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  • CIM
    Flotation Performance Improvement at Placer Dome Kanowna Belle Gold Mine

    By S. Schwartz, T. Bilney

    "Over recent years a number of techniques have been developed as part of the AMIRA1 P9 project to represent mathematically or measure directly sub-processes occurring in flotation cells. These include

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    Metallurgical Testwork on Harmony Project Ore

    By K. Gie Tan, Frank Wright

    "Misty Mountain Gold Limited (MGL - TSE VSE, MGLCF - NASDAQ) of Vancouver, owns the Harmony Gold Project located in the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. The deposit contains a mineable res

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Red Dog Lead Regrind Circuit Optimization

    By Brigitte Lacouture, Yeen Shien Hwang, David Lin

    "A baseline survey of the partially open lead regrind circuit at Red Dog Mine indicated poor regrind efficiencies for the three parallel 450 HP tower mills. Driven by the high energy cost and the pote

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    Yield Stress Measurement of Cemented Paste Backfill with the Vane Method and Slump Tests

    By A. S. Moghaddam

    The transportation of cemented and non-cemented mine tailings in the form of paste through pipelines is one of the main stages of paste backfill operations. For the purpose of pipeline design, the rhe

    May 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Design of a Leaching Strategy to Extract Gold from Eleonore Mine Ultrafine Sulphide Concentrate

    By G. Deschênes

    The Eleonore property (James Bay district of Northern Québec), owned by Goldcorp, hosts gold within stockworks of quartz-tourmaline-arsenopyrite veins and veinlets contained within microcline (potassi

    Jan 1, 2013

  • CIM
    Better Flowsheeting with Modern Process Mineralogy

    By Norman O. Lotter

    The problem of quantifying the full performance potential of an ore body in a concentrator, and how to configure a flowsheet to achieve that potential, either for a new operation or an existing one, i

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Spray Drying of Mineral Concentrates

    By R. J. MacLeod

    "INTRODUCTIONThe removal of water or liquid from slurries and solutions is a procedure generally present in many process industries. This has prompted the development of many mechanical and thermal de

    Jan 1, 1972

  • CIM
    The Paracatu Expansion Project III ? Building the Largest Gold Concentrator of the World

    By Luis A. Tondo

    The Paracatu Expansion Project III in Brazil was implemented between 2006 and 2008 to increase the existing capacity from 20 to 61 Million tons per year of gold ore treatment. This expansion led the B

    May 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Using Gas Monitoring and Personnel/Vehicle Tracking to Maximize the Benefits of Ventilation-On-Demand in Underground Mining Operations

    By Tanveer Jahir

    With increasing energy costs and mounting government pressure to adopt low emission, green sources of energy, it has become imperative to develop long-term sustainable underground infrastructures that

    May 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Determination of Metal and Mineral Flotation Performance at one of Falconbridge’s Base Metal Operations

    By Dominic Fragomeni, Tony DiFeo, Martyn P. Hay

    "As part of an investigation into flotation modelling of industrial scale operations, Falconbridge Ltd organised a “blind” test of the SUPASIM flotation model developed by Eurus Mineral Consultants (E

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Electrical Drives for Large Grinding Mills

    By A. G. Spencer

    "The horsepower required to drive large grinding mills has increased dramatically during the past ten years. Limitations on the amount of power which may be transmitted by a single gear and pinion hav

    Jan 1, 1972

  • CIM
    Design and Development of an LHD for Narrow-Reef Mining

    By Patrick F. R. Murphy

    The mechanization of platinum group metal (PGM) underground reef mining in South Africa has posed a challenge to mining engineers for several decades. This is primarily due to the shallow dip angles a

    May 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Are you at Risk? The Role of Environmental Auditing in the Liability Dilemma

    By J. B. Brodie, C. Pelletier

    "The vulnerability of Canadian and U.S. companies, their directors, officers and employees to onerous penalties associated with violations of environmental statutes and common law actions has provided

    Jan 1, 1988

  • CIM
    Modified Stability Graph Method with a new Rock Stress Factor

    The Stability Graph Method is widely used in Canadian underground hard rock mines for open stope support design and is frequently used in the mine planning phase to assess the viability of stope geome

    May 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Environmental Control Design at Shebandowan Mines

    By T. Peters, W. C. Ferguson

    "Shebandowan is about 600 miles west of Sudbury and 50 miles west of Thunderbay close to the trans Canada highway. Shebandowan Lake is about 38 miles long. The ore body is located between No. 1 and No

    Jan 1, 1975

  • CIM
    Carbon Dioxide Use for pH Control at Greens Creek Mill

    By Tim Martin, Dave Tahija

    "In April, 2014, Hecla's Greens Creek mill, near Juneau, Alaska, switched from sulphuric acid to the use of dissolved carbon dioxide for lead flotation circuit pH control. The Greens Creek mine uses p

    Jan 1, 2016

  • CIM
    Application at Ok Tedi Mining of a Neural Network Model within the Expert System for SAG Mill Control

    By Murray Wood, Michael Schaffer, Makat Katom

    "An expert system applied to the control of mineral process unit operations is, by its nature, the site best operating practice, having been designed by the local experts in conjunction with consultin

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Nanisivik Mine - A Profitability Comparison of Actual Mining to the Expectations of the Feasibility Study

    By Neil R. Burns, Michael Doggett

    Abstract - The Nanisivik mine offers a unique opportunity to examine the economics of a mining scenario from its original feasibility study through to closure. In the early 1970s, the Strathcona Sound

    Jan 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Design Considerations for Mine Waste Management at the Meadowbank Gold Project

    By Cameron J. Clayton

    Cumberland Resources Ltd. is currently planning to develop the Meadowbank Gold Project located some 70 km north of Baker Lake, Nunavut in the eastern Canadian Arctic region. The Meadowbank Gold Projec

    May 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Developing Canada?s North - The New Challenge

    By Jesse L. Duke

    Outline ?Understanding the context ?The Business, political, social and legal environment ?Recipes for Success (three Ps) ?Develop effective Partnerships/relationships ?Plan carefully ?Actively

    May 1, 2006