General mining

General mining

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

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crushing plant

Mining; General mining

A plant in which run-of-mine ore is reduced to smaller sizes by mechanical crushing in order to improve the liberation of the gold particles for downstream recovery.

classified tailings

Mining; General mining

Tailings material or sub-economic ground residue from mineral processing operations that has been processed to remove fine grained solids to promote free drainage of water. It's commonly used as ...

kriging

Mining; General mining

A geo-statistical estimation method that gives the best unbiased linear estimates of point values or of block averages.

run of mine

Mining; General mining

A term used to describe the ore that has been mined but not processed or crushed.

Gold mineralized material in which the gold is not amenable to recovery by conventional cyanidation without any pre-treatment. The refractory nature can be either silica or sulphide encapsulation of ...

metallurgy

Mining; General mining

The science of extracting metals from ores by mechanical or chemical processes and preparing them for commercial and scientific use.

inferred mineral resource

Mining; General mining

That part of a mineral resource whereby its quantity, grade or quality can be estimated on the basis of geological evidence and limited sampling and reasonably assumed, but not verified, geological ...