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  • CIM
    Incorporating Mineral Associations, Comminution, Agglomeration, and Loading in Heap Leach Modeling

    By Free. Michael L.

    Crushing ore prior to heap leaching enhances mineral liberation and creates fine particles that may require agglomeration to avoid permeability problems during leaching. Conventional modeling is relat

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Vitrified Bottom Ash Slag from Municipal Solid Waste Incinerators-phase Relations of CaO-SiO2-Na2O Oxide System

    During incineration of municipal solid waste (MSW), some heavy metals and other environmentally harmful elements are liberated into bottom ash. The stricter environmental regulations require a higher

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Sustaining metallurgical competencies

    By Aidan Giblett, Karen McCaffery, Robert Dunne

    "A worldwide decline in competency levels of practicing metallurgists over recent decades has become clearly evident and is a common topic of discussion among senior practitioners and professional ass

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Beneficiation of High Alumina Indian Iron Ore Slimes by Magnetic Carrier Technology

    By B. Das

    The separation of iron values from a typical Indian iron ore slimes containing 57.2% Fe, 5.81% SiO2 and 7.05% Al2O3 by wet magnetic separation and selective magnetic coating is investigated. The iron

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Chemical leaching influence on the floatability of oxidized polysulfide ores

    By Vladimir Vigdergauz, Elena Belogub, Dmitriy Makarov

    The influence of supergene oxidation on physicochemical and technological properties of polysulfide ores was studied. Modeling and analysis of oxidation pyrite copper-zinc ore samples from the Valento

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    The role of ‘process mineralogy’ in improving the process performance of complex sulphide ores

    By Dee Bradshaw

    "Process mineralogy’ is a form of applied mineralogy which focuses on addressing problems associated with the processing of ores. ‘Mineralogy’ is the scientific study of minerals and ‘mineral processi

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    History of strain gaging mills: What have we learned?

    By Moris Fresko, Julia Sun, Charles C. Golembewski, Vytas Svalbonas

    "A history of mill strain gaging at Metso is presented. The output of these strain-gaging programs is compared with calculated stress ranges from different finite element solutions. These comparisons

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    The Effect of Mineral Solid Surface on the Water Viscosity in Boundary Layer

    By S. M. Wen

    In mineral processing, the settling of mineral particles in water, the flow of ore pulp, the dewatering and filtering of concentrates and so on, are related to the pulp viscosity. While the interactio

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Numerical Modeling for Acidification of Soil by Electrokinetic Processing

    By M. Niinae

    Electrokinetic soil remediation by electroosmosis and ionic migration is restricted to soluble sub-stances. At a higher pH, the soil particles sorb more heavy metals, such as cadmium, than at a lower

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Role of Mineral Transformations in Sulphuric Acid Leaching of Pre-reduced Nickel Laterite Ores

    By W. H. Cheung

    Nickel (Ni) plays a major role in the production of steel and other major alloys. There are two sources of Ni: laterite and sulphide ores. Global reserves of sulphide ores are being rapidly depleted,

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Extraction of Nickel from Aqueous Solutions by Emulsion Liquid Membranes Using Tributylphosphate (Tbp) As Extractant

    By Ting An Zhang, Chengzhi Jiang, Xiujing Zhai, Feng Xie

    The extraction and concentration of nickel from aqueous solutions by emulsion liquid membranes (ELMs) using tributylphosphate (TBP) as extractant has been investigated in this research. The emulsion l

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Selection Decomposition of Metallurgical Slags by Va-part-impact Devices

    By I. V. Shadrunova

    Annually it is formed more than 95 Mt of clinkers in iron and steel industry of Russia, including 79 Mt of clinkers in blast-furnace, steelmaking, foundry and ferroalloy productions. Complex developme

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Effect of regrinding conditions on the flotation of sulphide minerals in the cleaner stage

    By Xumeng Chen, Yongjun Peng, Dee Bradshaw

    Regrinding rougher flotation concentrates has become a common practice when processing low grade and complex ores. It not only reduces the particle size and improves mineral liberation but also modifi

    Jan 1, 2014

  • TMS
    Metallurgical Silicon Refining by Transient Directional Solidification

    By Marcelo A. Martorano, Moyses L. Lima, João B. F. Neto

    "Directional solidification is an essential refining step to obtain solar grade silicon from metallurgical silicon. This step can be carried out in a Bridgman furnace, where nearly constant temperatur

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Evaluation the Mineralogical Process of a Rich Iron Mine in Mongolia

    By H. D. Yu

    In this paper, an evaluation about the process mineralogy of the rich iron mine in Mongolia with comprehensive methods is given; this provides foundation of the comprehensive recovery of iron and coba

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Pressure Leaching Tests on Aphrodite Refractory Gold Concentrate

    The primary (sulphide) resources at Aphrodite are refractory in nature, requiring an oxidation process stage to be introduced to facilitate extraction of the gold. The company is investigating the use

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    The Role of Molecular Structure of Surfactants on the Interfacial and Flotation Behavior of Oxide Minerals Particularly Quartz

    By D. W. Fuerstenau

    Understanding how cationic surfactants affect the interfacial behavior of quartz is important in mineral processing and environmental engineering. This paper presents the results of a study of the eff

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Gravity release analysis and its application on Myra Falls zinc flotation tails

    By Bern Klein, Givemore Sakuhuni, Libin Tong

    The use of continuous discharge centrifugal concentrators introduced in the early 1990’s for recovery of gold associated with sulphides has introduced a novel application niche for gravity concentrati

    Jan 1, 2014

  • IMPC
    Contact Electrification and Electrostatic Separation of Ash- forming Minerals from High Ash Non-coking Coal Using Novel Fluidised Bed Tribo-charging System

    By R. K. Dwari

    The electrostatic beneficiation of coal is based on tribocharging characteristics of ash forming minerals and coal particles. The tribocharging of quartz, pyrite and coal particles contacted with vari

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Case history on the reduction of chlorides from mine water

    By Kathleen Lagnese, Srikanth Muddasani, Kashi Banerjee, Carla Robinson

    "Mine water generated from underground coal mining operations contains both dissolved and particulate solids. Dissolved solids primarily consist of sodium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, chlorides and

    Jan 1, 2014