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  • SME
    Operational Characteristics Of Full Face Tunnel Boring Machines

    By Ian Farmer, Nigel Glossop, Philip Garritty

    Performance of tunnel boring machines - usually expressed in terms of penetration per revolution - is determined by relations between machine thrust and torque, head diameter and rock strength. It can

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Invensys Showcase Highlights Process Control Technologies

    By Steve Kral

    In a lagging economy where profits are tight, businesses cut costs. No revelation there. The mining industry, though, has always looked for ways to reduce production costs — no matter the state of t

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Long-Range Planning Commission - Report of the Management and Organization Committee

    By A. Tobey Yu, W. Joseph Schlitt, Alfred Weiss, Frederic L. Kadey, Louis Kuchinic

    Introduction The February and April 1984 issues of MINING ENGINEERING have already provided introduction to the long-range planning efforts of the Society of Mining Engineers (SME). These efforts are

    Jan 6, 1984

  • SME
    Nation Needs More Coal-Fired Plants, National Coal Show Attendees Told

    By Steve Kral

    A few months ago, Congress passed, and President Bush signed, a national energy bill. Designed to decrease the nation’s dependence on foreign sources of energy, the bill earmarked several billion dol

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Improved Drilling Accuracy Results in Reduced Ore Dilution at Evolution, Cracow (1d6c6ec6-cb87-45aa-b167-63ded86fbade)

    By Phil Jones

    "Dilution — planned and unplanned – remains a significant cost impairment in the mining process. A series of trials were held over a sixmonth period in fiscal year 2018 (FY18) that established the cos

    May 1, 2019

  • SME
    T& UC Tunnel Demand

    TABLE TUNNEL NAME OWNER LOCATION STATE TUNNEL USE LENGTH (FEET) WIDTH (FEET) BID YEAR STATUS Gateway Tunnel project Amtrak Newark NJ Subway 14,600 24.5 2015 Under study

    Sep 1, 2013

  • SME
    Application Of Wound Rotor Motors

    By D. Bogh

    Wound rotor motors are used in difficult mining applications where there is a need to start high inertia, hard starting loads while limiting inrush current They are recognized as robust and simple to

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Coal Review

    By F. Freme

    Coal production in the United States in 2007 totaled 1.03 Gt (1,145.6 million st), according to preliminary data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) (Ta-ble 1). This is a decrease of 1.5

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Rock Mass Mechanical Behavior Assessment at the Porce III Underground Powerhouse Complex, Colombia

    By Ludger Suarez-Burgoa

    At the Porce III Underground Powerhouse Complex in Colombia, the observational method (Peck, 1969), was used to provide information to an underground wedge and a 2D Finite Element Method numerical mod

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Method Of Academic Mining Engineering Research

    By Syd S. Peng

    University research in the U.S. consists of three components; faculty, funding, and graduate students or postdoctorals. Individual faculty is the unit area of research that is not limited, although

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Retrospective Analysis of Solvay Chemicals #5 Shaft - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By William G. Pariseau

    Solvay Chemicals Company mines trona in south-central Wyoming and has done so for many years. The mine is one of several in a mid-continent sedimentary basin that hosts the largest trona resource in t

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    Modeling The Influence Of Slurry Temperature On Gold Leach And Adsorption Kinetics At The Fort Knox Mine, Fairbanks, Alaska

    By Eric M. Hill, Daniel E. Walsh, Hsing K. Lin, John T. Hollow

    The Fort Knox Mine is located in Alaska’s interior where the average ambient air temperatures range from -24°C in January to 16°C in July. The mill processes a free milling gold ore utilizing both a

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    An Innovation In Machine Tunneling

    By J. Donovan Jacobs

    Many improvements in the art of underground excavation have appeared during the past two decades. These improvements have been both in methods and in machinery and have resulted in more economical con

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Mining Foundation of the Southwest Honors 2002 Inductees

    The 20th annual American Mining Hall of Fame Awards Banquet sponsored by the Mining Foundation of the Southwest will be held at the Westin La Paloma in Tucson, AZ, on Saturday, Dec. 7, 2002. This y

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    METSI - Innovative solutions and technologies for management of mining related water in South Africa

    By R. Schwarz, E. Pusch, A. Juch

    "The paper describes in general the objectives, goals as well as theoretical background of "METSI"-project proposal submitted to German BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research). The METSI pro

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Engineering Work Leading To A Rock Tunnel Plan

    By Forrest C. Neil, Clint J. Keifer

    The pollution of our water supply, Lake Michigan, is a continuing threat so long as our overflows from combined sewers exist. The problems have become even more acute during recent years, due to the i

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Cat Tests 360-st 797 Truck, Upgrades Wheel Loaders

    Caterpillar’s 797 327-t (360-st) mining truck is currently being tested at the company’s proving facilities. Mine evaluations began in the second quarter. The unit will be commerically available in

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Origin of the McDermitt caldera in Nevada and Oregon and related mercury deposits

    By Edwin H. McKee

    Eruption of rhyolitic ash-flow tuffs in the area of the McDermitt (Cordero) caldera began about 17.4 m.y. ago and continued for about 1.5 m.y. During this period of silicic eruptions, a circular area

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Triboelectric Belt Separator For Beneficiation Of Fine Minerals (f4cab3ef-b167-4b85-862c-1e7644f0d45f)

    By J. D. Bittner

    The ST separator utilizes electrical charge differences between materials produced by surface contact or triboelectric charging. When two materials are in contact, material with a higher affinity for

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Underground Application of Ultra-Wideband Radio for Robust Positioning and Communication

    By S. Schade, G. Möllemann, C. Niestroj

    "Mining environments, whether open-pit or underground, pose difficult conditions for any sensor system. However, the ever-increasing need for automation requires the application and use of sensor syst

    Jan 1, 2017