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  • SME
    Foundations for a Mine Fire Classification System

    By E. Watkins, M. B. Daza

    Although there have been great advances regarding the understanding of mine fires in underground mines in the last century, fires remain high risk incidents. During fire scenarios, many crucial decisi

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    The Application And Benefits Of Vitrokele Tm Technology To The Gold Industry

    By Stuart Ratcliffe, Denis Kidby

    The development of Vitrokele™ Technology over the last 10 years is reviewed with reference to mine site piloting and com­mercial applications. The first mine site piloting was conducted in Australia

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Behavior Of Magnesium Sulfate During Acid Pressure Leaching Of Nickeliferous Laterite Ore

    By P. B. Queneau

    An operating problem encountered at the Moa Bay operation in Cuba, where nickeliferous laterite ore is processed by sulfuric acid pressure leaching, is the formation of alunite and hematite deposits o

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Taking The Guesswork Out Of Equipment Replacement Decisions - Summary

    By J. L. Kearns

    The importance of optimizing equipment replacement decisions becomes more critical each year due to the rising costs of buying new equipment versus maintaining old equipment. Replacing equipment when

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Energy Conservation In Cement Plants - I. Reducing Cement Consumption - Not Likely

    By Hoke M. Garrett

    The domestic cement industry demands about 550 trillion Btu annually, at a time when reduced fuel use has become a necessity due to the energy shortage. In terms of the overall power picture, that

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Hydrochloric Acid Leach Processes For Copper Concentrates ? Introduction

    By W. W. Harvey

    The work to be described was part of an exploratory research program directed toward identifying potentially useful but little known reactions in extractive metallurgy. In particular, the major copper

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Wyoming Bentonite -Chemistry. Mineralogy & Markets

    By William J. Miles

    The markets and applications of Wyoming bentonite deposits are primarily determined by the functional properties of a bentonite ore which results from the unique mineralogy and chemistry of each depos

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    The Application Of Solution-Mineral Equilibrium Chemistry To The Leaching Of Low-Grade Chalcocite Ores

    By Richard E. Beane

    For several decades, the minerals industry has used leaching techniques to extract metals from rocks whose grade was too low to be treated profitably using conventional metallurgical techniques, and,

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Mechanical Classifiers (bdc31956-5f49-422b-be6a-4ac9e99629f9)

    By H. W. Hitzrot

    Introduction Mechanical classifiers consist of a settling tank with parallel sides and a sloping bottom equipped with a mechanism which continuously agitates the pulp and removes the settled solids

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Mineralogical Characterization and Optimization of Fe and Mn Through Roast-Leaching of Ferromanganese Ore - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By J. Christophe Niyonzima, Ekata Emmanuel Edo, Sayaf Mustafa, Liqun Luo

    Iron and manganese both are important ferrous metals, and they usually need to be extracted separately for better usage. Ferromanganese ore from the Yunnan Province of China was investigated by subjec

    Mar 26, 2021

  • SME
    Process Modifications At Reserve Mining Company

    By Charles L. Allie

    In June, 1980, Reserve Mining Company completed a 370 million dollar construction project which included process modifications required to reduce the silica content from nine to five percent by weight

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    The Inline Leach Reactor - The New Art In Intensive Cyanidation Of High Grade Centrifugal Gold Concentrates

    By Nick Katsikaros, A H. Gray

    Gold concentrates are produced at many mines by a variety of centrifugal and gravity machines, such as Knelson and Falcon concentrators, however the subsequent recovery of gold is relatively inefficie

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Thermal Runaway Of Lto And Nca Lithium-ion Batteries In A Sealed Enclosure Containing Methane - SME Annual Meeting 2023

    By C. Brown, N. Rayyan, T. H. Dubaniewicz

    Lithium-Ion batteries (LIBs) have the potential to go into thermal runaway which introduces a new ignition source in hazardous environments such as gassy underground mines that may contain methane in

    Feb 1, 2023

  • SME
    A review on potash recovery from different rock and mineral sources

    By SANDEEP KUMAR JENA

    This paper reviews the recovery of potassium from different rocks and mineral sources. Global demand for potassium is rising steadily due to the growth of agricultural production. Fertilizer manufactu

  • SME
    Stable isotopes and geology of the Copper Canyon porphyry copper deposits, Lander County, Nevada

    By John Batchelder

    The Copper Canyon Cu-Au-Ag deposits include two geologically distinct hypogene ore bodies developed primarily in late Paleozoic rocks adjacent to a 38-m.y.-old potassic-altered granodiorite, whose emp

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Cyanide In Precious Metals Mill Tailings Impoundments ? Introduction

    By James L. Hendrix

    This paper is intended to give the reader an update on the work being done at the Mackay School of Mines about the fate of cyanide on precious metals mill tailings waste. During the last two years s

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Effect of ζ-Potentials on Bubble-Particle Interactions Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Roe-Hoan Yoon, Kaiwu Huang

    Derjaguin and Dukhin (1961) were the first to develop a model for bubble-particle interaction in flotation from first principles by considering the surface forces in wetting (or flotation) films. The

  • SME
    A Novel Method of Roadway Floor Deformation Control by Deep‑Hole Directional Tension Blasting—A Case Study - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Changjiang Li, Jun Yang, Qiang Fu, Xu Chang, Xing Wu, Yubing Gao

    With the development of underground mining, the deformation of roadway floor has increasingly become a major constraint on the safe and efficient production of coal mines. To address the floor deforma

    Jun 13, 2023

  • SME
    Particle Size Reduction With Roller Mill

    By E. J. Karges

    [For reasons well known to Mining Engineers, fine grinding in the wet form is quite universal inn plants engaged in the traction of metallic values from crude ore In the processing, of non-metallic an

    Jan 1, 1963

  • SME
    Discovery And Development Of Peabody Coal Company's Black Mesa Mine

    By John M. Arnold

    Several years ago it became apparent to some of our people that; there was developing a very definite need for largee coal reserves in the West to satisfy- the need for fuel for the furnaces of electr

    Jan 1, 1969