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  • SME
    Free Trade Or Fair Trade - How Does This Affect The Mining Engineers And Their Industries?

    By H. C. Morehead

    The United States Cement, along with other industries, is being devastated by an unprecedented penetration of domestic markets by imported products. The overriding questions are: 1. Have foreign m

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    SAWS W-6 Upper Segment: Construction for Future Generations - NAT2024

    By Jason Swartz, Gerardo Gomez, Henry Leighton

    San Antonio has experienced sustained growth for decades, putting increased pressure on existing wastewater infrastructure. In June 2013, San Antonio Water System (SAWS) reached a Consent Decree agree

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    Computer Applications in the San Manuel Mine Ventilation Department

    By Bruce Johnson

    This paper is not written to "break new ground" in computer applications; it is just a treatment of how an operating metal mine utilizes a mainframe computer for planning, analyzing, and reporting on

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Rock mechanics of the Davis Detector Cavern - SME Transactions 2012

    By D. R. Tesarik, T. C. Trancynger, W. G. Pariseau

    The Davis detector cavern was excavated on the 4850 Level of the former Homestake Mine in the mid- 1960s to house a novel neutrino detector developed by Nobel Prize winner Dr. R. Davis. The original c

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Cost Control In Open Pits Simulations For Optimizing Production Costs

    By F. H. Mertens

    The costs of an open-pit operation can be classified according to the following hierarchy : -overall cost of production (per ton of ore) -costs of basic operations and functions -costs of auxili

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Barriers and Incentives: The Application of Comprehensive Risk Management in the Us Underground Coal Mining Industry

    By J. Restrepo, N. Ripepi

    "The International Organization of Standards defines risk as “the effect of uncertainties on achieving objectives (15).” In mining, many uncertainties can influence the outcome of personal or professi

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Construction And Operation Of A Series Of Biological Leaching Tests Dumps

    By A. Bruynesteyn

    Many papers 'have been publihed on the role of the bacterium.Thiobacillus ferrooxidans in the oxidation of reduced sulfur compounds, and years of research have established the following environme

    Jan 1, 1972

  • 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
    Improving Mine Performance Through Contract Mining (The Australian Experience)

    By T. S. Golosinski

    Use of contractors to excavate, load and haul mined material is widespread in Australia. It is also becoming a common practice in many other countries. The paper reviews current practices in Australia

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Technologies for the Next Generation Closed-Circuit Escape Respirators

    By R. Fernando

    "The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) National Personal Protective Technology Laboratory (NPPTL) is leading an effort to develop the next generation of self-escape breathi

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Reclamation Of Mined-Out Bauxite Lands In Jamaica, 1952-1970

    By C. E. Davis

    The Jamaica Mining Legislation requires the bauxite companies operating in the island to reclaim all mined-out lands (except those legitimately excluded) to the level of agricultural or pastoral produ

    Jan 1, 1972

  • SME
    Lifetime of Polyethylene Geomembranes for Water Proofing of Tunnels

    By Gerald Pinter, David Nitsche, Márton Bredács, Markus Haager, Andreas Frank

    "The reliable prediction of service lifetime of tunnel constructions is of essential technical and economic interest. Polymers used for tunnel liners have to fulfill the requirement of 100 years lifet

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Superconductivity And The Substitution For Copper

    By M. Rieber

    The potential for the wide-spread commercialization of superconductivity, the disappearance of all resistance to a direct current (D.C.) electric flow, began in 1986-87 with the development by Bednorz

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    X-ray tomography for mineral processing technology 3D particle characterization from mine to mill - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2018)

    By J. D. Miller, C. L. Lin

    From mine to mill, the 3D characterization of particles ranging in size from meters to micrometers is now possible. A brief review of X-ray tomography for mineral processing is given with recent advan

  • SME
    Field tests of second generation proximity detection systems on continuous miners

    By Jeffrey A. Yonkey, Timothy J. Lutz, Jacob L. Carr, Christopher C. Jobes

    "Since 1984, there have been 39 fatalities involving striking and pinning of the operator and other workers by the continuous mining machine (CMM). In January 2015, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Adm

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Metallurgical Coal Quality -A Customer's Perspective

    By J. S. Wozek

    In metallurgical applications, coal fulfills dual roles as a chemical feed stock and as a fuel source. These applications range from cokemaking, ironrnaking (including pulverized coal injection), foun

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    An Examination of Mining Companies’ Online Health and Safety Policies: Implications for Improving Organizational Performance

    By D. R. Willmer, E. J. Haas

    "DISCLAIMER The findings and conclusions in this paper are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the views of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Reference to sp

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Sub-Bituminous Coal Drying

    By T. J. Lien

    AMAX Coal Company's Belle Ayr coal dryer is the first industry attempt to commercialize sub-bituminous coal drying which has been the subject of laboratory and pilot plant tests for almost two de

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Investigating the Relationship between Mine Air and Strata Temperature Changes and the Use of Portable Refuge Alternatives

    By M. A. Reyes, L. Yan

    "Heat and humidity buildup within refuge alternatives (RAs) may expose occupants to physiological hazards such as heat stress. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) regulations require RAs in u

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Designing and modeling mesh communications in underground coal mines

    By Michael E. Karmis

    New and developing communication systems en-able underground miners to, not only connect to the surface from an increased communication coverage area, but also to be discovered in the event of an emer

    Jun 1, 2010