Metallurgy & Mineral Processing 2016

SRK News | Issue 53 : Metallurgy and Mineral Processing A4 | Letter It is routine in a processing plant to sample the feed, tailings and product streams in order to make a metallurgical balance – to account for the metal processed and where it ended up. For gold plants,...

SRK News | Issue 53 : Metallurgy and Mineral Processing A4 | Letter In conducting technical due diligences, SRK’s recent experience has found the majority of projects to be “metallurgicallychallenged”. This is often due to low grade or complex mineralogy or at times, ore hardness; sometimes it is a matter...

SRK News | Issue 53 : Metallurgy and Mineral Processing A4 | Letter Take a look at the flowsheet above. Can you tell if this is a step in the process plant or a water treatment plant? Mining operations are building dedicated water treatment plants costing between 10s and 100s...

SRK News | Issue 53 : Metallurgy and Mineral Processing A4 | Letter In cooking, some ingredients have such an inherently strong taste that a few grains can be detected on even the most insensitive of palates. Chili peppers are a good example and whereas in a stew they can...

SRK News | Issue 53 : Metallurgy and Mineral Processing A4 | Letter The AMIRA “Metal Accounting Code of Practice and Guidelines” (2007) has established best practice in process plant metal accounting. The code is based on the “check in, check out” concept; sampling the mass flow of the commodity...

SRK News | Issue 53 : Metallurgy and Mineral Processing A4 | Letter When water contacts a solid, a portion of the solid can be dispersed or even dissolved within the water (depending on the chemistry and solid form). This reaction has challenged many miners over the centuries and, back...

SRK News | Issue 53 : Metallurgy and Mineral Processing A4 | Letter At first glance, heap leaching can appear an extremely simple technology; however, without proper characterisation, engineering and design, heap leaching faces significant issues that can affect the overall economic viability of the project. Combined with compartmentalising the...

SRK News | Issue 53 : Metallurgy and Mineral Processing A4 | Letter Gold reconciliation audits are often motivated by the following question: Did the measured gold ever exist? • If yes, locate the gold if it is still within the circuit, or identify the likely route by which it...