Iron ore concentrate sales in a mineral processing plant appeared a trend of high sulfur, exceeding the sales requirement of 0.3% significantly. To this end, for the sulfide in iron concentrate mainly exists in the form of pyrrhotite, companies with iron minerals and has a high degree of oxidation, we can add flotation agent to the magnetic separation column, and at the same time fill gas for s...

Ore-reserve estimations of deposits with low mineral concentrations, such as those of copper, gold and tin, are usually made on the assumption that the grades follow a lognormal distribution. Multiple mineralization or reworking of a deposit may have modified the simple distribution expected — producing an overall distribution of grades which can be adequately described by a mixture of lognorma...

A concept has been mistakenly attributed to the authors of the book while it should have been attributed to the authors of an article in it. The reference of the following sentence should therefore be Valero et al., 2010 rather than Stanek et al., 2010. ‘The exergy of mineral deposits can be referenced to a “zero level” state that corresponds to the average concentration of the elements of the ...

The paper presents the application of a fuzzy predictive control technique to optimize the operation of a mineral grinding plant, specifically in order to maximize the ore feed rate and to follow a predetermined particle size set-point. The proposed predictive control uses linear multivariable models and a fuzzy characterization of goals and constraints to generate the appropriate values for ma...

The history of the mining industry is intimately connected with government regulation. As in many other countries, this reflects the fact that the Crown has reserved almost all mineral rights to itself. In many cases regulation has had adverse consequences for the sector. A notorious example was the ban on exports of iron ore in the 1960s, which depressed exploration activity and postponed the ...

We present a first paragenetic study of the Wuyier, Wuyisan, Wuyiyi and Shihongtan sandstone-hosted roll-front uranium deposits, northwest China. The mineralization is hosted by Lower–Middle Jurassic coarseto medium-grained sandstones, which are dark-gray to black due to a mixture of ore minerals and carbonaceous debris. The sandstone is alluvial fan-braided river facies. Minerals associated wi...

Since the promulgation of the first Federal Asbestos Standard by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1972, other federal agencies have modified the standard to better carry on their own unique missions. The instruments used to identify and measure asbestos, the sampling protocol, and the criteria used to define asbestos, have been modified to some degree. The Mine Safety and He...

The goal of this paper is a first attempt to link the geology and mineral deposits of the Gondwana GIS, called GO-GEOID, to spatial statistics and map modelling. Such integration allows, for example, meaningful identification of the mineral potential of unexplored regions relative to those around them that are known to host major ore deposits. We use gold and tin deposits of Africa to derive pr...

Over the past decade both labor and multifactor productivity have fallen in copper, iron ore, coal, and many other mining operations, causing production costs to rise. This decline, following years of rising productivity, has led many to conclude that new technology can no longer offset the adverse effects of resource depletion. As a result, real mineral commodity prices will be permanently hig...