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  • NIOSH
    OFR-27-89 Proceedings Of The 23rd International Conference Of Safety In Mines Research Institutes ? Session I ? Mines Fires ? Review Paper: Mine Fires

    By A. F. Roberts

    The subject of mine fires is a very wide one. To give reasonable coherency, the paper concentrates on the behaviour of fires in the ventilated airways of mines; spontaneous combustions are not conside

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SAIMM
    Evaluation of some physical and mechanical properties of rocks using ultrasonic pulse technique and presenting equations between dynamic and static elastic constants

    By A. Fahimifar, H. Soroush

    Abstract: In order to develop non-destructive methods in studying physical and mechanical properties of rock and replacing them with difficult and expensive static methods, several ultrasonic tests we

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Geotechnical parameters characteristics for a kind of schist in Iran

    By A. Fahimifar, H. Soroush

    Abstract: Triaxial tests were conducted on the schist specimens with various anisotropic angles under confining pressures of 0, 7 and 15 MPa, and axial stress-axial strains, were measured and plot

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    A few remarks on storage of low temperature materials in rock caverns

    By N. Kinoshita, Y. Inada

    The authors have proposed and discussed storage of low temperature materials such as LNG, LPG and frozen food in rock caverns. In this case, as the rock mass around the caverns will receive effects of

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Mining induced stress estimation for pillar extraction at shallow cover

    By A. K. Singh, R. Singh, P. K. Mandal

    On the basis of in situ study of pillar loading at different sites, an attempt is made in this paper to visualize the development of mining induced stress under varying geo-mining conditions. Field st

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Slope unit based 3D landslide hazard mapping system

    By Y. Mitani, M. Xie, G. Zhou, T. Esaki

    The assessment of landslide instability and risk has become a topic of major interest for both geoscientists and engineering professionals as well as for local communities and administrations in many

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Presidential Address: Truth and Error in Scientific Publishing

    By R. T. Jones

    "SynopsisScientific progress relies on the publication of ideas and experimental results that can be replicated, tested, and improved over time. The first printed book on metallurgy to have been publi

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AIME
    Process of Thermal Spalling Behavior in Rocks - An Exploratory Study (ee241187-f3df-4003-8c5e-c08bcb46c2f0)

    By Thirumalai, K.

    Although the term "spalling" has long been known, Norton l first referred to its usage for the fracture or disintegration of materials subjected to rapid temperature changes. Spalling of ceramic mater

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SAIMM
    Strong ground motion and site response of mine-induced seismic events

    By S. K. Murphy, S. M. Spottiswoode, A. M. Milev, D. Geyser

    A portable, stand-alone instrument especially designed for recording strong ground motion was used in this study to create a large database of peak particle velocities measured underground. A total nu

    Jan 1, 2003

  • 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

  • ISEE
    A Blaster’s Tool To Measure Fragmentation

    By Larry Mirabelli, David Lilly

    In 1777, the French naturalist, Georges Louis Leclerc, Compte de Buffon developed a statistical technique to estimate the width between two parallel lines by randomly throwing a needle at the two line

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Prediction of the geological condition ahead of the tunnel face in TBM tunnels by geostatistical simulation technique

    By K. Aoki, Y. Mito, S. Shirasagi

    The authors developed the TBM Excavation Control System (the TBM Navigator), in order to realize the advanced observational construction. During the excavation using this system, the rock strength val

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    GETTING THE JOB DONE: ESG AUDITING AND REPORTING - SME Annual Conference 2023

    By B. A. Filas, H. N. Lammers

    Responsible environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices are not new to mining. It is the ESG acronym that has become the “flavor-of-the-day” with the stock markets, accounting firms, and inv

    Feb 1, 2023

  • IPMI
    The IPMI Journal 2022

    By IPMI Educational and Scientific Foundation

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the availability of this fourth issue of the IPMI Journal, a publication of the International Precious Metals Educational and Scientific Foundation. This dig

    Dec 1, 2022

  • CIM
    Industry-scale knowledge management\u2014RISKGATE and Australian coal operations

    By D. Sprott, P. A. Kirsch, J. Harris, D. Cliff

    This paper details the work of RISKGATE, the largest Australian Coal Association Research Program (ACARP) occupational health and safety initiative to date. The program is an interactive online risk m

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Explore the geological conditions around the tunnel face using the seismic reflective survey

    By J. M. Descour, K. Aoki, S. Shirasagi

    This paper describes the tunnel seismic reflective survey, which has been developed by the authors in order to detect the geological condition ahead of the tunnel face three-dimensionally using reflec

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Railway tunnel design against karstic collapse in Korea

    By Y. H. Suh, H. C. Lee, D. S. Kim

    A progressive karst formation and its influence upon engineered structures in the ‘phil-karst’ rock mass draw a tunnel engineer’s special attention to a long-term stability and the maintenance issues.

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Size effect on shear strength of computer-aided-manufactured joints

    By Y. -H. Chang, Y. -J. Jou, T. -S. Ueng, I. -H. Peng

    In order to systematically study the size effect on the shear strength of rock joints, this study used the computer-aided-manufacturing system to reproduce the artificial rock joints for saw-toothed j

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Improved seismic event locations

    By S. M. Spottiswoode, Linzer. L. M.

    We report on further progress in improving seismic locations by using the so-called double-difference method (Spottiswoode and Milev, 1998 and Waldhauser et al., 1999). Double-differences are obtaine

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Development of a fuzzy model to estimate engineering rock mass properties

    By S. Jeon, J. Kim, H. Lee

    Though the importance of the engineering rock mass properties such as deformation modulus, cohesion and friction angle is emphasized, the researches on the reliability of these values are rarely perfo

    Jan 1, 2003