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Information and links on a variety of technical aspects of mining & mineral exploration.
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 Thermo Fisher Scientific releases ARL SMS-3500 automated spectrometerThursday, November 12, 2009Thermo Fisher Scientific has released the ARL SMS-3500 automated optical emission and X-ray fluorescence spectrometers, designed for the mining and metals industries. read more » DOE-Sponsored Mississippi Project Hits 1-Million-Ton Milestone for Injected CO2Thursday, November 05, 2009A large-scale carbon dioxide (CO2) storage project in Mississippi has become the fifth worldwide to reach the important milestone of more than 1 million tons injected. As a result, it is helping to both further carbon capture and storage (CCS) as a mitigation strategy for global climate change and move forward G-8 recommendations for launching 20 projects of this type internationally by 2010. read more » Soil Gas Hydrocarbon Exploration MethodWednesday, October 28, 2009Employing a new geochemical technique developed by Actlabs, Golden Hope Mines has outlined a new highly prospective area at its FSG Area in Quebec, Canada. read more » Mine analysis lab spends $22 million to keep pace with increasing demandWednesday, October 14, 2009Accelerating global demand for metal and minerals has moved British Columbia to the forefront of international mining research. ALS Laboratory Group, a long-time fixture on the B.C. mining scene, is celebrating the opening in North Vancouver of a new, $22-million facility that is the largest and most advanced rock and soil analysis lab in the world. read more » Chemical optimisation and sustainability in flotationWednesday, September 30, 2009The depletion of mineral resources associated with the cost and limited availability of water and energy is putting pressure on the industry to optimise its processes, especially concentration by flotation, Ricardo Capanema reports. read more » Cost breakingWednesday, September 30, 2009Fragmentation within the mine is often overlooked as a critical element in the process and can be used to provide essential process control information. SPLIT digital fragmentation technology has been available for some time, with applications from the mine with post-blast analysis at the muck pile face through to the mechanical comminution circuit with ... read more » CCS all about finding the ‘right rocks’Wednesday, September 30, 2009The Coal Tech 2009 conference, held on September 15-16th, hosted a range of presentations on technologies including carbon capture and storage (CCS); coal-to-liquids; underground coal gasification; and syngas. read more » Mercury-tainted fish found widely in U.S. streamsThursday, August 20, 2009Scientists have detected mercury contamination in every one of hundreds of fish sampled from 291 freshwater streams, according to a U.S. government study released on Wednesday. More than a quarter of those fish contained concentrations of mercury exceeding levels set by the Environmental Protection Agency for the protection of people who eat age amounts of fish, the U.S. Geological Survey report said. read more » Online moisture analyser (for bulks such as iron ore or coal) easy to commission, calibrate and serviceFriday, June 26, 2009Callidan Instruments, the manufacturer of MoistScan®, has recently added remote access functionality to its range of online microwave moisture analysers. The MoistScan is now equipped with internet-based wireless connectivity making remote calibration and service easy and cost effective. read more » Comminution TestsWednesday, January 23, 2008If you need to test your mine’s ore as part of a comminution study, you can do no better than get a copy of SGS’s booklet Comminution Tests. read more » NI 43-101 QA/QCMonday, November 12, 2007Armando Simon and Greg Gosson, both of AMEC, writing in the Sept/OCt 2007 CIM Magazine on quality control reporting requirements by the mining industry, note "AMEC’s experience with numerous recent audits and due diligence studies indicate read more » Securing the Future and ICARDWednesday, October 17, 2007If you are planning to go to Skellefteå, Sweden in June 2009, you had better act now. They are calling for abstracts of papers for the 8th International Conference on Acid Rock Drainage. read more » Cyanide DeterminationFriday, September 28, 2007The EPA/ASTM approved method for determination of total cyanide is based on liberating HCN from a sample acidified with the sulfuric acid using an hour long reflux distillation procedure. read more » SGS Minerals Services opens new lab in Chita, RussiaFriday, September 14, 2007SGS is pleased to announce the opening of a new geochemical and metallurgical facility in Chita, Russia. read more » Gekko Systems Short Info Program - Part 6Friday, August 24, 2007This is the sixth of an eight week short information program that is intended to keep people in the mineral processing sector up to date with the developments at Gekko Systems. read more » Energy LaboratoriesThursday, August 23, 2007Where do you, as a uranium miner, go to get your testing done? I could find only SGS and STL on the web and other resources. read more » Cyanide Determination MethodsMonday, July 23, 2007In the Federal Register of April 6, 2004, there is a proposed new set of cyanide determination methods. We have just added to the InfoMine library a twelve page set of comments on the proposed determination methods read more » |
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