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  • ISEE
    Blast Pattern Expansion: A Heuristic Approach

    By Francisco Sena Leite, Vincius Miranda, PhD Machado Leite, PhD Pinto, Raquel Carvalhinha, Alexandre Julio, Dorival de Carvalho

    Rock blasting, in particularly the drilling process, is one of the first processes in the stage of rock fragmentation and plays a fundamental role by influencing all the following stages. Given its im

    Jan 1, 2019

  • AIME
    Coal - The Blending of Western Coals for the Production of Metallurgical Coke - Discussion

    By John D. Price

    R. W. Campbell (Jones and Laughlin Steel Carp., Pittsburgh)—As usual John Price has presented an excellent paper. I know of no one who has devoted more time and conscientious thought to this subject t

    Jan 1, 1954

  • SME-ICGCM
    Support of Tunnels in South African Gold Mines

    By L. Z. Wojno

    Tunnels in South African gold mines are developed at depths down to 3 600 m below surface where the virgin rock stress approaches 100 MPa and, on occasions, through rock where the field stresses excee

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Refining Bullion at Mount Morgan, Queensland

    FOR some years after the erection of the first chlorination plant at Mount Morgan the ore sent to the works for treatment was mined entirely from the oxidized zone; consequently, the bullion recovered

    Jan 1, 1911

  • IMPC
    Deportment Study and Extractive Metallurgy of Gold and Silver in a Sulfide Ore from China

    "A sulfide ore containing 2.19 g/t Au and 13.13 g/t Ag was studied for the deportment and extractive metallurgy of pay metals. The ore is composed mainly of non-sulfide minerals with approximately 10%

    Jan 1, 2018

  • IOM3
    The influence of incombustible substances on coal-dust explosions

    The paper, presented at the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers' general meeting held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 8th April 1916, presents experimental work undertaken to observe

    Dec 1, 1916

  • SME
    Flotation Rates and Zeta Potentials of Maceral Concentrates of Bituminous Coals

    By D. Men, R. Q. Honaker, J. C. Hower

    "Maceral separation is one possible technique to expand coking coal resources, either by increasing the blending ratio of non- or slightly caking coal or rationally utilizing the coking coal according

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Review Of Subsidence Control Measures - Past, Present, And Future ? 1.0 Introduction

    By Madan M. Singh

    It is estimated that through 1975, there were 1.69x109 m2 (418 000 acres) of urban land threatened by potential subsidence due to mining with a value of over $12 billion (19;3 dollars; USBM, 1979). Wi

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    Plant Design for Closure

    By D P. Murphy, R F. Dewhirst

    Traditionally closure has been seen by the Resource sector solely as a green or an environmental issue, focused primarily on the requirement to rehabilitate the site following cessation of production

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Radium Hospital Project In Oslo, Norway

    By Wojciech Szczepiński, Dominik Gächter

    In early 2020, the construction phase began for the new complex of buildings for Radium Hospital in Oslo – the leading facility for cancer treatment in Norway. Settlements in the surrounding area, cau

    Oct 1, 2021

  • DFI
    Radium Hospital Project in Oslo, Norway.

    By Dominik Gächter, Wojciech Szczepiñski

    In early 2020, the construction phase began for the new complex of buildings for Radium Hospital in Oslo – the leading facility for cancer treatment in Norway. Settlements in the surrounding area, cau

    Sep 8, 2021

  • ISEE
    Close-in Pipeline Trench Blasting – Why PipeBlast Does Not Work

    By N. Skopak, C. Aimone-Martin, J. Redyke, B. O. Meins

    PipeBlast is a spreadsheet-based calculator based on research conducted by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), used by the pipeline industry to determine if proposed blasting planned near existing pi

    Jan 1, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    The Wafi River High Sulphur Epithermal Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea

    By Erceg MM

    The Waft River gold deposit is hosted by low grade metasediments which have been intruded by a dacite/andesite porphyry complex. Wafi River is classified as a high sulphur, epithermal type gold deposi

    Jan 1, 1990

  • TMS
    Convert Melting Slag Directly Into High Basicity Glassceramic

    By Cang Daqiang, Li Yu, Liu Xiaoming, Zong Yanbin

    "Utilization of high-quality heat in melting slag is a great challenge for iron and steel industry. In the paper, a new method is put forward to concurrently utilize heat and slag by converting the me

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AIME
    New York Paper - The Boulder Batholith on Montana (with Discussion)

    By Paul Billingsley

    The term Boulder batholith was first applied in 1897 by W. H. Weed2 to the extensive mass of granite in western Montana within whose borders occur the ore deposits of Butte. In a general way this was

    Jan 1, 1915

  • NIOSH
    The Minerals Related Impacts Of A Direct Tax On U.S. Primary Lead Production And Primary Lead Imports - Background

    The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Congress are presently considering several approaches aimed at reducing the amount of lead in the environment and society's exposure to

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Distribution of Acid-Generating and Acid-Buffering Minerals in the Animas River Watershed as Determined by AVIRIS Spectroscopy

    By J. Brad Dalton, Sam Vance, Trude V. V. King, Roger N. Clark, Raymond F. Kokaly, Gregg A. Swayze, Dana J. Bove

    Visible-wavelength and near-infrared multispectral image cubes for the Animas River Watershed from Hermosa, Colorado to the headwaters at Animas Forks, Colorado were acquired on June 18, 1996 using th

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SAIMM
    Applicability of the risk ranking methodology designed for water reservoirs to tailings storage facilities

    By N. Nišić, A. Cvjetić, V. Jovanović, D. Knežević, D. Nišić

    The risks associated with operating water reservoirs and tailings storage facilities (TSFs) are different because of their different purposes, methods of construction and operation, and characteristic

    Nov 30, 2022

  • SME
    Reclaiming Mined Lands In Alaska ? Introduction

    By Cleland N. Conwell

    The term "tender tundra" is a myth---a well-developed myth, but contrary to the fact. Any area that supports herbivores must have a plant base to supply food, In Alaska, herds of caribou migrate and l

    Jan 1, 1975

  • AIME
    1953 Annual Meeting - 175th General Meeting of AIME Acclaimed Success Technically and Socially

    CLEAR sunny skies that prevailed all through the 175th General Meeting of AIME were not the 1east of the details that resulted from the many months and man-hours of p1anning by the Southern California

    Jan 4, 1953