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  • CIM
    Vertical Scaling of Transmissivity and Storativity by Comparing Pumping Tests at the ISR Wellfield Operation Scale to Traditional Whole Aquifer Scale Tests

    By Walter K. (Cory) Conrad

    Two pumping tests in the Chilson Member of the lower Lakota Formation were completed at nearly the same location in 1979 and 2008. The 1979 test consisted of a pumping well and several surrounding obs

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Remediation of a Uranium Processing Facility

    By Ernest Becker

    Golder Associates provided overall radiological direction and assistance to the client in their interactions with the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission and operational radiation protection services f

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    From Microbes to Plasma Spectrometer: An Evaluation of Ore Dissolution Efficiency

    By A. L. Williamson

    Bio-mining is a cost-effective, energy efficient and potentially environmentally protective method of exploiting a variety of ore deposits, from high-grade base metal deposits of nickel to lower-grade

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Effect of Gravity Recovery on Overall Plant Recovery, Sadiola - A Case Study

    An enhanced gravity concentrator was installed in conjunction with an intensive leach reactor at the Sadiola plant in Mali last year and commissioned in December 2007. There has been much debate over

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Modelling the Effect of Gravity Gold

    A model has been developed as part of the AMIRA P420 Gold Processing Technology Project to simulate the recovery of gold by centrifugal gravity devices. The model (which is available online) uses the

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Automated Fuel Inspection

    By J. Vanderlaan

    A proposed method of applying high-speed, non-destructive part scanning technologies to the production process of UO2 (Uranium Dioxide) fuel pellets is presented. The scanning process examines each pe

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Climate Classification and Quantification for Cover Design in Northern Environments

    By D. Fredlund

    The decommissioning of uranium tailings facilities often requires the design of a suitable cover system. In northern climatic environments there is a portion each year that can be considered to be ?in

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Shaft Sinking Experience in Athabasca Basin and Geoscientific Investigations for Future Shafts

    By Rashid Bashir

    Shaft sinking through solid rock, which contains little or no water, poses little difficulty. However, when loose, water-bearing strata have to be contended with, water control measures, and pumping f

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    From Microbes to Plasma Spectrometer: An Evaluation of Ore Dissolution Efficiency (22cf60df-b55a-4f5d-92c1-f5f6ac49fa74)

    By Aimee Williamson

    Bio-mining is a cost-effective, energy efficient and potentially environmentally protective method of exploiting a variety of ore deposits, from high-grade base metal deposits of nickel to lower-grade

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Effect of extraction water chemistryon the consolidation of oil sands fine tailings

    By W. G. Miller

    An overall study was conducted to evaluate the properties and processes influencing the rate and magnitude of consolidation for oil sands fine tailings produced using different extraction processes. A

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    The Role of Gravity and Intensive Cyanidation in Processing Preg-Robbing Gold Ores - ABSTRACT ONLY

    A flow sheet has been developed to treat a high tonnage highly preg-robbing gold ore. The ore is low grade and fine grained with a high proportion of very fi ne free gold. The key components of the fl

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Stope Cleaning - Historical Methods

    In classical drill and blast underground mining methods, especially narrow vein operations economic quantities of broken ore can be left behind following normal mucking operations on the stope floors.

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Design and Development of an Automated Uranium Pellet Stacking System

    By B. S. Riess

    A novel design for an automated uranium pellet stacking system is presented. This system is designed as a drop-in solution to the current production line to enhance the fuel pellet stacking process. T

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    The Use of Nuclear Tracers to Evaluate the Gold Recovery Efficiency of Sluiceboxes

    Sluiceboxes can provide a much higher concentration ratio than most other gravity concentrators (up to 50 000:1) at very high overall placer gold recoveries (greater than 99 per cent). They are also v

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Uranium Ore Deposits: Geology and Processing Implications

    By C. L. Belyk

    There are fifteen accepted types of uranium ore deposits and at least forty subtypes readily identified around the world. Each deposit type has a unique geological model which may also have unique pro

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Electrokinetic Dewatering of Uranium Mine Tailings

    By Julie Q. Shang

    The electrokinetic (EK) technology for dewatering of two tailings from the uranium mines in Northern Saskatchewan is studied in bench scale experiments. The study includes four phases: 1. Characteriz

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Coarse Gold Separation at Bendigo

    Bendigo Mining operates a 600 000 t/a comminution, gravity, flotation and leaching processing plant for the recovery of gold from their Kangaroo Flat Operation, in the Bendigo goldfields. The free gol

    Aug 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Overcoming the Geotechnical Challenges of Drift Development at the Unconformity in the Athabasca Basin

    By Theophile Yameogo

    The rock mechanics literature has documented the challenges, failures and successes of tunneling through weak rocks. Cases usually deal with low RMR rock masses or high stresses in a fractured zone. W

    Aug 1, 2010

  • SME
    New tunnel boring machine accelerates tunnel construction in deep mining operations

    By Fred Delabbio, Sverker Hartwig

    As openpit copper operations transition from surface mines to underground, the speed of underground infrastructure construction prior to production is critical for maximizing the value of the project.

    Jul 1, 2010

  • SME
    Minnesota SME Section meeting lays out strategies for a new generation of mining

    Two key strategies for a new generation of mining are developing domestic raw material production and doing so in an environmentally responsible way, according to presenters at the 83rd annual meeting

    Jul 1, 2010