GEOMETALLURGICAL MAPPING: A NEW APPROACH …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2004-01. ORE CHARACTERIZATION. Overall, ore characterization is the . quantification of physical data on samples that represent an orebody. The data collected as part of an ore characterization program provide the objective footing for the geometallurgical mapping approach. …
MMI™ TECHNICAL BULLETINS
SGS MINERALS SERVICES – T3 SGS 1044. 05-2012. MMITM TECHNICAL BULLETINS. SGS regularly produces technical bulletins for MMITM users. These bulletins contain …
Work Index Determination for High Pressure Grinding …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2008-49. 4 Figure 10: Relationship between -10# in the product from Cycle 2 and the average of last 3 . cycles energy used over the 2 passes was . measured. Total energy and the feed and product sizes were used to compute a High Pressure index, HPi (for the open-circuit test). Reproducibility
Bench and Pilot Plant Programs for Flotation Circuit …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES I TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2002-04 3 Knowing quantitatively the influence of the liberation on a metallurgical response means the effect of the given chemical processing environment can be inferred. This type of analysis is continuous and interactive during flowsheet development. Generally, it is more expedient to focus
RARE EARTHS AND MMITM GEOCHEMISTRY
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 18 3 radius. In fact, the light to heavy rare earth ratios in rocks provide a very good method for identifying and categorizing magmatic history. Soil up until recently have not been studied for similar behaviour. Figure 1 below shows the Ni and Ce values obtained from MMITM
Iron Control in Hydrometallurgy
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2006-05. The use of metallic iron as a cementing agent has been long known. The use of . dissolved iron to control and/or stabilize arsenic has been the topic of much research in recent years. Research is continuing to try to elucidate the various mechanisms involved for the different
AAS Vs. ICP-OeS For Precious Metals in Autocatalysts
and the one that SGS Minerals Services, Lakefield Laboratory employs is to totally breakdown or destroy the sample matrix and to isolate the precious metals from the substrate and any other interfering elements. This allows for a generic, one size fits all approach. The catalyst material is subjected to an alkaline fusion at a controlled ...
VISION FOR A RISK ADVERSE INTEGRATED …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2010-1 2 concentrates or products of liberated and selected ore minerals, and economic value of mining projects and operations. This document describes the vision of a risk adverse integrated geometallurgy framework, which is structured in an ordered and coherent sequence of iterative stages.
MMI™ TECHNICAL BULLETINS
SGS MINERALS SERVICES – T3 SGS 1044 05-2012 ... SGS MINERALS SERVICES – SGS T3 1044 2 Title Technical Bulletin TB17: MMI Geochemistry for Nickel Exploration (PDF 983.44 KB) Date November 2005 Overview The geological understanding of nickel sulphide deposits, particularly those of the komatiite-type, has undergone vast ...
Column Flotation
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2002-23. 2 The froth of a flotation column is usually . water washed, with approximately as much wash water as there is water reporting to the froth. The water is most commonly added via pans, perforated with 4-8 mm diameter holes, located 20-30 cm above the froth, thus generating
Metallurgical Development of the El Boleo Copper …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL PAPER 2005-13 2005. Boleo produced approximately 19 million . tonnes of copper ore at a grade in excess of 4.3% copper during the period 1868 ... TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-13. 2 On April 20, 2004, the privately held . Boleo project became a publicly trading company. First Goldwater Resources
Cyanide Management in the Gold Industry
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2010-04. 3 copper complex, both of which can be . extracted directly from pulps by anion exchange resins. As in the SART …
Gold Process Mineralogy
Therefore, a routine process mineralogical study of gold ores normally includes some or all of the following objectives:1. Determine gold and silver grade by fire assay and analyze S, As, Te, Bi, Sb, Hg, Cu, Pb,Zn, and C for balancing the gold and determining the abundance of common gold-bearing minerals. Determine the nature of visible gold ...
