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Predictive Modeling For In Situ Recovery OperationBy Gwenaële Petit, Ulan Massimkhanov, Gilles Joubert
For its Zuuvch Ovoo uranium deposit in Mongolia, Badrakh Energy (partly owned by Orano Mining) is working on the prefeasibility study for exploitation by ISR (in situ recovery). As part of this projec
Jan 1, 2020
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Improving Uranium Processing With Membrane SystemsBy Georges Croisé, Les-Lee Thompson, Adrien Debergé
Membrane filtration systems have regained focus in recent years as an effective means of liquid-liquid separation to increase the concentration of valuable elements, recover reagents or remove impurit
Jan 1, 2020
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Development And Demonstration Of A Novel Elution Process For Chloride Tolerant Uranium Ion ExchangeBy J. E. Quinn, S. Wolstencrof, K. H. Soldenhoff
Ion Exchange (IX) using Strong Base Anion Exchange (SBA) resins is conventionally used to purify uranium from sulfuric acid pregnant leach solutions (PLS), particularly when uranium grades are relativ
Jan 1, 2020
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The Optimization Journey Of The Harmony Gold’s South Uranium Plant Operation And The Uranium Contribution To The Gold Operation As A By-productBy R. Jacobs, R. E. L. Pobe
The Moab Khotsong Metallurgical Complex comprises a gold recovery circuit (Noligwa Gold Plant) and a uranium recovery circuit (South Uranium Plant). The metallurgical complex employs the reverse leach
Jan 1, 2020
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Nexgen Energy’s Arrow Deposit, Southwestern Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan: A Geostatistical Approach To Deposit DevelopmentBy Troy Boisjoli, Sean Hillacre, Matt Batty
Discovered in 2014, the Arrow Uranium Deposit has undergone rapid development through successive drilling programs informed by geostatistical drill hole spacing studies. An independent third-party geo
Jan 1, 2020
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Process Scale-up For Uranium, Mercury And Cesium Recovery From Surrogate Radioactive Cemented WasteBy A. Demers, M. Chapman, N. Reynier, R. Lastra, M. Courchesne, C. Laviolette
Historic medical isotope production at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) in Chalk River involved the dissolution of irradiated isotope targets prior to extraction of Mo-99. This process generated li
Jan 1, 2020
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Radium In Mining Effluents: Promising Water Treatment And Environmental MonitoringBy J. Schick, V. Granger
Nowadays, all French former uranium mining sites are remediated and redeveloped. If needed, mining waters containing radium have to be treated before discharged into the environment. Classical radium
Jan 1, 2020
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Two-stage Counter-current Leaching Of Uranium Ore From Global Atomic’s Dasa ProjectBy J. A. Brown, F. P. Kerr, M. A. Archer
Extensive testwork on Global Atomic’s Dasa Project in Niger has been conducted at SGS Minerals laboratory in Lakefield, Ontario. Much of this testwork has focused on a two-stage counter-current leach
Jan 1, 2020
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Technical Advancements Towards Achieving 1500 T/a Production Rate At The Honeymoon Isr OperationBy A. Rao, J. A. Davidson, B. L. Jones, K. W. Bowes, D. Craib
Supported by ANSTO, Groundwater Science and Inception Consulting Engineers, Boss has embarked on a series of technical projects aimed at reinforcing the Project’s capability to meet its export permit
Jan 1, 2020
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Continuous Uranyl Peroxide Precipitation From Combined Solvent Extraction Strip Liquor And Ion Exchange Eluate For The Honeymoon Uranium ProjectBy K. Bowes, M. D. Maley, R. J. Ring
The Honeymoon Uranium Project is an acid In-Situ Recovery (ISR) mine in South Australia. It was previously operated for approximately 18 months before being placed on care and maintenance in 2014, it
Jan 1, 2020
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Uranium Mine Remediation In Northern AustraliaBy Peter Waggitt
Northern Australia has been home to uranium mining for over 70 years, more or less continuously. In the early days, post World War 2, there was little effort made to remediate workings at the end of o
Jan 1, 2020
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Steel From Uranium?By Mike Dry, Rod Dry
If humanity is truly serious about reducing emissions of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, today’s power plants burning fossil fuels will have to be replaced by power plants that do not emit CO₂. Un
Jan 1, 2020
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The Free, Prior, And Informed Consent (Fpic) Provisions Of The United Nations Declaration On The Rights Of Indigenous Peoples (Undrip) And The Deployment Of Smrs In Northern Canada - A Review Of Potential ChallengesBy Horatio Sam-Aggrey, Margot Hurlbert
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) have been touted as having the potential to spearhead a nuclear renaissance. Proponents of this view cite the relative advantages of SMRs over larger nuclear plants as re
Jan 1, 2020
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Safe Usage Of Hydrogen Fluoride In Fluorination SystemsBy K. Adham
Both the dry and the wet fluorination systems require hydrogen fluoride (HF) for the process of uranium conversion to uranium hexafluoride (UF6). The dry methods depend on the electrolysis of HF to ge
Jan 1, 2020
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Heap Leaching Optimization For The Imouraren Deposit: Synthesis Of A Laboratory Testwork ProgramBy M. Vaillé, B. Bossé, N. Durupt, A. Michaut
Imouraren is a sedimentary uranium deposit (> 150,000 tU @ 800 ppm), located approximately 100 km North-Northwest of Agadez (Niger); its depth reaches 110 to 170 meters. For low-grades ores, heap leac
Jan 1, 2020
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Challenges In Settling Leached Cigar Lake OreBy B. Holaday, H. McLaughlin
Orano Canada Inc. (Orano) operates the McClean Lake mill, located in the Athabasca Basin region of northern Saskatchewan. It processes high concentration uranium ore, delivered in slurry form from the
Jan 1, 2020
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Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository Seal Geometry OptimisationBy M. A. Perras, H. A. Kasani, G. Walton
The development of an underground repository for the storage of spent nuclear fuel relies on a multi-barrier system to isolate the used fuel from the environment – ultimately, the biosphere. These bar
Jan 1, 2020
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RETC 2019 Full Proceedings - RETC2019By CHRISTOPHER D. HEBERT, SCOTT W. HOFFMAN
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Information contained in this work has been obtained by SME, Inc. from sources believed to be reliable. However, neither SME nor its autho
Dec 1, 2019
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Potencial de la tecnología avanzada de conminución por pulsos de alto voltaje para la industria mineraBy Kym Runge, Fengnian Shi
Este artículo resume los resultados de la investigación realizada en los últimos 10 años sobre conminución por pulsos de alto voltaje (HVP) en la industria minera. En el estudio se adopta un nuevo enf
Nov 30, 2019
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CIM Estimation of Mineral Resources & Mineral Reserves Best Practice GuidelinesBy CIM Mineral Resource, Mineral Reserve Committee
The CIM Estimation of Mineral Resources and Mineral Reserves Best Practice Guidelines (MRMR Best Practice Guidelines) were prepared by the Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum's (CIM
Nov 29, 2019