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  • NIOSH
    RI 3195 Selective Oiling and Table Concentration of Phosphatic Sands in the Land-Pebble District of Florida

    By Pamplinm J. W.

    "INTRODUCTION For the past six years the United States Bureau of Mines in cooperation with the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Ala., the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy, Rolla, Mo., and cer

    Dec 1, 1932

  • NIOSH
    25th International Conference On Ground Control In Mining - A Retrospective Assessment Of Longwall Roof Support With A Focus On Challenging Accepted Roof Support Concepts And Design Premises

    By Thomas M. Barczak

    The era of the shield-supported longwall face began in the United States a little over 25 years ago. The most fundamental development of the shield in the past 25 years has been an increase in size a

  • NIOSH
    IC 7001 Review Of Literature On Conditioning Air For Advancement Of Health And Safety In Mines ? Introduction

    By D. Harrington

    This circular presents part I of a series of papers of a review of the literature on air conditioning in mines, with particular reference to the health, safety, and efficiency of miners. It deals with

    Jan 1, 1938

  • CIM
    Constitutive Model for Numerical Modelling of Highly Stressed Heterogeneous Massive Rocks at Excavation Boundaries

    By M. C. Villeneuve

    A numerical modelling approach was developed to explicitly simulate geomechanical characteristics of intact rock: mineralogy, grain size and fabric. The approach involved creating a representative con

    May 1, 2009

  • AIME
    Mining - Ground Movement and Subsidence from Block Caving at Miami Mine

    By J. B. Fletcher

    The Miami mine first started operations in 1910. For convenience, the history of the orebody can be divided into the following categories (Fig. 1): 1) 1910 to 1925: 24.4 million tons of high grade

    Jan 1, 1961

  • AUSIMM
    Comparison of Ore Dressing Methods Used by Ilmenite Producers in Western Australia

    Ilmenite production in Western Australia commenced in 1956. There are now five producers, all in the Bunbury-Capel district, and current total production capacity is about 450,000 t.p.a.The deposits o

    Jan 1, 1965

  • SME
    A 4.75m Contractor Manufactured EPB Machine

    By Bruce Richardson

    A contractor-manufactured 4.75m (15'-7") diameter EPB shield excavated a 115m (375 ft) long tunnel under the San Antonio River as part of the Salado Creek to Dos Rios Pipeline Interconnect Projec

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Ground Control Design For Highwall Mining (237c3f7a-5149-4dad-a860-b8b9ad20fedb)

    By R. Karl Zipf

    Highwall mining is an important surface coal mining method, and it may account for approximately 4% of total U.S. coal production. Highwall stability is the major ground control related safety concer

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Dealing With Subsidence and SMCRA

    By James M. Riddle

    A discussion of frequently asked questions may help individuals trying to interpret subsidence regulations or prepare permit applications. The subsidence permitting process involves just one part of

    Jan 12, 1980

  • CIM
    Recycling of Sm and Co from Magnetic Scraps

    By I. P. Barbosa, P. S. M. Soares, I. O. C. Masson

    "Permanent magnets have been applied extensively to several electronic products such as printers, TV sets, microphones, microcomputers and headphones, presently manufactured in large scale by industri

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Evaluation of deep-seated crib block fire tests (7bc9e718-229c-42f8-a8a2-7a3b0ae77860)

    By M. A. Trevits

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), is conducting research to test, evaluate, improve or modify coa

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Mine Wide Protection For Miners, Equipment And Infrastructure

    By W. H. Schiffbauer

    The protection of miners, equipment, and infrastructure is discussed. While the primary focus of the described technology is to prevent miners from being injured, struck-by, or crushed by heavy equipm

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Deep Diaphragm Walls And Bored Piles For Subway Construction At The Amsterdam Central Station

    By Wolf-R. Under

    For improvement of urban traffic infrastructure, the City of Amsterdam is cur­rently constructing the 9.5 km long North-South Metro line passing through the central districts of Amsterdam. Focal secti

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Potash Processing in Saskatchewan - An Update.

    By Carlos F. Perucca

    "Potassium is one of the three basic plant nutrients along with nitrogen and phosphorus. There is no substitute for potassium compounds in agriculture; they are essential to maintain and expand food p

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    The Determination of Platinum in Ores and Mineral Concentrates

    An assessment of methods currently available for the accurate determination of low concentrations of platinum in ores and mineral concentrates indicated that prior treatment of the sample by fire assa

    Jan 1, 1970

  • DFI
    Comparison of Pile Foundations and Ground Improvement for Reduction of Seismic Displacements for a Wastewater Treatment Plant

    By Andrew Port, Ali Ghandeharioon

    Nonlinear seismic deformation analyses using the finite difference program FLAC were performed for a wastewater treatment plant to estimate foundation displacement and performance of two proposed tric

    Jan 1, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    The Base Metal Mineral Potential of New Zealand as Related to Tectonism and Metamorphism

    An understanding of the origin of mineral deposits and their relationship to local and global geotectonics is essential if regional targets for mineral exploration are to be chosen. Volcanism, metamor

    Jan 1, 1976

  • ISEE
    Rapid Chemical Destruction of Explosives in Various Materials by MuniRem®

    By Charolett Hayes, A. L. Russell, Anthony J. Bednar, Jared Smith, Valentine A. Nzengung, Stephen L. Pilcher

    The manufacture of Energetics Materials (EM), including maintenance and demilitarization of munitions causes dangerously high levels of explosives residues to be harbored in building features. The two

    Jan 1, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Facies of Ore Formation: A Preliminary Account of the Pegmont Deposit as an Example of Potential Relations Between Small "Iron Formations" and Stratiform Sulphide Ores

    By Vaughan J. P

    The Pegmont deposit is a stratiform Pb-Zn sulphide body occurring in a thin, iron-rich metasedimentary unit situated near the top of the Kuridala Formation, a part of the Mary Kathleen Group of the Mi

    Jan 1, 1979

  • CIM
    Fluid Inclusion and Stable Isotope Study of the Buffalo Gold Deposit, Red Lake Greenstone Belt, Northwestern Ontario, Canada

    By G. Chi, A. Solomon, J. Lai

    "The Buffalo gold deposit is a small deposit consisting of auriferous quartz-tourmaline veins within a granodiorite stock in the Red Lake greenstone belt. This study aims to characterize the mineraliz

    Jan 1, 2009