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 MIPAC Delivering Advanced Process Control Solution for Xstrata ZincWednesday, April 30, 2008MIPAC, a respected world leader in process control, is working with Xstrata to improve operations in its Mt Isa Zinc Concentrator. MIPAC will help Xstrata to automate and optimise key processes in the plant read more » Non-Traditional Uranium MiningFriday, February 29, 2008Here is a way to get more uranium from old mines and simultaneously protect surface water quality. In the paper Non-Traditional Utilization of Uranium Deposits After Underground Mining Completion, Rapantova et al. write of recovery of uranium from groundwater read more » Copper Solvent ExtractionFriday, February 08, 2008Here is a link to a magnificent paper in the InfoMine library relevant to all metallurgists. The paper is called Technical Review – Copper Solvent Extraction in Hydrometallurgy. 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 » HPGR Trade-Off StudiesTuesday, November 27, 2007TechnoMine has previously posted an article from Wardrop on High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) in the mining industry. read more » Conference of Metallurgists AbstractsWednesday, October 17, 2007At this link you will find the program and abstracts from a past Conference of Metallurgists. To keep you informed and help you decide, here are my edited versions of abstracts of papers that caught my attention. read more » Gekko Systems Short Info Program - Part 8Friday, September 7, 2007This is the last 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 » Gekko Systems Short Info Program - Part 7Friday, August 31, 2007This is the seventh 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 » 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 » International Solvent Extraction Conference 2008Thursday, August 23, 2007From Bruce A. Moyer, Technical Program Chair, ISEC 2008: The deadline is approaching for abstracts for the International Solvent Extraction Conference, ISEC 2008 read more » Pollution Problems in the Mineral and Metallurgical IndustriesTuesday, August 21, 2007For those with a taste for the out-of-the way, the insightful and the different, here is a fascinating small book: Pollution Problems in the Mineral and Metallurgical Industries read more » Solvent ExtractionWednesday, August 15, 2007In 1989 Elsevier published a book called Tailings Management: Problems and Solutions in the Mining Industry by Gordon M. Ritcey. Here is a brief review of the book read more » Gekko Systems Short Info Program - Part 5Wednesday, August 15, 2007This is the fifth 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 » Gekko Systems Short Info Program - Part 4Thursday, August 09, 2007This is the fourth 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 » Gekko Systems Short Info Program - Part 3Wednesday, August 01, 2007This is the third 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 » Heap Leach Pad RaincoatsMonday, July 30, 2007The water balance of a heap leach pad may be detrimentally affected during the rainy season by excessive infiltration from heavy rains. read more » Gekko Systems Short Info Program - Part 2Wednesday, July 25, 2007This is the second 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 » Gekko Systems Short Info Program - Part 1Tuesday, July 17, 2007From Gekko Systems: This is the first 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 » History of MetallurgyFriday, July 13, 2007A History of Metallurgy (1994) is edited by Fathi Habashi of the Department of Mining & Metallurgy, Laval University, Quebec City. It is a collection of articles from a multi-volume work. read more » Microwave Infrared TechnologiesFriday, April 27, 2007In a dim room in Denver, drinking after a snowy SME day, I chanced on a friendly & voluble fellow: Dr. Gus Van Weert. He told me in enthusiastic tones of his work. read more » DEM Solutions Particle MechanicsWednesday, April 11, 2007DEM Solutions software is used to simulate, analyze, and visualize particle flows so that you can get a feel for what is happening in a situation involving particle kinematics, momentum, and heat and mass transfer. read more » Mining LabsFriday, March 23, 2007At every stage of mining, a lab is needed to test some sample or other. During exploration there are soil and rock samples to test, during production there are metallurgical and environmental samples to test read more » ComminutionMonday, March 19, 2007International Mining, January 2007 features another of those great articles from John Chadwick with a catchy title and chock-full of content. This one is called Comminution Conundrum. read more » Application of High Pressure Grinding Rolls in the Mining IndustryFriday, March 16, 2007The