Abstract
This paper deals with an experimental programme carried out with a gold analyser in the period June to September 1979 at Loraine Gold Mines. Under reasonable assumptions, the use of the detector in the selective mining of low-grade narrow reefs such as the Basal Reef at Loraine Gold Mines, when compared with the conventional chip sampling method, can result in a saving of as high as R40 million over the life of a project. The difference could be even larger in a highly variable reef like the B Reef at the mine.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 407-423 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy |
| Volume | 87 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| State | Published - Dec 1987 |