Included in this issue are articles
on ore processing, rare earths, bioleaching and seafloor Mining.
Not exact matches
The
process involves the excavation of seabed materials which are
processed on a floating platform to extract iron
ore.
It depends
on the company's ability to manage its
ore stockpile for
processing, to some extent.
Ukwazi is working
on a project feasibility study for a local iron -
ore project, where, for example, the company recommended that the client change the location of the
processing plant to save significant capital and operational costs while greatly improving efficiency.
Conventional
processing methods use a high - temperature blast furnace to heat the iron
ore and other compounds to remove oxygen and yield a desired alloy, a method that creates a lot of carbon dioxide, according to a report last year from U.S. EPA
on greenhouse gas emissions from the iron and steel sector.
Mining machinery could destroy some of these worlds in the
process of generating high returns
on ores.
The report also points out that RTZ's records
on radiation doses show that before 1982 individual workers were exposed to more than the permissible doses in the final
processing areas, where
ore is roasted to recover uranium oxide.
Jasim Ahmed, head of the IAEA radiation safety section, says the mission will concentrate
on three issues: workers» health, the monitoring of their exposure to radiation, and management of the mine's radioactive «tailings», a mixture of uranium
ore and
processing liquids.
The one business I find hard to form a strong opinion
on is Mineral Resources because
on the one hand it has the crushing business which is going to be
processing more
ore, but
on the other we have the iron
ore mining exposure which could swing quite a bit with the price of the commodity.
In 1874, an English mining company built the Bushiribana Gold Mill
on Aruba's north coast in order to
process the gold
ore extracted from the hills nearby.
Which is a good job, given the shortage of high - grade uranium
ore, the huge unmanageable risks associated with nuclear plants and nuclear proliferation, the large amounts of embedded carbon in uranium refining and
processing (and other GHG emissions from the nuclear industry), and the insanity of developing a huge strategic fuel dependence
on countries such as Russia.
Now, Greenpeace Australia has uncovered new information
on Adani's corrupt history in India (PDF), including a bribery scandal, illegal
ore exports, illegal construction
on private land, concealing and falsifying facts in application
processes, and activity without environmental clearances.