General mining

General mining

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

Industry: Mining

Contributors in General 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 ...