PGM Ore Processing at Impala's UG-2 Concentrator
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2004-02 Figure 1: Geographic Location of the Impala Projects and Interests in South Africa UG-2 Ore UG-2 ore is the second most mined source of PGE in the Bushveld Complex. Located in a reef close to and largely parallel to the historically-mined Merensky Reef, UG-2 has always been
Was That Locked Cycle Any Good?
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2001-15. 2 individual unit operations. For a system . at steady-state, no material accumulates internally; each unit operation is functioning with an unchanging volume of material already in the circuit." Mular's description of steady state brings forward the need for stability and mass …
FLOTATION PLANT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-3 2005 FLOTATION PLANT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION PLANNING THROUGH GEOMETALLURGICAL …
RARE EARTHS AND MMITM GEOCHEMISTRY
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 18 3 radius. In fact, the light to heavy rare earth ratios in rocks provide a very good method for identifying and categorizing …
GEOMETALLURGICAL MAPPING: A NEW …
ABSTRACT. Geometallurgical mapping is a new team-based approach that documents variability within an orebody and quantifies the impact of geology (host rocks, alteration …
Beneficiation and Extractive Metallurgy of PGE
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2002-03. 2 During the 1970's the United States . government introduced legislation mandating a reduction in the level of pollutants emitted from automobile exhausts. Catalytic converters containing platinum, palladium and rhodium (in varied combinations) were accepted by the automobile …
MANAGING COMPANY RISK BY INCORPORATING THE …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN . COMMINUTION. If a block of ore is very hard then the . tonnage through the comminution circuit will be reduced when that …
Sampling and Testing in Coal Quality Management
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL PAPER 2003-10. The cross-belt 'sweep arm' sampler. Cross-belt cutter entering coal stream. Partly because of this rapid growth in mechanical sampling, standards organizations have been very busy developing new guidelines to cope with this phenomenon. This has resulted in the publication of the eight …
MMI GEOCHEMISTRY FOR NICKEL EXPLORATION
SGS MINERALS TECHNICAL BULLETIN 17 3 a high Ni/Cr ratio (say one thousand) and with Cr>2ppb, also ensures that Ni has a value >2000ppb. RATIO APPLICATION - LOCATING AND PRIORITIZING BASAL CONTACTS WITH MMITM IN COLLUVIAL TERRAIN Ratios provide a geochemical tool which can be used in difficult, covered …
MMITM ANALYSIS OF SOME SELECTED NORTH …
Samples were sent to the SGS Minerals Laboratory in Burnaby BC for ICPMS analysis for 53 elements after MMITM extraction. The purpose of this Technical Bulletin is to provide an MMITM elemental signature for each soil relating to the underlying lithology. It is contended that with the distinctive elemental signature for each rock type will be ...
[PDF] 2005 SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN …
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VISION FOR A RISK ADVERSE INTEGRATED …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2010-1 2 concentrates or products of liberated and selected ore minerals, and economic value of mining projects and …
Gold Process Mineralogy
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL QBQFS NO. TECHNIQUE. ABBREVIATION DETECTION LIMIT: APPLICATION: 1: Fire assay FA: 0.1-50 g/t Au Determination of gold in all forms: ... SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN : is also used to determine the modal weight percent of the major minerals : needed for gold balancing. …
Chloride as an Alternative to Cyanide
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2003-01. 2 Under specific conditions, however, indications are that gold could be solubilized during the pre-treatment stage. Information released by Barrick in the early 1990's revealed that at times up to 40% of the gold in their Goldstrike ore was solubilized in the autoclave and reprecipitated later.
Biogenic Sulphide Reagent in Hydrometallurgy
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN. 2007-02 3. Figure 2: Simplified flowsheet showing the use of biogenic sulphide for copper recovery at Bisbee Figure 3: Simplified flowsheet showing the use of sulphide precipitation technology at the Raglan Mine. shown in Figure 1. A simple schematic of a metal recovery . plant at Bisbee is …
FLOTATION PLANT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-3 2005 FLOTATION PLANT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION PLANNING THROUGH GEOMETALLURGICAL MODELLING AUTHORS: D. BULLED AND C. MCINNES ABSTRACT The key to successful flotation plant design, production planning and mine/ mill optimisation is a …