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  • NIOSH
    OFR-162-77 Design Of A Quiet Rock Drill - A Feasibility Study Using Principles Of Leavell Pavement Breaker

    By Floyd R. Anderson

    Noise control of existing pneumatic drills is difficult and runs into cost, performance and weight penalties. A need exists for a start-from-scratch approach for quiet pneumatic rock drills. The desig

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Validation of the Predicted Heat Strain Model in Hot Underground Mines Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Paloma Lazaro, Moe Momayez

    Heat-related illnesses (HRI) are relatively common in both hot surface and underground mining operations. When workers are exposed to extreme heat or strenuous work in a hot environment, they become p

  • SME
    Validation of the Predicted Heat Strain Model in Hot Underground Mines Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (b1204250-b5e6-44a6-902f-6383dbcaf5a3)

    By Paloma Lazaro, Moe Momayez

    Heat-related illnesses (HRI) are relatively common in both hot surface and underground mining operations. When workers are exposed to extreme heat or strenuous work in a hot environment, they become p

  • CIM
    The Recovery of Cobalt by the Soluble Cobaltic Ammine Process

    By R. Stauffer, S. Lindsay

    "Sherritt Gordon Mines Limited utilizes pressure hydro-metallurgical techniques to recover nickel, copper and cobalt from su1phidic concentrates, mattes and various other metal-bearing materials.A bri

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals Review 2013

    By R. L. Virta

    Four companies ? H.C. Spinks Clay Co., Inc., Imerys, Old Hickory Clay Co., and Unimin Corp. ? mined ball clay in four states in 2013. On the basis of preliminary data, production was 1 Mt (1.1 million

  • NIOSH
    IC 9394 The Work Crew Performance Model: A Method For Evaluating Training And Performance In The Mining Industry

    By W. J. Wiehagen

    The Work Crew Performance Model (WCPM) seeks to define performance variability within similar tasks of an underground work crew and relate observed variability to a cost consequence. Performance varia

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AIME
    Part VIII - The Yield-Point Phenomenon in Strain-Aged Martensite

    By N. N. Breyer

    A specially built "hard" tensile machine with characteristics permitting the precise detertnination of the drop of the load at the yield point has been used to study the magnitude of the yield-point p

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    Evaluation of Baking Process for Rare‑Earth Recovery from Discarded Tube Lights Phosphor

    By Neha Shukla, Nikhil Dhawan

    The current study examines the extraction of rare-earth elements from trichromatic phosphor of discarded tube lights via baking processes. The Y2O3: Eu3+ (YOX) and BaMgAl10O17: Eu2+ (BAM) phases compl

    May 5, 2022

  • IIMP
    Minería y Silvicultura

    By Alberto Barreda

    A medida que la extracción del mineral progresa, la necesidad de madera en la construcción de edificios e instalaciones de la mina, también se incrementa. Por ello, el objetivo del presente trabajo se

    Jul 20, 1956

  • AUSIMM
    Resources versus Reserves – Towards a Systems-based Understanding of Exploration and Mine Project Development and the Role of the Mining Geologist

    By J P. Sykes, A Trench

    "World-class mine projects are increasingly failing to become world-class mines. Non-technical, socio-political and environmental problems seem, in part, to be the cause. However, the intangible and q

    Aug 18, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    The dynamic adhesion of wet and sticky iron ores onto impact plates

    By B Hayter, M Carr, K Williams, C Wheeler, W Chen

    Current trends into mining iron ore have seen an increase in the exploitation of problematic orebodies that would typically be disregarded. These bulk materials cause problems within all facets of the

    Jul 24, 2017

  • NIOSH
    IC 9250 Analysis Of Dump-Point Accidents Involving Mobile Mining Equipment

    By J. P. May

    This U.S. Bureau of Mines report identifies and evaluates factors responsible for dump-point accidents involving mobile mining equipment. Information regarding the occurrence and severity of the accid

    Jan 1, 1990

  • NIOSH
    RI 3365 Explosion In School Building At New London, Tex., March 18, 1937 ? Introduction (24b5843d-b726-4f54-b722-4665debf4240)

    By D. J. Parker

    On Thursday, March 18, 1937, the country was shocked by news of a terrific explosion at the New London, Tex., school, which caused the death of 280 pupils avid 14 teachers. The explosion occurred a

    Jan 1, 1937

  • SME
    Driving Forward The European Industrial Minerals Industry's Commitment To Sustainable Development

    By S. T. Murray

    The European industrial minerals industry and its markets are largely self-sufficient. The companies who are members of the Industrial Minerals Association (IMA-Europe) number around 150 contributing

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Canadian Minerals for Refractories

    By M. Palfreyman

    "Most of the minerals employed in Canadian refractory production are imported; in fact, most of the refractories consumed in Canada are imported. Whereas this situation is partly due to a definite sho

    Jan 1, 1973

  • AUSIMM
    Yet Another Use for Shotcrete

    By B Hartmann

    In 2003, Independence Group NL purchased the Long Shaft Nickel Mine complex (Long) in Kambalda, Western Australia. Lightning Nickel, the nickel operating arm of Independence Group, faced considerable

    Jan 1, 2008

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 198 Regulation of Explosives in the United States

    By Charles E. Munroe

    At the outset of the war the uncontrolled production and possession of explosives obviously became a serious menace to the safety of persons and property and the successful conduct of military opera-

    Jan 1, 1921

  • NIOSH
    OFR-38-90 Bureau Of Mines: The Focal Point For Federal Technology Applicable To The Mining And Mineral Industries ? Executive Summary

    By Alan A. Campoli

    OD March 20, 1989, a meeting was held at the U.S. Bureau of Mines Pittsburgh Research Center at the request of Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico. The purpose of the meeting was to engender a tech

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AIME
    Deoxidation with Silicon and the Formation of Ferrous-Silicate Inclusions in Steel

    By Herty, C. H.

    Present-day interest in the question of "dirty steel" has arisen primarily from the increasingly rigid specifications on various grades of steel and from the growing conviction that non-metallic inclu

    Jan 1, 1957

  • NIOSH
    IC 8260 Mineral Fillers For The California Pesticide Industry (ed3884a4-f899-49c9-936e-552395813338)

    By Wallace W. Key

    The California pesticide industry in 1962 consumed about 30,000 tons of clay, talc, limestone, diatomite, sulfur, and other minerals as fillers (carriers and diluents) in pesticide formulation. This w

    Jan 1, 1965