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  • SME
    Increasing Availability through Advanced Gearless Drive Technology (581a2310-147b-4546-9b01-72b08d1517e0)

    By C. Dirscherl

    "Declining ore grade, leading to increased material transport and plant throughput requirements, is one of the major challenges in the current mining environment. This is accompanied by rising energy

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Enhancing Synthetic Zinc Ferrite Hydrochloric Acid Leaching by Using Isopropanol as a Solvent

    By Galymzhan Karamyrzayev, Rashid Nadirov

    Zinc ferrite ( ZnFe2O4) is a by-product of non-ferrous metal production and is considered a promising source of raw zinc. The most efficient way to extract zinc from its ferrite is via acidic extracti

    Jun 5, 2022

  • SME
    Effect of air velocity on conveyor belt fire suppression systems - SME Transactions 2010

    By H. Verakis, M. A. Hockenberry, A. C. Smith, J. H. Rowland III

    Four different types of fire suppression systems were evaluated in large-scale fire experiments to study the effect of air velocity on their effectiveness in extinguishing conveyor belt fires. The fou

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    What it’s worth : A review of 1986 mineral royalty information

    By H. Lyn Bourne

    This is the fifth annual tabulation of mineral royalty information. This tabulation, like the previous editions, includes all of the earlier data. There are also 60 new entries. In addition to royalty

    Jan 7, 1987

  • SME
    Mining And Enviromining Law For Industrial Minerals And Rocks

    With the advent of the environmental "green" movement of the 1960s, eventually leading to Earth Day 1970, Congress responded by passage of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 1970. NEPA gave

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Concentration Of Tin Ore By Selective Oil Agglomeration

    By W. D. Macleod

    This paper describes a mineral dressing process for the upgrading of tin ores. The process described is called 'agglomeration' and. is similar in many respects to flotation. Many variables h

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Preventive Maintenance Policy Supported By A Quality Control Chart And Kolmogorov-Smirnov Tests: Emet Colemanite Mineral Processing Plant, Turkey

    By S. Yerel

    In a mineral processing plant, the determination of a preventive maintenance schedule is one of the most important maintenance policies. In this study, to determine the preventive maintenance schedule

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2004 - Vermiculite

    By J. Hindman, E. Moeller

    Vermiculite is currently mined from shallow (less than 25 m or 80 ft) surface deposits throughout the world. The largest producers are Palabora Mining of Phalabowra, South Africa (ore stock is a phlo

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Reliability-Centered Maintenance of Rapier Dragline for Optimizing Replacement Interval of Dragline Components "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2020)"

    By Snehamoy Chatterjee, Sanjay Kumar Palei, Smarak Das

    Machine manufacturers’ recommendations on maintenance strategies of capital-intensive draglines are not always based on real data and therefore lead to losses from downtime. This paper proposes a prev

    May 28, 2020

  • SME
    Modeling and Optimization of Aqueous Mineral Carbonation for Cement Kiln Dust Using Response Surface Methodology Integrated with Box-Behnken and Central Composite Design Approaches "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration"

    By MOHAMED WAEL, ANASTASIA GOEVA, ABDULAZIZ TAWFEEQI, IHTISHAM TARIQ, S. M. ZAKIR HOSSAIN, NIAZ ALI KHAN, MUHAMMAD FAISAL IRFAN

    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an attractive area of research in such fields as CO2 mineral carbonation, global warming and sustainable energy systems. In this study, carbonation efficiency for a

    Jun 5, 2020

  • SME
    Sherritt Gordon's Fox Lake Concentrator

    By Garry M. Hughes

    Lynn lake, Manitoha, where Sherritt has operated a copper-nickel mine since 1954, is located north of the 56th parallel approximately SOO miles north of Winnipeg. Sherritt's new, 3,000 tpd, coppe

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SME
    Review of Organic Binders for Iron Ore Concentrate Agglomeration

    By S. K. Kawatra, J. A. Halt

    "Low-grade iron ores are finely ground and processed to recover iron-bearing minerals. However, the iron-rich powder is too fine to be used directly in blast furnaces and most direct reduction furnace

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Selectively Depress Copper-Activated Pyrite in Copper Flotation at Slightly Alkaline pH "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Yongjun Peng, Yufan Mu

    Pyrite depression in the flotation of copper ores is difficult due to the activation of Cu2+ ions on pyrite surface. In this study, the radical chain reaction involving the redox cycling of Cu(I/II) i

    Jan 26, 2021

  • SME
    Enhanced Flotation Of Ultra-fine Apatite And Ca-al Phosphate From Quartz And Muscovite Using Eriez’ Column Flotation Technology - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By M. Fan, A. Hobert, W. van Dyk

    Low flotation recovery and selectivity have been long-standing problems in the treatment of most ultra-fine phosphate ores. This paper investigates the improved flotation of two ultra-fine Brazilian p

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SME
    Big Data in Design-Build: Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel Expansion Supplemental Site Investigation - NAT2024

    By Martha Gross, Amanda Wachenfeld, Brian Keaney, Jean-Michel Charpentier, Frank Perrone

    The Hampton Roads Bridge-Tunnel (HRBT) Expansion widens the existing four-lane bridgetunnel corridor to eight lanes through construction of two parallel tunnels, interstate widening, and bridge expans

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    Tailings Filtration Using Viper Filtration Technology—a Case Study - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By PETER ROBINSON, KEVIN BARBER, OLIVER WHATNALL

    Investigation and uptake of filtered tailings continues to grow throughout the globe. This is driven by a wide range of site-specific considerations, which include such factors as tailings characteris

    Jan 25, 2021

  • SME
    Evaluation of deep-seated crib block fire tests (7bc9e718-229c-42f8-a8a2-7a3b0ae77860)

    By M. A. Trevits

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), is conducting research to test, evaluate, improve or modify coa

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Field Testing of Roof Bolter Canopy Air Curtain Operating Downwind of the Continuous Miner "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Todd Grounds, William R. Reed, VASU GANGRADE, Michael Shahan, Garron Ross, Kunal Singh

    Roof bolter canopy air curtains (CACs) are gaining acceptance as a respirable dust control device that can provide roof bolter operators with protection from overexposure to respirable coal mine dust.

    Oct 14, 2020

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2004 – Pumice and Pumicite

    By G. C. Presley

    Estimated domestic production of pumice and pumicite in 2004 increased about 23 percent since 2003, according to the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS estimate of domestic production of 687 kt

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Numerical Simulation of Mechanical Characteristics in Longwall Goaf Materials

    By Cheng Li, Yanlei Wang, Lingrui Kong, Jianxin Tang, Fang Yuan

    Coal mined-out areas have a significant impact on mining safety and affect the pressure distributions of neighboring coal faces. The PFC3D software is used to study the goaf mechanical characteristics

    Jan 18, 2022