General mining

General mining

General mining related terms and definitions in minerals and related activities.

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General mining

A process for the extraction of gold from finely crushed ores, concentrates, and tailings by means of cyanide of potassium or sodium used in dilute solutions. The gold is dissolved by the solution ...

cyanide mill

Mining; General mining

Soisson Rodange process

Mining; General mining

A process for the manufacture of high-quality killed basic Bessemer steel in which the steel, after dephosphorization, is poured into another ladle containing the solid components of a basic ...

rustless process

Mining; General mining

A process for the manufacture of stainless steels in an electric furnace that uses a chrome ore as a source of chromium with or without the addition of silicoferrochromium, conjointly with stainless ...

Acheson process

Mining; General mining

A process for the production of artificial or synthetic graphite. It consists of sintering pulverized coke in the Acheson furnace at 2,760 to 3,316 degrees C.