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  • SME
    Optimizing the Metallurgical Properties of Pellets Through Operational Trial Using Inconel Basket

    By Sumit Kumar Hota, Asadi Srinivasa Reddy, Ashok Kumar, Ashish Agrawal, Surajit Sinha, Chandra Sekhar, Tanay Ray

    In the current operational facility, due to the absence of pellet pot facility, a novel technique is developed wherein the pellets with different chemistries prepared in the laboratory are fired in an

    May 24, 2022

  • SME
    Mining on the Moon and Asteroids: Yes – It’s Really Going to Happen!

    By D. A. Peacock

    "INTRODUCTION Outer space technology and exploration have reached a tipping point so that mining and mineral processing in outer space is now a certainty and not a dream. Several competing companies,

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Experimental and Analytical Study of Vibrating Screen Supports

    By E. Hasanbas

    Vibrating screens and crushers are the workhorses of material sizing. Unfortunately their natural frequency is often in the range of typical supporting structures, thereby making installations prone t

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Critical Parameters In The Dump And Heap Leaching Of Gold, Silver, Copper And Uranium: Permeability, Solution Delivery And Solution Recovery

    By Manuel R. Lastra

    Critical to successful dump and heap leaching for gold, silver, copper and uranium are factors such as permeability, solution delivery to the ore, and solution recovery. This paper deals with possible

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    The Mine Management Support System: A Knowledge-Based System For Better Management Of Underground Coal Mines

    By R. L. Grayson

    Productivity achievements in underground coal mining over the past ten years highlight the improvement of management practices as well as the adoption of new technology. Research findings and results

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Markets For Southern Powder River Basin Coal (bbc13600-5e51-4eb3-96d9-1d16af023b88)

    By P. J. Best

    Due to its low mine production costs, competitive rail rates and low sulfur content, the Southern Powder River Basin (SPRB) now commands 30 percent of the U.S. utility coal market. In 1996, production

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Reduction of Nash Usage in Kennecott Molybdenum Plant using Aero® 7260HFP Depressant

    By G. Castillo, J. Mortensen

    "INTRODUCTION Molybdenite is typically produced as a co-product in the copper ore flotation process. At the Rio Tinto Kennecott Concentrator (RTKC) in Copperton, Utah, the molybdenite is initially flo

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Technological Innovations that Captured Significant Project Value at Peña Colorada

    By R. E. Vivas, J. A. Villa

    "INTRODUCTION Located in the state of Colima, Peña Colorada is one of the largest iron ore operations in Mexico. The project is owned in equal parts by ArcelorMittal and Ternium. Though boasting a pro

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Techniques To Understand Metal Leaching From Ore Minerals In Mine-Waste Material

    By S. F. Diehl

    Suites of monomineralic sulfide and carbonate minerals, as well as mine-waste composite samples, were analyzed using chemical and microanalytical techniques to understand behavior and bioavailability

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    A Brief History Of The Freeport Mcmoran Bagdad Solvent Extraction Circuit

    By B. Blaschuk

    The Freeport McMoRan Bagdad Solvent Extraction (SX) circuit is the oldest plant of its kind currently in operation. The plant was commissioned in 1969 and was the second SX-EW operation to be built f

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Development Of Chemical Caps In An Acid Rock Drainage Environment

    By J. A. Chermak

    Piles of sulfide-bearing overburden, ore, and tailings have the potential to generate acid drainage (AD) when exposed to an oxidizing environment. Laboratory column experiments were conducted using ac

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Liberation's Emerging Role in Making Cost Competitive Utility Coals

    By J. W. Parkinson

    With most of the coal currently mined in the eastern U.S. already requiring cleaning to meet electric utility coal specifications, the question remains how medium- and high-sulfur coal producers will

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Criteria For Uranium Occurrences In Saskatchewan And Australia As Guides To Favorability For Similar Deposits In The United States

    By J. Kalliokoski

    As part of a funded project we have completed a comparative literature survey of the US regional Proterozoic geology. For our com¬parative study model we used the geological settings of the very large

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Noranda's Carbon-In-Pulp Gold/Silver Operation At Happy Camp, California

    By Gary L. Simmons

    Noranda's Grey Eagle Mine and Mill, located in the Siskiyou Mountains of Northern California, began shakedown operations in the late fall and early winter of 1982. This paper describes some of th

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Source Identification And Allocation Of Metals In Stream Sediments Using Electron Microprobe Techniques

    By K. S. Whiting

    Elevated concentrations of copper, cobalt, and arsenic within the Panther Creek Basin sediments in north central Idaho prompted an evaluation of the sources of the metals. Potential tailings and waste

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Technology rules at MINExpo 2016; 44,000 attend three-day expo in Las Vegas

    By Ken Goering, Steve Kral, William Gleason

    "Once every four years, the global mining industry gathers in Las Vegas, NV for MINExpo International. According to the show’s organizer, The National Mining Association (NMA), about 44,000 people att

    Dec 1, 2016

  • SME
    A New Procedure For The Calculation Of An Open-Pit Operation's Capacity At The Carol Lake Operations Of The Iron Ore Company Of Canada - Introduction

    By Jorgen Elbrond

    The capacity calculation of complex transportation systems involving variable activity times such as encountered in the mining industry are often worked out by means of simulation, which reconstructs

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Mine Disasters and Their Correlation to Mine Safety Legislations in the U.S.

    By Z. Hyder, M. D. Cleason

    "INTRODUCTION Mine Ventilation has come a long way over the years. The main purpose of mine ventilation is to keep conditions in the mine safe for the worker so that the mine will be productive and pr

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Remediation Of Large-Scale Slope Failures And Impact On Mine Development At The Gold Quarry Mine

    By R. J. Sheets

    In 2009, the Gold Quarry openpit mine experienced multiple large-scale slope failures of the upper east highwall that reduced gold ore extraction for nearly 18 months. The slope failures occurred with

  • SME
    The Study of Surface Paste Disposal Technique for Pb-Zn Tailings by Pilot Scale Tests

    By S. Tuylu, D. Adiguzel, A. Bascetin, H. Eker

    "Tailings can be more stable in-site where they are stored and and so the risk of conventional tailings dam accidents can be reduced by alternative methods. In recent years, surface paste disposal (SP

    Jan 1, 2018