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Evaluation of the Efficiency of Several Airborne Electromagnetic Systems: Exploration Implications
By D. Bois, P. Keating, J. Lemieux, M. A. Vallée, M. Allard, R. S. Smith, L. Z. Cheng, M. Chouteau, K. Fountain
"A comparison of data from INPUT, GEOTEM, and MEGATEM airborne electromagnetic (AEM) systems over the Aldermac deposit, Québec, Canada, was undertaken to evaluate the relative ef¬ficiency of these sys
Jan 1, 2009
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Waste dump management at Quintette Coal Limited
By W. P. Tassie
"The location of Quintette Coal Limited's pit and geologic nature of the dedicated reserves combine to introduce a number of factors which can adversely affect waste dump stability. These factors
Jan 1, 1988
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Managing pit slope displacements: Highland Valley Copper’s Lornex pit southwest wall (f470f4fd-a370-4a43-8de1-ec8dbdd94f5c)
By C. S. Maggs, L. Shwydiuk, H. W. Newcomen
The southwest wall of the Lornex Pit at the Highland Valley Copper mine has been experiencing slope displacements since 1978. Measures to manage the displacements on previous pushbacks have included s
Jan 1, 2003
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Dynamic Modeling and Virtual Prototype Simulation of the GAP-Oil Sands Interactions
By Samuel Frimpong
The interaction of oil sands with a ground articulating pipeline (GAP) system has been simulated with the dynamic model established in this work by combining the multi-body and soil dynamics with the
May 1, 2004
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Hydrochloric acid leaching of an Elliot Lake uranium ore
By G. M. Ritcey, K. E. Haque, S. H. Lucas
"Laboratory-scale hydrochloric acid leach tests were conducted on an Elliot Lake uranium ore. Hydrochloric acid leaches without an oxidant or with molecular oxygen (i.e., air or pure oxygen gas) as an
Jan 1, 1980
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Hydrochloric acid leaching of an Elliot Lake uranium ore (13a41608-dfe4-4266-9026-6b4afd0847bf)
By G. M. Ritcey, K. E. Haque, S. H. Lucas
"Laboratory-scale hydrochloric acid leach tests were conducted on an Elliot Lake uranium ore. Hydrochloric acid leaches without an oxidant or with molecular oxygen (i.e., air or pure oxygen gas) as an
Jan 1, 1980
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Thompson 1-D Deposit Geology and Structure
By Rob Stewart
Acknowledgements ? Josef Macek(Manitoba Geological Services) ? Sally Goodman (SRK) ? Inco Geologists ? Rogerio Montiero ? Thompson Mine Geologists Introduction ? Regional Geology ? Thompson G
May 1, 2006
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Evolution of a Mine Development System: Tunnel Boring Machine I&C Cameco Cigar Lake
By Neil H. Brown
Outline ? Cameco - Cigar Lake ? Cigar Lake Mine Development ? MDS #1 ? MDS #1 Improvements ? MDS #2 ? MDS #2 Improvements Pending ? Acknowledgements Mine Development System ? Mining methods t
Oct 1, 2010
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Ore Processing Business Experiences in Russia 2005-7
By John Starkey
"During the period June 2007 to March 2007, John Starkey of Starkey & Associates (Starkey) worked in Russia for High River Gold, supervising the engineering design work that was being done at the IRGI
Jan 1, 2008
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Experimental and Numerical Investigations of the Fluid Flow in a Hydrocyclone in the Absence of an Air Core
By J. R. Kadambi, E. Kucukal, J. Furlan
"Hydrocyclone separators are used in various industrial applications, including mining milling and tailings systems, in order to separate or classify solid particles and liquid droplets from multiphas
Jan 1, 2016
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Ilmenite concentration from the Laurentian Titanium deposit
By G. E. Agar, W. B. Kipkie, V. K. Drylie
"This paper describes mineral processing test work on drill core samples from an ilmenite deposit in Terrebonne County just north of Montreal.Mineralogical examination showed that the intimate associa
Jan 1, 1980
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Tribological factual data base for the mining industry
By J. Molgaard, J. Masounave, J. Prinsen, P. Beaulieu, G. Huard
"A study carried out on behalf of the National Research Council (NRC) indicates that economic losses due to wear in the Canadian mining industry are in excess of $700 million annually. Severe wear, ma
Jan 1, 1987
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A Benchmarking Tool for Assessing Flotation Cell Performance
By Jan E. Nesset, James A. Finch, Wei Zhang
"Bubbles are unquestionably the heart of the flotation process. Their size and combined surface area are largely what drive the recovery process. This suggests that plant engineers should be aware of
Jan 1, 2012
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Design, Testing and Performance of the World?s First Fuelcell Mine Vehicle, a Production Locomotive
By Marc C. Bétournay
A mine production locomotive, the world?s first applied industrial fuelcell vehicle, has been designed and tested in the context of a number of proof-of-concept projects supported by the Fuelcell Prop
May 1, 2003
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The Square-Set Method of Stoping at Butte
By J. B. Mawdsley
From the view point of the mining engineer, the square-set method of stoping as practised at Butte, Montana, is one ?of the outstanding features of well conducted mining operations in that camp. The f
Jan 1, 1925
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The Dentonia Flotation Mill
By W. Holdsworth
The flotation mill of Dentonia Mines, Limited, at Greenwood, B.C., went into operation on April 20th, 1934, and by October 11th a total of 15,000 tons of ore had been treated. It is intended in this p
Jan 1, 1935
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Antiscalants for Calcium Scale Control in Gold Process Circuits
By Brad Wells, Wayne Bull, Wayne Dickinson
"Antiscalants were evaluated for control of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) in gold processing applications. Under severely supersaturated conditions, 100 percent inhibition was achieved with 30 ppm antisca
Jan 1, 2014
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Hoist rope improvements through thermo plastic enhancement
By Bill Parnell
"Friction winders and double drum winders have been used in the vertical shaft mining industry for over 100 years. In that time, there have been many changes made in the electronic and mechanical fiel
Jan 1, 1995
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Assessing the Performance and Efficiency of Fine Grinding Technologies
By Jan E. Nesset, Colin Hardie, Peter Radziszewski, Donald P. Leroux
"The successful introduction of new high intensity stirred milling technologies (e.g. IsaMill, SMDetritor) to the mining industry in recent years prompted Noranda-Falconbridge to initiate a study comp
Jan 1, 2006
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Evaluation of spontaneous fire risk potential of underground coal mine panels
By T. R. Roy
"This paper presents an objective model for the estimation of fire risk potential of an underground coal mine panel by the bord-and-pillar method of mining where extraction is carried out by depillari
Jan 1, 2003