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  • SAIMM
    Process mineralogy: adding the value in the minerals value chain, D. Chetty

    By D. Chetty

    Process mineralogy forms an integral part of geometallurgy, with ore body characterisation being but one piece of the puzzle in optimising value derived from ore. This value is not only financial, but

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    Investigation Of The Characteristics Of Thin Sprayed Liners (Tsl) And Their Use As An Additional Support Medium In Block Cave Mining

    By J Steyn

    Block Cave mining is one method used to extract ore from underground diamond mines as well as other massive orebodies such as copper. This necessitates the excavation of many kilometers of tunnel with

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    An Overview Of The Namakwa Sands Ilmenite Smelting Operations

    By M. Gous

    Namakwa Sands is a heavy minerals mining and beneficiation business in the Anglo Base Metals Division, and operates along the West Coast of South Africa. The business encompasses mining, mineral conce

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Optimized dolomite upgrading, T. Mütze, T. Fraszczak, O. Ortlepp, and U.A. Peuker

    By T. Fraszczak, U. A. Peuker, T. Mütze, O. Ortlepp

    Dolomite is a calcium carbonate sedimentary rock that can be found all over the world. In its calcined form it is employed for water treatment or as an additive in iron production. Calcined dolomite i

    Jan 1, 2020

  • SAIMM
    Insight Into The Anglo Platinum Mine Optimisation Tool

    By G. R. Lane, A. Vermeulen, S. van de Venter, S. Bhoowanpursadh

    Over the past two years Anglo Platinum made use of the specialist skills of Cyest Corporation to develop a Mine Optimization Tool (MOT) to enhance the current suite of in house mine planning tools and

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Development Of A Viable Process For The Recovery Of Zinc From Oxide Ores

    The Skorpion Zinc Project demonstrated the viability of the production of zinc from non-sulphide (commonly called ?zinc-oxide?) ores, using the leach/solvent extraction/electrowinning process route. T

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    In sit characterization of the transport and sorption characteristics of coal seams from pressure transient data: An artificial neural network approach

    By T. Ertekin, X. Dong

    This paper identifies the need for the development of specialized inverse solution techniques for the analysis of pressure transient data for the characterization of the transport and sorption propert

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Backfill heat load contribution in deep level mining operations

    By C. A. Rawlins

    In an underground mine the ingress of heat can generally be attributed to two sources (Rock exposure and artificial mechanisms). The heat load relating rock exposure is subdivided into stoping [~40%]

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Kinetics Of Reduction Of Different Manganese Ores

    By Manoj Kumar, S. Ranganathan, S. N. Sinha

    The reducibility of three different manganese ores with coke was studied. The three ores were reduced to different extents under the same experimental conditions. The investigations showed that in the

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Application Of Uni-Delay Shock Tubes In Development In Underground Mines - Synopsis

    By FJ Fourie

    This paper describes the concept and development of the use of a uni-delay shock tube system in the timing and initiation of the development rounds, specifically in flat development. It was extended f

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    The Case For And Basics Of Scientific Selection?A Line Manager?s Perspective - Introduction

    By M. K. Pelser

    The purpose of this paper is not so much to provide a scientific study of the selection process for the perusal of other psychometrists or industrial psychologists?the purpose is to provide line mana

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SAIMM
    Equilibrium Interactions Between Freeze Lining And Slag Inilmenite Smelting

    In ilmenite smelting, the FeO content of the feed material (nominally FeO.TiO2) is decreased by reduction with carbon. In a parallel reaction, a significant amount of the TiO2is reduced to Ti2O3.One o

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Utilization of blast movement measurements in grade control

    By I. R. Firth, D. L. Taylor

    Metal mining operations, in particular gold mining operations, use intensive ore control procedures in order to manage the extraction of ore zones from benches containing both ore and waste material.

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Electrometallurgical Relationships In Electric Smelting Furnaces

    By J. Persson, N. G. Bliss

    Electric furnaces used for smelting and those used for scrap melting exhibit different performance profiles in terms of electrical characteristics. However, the underlying principles are the same f

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Investigation Of The Influence Of An Excavation On Adjacent Excavations, Using Neural Networks

    By S. Kwon

    When an underground excavation is created near to an instrumented measuring location, deformation at the location increases. The characteristics of this deformation increase, as well as the duration o

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SAIMM
    Variance Propagation In Toll Smelting Operations Treating Multiple Concentrate Stockpiles

    By C. J. Cutler

    Metallurgical accounting for toll treatment smelters pose a number of challenges. Multiple feed stockpiles have to be accounted for as part of the monthly recovery estimation. Moreover, multiple metal

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Cu-Removal From The Skorpion Circuit Using Emew® Technology

    By I. Ewart, E. Roux

    Skorpion Zinc operates a solvent extraction/electrowinning zinc plant producing over 150 000 t/a of special high grade (SHG) zinc (>99.995% Zn). In the current flow sheet copper and cadmium are cement

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Design and manufacturing of a teleoperated excavator platform APCOM 2021

    By M. Salimov, J. Sattarvand

    The conventional visualisation method of remote equipment is through the installation of one or more cameras on the machine, and sending a live feed to the operator’s flat display. However, the perfor

    Sep 1, 2021

  • SAIMM
    Development Of A Process For Dephosphorisation Of High Carbon Ferromanganese

    By R. P. Goel, P. N. Chaudhary, R. K. Minj

    The bulk of high carbon ferromanganese produced in India continue to have more than 0.35% phosphorus since they are produced by carbothermic reduction process. The low phosphorus manganese ores are de

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    A Finite Element Model Of A Søderberg Electrode With An Application In Casing Design

    By W. A. Gericke, B. Olmstead, I. Mc Dougall, C. F. R. Smith

    A finite element model was generated of a Søderberg electrode in a ferromanganese smelter. In this model, the casing and fins were modelled explicitly, and temperature-dependent material properties we

    Jan 1, 2004