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Integrating the Mine and Mill
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
According to a paper by Professor John Meech of UBC, North American mines can only compete with other regions who are producing high-grade, easy-to-treat ores by operating their plants at maximum efficiency using automation and economies of scale. read more »

Human Error Prevention
Friday, August 07, 2009
Preventing human error can be the biggest contributor to the productivity, safety, and quality of any project. A new easy to read book can help you tackle the causes of human error and how to prevent them. read more »

Using Insects to Model Equipment Dispatching Systems
Tuesday, August 04, 2009
Here's a novel approach to model an equipment dispatching system: use the swarming behaviour of insects! The dispatch of trucks and shovels is an important part of the success of an open pit mine. The following paper by Bissiri et al. introduces a new technique that uses insect swarming to model and simulate a dispatching system. read more »

Flotation '09 - MEI's 3rd Flotation Conference
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
It is 103 years since froth flotation was patented, and it is often said to be the 20th century's most important technological development. read more »

History of Mineral Exploration in Canada
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Canada has a long and exciting history of mineral exploration and mining. Now a new book has been published that tells the successes of the industry since World War II. read more »

Mining Investment Guides
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
If you are looking for firms that invest in a diverse range of mining, resources, and oil and gas opportunities, the following guides by Thomas Su of Money Cat Consulting can help you find the information you need. read more »

Principles of Mine Planning
Monday, June 29, 2009
Principles of Mine Planning is a must-read for mining engineering and geoscience professionals and students. Some of the major topics covered in this book include the determination of technical factors in mine planning read more »

Mining Investment Rules by Vernon Smith
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Vernon Smith won the Noble prize for economics in 2002. His experiments with students involving simulated trading games, proves that “efficient” markets do not exist and that bubbles occur even when “traders” know what they are doing. read more »

Alaska Tailings in the Supreme Court
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
The highest court in the land has chosen to hear the issue of whether the Kensington gold mine in Alaska may put their tailings into Lower Slate Lake read more »

Tailings Conference Presentations
Monday, November 17, 2008
In October 2008 in Vail, Colorado, I attended the conference Tailings & Mine Waste ’08. Thanks to the organizers of the conference and the presenters, we can make available here on TechnoMine many of the PowerPoint presentations. read more »

Mining Information Kit
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Mining Information Kit for Aboriginal Communities is published by Natural Resources Canada. Here are a few positive and negative opinions about this taxpayer production read more »

The Uranium Mill Tailings Remedial Action (UMTRA) Project
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Here is the best summary of UMTRA I have come across: The Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 gave the U.S. Department of Energy the responsibility of stabilizing, disposing, and controlling uranium mill tailings read more »

South African Mine Water Best Management Practices
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Here are links to a magnificent series of e-publications from South Africa on management of mine water read more »

Authoritative Book Discusses the CIS’s Gold Deposits
Friday, October 24, 2008
With a new book, geologist Gregory Levitan gives a never-before-available comprehensive study in English of the gold and gold-silver deposits and resources of the former Soviet Union. read more »

Old Mining Books
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The following reflection is by Peter McCarthy, Managing Director at AMC Consultants: I collect old mining books. My best finds have been made in Perth, Harare, North Bay and other towns that service a broad mining hinterland. read more »

San Nicolas Archaeology
Monday, October 06, 2008
It is necessary to clear a prospective mine site for archaeological evidence before disturbing the earth. This short article is a brief review of a new book that brings insight and perspective to pre-history and its relevance to mining. read more »

IDRC 2005 Papers on Mine Closure
Friday, October 03, 2008
The International Development Research Center (IDRC) is a Canadian Crown corporation that "works in close collaboration with researchers from the developing world read more »

California Mining History and Social Progress
Friday, October 03, 2008
The history of early mining camps in California provides insight into the development of the rule of law. read more »

Snowden on-line library
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Snowden is a respected consulting company serving the mining industry in Australia and North America. Here is a link to papers & publications on mining and related to mining by Snowden staff. read more »

Blasting and Fragmentation Software from Blastware
Monday, September 29, 2008
From Blastware comes new software to simulate the charge delay times involved in blasting. read more »

Herbert Hoover and the Principles of Mining
Monday, September 29, 2008
Herbert Hoover was both a mining engineer and a president of the United States. His book Principles of Mining provides fascinating insight into old ways of mining and investing. read more »

