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Practical Rock Mechanics For Safety And Productivity ImprovementsBy 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
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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
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Practical Sampling Concepts in Ground GeophysicsBy 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
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Practical Sampling for Online Analysis and Composite Samples of Slurries - The Art of CompromisesIn 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
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Practical Sampling TechniquesBy 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
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Practical Semiautomatic Stope Design And Cutoff Grade Calculation MethodAn 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
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Practical simulation of FlexiCircuit processing optionsBy 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
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Practical Soil Nail Wall Design And Constructability IssuesBy 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
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Practical Solutions Of Machinery And Maintenance Vibration Problems - Understanding ResonanceBy 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
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Practical Solutions to Some Grade Control Problems and Why They Work: A Few Case StudiesExperience 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
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Practical Statistical Tools for ManagersThe 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
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Practical steps to Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management (GISTM) compliance for operational tailings storage facilities in South AfricaBy 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
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Practical Stope Reconciliation in Large-scale Operations Part 2, Olympic Dam, South AustraliaBy 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
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Practical Stoppings ConstructionBy 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
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Practical Strata Management, Beltana No. 1 Mine, AustraliaBy 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
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Practical Stress Modeling for Mine PlanningBy 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
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Practical Study on Beneficiation Wastewater Reuse of Nanjing Lead-zinc MineBy 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
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Practical Subsidence Prediction For The Operating Coal MineBy 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
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Practical Techniques To Improve The Air Quality In Underground Stone MinesBy 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
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Practical tool for quality control of overcoring stress measurement dataBy 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