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For mines in Dacia, broad date ranges have been assigned based on the Roman occupation of the province. Orebodies dip variably , range in thickness from 0.2-40m and can be traced for up to 1,000m. The report provides maps of identified collieries, pumping sites and/or gravity discharges in Scottish coalfields, and information on the pumping and/or discharge flow rates from each. Most of the larger sites and flows are in the east side of central Scotland, but smaller schemes are present throughout former coal mining areas . The report recommends that category 1 and 2 sites should be developed first, because the mine water resources have already been proved and the risks are therefore lower.
The overlying Nûkavsak Formation, a thick package of turbidite facies metagreywackes, is now interpreted to have been thrust over the Qaarsukassak Formation. Significantly the recent mapping by GEUS highlights the presence of previously unrecognised exposures of Qaarsukassak Formation, up to 40m thick, within Bluejay’s licence areas which have the potential to host mineralisation.
Tectonic repetition of the Qaarsukassak Formation through thrusting is also recognised. Central Britain is dominated by the Pennine Hills and includes areas of outstanding natural beauty, such as the Peak District National Park, known internationally for its ‘pristine’ landscapes and conservation areas. However, in the past, the area was better known for industry as intensive lead mining and smelting took place from the Roman Period onwards. As Pb is a naturally occurring toxin, it is likely one of the earliest anthropogenic environmental contaminants and widespread use has resulted in global environmental contamination, human exposure, and significant public health problems.
No thermal data are available for Category 2 discharges, but it is assumed that temperatures will be lower than pumped discharges, possibly around 10°C . This is supported by a single temperature measurement of gravity mine water drainage taken during a separate BGS project into groundwater chemistry , which was 9.8°C.
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The milling circuit then involves two rod mills, followed by spiral classifiers and then two ball mills to ensure material is the appropriate size for liberation by flotation at approximately 74 microns. Sasa lies within the Serbo-Macedonian Massif, which hosts a large number of lead and zinc deposits and extends through Serbia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, eastern Greece and into Turkey.
- The Company intends to commence a maiden drill programme at the Project later this year, representing the first drill testing ever conducted at Kangerluarsuk, alongside additional exploration activity as part of its 2020 field season.
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- Once blasted, 70% of the ore is then sent via ore passes to the 830m level where it is transported by rail wagons to the Golema Reka shaft for hoisting, and the remaining 30% is hauled to surface via the adit.
The lead concentrate contains c.73% lead and the zinc concentrate contains c.49% zinc. The concentrates are stored in two separate bays before being loaded into haulage trucks for sale to smelters. Ore is drilled using single boom jumbos, blasted and then excavated with underground loaders. The Sasa deposit was discovered during a period of exploration between 1954 and 1965. Trial mining commenced in 1965 and, in 1966, the mine commenced commercial production as a state-owned entity. The Solway Investments Group subsequently purchased the mine, invested in new equipment and operations resumed in 2006. Solway Group later sold the mine to Fusion Capital and Orion Mine Finance Group in 2015.
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The results that came back were astounding, dates of around 41,000 to 43,000 were obtained. Later from another early mine complex the buried skeleton of a child was dated at over 50,000 years. When Europeans first visited the area around Postmasburg in the Northern Cape around 1800 they found various sites where mining of red ochre and specularite had taken place. Local people such as the Tswana and Hottentots were familiar with these workings but mostly they attributed the tunnels and shafts to the ‘old people’, the Khoisan.
The Company’s existing 106 km2 exploration licence (MEL 2011/31) at Kangerluarsuk is acknowledged by the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (‘GEUS’) as the strongest cluster of stream sediment zinc anomalies in Greenland. Bluejay’s new licence area has also yielded anomalous Zn, Pb, Cu, Ag and elevated pathfinder elements in historic stream sediments and heavy mineral concentrates (‘HMC’) indicating the potential for polymetallic mineralisation here. The Discovery and Discovery South mineralisation (Fig. 1b) consists of massive, coarse-grained, re-crystallised sphalerite and galena , whereas the Kangerluarsuup Glacier mineralisation to the south (Fig. 1b) consists of finely laminated sphalerite-galena ore, with chalcopyrite . he PhD project will track changing sources and exposure levels of Pb in biota through time, investigating how this manifests from pre-mining background values through developing mining activities, to the present acknowledged health risks. Archaeological animal samples and modern tissues from existing local wildlife surveillance studies will be used to map exposure measurements. Pb concentrations and isotope composition will be analysed and mixing models of ingested sources – geogenic vs anthropogenic pollutants – will be produced. This will map the potential Pb-related health risks to populations in areas of mining activity and legacy mines to the present day.
