Mining Latin America / Minería Latinoamericana Challenges in the mining industry / Desafíos para la industria minera

In November, 1986, the Institution of Mining and Metallurgy held the 'Mining Latin AmericalMineria Latinoamericana' conference in Chile - a conference covering a broad range of topics relevant to South America and, in that sense, complementary to its regional 'Asian Mining' and &...

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Main Author: Institution Of Mining and Metallurgy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Arsenic removal in anode refining by flux injection
  • Scrap melting in a rotary furnace with use of oxy-fuel burners
  • Ausmelt’s top submerged lance technology applied to copper smelting
  • Investigation of silver extraction from a silver-sulphur flotation concentrate from the electrolytic zinc plant of Companhia Paraibuna de Metais, Juiz de Fora, Brazil
  • Reduction of leach-solvent extraction — electrowinning plant costs by attention to engineering
  • Southern Peru Copper Corporation’s Toquepala and Cuajone leach projects, Peru
  • Advanced methods of coalescing and filtration
  • From mine to customer - the marine connection
  • Mean and lean — conveyor design for the 1990s
  • Economic advantages of belt conveying in open-pit mining
  • Future of pneumatics in percussive drilling - the South African experience
  • Aplicación de un modelo de fragmentación de rocas en la reducción de los costos de voladura en minería
  • Quality excavation with instrumented and automated drilling equipment
  • Lower costs and higher productivity by use of mechanization in Chilean underground mining
  • Tunnel-boring machine for Magma Copper Co. mine development
  • Environmental management in the mining sector
  • Reconciliation ofmining with the concept of sustainable development: Minas Gerais, Brazil
  • Mining investment in Argentina
  • Bolivia - its potential and recent activity
  • Investment in mining: the Canadian experience
  • Restructuring of Mexico’s mining sector: an international model
  • Application of advanced computer-based systems in open-pit evaluation
  • Myth and reality: status report on computer open-pit optimization algorithms in the 1990s
  • Construction of the Kori Kollo gold plant, Bolivia
  • La Coipa modified grinding circuit, Chile
  • Optimization of control systems for mineral processing
  • Practical implementation of the bacterial oxidation process of refractory gold ores
  • The Geoscan Airborne Multispectral Scanner as an exploration tool applied to El Halcón prospect, Chile
  • Silver mineralization at San Bartolomé, Azuay, Ecuador
  • Development of the Collahuasi copper deposits - a world-class copper project in the Andes of northern Chile
  • Sulphuric acid plant installation — Ilo smelter, Peru