Pyle, Valery, Holtham, Duffy
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
A conceptual scoping study was conducted to investigate pre-concentration options for upgrading ore from an Ag-Pb-Zn deposit. The low grade of the ore would result in only modest economic returns, given...
30-Mar-2021
Barbosa, Bergerman, da Fonsecaca
Published in Proceedings of the IMPC2020 Congress, SAIMM
ABSTRACT
Located in the state of Pará, Brazil, the Sossegocopper and gold mine consists of a heterogeneous geological deposit. Its complexity derives from the hydrothermal alteration, the ore-forming event,...
30-Mar-2021
Keeney, La Rosa, Walters, Rutter, Scott
Presented at the Preconcentration Digital Conference November 2020
ABSTRACT
Bulk ore sorting technologies, whether surfaced based or penetrative, have seen an increased uptake by the mining industry for preconcentration application. As with all technologies...
30-Mar-2021
K. Bru, R. Sousa, M. Leite, C. Broadbent, G. Stuart, D. Pashkevich, M. Martin, M. Kern, D. Parvaz
Minerals Engineering
ABSTRACT
Two approaches for the use of the Electric Pulse Fragmentation (EPF) in the beneficiation of a low-grade cassiterite schist ore were investigated through pilot-scale t...
23-Jun-2020
*K. Bru, M. Beaulieu, R. Sousa, M. Leite, A, De Sousa, E. Kol, J. Rozenkranz, D. de Parvaz
Minerals Engineering
ABSTRACT
Electric Pulse Fragmentation (EPF) is an innovative technology that uses High-Voltage Pulsed Power (HVPP) for the selective comminution of a material. This paper aims to compa...
23-Jun-2020
B. Adair, L. Kenney, D. King, M. Scott
ABSTRACT
There are a number of potential technology opportunities to effect up-front gangue rejection in the minerals sector. CRC ORE has been working with several of its mining participants to assess the efficacy of a range of such technologies, assessed acr...
22-Jun-2020
S. Michaux & L. O'Connor
ABSTRACT
Geometallurgy is a comparatively new discipline in mining that involves the fundamental integration of multiple conventional technical areas of the industry, where the outcome is a genuinely new methodology. It can be a daunting prospect to be tasked with desi...
08-Jun-2020
M. Bueno, B. Foggiatto, G. Lane
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
This paper presents an assessment and trade-off study of high-pressure grinding rolls (HPGR)-based vs. autogenous grinding (AG)-based milling options for a 65 kt/d copper/gold project. The study rel...
05-May-2020
L. Vollert, B. Akerstrom, B. Seaman, J. Kohmuench
COM Copper 2019 Conference 18 - 21 August Vancouver
ABSTRACT
In August 2018, the first full-scale HydroFloatTM cells for the recovery of coarse composited copper and gold were commissioned at Newcrest’s Cadia Valley operation in New South Wa...
04-Mar-2020
M Powell, C Bozbay, S Kanchibotla, B Bonfils, A Musunuri, V Jokovic, M Hilden, J Young, E Yalcin
SAG Conference Vancouver, Canada September 22 – 26, 2019
ABSTRACT
In expanding the mine to process considerably more competent ore sources, this semi-autogenous-ball mill-crusher (SABC) circuit with a...
06-Jan-2020
Abstract
More complex ore bodies with lowering grades increase the challenges of maintaining high throughput, energy efficiency and required particle size for optimal downstream processing in grinding circuits. Continuous and often rapidly changing characteristics of the mill feed requires consta...
26-Nov-2015