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  • AUSIMM
    Use of Landform Evolution Models to Assess Uncertainty in Long-term Evolution of Post-mining Landscapes

    By G R. Hancock, J B. C Lowry, T J. Coulthard

    A reconstructed landscape may exert long-term influences on its surrounds and behave in ways that may not be predictable given uncertainties regarding climate, soil and vegetation interactions (Evans,

    Jun 28, 2016

  • SME
    Ore Controls In Eufaula Bauxite-Kaolin District

    By Otis M. Clarke

    The Eufaula bauxite-kaolin district in southeastern Alabama is an important source of raw material for the refractory industries in the United States. At the present time, five companies are mining an

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SAIMM
    Spotlight On Visit To Sasol Two And Three

    By John Freer

    On 25th November, 1983, nearly forty members of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, together with Doris Gardner and Judith Money from Kelvin House, travelled by luxury motor coach to

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Methodological Proposal To Incentivize The Circular Economy In The Aggregates Industry - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By S. E. Restrepo

    To innovate and make the operation sustainable it is necessary to identify the externalities and impacts completely. This paper presents the results of a proposed methodology to make circular economy

    Mar 2, 2022

  • AUSIMM
    From ‘closing a mine’ to ‘transitioning a community’ – evolving from specific post-mining land-uses to a holistic post-mining vision

    By A Maier, M Goldner, C Gimber

    Given the ongoing global crises of climate change and nature loss, with the World Economic Forum (WEF) identifying them as the top risks to global economies in terms of both likelihood and impact in t

    Aug 2, 2023

  • SME
    Experimental quantification of granular material fragmentation due to travel distance

    By RENE GOMEZ, RAUL CASTRO

    Estimation tools and models are now available to estimate fragmentation, but some variables have yet to be studied to understand their effect on the fragmentation process. One such variable whose mech

  • SME
    Investigation of occupational accidents in Western Lignite Corporation by using the efficiency assessment approach

    By CEM SENSOGUT, OZER OREN, YASAR KASAP

    The mining sector, which is important in terms of raw-material and energy supply, is seen as a sector with high number of fatal accidents compared to other sectors. In this century of heightened occup

  • SME
    Thermal fragmentation as a possible, viable, alternative mining method in narrow-vein mining?

    By Larissa Koroznikova, Steve Durkin, Patrick Bouwmeester, Michael Tuck

     This research project explored the viability of a new mining technology — thermal fragmentation — in narrow-vein mining. Thermal fragmentation technology uses a flame jet to produce extreme heat that

  • SME
    Plug and Play Connectivity Enhances Pit to Port Solutions in Australia

    By Ed Sullivan

    "Australia is one of the richest continents when it comes to mineral extraction, ranging from exotic projects like the Olympic Dam — a copper, silver and uranium mine believed to have the world’s larg

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Drivers of impact assessments: Human health, safety and the environment

    By Gary MacDonald

    What is the primary function of an impact assessment? Many people at the International Association of Impact Assessment?s (IAIA) annual conference said that it is time to return to the fundamentals an

    Aug 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Social Licence in Real-time – Using Dynamic Methods to Support a New Kind of Community Relationship

    By N Boughen, K Moffat, L Brooks, A Zhang

    In 2015, Ernst and Young (EY) ranked socio-political license to operate (SPLTO) as the fifth greatest challenge to the mining sector (EY, 2015). The EY report asserts that SPLTO will continue to prese

    Jun 28, 2016

  • NIOSH
    An Introductory Review Expert Systems in Mining Engineering

    By R. V. Ramani

    "In a 1985 seminar, we were told that over-optimism abounds in Artificial Intelligence (AI), that AI is neither a science nor a technology yet, and that we will be both exhilarated and disappointed wi

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Transforming HSE Performance It's Not Harder Than You Think

    By B. Kraus

    Many of us who have interacted with senior executives from leading oil and gas companies over the last few years on the subject of HSE performance have observed a marked shift in their engagement on t

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Reducing Newmont's Operating Costs And Increasing Reserves And Production In The Carlin Trend, Nevada -Technology Use (c6a50c1a-1c6c-4588-a6bc-0d10bb8d0ba1)

    By B. D. Hansen

    Newmont has been on a focused path of improving operations for many years. After the merger of Newmont and Santa Fe Pacific Gold, Newmont created significant synergies of over $50 million per year in

    Jan 1, 1999

  • NIOSH
    Dust/Lung Interaction

    "The dust/lung research of the Center has several long-range objectives:* better methods for the early diagnosis of coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP);* methods to modify the disease process;* tests t

    Nov 1, 1988

  • AUSIMM
    New technologies that will potentially enable processing of complex orebodies

    By F Shi, G Ballantyne, K Runge

    There has been minimal innovation in the methods used to process an ore over the last 50 years. Productivity increases have largely resulted in increased equipment size without implementation of paral

    Nov 21, 2018

  • TMS
    Energy and Emissions with Oxyfuel

    By Thomas Niehoff

    "Oxyfuel combustion systems are state of the art for many melting operations. Airfuel systems have been stepwise modified to oxygen enrichment, oxygen lancing and oxyfuel. Every change of the melting

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Proposed Method of Mining Coal in the Rockies

    By M. Piard

    The scarcity of literature referring to mines in the Rockies has compelled the writer to co-ordinate information and advice taken at the very source. Help was gladly given by active inspectors and min

    Jan 1, 1928

  • SME
    National Mining Hall of Fame; 2018 Class to be inducted at Ceremony in Denver

    "The National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum (NMHFM) announced the 2018 National Mining Hall of Fame inductees. This year’s inductees, selected by the National Mining Hall of Fame’s Board of Governors

    Jan 8, 2018

  • CIM
    Two Decades of Mining Engineering

    By Russell F. Palmer

    "THE PRACTISING MINING ENGINEER has little time for the expression of opinion on abstract questions concerning the definition and future of mining engineering. The following comments indicate some of

    Jan 1, 1972