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  • SME
    Methods For Preventing Decompression Of Soft Ground During Soft Ground Tunneling For The Paris Metro

    By J. Janin, J. F. Bougard

    Development of improved transportation networks in major urban centers has led more and more to underground construction, the only reasonable solution for decreasing surface traffic congestion. Excava

    Jan 1, 1974

  • ISEE
    "Journal: 100 Years / Keystone Placer Testing and Mineral Prospecting Drillers Catalog No. 2Keystone Driller Company Beaver falls, Pennsylvania 1907"

    By Oliver Finn

    Gold dredging has made such rapid strides of late and there is such a widespread interest in this branch of mining that I venture to contribute a detailed account of the way in which a Keystone drille

    Jan 1, 2008

  • CIM
    Metallurgical Process Advances Historically Reduce Resource Use and Pollution

    By H. J. McQueen

    Pyro-reduction of ores to metal products developed markedly through the industrial revolution into the great depression. Nineteenth century resource and environmental sustainability were haphazardly i

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    RI 5742 Extracting Neutral Low-Temperature Lignite Tar Fractions With Dipropionitrile Solvents ? Summary And Conclusions

    By Paul L. Campbell

    Investigations by the Federal Bureau of Mines of methods of upgrading tar obtained by low-temperature carbonization of lignite showed that ß,ß?-oxydipropionitrile, ß,ß?-iminodipropionitrile, and ß,ß&a

    Jan 1, 1961

  • SME
    The Socio-Economic Impact Of Western Coal Development

    By Irving D. Cohen

    In order to overcome our reliance upon foreign energy sources for both crude supply and finished products, we must realize the goals proposed by Project Independence. In general this involves expandin

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Attendance Up, Attitude Upbeat at Prospectors and Developers Meeting

    By Bruce Gellar

    For the past six years, the author has made it a priority to attend the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada’s (PDAC) annual conference. This most recent meeting took place March 10-13, 20

    Jan 1, 2002

  • NIOSH
    OFR-151-81 Evaluation And Demonstration Of A New Post Disaster EM Communication Technique For Mines

    By M. P. Ristenbatt

    A new automated post-disaster signaling system, intended to use through-the-earth EM propagation, was demonstrated in the laboratory at an input SNR of -34 dB. The system presently available requires

    Jan 1, 1981

  • AUSIMM
    The Effect of an Excessive Addition of Copper Sulphate on the Flotation of Sphalerite

    By Dunkin H. H

    Flotation tests in a laboratory flotation cell at pH 8-8.5 and other sui}plementary tests were carried out on sphalerite-quartz and sphalerite-pyrite-'quartz mixtures. Depression of sphalerite re

    Jan 1, 1954

  • AIME
    Rare Metals and Minerals ? Many New Uses ? Big Rise in Output of Beryllium, Calcium, Molybdenum, Radium ? Tungsten Scarce

    By Frank L. Hess

    BERYLLIUM is demanding more of the limelight, and the output of beryllium copper (containing 2% to~ 3 per cent of beryllium) seems to have grown 60 per cent above that of 1936, which was double that o

    Jan 1, 1938

  • SAIMM
    Investigation of stress in an earthmover bucket using finite element analysis: a generic model for draglines

    By N. Demirel, O. Gölbasi

    Draglines are massive machines extensively utilized in opencast mines for overburden stripping. The demanding working environment induces fractures, wear and tear, and fatigue failures in dragline com

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Preliminary Results for Investigating Time-Dependent Behaviour within the Block Cave Mining System Using Virtual Reality Scientific Visualisation

    Block caving is an underground mining method for the profitable extraction of massive, low-grade orebodies. Lately, it has become the mining method of choice, for many mining companies, because of dep

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    Bore Pile Stabilization Issues in Offshore Marine Works

    By Nuno Cruz, Saúl Rodríguez

    "When executing offshore bored piles there are several specific factors and problems to consider in order to guarantee excavation stability. One of the methods employed to carry out this type of work

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Effects of FAME Biodiesel and HVORD on Emissions from an Older-Technology Diesel Engine

    By S. E. Vanderslice, J. A. Hummer

    "The results of laboratory evaluations were used to compare the potential of two alternative, biomass-derived fuels as a control strategy to reduce the exposure of underground miners to aerosols and g

    Jan 12, 2017

  • CIM
    Experiences on Process Control Computers at the Concentrator of Outokumpu Oy

    By Olli Aulio, Outokumpu Oy

    "GENERALThe Outokumpu Company is today an important European producer of metals from its own mines: copper nickel cobalt, ferro chrome and zinc being the main products. In 1972 about 4 million tons of

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    Large Grinding Mill Bolted Joints – A Topic Of Concern (11a1f463-ada3-4cfb-90bc-0f7f4fabdaf0)

    By R. L. Guerguerian

    Critical fasteners are described as they apply to the specification, manufacture, and assembly on large grinding mill bolted joints. The importance of adequate design methods, related joint diagrams

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Separation Chemistry In The Refining Of An Off-Grade Molybdenite Concentrate By Leaching With An Acid Mix

    By P. M. Prasad

    Off-grade molybdenite concentrates, mainly derived from secondary sources as by-products of the processing of copper, uranium and tungsten ores, do not satisfy the purity requirements (percent MoS2) f

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Acid Rock Drainage from Abandoned Mines to High-Andean Lakes

    By José A. Rios, José A. Vidalôn

    The case study of a highland area in the Central Andes of Peru, where many abandoned polymetallic mines are found, is presented. Some of these mines generate metal leaching and acid rock drainage (ML/

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Advanced Technology in Mining Education

    General recognition of the potential benefits of utilizing advanced technology has focussed public attention on the organisation of tertiary education. This has produced a situation where opportuni

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    A Semiquantitative Chromatographic Method for Estimating Gold

    A field method combining solvent extraction and paper partition chromatography permits a simple and rapid semiquantitative estimation of gold in siliceous, argillaceous and sulphide ores. The method w

    Jan 1, 1964

  • AUSIMM
    Driving productivity by increasing feed quality through application of innovative Grade Engineering® technologies

    By S G. Walters

    The minerals industry is facing a productivity and investment crisis. The ‘Millennium Super Cycle’ from 2003–2011 was an unprecedented period of growth and investment resulting in increased throughput

    Sep 20, 2017