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WASH ORE [7 records]

Record 1 2006-02-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Various Metal Ores
CONT

This partly leached iron-formation has been termed "treat rock" or "wash ore" and provides an important... type of ore derived from residually enriched iron-formation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
CONT

Cette formation de fer partiellement lessivée est appelée «roche à traiter» (treat rock) ou «minerai à laver» (wash ore) et représente un [...] type important de minerai dérivé d'une formation de fer par voie de concentration résiduelle et d'enrichissement secondaire.

Spanish

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Record 2 2006-02-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petrography
  • Various Metal Ores
CONT

This partly leached iron-formation has been termed "treat rock" or "wash ore" and provides an important... type of ore derived from residually enriched iron-formation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Pétrographie
  • Minerais divers (Mines métalliques)
CONT

Cette formation de fer partiellement lessivée est appelée «roche à traiter» (treat rock) ou «minerai à laver» (wash ore) et représente un [...] type important de minerai dérivé d'une formation de fer par voie de concentration résiduelle et d'enrichissement secondaire.

Spanish

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Record 3 2002-04-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
CONT

Washing and Scrubbing the Ore. Washing of run-of-mine ore removes obscuring dust and casual dirt from the surface of the pieces and facilitates recognition when hand picking is to be practised. A second effect may be the removal of primary slimes of no value. Clays, colloidal fines, and similar valueless material can easily be taken out at the earlier stages, but may be difficult to remove once fine crushing has liberated a substantial quantity of finely shattered mineral. ... The disintegrating forces used are of a gentle nature, not intended to fracture the ore but simply to tumble particle against particle until the desired amount of cleansing has been accomplished.

OBS

scrubber : A device, such as a wash screen, wash trommel, log washer, and hydraulic jet or monitor, in which a coarse and sticky material, for example, ore or clay, is either washed free of adherents or mildly disintegrated.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
DEF

Lavage d'un minerai argileux ou boueux pour le débarrasser de l'argile qui l'empâte.

CONT

Débourbage. Dans certaines exploitations, le tout-venant est mêlé d'argile; après concassage, il est débourbé par brassage avec de l'eau, soit dans un cylindre horizontal en rotation lente dont les palettes fixées à l'intérieur font progresser le minerai vers l'extrémité de sortie, soit dans un cylindre vibrant, ou encore sur des vibrocribles violemment arrosés, ou enfin dans une auge brassée par deux arbres munis de pales («log washer»).

Spanish

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Record 4 2000-10-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
DEF

The process of washing ore in an inclined trough or vat in order to concentrate stamped ore by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.

CONT

It was ... deemed advisable to increase the concentrations, by the buddling process, so as uniformly to reach $4 the bushel in the calcined ore.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-10-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Processing of Mineral Products
  • Mineral Processing (Metallurgy)
  • Mining Wastes
OBS

wash ore tailings; wash tailings : terms rarely used in the singular(wash ore tailing; wash tailing).

Key term(s)
  • wash ore tailing
  • wash tailing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Préparation des produits miniers
  • Minéralurgie (Métallurgie)
  • Déchets miniers
CONT

[...] la mer constitue le point de déversement des résidus de lavage du minerai. Les conséquences néfastes sur l'écosystème marin sont remarquables : disparition de certaines espèces de poissons [...]

OBS

résidus de lavage du minerai : terme rarement utilisé au singulier (résidu de lavage du minerai).

Key term(s)
  • résidu de lavage de minerai

Spanish

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Record 6 - external organization data 2000-05-29

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mining Operations
  • Protection of Life
  • Occupational Health and Safety
  • Compartment - Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission
CONT

The design of the mill... The location of(a) control stations and control rooms;(b) ore storage facilities; and(c) eye wash fountains, safety showers, drinking water fountains, first aid stations, lunch rooms, fume hoods and their discharge points, shower facilities, change rooms and other health and safety facilities.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Exploitation minière
  • Sécurité des personnes
  • Santé et sécurité au travail
  • Tiroir - Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire
OBS

Terme proposé en accord avec la Commission canadienne de sûreté nucléaire.

Spanish

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Record 7 1992-11-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Extraction Procedures - Various (Mining)
DEF

a space or platform near the mouth of a shaft or excavation for temporary storage of ore or wash dirt.

CONT

Sometimes, instead of washing the pay-dirt from a digging as fast as it is raised, the miners stack it in "paddocks," which are spaces alongside the shaft strongly fenced in with slabs, until the claim or property is exhausted, and then hold a general washing-up. This system of working is called "paddocking."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Procédés d'extraction divers (Exploit. minière)

Spanish

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