Effect of microwave pretreatment on the liberation characteristics of a massive sulfide ore

2004 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-85
Author(s):  
O. A. Orumwense ◽  
T. Negeri ◽  
R. Lastra
2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 161-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Abdollahi ◽  
P. Karimi ◽  
A. Amini ◽  
A. Akcil
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1969 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 781-781
Author(s):  
Richard Darling ◽  
G. G. Suffel

Contacts between metadiabase dikes and massive sulfide ore in the Horne Mine exhibit patterns of dike chill and sulfide alteration that show the dikes to be younger than the sulfides. The sulfides are thus older than all intrusive igneous rocks in the mine area and an Archean volcanogenic origin for these ores seems likely.


Geophysics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 77 (5) ◽  
pp. WC3-WC13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christof Mueller ◽  
Gilles Bellefleur ◽  
Erick Adam ◽  
Gervais Perron ◽  
Marko Mah ◽  
...  

The Downhole Seismic Imaging consortium conducted two consecutive vertical seismic profiling surveys in the Norman West mining camp (Sudbury, Canada) in 1998 and 1999. These were aimed toward imaging a massive sulfide ore deposit situated within the footwall of the Sudbury Igneous Complex (SIC). Three-component seismic data were acquired in four boreholes with variable signal-to-noise ratio and poor polarization quality. Consequently, the images suffered from strong azimuthal ambiguity. A strike filter, passing only reflections originating from within the SIC, was applied during migration to enhance interpretability of the images obtained. Migrated images showed structures correlating with the known position of an ore deposit located 1800 m away from one borehole (N40). Diffraction coherency migration enhanced the image of the deposit, and suggested strong seismic scattering from within the footwall of the SIC.


2004 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 651-665 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. V. Vikentyev ◽  
M. A. Yudovskaya ◽  
A. V. Mokhov ◽  
A. L. Kerzin ◽  
A. I. Tsepin

Geophysics ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 736-744 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. J. Maher

In the Okiep District early miners produced massive sulfide ore from some five deposits. Some of these deposits later contributed to the reserves of disseminated ore mined during modern times. It is unreasonable to assume that all of the massive sulfide bodies present within the area are intersected by the erosion surface and thus were discovered by the early miners. Consequently, blind massive sulfide ore bodies could be present and may have large quantities of disseminated ore associated with them. The transient electromagnetic method is ideally suited to exploring for massive sulfide bodies, and six test surveys were carried out at various sites in the district. Four of these surveys were unsuccessful whereas, at the remaining two sites, excellent anomalies were recorded. At Ezelsfontein East Extension an anomaly was recorded indicative of a massive sulfide body at shallow depth and of generally flat attitude. This anomaly has a time constant of 15 ms and the interpreted body was confirmed by a limited diamond drilling program. A deep, flat‐lying conductor was interpreted from the TEM results at Fonteintjie West Prospect. This anomaly, with a time constant of 0.6 ms, has limited size. Diamond drilling confirmed the presence of submassive to massive sulfide mineralization at this locale. Neither of these two drilled prospects had economic mineralization.


Geophysics ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
pp. 1900-1907 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Wong

Crosshole seismic instrumentation based on a piezoelectric source and hydrophone detectors were used to gather seismograms between boreholes at the McConnell orebody near Sudbury, Ontario. High‐frequency seismograms were recorded across rock sections 50 to 100 m wide containing a continuous zone of massive sulfide ore. First‐arrival traveltimes obtained from a detailed scan were used to create a P-wave velocity tomogram that clearly delineated the ore zone. Refraction ray tracing on a discrete layer model confirmed the main features of the tomogram. The survey demonstrated that it is possible to conduct cost‐effective, high‐resolution crosshole seismic surveys to delineate ore bodies on a scale useful for planning mining operations.


2010 ◽  
Vol 483 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 269-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig D. Barrie ◽  
Alan P. Boyle ◽  
Nigel J. Cook ◽  
David J. Prior

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