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  • DFI
    Recent Evolutions In Deep Foundation Technologies

    By Maurice Bottiau

    It is a quite challenging objective to aim at covering in one paper the most recent evolution in piling and deep foundations technologies. This report has to be understood within the limits of the ses

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Investigation and Cement Grouting of Big Creek Tunnel 2: A Leaking Historic Hydroelectric Tunnel

    By David Van Horsen

    Big Creek Tunnel 2, constructed in 1912, is located in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California, east of Fresno. It is horseshoe and circular shaped with a 3.6m (12ft) diameter and extends 6.6km (4.1

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AIME
    PART IV - Communications - Miscibility Gap in the System Iron Oxide-CaO-P2O5 in Air at 1625°C

    By E. T. Turkdogan, Klaus Schwerdtfeger

    OelSEN and Maetz1 detected some 20 years ago the existence of a miscibility gap in iron oxide-CaO-P2O5 slags melted in iron crucibles at about 1400°C. Because of the importance of this system for the

    Jan 1, 1968

  • ISEE
    Modelling Non-Ideal Explosives with Detonation Shock Dynamics (DSD) Theory

    By Lars Arne Granlund

    Due to the coarse structure of mining explosives, one has to model a finite reaction zone,contrary to C-J calculations, describing their detonations, i.e they become dependent of diameter and confinem

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Effects Of Coal Mining On Ground Water ? Introduction

    By Grover H. Emrich

    Pennsylvania,, due to its location in the humid east, is fortunate to possess within its borders large quantities of water. Most of the State is drained by three major river systems-the Ohio, Susqueha

    Jan 1, 1965

  • NIOSH
    RI 9314 - Pressure Leaching of Galena Concentrates To Recover Lead Metal and Elemental Sulfur

    By Agnes Y. Lee

    As part of the U.S. Bureau of Mines program to improve base metal leach systems, pressure leaching of galena (PbS) concentrates in fluosilicic acid (H2SiF6) solution was investigated. Lead extraction

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    Advanced Jig Separation of Shredded Plastics

    Advanced Jig Separation of Shredded Plastics The authors have reported that the RETAC jig is very useful in separating relatively low density particles such as plastics, and demonstrated that highly

    Sep 13, 2010

  • NIOSH
    RI 3513 Concentration Of Manganosiderite Ore From Leadville, Colo. ? Introduction (3f7befd5-c899-4866-8efd-aa1cbc5856e3)

    By F. D. DeVaney

    Manganese-bearing deposits f the Leadville, Colo., district are of two distinct types. Manganosiderite, a combined or intimately mixed ferrous and manganous carbonate, occurs in unaltered zones as the

    Jan 1, 1940

  • NIOSH
    RI 3513 Concentration Of Manganosiderite Ore From Leadville, Colo. ? Introduction

    By F. D. DeVaney

    Manganese-bearing deposits of the Leadville, Colo. district are of two distinct types. Mangano siderite, a combined or intimately mixed ferrous and manganous carbonate, occurs in unaltered zones as th

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AIME
    Papers - Metal Mining - Vertical and Incline Shaft Sinking at North Star Mine

    By Arthur B. Foote

    Ore production from the property of the Miami Copper Co. began early in 1911. Until 1925 this ore came from the so-called high-grade orebodies, which contained a little over 2 per cent. copper. This o

    Jan 1, 1930

  • AIME
    Minerals Beneficiation - Cyanide Leaching to Extract Copper from Zinc Concentrate (Mining Engineering, Feb 1960, pg 158)

    By H. Tabachnick, N. Hedley

    The extraction of gold and silver from ores with alkaline cyanide solutions is well known. Cyanide solutions are also good solvents for many base metal minerals, particularly most of the copper minera

    Jan 1, 1961

  • NIOSH
    MSHA Kicks Off ?Winter Alert? Campaign

    The U.S. Department of Labor?s Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA),through its winter alert program, warns U.S. mine operators and miners at underground coal mines of workplace hazards that c

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Interaction Of Grade And Metallurgy Simulations In Assessing Uncertainty For Ore Routing Determinations In The Gold Quarry Deposit

    By M. Baumann

    Introduction Gold Quarry is one of the largest gold deposits in Nevada, located along the Carlin Trend, approximately seven miles north of Carlin, NV. Owned and operated by Newmont Mining Corporati

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AIME
    Virginia Beach Paper - Product and Economical Results of the Marsac Refinery for the year 1892

    By C. A. Stetefeldt

    In a former paper (Runs., xxi., 286) I described the plant of the Marsac Refinery, and the manipulations of the process, but cou1d not, at the time, give reliable statistical results. To supply the la

    Jan 1, 1895

  • TMS
    Lighweight Materials for the Automotive: Environmental Impact Analysis of the Use of Composites

    By Karel Van Acker

    The automotive is a sector where energy consumption during the use phase prevails over the production and the end-of-life phase. Therefore, a lot of research and innovations at replacing classical ste

    Jan 1, 2010

  • AIME
    Producing – Equipment, Methods and Materials - Prevention of Carbonate Scale Deposition: A Well -Packing Technique with Controlled Solubility Phosphates

    By Karl A. Bauer, Cornelis Bezemer

    The deposition of calcium carbonate scale on surface and subsurface production equipment creates an operation problem in many oil fields. The formation water in which the carbonate-scale-forming compo

    Jan 1, 1970

  • NIOSH
    OFR-1B-87 Assessment Of Whole Body Vibration Levels Of Coal Miners - Volume II: Whole Body Vibration Exposure Of Underground Coal Mining Machine Operators

    By P. J. Remington

    Field measurements utilizing a seat pad accelerometer were made on 25 underground coal mining machines in order to quantify the vibration levels experienced by the operators. Those data were combined

    Jan 1, 1983

  • DFI
    Shaft End Bearing Capacity In Cavernous Limestone

    By Issa S. Oweis

    Limestone is a sedimentary rock composed primarily of calcite (calcium carbonate). In the presence of an aqueous solution of carbon dioxide (carbonic acid) bicarbonate radicals (2HCO3)- are produced t

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    A Patent Licensing Regime for the Development and Protection of the Area’s Resources

    By Yao Zhou

    Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the international seabed area (Area) and its resources are the common heritage of humanity (CHH). Patent rights can be incompatible

    Sep 1, 2014

  • IOM3
    Controlled source electro-magnetic mapping: development and evaluation of its application to mineral exploration

    By D. Large, M. H. Davies, B. Driedrichs, U. Matzander

    Synthesis report on a project carried out under the EC-funded BRITE-EURAM programme. A prototype high-resolution electromagnetic system, based on the theory of controlled-source magnetotellurics, was

    Jun 21, 1905