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  • AIME
    The "Big Inch" Pipe Line

    By Finney, W. R.

    MUCH has been said and written of the "Big Inch," of the terrific obstacles encountered in its construction, of the colorful and tough men engaged in its building, but little has been publicized of th

    Jan 1, 1943

  • AIME
    Metal Mining - Recent Operating Improvements at Kennecott's Utah Copper Mine

    By L. F. Pett

    ALTHOUGH Kennecott's orebody has long been outlined, it is still necessary to define further its limits. This mine, long an advocate of churn drill methods, recently supplemented its practice by

    Jan 1, 1952

  • IIMP
    Recuperación selectiva de metales en aguas ácidas, Cerro de Pasco

    By César Beraun, Pablo Espinoza, Luis Loaiza

    En la unidad Cerro de Pasco de Empresa Administradora Cerro SAC, existen varias fuentes de aguas ácidas de diversas características, con diferentes rangos de acidez y contenidos metálicos de hierro, z

    Sep 20, 2019

  • ISEE
    The Development of Low Shock Energy Ammonium Nitrate Based Explosives and their Applications

    By Jaki Wilson, Les Armstrong, Neville T. Moxon

    Low shock energy ANFO (ANFO) mixtures have been developed for use in fragmenting weak overburden materials and reducing damage.outside the blast zone in dry conditions. These mixtures can be readily p

    Jan 1, 1990

  • TMS
    Effects of Organic Acids on Extraction of Cr(III) in Soils Contaminated by Chromium-Containing Slag

    By Youze Xu

    The effect of oxalic acid, acetic acid, citric acid and EDTA on extraction of Cr (?) in soils contaminated by chromium- containing slag was investigated using a batch of incubation experiment. The res

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AIME
    Technical Notes - Energy Requirements in Size Reduction

    By Y. Oka, H. Majima

    When a rock particle is subjected to an external force, internal stresses and deformations are experienced by the particle. Assuming that the breakage of a rock is mainly due to tensile stresses gener

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    Management Challenges in Nurturing a Safe Work Environment

    By T. W. Camm

    "As engineers, we are trained to use logical, rational problem solving to insure our mines operate at maximum efficiency. We tend to use the same technical approach to design safety into all mining sy

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    A Discussion On Causation Mechanisms For Overburden Bumps As Distinct From Coal Bursts

    By Russell Frith

    The entire subject area of micro-seismic events due to stored strain energy, as distinct from gas-driven coal outbursts, can be readily sub-divided into firstly events with their energy source from wi

  • AIME
    Are Too Many Students Taking Mining Courses?

    By William B. Plank

    IN this paper are presented the results of a complete statistical survey of the enrolment, courses and degrees, and the employment situation of recent graduates in all of the 46 institutions in the Un

    Jan 1, 1934

  • AUSIMM
    Chemical and Physical Control of Mineral Slurry Processing

    By White L. R, Boger D. V

    The paper describes the surface chemistry and particle physics that control the fundamental flow properties (Theology) of mineral particle slurries. We further address, through a series of case stud

    Jan 1, 1992

  • NIOSH
    IC 6319 Milling Methods And Costs At The Concentrator Of The Magma Copper Co., Superior, Arizona ? Introduction

    By J. H. Rose

    This paper describing the milling practice at the Magma Copper Co., Superior, Ariz., is one of a series being prepared by the Bureau of Mines on milling methods and costs in the various mining distric

    Jan 1, 1930

  • SAIMM
    Control Of Strong Ground Motion Of Mining-Induced Earthquakes By The Strength Of The Seismogenic Rock Mass

    By A. McGarr

    The shear stress t that can be sustained by the rock mass in the environs of a mining-induced earthquake controls the near-fault peak ground velocity v of that event according to v=0.25(ß/G)t, where ß

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Gravity Recovery of Gold-Bearing Sulphides in a Milling Circuit

    "In many gold deposits, a reasonable amount of the gold that remains in the cyanide leach tailing is associated with pyrite. Some gold plants have found it economical to incorporate gravity circuits o

    Jan 1, 2017

  • CIM
    Influence of Rock Mass Anisotropy on Tunnel Stability

    Stress induced, gravity-assisted failure processes typically dominate long before stress levels approach the strength of the intact rock (at approximately smax > 0.4UCS where smax = 3s1 ? s3 and UCS i

    May 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Processing of unsaleable ultrafines to potentially reduce the volume of iron ore tailings

    By E Mare

    Recent highly publicised incidences of disastrous containment failures, none more pertinent than the 2019 iron ore tailings dam failure in Brumadinho, have focused the world’s attention squarely on th

    Nov 8, 2021

  • SME
    Energy Mathematics for Crushing Applications and Systems for Optimizing Comminution Costs

    By Malcolm D. Flavel

    Much has been said and written about the world's, and particularly the united states of America's, energy crisis. The relative changes between cost components of production have altered bec

    Jan 1, 1980

  • CIM
    Recovery of Sodium Sulphate from Alkaline Lake Deposits in Saskatchewan

    By J. W. Spyker, D. H. Filson, W. H. W. Husband

    "Large deposits of sodium sulphate exist in southern Saskatchewan in the brines or muddy crystal beds of alkali Jakes. Currently, more than 300,000 tons per year of sodium sulphate are produced from t

    Jan 1, 1966

  • AIME
    Metals, Research, and Progress

    By Paul. D. Merica

    I LIKE to look upon the award this year also as a recognition of the importance of metallic materials of construction to the engineer and of the active progress which I believe is continually being ma

    Jan 1, 1938

  • SME
    The Strategic Application Of Web 2.0 In The Mining Industry

    By Zoë Mullard

    The introduction of Web 2.0 platforms (also referred to as social media), with their architectures of participation, has ushered in a new era of technological interaction and information exchange that

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Geotechnical Challenges for Underground Commercial Space and Quarrying in Australia

    By A B. Bayooke, A C. Robertson

    In terms of underground tunnelling in metres advance per capita, Australasia compares well with the best world performers. This is because of the large number of metalliferous mines, coalmines and civ

    Nov 5, 2014