Archives: Spotlight Feature Article

The planned underground expansions to existing mines, as well as major new underground operations being looked at, means that achieving faster and more efficient development underground is as much at the fore as it has ever been. In this month’s im-mining.com ‘Spotlight Feature Article’, from the pages of the December 2011 issue of International Mining magazine, Editor Paul Moore looks at some advances being made in helping to make faster and more efficient underground mine development a reality.

For more than a century now, flotation has been at the heart of the mineral processing industry. In this month’s SPOTLIGHT FEATURE ARTICLE, direct from the November issue of INTERNATIONAL MINING magazine, John Chadwick examines new technologies and applications from some of the key players in mineral flotation, a technique that is so important to the global industry.

Save accidents and training costs. Using simulators can create training and refresher course applications, serious situation exercises that allow operators to build skills in a practical and cost effective way, and, can also prove process designs. John Chadwick discovers this and more in this month’s ‘Spotlight Feature Article’, from the October 2011 issue of the monthly global mining management magazine, International Mining.

Blast fragmentation should be optimised for material haulage, comminution and mineral processing. In this month’s im-mining.com Spotlight Feature Article, from the September issue of International Mining, John Chadwick examines some technologies and the benefits accruing…

This month’s im-mining.com Spotlight Feature Article, from the pages of the August issue of International Mining, examines exploration sampling. At a time when the number of exploration programs and studies is very high, it is more than ever important to ensure the sampling employed observes best practice, especially when designing process flowsheets.

In the im-mining.com ‘Spotlight Feature Article’ of the month, from the pages of the July issue of the International Mining monthly magazine, Publisher John Chadwick looks at Water Management and Delivery, including the trend toward the use of more saline water, some of the latest cleanup techniques, and, new water delivery technologies.

Mining chemicals represent a niche area of supply but at the same time their use is almost
universal across the industry. In this month’s im-mining.com Spotlight Feature Article, from the June issue of International Mining magazine, Editor Paul Moore looks at the players, challenges, and future horizons for the sector.

Ghana is the newest of Newmont’s operating regions, and one that holds great potential for expanded gold production. For the fifth in International Mining magazine’s six-part ‘Great Mines’ series of articles profiling the mining giant’s key world regions, John Chadwick reports on exploration and production activity at Newmont operations in the Brong Ahafo area of west-central Ghana.

Climate change and the need for environmentally responsible, cost effective and efficient methods of ore and tailings transport place great demands on the industry. A growing number of operations are meeting the challenge by using more hydrotransport handling of solid/liquid mixtures in both short- and long-distance pipelines. In this month’s im-mining.com ‘Spotlight Feature Article’, from the pages of the April 2011 issue of International Mining magazine, John Chadwick looks at equipment and services for environmentally friendly mineral pipelines.

In this month’s im-mining.com ‘Spotlight Feature Article’, from the March 2011 edition of International Mining magazine, Paul Moore, editor, reports that the market for large hydraulic excavators continues to grow, while shovels retain their position as the tools of choice in the highest tonnage mines. For this and more on the latest in Surface Loading, see the full feature article now…