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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 solid understanding of the resource to be …

SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-11. 2 While expert system pricing has reduced . substantially over the last few years and the return on investment of these projects greatly exceeds even the most conservative economic hurdle – many operations still find it difficult to secure the funding to proceed with a project.

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 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

SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN sulfide ores can be recovered by whole-ore cyanidation or some combination . of flotation and cyanidation. Acceptable ... 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:

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 …

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 PAPER 2003-16. 2003. CO-TREATMENT OF LIMONITIC LATERITES AND . SULPHUR. B. EARING MATERIALS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE HPAL PROCESS. C.J. FERRON AND C.A. FLEMING –– SGS. ABSTRACT. The high pressure acid leach process (HPAL) is being commercially used in four plants around the …

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 2008-30. 4. Figure 5 Precipitation Equilibrium Test – Recoveries – Na. 2. CO. 3. Figure 6 Precipitation Equilibrium Test – Tenor Profiles – Na. 2. CO. 3. SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2008-30. 5. Table 1 Bulk Precipitation Summary Initial free acid: 6.3 g/L H. 2. SO. 4.

SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2006-03. The applicability of the PLATSOL ® process to various other PGM concentrates was attempted, and it was discovered that some concentrates did not respond well to PLATSOL ®. This paper describes the mineralogical . investigations undertaken to find the reasons for the refractory nature of

SGS MINERALS SERVICES TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2009-06: The ideal pulp density for a pyrite-containing feed can be calculated from : the following formula, developed by Conway and Gale [1] Pulp Density = 100/{0.3[S: 2-] + 0.825} This formula is often used as a guide for :

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 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 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

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 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

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. 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 - HYDROMETALLURGICAL TREATMENTS. These could be classified in two main categories: Processes aiming at . removing the arsenic, leaving behind a saleable copper concentrate suitable for the conventional market; and secondly, processes aiming at solubilizing the copper and somehow generating a

SGS MINERALS SERVICES. TECHNICAL BULLETIN . 2009-02. 2. CIRCUITS DESCRIPTION PRIMARY BALL MILL CIRCUIT. A flowsheet of the primary ball mill circuit is shown in Figure 1, indicating . the various control loops and process measurements available to be utilized by an expert system. The circuit consists of two identical . primary ball mills ...

SGS provides a full range of coal, coke, and by-product petrographic services including rank and type determination and complete coke and by-product analysis. SGS provides technical …

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 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 TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2005-09. 4. Chemical addition and regrind can have significant impact upon pulp kinetics. In . terms of the k-distribution of a gangue mineral in the cleaner feed, depressant . addition and/or regrind will bring about a shift of particles from the fast to the slow

SGS MINERALS SERVICES I TECHNICAL BULLETIN 2006-4 3 about two to three weeks of fully integrated steady-state operation. By comparison, the late nineties pilot plant campaigns were up to three months in duration, such as in the case of some laterite nickel testwork programmes. The pilot plant campaigns of the

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 – 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 ...

Since start-up, the mineralogical services, primarily QemSCAN (Pignolet-Brandom et al, 1988 and Latti et al, 2001) at SGS have been used to gain an understanding of the mineralogical factors …

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.