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  • NIOSH
    IC 8110 Uses And Properties Of Magnesia As A Superrefractory For Temperatures Above 1,500° C.: A Bibliography ? Introduction And Summary

    By Sara Jane Boles

    In recent years the demand for products of greater refractoriness has placed an ever-increasing emphasis on ceramic materials, including the metallic oxides. Magnesia (MgO) is one of the most importan

    Jan 1, 1962

  • NIOSH
    Noise Exposure In Longwall Mining And Engineering Controls Research

    By E. R. Bauer

    Prolonged exposure to noise can cause permanent damage to the auditory nerve and/or its sensory components, known as noise induced hearing loss (NIHL). It is the most common occupational disease in t

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Technology Selection for Removal of Contaminants from an Industrial Wastewater

    By T van der Meer, A Salokannel, M Martikainen, L M. Nevatalo, J McCulloch

    Water use and wastewater management is becoming a focus for many industries around Australia and the rest of the world. Good quality water is increasingly being recognised as a precious resource, and

    Jul 15, 2013

  • TMS
    The CMI NESA Pyrolysis, An Attractive Process For The Treatment Of Sewage And Industrial Sludge And By-Products

    By Paul-Dominique Oudenne

    For many years, CMI NESA has gained considerable experience in the field of alternative thermal processing processes by which useful by products result in addition to the destruction of the raw wastes

    Jan 1, 2006

  • TMS
    Characterization of the Deep Interface Traps in Hf-based/Si Gate Stacks

    By S. Y. Tan

    As continual complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor (CMOS) scaling requirements, metal gate/high-k dielectric/Si gate stacks are expected to replace poly-Si/SiO2/Si gate stacks in the future CMOS sub

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    Diaphragm Walls Seismic Design According to the Eurocodes

    By J. Matos e Silva

    "Abstract Although one can think that it is very low the probability of a seism occurrence during the execution of an excavation in an urban lot protected by a diaphragm wall curtain, reality shows th

    Jan 1, 2014

  • NIOSH
    A Correlation Between Seismic Tomography, Seismic Events And Support Pressure

    By S. Peterson, E. C. Westman, P. L. Swanson

    Coal bumps are brittle, violent failures associated with high stresses and competent host strata. To study bump mechanisms, conditions in the vicinity of a deep longwall mining face in bump-prone stra

  • ISEE
    Concrete Bridge Pier Removal in an Environmentally Sensitive River

    By Paul Kunze

    When a new bridge was needed across the upper reaches of the Yellowstone River in Montana, removing the old concrete bridge piers became an environmental concern for the highway department engineers.

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    New Opportunities for Energy Development on Indian Reservations

    By Daniel H. Israel

    Indian tribes own a substantial portion of the West's minerals. More importantly, Indian reservations contain coal, oil and gas, uranium, and oil shale reserves in unusually large and unencumbere

    Jan 6, 1980

  • SME
    Investigation of Stability of an Unconventional Water-Obstruction Gate Pillar with a Curved Boundary in Mining Inclined Ultra-Thick Coal Seams

    Because of complex geological environments, a number of coal reserves occur in inclined or dipping coal seams in certain parts of the world. Longwall top coal caving using split-level a singleentry pa

    Jan 7, 2020

  • SME-ICGCM
    Development of a mechanistic model for prediction of maximum subsidence and subsidence profile due to longwall mining

    By Richard D. Begley

    This paper summarizes the development of a mechanistic model to predict longwall mining induced surface subsidence. The model was originally developed from data acquired from a recent field study cond

    Jan 1, 1989

  • CIM
    Applying a Customer-Based Approach at Vale’s Clarabelle Mill

    By A. Taylor, J. Shelegey, H. Sullivan, J. Doucet

    "Historically, performance at Vale’s Clarabelle Mill was measured by Mill throughput and Mill recovery. After the economic collapse in 2008, a series of reviews were performed to drive improvements in

    Jan 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Recovery of Fine Gold Particles from Philippine Gold Deposits by Enhanced Gravity Concentration and Flotation

    Recovery of Fine Gold Particles from Philippine Gold Deposits by Enhanced Gravity Concentration and Flotation The objective of the study is to determine the applicability of enhanced gravity concentr

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    A New Method for Coal Pillar Design

    By KEITH BARRONI

    In the proposed criterion for coal a distinction is made between brittle and "psuedo-ductile" failure. This criterion is the basis for the development of new equations for coal pillar streng

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Special Report : Consultants Streamline, Sell More When Work is Harder to Find

    By Hans W. Schreiber

    Most geologic and mining engineering consulting firms* began to experience the recession with declining billing levels, number of inquiries, and proposal requests in late 1981 or early 1982. As of tod

    Jan 2, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    Subsidiary Mine Drainage

    Underground Mine Drainage may be conveniently divided into two operations:(a) Collecting and transporting drainage water to the pump eastern.(b) Elevating water to the surfacc by pumping.This short pa

    Jan 1, 1927

  • CIM
    The Use of Fibre Reinforced Shotcrete Fill Retaining Walls with Engineered Drainage System to Achieve Safe and Efficient Hydraulic Fill Placement in Underground Voids

    Safe underground mine backfilling with hydraulic fill requires efficient fill drainage and stable fill retaining walls or bulkheads. If any or both the above two requirements are not satisfied, such

    May 1, 2007

  • SME-ICGCM
    A Practical Solution to Highwall Mining Coal Reserves Sterilized by Auger Mining

    By Michael Amick

    Over the last few years as the coal industry has seen an increase in the price of coal, a renewed interest in the additional mining of pre-law highwall sites has occurred. Much premium coal and pro

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Agglomeration Binders To Improve Efficiency Of Copper Heap Leaching

    By S. Kawatra, K. Lewandowski

    Heap leaching efficiency is reduced by poor solution flow characteristics (channeling and ponding), which result from fines migration. Agglomeration of the ore can immobilize fines, but copper leachi

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Treatment of Soft Clays by Combined Encased Stone Columns and Vacuum Consolidation

    By Ganesh Kumar S.

    "Soil reinforcement using stone columns is one of the well-developed ground improvement techniques for soft clay deposits. The load carrying capacity can be further improved by encasing it with geosyn

    Jan 1, 2017