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  • AIME
    A Properly Designed Drilling Fluids Program Can Reduce Total Well Costs

    By Michael A. Toole, O&apos

    INTRODUCTION The tremendous capital investment required to produce a low grade ore deposit demands a reliable answer to the question: "How much does it cost to drill a well to produce the uraniu

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SAIMM
    A proposed method for optimizing coal pillar design using coalfield-specific uniaxial compressive strength

    By F. J. N. Bruwer, T. R. Stacey

    The research described considers whether the variability in coal material strength, as derived through a series of uniaxial compressive strength (UCS) tests, could be used to indicate the variability

    May 3, 2023

  • SME
    A Quality Control Model For The Development Of High-Confidence Flotation Test Data

    By N. O. Lotter

    Studies investigating the evaluation errors in laboratory scale flotation tests for platinum-bearing Merensky Reef in the Bushveld Complex, South Africa, have constructed a quality control model to as

    Jan 1, 1995

  • DFI
    A Quality Control System For Augered Cast-In-Place Pile Installation

    By George G. Goble

    The use of augercast piles has been limited by the engineer's concern for the structural quality of the installed pile. The nature of the pile is such that its final structural continuity is very

    Jan 1, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    A Quantitative Assessment Model for the Environmental Issue in Gold Production

    By J Wei, X Lan, F Wang

    This paper presents a quantitative assessment model for the assessment of environmental load in gold production, which is based on environmental ecology, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and artificial neu

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    A Quantitative Economic Analysis Of Sources And Uses Of Funds To The Mineral Sector ? Introduction

    By Armando M. Lago

    This paper reviews the postwar changes that have occurred in the expenditure and financial behavior of mineral corporations, and in particular the relative importance of factors that affect the indust

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
    A Quick Sustainability Assessment Of An Industrial Facility

    By G. Gaidajis

    In this paper, a semi-qualitative methodology is presented and then applied to an aluminium extrusion industrial facility in order to perform an initial environmental assessment. The results of the as

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AIME
    A Radiation Pyrometer For Open-Hearth Bath Measurements

    By H. T. Clark, S. Feigenbaum

    THE importance of measuring the temperature of molten steel in the open-hearth furnace has been recognized for many years. Poor temperature control may be costly to steelmaking operations and lead to

    Jan 1, 1946

  • AUSIMM
    A Rapid and Cost-Effective Method for Bench Screening of Geochemical Performance and Disposal Options for High-Sulfide Tailings

    By M Logsdon, B Johnson, M Fordham

    The underground Neves Corvo copper-tin mine in southern Portugal currently disposes of its tailings in a ætraditionalÆ wet tailings impoundment. With the development of new technologies for preparatio

    Jan 1, 2003

  • NIOSH
    A Rapid Method for Determination of Changes in Shape of Comminuted Particles Using a Laser Diffractometer

    By T. F. Dumm, O. Trass, V. R. Koka, L. G. Austin

    "The size distributions of carefully screened 2 size fractions of ground materials were determined using a Microtrac laser dif-fractometer. The size distributions were fitted to the empirical function

    Jan 1, 1988

  • CIM
    A rapid method of radium-226 analysis in water samples using an alpha spectroscopic technique

    By Dave N. K., T. P. Lim

    "A fast, reliable and accurate method for radium-226 determination in environmental water samples has been devised, using an alpha spectroscopic technique. The correlation between barium-133 and radiu

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    A Rapid Review of Collision Avoidance and Warning Technologies for Mining Haul Trucks (Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration)

    By JOHN HOMER, Jacob L. Carr, Jonathan K. Hrica, Kathleen M. Stabryla, Iman Benbourenane, Jennica L. Bellanca

    Given the recent focus on powered haulage incidents within the US mining sector, an appraisal of collision avoidance/warning systems (CXSs) through the lens of the available research literature is tim

    Jun 17, 2022

  • SME
    A Rational Approach To Computerized Optimization Of Mineral Processing Plants

    By J. Mark Richardson

    Steady-state flowsheet simulators for mineral processing plants have evolved to a current high level of utility and accuracy. Reliable, general-purpose, semi-empirical models now exist in nearly all u

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AIME
    A Rational Approach To Practical Performance Assessment For Rapid Excavation Using Boom-Type Tunnelling Machines

    By Simon T. Johnson

    Potential applications for boom tunnelling machines requires reliable assessment of in-situ performance. The majority of existing classification schemes concentrate on the prediction of excavation rat

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    A Real-Time GPS kinematic-Positioning System for Automatic Mining Vehicle Guidance

    By Kubik K

    Recent significant advances in the Global Positioning System (GPS) have contributed to making real-time kinematic/dynamic process for decimetre to centimetre-level positioning more reliable and read

    Jan 1, 1997

  • DFI
    A Realistic Approach Toward Stray Current Induced Corrosion Affecting Steel Sheet Piling

    By Anne Fagot

    Because of the risk of corrosion caused by stray currents, steel foundations and steel sheet piling are generally prohibited in the vicinity of railway structures. Steel solutions are only accepted if

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    A Reconnaissance Map of the Bulolo Gold-Fields, Territory of New Guinea

    THE absence of any locality maps of the district of Morobe has been seriously felt by mining engineers engaged on the goldfields, and as it was evident at the beginning of operations that the administ

    Jan 1, 1928

  • AIME
    A Reference Standard For Base-Metal Thermocouples

    By N. E. Bonn

    IT is well known that most of the materials entering into the manufacture of thermocouples are subject to variations in their thermoelectric characteristics, the chief causes of which are: differences

    Jan 9, 1919

  • CIM
    A Reliability Based Design Procedure for Mine Dewatering Systems

    By Rashid Bashir

    The presence of groundwater in the form of large aquifers can have an important influence on investment decisions for underground mines. The design for such mines requires development of special minin

    Aug 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    A reliable solution for pumping mineral froth with challenging froth volume

    By A Roudnev, P Loderer

    Mineral froth pumping utilising centrifugal slurry pumps is a major engineering challenge for both the end users and pump manufacturers. The traditional approach has been to oversize the pump for pump

    Aug 29, 2018