D David
MetPlant 2017 – Metallurgical Plant Design and Operating Strategies – World’s Best Practice, 11-12 Sep 2017, Perth, Australia
Abstract
Amongst those whose task it is to design tumbling mills and other comminution machines there is a religious divide between devotees...
26-Oct-2017
Holger Plath, Holger Plath, Christoph Beyer, David Kruth, Johann Knecht, Wolfgang Baum
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Although HPGR technology has been recognized since the late 1980s as a potential powerful to...
26-Sep-2017
Lutke von Ketelhodt, L. Kotelo, N. Schmalbein
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Barkerville Gold Mines (BGM) is focused on building a sustainable, low impact, innovative, high-margin mining company in British Columbia’s Cariboo mini...
26-Sep-2017
Brent Hilscher, Preetham Nayak, Leo Lorio, Nawoong Yoon
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Mining has been a staple to technological advancement ever since the dawn of time. By harnessing the different physical and chemical properties...
26-Sep-2017
Henry Kurth
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Real time analysis of conveyed bulk materials can be used to improve process performance by reducing variability, and upgrading ore quality through selective removal of increments of flow that...
26-Sep-2017
Luke Balzan, Luke Balzan, Andrew Harris, Zoran Bauk
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Real-time, on-belt analysis of minerals is becoming increasingly important and critical in modern operations, especially in the mine-to-mill. Prompt gam...
26-Sep-2017
Arvin Mazhary, Huaizhe Li, Bern Klein
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Although sensor-based ore sorting has gained significant attention recently, sorting gold deposits still face a high level of skepticism by gold mining companies. In...
26-Sep-2017
Peter Coghill, Channel Tissot, Rhys Palmer
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Due to the low concentrations of gold, direct measurement of gold concentration in ore on-belt has not been seriously considered until now. Pre-concentratio...
26-Sep-2017
Shuji Owada, Sho Terada, Taiki Senga, Takao Namihira
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Electrical disintegration (ED) is well known as a good comminution method to improve liberation of componential elements, because electron avalanche co...
26-Sep-2017
Bern Klein, Baker Giyani, David Rahal
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
Stirred media mills have proved to be more energy-efficient than the conventional ball milling for fine grinding applications. The mill performance is governed b...
26-Sep-2017
Ryo Kawarabuki, Masato Kosugi, J.V. Satur, K. Mitsuhashi, M. Kawata, Yoshiaki Kon, B. Calabia, T. Takagi, G. Dodbiba, Kengo Horiuchi, Chiharu Tokoro, Yusuke Iwazaki, and Toyohisa Fujita
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
The liberation of...
26-Sep-2017
M Bunyard and I Mullany
49th Annual Conference of Metallurgists, Vancouver, Canada, August 27-30, 2017.
Abstract
The pressures on mine operators are varied and constantly increasing: declining ore grades, more remote locations, and increasing environmental concerns. The challenge facing the m...
26-Sep-2017
Robert E Mclvor
Mining Engineering, 2014, Vol. 66, No. 9, pp. 67-71. Official publication of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Inc.
ABSTRACT
Classification system efficiency (CSE) is a simple metric that can be used to measure and increase ball milling circuit efficiency. It is...
26-Aug-2017
Dry processing of magnetic iron ores – addressing cost and environmental issues
W Skinner (1) and J R Kelly (2)
AusIMM Iron Ore 2017 Conference, Perth, Australia, 24-26 July 2017. Paper Number: 86
ABSTRACT
The Iron ore industry has reached the end of an unprecedented period of ex...
26-Aug-2017
Peter Amelunxen
Presented at Procemin 2016, October 26-28, Santiago, Chile.
We all know the story of froth flotation. The first patents date to 1885, when Carrie Everson discovered a method of concentrating sulfide minerals from a powdered ore using a froth phase. Everson’s process was...
26-Aug-2017
The Energy Saving Technology of Beneficiation of Iron Ore
V V KARMAZIN, M A BIKBOV AND A A BIKBOV
MAGNETIC AND ELECTRICAL SEPARATION, VOL 11 (4), PP 211-224
ABSTRACT
The qualitative and quantitative evaluation of liberation of economic minerals and thelevel of contamination of the process produc...
25-Aug-2017
G R BALLANTYNE, A MAINZA AND M S POWELL
PRESENTED AT WORLD GOLD CONFERENCE 2015, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA, 29 SEP – 1 OCT, 2015
ABSTRACT
The mining industry has acknowledged the need for an effective method and platform to benchmark comminution energy intensity and motivate action to impr...
18-Jul-2017
W VALERY (1), K DUFFY (1), P HOLTHAM (2), A REPLE (3), P WALKER (4), P ROSARIO (1)
PRESENTED AT IMPC 2016: XXVIII INTERNATIONAL MINERAL PROCESSING CONGRESS, AT QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
ABSTRACT
The mining industry is facing declining feed grades which require the mining and processing of larger volume...
