Symposium on Mineral Resources of Sri Lanka and Its Developments

 

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  • Jayawardena, DE de S [Conference-Full-text]
    Mineral Resource Assessment means the estimation of a nation’s mineral resources and their classification into appropriate categories. The term resources is used to refer to quantities of foreseeable economic interest ...
  • Dharmaratne, PGR; Marasinghe, BS; Perera, GP [Conference-Full-text]
    China clay is widely used in many industries such as ceramics, paper, paints, plastics and rubber. As most of these industries require clay having high brightness, a number of techniques have been developed to achieve ...
  • Hettiarachchi, L [Conference-Full-text]
    Gem Industry cannot be studied in isolation. It has to be studied along with the Diamond Industry in particular and Jewellery industry. With the Jewellery Indus-. try coming into the scene, and with precious metals ...
  • Fernando, WLW [Conference-Full-text]
    It is possible to predict the behaviour of Aluminosilicates prior to its use in iron and steel practice. The methods adopted by the author comprise extraction of the material from bore holes, bcneficiation and fabrication ...
  • Jayasinghe, S [Conference-Full-text]
    The processing of Gem Minerals includes identification, selection for variety and grading for quality, size and use etc. It also includes identification of rare stones, identification and selection of stones which need ...
  • Gregory, N [Conference-Full-text]
    The first mention of the presence of graphite in Sri Lanka dates back to 1675. The industry grew mainly during the 19th century and it peaked in ! 899 with a production of 31,761 mt coming from about 3,000 pits. The ...
  • Wijesinghe, NS [Conference-Full-text]
    A survey chart or plan is only as useful as it may be used to accurately locate places, objects oi interest etc. Land survey plans can be prepared accurately and can be used as a guide to the user. There are many types ...
  • Subasinghe, GKNS [Conference-Full-text]
    During the last few decades, efforts have been made to describe the various unit operations involved in mineral processing by mathematical models. These models are of great importance in the design of new equipment and ...
  • Jeyadevan, B [Conference-Full-text]
    The pinched sluice concentrator is a device for the separation of heavy minerals particularly beach sands. They come in a variety of sizes and shapes and have been used extensively overseas in the beach sand industry for ...
  • Senaratne, CPJ [Conference-Full-text]
    With the advances made in Computer Technology during the recent years, computers have come into use extensively in mining operations. Companies have specially developed minerals industry software which offer mining ...
  • Ismail, MGMU; Amarasekera, J; Kumarasinghe, JSN [Conference-Abstract]
    Ilrnenite, rutile and leucoxene are the only naturally-occurring titanium bearing minerals that have been seriously considered as suitable feed stock for either the metal producing or pigment industries. The existence ...
  • Marasinghe, BS [Conference-Full-text]
    Hydrocyclones have found wide application in many areas such as solid/liquid separation, powder classification and purification of minerals. The effect of solids concentration on separation performance of hydrocyclone ...
  • Perera, DC [Conference-Full-text]
    Sri Lanka is endowed with a galaxy of Gem minerals. This great opportunity provided by natural processes should be harnessed to the maximum to bring much needed foreign exchange to Sri Lanka while generating job ...