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  • TMS
    Thermodynamic Modeling Of Desilversing Of Lead Bullion By Zinc During Lead Refining

    By Pengfu Tan

    A thermodynamic model has been developed to model the desilverising process of lead by the addition of zinc during lead refining, whereby silver-zinc solid solutions are formed, and floats out of the

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Measurement of induced stress under high rock stress by compact conical-ended borehole overcoring technique

    By K. Sugawara, H. -S. Jeong, Y. Ishiguro, J. Otani, Y. Obara, A. Hirata

    A series of measurements of induced stress by the Compact Conical-ended Borehole Overcoring (CCBO) technique was performed within rock mass around a tunnel excavated in a region that an underground po

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Sustainable Water Supply Development in Central South Australia

    OZ Minerals Limited owns and operates the Prominent Hill Copper-Gold Mine, located 140 km southeast of Coober Pedy in far north South Australia. The Prominent Hill mine comprises an open cut mine with

    Jun 1, 2010

  • SME
    Plant-Site Evaluations Of The OPSA System For On-Line Particle Size Measurement From Moving Belt Conveyors (a2c80e29-57fc-42d5-930c-7b75b81ed0dc)

    By C. L. Lin

    The image-based On-line Particle Size Analyzer (OPSA) system has been developed at the University of Utah to measure particle size distributions under plant conditions where overlapped and segregated

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Evolution and Optimization of the Gravity Recoverable Gold Test - In memory of Professor Andre Robert Laplante - 1953-2006 Outstanding Mineral Processing Professor, Engineer and Scientist

    By Sunil Koppalkar, Liming Huang

    "Since late 1980s the research group led by late Professor Andre Robert Laplante at McGill University undertook fundamental studies and applied research of the Knelson Concentrator (KC) and developed

    Jan 1, 2007

  • NIOSH
    OFR-102-83 Computer Simulation Of Mining Subsidence Using The Zone Area Method - I. Introduction

    By M. Karmis

    Surface subsidence is an inevitable consequence of many underground mining operations and has been recognized as such since the fifteenth century. Damage resulting from this phenomenon ranges from sim

    Jan 1, 1983

  • NIOSH
    Tell Me A Story? Using Stories to Improve Occupational Safety Training

    By Elaine T. Cullen

    Human beings are natural storytellers and story listeners. We learn very early that stories entertain us, but also give us the ?rules? about what is expected of us and how to make meaning of our exper

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Mechanized Rock Excavation In Mining

    By George H. K. Schenck

    In this decade of the 1.970's it is forecast that eight billion cubic yards of rock will be excavated from 400, 000 miles of new tunnels, drifts and other underground workings in the western worl

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SAIMM
    Flotation Stabilization And Optimization

    By A. Singh

    The control of flotation plants is by no means trivial. Flotation is one of the most interactive minerals? processing operations. The interactive nature of flotation circuits results in oscillations o

    Jan 1, 2003

  • ISEE
    History of the Development and Use of Bulk Loaded Explosives, from Black Powder to Emulsions (4e042d52-81d4-408b-9ff9-49bce6caf7ef)

    By Robert B. Hopler

    Emplacing explosives in the borehole by bulk methods is utilized today for about 35% of all of the explosives used in the United States. Although different from today's methods, some bulk emplacement

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SAIMM
    Towards Predictive Control Of Ferroalloy Furnaces: Combining Thermochemistry, Inventory Modelling And Systems Engineering

    By S. J. Frank

    Ferroalloy furnaces are well known to be extremely difficult to control from a metallurgical perspective. Mostly metallurgical control is still reactive in nature, causing a significant amount of rewo

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AIME
    Reservoir Engineering - General - Steam Zone Growth in a Preheated Reservoir

    By P. J. Closmann

    Steam zone growth as a function of time has been calculated for the case of constant rate steam injection into a preheated reservoir. To simplify the calculation a linear temperature profile has been

    Jan 1, 1969

  • DFI
    Case Study: Innovative Soil Nail Stabilization Of A 100 Foot High Urban Slope

    By Mike Fabius

    The Lakehead Region Conservation Authority is responsible for slopes along the Kaministiquia River, one of the largest tributaries to Lake Superior in Canada. After arresting toe erosion for a mile o

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Performance of Electrodes Containing Brown Coal Char in Alumina Reduction (76ee41ec-7c9b-4d9b-9404-4c3cd7756bf3)

    A predicted increase in aluminium production and the possibility of a diminishing supply of petroleum coke for anode electrodes in alumina reduction cells makes it desirable to find alternative electr

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SAIMM
    Cracking A Hard Nut: An Overview Of Lonmin?s Operations Directed At Smelting Of UG2-Rich Concentrate Blends

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, furnace, Lonmin, platinum, PGM, UG2 Lonmin, earlier than any other primary platinum producer, had to deal with the concentrating and smelting of UG2-rich ores and concent

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Tied-Back Offset Tangent Caisson Retaining Wall For The North Bulkhead Third Harbor Tunnel Project Boston, Massachusetts ? Introduction

    By Daniel L. Hanson

    This paper presents a case history of the design, installation and performance of a tied-back tangent caisson retaining wall which was constructed as part of the Third Harbor Tunnel project currently

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - Beta Phase Parameters in the System Ti-V-Mo

    By Jack L. Taylor

    As expected from similar crystal structures and favorable atomic size factors, titanium, vanadium, and molybdenum are completely soluble in one another above the transformation temperature of titanium

    Jan 1, 1957

  • CIM
    The Use of Rubber Mill Liners at Denison Mines Limited

    By L. Connolly, F. R. De Luca

    "Rubber liners at Denison Mines Limited are used in 10 1/2x 24' low discharg0 pebble mills. These were originally 10 1/2 x 13 Dominion overflow type ball mills. Experience here shows that the wear of

    Jan 1, 1974

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - Thermodynamic Activities in the Fe-Mn-C System

    By J. F. Butler, H. W. Paxton

    The vapor pressures of manganese in equilibrium with several alloys in the iron-manganese-carbon system between 1200° and 1275°K have been measured using the Knudsen effusion technique in conjunction

    Jan 1, 1962

  • NIOSH
    OFR-39(5)-82 Experiments On Personal Equipment For Low Seam Coal Miners: IV. Incorporating Coiled Cord Into Cap Lamp Battery Cords (f9ff7a4b-ad02-4b4a-a276-651d10f5a02f)

    By Tyler Blake

    This report describes a study designed to evaluate a pro-posed modification in the cap lamp battery cord intented to reduce the incidence of snagging and catching of the cord. A three phase evaluation

    Jan 1, 1980