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  • ISEE
    Blasting Results Compared Using Crusher Powder Consumption and Tonnage of Rock Produced

    By Ron Glowe

    This paper shows the potential of a new computer model, using the Glowe-Tech (GT) Tonnage Analyzer program to compare drilling and blasting results. This model uses the crushers and conveyors as measu

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    Preparing a Written Blast Plan

    By David Ziegler

    Rough sketches, field notes, an on-site conference or a phone call may no longer suffice to establish your blast plan at a job site. More and more, general contractors, site supervisors, owner re p re

    Jan 1, 2004

  • IOM3
    Oxygen mass transfer in air-agitated Pachuca tanks, part 1: laboratory-scale experimental measurements; part 2: mathematical modelling of mass-transfer coefficients

    By G. G. Roy, R Shekhar

    Pachuca tanks are extensively used for the cyanide leaching of gold and the carbonate leaching of uranium, processes in which oxygen mass transfer plays a very important role. Experiments were carried

    Jun 18, 1905

  • NIOSH
    RI 9458 - Behavior of Simulated Longwall Gob Material

    By Reno M. Pappas, Christopher Mark

    This report presents results of a U.S. Bureau of Mines study of longwall gob material. The objective of this work was to determine material stiffness properties of the gob for use in numerical models

    Jan 1, 1993

  • IIMP
    Informatización de datos Geológicos al servicio de las operaciones en la mina Iscaycruz

    By Boris Chacón

    Durante el desarrollo cotidiano de una operación minera, se obtienen diversos tipos de información como: muestreo, perforación diamantina, etc. las cuales, se originan en base a observaciones de campo

    Aug 25, 2002

  • TMS
    Higher education: the quest for the sustainable campus

    By Leith Sharp

    I was confronted with a profound dilemma as an undergraduate engineering student at the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1992. I had been taught that our planetary life-support systems we

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Gravity Concentration from Bench Scale to Plant

    By R. O. Burt

    "Gravity Concentration, the oldest form of Mineral Processing, remains of major importance to the Industry. Current applications of Gravity Concentration are briefly examined.The Paper details one app

    Jan 1, 1984

  • CIM
    Challenges in Niobium Flotation

    By S. Kelebek, C. Gibson, M. Aghamirian

    "Global niobium production is currently dominated by three operating mines, Araxá and Catalão in Brazil, and Niobec in Canada. Although over 90% of the world’s niobium is mined and processed in Brazil

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The Petrography of Some New South Wales Permian Coals from the Tomago Coal Measures

    Permian coal seams from the Tomago Coal Measures in the Northern Coalfield, New South Wales, were analysed petrographically and reflectance measurements made for each. Vitrite contents were moderate t

    Jan 1, 1968

  • AIME
    Part XI - Papers - Techniques for Analyzing Combined First- and Second-Stage Creep Data

    By M. J. Mullikin, J. B. Conway

    Equations capable of representing combined first -and second-stage creep behavior include the Andrade, Cottrell-Aytekin, Garofalo, and de Lacombe equations along with a third-degree polynomial in t1/3

    Jan 1, 1967

  • ISEE
    Internships: A Bridge into the Explosives Industry

    By Richard Hosley, James Daley

    Every grey haired member of the explosive’s industry has said at least once, “We have to get some younger blood into our industry, I might want to retire someday.” And many a youngster who loves to se

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Some Aspects of Pillar Stability in Underground Coal Mines

    Working in thick coal seams presents many problems, included in these is obtaining the maximum recovery of coal under safe working conditions. In order to obtain maximum extraction it is important to

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    Ironstone Deposits, Iron Knob, Middleback Range Area South Australia: Discovery and History of Early Prospecting

    Very little has been written about the discovery and early history of prospecting of ironstone deposits in the Iron Knob-Middleback Range area of South Australia, the main source of supply of ironston

    Jan 1, 1969

  • NIOSH
    RI 9210 - Hydrometallurgical Recovery of Critical Metals From Hardface Alloy Grinding Waste: A Laboratory Study

    As part of the Bureau of Mines program to reduce U.S. reliance on foreign suppliers of strategic and critical metals, research was conducted to improve technology for the recovery of critical metals f

    Jan 1, 1988

  • ISEE
    Simple Models for Gas Flow and Burden Movement During Blasting

    By Italo Onederra, Jason Furtney, Ewan Sellers

    The detonation reactions occurring during rock blasting result in high pressure gas phase products from the condensed explosives typically used in mining applications. After detonation and the initial

    Jan 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Flotation Energy Consumption and Opportunities for Improvement

    By B Murphy

    Traditionally comminution optimisation has been focused on energy minimisation, whereas flotation optimisation has been focused on recovery improvement. One of the largest, if not the largest, operati

    Jul 15, 2013

  • CIM
    Co-Dependencies in Copper: Production, Price and Innovation Trends 1900–2018

    By Andrew Bamber

    Between the early 20th Century and the present, the production of mined copper ore has increased from tens of millions of tonnes per annum to several billion tonnes per annum, an unprecedented increas

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    CFD Study On Hot Spot Location In Longwall Gob - Introduction - Preprint 09-064

    By S. Lolon

    Spontaneous combustion in underground coal mines has become a serious problem particularly in the caved area (gob). Recent statistic has shown that approximately 17% of total 87 underground coal mine

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    The EU Project “I.C.E.A. Identification Colors of Explosives & Blasting Accessories”

    By Gennaro Di Lauro, Laura Meraviglia, Demostenes Efstratiadis, Danilo Coppe

    This paper presentation regards the European Union’s project “I.C.E.A. - Identification Colors of Explosives and Blasting Accessories (Agreement number – HOME/2010/ISEC/AG/071 – 30 – CE – 0447240/00-1

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Estimating Cost of Equity in Project Discount Rates: Comparison of the Capital Asset Pricing Model and Gordon’s Wealth Growth Model

    By C. Musingwini, A. S. Nhleko

    "Since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in mid-2008, capital has been more difficult to access. Mining projects must contend with projects from other industries for scarce capital. A decision to inve

    Jan 1, 2016