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  • SME
    Overseas Private Investment Corporation Minerals Program

    By Richard H. Lindgren

    I appreciate this opportunity to discuss with you OPIC's new policies designed to assist U.S. minerals companies in developing new sources of minerals overseas. A comparison of recent figures on

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    The Importance of Controlling the Chemical Environment in Flotation Circuits

    By J. E. Gebhardt, J. A. Herbst, K. Y. Lee

    Benefits of proper control of reagent usage in flotation circuits are typically improved metallurgy and savings in reagent costs. Improved metallurgy can mean more consistent product quality, i.e., fi

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    The Effects of Calcination‑Water Quenching on Quartz Purification and Its Mechanism - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Feida Wu, Yuhang Liu, Huimin Gao, Yuhan Song, Zhi Liu, Zijie Ren

    In the process of quartz purification by calcination water quenching, the different expansion rates of gangue minerals and quartz were used to produce cracks or remove fluid inclusions, which is condu

    Nov 2, 2023

  • SME
    Very Large Span Openings At Shallow Depth: Deformation Magnitudes From Jointed Models And F.E. Analysis

    By Nick Barton, Harald Hansteen

    The deformations resulting from excavation of very large openings are compared using two-dimensional F.E. continuum analyses and discontinuous physical models (20,000 discrete blocks). Both the joint

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Improving Productivity in Thin-Seam Continuous Mining at Tanoma

    By Scott G. Britton

    Thin-seam mining presents unique challenges when management or economic conditions require significant productivity increases. These challenges can be further amplified depending on such factors as la

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Control -- The Key To Preparation For The Export Market

    By Martial P. Corriveau

    The preparation of coal is essentially the same for export as it is for the domestic market. The big difference, I would say, is that, while coal for certain domestic uses (utilities, for instance) ne

    Jan 1, 1959

  • SME
    Rock Excavation By Hydraulic Splitter

    By Neil J. Duncan, Edward R. Langfield

    A hydraulic rock breaker was developed in Germany by Helmut Darda and uses a wedge-plug and feathers mechanism powered by a 10,000 p.s.i. power pack. During the past four years these tools have been i

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Acid Rain – An Example of Environmental Epistemology

    By Edward C. Krug

    "You are to use the word ... purely for its selling power. It is a name they venerate. As a result, you can use the word ... to ... get [them] to practice, not only without shame bit with a positive g

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    The Management Of Risk

    By A. A. Mathews

    INTRODUCTION When Palmer King asked me to prepare a paper for this conference, it seemed quite appropriate, since I am Chairman of Subcommittee No. 4 of the U. S. National Committee on Tunneling Te

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Long-term evaluation of cab particulate filtration and pressurization performance - SME Transactions 2012

    By J. D. Noll, J. A. Organiscak, A. B. Cecala

    Over the past decade, a substantial effort has been made to improve the air quality inside enclosed cabs of both underground and surface mobile mining equipment to reduce respirable dust exposures by

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Tunneling on the Tren Urbano Project, San Juan, Puerto Rico

    By Michael Gay, W. H. Hansmire, G. Rippentrop, V. S. Romero

    The new Tren Urbano heavy rail transit project in San Juan, Puerto Rico has one very significant part, the Río Piedras Contract, being constructed underground. This paper will give an overview of the

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Use of vibrating wire stress meters in coal

    By N. S. Tanious

    The accuracy of vibrating wire stress meters has been questioned by various users in the mining industry. During an in situ coal pillar study, a laboratory evaluation program was developed to determin

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Subsidence Measurement Techniques

    By W. M. Ma, Daniel W. H. Su, K. Centofanti, Yi Luo, W. L. Zhong, Syd S. Peng

    7.1 INTRODUCTION Subsidence measurements include surveys of surface and sub- surface movements and measurements and monitoring of surface structural damages. In this chapter the most commonly employed

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Transportation-Railroad Construction

    By Scott G. Britton

    In this chapter, I shall discuss railroad con¬struction for modern underground coal mines. Because men, materials, and supplies are being moved more often and farther by rail, the ef¬ficient and safe

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Economics of Contract Mining or Should I Use a Contract Miner?

    By Donald D. Haas

    This presentation will discuss a mine owner's evaluation to utilize a contract miner in the development and production of gold properties. I will address both the quantitative and subjective aspe

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Advanced 3D Software Systems For Effective Environmental Management

    By I. K. Kapageridis

    Environmental management and planning requires the integration of large volumes of disparate information from many sources and the analysis of this information with efficient tools for assessment and

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    An Empirical Constitutive Relationship for Rock Mass

    By Z. T. Bieniawski, Nicholson G. A.

    This paper describes an empirical constitutive model for underground excavations in rock which equates the deformation modulus to the ratio of the principal stress difference to the major principal st

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Problems In New Strip Mine Development

    By Richard W. Brummett

    Problems in new strip mine development is a subject that could require several days to cover adequately. Coupled with the fertile imagination of television writers, we could probably expand it into a

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Surface Products Of Water And Xanthate Interaction With Copper Sulfide Minerals Selective Separation

    By M. Alnot, J. A. Mielczarski, J. J. Ehrhardt, J. M. Cases

    The flotation behavior of minerals depends on the balance between hydrophobic and hydrophilic species present at the surface of the minerals. The direct characterization of the interfacial products fo

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Introduction to Shortwall Mining

    By Kenneth P. Katen, Robert H. Trent

    GENERAL DESCRIPTION Shortwall mining is one of the newest mining meth¬ods to be introduced into the world coal industry. The technique of shortwalling seems to have a number of origins, but it is g

    Jan 1, 1982