me

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Investigation of the geomechanical criteria for safe and efficient crown pillar extraction beneath stabilised rock rockfill at the Crusader Mine

    By J. Whitford

    The established crown pillar extraction method at Gold Fields Australia Ltd.’s Crusader Mine, leads to the significant dilution and poor recovery of ore due to caving of the overlying loose rockfill.

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Experiments on stope closure as a diagnostic measure of rock behaviour

    By D. F. Malan, M. Grave, J. A. L. Napier

    Previous fundamental research projects have indicated the value of continuous closure measurements in deep tabular excavations for improved support design, hazard assessment and for quantifying the ef

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Exploitation Of A Massive Low Grade Zinc-Lead Resource At Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation, Namibia

    By S Rupprech, T Lund, H Fourie, PH van Rooyen, NM Vegter

    Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation (Pty) Ltd (RPZC) operates an underground mine at Rosh Pinah in southern Namibia producing zinc and lead sulphide concentrates. It currently mines around 0.7 Mtpa run-of-min

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Strength, Deformability, and Micromechanics of Brittle Fracture in a Crystalline Rock Under True Triaxial Compressive Stresses

    By B. Haimson

    A new loading apparatus was fabricated and used to conduct true-triaxial compression tests on KTB amphibolite, a crystalline basement rock. Tests in dry jacketed samples reveal that the intermediate p

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Numerical approach to influence of pore pressure magnitude and gradient on fracture propagation in brittle heterogeneous rocks

    By T. H. Yang, K. K. Lee, Z. Z. Liang, C. A. Tang, L. C. Li, Y. Tsui, L. G. Tham

    Abstract: A series of numerical tests of hydraulic fracturing in heterogeneous rocks were performed to investigate the influence of pore pressure magnitude and gradient on initiation and propagation

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Mineralogical Solutions For Pyrometallurgical Problems - Synopsis

    By L. Andrews

    Mineralogy, traditionally associated with concentrator studies, is being increasingly applied to problems in pyrometallurgy. Such investigations commonly make use of a number of techniques, and the re

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Characterization Of Clay Mineral Fractions In Tuffisitic Kimberlite Breccias By X-Ray Diffraction

    By J. Morkel

    During research on mainly the weathering of kimberlite, it became evident that its mineralogical composition is an important factor in the complex process of physical and chemical disintegration. The

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Foreword (134b8950-7dbc-4a9d-ad1c-39bdc8a1a198)

    Pyrometallurgy has played a very important role in southern Africa for at least four centuries. It continues to do so, and recent years have seen many exciting developments in pyrometallurgical techn

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Large-scale 3D characterisation of in-situ stress field in a complex mining district prone to rockbursting

    By J. P. Josien, J. F. Noirel, F. Lahaie, P. Bigarre, M. Al Heib

    ABSTRACT: In June 2001, a fatal rockburst affected a longwall face in the Houillères du Bassin de Lorraine (HBL), France. Subsequently, a large operation of in situ stress measurements by overcoring w

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Practical tool for quality control of overcoring stress measurement data

    By M. Hakala

    A computer program was developed to simulate transient strains and stresses during an overcoring in the situ stress measurement. The solution is based on superpositioning of elastic stresses. The meas

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    SRC rock mass classification applied to tunnels under high tectonic stress

    By L. I. Gonzalez de Vallejo

    SRC rockmass classification have been applied to 25 tunnels in Spain and Italy, for which it was found that much heavier supports than those estimated by the RMR index were required. SRC and RMR indi

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Measurement of induced stress under high rock stress by compact conical-ended borehole overcoring technique

    By K. Sugawara, H. -S. Jeong, Y. Ishiguro, J. Otani, Y. Obara, A. Hirata

    A series of measurements of induced stress by the Compact Conical-ended Borehole Overcoring (CCBO) technique was performed within rock mass around a tunnel excavated in a region that an underground po

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The Performance Of Brunswick Mine?s Rockburst Support System During A Severe Seismic Episode

    By B. Simser

    At Brunswick Mine, an increase in the number of seismically-related falls of ground and in particular rockbursts occurred during 1999. This was due to the ever-increasing stress levels in the remaini

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SAIMM
    Methodology for Assessing the Benefits of Grind Control Using Particle Size Tracking Technology for True On-Line Particle Size Measurement

    By J. Sepulveda

    "Despite the recognized influence of product fineness on line capacity and downstream process performance, few mineral concentrators today use particle size measurement of the final product in automat

    Nov 1, 2018

  • SAIMM
    Optimisation of pit to sag mill network using mixed integer linear programming APCOM 2021

    By Z. Saw, C. Poveda, N. L. Mai

    Optimising the throughput of a mining network comprising all equipment from shovels to semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mills is a complicated task, yet the potential benefits can be significant. Key mo

    Sep 1, 2021