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  • DFI
    Supported Excavation Movement Causing Lateral Displacement and Cracks in Drilled Shafts - Lessons Learned from a Case Study in Chicago

    By Eric R. Borys, Amaneh E. Kenarsari, Brett Gitskin

    This case study discusses impacts of excessive Earth Retention System (ERS) lateral movement at a project in city of Chicago. The ERS (cantilevered sheeting) moved inward towards the excavation and ca

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Utilization of Strain Measurements on Shielded Tunnel Boring Machines

    By Brad Murray

    Evaluating the performance of a shielded tunnel boring machine (TBM) can be difficult because the ground cannot be observed directly and in relation to the TBM attitude within the excavation. It is di

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    High accuracy .D airborne electromagnetic inversion method for banded iron formation and other geological settings

    By D FitzGerald, S Jakica, R Paterson, J Silic

    A new 2.5D airborne electromagnetic (AEM) algorithm has been developed by Intrepid Geophysics and Jovan Silic & Associates. The advantage of 2.5D (2D geology, 3D source) AEM inversion in 3D geolog

    Jul 24, 2017

  • CIM
    Overview of Lake Shore Gold’s 2012 - 2013 Bell Creek Mill Expansion

    By D. B. Felsher

    "Lakeshore Gold’s Bell Creek Mill is located in Timmins, Ontario. The mill has been in operation since 2009 and has undergone several small expansions since then. In 2012 - 2013 the first major mill

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Improving Sulphide Recoveries in Complex Gold Ore Bodies Using Cost Effective Pre-Concentration by Gravity

    By Yaw Boadi, Andrew McCallum, Sandy Gray, Yavuz Atasoy, Peter Wemyss

    "Various full-scale test programs and installations of the InLine Pressure Jig (IPJ) have provided evidence that pre-concentration of the difficult to leach sulphide mineral through gravity can provid

    Jan 1, 2004

  • DFI
    Construction Of Deep Open Foundations For Airoli Road Bridge On Thane Creek In New Bombay - Synopsis

    By A. R. Jambekar

    City of Bombay has been developed out of former 7 islands. Landmass of 434 sq.km. of Bombay, started looking inadequate for further growth and expansion of Bombay City. In order to develope twin city

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ISEE
    Back to the Basics; Nonelectric Initiation Shock Tube Systems, Part 2: General Applications

    By Larry Schneider

    I n the simplest application of a shock tube initiation system, the tubing acts as a “relay line” which passes a detonation signal from borehole to borehole. When the signal arrives at each borehole,

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Ore Penetration into Calc Schist on the Kalgoorlie Goldfield (39bb26ae-cc1b-41a4-be1f-5cbeb4030de5)

    J. H. Lord (Geological Survey of Western Australia): During the last few days in Kalgoorlie here we have heard on various occasions of the great job the mining engineers have done persisting against r

    Jan 1, 1965

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 1986 - Barite, Bauxite and alumina

    By R. J. Anderson, A. V. Castelli

    In 1986, United States' barite production fell 48.9%, consumption - sold or used by grinding plants - was off 47.3%, and imports were down 63.8%. Meanwhile, world mine production decreased 29.6%,

    Jan 5, 1987

  • SME-ICGCM
    Monitoring Subsidence Over Submarine Coal Mines In The Sydney Coalfield By Bathymetric Methods

    By David Forrester

    Subsidence beneath the land surface has traditionally been monitored using the most accurate surveying methods of the day. Over the several hundred years of subsidence investigation, these techniques

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Adeco As An Alternative To NATM: How It Works, WHY It Works

    By Fulvio Tonon

    And Rabcewicz said ?tunnels should be driven full face whenever possible.? ADECO, which stands for ?Analysis of Controlled Deformations in tunnels,? now allows us to fulfll Rabcewicz?s dream in any st

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of the Western Coal Fields of New South Wales

    The purpose of this paper is to cover in a general way the extent, geology, quality of product, working methods and trials of the coal mining industry. of New South Wales from 1946 to the present day,

    Jan 1, 1954

  • SME-ICGCM
    Pillar Strength and Design Methodology for Stone Mines

    By Gabriel Esterhuizen

    Underground stone mines in the United States make use of the room-and-pillar method of mining. A prerequisite for a safe working environment is that the pillars should adequately support the overburd

    Jan 1, 2008

  • TMS
    Iron Oxide Reduction With Conventional And Microwave Heating Under CO And H2 Atmospheres

    By Jiann-Yang Hwang

    Microwave heating has been proved an effective method to rapidly heat iron oxide. This offers an opportunity to apply microwave heating in the steelmaking process. The reduction reaction of iron oxide

    Jan 1, 2006

  • IIMP
    Tratamiento metalúrgico de pirrotitas que contienen oro

    By Hernán Parra

    El presente trabajo señala la fase de tratamiento metalúrgico de pirrotitas que contienen oro, donde en la concentración por flotación se encontró un esquema adecuado para tratar pirrotitas auríferas

    Sep 9, 2007

  • IIMP
    Sistema de modelamiento geológico para estimación de reservas mineras

    By Sashir Estela De la Cruz

    Actualmente la informática como herramienta aplicada al sector minero nacional, es importante -en tanto su empleo adecuado y racional implica alcanzar los objetivos planteados en forma más rápida y co

    May 25, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    Gold in Fault Gouge Without Quartz Veins, Old Man Range, Central Otago

    By D Craw

    The Old Man Range, south of Alexandra, in central Otago consists of a package of highly folded greenschist facies schist of the Wanaka lithologic association. The range is crosscut by several east to

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Trench Blasting in Close Proximity to Existing Utilities in Ultra Metamorphic Rock

    By Tom Treleaven, Andrew Williams

    The town of Greenwich, CT, an exclusive suburb of New York City awarded several contracts for the installation of sanitary sewer in the North Mianus section of town. The Valley Road section was the mo

    Jan 1, 2004

  • DFI
    Special Topic On Eurocode 7 And Standardization - Eurocode 7 - A European Geotechnical Design Code - The Eurocode System * The Objectives Of The Eurocodes

    By Niels Krebs Ovesen

    Close economic cooperation was established among the countries in western Europe during the seventies. As a consequence, among others, a need for harmonized technical specifications for civil engineer

    Jan 1, 1994

  • IIMP
    Evaluación geotécnica en la apertura de nuevos accesos para la optimización en el ciclo de carguío de mineral

    By Alcides Eloy Cano

    Los recursos minerales de un depósito está en función de las dimensiones de la geometría del cuerpo mineral, así como sus reservas minables permiten saber el verdadero valor económico de su contenido.

    Sep 12, 2011