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  • ISEE
    Mine Blasting Safety: Decades of Progress

    By Harry Verakis, Thomas Lobb

    Blasting accident data over a 30-year period (1980-2010) are summarized and presented for all types of surface and underground mining operations in the USA. The historical record of injuries from blas

    Jan 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Magnetite – A Higher-grade Blast Furnace Feed and Its Potential Benefits for the Ironmaker

    By K Edwards, A J. J Mouton

    Hematite represents the vast majority of iron ore exported from Australia as the development and processing cost of magnetite is generally seen as a barrier to the development of vast magnetite resour

    Jul 13, 2015

  • SME
    John O. Marsden: An interview with the 2014 SME President

    We have lived through a period of strong metal pricing during the past eight to 10 years. Copper has been hovering in the range of $3-$4/lb during much of the past eight years, averaging close to $3.3

    Mar 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Variance Propagation In Toll Smelting Operations Treating Multiple Concentrate Stockpiles

    By C. J. Cutler

    Metallurgical accounting for toll treatment smelters pose a number of challenges. Multiple feed stockpiles have to be accounted for as part of the monthly recovery estimation. Moreover, multiple metal

    Jan 1, 2006

  • IMPC
    Exploiting process topology for fault diagnosis in a simulated pressure leaching system

    By Brian Lindner, Lidia Auret, Niel Knoblauch

    In this paper, a fault detection and identification framework based on feature extraction and topology extraction methods is proposed, and evaluated on a simulated base metals refinery high pressure l

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    Pump for Gold Mine Museum

    A 36-year-old A-S-H pump, manufactured to designs dating back to 1936, was recently presented to the Gold Mine Museum by Envirotech. The pump, a B-frame three-piece rubber-lined Hydroseal unit, was su

    Jan 1, 1984

  • NIOSH
    Computational Simulation Of A Pneumatic Chipping Hammer - Introduction

    By Ricardo Burdisso, Rahul Kadam, Kyle Schwartz, Marty Johnson

    Occupational exposure to hand transmitted vibration (HTV) arises from the hand held powered tools extensively used in the mining and construction industry such as rock drills, chipping hammers, chain

    Jan 6, 2006

  • NIOSH
    RI 6608 Entrained Bed Carbonization Of Bituminous Coal - Tests On An Australian Coal

    By W. S. Landers

    This report presents a detailed study of low temperature, entrained-bed carbonization of an Australian coking coal. The coal studied was high-volatile B bituminous from the Foybrook mine, an open-cut

    Jan 1, 1965

  • AIME
    Determination Of The Temperature And Pressure Of Formation Of Minerals By The Decrepitometric Method

    By F. Gordon Smith

    ALTHOUGH several geological indicators of the critical type are known, including quartz inversions and decomposition of hydrous minerals such as serpentine, there are very few of the general type. Sol

    Jan 1, 1952

  • ISEE
    Tell Me Professor Richter -- How Much Did They Shoot?

    By Douglas A. Anderson

    It is quite common for people exposed to blast vibrations to ask questions such as "How big was that blast on the Richter Scale?" Although it is tempting to dismiss such questions out of hand, for the

    Jan 1, 1994

  • NIOSH
    IC 8956 Health And Safety In-House And Contract Research In Fiscal Year 1984

    This publication summarizes the research (in-house and contract projects) programmed by the Bureau of Mines for fiscal year 1984 (October 1, 1983-September 30, 1984) under its Health and Safety Techno

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AIME
    Part VII – July 1968 - Papers - The Solid Solubilities of Silver, Aluminum, Chromium, Copper, and Iron in Zone-Refined Beryllium

    By M. I. Jacobson, M. L. Hammond

    The solid solubilities of high-purity silver, aluminum, chromium, copper, and iron in zone-refined beryllium have been determined. Diffusion couple sandwiches of beryllium with aluminum, copper, and s

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SAIMM
    Overcoming The Limitations Of The Use Of Corrosion/ Temperature Tables In Designing For Transport Applications

    By A E. Paterson

    General aluminium corrosion charts based on 1100 alloy listing product and temperature have been developed by AFSA, mainly from available sources. The categories of corrosion expectation are fairly

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - Diffusion of Tungsten and Rhenium Tracers in Tungsten

    By R. L. Andelin, J. D. Knight, M. Kahn

    Self-diffusion in single-crystal tungsten and diffusion of rhenium tracer in single-crystal tungsten have been measured over the temperature range 2660° to 3230°C by direct sectioning and radio-chemic

    Jan 1, 1965

  • NIOSH
    IC 9033 Metallurgical Effects Of Impurities In Recycled Copper Alloys

    By Harry V. Makar

    As part of a continuing research program for conserving domestic mineral resources, the Bureau of Mines is investigating new and improved scrap identification techniques to improve sorted mixed scrap

    Jan 1, 1985

  • NIOSH
    RI 7091 Effects Of Adding Rare-Earth Silicides, Aluminum, And Cryolite To Molten Steel

    By R. J. Leary

    This investigation was conducted to determine the effects of various rare-earth metal addition practices upon the macrostructure and the pattern of sulfur distribution in steel ingots. Heats of plain

    Jan 1, 1968

  • IIMP
    Ventilación industrial en la fundición de plomo de la Cerro de Pasco Corporation en La Oroya

    By Pedro P. Olórtegui F

    El presente texto revisa desde 1952 las actividades de Higiene industrial en relación con la Cerro de Pasco Corporation, describe las condiciones ambientales introducidas en la aplicación de la venti

    Aug 20, 1965

  • SME
    Degradation process in coal slurry pipelines - by M. G. Ayat and B.C. Scott Technical Papers, MINING ENGINEERING. Vol. 40. No 9 September 1988, pp. 885-888

    By M. G. Ayat

    I have been following the discussions on coal degradation started by the article "Degradation process in coal slurry pipe-lines," by M.G. Ayat and B.C. Scott. I agree with Mr. Dasher's comment

    Jan 1, 1990

  • IMPC
    Physicochemical observations during process water reuse in flotation of oxide copper-cobalt ore

    By Stoyan Gaydardzhiev, Michel Shengo, Pierre Kalenga

    Lab-scale flotation of copper and cobalt oxidized ore from the Luiswishi deposit in the Katanga province (DRC) has been done focusing on the influence of the degree of process water recycling on metal

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AIME