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  • SME
    Falcon Concentrators: A High Capacity Fine Coal Cleaning Technology

    By R. Q. Honaker

    Recent research has shown that enhanced gravity separators provide the opportunity to effectively clean I mm x 37 micron coal. At Southern Illinois University, a detailed experimental program was perf

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Optimization Of An Iron Ore Flotation System

    By M. E. Volin

    Reagent control for optimum concentrate yield was studied by laboratory batch flotation tests simulating the Groveland plant flotation circuit in which a rougher concentrate is cleaned twice. The reag

    Jan 1, 1965

  • SME
    Understanding the Agglomeration Behavior of Nickel Laterite and Gold Ores Using Statistical Design of Experiments

    By M. L. Free, N. Dhawan, M. S. Safarzadeh, J. D. Miller, M. S. Moats

    "The drum agglomeration of nickel laterite and gold ores has been optimized through the design of experiments (DOE) using a Taguchi L16 (45) orthogonal array to determine the optimum conditions for ma

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Hydrodynamics Of Flotation Cells

    By Nathaniel Arbiter

    A fully-instrumented driving mechanism has been constructed to study the power, aerating and solid suspension characteristics of several laboratory flotation machines. Machines operating over norma

    Jan 1, 1968

  • SME
    Modeling Mine Ventilation Networks Using Five Basic Network Elements (4939391e-0889-4962-b814-a5ef2fa07e95)

    By Y. J. Wang

    In the mathematical analysis of electrical networks, the electrical devices are often modeled using idealized network elements such as current sources, voltage sources, and resistors. An analogous app

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Using A Hindered Settling Hydraulic Sizer To Produce A Clay Product From A Mica Plant Waste Stream

    By Louis M. Schlesinger

    KMG Minerals, Inc., a mica-feldspar-quartz producer in Kings Mountain, N.C., uses about 50% of its plant's -200 mesh slimes to manufacture brick. However, the company is unable to market the rema

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Golden Sunlight - A New Gold Mining Operation

    By T. J. Smolik

    The Golden Sunlight Mine started full-scale operations in February 1983, with a conventional open-pit mine supplying 4464 tonnes (5000 tons) per day of milling ore. After crushing and grinding, the or

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Gamma Ray Logging In The Iron Formations Of Western Australia

    By E. A. Wieselmann

    In 1970 Texasgulf (Australia) introduced natural gamma radiation logging of drill holes for exploration in the Hamersley Iron Province of Western Australia. Drill hole logs have allowed positive strat

    Jan 1, 1975

  • SME
    The Similkameen Tailing System ? Introduction

    By Albert J. Kritscher

    The Similkameen Copper Project located near Princeton, British Columbia, is operated by the Similkameen Mining Company Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Newmont Mining Company. The orebodies for t

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    A New Approach To Fine Solids Dewatering

    By C. St. J. Lowe

    Weir Minerals ? Linatex has developed a new approach to the dewatering of fine solids, particularly mine and process plant tailings and wastes. The Weir process, patented in 2009, uses standard proce

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Improving On The Estimation Of Recoverable Reserves

    By M. E. Rossi

    Reconciliation of long-term block model reserves and mine production frequently shows significant discrepancies. This reconciliation can be done comparing the long-term block model reserves against a

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Ace Hydrocyclone: A Fast Froth Cyclonic Beneficiation Technology For Fine And Ultrafine Minerals - SME Annual Meeting 2023

    By H. Fayed

    Froth flotation technology is the backbone of the minerals pro-cessing industry where minerals are concentrated by selective separa-tion; either direct or in-direct flotation. In direct flotation usef

    Feb 1, 2023

  • SME
    Dragline Mining And Reclamation At Hobet Mining, Inc.

    By J. E. Lowe

    The unique application of a large walking dragline in the mountains of southern West Virginia was developed and implemented by Hobet Mining, Inc. Hobet is an independent operating subsidiary of Ashlan

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Autogenous Grinding At The UV Industries, Inc. Concentrators ? Introduction

    By Henry E. Swanson

    In the early 1960's the Company, then named the United States Smelting Refining and Mining Company, was drilling the Continental ore body located near Fierro, New Mexico. Reserves of underground

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    The New Jersey Zinc Company?s Experience With Student Trainees At Friedensville Mine

    By S. S. Huyett

    The opportunity to cooperate with the Mining Department of the Pennsylvania State University in their Student-Trainee Program is accepted by The New Jersey Zinc Company who believes that the participa

    Jan 1, 1963

  • SME
    High Altitude Ground Water Search In The Bolivian Andes

    By William E. Mead

    A regional investigation to find large supplies of potable ground water was carried out at elevations exceeding 12,000 feet above sea level on the Bolivian Altiplano. The program marked the first appl

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    Computer Control Of Burnswick Mining's Flotation Circuits - Introduction

    By Andrew Trusiak

    Brunswick Mining, employing approximately 1600 employees, is located 40 km south of the city of Bathurst in north eastern New Brunswick. The mine has operated as two lead-zinc operations - the undergr

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Exploration of Beach-Placer Heavy Mineral Deposits in the San Juan Basin in New Mexico

    By A. Robison, V. T. McLemore

    "The San Juan Basin, New Mexico contains many heavy mineral beach-placer sandstone deposits of Cretaceous age. Beach-placer sandstone deposits are concentrations of heavy minerals that formed by mecha

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    The Application Of A Computer-Calculation Material Balance, In-Process Evaluation Of A Potash Compaction Plant Operation

    By R. B. Tippin

    The material balance computer program (MAT-BAL) developed at the Minerals Resource Research Center of the University of Minnesota, has been used in conjunction with routine process profile samples tak

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Optimization of High‑grade Fluorspar Recovery from Rare Earth Element Carbonatite Deposit Using Column Flotation

    By Kristin K. Mueller, Lucie Coudert, Thi Yen Chau Nguyen, Lan Huong Tran, Jean‑François Blais, Guy Mercier

    Fluorite (calcium fluoride—CaF2), also known as fluorspar, is an industrial mineral used in metallurgy, hydrofluoric acid production, and ceramics manufacturing. Based on the results from a previous s

    Sep 9, 2022