Building an Opportunity Culture
Friday, September 19, 2008
Are you looking for new improvement programs for your company? Were you disappointed with the results from your previous program? If so, then you should consider reading “Building an Opportunity Culture” by Kay Sever. read more »

Ventilation Book By Malcolm McPherson
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The most-readily-available book on ventilation is one by Malcolm J. McPherson called "Subsurface Ventilation and Environmental Engineering" read more »

Flathead Coal Mining
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
It is a simple story about mining, high politics, and international diplomacy. It involves the citizens of Montana versus the people of British Columbia. read more »

Mine Closure Handbook
Friday, August 15, 2008
This is not quite the definitive handbook on mine closure, but it comes pretty close. I refer to Environmental Techniques for the Extractive Industries: Mine Closure Handbook. read more »

Terry Mudder's Miscellaneous Writings
Friday, August 15, 2008
Dr. Terry Mudder is a global consultant with a background in science and engineering, who has written extensively on environmental, technical, social and regulatory issues and policies facing mining and other industries. In this section is a series of his opinion/editorial articles that have appeared in various publications. read more »

ICMM on Mine Closure
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The International Council on Mining and Metals published Planning for Integrated Mine Closure: Toolkit (August 2008).
If you have not hitherto read about or thought about planning for mine closure, this new volume is an excellent place to start. read more »

Uptime Maintenance Management
Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Uptime: Strategies for Excellence in Maintenance Management by John D. Campbell and James V. Reyes-Picknell tells how to do for mine and other industrial equipment what Toyota does as so eloquently extolled by Churchill. read more »

The Dutch Curse – Too Many Resources?
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The April 2008 issue of SME’s Mining Engineering includes an article called "Why the resource curse is a concern". read more »

Dry Tailings Beaches
Friday, May 30, 2008
Prediction of the Beach Profile of High Density Thickened Tailings From Rheological and Small Scale Trial Deposition Data is a paper and presentation by Gordon McPhail. read more »

Oboni on Risk
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Franco & Cesar Oboni, a father and son team, have just published a paperback with the title “Improving Sustainability through Reasonable Risk and Crisis Management”. read more »

ASTM Publishes New Compilation on Erosion and Sediment Control Technology
Friday, April 18, 2008
ASTM International announces the publication of a new compilation, ASTM Standards on Erosion and Sediment Control Technology, 2nd Edition. read more »

Tailings Electroosmosis
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Electroosmosis involves application of an electric voltage across a porous material to increase the hydraulic gradient, thereby speeding up fluid flow and hopefully consolidation, strength gain, and reduced permeability. read more »

Copper Solvent Extraction
Friday, February 08, 2008
Here is a link to a magnificent paper in the InfoMine library relevant to all metallurgists. The paper is called Technical Review – Copper Solvent Extraction in Hydrometallurgy. read more »

Fuzzy Logic in Mining
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
A new paper in the InfoMine Library is by Bascetin Atac of the Mining engineering Department of the Istanbul University. In his paper, A New Approach for Decision Making Based Genetic Algorithm in Mining Operations, he describes the use of fuzzy logic methods read more »

Aquifer Depressurization Management
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
This paper describes a fascinating case history: Management of Aquifer Depressurization System in Hazelwood Mine, Latrobe Valley, Australia by J. Fernando of International Power and D. Nag of Monash University. read more »

WITS Gold
Monday, January 21, 2008
At a recent conference, I stopped by the only booth that offered the cover of potential knowledge. It had pictures and maps of the South African Witwatersrand gold fields and the name WITS GOLD in prominent display. read more »

What Makes For a Good EIS?
Friday, January 18, 2008
Here is a book I have not yet read: Quantifying Environmental Impact Assessment Using Fuzzy Logic by Richard B. Shepard. I write about this book below as the author is a frequent commenter on my blog and has posed the following interesting comment. read more »

Global Mercury Project
Thursday, December 20, 2007
Mercury is being used extensively to mine gold in artisanal and small mines world-wide. read more »

Data Mining - Mine Safety Data
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Sean Dessureault and his students and colleagues at the University of Arizona, Tucson are advancing the state-of-the-art in mining mine data. read more »

