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    Ventilating A Long, Deep-Level Exploration Drift

    By John R. Marks

    In April 1990, the Homestake Gold Mine embarked on a five year, $US 23 million underground drifting and drilling program to explore promising ore targets north of the current mine. This paper describe

    Jan 1, 1991

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    Development and Testing of an Advanced Cryogenic Breathing Apparatus for Mine Escape

    By D. F. Doerr, E. Blalock, D. R. Bush, K. D. Cohen

    "INTRODUCTION The design, development, fabrication, and test of cryogenic breathing apparatus is part of a much larger effort funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH

    Jan 1, 2016

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    Ground Support Systems for Heavy, Squeezing Ground at Burgin Mine

    By Donald O. Rausch, William E. Hawkes, Odin Jr. Strandberg

    INTRODUCTION Kennecott Copper Corp.'s Tintic Div. Burgin mine is a 725 t/d (800 stpd) lead-zinc producer, located in the east Tintic mining district, 5.6 km (3.5 miles) east of Eureka, and 130

    Jan 1, 1982

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    Subsurface Repository Ventilation Design

    By Edward Thomas

    Yucca Mountain Overview The U.S. Department of Energy?s Yucca Mountain Project is a geologic repository project designed to receive, handle, package, transport, and emplace spent nuclear fuel and hig

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    Bell Haulage Vehicles Aid Coal Dump Reclamation

    One of the most challenging and ambitious dump rehabilitation projects in South Africa’s mining industry is being carried out at Greenside Colliery’s smoldering coal dump, which lies adjacent to the N

    Jan 1, 1994

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    Behavior Of Redox Electrodes During Flotation And Relationship To Mineral Floatabilities

    By G. Labonte

    The behavior of four different redox sensing electrodes (gold spiral, black platinum, chalcopyrite, and galena) during roughing and cleaning flotation is examined and related to the flotation response

    Jan 1, 1989

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    Multi-Tool Miner For All Rock Conditions

    By W. J. Kogelmann

    Roadheaders, also called Boom Miners or Boom-type Tunneling Machines have been in North America since 1968, when first introduced by Willy Kogelmann, the founder of Alpine Equipment Corp. (?Alpine?).

    Jan 1, 2008

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    New Bulkhead Design For Controlling Increased Hydrostatic And Dynamic Hydraulic Pressures

    By George Watson, Gu Quanzhong, S. Gerard Sawyer

    Bulkheads, also known as hydraulic seals, are used to seal abandoned workings and protect adjacent active mines from explosion and control unwanted inflows of water from poorly sealed shafts, water-be

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Cutting Process Of Hard Rocks And Water Jet Assistance

    By A. W. Khair

    This paper deals with the evaluation of the interaction between rock and the cutting tool, and with methods for determination of workability, and abrasivity of rock. A description of instrumentation i

    Jan 1, 1995

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    Construction Management And Team Effort Soft Ground Tunnel Project, Alexandria, Egypt

    By Chaitanya "Teny" Mittal

    INTRODUCTION A team effort by the Owner, Engineer, and Contractor can help avoid serious problems on a construction project. It can save cost and time for both Owner and Contractor, as illustrated

    Jan 1, 1989

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    Recovery Of Zinc From Metallurgical Dusts And Fumes (83e8ef4f-c1d2-450c-958c-952d3d39e665)

    By D. Pearson

    About 15,000 tonnes of zinc per year is present in the dusts and fumes produced in electric arc and BOS steelmaking, secondary copper refining and brass ingot making. Apart from the use of some coppe

    Jan 1, 1980

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    Novel Solid-Phase Materials For Selective Copper Recovery

    By E. S. Peterson, M. K. Harrup, K. A. Dolbeare, J. E. Wey

    Efficient methods for the removal of copper from heap-leach solutions without mobile organic phases are a current mining industry need. To satisfy this need, a selective, high-capacity, durable solid

    Jan 1, 2003

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    Mineral Investment and Finance

    By Alfred Jr. Petrick, William A. Vogely

    INTRODUCTION The scope of mineral finance extends beyond the economic aspects of property evaluation to all of those activities involving acquisition and utilization of funds with an objective to

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Process Options And Market Considerations For Paper Grade Kaolin From Minnesota Resources

    By M. S. Prasad, K. J. Reid, M. P. Katsoulis

    The State of Minnesota is interested in stimulating the development of clay resources and recently supported a two-year project to collect data on geological, mineralogical, processing, economic and e

    Jan 1, 1992

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    Flotation Monitor Improves Copper Recovery at Bagdad

    Phelps Dodge Mining’s Bagdad, AZ copper facility uses a large series of cone crushers and ball mills to reduce copper ore to very fine particles. The solids are mixed with water to create a slurry

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Environmental Regulations and Mining - Where are we headed?

    By Richard Engelmann

    The mining industry, in particular the coal industry, has experienced the implementation of some major environmental regulatory programs during the past two decades. Over the coming decade the coal in

    Jan 1, 1989

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    5.3 Principles of Real-Time Data Acquisition and Control

    By R. E. J. Putman

    The past ten years have witnessed substantial development of electronic equipment for execution of process control functions. The methodology of giving instructions to the data-handling system and the

    Jan 1, 1979

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    Sampling and Analysis Part 1: Coal Analysis

    By David J. Akers

    INTRODUCTION The variety of uses of coal and the wide range of characteristics of coal combine to produce a need for a wide variety of laboratory analysis. Coal is used to heat homes, produce electri

    Jan 1, 1991

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    Improved Geo-Sensing Using Artificial Intelligence Techniques For Tomographic Interpretation

    By Kent S. Roessler

    The Bureau of Mines is currently investigating the geophysical application of Tomography to monitor leachate during in-situ mining. Determining the location of the leachate is important for both econo

    Jan 1, 1992

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    Transfer of German environmental expertise for mine site rehabilitation challenges worldwide - A case study: Vietnam

    By R. Barthel, O. Nitzsche, J. Pateiro Fernández, T. Cramer

    The Hong Gai coal field in northeast Vietnam has been the main coal mining area of Vietnam for more than 150 years. Anthracite coal is produced from several open pit and underground mines situated clo

    Jan 1, 2011