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  • SME
    Instrumentation Of Open Cut Subway Excavation For The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority (MARTA)

    By Rodney K. Morrison

    MARTA, The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, is building a 53 mile heavy rail transit system to serve the City of Atlanta. Phase A of the Rail System, consisting of approximately 14 miles

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Utilization Of Belt Air To Ventilate Working Sections In Underground Coal Mines

    By F. Calizaya

    This paper describes the basic requirements for the utilization of belt air to ventilate working sections at remote locations in relation to the main fans. It highlights the risks involved, potential

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Treating Refractory Gold Ores

    By Lane White

    Refractory gold ores are those from which a significant percentage of the gold cannot be recovered by conventional cyanidation. Historically, roasting has been the primary method for rendering such or

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Recovery Of Phosphate Values From Benefication Wastes

    By N. Abdel-Khalek, A. Youssef

    The tailings from beneficiation of Florida phosphate ore contain considerable phosphate values. These tailings are currently discharged into large disposal areas. More than three million tons of P2O5

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Decline Development At The Lakeshore Property

    By Robert S. Hendricks

    LOCATION AND HISTORY The Lakeshore Copper property is located on the Papago Indian Reservation approximately 30 miles South of Casa Grande, Arizona. This major porphyry type deposit was discovered

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Mill Drives In The Third Millennium

    By G. A. Grandy, P. F. Thomas, C. D. Danecki

    When considering the mill drive system for a grinding application, a large number of questions must be answered. Depending on the mill size and type, the mill can be driven by several configurations

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Influence Of The Reduction Conditions On The Expansion And Microtexture Of Sintered Hematite Compacts During The Transition To Magnetite

    By W. M. Husslage

    The permeability in the blast furnace shaft is adversely affected by low temperature reduction degradation of sinters. The fundamental cause is an expansion of the iron oxide phase resulting from redu

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Development of a tool for assessing the environmental sustainability of mining facilities

    By G. Gaidajis, K. Angelakoglou

    The development of a tool for assessing the environmental sustainability of mining facilities is described in this study. The tool is based on the analysis of basic components of the examined system,

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Terex Trucks Operate at Coal Reclamation Project

    Mine Terex articulated dump trucks are working on a large restoration project of an abandoned open cast coal site in Blacklaw, central Scotland. The project is part of the construction of a 42-turbin

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Studies On Water-Injection Cyclone For Processing Iron Ore Fines

    By U. B. Kodukula

    Attempts are made to evaluate the feasibility of using a water-injection cyclone for the concentration of iron ore fines. The separation characteristics of clay fines, containing large amounts of alum

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Micro-Mechanical Modeling To Study Smooth Blasting

    The current understanding of the mechanics of rock fracturing during smooth blasting is largely empirical and qualitative due to an inability to model the dynamic process at the fundamental level. In

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Cyanidation Studies: Recovery Of Copper By Cyanidation

    By George O. Lower

    The use of cyanides in the extraction of gold and silver is well known.1 Such extractions employ con¬centrations of cyanide in the range of 0.02-0.25 % sodium cyanide equivalent in leaching cycles of

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Members Ready for Mining Industry Upswing at SME’s Annual Meeting

    By Steve Kral

    It seems that mining has been in the doldrums for awhile. Except for gold, metals prices remain depressed. And economic conditions in the United States and around the globe have put governments in a

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Selection of TBM Backup Systems

    By Anthony J. Peach

    With the new generation of so called "Super TBM", we would all expect to witness the implied super-performance. In some instances this is occurring, but one must ask why is it not occurring in the maj

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Mining Industry Feels Effects of General Recession

    By Donald E. Ralston, V. Rajaram, Michael N. Greeley, John W. Peters, Terry J. Laverty, F. S. Kendorski, Peter G. Chamberlain, J. Brent Hiskey, William C. Larson

    Preliminary figures from the US Mine Safety and Health Administration show 801 underground metal mines and 490 surface metal mines, at the end of 1981, up from 663 and 383, respectively, in 1980.

    Jan 5, 1982

  • SME
    The Technology of Automated Guidance for TBM’s and Road Headers

    By W. L. Hollinshead, Alwin Poltinger

    GENERAL Tunneling by hand digging is as old as the history of humans. Mechanized tunneling did not begin to replace manual methods until around the beginning of the 19th century(Brunel patent, 1818

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Observed Loading Behavior During Cross Passage Construction - Brisbane Airport Link Project

    By John Kuyt, Zili Li, Michael Mooney, Michele Mangione

    "INTRODUCTIONTwin bored tunnels are commonly used for a variety of road and tunnel projects throughout the world. A major component of these twin tunnel projects is the construction of connecting cros

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Stainless Steel For Hydrometallurgy Plants

    By J. Olsson

    Introduction Stainless steel has by tradition been a common construction material for hydrometallurgy processes and the most common grades can be found amongst the ASTM 300-series, i.e. austenitic gr

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Phosphate Raw Materials Of Tennessee

    By Robert E. Hershey

    The phosphate industry is the fourth-ranking mineral industry in Tennessee; it has an annual value of 13,000,000 and a yearly production of almost 2,000,000 tons of phosphate ore. Tennessee, at presen

    Jan 1, 1960

  • SME
    Recycling Power Plant Fly Ash And Its New Application For Construction Materials - Preprint 09-037

    By N. S. Kim

    Economically favored Cr and Cu leaching out process from spent power plant fly ash (PPFA) had been investigated. PPFA, bearing of C, S, V, Ni, Cu and Cr, has been widely used as an assistant fuel in c

    Jan 1, 2009