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  • ISEE
    Small Scale Testing to Investigate Air Blast Loading on Plates

    By H Ulrich Leiste, Leslie Talor

    This paper describes a series of small scale tests conducted to investigate the loading applied to a flat plate by the detonation of a cylindrical charge very close (between two and three charge radii

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Mining Careers ù Short-Term Profit Versus Long-Term Gain

    Salaries for mining professionals have gone up substantially in the last two years across most vocations and there has never been a better time to enter the industry, in terms of career opportunities

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Some Methods of Timbering and Working Wide Lodes in New South Wales

    The rapid advance in the adaptation of scientific knowledge to the treatment of ores, resulting in improved chemical and metallurgical processes, has enormously increased the possibility of working lo

    Jan 1, 1901

  • CIM
    Towards Optimum Value in Underground Mine Scheduling

    By Bryan M. Maybee

    The scheduling of underground mining activities is a complex task, in particular because of the requirement to satisfy a large number of constraints. A Schedule Optimization Tool (SOT) for underground

    May 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Effects of DA as a Grinding Aid on Selective Grinding of Low-Grade Bauxite

    Effects of DA as a Grinding Aid on Selective Grinding of Low-Grade Bauxite Effects of DA (a copolymer of acrylic acid and acrylamide) as a grinding aid on selective grinding of low-grade bauxite were

    Sep 13, 2010

  • SME
    Proposal for a top-down/bottom-up Approach to build up Indicators of Sustainable Development for Use in the Mining Industry in Africa

    By G. Récoché, A. Chamaret, M. O’Connor

    Building indicators that respond to all stakeholders' needs is a time-consuming and complex exercise, with certain questions still unsolved. The aim of the current three-year research project, ca

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Silica Gelation in Risdon Leach Pulp

    The polymerisation of silica is found to interfere with thickening of leach pulps at Risdon. Hydroxyl ion and fluoride ion are catalysts for this reaction. Stability may be obtained by the presence of

    Jan 1, 1958

  • TMS
    Synthesis Of High Performance Limn₀₈ Fe₀₂ Po₄/C Cathode Material For Lithium Ion Batteries: Effect Of Calcination Temperature

    By Enrui Dai, Weibing Chen, Bin Yang, Wenhui Ma, Haisheng Fang, Hui Wang

    LiMn0.8Fe0.2PO4/C composite was prepared by an improved solid-state method and the effect of calcination temperature on properties of the obtained materials was investigated. The results showed that i

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    The Corrosivity Regions Of Southern Africa ? Long Term Trends And Implications For Materials Selection - 1. Introduction

    By John E. Leitch

    The cost of corrosion as measured by such cost components as the renovation or replacement of coated steel, or the use of expensive coating systems on steel, is considerable. Extrapolating from figur

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Dutch Harbor, Alaska Unisea Quarry – Using Near Field Vibration Measurements to Improve Blasting Results Close to Structures

    By Mike Cammack, Logan Huppert, Gustavo Azpilcueta

    During the summer of 2015, Unisea Inc. sought proposals for the G1 Dock Replacement Project in Dutch Harbor, Alaska. It would be a one year project and construction was scheduled to begin in the sprin

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Status Of A Reclaimed Mine Site In Colorado After 10 Growing Seasons – Preprint 97-54

    By J. J. Gusek

    Several final pits in the Seneca No. 1 Surface Coal Mine were abandoned in the 1960's without king reclaimed. In addition, a progressive landslide aggravated by the abandoned mine land conditions

    Feb 24, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    Finding More Ore, Further From the Drill Hole, With DHMMR

    By R Lewis

    Drill hole magnetometric resistivity (DHMMR) is a relatively recent addition to the explorationistsÆ suite of techniques for finding further resources in the vicinity of a drill hole. The method relie

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    The “Mill Redesign Project” at INCO’s Clarabelle Mill (54ceb038-1593-4f87-9a10-6e2a572d48df)

    By Jim Truskoski, Alain Bouchard, Andy Kerr, Germain Labonté, Jim Barrett

    "Improving mill grade recovery relationships is always good business. INCO’s Clarabelle Mill has just undergone a $16 million process upgrade that was designed to improve nickel recovery by 2%. The “M

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Rehabilitation of a Brick-Lined Aqueduct

    By Taehong Kim, Carl Pannuti, Nikolas Sokol, Walter Herrick

    BACKGROUND This paper discusses work performed as part the rehabilitation of the gravity flow section of the New Croton Aqueduct (NCA) during an approximately two year period between 2004 and 2006

    Jan 1, 2007

  • NIOSH
    RI 3482 Correlation Of Analysis Of Coal Mine With The Products Of Carbonization In Externally Heated Retorts

    By Parry. V. F.

    "INTRODUCTION Coal is a compressed mass of heterogeneous, macerated, metamorphosed plant remains that have collected in the earth's crust. Probably no two beds of coal have identical properties, and d

    Dec 1, 1939

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 148 Methods for Increasing the Recovery from Oil Sands

    By J. O. Lewis

    In its efforts to reduce waste, and increase efficiencyin oil production, the Bureau of Mines is investigating methods of increasing the recovery from the underground sources of supply, which are the

    Jan 1, 1917

  • AIME
    Part VII - Neutron-Diffraction Evidence Suggesting Clustering in Commercial "Nickel Silver" Close to the Cu2NiZn Composition

    By B. W. Roberts, V. A. Phillips

    A copper alloy containing- 25.5 at, pct Zn and 19.0 at. pct Ni, which was previously found to show an anoma1old.s hardening effect on quenching- from 600 "C and aging- at 400oc, has now been examined

    Jan 1, 1967

  • NIOSH
    Design Analysis Of Underground Mine Ore Passes: Current Research Approaches

    By Stephen R. Iverson, Bill M. Stewart, Michael J. Beus

    The U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) has identified ore pass hazards as a significant safety problem in underground metal mines in the United States injury and fatality data show that

  • NIOSH
    Helium: Bibliography Of Technical And Scientific Literature From Its Discovery (1868) To January 1, 1947 - Introduction

    By Henry P. Wheeler

    H ELIUM (chemical symbol: He) is a member of a family of normally gaseous elements, which, because of their zero valence and corresponding lack of chemical activity, are called the "noble" or "inert"

    Jan 1, 1952

  • AUSIMM
    Using DEM to Model Industrial Banana Screens

    Using DEM to Model Industrial Banana Screens

    Sep 13, 2010