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  • TMS
    Kinetics and Mechanisms of High Temperature Pressure Leaching of Guelb Moghrein Chalcopyrite Concentrate

    By C. F. Ferron

    A process has been developed to treat the copper gold ores from the Guelb Moghrein mine in Mauritania. The process consists of pressure leaching the sulphide concentrate, neutralising with the oxide o

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AIME
    New York Paper - Certain Ore Deposits of the Southwest (with Discussion)

    By W. Tovote

    This paper is based upon 12 years' experience in the Southwest, including three years that were spent in constant traveling as examining engineer for the Phelps-Dodge Corporation. The material wa

    Jan 1, 1920

  • AUSIMM
    Extraction of Coal in the Sydney Basin from Beneath Large Bodies of Water

    By Williams RC

    Overlying the coal deposits of the Sydney Basin are several lakes and other bodies of water. These include the Pacific Ocean, Lake Macquarie, the Tuggerah Lakes and the stored waters of the dams of

    Jan 1, 1972

  • SME
    An Evaluation Of Sonar Techniques Applied To Brine Well Cavities In Kansas - I. Introduction

    By James E. Myers

    This study is a survey of the current "state-of-the-art" of commercially-available sonar tools to monitor the true shape of man-made cavities within the Hutchinson Salt of south-central Kansas. The w

    Jan 1, 1973

  • AIME
    Coal - Coal Gasification and the Coal Mining Industry

    By Henry R. Linden

    The demand for natural gas continues to increase at higher than anticipated rates, partly because of its widening price advantage over most other fossil fuels when the cost of air-pollution control is

    Jan 1, 1970

  • NIOSH
    RI 8422 Two-Measurement Methods for Working-Level Determinations of Radon Daughters, A Theoretical Study

    By Robert F. Holub

    The Bureau of Mines has evaluated four working-level radiation-measurement methods and optimized them from the inherent and statistical error standpoint. Optimization with respect to various sampling

    Jan 1, 1980

  • NIOSH
    RI 9471 - Transverse-Mounted End-Cab Design for Low-Coal Shuttle Cars (a044193b-519a-44c2-9add-49ddf4940de2)

    By Alan G. Mayton

    A prototype end-cab shuttle car (SC) design has been developed to improve protection and address ergonomic concerns of the SC operator in low coal mines. The new design features an end cab transversel

    Jan 1, 2010

  • AIME
    Discussions - Relationship Of Fault Displacement To Gouge And Breccia Thickness - Technical Papers, Mining Engineering, Vol. 35, No. 10, October 1983, pp. 1426- 1432 – Robertson, E. C.

    By D. G. Wilder

    D.G. Wilder I found the suggestion that the amount of displacement of a fault can be numerically related to the thickness of gouge or breccia to be both intuitively satisfying and intriguing. I hav

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Characteristics Of Philippine Porphyry Copper Deposits And Summary Of Current Production And Reserves ? History

    By William E. Saegart

    Copper has been mined in the Philippines since at least as early as the Ming dynasty (1368 A.D. to 1644 A. D.). The principal source areas of this early production were in Camarines Norte (Paracale),

    Jan 1, 1976

  • AIME
    Bleaching Clay

    By A. D. Rich

    The term "bleaching clay" or "bleaching earth," as used in the oil industries, refers to clays that in their natural state, or after chemical or physical activation, have the capacity for adsorbing co

    Jan 1, 1960

  • AUSIMM
    Computer Aided Design of Mine Water Management

    Based on twenty years of experiences of applying computers in mine water engineering in Hungary, a program package was developed for home utilization and for other users abroad as well. This progra

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AIME
    Reaction Kinetics Of Bismuth Dissolution From Lead Cake By Sulfuric Acid Leaching (6228d388-4a59-4c47-95bd-1b730ec598d2)

    By J. A. Herbst, J. L. Sepulveda, J. D. Miller

    Lead cake, a zinc smelter flue dust residue, consists primarily of lead sulfate. Characteristic properties of lead cake were determined in order to aid the understanding of reaction mechanisms involve

    Jan 1, 1979

  • AIME
    Chlorination Process for the Recovery of Copper from Chalcopyrite

    By G. L. Hundley, R. E. Mussler, D. H. Yee, F. E. Block, R. S. Olsen

    An anhydrous chlorination process for the recovery of copper from chalcopyrite was investigated. Pelletized concentrate was reacted continuously with gaseous chlorine in a vertical shaft reactor at 55

    Jan 1, 1974

  • NIOSH
    RI 5064 Progress Report On Development Of Columbium In Arkansas For 1953 ? Summary

    By V. A. Nieberlein

    The purpose of this investigation is to determine the reserves of columbium (niobium) minerals in Arkansas and to develop metallurgical methods for concentrating the minerals and extracting the metal.

    Jan 1, 1954

  • SME-ICGCM
    Methods Of Controlling Thick And Strong Roof In Longwall Mining

    By Deren Zhu

    The principle of roof control in longwall mining is to control main roof fractures so as to reduce roof weighting, plus reasonable and effective design of supports to reduce the convergence and premat

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    Mining automation human-systems integration – CMOC-Northparkes case study

    By J Cronin, R Burgess-Limerick, T Horberry, L Steiner

    "Automation offers the mining industry great potential for improvements in productivity and safety. However, the experience of introducing automation in other industries has been that the full potenti

    Oct 16, 2017

  • AIME
    Standing Committees

    Jan 1, 1927

  • AUSIMM
    Recent Developments in Tunnel Fire and Life Safety Standards and Guidance

    Currently an Australian Standard for tunnel fire safety is being developed for road and rail tunnels. Other local guidance relating to tunnel fire safety that has recently become available includes pu

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    The Contemporary African Copper Cycle: One Year Stocks And Flows

    This paper characterizes the copper cycle, that is, the flows of copper entering and leaving the African economy over a one-year period (1994). The major flows over the entire life-cycle of copper are

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Educating the next generation of geologists

    By D R. Cohen

    As one of the four basic sciences, the study of geology is intrinsically worthy as a means of increasing fundamental knowledge of the behaviour and evolution of the universe. Geological knowledge can

    Sep 20, 2017