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  • SAIMM
    Recovery of Copper from Reverberatory Copper Slag and Production of a Leach Residue used as a Portland Cement Additive

    By T. A. Muhlare

    "Large quantities of slag are produced every year and dumped on slag heaps around the world, posing a potential environmental threat due to contained heavy metals content. Slags are waste minerals pro

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    What boundary conditions should we apply? Applications to tunneling and to the AECL Underground Research Laboratory

    By B. Amadei, F. Tonon

    Rock stress measurement is cast in the more general context of the determination of boundary conditions for rock engineering. A study on the effect of elastic anisotropy on underground excavations rev

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The Role Of Metal And Slag Films Stabilization Phenomena With Respect To Clean Steel

    By I. A. Minaev

    The conditions of a stability of metallurgical films on a surface of solid on the basis of classical regularities of a thermodynamics are considered. For specific conditions of metallurgical processes

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    MECS Catalyst Products & Technical Services Update

    By Chris D. Winkler

    Vanadium-based sulphuric acid catalyst has been utilized to oxidize SO2 to SO3 since the early 1900?s. This versatile product displaced the expensive and easily-poisoned platinum-based catalyst in n

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    MECS Catalyst Products & Technical Services Update (1a12db17-a10b-4c84-8df1-f53ba1eeb845)

    By Chris D. Winkler

    Vanadium-based sulphuric acid catalyst has been utilized to oxidize SO2 to SO3 since the early 1900?s. This versatile product displaced the expensive and easily-poisoned platinum-based catalyst in ne

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    A Review Of Mechanized Versus Handheld Bolting In Hard Rock Tabular Orebodies

    By J. R. Menasce

    Mechanization in low-stope panels situated in hard rock infers roof support by tensile bolting to allow free passage of trackless mining equipment in the production areas. This is in sharp contrast to

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Kuyasa Mining: South Africa?s First Black Owned And Managed Mining Company

    By R. Scott

    This article describes and evaluates the establishment of Kuyasa Mining including the search for a suitable deposit, the ongoing lack of finance, and market constraints. Despite the dramatic initial g

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SAIMM
    Design Procedure For Hydraulic Backfill Distribution Systems

    A wide range of materials are used in hydraulic backfilling operations and the pipeline flow behaviour of these mixtures varies considerably. It is shown that despite the large differences in constitu

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    Direct And Indirect Slag Corrosion Of Oxide And Oxide-C Refractories

    By W. E. Lee

    Penetration and dissolution mechanisms are reviewed for predominantly single-phase oxide, two phase oxide and oxide-carbon composite refractories by liquid silicate slags. Theoretical models of these

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Corrosion Mechanism And Kinetic Behaviour Of Refractory Materials In Contact With CaO-Al2O3-MgO-SiO2 Slags

    By V. Brabie, S. Jansson, L. Bohlin

    The rate of dissolution of solid MgO-C and doloma into liquid in CaO-Al2O3-SiO2-MgO slag at different temperatures was studied under conditions of forced convection by rotating cylindrical refractory

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Latest Electrode Technology Delivering Improved Electrode Performance In Submerged Arc Furnaces

    By Henk van der Bijl, Sean Rogers, Eugene Sidorski, Alan Carpenter

    The electrode column is the heart of the submerged arc furnace. Superior electrode performance provides improved furnace performance. This paper describes the main features of the electrode column tha

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    The development of techniques to predict and manage the impact of surface subsidence

    COALTECH 2020 initiated a research project to provide the coal mining industry with a modelling tool to determine the expected types of subsidence, risks and the investment required in post-closure fu

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Development Of An Empirical Model Of A Nickeliferous Chromite Leaching System By Means Of Genetic Programming

    By D. J. Greeff

    By making use of genetic programming, empirical models for metallurgical processes can be evolved that are more cost-effective than models determined by means of classical statistical techniques. Thes

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SAIMM
    The Anisotropic Nature Of Selected Metamorphic Rocks From Greece (7c2b838c-2683-4593-b408-af708bc34e51)

    By H. Saroglou

    Anisotropy is a characteristic of intact foliated metamorphic rocks (slates, gneisses, phyllites, schists). Testing was used to establish the anisotropic behaviour of selected gneissic rocks. The effe

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Small-Scale Recovery Of Noble Metals From Jewellery Wastes

    By J. H. Potgieter

    This paper describes an investigation to separate and selectively recover silver, gold and platinum from jewellery and laboratory wastes, and produce technical grade material suitable for training pur

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Development Of A CaO-CaF2-Slag System For High Rare Earth Contents

    By B. Friedrich

    In a German governmental funded three-year research project, a closed loop recycling process for Nickel-Metalhydride-Batteries (NiMH) is under development. Today the discarded batteries are used in th

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    An analysis of the practical and economic implications of systematic underground drilling in deep South African gold mines

    By D. G. Krige

    Using chip sample data and spatial structure parameters from a large mined-out section of a South African gold mine the advantages to be gained from a regular underground borehole drilling programme h

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    A Systems Approach In Implementing Minerals Resource Management At A Base Metal Mine (Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation, Namibia)

    By A. W. Diedericks

    Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation (RPZC) identified implementing a Mineral Resource Management (MRM) programme at the mine as a strategic incentive. The purpose of the programme is to optimize the economic

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Slag Carry-Over and the Production of Clean Steel

    "For effective steel refining in the ladle (secondary steelmaking) the amount of steelmaking slag that is transferred from primary steelmaking must be limited, because the steelmaking slag contains ir

    Jun 1, 2019

  • SAIMM
    Design And Development Of A Low Noise Rockdrill (e23ff3f9-7637-41de-a805-68931d062e82)

    By N. D. L. Burger

    A low noise blast hole drilling system was developed to limit the risk of noise-induced hearing impairment in mining operations. Noise- induced hearing loss has been identified as a major occupational

    Jan 1, 2004