Abstract This article presents a guide to be followed by mining companies willing to open a dimension stone quarry in Brazilian territory. It highlights the main technical documents required by Federal legislation to obtain mining authorization. These documents and their singularities were compiled based on a study of Brazilian mining laws, other normative instruments and scientific literature. The Brazilian mining law describes five Federal authorizations, in which two could be obtained for the dimension stone mining purpose: authorization/concession and licensing regimes. To obtainment the main mining permission may extend for many years. However, it is possible to acquire a kind of provisional permission in much less time, so that the quarry activities can begin before the acquisition of the main permission, which has no deadline. In general, the required technical mining dossier shows a wide range of information. For these reasons, one of the best ways to reduce the time spent through legal procedures is based upon paying special attention at the quality and level of proper instruction of the documents delivered to National Mining Agency (ANM). The author’s experience reveals that knowledge of the technical documents provides legal safety for the company, in a context where the miner has to deal with economic, regulatory, environmental and occupational risks.

The system resulting from the coupled Finite Element Method and Boundary Element Method formulations inherits all characteristics of both finite element and boundary element equation system, i. e., the system is partially sparse and symmetric and partially full and nonsymmetric. Consequently, to solve the resulting coupled equation system is not a trivial task. This paper proposes a new efficient lifting-based two level preconditioner for the coupled global system. The proposed approach is applied to solve the coupled systems resulting from the electromagnetic scattering problem and its performance is evaluated based on the number of iterations and the computational time. Traditional methods based on incomplete and complete LU decompositions are used for comparison.

Normalmente, os fluxogramas brasileiros, tanto para o beneficiamento de minérios ricos, quanto para minérios complexos de manganês, consistem, basicamente, de fragmentação e classificação granulométrica, com o descarte da fração abaixo de 0,106mm. Logo, é muito importante para a indústria mineral desenvolver fluxogramas e processos de concentração dessas frações granulométricas, visando ao aumento da recuperação global de manganês, bem como à redução do impacto ambiental, gerado com o descarte desses finos. Nesse trabalho, são apresentados estudos comparativos de flotação aniônica de um rejeito de minério complexo sílico-carbonatado, constituído, principalmente, pelos minerais rodocrosita, rodonita, espessartia clinocloro, quartzo, anita e flogopita, usando os coletores oleato de sódio e sabão de óleo de soja com o depressor silicato de sódio. Através desses estudos, foram verificadas reduções dos teores de SiO2 da alimentação (28,10%) de cerca de 11 e 8% para o oleato de sódio e o sabão de óleo de soja, respectivamente em pH 11.

The Brazilian processing flowsheet that is used to concentrate both the rich and complex manganese ores is constituted by size reduction and size classification. The particles with size below 0.106mm normally are discharged as waste. So it is very important for the mineral industry to develop flowsheets and processes in order to improve the global manganese recovery and to reduce the environmental impact with these wastes that are deposited on the land. In this work is presented an anionic froth flotation comparative study between two different anionic collectors (sodium oleate and soybean oil soap) and sodium silicate depressant to concentrate the silicate-carbonated manganese ore waste that was constituted mainly by rodocrosite, rodonite, espessartite, clinoclore, quartz, annite and flogopite minerals. It was observed that at pH 11 the SiO2 content in the feed (28.1%) was reduced by 11 and 8% for sodium oelate and soybean oil soap, respectively.