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  • SME
    Hydrologic Aspects Of Strip Mining In The Subbituminous Coal Fields Of Montana

    By Wayne A. Van Voast

    Many coal beds that will be mined in southeastern Montana are aquifers that provide essential local water supplies. Mine cuts along aquifer outcrops create almost imperceptible piezometric changes. Mo

    Jan 1, 1978

  • CIM
    Assessment of Wall Control Blasting Practices at the Ekati? Diamond Mine

    By J. Peterson

    A review of blast designs and improved blasting practices at the Ekati??Diamond Mine is presented along with the results of three blast-monitoring experiments. Blast monitoring was undertaken to inves

    May 1, 2001

  • NIOSH
    RI 4276 Investigation of meta-anthracite in Newport and Providence counties, R.I., petrography, chemical characteristics, and geology of deposits (7b2d8178-04f2-44a5-b84b-07ddfae8f96f)

    By Albert L. Toenges, Louis A. Turnbull, Alonzo W. Quinn, J. M. Schopf, Arthur Neale, R. F. Abernethy

    "INTRODUCTION The fuel requirements for industrial and domestic consumers in New England, in normal times, are supplied almost entirely by fuel oil, anthracite, and bituminous coal. A shortage of thes

    Apr 1, 1948

  • AUSIMM
    Dreams of Futures Past – Curating Post-mining Landscapes

    By P A. Kirsch, A Hine

    Mining is a major global industry that requires the moving of considerable volumes of earth and rock (overburden) to win the valuable ore prior to mineral extraction and processing. As a result of thi

    Jul 16, 2014

  • SME
    Numerical Modeling and Onsite Detection Analysis of Upward Mining Feasibility of Residual Coal from Multi‑Gobs in Close‑Multiple Coal Seams - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Xinghai Lei, Nan Wang, Xiangyang Jin, Yuqi Ren, Yang Li

    The upward mining method, as an effective mining method, is widely employed in close-multiple coal seams to extend the service life of coal mines and improve the recovery rate of residual coal resourc

    Jun 28, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    On-site Process Mineralogy – Linking Departments and Disciplines with the Common Goal of Increasing Plant Performance

    By D Morgan, K Jones

    "In March 2015 Northparkes Mines (NPM) installed a process mineralogy facility on-site. The laboratory included a TESCAN TIMA scanning electron microscope (SEM) and was the first SEM facility to be co

    Oct 10, 2016

  • CIM
    Distributed control at the Kidd Creek grinding plant. Part II: Implementation

    By A. Desbiens, A. Pomerleau

    During the summer of 1994, a new PID-based control strategy was installed on line B of the grinding circuit at the Kidd Creek Division of Falconbridge Ltd. Part I of this paper described the methodolo

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Aggregate Mining: A Process Of Shaping New Landscapes ? Introduction

    By Anthony M. Bauer

    It is the nature of mining to reshape the landscape. Mining is an earth moving process with many of the same activities associated with the regrading of a site for a shopping center, drainage channel,

    Jan 1, 1984

  • NIOSH
    RI 4409 Investigation of Blister Mica Mine Cheshire County, N.H.

    By S. Benedict Levin

    In the spring of 1944, during the emergency In the supply of strategic mica, the Bureau core-drilled six aggregating 913 feet, at the Blister mica Trim. Cheshire County, N.H. These holes indicated a d

    Jan 1, 1949

  • CIM
    Optimizing water management at Gregg River Coal Mine

    By G. Beckstead, L. F. Sawatsky, R. Nutbrown, D. Long, G. Gould

    "This paper presents a case study for optimizing water management at Gregg River Coal Mine located near Hinton, Alberta. The optimization study was derived based on a review and assessment of existing

    Jan 1, 1997

  • IOM3
    Geological review of the agnew nickel deposit, Western Australia

    By L. G. Billington

    "The Agnew nickel deposit occurs in a major linear greenstone belt in the Archaean Eastern Goldfields Province of Western Australia, and has been subjected to mid-amphibolite facies nietamorphism of d

    Jan 1, 1984

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    Stochastic Continuous Modeling for Pillar Stress Estimation and Comparison with 2D Numerical, and Analytical Solutions in an Underground Stone Mine

    By Juan J. Monsalve, Mario Karfakis, AMAN SONI, Nino Ripepi, Jim Hazzard

    Pillar collapses are events that due to their severe consequences can be classified as high risk. The design of pillars in underground room-and-pillar operations should migrate to risk-based design ap

    Sep 24, 2022

  • AIME
    Technical Papers and Discussions - Copper and Copper-rich Alloys - Structure after Working - Deformation Lines in Cold-rolled Copper and Its Binary Alpha Solid Solution Alloys with Aluminum, Nickel and Zinc (Metals Tech., Feb. 1948, TP 2336)

    By Harold Margolin, W. R. Hibbard, R. W. Fenn, H. P. Moore

    Deformation lines, also called etch markings or strain markings, are non-effaceable lines developed in individual grains by etching a metal specimen which has been cold worked sufficiently to cause at

    Jan 1, 1949

  • AIME
    Technical Papers and Discussions - Copper and Copper-rich Alloys - Structure after Working - Deformation Lines in Cold-rolled Copper and Its Binary Alpha Solid Solution Alloys with Aluminum, Nickel and Zinc (Metals Tech., Feb. 1948, TP 2336)

    By H. P. Moore, R. W. Fenn, Harold Margolin, W. R. Hibbard

    Deformation lines, also called etch markings or strain markings, are non-effaceable lines developed in individual grains by etching a metal specimen which has been cold worked sufficiently to cause at

    Jan 1, 1949

  • NIOSH
    Significant Events In 1988 - National Economic Performance

    Real economic growth for 1988 may fall short of the 3.3% projected by the U.S. Department of Commerce in August 1988 be-cause the summer drought and intense heat in many areas curtailed output more se

    Jan 1, 1988

  • CIM
    Dragline Application In Mountainous Terrain at Fording Coal

    By R. S. Jones

    "Fording Coal Ltd. is now in its fifth year of a 15-year contract to supply 3 million long tons of clean coal per annum to its Japanese steel-making customers. The mine employs both conventional truck

    Jan 1, 1976

  • TMS
    A Computer Model for Simulation of Multi-Scale Phenomena in the Centrifugal Casting of Metal Matrix-Composites

    By H. Dong, J. J. Valencia, L. Nastac

    "A comprehensive computer model was developed to understand and optimize the centrifugal casting process for manufacturing TiC/Al-bronze friction drums. Performance of these components requires proper

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AIME
    American Smelting & Refining Company Garfield Plant

    "The Garfield plant of the American Smelting & Refining Company is situated about seventeen miles west of Salt Lake City, on the Los Angeles & Salt Lake Railroad, and has freight service by the Denver

    Jan 1, 1925

  • SME
    Research And Development On Coal Mining Health And Safety Problems In The United States ? Introduction

    By Robert L. Marovelli

    The major mining health and safety problems of concern to United States Government and private industry researchers in 1981 included the difficulty experienced by longwall operators in complying with

    Jan 1, 1982