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  • SME
    Preliminary Design of Mined Transit Stations and Deep Tunnels in Seattle

    By Gordon T. Clark

    The preliminary design of four mined stations and 7.2 km (4.5 miles) of tunnels for Seattle’s light rail transit system is described. Constraints that influenced the design and options that were studi

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Wear of grinding media in the mineral processing industry: An overview

    By M. J. Meulendyke, J. D. Purdue

    Within the mineral processing industry, a range of grinding conditions exists which include semiautogenous grinding (SAG),rod milling, and conventional ball milling. Each of these mill environments pr

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Advantages of using advancing tailgate shortwall ventilation in underground trona mining

    By C. J. Pritchard

    Productivity improvements reduced the number of continuous miner sections from seven to three while maintaining full productive capacity. So a decision was made to test an advancing tailgate ventilati

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    A Unique Application Of Seismic Methods In An Open-Pit Mine

    By Y. S. Kim, A. Bailey

    A feasibility seismic refraction and reflection field survey was conducted at the U. S. Borax Company open-pit mine, Boron, California by the writers during the weekend of March 13 and 14, 1976. This

    Jan 1, 1977

  • 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
    Evaluating the potential for acid mine drainage remediation through remining in the Tangascootack Creek watershed, Clinton County Pennsylvania in the Tangascootack Creek watershed, Clinton County Pennsylvania

    By V. W. Skema, M. W. Smith

    Pennsylvania has 4,000 km (2,500 miles) of streams that do not meet water-quality standards due to acid mine drainage (AMD), making AMD the greatest cause of water pollution in the state. The problem

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Improvements On Blasting Technique For Headrace Tunnels

    By Yoneji Kanoh, Masahiko Ohtsuka

    In Japanese tunneling history, it has commonly been accepted that the long-round driving is difficult due to the complicated geological condition. Therefore, the maximum past record has been less than

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Influence Of Mine Ventilation By Falling Material - Solids And Water - During Sinking And Filling In Of Shafts Or During Actions For Extinguishing Mine Fires In Shafts - Introduction

    By J. Linhart

    In vertical airways, falling material - solids-or water - may cause undesirable disturbances in the ventilation in the airway itself and also in neig¬bouring airways unless precautions are taken to st

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Exploring the Performance and Reliability of Communication Links Subjected to Electromagnetic Interference in Radio Frequency-Controlled Heavy Equipment in an Underground Coal Mine - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Y. Zhang, C. Zhou, M. Girman

    Wireless technologies are increasingly being implemented in underground mines for various purposes such as communications, tracking, remote control, remote sensing, and environmental monitoring. Howev

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    Performance of Normet Self Drilling Dynamic Bolt (SDDB®) Types in Dynamic Loading – The Energy Dissipating Hollow Core Rockbolt Installed in Normet’s Urea-Silicate Injection Resin - RASIM2022

    By Renee Royer, Allan Punkkinen

    As mines progress to ever increasing depth, new challenges are encountered with serious concerns for rock excavations in highly stressed conditions. New procedures have been undertaken or are under wa

    Apr 26, 2022

  • SME
    Self-Cleaning Fluidized Bed Slurry Heat Exchangers: A Breakthrough In The Hydrometallurgy For The Processing Of Laterite Nickel And Cobalt In High-Pressure-Acid-Leach (HPAL) Plants

    By D. G. Klaren

    Self-cleaning fluidized bed heat exchangers are conquering the world for reason that they are able to solve any severe fouling problem in indirect heat transfer due to the circulation of cleaning part

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Robot-Human Control Interactions In Mining Operations (0b1217a6-1d54-43fe-b0e6-c8bd395d732a)

    By G. Danko, R. Tiwari, J. Knowles

    Many excavation and loading tasks require equipment operators to simultaneously coordinate the motion of multiple machine links, in order to achieve complex tool trajectories. Efficiency, ore selecti

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Ground Control of Strip Backfilling Water Conservation Mining in Shallow Coal Seams

    According to the classification of water conservation mining in shallow coal seams in China, when the ratio of the impermeable layer thickness to the mining height is less than 18, the mining belongs

    Jan 7, 2020

  • SME
    Final Tunnel Liner At The Mill Creek 3 Project

    By M. Schafer

    The 6-m- (20-ft-) diameter cast-in-place tunnel lining for Phase 3 of the Mill Creek Tunnel (MCT3) has been completed. This article summarizes aspects of liner design and ad-dresses the construction a

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Cellular Acclimation Of Acidithiobacillus Ferrooxidans To Sulfur Biooxidation

    By C. -G. Zhang

    This paper presents the results of a study on cellular acclimation of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans to sulfur biooxidation in terms of cells growth and changes in surface properties and morphologies

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Assessing The Uncertainty Due To Grades And Grade Shell Limits For The West Leeville Underground Deposit

    By C. Deutsch

    Resource estimation for the West Leeville deposit is prepared using a conventional explicit approach. The geologic model is developed using interpretive methods based on visual logging. Grade shells

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Aerodynamic Potential Used For The Control Of Fire Areas In Mines - Introduction

    By Henryk Bystron

    The underground fire areas are formed as a result of failure of an active fire extinguishing in mines. Such areas bring about a fire hazard for the work safety and for the mining operations. For liqui

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Risk Management: Adapting Riskgate for Underground Coal Mines in the United States

    By B. N. Conley, K. D. Luxbacher

    "The underground coal mining industry in the United States has recently seen the occurrences of several high profile, multi-fatality events. The explosions that occurred at the Sago Mine in 2006, the

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    The Effect Of Natural Geologic Discontinuities On Behavior Of Rock In Tunnels

    By J. W. Mahar, E. J. Cording

    INTRODUCTION In exploration for rock tunnels, the geology should not only be described, but its effect on excavation and support assessed. It is not an easy task to correlate exploration results wi

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Characteristics of Drawing Body Shape in LTCC: Theoretical Model and Experimental Validation

    By Weijie Wei, Jinwang Zhang, Jiachen Wang, Yang Li

    "Longwall top-coal caving (LTCC) mining technique is one of the important methods for underground thick seam extraction in China. The coal seam in LTCC panel is divided into two parts: bottom-coal and

    Jan 1, 2019