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  • SME
    Subsidence Impacts On Infrastructure And Drainage: Reestablishing A Stable Channel Using Geomorphic Design Principles

    By G. Krogman, C. Walla, B. Wood

    The Gebo Mining District (District) is located in the Bighorn Basin of Wyoming. Commercial underground coal mining began in 1906 with the arrival of the railroad in Thermopolis, which is located appro

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Gas in Face Coal

    The study of gas emitted from face coal samples at the coal face is part of an investigation of instantaneous outbursts of coal and gas. Normally, seam gas essentially comprises methane of which the o

    Jan 1, 1962

  • NIOSH
    OFR-10-82 Automatic Trapped Miner Seismic Signal Detection And Analysis System

    By Tim F. Dyson

    Feasibility of employing automated processing and detection techniques in the mine disaster communications problem is demonstrated. Efficient processing methods are developed. These methods have been

    Jan 1, 1981

  • DFI
    Geotechnical Investigation For Fashion Island Boulevard Bridge Earthquake Repair State Bridge No. 35C-160 San Mateo, California

    By Lawrence P. Goldfarb

    This paper presents the results of the geotechnical investigation for the repair of the Fashion Island Boulevard Bridge, Bridge No. 350160, in San Mateo, California. The concrete, precast girder bridg

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Transfer Function Model Of Phosphate Heap Leaching

    By M. Weatherspoon, S. Gebo, K. Prisbrey

    Our objective was to develop a transfer function model of phosphate heap leaching for design, optimization and control. The procedure included analysis of time-lapse photography of a laboratory heap.

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    Environmental Assessment Of Base Metal Processing: A Nickel Refining Case Study

    By P. Forbes

    Mining and metallurgical processing companies that have adopted the principles of good environmental management often find it difficult to carry out an environmental assessment that yields meaningful

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SAIMM
    Recommendations For Site Investigation, Design, Construction, Testing, Monitoring And Maintenance Of Permanent Intruded Concrete Plugs

    By G. S. Littlejohn

    Following study of historical South African practice and a review of recent experience gained during the design, construction and testing of the high pressure plugs at the South Deep Water Barrier Pro

    Jan 1, 2006

  • NIOSH
    RI 4223 Bauxite in Cherokee and Calhoun Counties, Ala.

    By Don M. Coulter

    "INTRODUCTION Bauxite, in Appalachian Alabama, occurs in the Rock Run and Goshen Valley districts in Cherokee County; in Nences Creek Valley near Jacksonville; near Anniston in Calhoun County; north o

    Mar 1, 1948

  • DFI
    Pittsburgh Steelers Stadium - Deep Foundations Case Study

    By Larry Rayburn

    In the spring of 1999, construction commenced on the new Steelers Football Stadium in downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Richard Goettle, Inc. (RGI) was the successful bidder to install the specified

    Jan 1, 2001

  • CIM
    Lead Flotation from Rod and Ball Mill Discharge at Nanisivik Mines Limited

    By J. Goyman, K. R. Rawling

    "1.1 Location and Transportation ServicesNanisivik Mines Ltd. is located at latitude 73°, 3,200 km north of Montreal and 700 km north of the Arctic circle, on the south side of Strathcona Sound, which

    Jan 1, 1984

  • NIOSH
    OFR-2(1)-81 Efficiency And Service Life Of Wire Rope Terminations

    By F. Matanzo

    [Nine wire rope terminations were pull tested and fatigue tested to destruction to measure the termination efficiency and relative fatigue life. The terminations were selected on the basis off mine si

    Jan 1, 1978

  • CIM
    Bubble Surface Area Flux: A Parameter to Characterize Flotation Cells

    By R. Filippone, Donald Leroux, Colin Hardie, G. Leichtle, Cesar Gomez, Jim A. Finch

    "Bubble surface area flux (Sb) is the surface area of bubbles per unit time per unit cross-sectional area of flotation machine. The units are: (m2 bubble surface/s)/(m2 cell) or s -1. For bubbles of m

    Jan 1, 1999

  • NIOSH
    Mineral Highlights - Law Of The Sea Treaty

    After nine years of negotiations, the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea approved a Law of the Sea Treaty text in April. Israel, Turkey, the United States and Venezuela voted against the text and 1

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Simulating Development In An Underground Hardrock Mine (c3438eb4-3bbf-46d6-8927-977833af7dd6)

    By D. Brunner

    System simulation is an increasingly popular technique for analyzing and improving existing as well as newly designed underground mining operations. An engineering firm that specializes in simulatio

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Development of AERO® MX3048 Promoter for MMG Sepon Concentrator, South Central Laos

    By Tony Moore, Peter Riccio

    "MMG (Minerals and Metals Group) operates the LXML Sepon’s mineral processing facility located 40 kilometers north of the town of Sepon, in the Savannakhet Province, Lao PDR. The Sepon copper plant pr

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Climate Change For Mine Planners: Some Fundamentals

    By R. D. Williams

    In spite of the increasingly polarized and politicized view of climate science and climate change in the United States, many of the principles behind the ?theory? of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SAIMM
    The Influence Of Alkalis On The Boudouard Reaction

    By H. B. Arntzen, P. O. Grøntvedt, T. Lindstad, R. J. Ishak, M. Syvertsen

    Better utilisation of electric power and coke is vital in reducing production costs and CO2-emissions in production of ferromanganese. All FeMn smelting operations consume 10 to 30 % more carbon than

    Jan 1, 2004

  • NIOSH
    RI 6942 Underground Combustion Oil-Recovery Experiments In The Venango Second Sand, Reno Pool, Venango County, Pa.

    By G. G. Campbell

    The Bureau of Mines in cooperation with Quaker State Refining Corp. conducted two underground-combustion oil-recovery experiments in the Venango Second sandstone in the Reno pool, Foster-Rena-Oil City

    Jan 1, 1967

  • NIOSH
    IC 7439 Burning Refuse Dumps at Coal Mines

    By J. H. East, D. Harrington

    "INTRODUCTION Burning refuse dumps are a common and by no means pleasant sight in most coal-mining distracts; they have been and largely continue to be accepted as a necessary, if undesirable, adjunct

    Mar 1, 1948

  • ISEE
    Is that Normal? Fundamental Observations for Best Practive Blast Vibration Anaysis

    By W. J. Birch, A. Wetherelt

    The scaled-distance model for blast vibration analysis is the standard method employed throughout the surface mining and quarrying industries to model Peak Particle Velocity (PPV) data. Although empir

    Jan 1, 2005