Urban Stormwater Management
Friday, November 02, 2007
If you are involved with or responsible for surface water management at a mine, this volume is for you. I refer to a magnificent new e-publication called Manual 3 Urban Stormwater Retrofit Practices. read more »

Montana Mining Magazine
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The best value for my mining money on the web right now is the new magazine called Montana Mining. Actually it is free for download. Governor Brian Schweitzer summarizes the current mining situation in the state in his opening editorial. read more »

Riprap Design Procedures Manual
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Many a mine needs to control erosion in the surface water channels. If the mine is blessed with an abundance of good quality rock, riprap may be the most economic approach to limiting erosion. read more »

Coal City
Thursday, September 27, 2007
If you go to Google.earth and zoom to Coal City, Indiana, you will see the town in question: a small community clustered around a north-south road, and surrounded by fields and reclaimed spoil piles. read more »

Surface Water Calculations
Friday, September 14, 2007
The September issue of Stormwater contains one of the best articles about surface water I have read in quite a while. read more »

International Mining on Heap Leaching
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
John Chadwick of International Mining brings us another of those timely reviews on a topical mining subject: heap leaching. read more »

Pollution Problems in the Mineral and Metallurgical Industries
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
For those with a taste for the out-of-the way, the insightful and the different, here is a fascinating small book: Pollution Problems in the Mineral and Metallurgical Industries read more »

Archaeology and Mines: The Southern California Bight
Friday, August 10, 2007
On a clear day, Catalina Island stretches across the horizon twenty-five miles off the Huntington Beach coast. Many times I have walked the dog along the beach and gazed out at the far island. read more »

Heap Leach Pad Raincoats
Monday, July 30, 2007
The water balance of a heap leach pad may be detrimentally affected during the rainy season by excessive infiltration from heavy rains. read more »

Cyanide Determination Methods
Monday, July 23, 2007
In the Federal Register of April 6, 2004, there is a proposed new set of cyanide determination methods. We have just added to the InfoMine library a twelve page set of comments on the proposed determination methods read more »

International Mine Water Association
Friday, July 20, 2007
Kudos to the International Mine Water Association for making the proceedings of the Congresses, Symposia, and Meetings so readily available. read more »

Ken Weaver’s New Book on Grouting
Friday, July 20, 2007
I was honored to work under Ken Weaver’s direction of the Cannon Mine Tailings impoundment. We pumped about one million dollars worth of grout into the rock foundations read more »

History of Metallurgy
Friday, July 13, 2007
A History of Metallurgy (1994) is edited by Fathi Habashi of the Department of Mining & Metallurgy, Laval University, Quebec City. It is a collection of articles from a multi-volume work. read more »

Sustainable Mine Development and Closure
Friday, June 29, 2007
Sustainable mine development, operation, closure, reclamation, and long-term maintenance are ideals. But the concept of sustainability is vague read more »

Quality of Life in Remote Mining Communities
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
The quality of life in remote mining communities in the Brazilian Amazon is examined in a presentation by Silvana Costa, a University of British Columbia mining PhD candidate. read more »

New Tailings Publications
Monday, May 14, 2007
Here are some books I found through the Tailings Good Practice site. Some are available for free download. Those on paste tailings must be ordered and paid for. read more »

Erosion Control Products
Friday, May 11, 2007
It takes a paper magazine to remind you of information that has not yet found its way across the internet. I recently got the March/April issue of Erosion Control. read more »

Mine Sites & Publications
Friday, May 11, 2007
A library should be a quiet, wood-paneled room where you can browse dusty magazines and peek into the past. Here are some sites with the look and feel of old magazines in a quiet library. read more »

Microwave Infrared Technologies
Friday, April 27, 2007
In a dim room in Denver, drinking after a snowy SME day, I chanced on a friendly & voluble fellow: Dr. Gus Van Weert. He told me in enthusiastic tones of his work. read more »

Kay Sever
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
OptimiZ Consulting is Kay Sever. I have read much of what she has written on the topic of improving quality in the mining industry. Now let me introduce you to her writings. read more »

Mining Reporter
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
How do you find your way around the never-ending stream of paper magazines devoted to the mining industry? At the 2007 SME I picked up two I had never seen before read more »

Mining Publications
Monday, March 12, 2007
The mining industry through the prism of the publications that littered the tables of the exhibition hall at the SME meeting in St Louis, March 2006 read more »