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  • SME
    Canopy Air Curtain to Reduce Diesel Particulate Matter Exposure for Underground Blasters - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By Taekhee Lee, Steven Mischler, Shawn Vanderslice

    Diesel-powered equipment is widely used in the underground mining industry and their popularity results from properties including efficiency, versatility, reliability, and durability. In the U.S. appr

    Feb 1, 2024

  • SME
    Mining Foundation of the Southwest to Host 32nd Annual Banquet

    The 32nd annual American Hall of Fame Awards Banquet and Fundraiser, sponsored by the Mining Foundation of the Southwest (MFSW), will be held at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort & Spa on Satur

  • SME
    An Approach To Decrease Error And Increase Data Reliability In Drill Sampling For Gold

    By F. P. Schwarz

    Even in an otherwise care-fully done sampling procedure, reducing subsample weight, or splitting, when the grain size of material is too large commonly generates significant error. Such error can be e

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Coal Division - Elements In Coal And Potential Environmental Concerns Arising From These Elements

    The Environmental Session will consist of five papers dealing with various aspects of trace elements associated with coal. Analytical procedures to determine the amounts of trace elements will be disc

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    A Study Of Coal Mine Roof Behavior During Mining

    By R. T. Langland

    The U.S. Bureau of Mines has conducted underground tests and computer analyses to study coal mine roof behavior. Southern Ohio Coal Company provided test sites it) their Heigs mines located near Athen

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Current Bureau Of Mines Coal Research Program And Its Significance To Industry ? Introduction

    By Harry Perry

    The Bureau of Mines is glad to have this opportunity to discuss its present Coal Research Program and its significance to the industry with a group which has for many years been representative of the

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    A Summary Of Respirable Coal Mine Crystalline Silica Dust Research Accomplished Through The Miner Act Under The Niosh Office Of Mine Safety And Health Research - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By W. R. Reed, G. W. Luxbacher

    As directed by the MINER act of 2006, the NIOSH Office of Mine Health & Safety Research (OMSHR) has annually awarded contracts to enhance mine safety and health. OMSHR has a history of research that f

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SME
    Computer Modeling Of Underground Ventilation System At WIPP

    By S. C. Sethi

    The WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) Project near Carlsbad, New Mexico, is a research and development project sponsored by U.S. Department of Energy, designed to demonstrate the safe containment for

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Dragline step change; Safer, greener and lower operating costs are possible

    By R. Adsero

    "A high altitude review of the state of the mining industry provided by a study of multifactor productivity shows a continuation of lower output year on year for the capital and labor inputs applied.

    Nov 1, 2016

  • SME
    Fuel Interchangeability - Measuring Its Extent in U. S. Energy Markets

    By W. Gibson Jaworek

    Of increasing importance to the student of fuels economics has been the extent to which different primary energy sources can substitute for each other in the various energy markets of the nation. Know

    Jan 1, 1961

  • SME
    Climax Mine: Back In Business After A 17-Year Layoff

    In the grand scheme of things, the 9.5-t (21,000-lb) shipment of molybdenum concentrate that left Freeport-McMoRan?s Climax Mine site on May 10, 2012 was not unlike the thousands of others that have b

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Meandu Rising: The Second Life Of The Meandu Mine

    By J. G. Pippenger

    Rio Tinto Coal Australia (RTCA) developed the Meandu Mine in Queensland, Australia in 1983 to supply thermal coal to the adjacent and newly constructed Tarong Power Station (TPS). In designing the min

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Tunneling in Abrasive Alluvial Material Above the Water Table Using a MTBM and an EPBTBM - RETC2021

    By D. Lynn, D. Arthur

    Infrastructures continue to age and drinking water supplies are becoming scarce in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, California. Frontier-Kemper Constructors, Inc. (FKCI) was engaged by the Los

    Jun 13, 2021

  • SME
    Modeling the effect of barometric pressure changes on spontaneous heating in bleederless longwall panels - SME Transactions 2010

    By Liming Yuan, A. C. Smith

    Barometric pressure changes affect air density, leading to change in the mass of the gas in the gob. When the barometric pressure decreases, the volume of gas in the gob expands, while the volume of g

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Deep Portal Shafts of the Annacis Island Outfall Tunnels— Building on Pacific Northwest Shaft Design Experience - RETC2021

    By John Newby, Ulf Gwildis, Fred Marquis

    From the Brightwater Conveyance System in Seattle to the Second Narrows Water Supply Tunnel in Vancouver, BC, the design and construction of deep-lying tunnels in the Pacific Northwest often require t

    Jun 13, 2021

  • SME
    In-Situ Resource Recovery Testing At San Manuel

    By D. S. Ramey

    In-situ leaching of the oxidized copper mineral resource at the San Manuel mine has proven to be a technically and economically viable method of copper extraction. Although this leaching method has be

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Efficient Planning Models For Underground Coal Mines

    By S. A. Richards

    Business planning in the coal' industry revolves around the production and quality forecast. It is difficult to accurately estimate costs and revenues until the production forecast is made. At mi

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Capacity Increase By Coal Addition In Lamco J V's Pellet Plant

    By Stig Premfors

    Lamco Joint Venture is operating a Dravo Pelletizing machine to produce pellets from the natural slimes of an earthy hematite ore. The grate area of the machine 3.3 x 106 m equal to 350 m2 (3800 sq

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SME
    Pebble Grinding At Granduc?s Tide Lake Concentrator

    By W. C. Hellyer

    The Granduc ore body is located beneath glacial terrain on the borders of British Columbia and Alaska, some 600 miles from Vancouver and 30 miles from Tidewater at Stewart, B. C. The concentrator and

    Jan 1, 1972

  • SME
    Search For Candidates For Sales Comparison Approach In Non-disclosure States - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By J. Gustavson, E. Mallard, F. Pirkle

    The Sales Comparison Approach to estimating the value of a mineral property must always be attempted1 . In addition to other parameters, the approach depends heavily on the availability of transaction

    Mar 2, 2022