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  • SME
    Blizzard fails to keep 7,202 away from SME Annual Meeting in Denver, CO

    One of the critical challenges facing the mining industry ? and not just in the United States ? is the looming labor shortage. A significant percentage of the industry?s professional workforce is, wel

    Jun 1, 2013

  • NIOSH
    OFR-151-77 The Physical And Chemical Characteristics Of Available Materials For Filling Subsurface Coal Mines

    By James R. Dunn

    Samples were taken of industrial mineral waste materials which are potentially capable of being used for filling underground coal mines for subsidence control in the Pittsburgh and the Scranton-Wilkes

    Jan 1, 1977

  • DFI
    Seismic and Lateral Load Design and Testing Guidelines

    By Don Deardorff, Ke Yang, Yingcai Han, Ken Sorensen, Robert Kruger, Mark Petersen, Diane Fiorelli, Larry Goldfarb, Kathryn Petek, Kwabena Ofori-Awuah

    Design of deep foundations for lateral loads requires an understanding of soil-foundation-structure response during loading. Lateral loads on a deep foundation (piles) could be due to earthquakes, win

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    OFR-55-77 Remote Sealing Operations - 1. Introduction

    By David A. Monaghan

    On January 14, 1974 a fire occurred in the 3 East mains of the Joanne Mine of Eastern Associated Coal Corp. in Rachel, West Virginia. The mine was evacuated without injury and sealed completely at the

    Jan 1, 1975

  • AUSIMM
    Operating Experience with Gasification Plant, Morwell

    Yallourn brown coal and its characteristics have been the subject of innumerable papers and discussions. The Lurgi process adopted for the production of Towns gas by the gasification of brown coal has

    Jan 1, 1960

  • SME
    A Review of Digital Transformation in Mining Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Pratt Rogers, Aaron Young

    Digital transformation (DT) is the process by which entities adapt themselves to modern technology. As digital technology becomes more prevalent (automation, cameras, sensors, touchscreens, artificial

  • CIM
    Accurassay Laboratories: State-of-the-Art Automation of the TSMC Iron Ore Lab

    By Brad McBain

    Agenda ? Accurassay Laboratories and Automation ? History and experience ? Features and benefits of automation in the lab ? Tata Steel Minerals Canada (TSMC) Iron Ore Laboratory ? State-of-the a

    Aug 1, 2013

  • SME
    Design and Construction of the DLR Extension to Woolwich Arsenal, London, UK

    By Andy Alder

    The Docklands Light Railway (DLR) Extension to Woolwich Arsenal provides a much-needed public transport link to this area of London. The project includes construction of 5.3mID running tunnels under t

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    Analyzing the Load-Transfer Behavior (T-Z Curve) for Instrumented Test Piles Driven in Clayey Soil

    By Murad Y. Abu-Farsakh

    This paper presents the analyses of load-transfer (t-z) behavior of twelve prestressed concrete (PSC) instrumented test piles that were driven in different locations of Louisiana. The load transfer me

    Jan 1, 2018

  • NIOSH
    OFR-82(2)-75 Probe Drill Guidance System - Volume 2 - Appendix A - Computer Program

    By Llewellyn A. Rubin

    ROUTINES AND SUBROUTINES A- 1 Wait Loop (Wait) A- 2 Receiver Processing (RCVP) A- 3 Control Panel Sequence (CPNL) A-4 Interrupt Routine (INTRP) A- 5 Math Processing Routine (PROC) A-6 Input

    Jan 1, 1973

  • NIOSH
    IC 6807 Petroleum Refineries, Including Cracking Plants, In The United States January 1, 1934 ? Introductory Summary

    By G. R. Hopkins

    According to reports received by the Bureau of Mines, Department of the Interior, as of January 1, 1934, there were 591 completed refineries in the United States, an increase of 86 ever the total repo

    Jan 1, 1934

  • SME
    The new mineral sands plant of the 3rd Millennium…How difficult-to-treat feedstocks can get a new lease on life

    By J. M. Elder, W. S. Kow

    Challenges to new heavy mineral deposit developments are presented. These include land use issues, particle fineness, declining grades, and particle coating, amongst others. Industry responses to thes

    Jan 1, 2005

  • NIOSH
    Surface-Water Seepage Into Anthracite Mines In The Lackawanna Basin Northern Field - Anthracite Region Of Pennsylvania ? Summary

    By S. H. Ash

    THE MAGNITUDE of the anthracite industry's drainage problem in the Lackawanna River drainage area is realized when it is known that in 1948 the 27 pumping plants in this region pumped over 48 bil

    Jan 1, 1952

  • AIME
    Papres - Metal Mining - Mining Practice at the Bell Mine Limestone Mine (With Discussion)

    By Samuel M. Shallcross

    The principal function of the Bell limestone mine, of the American Lime & Stone Co., at Bellefonte, Pa., is to supply raw material to the company's modern rotary kiln plant at Bellefonte. Because

    Jan 1, 1937

  • AUSIMM
    Goethite classification, distribution and properties with reference to Australian iron deposits

    By J R. Manuel, J M. F Clout

    The importance of goethite to Australian iron ore production is steadily increasing as the proportion of goethite-rich, martite-goethite bedded and channel iron deposits increases at the expense of de

    Jul 24, 2017

  • SME
    Learning from Workers’ Near-miss Reports to Improve Organizational Management Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (628f8beb-a11f-4959-9732-f55591f8de9a)

    By Brendan Demich, Joseph McGuire, Emily J. Haas

    Near misses recorded and reported by workers can provide awarenessto the potential causes of injury and prompt safety management initiatives. Although most companies require near-miss reporting, it is

  • CIM
    Applied Mineralogy in Industrial and Metallic Mineral Deposits: Examples from Wollastonite, V-magnetite and Muscovite

    By Panagiota Tsolis-Katagas, Basilios Tsikouras, Tassos A. Grammatikopoulos, C. Katagas

    "Mineralogical techniques including microscopic methods, reflected and transmitted light microscopy, Cathodoluminescence (CL) and Scanning Electron Microscopy equipped with an Energy Dispersive Spectr

    Jan 1, 2003

  • NIOSH
    IC 7683 Hydraulic Air Compressors ? Introduction

    By Leroy E. Schulze

    A review of development and a reevaluation of uses of the hydraulic air compressor are suggested by the constant changes in technology, which frequently make an old art valuable in solving current pro

    Jan 1, 1954

  • TMS
    A Spanish-Language Copper Information Database

    By Helga Larravide

    A new on-line database of literature about copper has been created through a joint undertaking by the Copper Development Association Inc. and PROCOBRE-Chile, with funding provided in part through the

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    The Valuation of Mineral in the Ground with Particular Reference to Expropriation

    State ownership of mineral in the ground is not newthe Regalian Right is an ancient concept. And the compulsory purchase of land and the minerals beneath it by the State or a body approved by the Stat

    Jan 1, 1957