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Cost Estimation Handbook for Small Placer Mines.


PB87181178

Publication Date 1987
Personal Author Stebbins, S. A.
Page Count 130
Abstract The report presents a method for estimating capital and operating costs associated with the exploration, mining, and processing of placer deposits. To ensure representative cost estimates, operational parameters for placer mining equipment and basic principles of placer mining techniques are detailed.
Keywords
  • Operating costs
  • Placer mining
  • Cost estimates
  • Handbooks
  • Geophysical prospecting
  • Mining equipment
  • Drilling
  • Dredges
  • Hydraulic equipment
  • Concentrators
  • Capital
  • Flow charts
  • Instructions
  • Manpower
  • Tables(Data)
Source Agency
  • Bureau of Mines
NTIS Subject Category
  • 48A - Mineral Industries
Corporate Authors Bureau of Mines, Spokane, WA. Western Field Operation Center.
Document Type Technical Report
Title Note Open file rept.
NTIS Issue Number 198717
Cost Estimation Handbook for Small Placer Mines.
Cost Estimation Handbook for Small Placer Mines.
PB87181178

  • Operating costs
  • Placer mining
  • Cost estimates
  • Handbooks
  • Geophysical prospecting
  • Mining equipment
  • Drilling
  • Dredges
  • Hydraulic equipment
  • Concentrators
  • Capital
  • Flow charts
  • Instructions
  • Manpower
  • Tables(Data)
  • Bureau of Mines
  • 48A - Mineral Industries
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