18-Jul-2017
P STAPLES, G LANE, R BRAUN, B FOGGIATTO AND M P BUENO
PRESENTED AT SAG CONFERENCE, SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SEMIAUTOGENOUS AND HIGH PRESSURE GRINDING TECHNOLOGY, VANCOUVER, 20-24 SEPTEMBER 2015.
ABSTRACT
Autogenous (AG) and semi-autogenous (SAG) grinding mills are considered a mature tec...
18-Jul-2017
S NKWANYANA AND B LOVEDAY (1)
PRESENTED AT COMMINUTION ’16, MINERALS ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, PUBLISHED IN MINERALS ENGINEERING VOLUMES 103-104, BARRY WILLS (ED), APRIL 2017.
ABSTRACT
Ball-mills are used widely for secondary grinding. Loveday (2010) reported on laboratory tests in which s...
18-Jul-2017
G S ANDERSON1 AND N W MCDONALD2
13TH AUSIMM MILL OPERATORS’ CONFERENCE, PERTH, WA, 10-12 OCTOBER 2016.
ABSTRACT
The IsaMill™ was originally developed to address liberation issues at Mount Isa Mines (now Glencore) operations, McArthur River and Mount Isa in the early 1990s. Follow...
18-Jul-2017
C G KELSEY AND J R KELLY (1)
PRESENTED AT IMPC 2016: XXVIII INTERNATIONAL MINERAL PROCESSING CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS, SEPTEMBER 11-15, QUEBEC CITY, CANADA
ABSTRACT
Dry crushing trials at pilot scale have shown that the IMPTEC Super-fine Crusher has the capacity to generate ultra-fine products from h...
18-Jul-2017
C CARRASCO1 2, L KEENEY 1 2, T J NAPIER-MUNN2, P BODE1
PRESENTED AT COMMINUTION ’16, MINERALS ENGINEERING INTERNATIONAL, PUBLISHED IN MINERALS ENGINEERING VOLUMES 103-104, BARRY WILLS (ED), APRIL 2017.
ABSTRACT
Grade Engineering® comprises a range of techniques aiming to reje...
18-Jul-2017
Investigating the Potential of HydroFloat (TM) Coarse Particle Flotation Techniques on Copper Sulphide Ores
P J Mehrfert
49th Annual Canadian Minerals Processors Conference Proceedings, Ottawa, Canada, 2017.
ABSTRACT
Recovery of mineralized coarse particles is notoriously low in conventiona...
27-May-2017
Bridging the gap: Understanding the economic impact of ore sorting on a mineral processing circuit
J Lessard (1), W Sweetser (1), K Bartram (2), J Figueroa (1) and L McHugh (1)
ABSTRACT
Automated, continuous ore sorting is a mature technology that has only been used to a limited extent...
26-May-2017
Significance of Exposed Grain Surface Area in Coarse Particle Flotation of Low-Grade Gold Ore with the Hydrofloat ™ Technology
J D Miller (1), C L Lin (1), Y Wang (1), M Mankosa (2), J Kohmuench (2) and G Luttrell (3)
IMPC 2016: XXVIII International Mineral Processing Congress Proceedings, Septemb...
26-May-2017
Technical Review and Evaluation of Ore Sorting Technology Incorporating Results from Four Properties
B Hilscher (1), P Nayak (1) and N Yoon (1)
49th Annual Canadian Minerals Processors Conference Proceedings, Ottawa, Canada, 2017.
ABSTRACT
The mining industry is currently facing chal...
26-May-2017
Comminution Circuit Design Considerations
G Lane (1), B Foggiatto (1), R Braun (1), M P Bueno (1), P Staples (2) and S Rivard (2)
49th Annual Canadian Minerals Processors Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 17-19 January 2017
ABSTRACT
This paper demonstrates the selection of grinding circui...
26-May-2017
Breaking Down Energy Consumption in Industry Grinding Mills
J Bouchard (1), G LeBlanc (2), M Levesque (3), P Radziszewski (4) and D Georges-Filteau (1)
49th Annual Canadian Minerals Processors Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 2017
ABSTRACT
Grinding mills are infamous for their extremely...
26-May-2017
The Effect of Choke Feeding a Gyratory Crusher on Throughput and Product Size
J -F Dupont (1), J McMullen (1) and D Rose (2)
49th Annual Canadian Minerals Processors Conference, Ottawa, Canada, 2017
ABSTRACT
The Detour Lake mine is located 200 km northeast of Timmins, Ontario, Canada...
26-May-2017
Optimisation of installed mill power post-installation of secondary crushing circuit at Northparkes Mines.
Y Sulianto, T Trott, D Morgan, T Bell, F Kock and B G Putland
AusIMM Mill Operators Conference 2016
ABSTRACT
Northparkes installed and commissioned a secondary crushing circui...
26-Apr-2017
Simplified hybrid semi-autogenous grinding mill control – explanation and practical results at the Porgera concentrator
S Ngunz, F van Zyl, F Orrante, E Beltran, M Westcott and S Wilson
AusIMM Mill Operators Conference 2016
ABSTRACT
The primary control objective of the project is to...
