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  • SAIMM
    The Stress-Strain Behaviour Of In-Stope Pillars In The Bushveld Platinum Deposits In South Africa

    By B. P. Watson

    In South Africa, the Bushveld platinum group metal deposits are unique in that they are the largest platinum group metal deposits in the world. These deposits occur as two distinct stratiform tabular

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Cave Management As An Ore Reserve Management Tool Ensuring Optimal Life Of Mine For Palabora Mining Company

    Palabora Mining Company is operating a copper block cave mine in the Limpopo Province of South Africa. The mine was developed in the late nineties with a target ore reserve of 220 million tonnes of c

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    A Dispersion Model of Autogenous Particle Separations, with Specific Application to the Batch Jigging of Particles

    By D. A. Vetter

    A novel mathematical model is presented which describes the behaviour of beds of particles, of uniform size and shape but different densities, during autogenous separations. The approach used in the

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    "Decomposition Of Metal Sulfates - A SO2 -Source For Sulfuric Acid Production" - Abstract And Introduction

    The peak in Sulphur price late 2008 caused again intensified investigation into the decomposition of sulphates and spend acid. One option is the recycling of sulphur from spend acid, which already sta

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Campaign Mining Set-Up For Waste Stripping At New Vaal Colliery - Synopsis

    By P. R. Mothemela

    The objective of the investigation is to optimize the truck and shovel operations for pre-stripping at New Vaal Colliery by introducing campaign mining. The aim of campaign mining is to improve the ef

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SAIMM
    Ilmenite Smelting: The Basics

    While some of the practical details of ilmenite smelting are not well documented, there is a substantial body of literature on the principles of ilmenite smelting, and the behaviour of solidified tita

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Rhodax® Interparticle Crusher Maximizes Chloride Slag Production With A Minimum Generation Of Fines

    By J. Portal

    One of the key products produced by the mineral sands industry is the titanium dioxide slag, a process that requires grinding of a coarse product down to a valuable saleable product. Traditional metho

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Designing for Extreme Events in Open Pit Slope Stabilty

    By L. Lorig

    "Two types of extreme event, earthquakes and rainfall, potentially affect open pit slope stability. In the case of earthquakes, there are rather well-developed analysis procedures and acceptability cr

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SAIMM
    Low Cost Ferroalloy Extraction In DC-Arc Furnace At Middleburg Ferrochrome - Synopsis

    By D. Sager

    Middleburg Ferrochrome (MFC), a company in Samancor Chrome, commissioned a new ferrochrome smelter in March 2009. This is a 60 MW DC-arc furnace with a DC power supply for the smelting of Transvaal ch

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Singular Value Decomposition As An Equation Solver In Co-Kriging Matrices - Synopsis

    By M. Kumral

    One of the most significant elements in solving the co-kriging equations is the matrix solver. In this paper, the singular value decomposition (SVD) as an equation solver is proposed to solve the co-k

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Reflections on the quality of mining EIA reports in South Africa - Synopsis

    By L. A. Sandham

    Environmental impact assessment (EIA) in South Africa is administered by the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) for the mining industry, and the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism (D

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Fully dynamic stability analysis of jointed rock slopes

    By Y. H. Hatzor

    ABSTRACT: A fully dynamic, two dimensional, stability analysis of a highly discontinuous rock slope is demonstrated in this paper. The studied rock slope is the upper terrace of King Herod’s Palace in

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Applications And Benefits Of 3D Lasers Canning For The Mining Industry ? Synopsis

    By J. W. van der Merwe

    Technology is advancing at a rate that makes it extremely difficult for the mining industry to keep pace. Many advances occur within a given piece of technology and often this is missed by the discipl

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SAIMM
    Optimal Cut-Off Grade Determination Based On Variable Capacities In Open-Pit Mining - Synopsis

    By J. Abdollahisharif

    Optimal cut-off grade is one of the most critical parameters in open-pit mine design because it defines the ore and waste and thus determines the maximum net present value possible from the mining ope

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Mine Based Development Of A Pit Evacuation Alarm System

    By Neal Harries

    The monitoring of rock slopes is a common procedure in the management of hazards associated with slope instability. Slope stability radar has become widely accepted as the state-of-the-art method for

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    An Alternative Approach to the Modelling of Deformed Stratiform and Stratabound Deposits

    Orebody modelling and reserve estimation are now subject to sophisticated procedures, but folded stratiform and stratabound deposits present particular problems in transforming coordinates of samples

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SAIMM
    X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) As A Fast Industrial Analysis Method For Heavy Mineral Sands In Process Control And Automation - Rietveld Refinement And Data Clustering

    By E. Spicer

    X-Ray diffraction (XRD) provides useful information about the composition of an ore sample in terms of quantification of crystalline phases and amorphous content. The use of new, fast detection system

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Comparing Two Mass Size Distributions ? Synopsis

    By F. Lombard

    We consider in this paper the use of a modified version of Hotelling?s statistic in the analysis of particle size distributions. The statistic can be adversely affected by the presence of outliers amo

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Incorporation of rehabilitation cost into the optimum cut-off grade determination - Synopsis

    By J. Gholamnejad

    Determination of the optimum cut-off grades is one of the most important aspects of mine production planning. A cut-off is a grade below which we choose not to process material. This material is treat

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Furnace energy efficiency at Polokwane Smelter - Synopsis

    By P. K. Van Manen

    Anglo Platinum?s Polokwane Smelter is situated outside Polokwane, in the Limpopo Province in South Africa. A single 168 MVA six-in-line rectangular furnace smelts dry concentrates containing platinum

    Jan 1, 2009