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  • CIM
    Outotec’s Fully Automated Smelter 2020 – The Vision, the Status and the Future

    By Joey Hoang, Robert Johansson, Tapani Keronen, Mikael Jåfs, Jani Jansson, Mikko Korpi

    At the Copper 2016 conference in Kobe, Japan, Outotec introduced a vision for the year 2020, wherein smelting would make use of four digital cornerstones: intelligent instruments, advanced process con

    Jan 1, 2019

  • CIM
    Guidelines for Implementing 3d Modeling in a Multi-Disciplinary Mining Organization

    By C. L. Popp

    The scope is to address issues confronted by parties in the mining industry such as: Mine planners, survey and engineering departments, field teams and subcontractors. Describing approaches and best p

    May 1, 2013

  • SME
    Political Risk Management In Northern Andean Countries

    By W. J. Spat

    Political risk is an integral part of the mining business in Northern Andean countries. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela all have a higher than average political risk compared with other South A

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Goldstream Concentrator Design and Operation

    By Stuart McTavish

    "Noranda's Goldstream mine is a 1,500 ton per day copper-zinc mine located 60 miles north of Revelstoke, B.C.The orebody which contains 3.69% Cu and 2.69% Zn was discovered in 1972. Construction of th

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AIME
    The Assay and Valuation of Gold-Bullion

    By Frederic P. Dewey

    THE Bureau of the Mint of the United States Treasury maintains 13 offices for the purchase of gold-bullion, and this paper describes an investigation to establish the reasonable differences in the ass

    Aug 1, 1909

  • CIM
    On the aqueous oxidation of polymetallic Cu-Zn-Pb gold-bearing sulphide ore in an autoclave

    By R. Vracar, D. Sinadinovic, Ž. Kamberovic

    The paper presents a study on the oxidation of polymetallic gold ore by oxygen in an autoclave. It presents optimum parameters of autoclave leaching of sulphide refractory ore in self-generated sulphu

    Jan 1, 2001

  • CIM
    Inflows in Uranium Mines of Northern Saskatchewan: Risks And Mitigation

    By R. Bashir, J. F. Hatley

    ABSTRACT Northern Saskatchewan boasts some of the world’s largest known high-grade uranium deposits. The successful mining of these deposits cannot be accomplished without overcoming technical challen

    Jan 1, 2013

  • NIOSH
    The Role of ASTM E27 Methods in Hazard Assessment Part II: Flammability and Ignitability

    By Laurence G. Britton

    Accurate flammability and ignitability data for chemicals form the cornerstone of procedures used to assess the hazards associated with commercial chemical production and use. Since 1967 the ASTM E27

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Risk in ultimate pit selection

    By Edward Holloway

    The basis for the selection of the ultimate pit for an open-pit mining operation is generally opaque. Some form of value-based analysis will generally guide the final decision; however, the value will

    Jun 1, 2024

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 57 Safety and Efficiency in Mine Tunneling

    By John A. Davis, David W. Brunton

    During the past few years great progress has been made in the United States toward safer, more efficient, and more economical tunneling methods. This advance is partly due, no doubt, to the recent inc

    Jan 1, 1916

  • SAIMM
    Examples of fracturing of rock at very low stress levels

    By K. Yathavan

    Fracturing of rock at low stress levels can be a source of unexpected problems in rock engineering: • the resulting instability can be a safety hazard; • in very brittle rocks it may be associated

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Exploration Of Limestone Pillar Stability In Multiple-level Mining Conditions Using Numerical Models

    By Michael Murphy, Gamal Rashed, Brent Slaker

    Many underground stone mines in the United States operate on multiple mining levels. The effects of interburden thickness, pillar offset between mining levels at various depths of cover, and in situ s

    Jan 1, 2023

  • AIME
    Production of High-Density Parts by Powder Metallurgy Increases

    By Charles Hardy, George D. Cremer

    POWDER metallurgy has been established for some time as a novel method for manufacturing a great variety of articles generally specialties that could not be made conveniently by any other method. In t

    Jan 1, 1942

  • NIOSH
    Second-Quarter National Economic Activity And Third-Quarter Outlook - Second-Quarter National Economic Statistics

    By Keith L. Harris

    The economy continued to expand during the second quarter, but at a much slower pace than expected. According to latest estimates released by the Department of Commerce, the real gross national produc

    Jan 1, 1986

  • NIOSH
    OFR-25(2)-74 Improved Sensors And Fire Control Systems For Mining Equipment - Phase II - Final Report - Executive Summary - I. Introduction, Summary, And Results - Introduction

    U.S. Bureau of Mines contract H0122053, "Improved Sensors and Fire Control Systems for Mining Equipment", was an investigative effort involving: ? Study of the fire problem on large mobile mining e

    Jan 1, 1973

  • NIOSH
    Qualitative And Quantitative Aspects Of Crude Oil Composition

    By Harold M. Smith

    This publication summarizes the literature on the composition of petroleum, with special emphasis on naphtha and gas oil, and provides a source book for the known qualitative and quantitative facts on

    Jan 1, 1968

  • DFI
    Design and Construction of Mixed Ground Working Platform for a CCR Surface Impoundment

    By Juan M. Pestana, Jeremy M. Gasser, Cuneyt Gokmen, Paul J. Sabatini, William Tanner, Daniel J. Woeste

    An access pathway and working platform were designed and constructed for equipment access for a Deep Soil Mixing (DSM) pilot study over a coal combustion residual (CCR) surface impoundment (SI). The D

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    The Knowledge Management Landscape in the Greek Coal Mining Industry - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By Christos Roumpos, Philip‑Mark Spanidis, Francis Pavloudakis

    Coal mining operations are large-scale, long-term frameworks of high complexity. Mining organizations accumulate, develop, and leverage knowledge from diverse scientific and technological fields as a

    Mar 16, 2024

  • CIM
    Flammability of Ammonia Leach Solution Vapours Under an Atmosphere of Enriched Oxygen

    By J. Budac, R. Kofluk, D. Belton, M. Sjogren

    A series of tests were performed to determine the flammability limits of mixtures of oxygen, ammonia, steam and nitrogen, over a solution, in a sealed autoclave. The partial pressures of ammonia and o

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AIME
    Papers - A. I. M. E. Publications - Contents of 1931 Volumes

    On the Art of Metallography (Howe Memorial Lecture), by F. F. Lucas; Beneficiation of Iron Ore. Abstract of paper by C. E. Williams followed by Round Table Discussion; A Statistical Analysis of Blast-

    Jan 1, 1931