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  • CIM
    Predictive Modeling For In Situ Recovery Operation

    By 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

  • CIM
    Improving Uranium Processing With Membrane Systems

    By 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

  • CIM
    Development And Demonstration Of A Novel Elution Process For Chloride Tolerant Uranium Ion Exchange

    By 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

  • CIM
    The Optimization Journey Of The Harmony Gold’s South Uranium Plant Operation And The Uranium Contribution To The Gold Operation As A By-product

    By 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

  • CIM
    Nexgen Energy’s Arrow Deposit, Southwestern Athabasca Basin, Saskatchewan: A Geostatistical Approach To Deposit Development

    By 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

  • CIM
    Process Scale-up For Uranium, Mercury And Cesium Recovery From Surrogate Radioactive Cemented Waste

    By 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

  • CIM
    Radium In Mining Effluents: Promising Water Treatment And Environmental Monitoring

    By 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

  • CIM
    Two-stage Counter-current Leaching Of Uranium Ore From Global Atomic’s Dasa Project

    By 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

  • CIM
    Technical Advancements Towards Achieving 1500 T/a Production Rate At The Honeymoon Isr Operation

    By 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

  • CIM
    Continuous Uranyl Peroxide Precipitation From Combined Solvent Extraction Strip Liquor And Ion Exchange Eluate For The Honeymoon Uranium Project

    By 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

  • CIM
    Uranium Mine Remediation In Northern Australia

    By 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

  • CIM
    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

  • CIM
    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 Challenges

    By 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

  • CIM
    Safe Usage Of Hydrogen Fluoride In Fluorination Systems

    By 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

  • CIM
    Heap Leaching Optimization For The Imouraren Deposit: Synthesis Of A Laboratory Testwork Program

    By 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

  • CIM
    Challenges In Settling Leached Cigar Lake Ore

    By 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

  • CIM
    Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository Seal Geometry Optimisation

    By 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

  • SME
    RETC 2019 Full Proceedings - RETC2019

    By 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

  • IIMP
    Potencial de la tecnología avanzada de conminución por pulsos de alto voltaje para la industria minera

    By 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

  • CIM
    CIM Estimation of Mineral Resources & Mineral Reserves Best Practice Guidelines

    By 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