Search Documents

Sort by

  • SME-ICGCM
    Practical Rock Mechanics For Safety And Productivity Improvements

    By M. Guana

    Island Creek Corporation is predominately an underground mine operator deploying room-and-pillar and retreat longwall mining methods for extracting coal. Wide variations are encountered in overburden

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AIME
    Practical Rock Mechanics Pillar Design - Problems or Opportunities?

    By Jack Parker

    There are some simple theoretical approaches to pillar design but they leave much to be desired. There are also more complex theoretical approaches, but at this time the most realistic approach is to

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    Practical Sampling Concepts in Ground Geophysics

    By Sheard SN, Tucker DH

    Sampling procedures are an important aspect of geophysical exploration survey design. It is good practice that the selection of survey parameters ensures that the signal to noise ratio is optimised, w

    Jan 1, 1976

  • AUSIMM
    Practical Sampling for Online Analysis and Composite Samples of Slurries - The Art of Compromises

    In practice a sampling solution is a compromise of many requirements: the sample should be representative; the sampling system should also be reliable, less than 95 per cent availability rest

    Mar 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Practical Sampling Techniques

    By M. M. K. McCrank

    "PRACTICAL SAMPLING TECHNIQUESIt is important to achieve reliability when sampling heterogeneous materials where there is a difference in composition, and non random distribution of the constituent pa

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Practical Semiautomatic Stope Design And Cutoff Grade Calculation Method

    An incremental-analysis-based stope design and cutoff grade calculation method was developed for an underground metal mine project. Traditional stope design methods are typically very time consuming a

    Jan 1, 2012

  • IMPC
    Practical simulation of FlexiCircuit processing options

    By Bianca Foggiatto, Marko Hilden, Malcolm Powell

    "Since the introduction of the concept of flexible circuits (Powell and Bye, 2009), it has been further developed and refined to the definition of ‚FlexiCircuits leverage ore variability to maximise r

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Practical Soil Nail Wall Design And Constructability Issues

    By Walter G. Kutschke

    Four significant soil nail wall projects in the eastern United States were recently completed with a combined area of 175,000 square feet of finished shotcrete surface. These projects required the us

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Practical Solutions Of Machinery And Maintenance Vibration Problems - Understanding Resonance

    By Ralph T. Buscarello

    For practical purposes, the terms "natural frequency," "resonance" and "critical speed" are synonymous. A part passing though its "critical" or "critical speed" may also be said to be "resonant" or "r

    Jan 1, 1970

  • AUSIMM
    Practical Solutions to Some Grade Control Problems and Why They Work: A Few Case Studies

    Experience in evaluating grade control at operating mines has shown that a number of similar errors re-occur in diverse settings. These can be broadly classed as technical errors, and procedural or gr

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    Practical Statistical Tools for Managers

    The correct design and effective operating strategies of metallurgical plants require a constant analysis of data gathered for process control, or for due accountability. Conventional, oldfashion stat

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SAIMM
    Practical steps to Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) compliance for operational tailings storage facilities in South Africa

    By S. D. Dladla, S. Ramsamy

    The majority of the tailings dam operations in South Africa will be required to comply with the new Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) within the next one to three years, dependin

    Jun 2, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    Practical Stope Reconciliation in Large-scale Operations Part 2, Olympic Dam, South Australia

    By J Wesseloo and Y Kim, Y Potvin, G Mungur, D Grant

    At the previous MassMin conference held in Sudbury in 2012, the authors proposed a new framework going beyond dilution and equivalent linear overbreak sloughing (ELOS) for stope reconciliation in rela

    May 9, 2016

  • SME
    Practical Stoppings Construction

    By Warren D. MacEvoy

    INTRODUCTION Good ventilation bulkheads (stoppings) can be obtained only by conscientiously adhering to four basic principles: carefully selecting the site for the bulkhead, adequately preparing th

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME-ICGCM
    Practical Strata Management, Beltana No. 1 Mine, Australia

    By Shane McDonald

    Australia produces approximately 84 million tonnes of coal per annum from 30 longwalls in New South Wales and Queensland, operating at an average depth of around 300m. Industry trends and expectations

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME-ICGCM
    Practical Stress Modeling for Mine Planning

    By Keith Heasley

    As part of the initial investigation and validation of a new boundary-clement formulation for stress modeling in coal mines. the underground stresses and displacements at two multiple-seam coal mines

    Jan 1, 1998

  • IMPC
    Practical Study on Beneficiation Wastewater Reuse of Nanjing Lead-zinc Mine

    By C. L. Tang

    Parts of the wastewater are reused directly and the rest moderately purified and reused, so the utilization rate of wastewater of the whole processing plant reaches 100 percent. At the same time, bene

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Practical Subsidence Prediction For The Operating Coal Mine

    By Keith A. Heasley

    At this point in time, approximately 800 M tonnes (880 M tons) of coal are mined each year in the United States. Forty percent of this coal or approximately 320 M tonnes (350 M tons) is taken from und

    Jan 1, 1986

  • NIOSH
    Practical Techniques To Improve The Air Quality In Underground Stone Mines

    By R. H. Grau, S. B. Robertson, F. Garcia, A. C. Smith, T. P. Mucho

    Researchers working for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory are developing ways to protect the health of miners. Part of that effort

  • SAIMM
    Practical tool for quality control of overcoring stress measurement data

    By M. Hakala

    A computer program was developed to simulate transient strains and stresses during an overcoring in the situ stress measurement. The solution is based on superpositioning of elastic stresses. The meas

    Jan 1, 2003