At Lac des Iles, the grain size distribution of the platinum group minerals (PGM) is bi-modal. Roughly two-thirds of the PGM are relatively coarse-grained, and often associated with fast …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL PAPER 2005-20. For this study a wide variety of . automobile catalyst samples and standards were analyzed comparing ... TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-20: 3. ELEMENT FLAME: LAMP CURRENT MA SLIT: BACKGROUND: Pt: Air/Acetylene 10: 0.5 On: Pd Air/Acetylene: 5 1: On Rh* Air/Acetylene 4: 0.5 On
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 industry as a ...
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-3 2005 FLOTATION PLANT DESIGN AND PRODUCTION PLANNING THROUGH GEOMETALLURGICAL MODELLING …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL PAPER 2009-07 2009. THE IMPACT OF CRUSHED ORE AGEING ON METALLURGICAL . PERFORMANCE *D. LASCELLES. 1, O. PETERS1, R. CALDWELL1 - SGS . ... TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2009-07. 4. Figure 6 EDTA extractable Cu as a function of the ageing time Figure 5 Effect of ageing period on size analyses .
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 changes in recent years.
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 conservation.
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.
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2001-12. 3 Figure 2 Froth Treatment Plant. Table 1 Current and expected production rates from the oil sand in Alberta The clean diluted bitumen is then piped . to the bitumen upgrading area, where the bitumen is upgraded to produce a synthetic crude oil, that is pipelined to markets. Heavy minerals are ...
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2010-04. The air/HCN gas stream is scrubbed in . a caustic solution to convert the HCN back to free cyanide ions for recycling. …
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
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
SGS regularly produces technical bulletins for MMI™ users. These bulletins contain important information on issues such as sampling procedures and problems, the application of MMI™ in …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2003-10. 3. The interrogation period is usually four hours or as directed by the OLA . manufacturer. or as directed by the OLA manufacturer. It is advisable to read the calibration blocks before and after source refreshment to provide a temporary
Kinross Gold Corporation's Maricunga mine in Chile presents an ideal opportunity to apply the SART process to a heap leach operation. Given increasing levels of cyanide complexed …
Advancements in quality control at the mine site, and throughout the entire quality chain from production to consumption, have been made in technology and automation. These have …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2004-06. Figure 1 – Proposed Flowsheet for the Treatment Process of the Olympias Concentrate Table I – Chemical and mineralogical Analyses of the Concentrate Samples. As a part of the bankable feasibility study, TVX Hellas conducted a series of . fully integrated pilot plant campaigns
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL PAPER 2009-06 2009. BASIC IRON SULPHATE – A POTENTIAL KILLER FOR PRESSURE OXIDATION PROCESSING . OF REFRACTORY GOLD CONCENTRATES IF NOT HANDLED APPROPRIATELY. C.A. FLEMING –– SGS MINERALS. ABSTRACT. Refractory gold concentrates often contain sub-microscopic gold that is …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN. 2007-02. 2. The use of sulphide reagent lies at the heart of BioteQ's technology and . know-how used in its commercial plants to treat water for selective metal recovery and/or producing clean water for environmental discharge (Lawrence et al, 2005; Bratty et al, 2006).
Gold process mineralogy address all issues related to gold ore processing by the detailed study of an ore or a mill product. The methodology is widely used as a predictive tool in feasibility …
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
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL PAPER 2002-01 2002 PLATSOLTM PROCESS PROVIDES A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE TO SMELTING ChRIS A. FLEMING, SENIOR METALLuRGICAL CONSuLTANT –– SGS PlatsolTM is a new single step, pressure leaching process developed at SGS by International PGM Technologies to recover platinum group …
sgs minerals services. technical paper 2008-51 2008. application of the sart process to heap leaching of . gold-copper ores at maricunga, chile. kevan j. r. ford and robert d. henderson –– kinross gold corporation, and dr. chris a. fleming –– sgs. ... technical bulletin 2008-51: 3.
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2002-10 Table: Performance of Lac des Iles Mill during October 2001 Compared to target While the problem of high tails was serious, at the time it was somewhat overshadowed by the high MgO content in the concentrate, which the smelters in Sudbury are not designed to handle. This
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-15. 2 Figure 2: Galmoy Concentrator Head Grade Versus Time Figure 3: Throughput Versus Time . Figure 4: Tonnes of Metals/Hour Versus Time (240%) from 5% to 17%Fe as and from . August 2002. The head grade continued this profile during the period through to July 2003. THROUGHPUT
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL PAPER 2008-29. OBJECTIVES. The priorities of the project work were . defined by communication with the client, First Solar and its advisors. ... SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2008-29: 4. as well as at least one variety of coater overspray. Relevant thermodynamics data are
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 process, ion exchange resins present the opportunity to not only . recycle the cyanide associated with the copper complex, but to generate revenue via the sale of the copper itself. This
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
Geometallurgical mapping is a new team-based approach that documents variability within an orebody and quantifies the impact of geology (host rocks, alteration and structure) and …
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
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN. 2007-02. 2. The use of sulphide reagent lies at the heart of BioteQ's technology and . know-how used in its commercial plants to treat water for selective metal recovery and/or producing clean water for environmental discharge (Lawrence et al, 2005; Bratty et al, 2006). Although
Ageing tests on a crushed Cu-porphyry ore were conducted to assess the impact of sample oxidation on flotation performance. The objective of the testwork was to simulate ageing of ore …
SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2008-49. 3 Figure 7: Broken rock with cake agglomerates . Figure 8: Force used by press vs. Distance traveled by piston . Figure 9: Relationship between specific energy (kWh/t) used in Cycle 2 and the average of last 3 . cycles The testing was initially conducted in open-circuit using 2 passes of
SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-5 INTRODUCTION The ndida porphyry copper district is located 140 km SE of Antofagasta, Chile at 3150 m.a.s.l, at 24°16' South latitude and 69°04' West longitude (figure 1). Detailed geological work dates back to 1981. The discovery of the supergene enriched deposit dates from March of that ...
