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  • SME
    A National Hydrogeochemical Sampling Program For Uranium ? Introduction

    By David H. Dahlem

    Uranium is a very mobile element geochemically and is widely dispersed in the lithosphere and hydrosphere. Under oxidizing conditions, it is particularly widespread and appears in all parts of the sur

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Solution Mining - A Study Of Leaching Agents ? Introduction

    By Paul H. Johnson

    Chemical mining may be defined as the in-place extraction of metal values from ores located within the confines of a mine (that is, broken or fractured ore, stope fill, caved material, or ores in perm

    Jan 1, 1969

  • AIME
    Are The Quartz-Veins Of Silver Peak, Nevada, The Result Of Magmatic Segregation ?

    By John B. Hastings

    CHIEF among the varied problems facing the mine-manager is that of vein-structure and origin, which is highly important as a guide to successful discovery and development. If metalliferous deposits ca

    Jan 1, 1913

  • DFI
    Efficient Torque-Installed Pile Use in Southern California

    By Jason Buenker, Molly Winston

    Torque-installed piles are gaining popularity in Southern California as the go-to deep foundation element for small- to medium-capacity loads in urban environments. The torque-installed pile is a disp

    Jan 1, 2019

  • AUSIMM
    A Second Derwent Crossing for Hobart

    Proposals for engineering works in the River Dement in recent years have been made in the context of very little geological informat- ion. Breakage of the Tasman Bridge, forced a complete re-apprai

    Jan 1, 1977

  • AUSIMM
    Presidential Address 1958: Early History of the Mineral Industry in Tasmania

    It is a very great privilege for me to be able to address you tonight and I am deeply sensible of the honour which has been done me. I am equally sensible of the inadequacy of my training for the posi

    Jan 1, 1958

  • AUSIMM
    The underdog mechanical alternative for tailings dewatering: the screw press

    By S Whitton, W Wimmler, L Wimmler

    “Given the increasing scrutiny of the mining industry and its relatively poor record with regards to mine tailings management, increased requirements to minimise water usage (often accompanied by very

    Jul 1, 2021

  • SAIMM
    Financing Diamond Projects

    "Investment in diamond exploration has been declining over the past decade, in spite of positive long-term industry fundamentals and a growing interest in diamonds as an investment category. The lack

    Feb 1, 2019

  • IIMP
    Ingeniería para el aprovechamiento de desmonte en operaciones mineras

    By Marco Locatelli

    En este trabajo se evalúa, como una alternativa sostenible para minería subterránea, el reemplazo de agregados por el uso de material de desmonte de mina (zarandeado o chancado) en la elaboración de s

    Sep 20, 2019

  • CIM
    Prospecting and Exploration of Dominion Explorers, Limited, in the Great Bear Lake-Coppermine River Area

    By J. P. Norrie

    The presence of copper-bearing rocks in the Coppermine River area of Arctic Canada has long been known. Word of this was probably circulated along the Arctic and Hudson Bay coasts by the Eskimo, who

    Jan 1, 1931

  • SME
    Case Study Of The Conda Partnership's Dry Valley Phosphate Mining Project ? Introduction

    By Mark A. Krall

    The Conda Partnership's Dry Valley Phosphate mine is a thinly bedded, multiple seam, open pit mining operation where selective mining techniques are used to recover phosphatic shales. The mining

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AIME
    Part II – February 1968 - Communication - The Compound U2Ru3

    By A. E. Dwight, A. F. Berndt

    ThE published U-Ru equilibrium diagram indicates the existence of six intermetallic compounds in this system.' The structure of only two of the compounds, u2Ru2,3 and URU3,4 have been identified.

    Jan 1, 1969

  • AIME
    The Basic-Lined Converter in the Southwest

    By L. O. Howard

    WHAT was perhaps the first attempt at basic converting in the Southwest was made by the late Charles F. Shelby at Cananea early in 1907, when he removed the acid lining from one of the 8 by 12-ft. bar

    Jan 9, 1916

  • AUSIMM
    Ventilation and Refrigeration Design for the Access and Ore Production Decline to the Deep Copper Orebody at the Mount Isa Mine

    By Nixon C. A

    The exploration of Mount Isa Mines' new copper source will require the development of a five kilometre 4.7 x 5.5 metre blind decline commencing 1000m below the surface and extending to 1600m

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AIME
    Health and Safety in Mining - Accident Rates Continue Downward Trend in Spite of Labor Difficulties

    By Carl M. Fellman

    LABOR disputes caused considerable turbulence in the coal mining industry during 1946. As an outcome of these disputes, a definitely fundamental change in safety procedure was instituted: establishmen

    Jan 1, 1947

  • SME
    Corrosion Control During Sea Water Pumping in Mild Steel Pipelines

    By D. Zim

    Mining activity in South America is a growing enterprise. One of difficulties found in many areas of the South American continent, especially in north Chile and south Peru, is the shortage of water su

    Feb 23, 2014

  • IMPC
    Biological Leaching of Uranium from Low-grade Uraniferous Black Shale by Acidithiobacillus Ferrooxidans

    By T. M. Bhatti

    The main purpose of present study was to characterize the dissolution of uranium from low-grade black shale with indigenous isolated strain of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (BSAF-01). The nature of s

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Continuing Method Improvements At The Eagle Mountain Iron Ore Mine Of Kaiser Steel Corporation

    By Emmet K. Oslen

    Kaiser Steel Corporation, the pioneer steelmaker on the Pacific Coast, was founded by the late Henry J. Kaiser. In 1944 the Company purchased from the Southern Pacific Railroad an iron ore property 20

    Jan 1, 1972

  • IMPC
    Ash and Sulphur Removing to Beneficiation the Low Grade Lignitic Coals

    By D. Renda

    With thise Process of obtaining a solid fuel which is both ecological clean and has a high calorific value by a two-stage method of enriching preferably type lignitic coals to remove a high content of

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    A Memory Cutting Method of Virtual Shearer Based on Shape Track Prediction of AFC - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By Wang Xuewen, Bao Qingbao, Xie Jiacheng, Yan Zewen

    This study puts forward a virtual memory cutting method based on the prediction of AFC shape. The integrated key technologies include the generation of virtual teaching cutting curve, the height adjus

    Aug 16, 2021