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    Environmental Consultants In The Minerals Industry

    By Fred A. Glover

    It's a pleasure to be included with this group. I am not here to sell my services, but rather to share with you some ideas and considerations on using environmental consultants. Environmental con

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Scrapers Vs Draglines - Production And Present - Worth Cost Analysis

    By W. C. Morgan

    Recently passed federal strip mining legislation officially emphasizes that the increased coal production required by this country through surface mining is going to be obtained only with stricter env

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Will It Be Business As Usual? Comments and Observations on Mergers and Acquisitions in the Mining Industry

    By Fred H. Lightner

    Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) within the mining industry are becoming frequent events. Large companies and small companies alike are jumping on the bandwagon of merger mania. The results of these mer

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Lake Dorothy Hydroelectric Project Lake Tap And Tunnel, Juneau, AK

    By Jason Morrison

    The Norwegian Lake Tap Method was successfully used to tap into the side of Lake Dorothy 36.5 m (120') below the lake surface. The lake tap allows water to flowinto an access tunnel from the lake

  • SME
    Measurements At A State Of The Art 2 X 5 Mw Dual Pinion Mill Drive

    By M. Rufli

    Until not so long ago most ring geared mills were operated with fix speed motors only. By using the latest generation of medium voltage frequency converters, new possibilities have arisen to improve t

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Conveyors - Boddington Gold Mine?s Expansion Project Includes Overland Conveyor

    By Todd Hollingsworth

    The Boddington gold mine is located near Perth in Western Australia in the Saddleback Greenstone Belt, a fault-bounded sliver of Archaean volcanic and shallow level intrusive rocks, surrounded by gran

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    The circumstances, events and politics leading the closure of the U.S. Bureau of Mines ? was it the correct decision?

    By J. Harrison Daniel

    Were the legislators and politicians responsible for the closing of the U.S. Department of the Interior?s Bureau of Mines (Bureau) in March 1996 fully aware of what they were doing? Throughout the Uni

    Jan 4, 2010

  • SME
    Sustainable Regional Development - A New Way To Build Prosperity For Indigenous People In Australia

    By J. Gawler

    In June 2005 the Minerals Council of Australia signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Australian Government which states an intention ?for mining companies and government to work together

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Applying Environmental Geology Concepts To Urban Development Planning An Example: Tippecanoe County, Indiana

    By T. R. West

    Planning for urban development in many locations is based largely on 0.10 factors, 1) soil conditions and 2) socio-political aspects of the region. A more widely based approach is necessary, however,

    Jan 1, 1972

  • SME
    Current State Of Disc Cutter Design And Development Directions

    By Joe Roby

    Rolling disc cutters are the business end of hard-rock and mixed-face tunnel boring machines (TBMs). Since their first successful employment on a TBM more than 50 years ago, disc cutter technology ha

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Hydrometallurgical treatment of zinc ash from hot-dip galvanizing process - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2018)

    By G. Włoch, E. Rudnik

    The oxide fraction of industrial zinc ash was characterized in terms of chemical and phase composition, leaching behavior in sulfuric acid solutions, and leaching thermal effect. The waste product con

  • SME
    Mining in Cuba

    By Louis W. Cope

    Since its discovery, Cuba has been called the “Pearl of the Antilles.” The country remains that, albeit a little tarnished these days. In Havana, many of the buildings are being refurbished, while s

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Guidelines For Developing Aggregate Exploration Programs In Urban Areas

    By D. P. Bryan

    The identification and-develop¬ment of new construction aggregate resources, the most common mineral mined, is an essential need in this country's growing urban areas. In developing an aggregate

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Inland Steel Uses Technology, Cost Control, and Employee Involvement to Improve Its Productivity

    By Samuel A. Reipas

    Introduction The ore mining industry has been successful because of technological progress and huge sums of capital investment. But new technology and plants have not come cheap. The problem now is c

    Jan 11, 1983

  • SME
    Assertive Management

    By B. A. Massey

    Sooner or later, we'll encounter a subordinate, peer, or boss that will test our management skills to the limit. The chances are good that our formal educations have not fully prepared us to effe

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Rock Tunnel Program In The Chicagoland Area

    By Frank E. Dalton, Bart T. Lynam, Forrest C. Neil

    The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan (TARP) is the largest tunneling program in the history of the metropolitan Chicago area (Figure 1). Between September 1976 and September 1977, rock tunnel contracts havin

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Comparative Design Of Large Tonnage Fine Crushing Plants

    By Neil C. Hario

    The purpose of this paper is to explore the various designs and design alternates available for large fine crushing plants, and to discuss objectives and criteria upon which these designs are founded.

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    A New Look At The Small Gasifier

    By R. W. Culbertson

    During the 1920's, approximately 11,000 small gasifiers were in operation in the United States. They converted about 15 million tons of coal per year into low Btu gas. In some cases, hot raw gas

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Breaking Through: Shaft Design and Construction Considerations from Miami’s Norris Cut Project

    By Richard Giffen, Boris CARO VARGAS, Terrence Carroll

    "This paper takes an in-depth look at the $72 million design-build Norris Cut project, which includes the replacement of an existing 54-inch waste water sewer main to Fisher Island under the Norris Cu

    Jan 1, 2016

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

    By H. Lyn Bourne

    This is the fourth annual tabulation that gives mineral royalty information. The table presents previous information plus about two dozen new entries. In addition to the royalty information, some entr

    Jan 8, 1986