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  • SME
    Technical Note - SO2 abatement in a 440-kW pilot-scale combustor —limestone injection tests

    By G. H. Lewis, C. L. Krcil, N. S. Harding, D. E. Havekotte

    Introduction Limestone injection work was completed in a 440-kW (1.5-million Btu per hour) pilot-scale combustor in preparation for a 50,000-kg/h (110,000-lb per hour) industrial steam boiler limes

    Jan 12, 1986

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    Low temperature hydrothermal activity in Ultraslow Spreading Ridges

    By Huaiyang Zhou

    "Hydrothermal systems are a major component of the processes that shape the composition and structure of the ocean crust, providing a major pathway for the exchange of heat and elements between the Ea

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    Understanding And Solving Roof Control Problems In Stone Mines

    By F. S. Kendorski

    Several startup or longtime underground stone mines have experienced unanticipated roof control difficulties due to the variable geologic character of the roof strata. Careful mapping of roof conditi

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    The Berwind Decision: Where Are We Now With Liability For Contract Miners?

    By M. M. Rajkovich

    Just prior to the close of the century, the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission issued its long-awaited decision in Berwind Natural Resources, et al v. Secretary of Labor, to usher in the

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Reduction Of Cyanate To Cyanide In Cyanidation Tailings Under Reducing Environments

    By H. K. Lin

    Residual cyanide in cyanidation tailings can be detoxified by its oxidation to cyanate, as in the Inco and Degussa processes. However, cyanate, the product of detoxification and other oxidation proces

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Developing Gold Fields’ La Cima Cerro Corona Project in Peru

    By Richard W. Graeme, James J. Komadina

    Gold Fields acquired an option to purchase the Cerro Corona project, located in Hualgayoc, Cajamarca Department, Peru, in December 2003. In January 2006, the option was taken up and the transaction c

    Jan 1, 2007

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    Application Of Slope Stability Radar For Improved Safety And Productivity In The Global Mining Industry - Introduction - Preprint 09-118

    The management of risks associated with slope instability is an essential process in the safe and economic operation of open cut mines. The ?slope stability radar? (SSR) has been developed to better m

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Reclamation Of Prime Farmland Following Mineral Sands Mining In Virginia

    By M. Alley, P. Schroeder, L. Zelazny, S. Nagle

    The Old Hickory mineral sands ore body in Virginia (>2000 ha) currently supports a productive rowcrop agriculture. Reclamation experiments were implemented on pilot-scale mining pits from 1995 to 19

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Gravity Sewer Tunnel Liner Corrosion Protection—Part Two - RETC2023

    By Jon Y. Kaneshiro, Eric Dawson, Pooyan Asadollahi, Steven Hunt

    This paper provides updates to the paper published by the lead author at RETC 2011 with a summary of developments in technologies, products, and approaches to corrosion analyses of gravity sewer tunne

    Jun 13, 2023

  • SME
    Shaft Sinking at the Seymour?Capilano Filtration Plant

    By Andreas Prucker

    The Greater Vancouver Water District (GVWD) is currently constructing the largest water treatment plant in Canada. As part of this treatment scheme twin water transfer tunnels are being constructed. W

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Development of a Sustainability Evaluation System

    By C. Pieper, J. B. Pateiro Fernandez, S. Möllerherm

    "Since the United Nations conference on "environment and development" in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the term "sustainable development" or short "sustainability" is used more and more in social-political

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Applications Of The Crossflow Teeter-Bed Separator In The U.S. Coal Industry

    By R. C. Bratton, R. Q. Honaker

    Hindered-bed separators are recognized as low-cost, high-capacity devices for both classification and density separation; however, since their inception, there have been few significant advances in th

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Studies Of The Interactions Between Talc And Stickies During Paper Recycling

    By J. L. Yordan, J. Kortmeyer, I. Yildirim

    Talc is used to remove stickies from pulp during paper recycling processes. It is well known that the interaction is controlled by the surface chemistry at the talc/water, sticky/water and talc/stick

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Calibration of LKAB’s Konsuln Test Mine Ventilation Model Using Barometer Pressure-Quantity (PQ) Survey

    By A. Halim, A. Martikainen, S. GYAMFI

    This paper outlines a unique case of the development of strategies to reduce ventilation and heating costs in Konsuln iron ore mine in northern Sweden. The mine, located just south of Luossavaara-Kiir

    Sep 30, 2021

  • SME
    Development Of Dump Edge And Vehicle Proximity Warning System Using GPS And Wireless Network Communications To Improve Safety In Open Pit Mines

    By A. Nieto

    A dump edge and vehicle proximity warning system is being developed at the Colorado School of Mines using GPS and wireless local area networks to improve the safety of off-highway trucks in open pit m

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Open Pit TBM Driven Drainage Tunnel?Ok Tedi Mine

    By Tony Peach

    Project Description The Ok Tedi Mine is located approximately 18 km east of the Papua and New Guinea-Indonesia border, on the southernmost extremity of the Star Mountains Range, it is situated almost

  • SME
    Application Of Wound Rotor Motors

    By D. Bogh

    Wound rotor motors are used in difficult mining applications where there is a need to start high inertia, hard starting loads while limiting inrush current They are recognized as robust and simple to

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Turkey operates its first overland conveyor with horizontal curves

    By M. Sagheer

    An 8.5-km (5-mile) conveyor has gone into operation in western Turkey to eco¬nomically transport crushed lignite from the mine area to a power plant. This conveyor has replaced trucks as the principal

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Clay Binder Enhanced Extraction Of Bitumen From Canadian Oil Sand

    A clay binding agent has been investigated to enhance flotation recovery of bitumen from Canadian high fines oil sand in the Clark Hot Water Extraction (CHWE) process. Selective adsorption on fine par

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Discussion - Lemniscate-guided powered roof supports adapted for proper operation with the roof on longwall faces (4b7caf39-1bc9-4266-95a6-d180c6c971fa)

    By J. B. Gwiazda

    S. Budirsky J.B. Gwiazda's article deals with an interesting problem that has not been studied thoroughly up to now. Gwiazda has proposed a technical solution that eliminates horizontal load i

    Jan 1, 1987