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General mining
General mining related terms and definitions in minerals and related activities.
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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 ...
Total production costs per ounce
Mining; General mining
Calculated based upon total production costs by dividing the net of by-product revenues earned from all metals other than the primary metal produced at each unit with the total ounces of the primary ...
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 ...
Metallurgy
Mining; General mining
The science of extracting metals from ores by mechanical or chemical processes and preparing them for commercial and scientific use.
Run of mine
Mining; General mining
A term used to describe the ore that has been mined but not processed or crushed.
Shrinkage mining
Mining; General mining
A mining method often used when mining narrow ore bodies, whereby a series of short holes are drilled into the face of the ore body. The rock is then blasted and remains until the entire zone is ...
Seismic surveys
Mining; General mining
A geographysical exploration method whereby rock layers are mapped based on the time for energy to be reflected from these layers to the surface.