The fact that the taller of the miners had realised one of his digging tools was left behind back in the mine was annoying him but he reasoned that they would find it the next time they went mineral hunting. Whether they went to the mine again we do not know, but they were wrong about the lost tooló it would be found by a Japanese sailor, nearly fifty thousand years later. Information about reproducing material from RSC articles with different licences is available on our Permission Requests page. galena occurs widely as part of the sulphide assemblage occupying siderite-lined voids in septarian ironstone nodules . Some excellent specimens showing bright galena cubes encrusting millerite needles have been collected from both coal-tips and modern opencast workings. in the Snowdon caldera galena is common, generally in modest amounts, in the copper-dominated veins of this mining district (Reedman et al., 1985). Despite significant and extensive outcropping base metal mineralisation, this will be the first time Kangerluarsuk will undergo drill testing.
Three of the conductive bodies are coincident with the strongest surface geochemical anomalies and are considered the highest priority drill targets. Thus, several independent methods have been combined to pinpoint drill-targets that are now ready to be tested through a maiden drill programme in 2020. This includes a relatively low-cost maiden drilling campaign which will target known zinc, silver, lead, silver and copper occurrences that have correlations with the neighbouring former Black Angel zinc-lead-silver mine. We look forward to updating shareholders in due course on developments relating to the upcoming summer work programme, as well as at our advanced Dundas Ilmenite Project and the Disko – Nussuaq Project, as we prepare for a highly active 2020.” Copyright © and Moral Rights for this thesis are retained by the author and/or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This thesis cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder.
All other sites where drilling and deep pump installations would be needed to create a mine water circulation system. This independent study investigates the potential for deep geothermal energy in Scotland and the steps necessary for commercialisation. CARSO Group is specialized in the chemical analysis of non-ferrous metals, the ores, the residues and the derived products, to the point that the company is one of the last truly independent umpire laboratories in its field.
The Lead Legacy: The Relationship Between Historical Mining And Metallurgical Activity, Pollution And Health, 1730
By 1980 over 20,000,000 tons of high grade haematite had been removed and shipped to Japan and the mining operation was closed down. The mining company had left over a million tons of ore which underlie the ancient mining adit at Lion Cavern. This site is now listed as a national monument and can be visited if one is accompanied by a game ranger from the local Malolotja nature reserve. When prospecting operations were carried out in 1957 in an area known as the Bomvu Ridge in the Ngwenya massif of Swaziland they estimated some 30,000,000 tons of iron with a mean value of 60% metallic iron content.
Some of these tunnels extended over 100 metres underground and into areas where specularite was available. This mineral was more highly prized than either ochre or haematite and could be widely traded with other people who were not fortunate enough to have a source in their area. A new bismuth-coated carbon fiber microelectrode has been developed and used for the determination of Cd and Pb by square wave anodic stripping voltammetry . The results indicate that cadmium and lead ions give well-defined SWASV peaks with no interference. Linear calibration curves over the range 50–350 nmol L−1 for both ions were achieved, with detection limits of 9.2 and 10 nmol L−1 for cadmium and lead, respectively, after applying a 180 s pre-concentration step.
The Swaziland Iron Ore Devolopment Corporation decided to mine the ore body and production started in 1964. The ore was taken by rail to the port of Maputo in Mozambique and from there shipped to Japan.
The mine’s Svinja Reka and Golema Reka deposits are located on the eastern flank of a copper molybdenum porphyry deposit at Osogovo. Mineralisation occurs as stratiform deposits hosted predominantly by schists and marbles at Svinja Reka and by gneisses at Golema Reka. Hydrothermal fluids and bedding parallel faulting are responsible for the metasomatism of the host sediments that produce the skarn and base metal mineralisation. The deposits are well defined lenses of lead zinc silver mineralisation, which dip at about 35 degrees and range in thickness from 2 metres to 30 metres. Issues related to mine water chemistry, solids content and corrosion / precipitation potential were not considered in detail, but most potential problems of this nature were assumed to be treatable given available technology .
