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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.
refractory material
Mining; General mining
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 ...