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  • SME
    Performance Of The Lorraine Mine Site Cover To Limit Oxygen Migration

    By Bruno Bussière, Michel Aubertin, Anne-Marie Dagenais, Johanne Cyr

    A five steps remediation program was commissioned in 1998 for the acid generating Lorraine mine site, located in the Témiscamingue region, Quebec, Canada. It included, as the main expenditure, a cover

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Prediction Of Coal Continuity, Quality, And Mining Conditions As Afforded By Deposystem Analysis ? Introduction

    By R. H. Mullennex

    Application of depositional analysis concepts is becoming an ever-increasingly more important and more useable tool in exploration and development of coals in the Appalachian basin. Over the past deca

    Jan 1, 1986

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    Improvements In Geotechnical Aspects Of Contract Documents For Underground Construction

    By Allen W. Hatheway, John A. Albritton, Lloyd B. Underwood

    Missouri River Division (FORD), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE), has completed (October 1982) a study for the U.S. Air Force Ballistic Missile Office, in which desireable and needed changes in cont

    Jan 1, 1983

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    Closing the Historic Alaska-Juneau Mine

    By Joseph L. Petrillo

    In July 1997, Kvaerner Environmental signed a unique contract with Echo Bay Alaska called the Transfer Risk and Accelerate Closure (TRAC). The contract called for Kvaerner to assume the responsibilit

    Jan 1, 1999

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    The Athabasca Tar Sands - Developments To Date, And The Outlook For The Future ? Introduction

    By L. B. McConville

    The general term "tar sand" has been used to describe sand containing varying amounts of dense, viscous petroleum. Deposits of tar sands have been found throughout the world, often in the same geograp

    Jan 1, 1974

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    Environmental Management At Homestake Mclaughlin Mine (PREPRINT 90-23)

    By R. E. Krauss

    The McLaughlin Mine is a world class epithermal gold deposit located in the coastal thrust fault of Northern California, U.S.A. Homestake adopted a proactive strategy in the permitting of the Mine. Ex

    Jan 1, 1990

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    Meandu Rising: The Second Life Of The Meandu Mine

    By J. G. Pippenger

    Rio Tinto Coal Australia (RTCA) developed the Meandu Mine in Queensland, Australia in 1983 to supply thermal coal to the adjacent and newly constructed Tarong Power Station (TPS). In designing the min

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Site Investigations And Geotechnical Assessment For The Construction Of The Deep Underground Science And Engineering Laboratory At The Former Homestake Mine

    By Z. J. Hladysz

    A Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) is being planned at the site of the former Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota, under the sponsorship of the National Science Founda

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Industrial Minerals In Mexico

    By Guillermo P. Selas

    Perhaps this is the first time that an analysis of the industrial minerals panorama has been made in Mexico for that type of commodities. Because the non-metallic minerals lack the glamour of the meta

    Jan 1, 1974

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    Reprocessing Of A French Guyana Operation Tailings Using Flotation For Gold Concentration - Introduction - Preprint 09-062

    Compagnie Miniere Esperance (CME), a mining company based in French Guyana, operates a gold primary ore body in open pit. The ore is processed through crushing, grinding and gravity separation. Tailin

    Jan 1, 2009

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    Weinbach Soft Ground Tunnel: Lessons Learned

    By Raymond W. Henn, Kent A. Pease, Glen J. Rorison

    The paper focuses on construction of a 2.55-km (8,365-ft) long, 2.4-m (8-ft)diameter storm drain tunnel in Evansville, Indiana. The tunnel was driven through saturated soft ground varying from clay to

    Jan 1, 2001

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    A Rock Mass Classification Scheme For The Planning Of Caving Mine Drift Supports

    By Z. T. Bieniawski, E. H. Skinner, R. A. Cummings, F. S. Kendorski

    INTRODUCTION Caving Mine Drift Support Design The support of production drifts remains a high-cost item facing the developer or operator of an underground caving mine. Support costs are incurre

    Jan 1, 1983

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    Eskay Creek Mine and Mill – A Continuing Success

    By Garry Biles

    The Eskay Creek Mine is a high-grade gold and silver underground mine in northwestern British Columbia. The mine started operations in late1994. For the first three years, ore was crushed to -50 mm(-

    Jan 1, 2000

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    Assessment Of Potential Groundwater Flow Within Sub-Permafrost Groundwater At Red Dog Mine, Alaska

    By J. Kulas, J. Weaver, K. Hagley

    An assessment of potential groundwater movement beneath the tailing impoundment at the Red Dog Mine was performed, and has indicated a unique aquifer situation within sub-permafrost groundwater at the

    Jan 1, 2002

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    Performance Of A Soft Ground Tunnel On The Washington Metro

    By Edward J. Cording, William H. Hansmire

    INTRODUCTION The Washington Metro, a rapid transit system that will serve the District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland, has been under construction for about two years. Construction of the Metr

    Jan 1, 1997

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    Mining Phospates in Yunnan - Potential is Great, But So Are Problems

    Recent accelerated exploration efforts in southwest China have progressively quantified the vast phosphate resources in the Yunnan Province. To date, according to Chinese geologists, potential reserve

    Jan 3, 1980

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    Rock Engineering Aspects of Designing Large Span Caverns at Depth in the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory

    By C. Laughton

    Construction of a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory(DUSEL) is proposed under the auspices of the US National Science Foundation(NSF). DUSEL will provide scientists and engineers with

    Jan 1, 2007

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    Subsidence Impacts On Infrastructure And Drainage: Reestablishing A Stable Channel Using Geomorphic Design Principles

    By G. Krogman, C. Walla, B. Wood

    The Gebo Mining District (District) is located in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. Commercial underground coal mining began in 1906 with the arrival of the railroad in Thermopolis, which is located appro

    Jan 1, 2006

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    Experimental Shaft Machine for Nuclear Waste Disposal

    By Dennis Ofiara, Michael Lewis

    An experimental 1.75 meter Shaft Boring Machine was designed and manufactured by The Robbins Company. The drill was used by contractor Drillcon Raise AB to drill test shafts at an SKB underground test

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Evaluation of Large Tunnels in Poor Ground—Alternative Tunnel Concepts for the Transbay Downtown Rail Extension Project

    By David Hopkins, Steve Klein, Bradford Townsend, Ed Sum, Derek Penrice

    INTRODUCTION The Transbay-Caltrain Downtown Extension (DTX) Project involves the construction of an approximately 1.5-mile rail line that will extend Caltrain commuter service and the future Calif

    Jan 1, 2007