The ancient pigment mines of Southern Africa, South African Journal of Science, Volume 69, pp. . If you are the author of this article you do not need to formally request permission to reproduce figures, diagrams etc. contained in this article in third party publications or in a thesis or dissertation provided that the correct acknowledgement is given with the reproduced material. If the material has been adapted instead of reproduced from the original RSC publication “Reproduced from” can be substituted with “Adapted from”. Authors contributing to RSC publications do not need to formally request permission to reproduce material contained in this article provided that the correct acknowledgement is given with the reproduced material.
Lead and zinc ores in the pre-Carboniferous rocks of West Shropshire and North Wales. galena is an important component of the ‘bluestone’ ore, where it occurs intimately intergrown with sphalerite, chalcopyrite and numerous minor phases (Greenly, 1919; Pointon & Ixer, 1980). Samples reveal, in polished section, complex intergrowths of galena with tennantite, chalcopyrite and a range of minor phases (Bevins & Mason, 1997). Avannaa also commissioned Geotech Ltd., to fly a 348 line-km helicopter-borne audio frequency magneto-variational survey using the ZTEM (Z-Axis Tipper electromagnetics) system, which identified several highly conductive bodies close to the modelled basement contact. The ZTEM data supplements an earlier 435 line-km helicopter-borne DIGHEMV electromagnetic survey commissioned by Platinova in 1997.
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The Coal Authority has an ongoing commitment to pumping mine water from Monktonhall to control mine water levels (Coal Authority pers.comm.). Monktonhall Colliery originally had an 11 km 2 footprint accessed by two 1,000 m deep shafts. The temperature at 1,000 m depth is some 25°C and the feasibility studies suggested that sustainable pumping of mine water at 16°C would be possible (Banks et al., 2003). Other options could have been the separate abstraction of shallower, cooler water for use in cooling installations, leading potentially to seasonal manipulation of the mine water and thermal energy storage in the flooded mine workings (Banks et al., 2003). The studies raised concerns about mine water quality, specifically the high iron content, and its potential corrosive and encrustation effects on heat exchangers (Banks et al., 2003).
Since each cluster reflects a discrete geological episode within a particular environment broadly datable to a specific Pb model age, it can be identified as a potential source exploited by ancient miners. We explore the potential of this method in two examples using data from coins and ores respectively. In the first example, Roman Republican silver coins form three ‘end-member’ clusters sourced in mining districts with Cenozoic, Mesozoic, and Paleozoic Pb model ages.
This PhD will create a novel methodology for GIS mapping of the extent of Pb pollution through time in Central Britain, resulting in an important addition to the BGS Isotope Biosphere Domain Map. The research will have implications for environmental scientists working in modern and legacy pollutants, veterinary scientists, geographers and archaeologists. The processing plant then operates both lead and zinc flotation processes, producing separate concentrates that are filter pressed to produce products containing 5-9% moisture.
River sediments in the middle and lower parts of the Derwent catchment are contaminated with Pb mined mainly between the 18th and 19th centuries and before, possibly as far back to the Bronze Age. The potential for large-scale, acidity-related chemical remobilization of this Pb is low in the Derwent catchment due to the largely alkaline nature of the underlying soils, but the potential for oxidation-reduction-related, and physical (flood-related), remobilization, is higher. Focused collaborative work between archaeologists, geochemists, geomorphologists and mineralogistsis vital if the risks to the DVMWHS and other similarly-affected World Heritage Sites are to be quantified and, if necessary, mitigated. The study recommended the transition from sub-level caving to cut and fill stoping, a more selective mining method, that will not only result in maximum recovery of mineral resources, but will also enable safer operating practices as well as longer-term improvements to tailings disposal.
The little man squeezed out from a crack in the rock and stood blinking in the bright African sun. As he snuffed out his makeshift wick light, another red stained miner popped out to join him. Together they turned and carefully blocked and then concealed the mine entrance. Satisfied that the entrance was not now easily visible to the casual observer they examined the material they had excavated and then packed away their tools and specimens. After a last look around they hoisted their leather sacks onto their shoulders and started to pick their way carefully down the hill. It had been a particularly good days collecting and they each had several fine specimens of the Specular Iron Ore they had been seeking. After a little while the path became easier and as they were approaching home they began to sing a popular little song of the time.
The cut and fill mining method involves filling mined voids with a backfill paste material containing tailings to provide support, rather than allowing the roof to cave as is the case with the current sub-level caving method. In order to achieve this, a backfill plant will be constructed, along with associated reticulation pipework to transport this material underground.
