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  • CIM
    Mine Waste Management Planning for an Arctic Environment

    By William J. Purdy

    Successful design, operation and completion of a surface waste management facility for a diamond mine located in Canada?s northern environment requires careful planning to minimize short and long term

    May 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Canadian Hot Workability Research on Al Alloys 1960 ? 2010

    By H. J. McQueen

    Before 1950, hot working was simply deforming above the recrystallization point and gave a soft product compared to cold working. From 1960 onwards, improved testing in compression and torsion (stress

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    The San Martin project: design and operating experience in the development of a 12,000 tpd gold heap leach mine in Central America

    By Paul Hosford, Tim Haldane

    "The paper describes the fast-track development of the project from feasibility study through to detailed design and construction, highlighting the process adaptations for handling sticky ore and wate

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Mettop´s New Ionic Liquid Cooling Technology is the Safest Way to Cool a Furnace

    By Stefan Wallner, Andreas Filzwieser, Stefan Konetschnik, Reinhard Preiss, Iris Filzwieser

    "Process Safety Management for METTOP means avoiding risks as far as possible - but also dealing with the residual risk by using all existing management tools or external assistance, if required. The

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Encapsulation of Mercury in Gossan Tailings Murray Brook Mine, New Brunswick, Canada

    By Robert Harris, Peter Pheeney

    "The Murray Brook gold mine operated from September 1989 to March 1991. Approximately 1.2 million tonnes of gossan were mined from an open pit and treated at a rate of 900 tonnes per day. The facility

    Jan 1, 2001

  • CIM
    A Geometallurgical Approach of the Copper-Nickel-Platinum Group Elements Maturi Deposit, Minnesota, USA, Using Quantitative Mineralogy

    By Charles Knilans, Tassos Grammatikopoulos, Nicole Hoffmann

    "Twin Metals Minnesota LLC, (TMM) has recently completed a prefeasibility study evaluating the development and operation of an underground copper (Cu), nickel (Ni), platinum (Pt), palladium (Pd), and

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Effect of Oil Sand Mining Operations on Haul Truck Dump Body Design

    By David Whalen

    Mobile equipment in oil sand mining operations experience more maintenance problems than similar equipment in other surface mines, due to soft underfoot conditions. Oil sand properties are known to va

    May 1, 2003

  • CIM
    On-Line Mine ? A New Concept for Improving Mining Economy Through On-Line Mineral Analysis

    By Ilpo O. Auranen

    Background: Mines of today are moving ever increasing tonnages of rock. The new ore bodies tend be of lower grade and located deeper in the earth?s crust. The industry?s focus to overcome this ?deep

    Oct 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Textural Analysis Provides Clue to Poor Ground Conditions in a Saskatchewan Potash Mine

    By A. Dave Mackintosh

    In 2001, at the CIM AGM in Quebec, a paper discussing poor ground conditions in a newly opened area at Agrium?s Vanscoy Potash Operation?s, suggested load transfer around old workings as a possible re

    Apr 1, 2005

  • CIM
    The integration of condition monitoring into the maintenance process (16e8fde4-e738-4229-a500-8c29dcc904ed)

    By M. W. Lewis, J. Werner

    Fluctuating metal prices, declining head grade, and increased operational costs are forcing many open pit mining companies to look to their balance sheets for significant cost reductions in order to r

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    The Niobec Mill

    By Michel Robert

    "In 1974, Copperfields Mining Corporation and Soquem formed a new company, Niobec Inc, to bring the niobium deposit of the St-Honore carbonatite into production.St-Honore is located in the Saguenay ar

    Jan 1, 1978

  • CIM
    Precipitation of Crystalline Svabite (Ca5(AsO4)3F) and Svabite/Fluorapatite (CA5(ASO4)X(PO4)3-XF) Compounds and Evaluation of their Long-Term Arsenic Fixation Potential

    By M. -C. Noël, G. P. Demopoulos

    In this work the formation and environmental stabilization potential of arsenate-containing fluoroapatites is considered. In particular in this research various compounds were precipitated from synthe

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    An experimental investigation into the trapping model core pillars with reinforced fly ash composites

    By M. K. Mishra, U. M. R. Karanam

    Relative to slender pillars, larger size pillars exhibit improved strata control. Fly ash, though traditionally treated as a waste product, is emerging as an alternate engineering material. This paper

    Jan 1, 2008

  • CIM
    Sustainable Optimisation of the Bell Creek Sag Mill

    By T. Banerjee, D. Felsher, G. Leavoy

    "Lake Shore Gold is engaged in commercial gold production at both the Timmins West and Bell Creek mines, located in Timmins, Ontario. Run of mine ore is processed at the Bell Creek mill which consists

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Prospecting for Gold: Self-Assembly on Old CDs

    By Hua-Zhong Yu

    Gold is one of the most widely used substrate materials for self-assembly. Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) prepared from alkanethiols and their derivatives on gold are the most reliable and well-stud

    Oct 1, 2003

  • CIM
    X-Ray Tomography Study on the Effect of Porosity on Fatigue Crack Initiation and Propagation in AM60 Die Casting

    By Zhuofei Yang, Jidong Kang, David S. Wilkinson

    The fatigue behavior of AM60 high pressure die casting magnesium alloys was studied in a straincontrolled manner. The fatigue test was interrupted every 2,000 cycles for X-ray tomography scanning. The

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Networking Tertiary Education and Industry

    By J. F. Archibald

    This paper reviews the formation of the Canadian Mining Education Council (CMEC) and its terms of reference. CMEC considers that Canada?s mining schools represent a distinct competitive advantage to t

    May 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Finite Element Evaluation of the Residual Stress Fields Obtained by Hole Expansion on 6061-T6 Aluminum Welds

    By K. C. Viveros, R. R. Ambriz, C. García, F. De Villèle, A. Talha, D. Jaramillo

    Cold hole expansion on base metal, weld metal and heat affected zone of 6061-T6 aluminum alloy welds was simulated by means of finite element method. Three dimensional compact test models with a previ

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Laser-MIG Hybrid Welding of Maraging Steel

    By K. V. Phani Prabhakar, G. Padmanabham1, L. Subashini

    Laser-arc Hybrid Welding (LAHW) is a relatively recent concept which effectively combines the advantages of laser welding such as the high depth of penetration, low heat input, high welding speed and

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Information Strategy Planning on Nuclear Power Plant Project Management System

    By Son Hye Jin

    Abstract ? KHNP is participating in the construction of Nuclear Power Plant both in Korea and UAE. ? We want to improve our construction project management process. ? So we are now developing the

    Aug 1, 2013