26-Apr-2017
The transition from semi-autogenous to autogenous milling at Waihi Gold
C Haines and D Bertoldi
AusIMM Mill Operators Conference 2016
ABSTRACT
The Waihi Gold Mine (WGM) operated by OceanaGold New Zealand Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the OceanaGold Corporation of Australi...
26-Apr-2017
Grinding circuit practices at Newmont
A Giblett and S Hart
AusIMM Mill Operators Conference 2016
ABSTRACT
In 2015 operations under the ownership and/or management of all Newmont Mining Corporation subsidiaries (Newmont) produced 5.7 Moz of gold and 619 Mlb of copper from mining opera...
26-Apr-2017
Upgrading low-grade gold ore stockpiles by preconcentration using ore sorting – an assessment of the economic impact and viability.
A N Parry and G van Wyk
Mill Operators Conference 2016
ABSTRACT
Sensor based automatic ore sorting technologies are used in the minerals industries to efficiently...
26-Apr-2017
Design, installation, commissioning and operation of fine grinding technology at the Kevitsa Mine
B Nielsen, H Lehto & B Musuku
AusIMM Mill Operators Conference 2016
ABSTRACT
The demand for fine and ultra-fine grinding associated with the processing of more challenging, finer gra...
26-Apr-2017
G Harbort and D Zoetbrood
ABSTRACT
The Phu Kham copper-gold operation in the Laos People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is owned and operated by Phu Bia Mining Limited. PanAust Limited holds a 90 per cent interest in Phu Bia Mining Limited, with the remaining ten per cent held by the Laos PDR Gov...
15-Feb-2017
A Gibblett and M Daniel
ABSTRACT
The Global Mining Standards and Guidelines Group (GMSG) currently supports nine individual industry working groups focused on developing standards and guidelines for the mining industry. In 2013 the GMSG established the Industrial Comminution Efficiency (ICE) w...
15-Feb-2017
The way we make decisions about adopting energy efficient comminution technologies is complex, and there are multiple factors at play. Depending on the company and individual personalities, the weight of different motivating influences varies between:
energy cost
environmental co...
16-Aug-2016
Where do you look for processing efficiency improvements?
What can you do without changing the flowsheet?
What is the real financial impact of your changes?
Mineral processing can use up to 50% of the energy consumed on a mining site. Because of limitations imposed by capital and operating cost s...
13-Aug-2016
In the face of increasing energy costs, limited water resources, more stringent legislation and lower feed grades, the mining industry is searching for more sustainable technologies and practices. Metso Process Technology and Innovation (PTI) is undertaking a research project, “Improving the resour...
15-Jul-2016
CEEC Director Ivan Mullaney spoke at the Mining Strategic Excellence conference in North America about the importance of energy efficiency and the need for innovation. CEEC's contribution to innovation is significant. The website provides a platform that keeps industry informed about innovative pr...
15-Jul-2016
The mining of high-grade, narrow vein deposits is an important field of activity in the precious
metal mining sector. The principle factor that has undermined the profitability and effectiveness
of mining such ore zones is the substantial dilution that occurs when blasting with explosives
d...
14-Jun-2016
Abstract
With energy costs increasing and ore grades diminishing, the role of pre-concentration in hard rock mining operations has been gaining greater interest. To maximise energy conservation, the pre-concentration process should be conducted at as coarse a grind size as possible, while minimis...
11-Jun-2016
Abstract
The comminution energy curve is a profoundly simple graphical technique that displays detailed operating efficiency information for industrial comminution processes. The database underlying the methodology has recently more than doubled, to now contain a substantial fraction of the interna...
31-May-2016
X-ray transmission (XRT) sorting has been introduced into the minerals industry in 2006 and has found various applications in diamonds, industrial minerals, and metal ore processing since. The technology offers planar projection of the atomic density of single particles similar to the principle know...
21-May-2016
Abstract
As the stirrer speed directly affects the motion of grinding media, and hence the interactions with material particles to be ground, the rotation speed of a stirred mill is well recognised as one of the most important factors affecting the grinding performance.
In this work, the effec...
09-May-2016
ABSTRACT
Simulation work was carried out to analyse how feeding a finer size distribution to a single stage SAG mill in closed circuit with hydro cyclones at Freda Rebecca Gold Mine would affect throughput and specific energy consumption using an Excel based milling process simulator developed by...
07-May-2016
Abstract
Comminution and classification circuits consume significant amounts of energy. Some estimates show that comminution processes accounts for around 40 % of the total energy consumed in mining operations and 1.5-1.8 % of the total national energy consumption in mining intensive countries such...
19-Apr-2016
Abstract
A computational model for use with DEM (Discrete Element Method) is proposed for the five mechanisms applying to particle comminution in AG, SAG and coarse feed ball mills. Chipping and rounding are mechanisms that lead to preferential mass loss from corners and edges of particles and whic...
18-Apr-2016