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  • ISEE
    Implementation of a Real Time Traceability System from Mine to Plant

    By R. Ticona, J. Alarcon

    In the continuous search to provide comprehensive solutions and identify opportunities to improve ore traceability, from the blastholes to mill feed, different ore traceability systems have been devel

    Jan 1, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Technical Note - A Theoretical Model for Outbursting in Coal Mines

    By Schlanger H. P

    A theoretical model for gas outbursts in underground coal mines is as follows. An outburst is the structural failure ofcoal due to excess stress resulting from body forces caused by gas pressure gradi

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AUSIMM
    Genetic design of personalised slag for manufacturing die steel via electroslag remelting method and an industrial application case

    By J W. Dong, Y M. Li, J L. Tian, Z H. Jiang

    Electroslag remelting is widely used to produce various special steels, mainly because of its ability to provide high cleanliness and excellent homogeneity of ingot. Undoubtedly an optimal slag plays

    Jun 19, 2024

  • CIM
    A Simple Estimation Method of Materials Handling Specific Energy Consumption in HPGR Circuits

    By A. G. Doll

    "Multi-stage crushing plants, including high pressure grinding roll (HPGR) circuits, require more materials handling equipment than SAG and ball mill circuits. A temptation exists to neglect the energ

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Evaluation of a Single-Layer Desulfurised Tailings Cover

    By G W. Wilson, M Aubertin

    A desulfurised tailings cover was installed at the Detour Lake Mine in Ontario, Canada, to reduce oxygen penetration into the underlying sulfidic tailings. The cover ranges from one to 1.5 m in thickn

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Geochemical Mining Impact and Possibilities of its Reduction

    By V P. Elpatyevskaya, V S. Arzhanova

    Main geochemical problems concerning the environment and mining industry interrelation are connected with the transformation of natural water chemistry by mining wastes. The investigation of many mine

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Enhanced Drilling in Rio Tinto

    Rio Tinto has embarked on a journey to use automation to improve the performance of its surface mines. The driver for automation is to improve the accuracy and consistency of mining processes and less

    May 1, 2010

  • DFI
    The Type Of Wharf Structure On Soft Soil With Undulating Weathered Rock Bed

    By Sun Shao Xian

    The Port of Shekou is situated at Shenzhen Bay on the east side of the Pearl River estuary. Geological condition of the site is quite complicated. On top of the sea bed, there is a layer of soft silt

    Jan 1, 1991

  • CIM
    Selecting the Correct Cyanide Destruction Process for Your Operation

    By R. Agius, A. Nacu

    "Adoption of the International Cyanide Management Code, regulatory requirements and community concerns have increased the need to implement suitable cyanide destruction processes at gold operations to

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SAIMM
    On The Development Of Bainitic Alloys For Railway Wheel Applications - Synopsis

    By A. Kapito

    The ferrite-pearlite microstructure is the most popular microstructure for alloys used in structural applications, including railway wagon wheels. These alloys have been designed through alloying and

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Cultivator shank manufacture and evaluation

    By R. W. Pugh, D. G. Bellow

    "This paper will describe how cultivator shanks are made in one company and how the manufacturing was studied with a view to increasing product consistency and reducing manufacturing cost. The product

    Jan 1, 1982

  • DFI
    Army Corps of Engineers Seepage Control Cutoffs for Dam and Levees Engineering Manual (EM)

    By David B. Paul

    "ABSTRACTThe US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has 704 dams in their inventory and over 100,000 miles of levees with a capital value of over $150 billion. Currently, there are 319 dams that are class

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    The Ignition of Methane and Coal Dust by Air Compression – The Experimental Proof – Preprint 97-44

    By W. Lin, M. J. McPherson

    When a large area of open gob collapses suddenly, a windblast is produced that can cause considerable damage throughout the infrastructure of a mine. In a few cases, the windblast has been accompanied

    Feb 24, 1997

  • NIOSH
    RI 7935 Drilling and Sampling Tertiary Gold-Bearing Gravels at Badger Hill, Nevada County, Calif.

    By Russell R. McLellan

    As part of an effort to develop new or improved placer mining technology in the Tertiary gold-bearing channel gravel of northern California, the Bureau of Mines conducted investigations at the old Bad

    Jan 1, 1974

  • AUSIMM
    Bailer uncertainty evaluation in a lithium salar deposit

    By P Goblet, S A. Séguret, E Cordier, A Galli

    In salar-type deposits, lithium grades can be measured by bailers introduced at different elevations in the drill holes at locations where, later, the brine will be pumped out to recover the metal. Wh

    May 9, 2017

  • SME
    Underground Caving Shield Change Outs At Us Steel’s Oak Grove Mine

    By B. Weyerman

    U. S. Steel's Oak Grove Mine experienced several top hinge failures on their caving shields. It was determined that all the caving shields needed to be replaced with new caving shields before mor

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Upgrading Low Rank Coal Using The Koppelman Series C Process – Preprint 97-143

    By N. Merriam

    This report describes Koppelman's work to develop the K-Fuel® Series C Process used to dry and stabilize Powder River Basin coal. It also contains summaries of the results of bench-scale and pilo

    Feb 24, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    The Round Hill Gold-Scheelite Deposit, Macraes Flat, Otago, New Zealand

    The Round Hill gold-scheelite deposit is located three kilometres from Macraes Flat and approximately 60 kilometres due north of Dunedin, New Zealand. A mining feasibility study is currently being und

    Jan 1, 1987

  • TMS
    Characterization of Refractories in Gasification Systems Using Post Mortem Analysis and Thermodynamics

    By Kwong. Kyei-Sing

    Gasification is a process that converts a carbon feedstock into synthesis gas (CO+H2). Slagging gasifiers operate at high temperature and pressure and in a corrosive-wear environment from the slag. Cr

    Jan 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Alluvial Iron Deposits Exploration using Surface Processes Modelling - A Case Study in the Hamersley Province (Western Australia)

    By T Salles, G Duclaux, E R. Ramanaidou

    In a continental environment, sediment mobilisation, dispersion and deposition are mainly controlled by mass gravity and streamflow processes. Alluvial sedimentary systems have an important economic v

    Aug 12, 2013