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Tools for Mining: Techniques and Processes for Small Scale Mining (GTZ, 1993, 538 p.) (introduction...) Acknowledgements Preface Guide to the user Introduction A. Analysis A.1. Definition A.2. Initial conditions and problem areas Technical Chapter 1: Analysis 1.1 Blow pipe assaying 1.2 Pycnometer 1.3 Manual magnetic separator by Dr A. Wilke 1.4 Quick-test-strips merckoquant 1.5 Rifflebox B. Underground mining B.1. Definition B.2. Existing situation and problem areas B.3. Organizational measures B.4 Environmental and health aspects Technical Chapter 2: Safety Techniques (introduction...) 2.1 Safety kit Technical Chapter 3: Ventilation 3.1 Bricked brattice, bricked duct 3.2 Small blowers, manual fans 3.3 Air-jet ventilator 3.4 Hydro-compressor 3.5 Ventilation oven 3.6 Wind sail 3.7 Box blower 3.8 Bell blower baaders blower Technical Chapter 4: Water supply and drainage 4.1 Pneumatic positive-displacement pump 4.2 Chinese liberation pump 4.3 Water bag 4.4 Bucket-chain conveyor 4.5 Pneumatic high-pressure pump Technical Chapter 5: Support 5.1 Rigid support in drifts and stopes 5.2 Single mechanical prop 5.3 Hydraulic prop support 5.4 Rock bolts, rods, rock stabilizers Technical Chapter 6: Lighting 6.1 Underground lighting equipment Technical Chapter 7: Stoping 7.1 Pneumatic jack hammer, drilling stand, jackleg 7.2 Gasoline hammer drill 7.3 Wedge ram 7.4 Electric hammer drill with stand Y D Z 7.5 Manual mining methods 7.6 Pneumatic charging machine for explosives Technical Chapter 8: Loading 8.1 Mucking sheet 8.2 Hand scraper and tray 8.3 Scraper loader 8.4 Pneumatic overhead loader 8.5 Chute, charging hopper Technical Chapter 9: Hauling 9.1 Manual winch 9.2 Motor cars as hauling machines, depth indicators 9.3 Block and pulley 9.4 Trackless and track bound haulage 9.5 Passenger lifting moving ladder C. Surface mining C.1. Definition C.2. Initial conditions and problem areas C.3. Factors related to environment and health C.4. Pit and quarry industry Technical Chapter 10: Surface Mining Equipment (introduction...) 10.1 Aerial cable-way by gravity 10.2 Cable tool drill 10.3 Suction dredge 10.4 Hydram, hydraulic ram pump, rife ram 10.5 Noria 10.6 Tyre pump 10.7 Archimedian screw 10.8 Boat mill 10.9 Hydraulic mining gravel pump mining Technical Chapter 11: Other special techniques 11.1 Welding additives 11.2 Rubber tanks, flexible tanks 11.3 BY-Pass oil filters, by-pass micro-filters 11.4 Eccentric motor, vibrator, shaker D. Beneficiation D.1. Definition D.2. Initial conditions and problem areas D.3. Proposals for procedural and organizational solutions D.4. Environmental and health aspects D.5. Processing of diamonds D.6. Gold beneficiation processing D.7 The processing of phosphate-containing raw-minerals into p-fertilizers Technical Chapter 12: Crushing (introduction...) 12.1 Jaw crusher, jaw breaker 12.2 Roll crusher, roll grinder 12.3 Ball mill 12.4 Stamp mill, hammer mill 12.5 Chilean mill edge mill, roller mill 12.6 ''See-saw'' crusher, ''rocker'' crusher Technical Chapter 13: Classification 13.1 Set of rigid screens 13.2 Screen riddle, vibrating screen 13.3 Cantilever grizzly 13.4 Sizing drum, classifying drum 13.5 Cone classifier 13.6 Countercurrent hydraulic classifier 13.7 Hydro-cyclone 13.8 Log washer, spiral classifier 13.9 Rake classifier 13.10 Sluice, sluice box, washing sluice Technical Chapter 14: Sorting 14.1 Jig screen, hand-jigging 14.2 Simple hand jig, moving bed(percussion) jig 14.3 Hand piston jig 14.4 Piston jig, ''harzer'' jig 14.5 Pulsator classifier pan american jig 14.6 Sluices with or without linings/insets, long tom 14.7 Ground sluice 14.8 Pinched sluice, fanned sluice 14.9 Air separator, dry blower 14.10 Settling basin, buddle 14.11 Circular buddle 14.12 Dolly tub 14.13 Bumping table, concussion table 14.14 Racking table, tilting frame 14.15 Sweeping table, belt table 14.16 Vibrating table 14.17 Humphrey's spiral, spiral separator 14.18 Spiral concentrator Technical Chapter 15: Gold Benefication 15.1 Amalgam press 15.2 Amalgamating table 15.3 Amalgamating barrel 15.4 Rocker, cradle 15.5 Mechanized, compact gold processor 15.6 Hydraulic gold trap 15.7 Retort for, amalgam 15.8 Centrifugal separator 15.9 Gold pan, batea 15.10 Jigs with jig bed, russel jig 15.11 Gold leaching 15.12 Gold separation by smelting 15.13 Gold-coal-agglomeration Technical Chapter 16: 0ther Sorting and Separating Techniques 16.1 Roasting oven, calcining furnace 16.2 Salt gardens, salt works, salterns 16.3 Sulfur production in heap smelting or chamber ovens 16.4 Autoclaves for extracting sulfur 16.5 Copper sulfate plant 16.6 Electrostatic sorting 16.7 Flotation Technical Chapter 17: Drying 17.1 Drying oven 17.2 Solar houses 17.3 Drying areas, drying surfaces Technical Chapter 18: Clarification 18.1 Thickener 18.2 Lamella-thickener 18.3 Continuous (rake) thickener E. Mechanization and energy supply E.1. Introduction E.2. Energy source E.3. Drive unit E.4. Energy conversion E.5. Distribution of energy E.6. Energy systems E.7. Aspects of mechanization in mining E.8. Environmental and health aspects Technical Chapter 19: Energy Techniques (introduction...) 19.1 Bicycle drive pedal drive 19.2 Animal-powered whim 19.3 Water balance 19.4 Wind generator 19.5 Savonius rotor 19.6 Water wheel 19.7 Horizontal water wheel 19.8 Rope turbine 19.9 Solar cells 19.10 Solar collector (solar thermal) 19.11 Water turbine 19.12 Internal combustion engine Bibliography List of manufacturers and suppliers List of abbreviations