application of High Pressure Grinding Rolls (HPGR) in the mining industry, especially as a replacement for the conventional Semiautogenous (SAG) milling process read more » Mining for the FutureTuesday, March 06, 2007There is no mining without human resources. People are ultimately what mining is all about. People to plan and run the mines. read more » Mine Chemical OpportunitiesMonday, February 26, 2007All the information you might need in 2007 on the what chemicals the mining industry will needs now and in the future. read more » BioteQ MexicoWednesday, February 21, 2007Technical and financial innovation in one project: Columbia Metals Corporation (also at this link) has contracted with BioteQ Environmental Technologies (also at this link) to construct and operate a copper recovery and water treatment plant read more » Franklin MiningWednesday, February 14, 2007A rare collection of technical and cost evaluation reports on a new mining project is available at the Franklin Mining, Inc site read more » Solution Mining IrrigationWednesday, February 07, 2007A well-produced brochure is more informative than a text book, and certainly more entertaining than most paper magazines stuffed with pale replications of marketing materials turned into fake-erudite articles. read more » Data MetallogenicaMonday, February 05, 2007Probably the most extraordinary website I have yet come across is Data Metallogenica on-line read more » I Think Mining BlogWednesday, January 31, 2007Some paper magazines will never die. They are the ones with high quality, thoughtful, well-written articles. The rest are doomed to fade and wither. Part of their problem is the competition of Blogs read more » Aditya Birla Minerals and IndiaWednesday, January 31, 2007The moral of this story is that news reports and Annual Reports can tell the curious engineers and technicians amongst us interesting tales of the trials and tribulations of mining read more » Silver Deposits - Analysis & MetallurgyThursday, January 19, 2007The method selection for silver analysis and the art and science of extracting silver metal from silver minerals... read more » Discrete Element Method (DEM)Thursday, November 30, 2006The sales brochures are readily available. The technical papers are not. What the computer software does is readily obvious. What can yet be done to benefit the mining industry is not. read more » Cyclones and KrebsWednesday, November 29, 2006The universal solution? At last computing power catches up with the need to analyze the real world. Solutions for the mining industry are not there yet, but the computer codes are standing ready read more » Proudfoot Case HistoriesMonday, November 27, 2006For the aficionado of mining case histories, there is a venerable cornucopia on the Proudfoot Consulting website. Here is an edited version of one they recently sent us read more » Zambian ProcessingThursday, November 23, 2006This from the pages of the Times of Zambia: Large scale mining companies have invested US$1.4 billion in plant rehabilitation, expansion and in new technology in the last five years, President Mwanawasa has said.
read more » Problem SolverFriday, November 10, 2006As the traditional diagnostic methods failed to provide any insight into the cause of the problem I found myself focussing more and more on the comments of the operator relative to the wind. read more » Phosphate RequestMonday, September 25, 2006Unusual requests sometime find their way to my desk. Sometimes I post them in accordance with the idea that doing so may help the sender and most importantly result in benefit to a reader of TechnoMine. read more » Acid Mine DrainageThursday, September 14, 2006“Most sites have a lot of Fe in their acid mine drainage.” True. But how do you treat it? I do not know. But the answer is on the web. This is what I found. read more » Met RequestMonday, September 18, 2006Can you help a student with information? Here is a request I received by e-mail from a student at the university that was the rival to that I attended. Therefore I must do anything I can to help in the interests of a long-standing academic rivalry. read more » CyclotecFriday, August 18, 2006Russians outwit Americans in patent resuscitation! You must love headlines like this. I use it to introduce the following that popped up one day in my e-mail inbox: Cyclotec, an engineering team from St. Petersburg, Russia read more » HJ3 Composite TechnologiesTuesday, August 22, 2006InfoMine will soon have Wikis and e-Forums on the pages of TechnoMine. In anticipation, here is the first competition: list the uses of high-strength carbon or glass filaments in a polymer resin in retrofitting and rehabilitating mine facilities. read more » |
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