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Metals exploration in a changing industryBy R. Horn
The financial performance of the mining industry, measured by return on equity and capital employed, has been inadequate for many years. Consequently, mining companies are not valued highly by stock m
Jan 1, 2002
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The Baker Mine operationBy J. M. Paxton, R. L. Roscoe, G. A. McCreary, W. W. Muir, T. J. Drown, D. A. Barr, T. W. Law
"This paper reviews the complete cycle of a small mining operation in a remote section of northern British Columbia, including discovery, exploration, development and production. The discovery of high
Jan 1, 1986
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Fault Detection of Parallel Duty Rotating Machinery Subject to Variable Duty CyclesBy M. H. ElMaghraby
This paper describes the development and validation of a strategy for vibration-based online detection of faults in a particular class of machinery commonly found in industry. This machinery is define
May 1, 2013
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Experimental Study for Deoxidation of Liquid Copper with Substoichimetric O2/CH4 FlamesThe rate of liquid copper deoxidation during top blowing of reducing flames has been investigated using a high capacity thermogravimetric unit at 1200 °C. For 1 kg copper samples, it was observed that
Jan 1, 2007
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Operational Improvements at Brunswick's Lead Blast FurnaceBy A. Longval, Q. Jiao, T. Shannon
In 2000, Xstrata Zinc (former Falconbridge Ltd.) Brunswick Smelter commissioned a modified lead blast furnace. Since then, efforts have been made to improve its operation in order to achieve optimal o
Jan 1, 2008
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An Aqueous Particle Sensor (APS) for Micro-Bubble Detection in a Fourstrand, Full-Scale, Water Model TundishBy McGill Metals Processing Centre, S. Chang, L. Calzado, X. K. Cao, C. H. Hsin, M. Isac
"Due to the increasingly stringent cleanliness requirements for final steel products, there has been a growing interest in the possible use of micro-bubbles for the removal of inclusions with diameter
Jan 1, 2016
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Sinking the Morning Incline at the Nickel Plate MineBy C. W. Davis
AN inclined shaft is usually more difficult to sink than a vertical shaft, yet it is often chosen because of the subsequent saving in cross-cuts required to reach an inclined ore body. This paper brie
Jan 1, 1945
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Similar and Dissimilar Friction Stir Spot Welding of Mg AlloysBy P. Su
Friction stir spot welding of a range of Mg-alloys is investigated (AZ91, AZ31, AM50 and AM60). The peak temperatures during friction stir spot welding of all Mg-alloys are close to their solidus temp
Jan 1, 2006
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Interactive 3D Modeling of the Refractory Linings of Vessels for Copper ProductionBy A. J. Rigby
Computer generated, actual-scale furnace models have been imported into a rendering software application to provide for impressively realistic surface features and lighting. When these models are impo
Jan 1, 2007
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Geology and evolution of gold occurrences in the flin flon-amisk lake area, saskatchewanBy J. G. Pearson, F. H. MacDougall, A. G. Galley
The difference in age, host rock lithology, alteration and style of mineralization indicates a fundamental difference in the format ion of gold deposits in the Flin Flon and Amisk Lake areas. The Flin
Jan 1, 1986
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Metamorphic textures in Archean copper-zinc massive sulphide depositsBy C. J. Rockingham
"A comparative study of sulphide textures has been carried out on samples from four Archean copper-zinc massive base metal sulphide deposits: Kidd Creek, Ontario; Lake Dufault -Norbec, Quebec; Hood Ri
Jan 1, 1980
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Earning a social licence to operate: Social acceptability and resource development in Latin America"IntroductionIn the 1970s, environmental concerns and associated liabilities were a new and unknown aspect of corporate risk. Today, social concerns and the associated conflicts that they can generate
Jan 1, 2000
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Ore Reserves- The Four CsBy Owen Owens, W. P. Armstrong
Abstract- The process of arriving at the size and grade of: (a) a newly-discovered body of mineralization, (b) a potential ore resource, (c) an orebody proposed for mining, or (d) the ore reserves in
Jan 1, 1993
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Quartz sand and kaolinite clay of the James Bay Lowlands, OntarioBy M. A. Vos
"Cretaceous sands and clays underlie an area of approximately 5,000 km2 in Northern Ontario, southwest of James Bay. The deltaic deposits occur as a wedge of continental sediments to the north of an e
Jan 1, 1982
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Galvanizing in MiningBy M. Gagné, F. E. Goodwin
The mining industry represents a significant investment in infrastructure of which steel plays a key role. Many structures in a mine are made of steel including shaft structures (buntons, station stee
Jan 1, 2015
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Low-Cost Mining at Young DavidsonBy D. A. Sloan
THE Young Davidson mine is of particular interest because of the extremely low costs and also because of the novel method devised for pillar recovery. The outstanding feature of the mining system is i
Jan 1, 1942
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The Structure of Turner Valley Gas-field, AlbertaBy A. J. Goodman
Introduction The position of Turner Valley in the foothills of Alberta, some thirty-five miles southwest of Calgary, is too well known to need further description. This attempt to interpret in deta
Jan 1, 1930
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Electrochemistry of Kinetically Inert Cerium Aryloxide Complexes Supported by Interligand Hydrogen BondsBy J. R. Levin, E. J. Schelter
"We present some of our recent efforts in the development of predictive, directed oxidation chemistry of cerium(III) complexes under non-aqueous conditions. The electrochemistry of cerium(III)- alkali
Jan 1, 2012
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Interpretation of Dip Needle SurveysBy A. A. Brant
BECAUSE of its simplicity, the dip needle is widely used for locating magnetic rock formations in drift-covered areas. Although it responds only to strong magnetic disturbances, it has the advantage t
Jan 1, 1938
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Phosphorus and Arsenic in Steel and the Substitution TheoryBy A. E. Cameron
The theory of atomic distribution of the stranger atoms in the space lattice of the solvent metal has been well developed by Rosenhain. It has long been known that the addition of one metal to another
Jan 1, 1927