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  • CIM
    In-Situ Leaching of Gold Deposits

    In-Situ Leaching (ISL) process plants are low cost producers for uranium deposits where the geology is suitable. In the 1970s, a three-year pilot ISL program occurred on gold ore from the Ajax Mine, C

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME-ICGCM
    Design And Experience Of Total Extraction Room And Pillar Operations Above Depleted Longwall Panels

    By Kenneth Rigsby

    Black Mountain Resources' Highlands Mine No. I is a full extraction room and pillar operation located in Harlan County, Kentucky. Black Mountain extracts the 0.9 to 1.1 meter (36- to 42-inch) thi

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    A Disappointing Year for Industrial Minerals Production

    A glance at the accompanying table reveals that for the first time in many years the industrial minerals field did not post significant gains in production. Gypsum, cement, sand and gravel, and cru

    Jan 5, 1980

  • NIOSH
    RI 5261 Beneficiation Studies Of Nickeliferous Ores From The Shamrock Mine, Jackson County, Oreg., And The Congress Mine, Ferry County, Wash. - Summary

    By J. E. Shelton

    Flotation tests are described on samples of two lowgrade nickeliferous ores of Oregon and Washington. The sample from the Congress mine, Ferry County, Wash., contained 1.2 percent Ni, occurring chiefl

    Jan 1, 1956

  • ISEE
    Analysis of Air Blast Overpressures within a Negative Pressure Boundary

    By Frederick B. Kuhnow

    Harmonic energetic delamination of T2 building is being considered for demolition at a formerly known atomic lab. The T2 building is within a containment structure that is under a negative pressure of

    Jan 1, 2017

  • CIM
    Refractory Lining Design for Pressure Oxidation Autoclaves

    By I. Donohue, M. Pearson, E. Barrette

    "This paper presents the technique and benefits of the finite element approach for designing the refractory lining in pressure oxidation autoclaves. One-dimensional equations are used to develop an in

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    High Performance Tunnel Boring Machine for Kárahnjúkar Headrace Tunnel, KAR-14—A Design and Case History

    By Brian Khalighi, Massimo Franceschi, Giovanni Giacomin, Gianni Porta

    Headrace Tunnels and parts of the Access Adit Tunnels of Kárahnjúkar Hydropower project, KAR-14, in Iceland will be excavated using three full-face Robbins Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM). TBM sizes rang

    Jan 1, 2005

  • DFI
    Pile Top Hydraulic Hammer Drive Down The Hole Chiselling Round Steel Piling System - Summary

    By J. Nakayama

    For installation of round steel piles or cast-in-place pile construction through boulder contained ground or rocky formation, usual system does not function properly or impossible to work. This paper

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SAIMM
    The geostatistical evaluation of low-ash coal reserves in No. 2 seam, Witbank area

    By I. D. Wood

    The geostatistical methods given for the estimation of low-ash coal reserves take into account the geological structure of the seam, and consequently give far more reliable results than have been obta

    Jan 1, 1979

  • CIM
    Water management simulation for the Pogo Gold Mine

    By G. Beckstead, L. Gormely, R. Zimmer, K. Hanneman, B. Nethery

    As part of the EIS and permitting activities for the Pogo Mine in Alaska, a risk assessment study for the water management plan was carried out. The basis for the study was a site water volume and con

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Noxious gas emissionss from the closed iron mines to the built-up areas on the surface

    By D. Grabowski, Z. Pokryszka

    ABSTRACT: Some residential areas of the iron basin of Lorraine (in the North-East of France) are affected by noxious gas emissions (under oxygenated, carbon dioxide loaded and radon loaded gas mixture

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Deposit Effects on the Kinetics of the Cementation of Copper with Zinc from Dilute Aqueous Solution

    A rotating disc of precipitant zinc in a single stage flow reactor was used to study the effects of deposit mass on the reaction kinetics of copper cementing on to zinc from dilute aqueous solutions.T

    Jan 1, 1973

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - The Effect of Hardening Mechanism on the Fatigue Strength of Some Fe-Ni Martensitic Alloys

    By G. W. Tuffnell, S. Floreen

    Three Fe-18 pet Ni-base ternary alloys cortaining carbon, molybdenum, or cobalt were aged to pgroduce hardening by carbides, Ni3Mo, or ordering, respectively. Each alloy was tested in rotating-beam fa

    Jan 1, 1965

  • SME
    Challenges and Developments For Manufacturers of Diesel-Powered Underground Mining Equipment

    By Dana S. Getman

    For 30 years, mining operations worldwide have used diesel-powered mobile machinery to mechanize the mining process. South African diamond mines and some US coal mines have 15 years of experience with

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AIME
    Fighting Fire With Steam Shovels - A Unique Operation At The United Verde

    By Robert E. Tally

    The ore reserves of the United Verde Copper Co. in 1907 were estimated at 4,500,000 tons, averaging about 7 per cent copper. Seventy-five per cent of this tonnage was confined to the so-called fire st

    Jan 1, 1932

  • NIOSH
    RI 3067 Washability Studies-Mary Lee Bed at Hull Mine, Dora, AL

    By A. C. Richardson, G. D. Coe, B. M. Bird

    "The Hull mine of the De'Bardeleben Coal Corporation is located in the Warrior field, in Walker County, Ala., about 25 miles northwest of Birmingham. The Mary Lee bed at this point is coking coal and

    Apr 1, 1931

  • CIM
    Danieli?s Entry into Direct Reduction with its Danarex®

    By Alim Ullah

    Danieli entered into the Direct Reduction (DR) field in order to offer its clients complete turnkey facilities for steelmaking?from processing of raw materials through finished products. The Danarex®

    May 1, 2003

  • NIOSH
    OFR-66-82 Hybrid Computer System For Optimization Of Extraction Procedures In Tabular Coal Deposits

    By Michael P. Hardy

    The report described improvements and applications of the Hybrid Computer facility. Improvements implemented under U.S.B.M. Contract H0252035 included expansion of the capability to model nonlinear se

    Jan 1, 1977

  • TMS
    Various Arsenic Treatments in Non-Ferrous Metallurgy and other Potential Applications

    By Shun Fujieda, Shigeru Suzuki, Kozo Shinoda, Tetsuo Fujita

    "Dowa Metals & Mining Co. Ltd. has developed and plant-practiced a unique scorodite synthesis technology (DMSP®) for arsenic immobilization by oxidizing Fe(ll) ions in the presence of As(V) ions. Dowa

    Jan 1, 2012

  • DFI
    The Design of Partial Depth Cement Deep Mixing (CDM) Foundation for an Immersed Tunnel

    By J. S. Lee, R. K. Massarsch

    "A 3.2 km long immersed road tunnel forms part of the Busan-Geoje Fixed Link in South Korea, which connects Korea's second largest city Busan, with the island of Geoje. To ensure the water tightness o

    Jan 1, 2015