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  • SME
    Modern Coal Flotation Practices

    By Gary F. Meenan

    The industrial practice of froth flotation for upgrading the quality of fine coal is a relatively complex, expensive, and inefficient process when compared to the coarse- and intermediate-size coal cl

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Sedimentology Of The Salem Limestone In Indiana

    By Ned M. Smith

    The Mississippian Salem Limestone, from which dimension stone is quarried in Indiana, is principally a calcarenitic rock formed of fossil bryozoans, echinoderms, and specimens of Endothyra. Numerica

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Construction of the NuMI Underground Laboratory Facilities

    By Christopher Laughton, Michael P. Bruen

    At Fermilab, a 4000-ft long underground complex has recently been constructed for a high-energy physics experiment. The complex is sited up to 350 ft, below grade principally in bedrock. The rock exca

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Construed Geotechnical Characteristics Of Foundation Beds By Geophysical Measurements

    By F. Vallianatos

    The main objective of the present investigation is to demonstrate the potential of ERT (Electrical Resistivity Tomography) and HVSR (Horizontal to Vertical Spectral Ratio) methods as geophysical tools

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    A Case Study: Successfully Managing Excessive and Rapid Slope Deformation in an Open Pit Mine Utilizing Slope Monitoring Radar Systems - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By Justine Ealy, Daniel Yang, Christina Foster

    Maintaining stable high walls can be a challenging task. Complex geological and structural features, alteration zones, rock mass properties, and hydrogeological conditions must be well understood to d

    Feb 1, 2024

  • SME
    Numerical Prediction Of Subsidence With Coupled Geomechanical-Hydrological Modeling

    By S. P. Girrens

    A coupled finite element geomechanical- hydrology code is currently under development for application to the problem of predicting groundwater disturbances associated with mine subsidence. The structu

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Typical Large Sulfide Flotation Mills

    By J. B. Knapp, J. W. G. Betts, Scott L. Burreill, J. H. Bassarear, E. A. Lowe, W. J. N. Davis, John L. Bolles, Gaylord P. Dopson, William H. Keener, N. S. L. Steenkamp

    This chapter contains moderately detailed descriptions of some typical and well known mills that treat predominantly sulfide copper ores, some containing secondary values in gold, silver, and molybden

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Analyzing Coal Mine Productivity – Factors That Play

    By William J. Douglas

    Defining Productivity Productivity is a principal concern to all organizations - industrial, commercial, government, and academic. As a ratio of output to input, productivity measures the efficiency

    Jan 11, 1983

  • SME
    Estimation Of Support Load Requirements For Underground Mine Openings By Computer Simulation Of The Mining Sequence ? Introduction

    By William G. Pariseau

    The purpose of this paper is to present a design procedure for the quantitative estimation of support load requirements in underground mines. Emphasis is upon the basic features of support behavior co

    Jan 1, 1975

  • SME
    An Operations Research Approach To The Equipment Replacement Problem ? Introduction

    By Hubert E. Sherer

    The mining industry is presently one of the most heavily capitalized industries in the U.S. (U.S. - Statistical Abstracts, 1979). U.S. sales of new mining equipment (not including environmental, prepa

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Design-Build: Elevating Partnering to a Higher Level

    By Curtis A. Pledger, H. Lee Wimmer, I. Michael Gowring

    The Upper Diamond Fork Project, as part of the Central Utah Project Completion Act, conveys water six miles from the existing Sixth Water Aqueduct to the Diamond Fork Pipeline. During design, a Value

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Some Aspects Of Subsidence Monitoring In Difficult Terrain And Climate Conditions Of Rocky Mountains Western Canada

    By M. Y. Fisekci

    Subsidence measurement methods, applied over the thick and steep seam mining in the Rocky Mountains Region of Western Canada are described. The studies to date indicate that two new subsidence monitor

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    The Formidable Separation Machine Packed Column Flotation

    By T. P. Meloy

    The packed column flotation cell is an awesome separation device. Virtually unknown and untested, the packed column flotation cell is one of the ten most important developments in mineral processing o

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Mining for success: ESPRIT CAM helps Sandvik

    Sandvik built its first stone crusher in 1896 and has since grown to become a world leader in mining equipment. ?We are the best in the world, and we can now be even better at making our cone and ja

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Gold Deposits Of The Goldstrike Mine Carlin Trend, Nevada (e3674096-efaa-43e3-bb1a-07ff94423e7a)

    By K. H. Bettles

    The Goldstrike Mine is in Eureka County, Nevada, approximately 23 miles northwest of the town of Carlin. The mine is at the north end of the Tuscarora Spur of the Tuscarora mountains at elevations of

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    The Methodology Through Adverse Geology Ahead of Pinglin Large TBM

    By C. P. Shen, H. C. Tsai, Bennie Chu, Y. S. Hsieh

    The Pinglin tunnels are situated within the fold-and-thrust belt structural region in Taiwan, due to continent-arc collision and plate tectonic setting. The pilot tunnel TBM (§=4.8m) became stuck ten

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Rocks and Minerals in The Regolith of The Moon: Resources for a Lunar Base

    By Lawrence A. Taylor

    The rocks and minerals of the moon will be included among the raw materials used to construct a lunar base. The lunar regolith, the fragmental material present on the surface of the Moon, is composed

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Role of sodium silicate in phosphate flotation

    By I. Iwasaki, H. Dho

    The role of sodium silicate in the anionic flotation of a Florida phosphate ore was investigated using laboratory continuous flotation tests, frothabiliry tests and SEM observations. In the absence

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Geologic - Setting And Operations Overview, Lucerne Valley Limestone Mining District, Lucerne Valley, California

    By Howard J. Brown

    The Lucerne Valley limestone mining district is in the San Bernardino Mountains, one of the major ranges in the Transverse Range Province of southern California. Several large limestone mining operati

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Design of Plants

    By F. A. Gates, Bengt Samuelson, James E. Edmunds, S. McCune, Neil Hario, Norman L. Weiss, J. M. Bertram, A. M. Cavaliere, F. M. Jr. Stephens, D. D. Chiang

    DESIGN BASIS Size of Project The size of the project generally is expressed in tons of ore milled per day, but company policies differ widely in this respect with a few adhering to this set figu

    Jan 1, 1985