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  • SME
    Exploration Forecasts And Exploitation Realities At The Woodsreef Mine, New South Wales Australia (fb639160-786a-49a0-b6b0-3c6e1f1895d8)

    By Barrie C. Butt

    The opportunity for an exploration geologist to follow a successful exploration project through the feasibility, financing, construction, development and exploitation phase is rare. In addition, it is

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Discussion of “Study on correlation of quantified coal rank with self-heating temperature”

    By J. Grubb

    "The undertakings described in the paper titled “Study on correlation of quantified coal rank with self-heating temperature” by Wang and Luo in the November 2015 issue of Mining Engineering (Wang and

    Jun 1, 2016

  • SME
    Flaw Detection In Mine Hoist Transportation Systems (95b5f086-6a08-412c-be18-1fac8242df53)

    By Dennis N. Poffenroth

    One concern of the Mine Safety and Health Administration is the structural integrity of steel wire ropes used on mine personnel hoists and elevators. Failure of such ropes has resulted in loss of life

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Construction of the Bypass Tunnel for the Upper Llagas Creek Flood Protection Project - RETC2023

    By Clayton Williams, Dale M. Hata, Glenn M. Boyce

    The Upper Llagas Creek Flood Protection Project in Northern California encompasses portions of the communities of Morgan Hill and Gilroy, and unincorporated areas of Santa Clara County. The project pr

    Jun 13, 2023

  • SME
    Vanadium trends in exploration; markets and future demands

    By A. D. Hammond

    "The drop in iron ore prices has claimed an unwitting casualty in vanadium. Vanadium is dominantly produced as a coproduct of steel production. The recent shutdown at EVRAZ’s Mapochs steel-vanadium op

    Jul 1, 2016

  • SME
    Fundamentals Of Carbon Regulations And Their Impacts On The Mining Industry

    By S. M. Carpenter

    In an ever increasing ?carbon? society; management and growth will be measured by one?s carbon footprint (or output). Industries, especially mining, are under an ever increasing scrutiny of carbon, wa

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Machine Learning Prediction of the Load Evolution in Three‑Point Bending Tests of Marble (Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration)

    By K. KAKLIS, O. SAUBI, Z. Agioutantis, R. JAMISOLA

    Three-point bending (TPB) tests were conducted on prismatic Nestos marble (Greece) specimens. The specimens were instrumented with piezoelectric sensors, and comprehensive recordings of acoustic emiss

    Sep 7, 2022

  • SME
    Investigations on the Influence of Applied Thrust on Rock Penetration Rate by a Raise Boring Machine Using Numerical Simulation and Experimental Trials - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Amar Prakash, V. M. S. R. Murthy, VIVEK KUMAR HIMANSHU, Sufal Mehrotra, Ashish Kumar Vishwakarma

    Raises are vertical or inclined openings made to connect two levels of an underground metalliferous mine. They are developed using drilling and blasting-based technique or by mechanical means. Raise b

    May 29, 2023

  • SME
    Slurry Treatment Plants in Mechanized Tunneling Operations— Safety, Performance and Cost Factor for Jobsites - NAT2022

    By Gino Vogt

    In mechanized tunnelling operations, performance, consumption and safety are main factors for jobsites. One of the most important components effecting these factors, especially in slurry TBM operation

    Dec 1, 2022

  • SME
    Sulfur Reduction From Coal Through Physical Beneficiation - Background

    By Albert W. Deurbrouck

    The coal reserves in the United States are estimated to be in excess of 300 billion recoverable tons, and current projections of energy requirements indicate our increased dependence upon these reserv

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Multi-Step Thermodynamic Calculation for Copper Dross Bath Smelting Process "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Tianzu Yang, Weifeng Liu, Lin Chen, BOYI XIE, DUCHAO ZHANG, HUI XIAO

    The oxygen-rich bath smelting process of copper dross was simulated using Factsage software. It was found that the two-step simulation results agreed better with the industrial data, especially in the

    Oct 19, 2020

  • SME
    Distribution of Rare Earth Elements in the Illinois Basin Coals - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By John G. Groppo, James C. Hower, Cortland F. Eble, Rick Q. Honaker, Alireza Valian, Stephen F. Greb

    Coal and coal combustion byproducts are potential candidates for alternative resources of REEs (rare earth elements). The Illinois Basin is a major coal-producing district in the USA, but little work

    Jul 20, 2020

  • SME
    Major, Minor And Trace Element Composition Of The Bethany Fall Limestone Of Northwestern Missouri .

    By W. K. Wedge

    The chemical composition of the Pennsylvanian Bethany Falls Limestone Member of the Swope Formation was investigated using optical emission spectroscopy and both flame and flameless atomic absorption

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    The Nitric Sulfuric Leach Process For Recovery Of Copper From Concentrate

    By H. M. Brennecke

    A new hydrometallurgical process has been developed to recover copper from sulfide ores. Copper is leached in a staged reactor system utilizing nitric and sulfuric acids at 105°C. Iron is removed from

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Mining Foundation Of The Southwest To Host 30th Annual Banquet

    The 30th annual American Mining Hall of Fame Awards Banquet and Fundraiser sponsored by the Mining Foundation of the Southwest (MFSW) will be held at the JW Marriott Star Pass Resort, Tucson, AZ on Sa

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Comparison of Adhesion of A. ferrooxidans on Different Copper Sulfides: Surface Thermodynamics and Extended DLVO Theory

    By X. F. Wang, K. B. Fu

    "We investigated experimentally and theoretically the adhesion behavior of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans (At.f6) to different copper sulfides. The adsorption experiment showed cell densities of 10.74

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Optimizing Rare Earth Recovery: Gravity and Magnetic Separation Strategies for Halleck Creek - SME Annual Meeting 2026

    By Justin Reed, Sara Bewley, Dwight M. Kinnes, Maryam Sadeghi, Ed Hart

    This study compares wet gravity and dry magnetic separation for preconcentrating an allanite-rich rare earth ore from the Halleck Creek deposit. Material in the –300/+86 μm size range was treated to d

    Feb 22, 2026

  • SME
    Explosion suppression comparisons between dry, wet and a newly developed hydrophobic rock dust - SME Transactions 2016

    By K. A. Perry, R. Q. Eades

    The University of Kentucky conducted inerting tests and angle of ejection tests on three types of rock dust. A newly developed hydrophobic dust was compared against typical dry and wet dust applicatio

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Lake Mead intake No. 3: TBM tunneling at high pressure (ed38a026-61b2-4fb1-96a2-f8a5edcaaf6a)

    By Erika Moonin, Jim Nickerson, Claudio Cimiotti, Roberto Bono

    "In response to the severe drought on the Colorado River basin and in order to preserve existing water capacity to the Las Vegas Valley, the Southern Nevada Water Authority contracted a new deep-water

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Adaption of Protective Linings for Sewer Tunnels to Project Needs

    By Gilles Recher, Jörg Riechers, Albert Lueghamer

    "INTRODUCTIONIn view of a global trend towards urbanization, more and more trunk sewers and combined sewer overflow tunnels (CSO) with medium to large diameters and the corresponding link sewers are c

    Jan 1, 2016