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  • SME
    A CFD Analysis Of Air Flow Patterns In Face Area For Continous Miner Making A Right Turn Cut

    By V. K. Kollipara

    Air flow patterns in the face area of a room-and-pillar mining are critical for understanding the dust dispersion characteristics and for developing engineering controls. SIUC has previously performed

    Jan 1, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    Gold Deposits in Highly Metamorphosed Terranes

    By A G. Tomkins

    "Approximately 32 per cent of the worldÆs total gold production has come from greenstone belts (Frimmel, 2008). In these regions numerous small to large, quartz vein-associated gold deposits are hoste

    Sep 26, 2013

  • SME
    Advanced underwater acoustics for unchained operations in deep sea mining - S2C-network solution for underwater communication, geo-referenced navigation / positioning and monitoring purposes

    By K. G. Kebkal, R. Bannasch

    "Because the operation of tethered underwater vehicles in the deep ocean or under drifting ice areas is very complicated or impossible, the application of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) is prefe

    Sep 1, 2014

  • NIOSH
    RI 9653 - Economics Of Safety At Surface Mine Spoil Piles

    By Thomas W. Camm

    This study was done to evaluate the costs of various dumping operations at waste and spoil piles. It has been theorized that accidents associated with dumping operations might be reduced by short-dum

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    The Limitations of Activated Carbon in CIL Circuits Handling Preg Robbing Solids

    By Yeonuk Choi, Gus Van Weert

    "In regular CIL circuits, activated carbon is used for two purposes: avoiding solid/liquid separation after cyanide leaching, and minimizing gold losses in the tails. The carbon distribution and gold

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    RI 6826 Two- And Three-Phase Relative Permeability Studies

    By Erie C. Donaldson

    Gas-displacement tests were made in Berea Sandstone and Arbuckle Lime-stone cores to determine the relative permeabilities to gas, oil, and water for two-and three-phase dynamic systems. Three-phase r

    Jan 1, 1966

  • AUSIMM
    The Sealing , Re-Opening, and Recovery of Aberdare North Colliery, N.S.W., Following the Occurrence of a Spontaneous Heating

    By Sneddon N

    In November, 1975, Aberdare North colliery was sealed at the surface to extinguish an open fire underground.The fire had developed from a spontaneous heating in one of the open goaf areas of the mine.

    Jan 1, 1978

  • CIM
    Process Diagnosis using Quantitative Mineralogy

    By Lori Kormos, Jhonny Carrión De la Cruz, Dominic Fragomeni, Elizabeth Whiteman, Jorge Oliveira

    "Process diagnosis, flowsheet design and optimisation are most effectively and efficiently achieved through the use of metallurgical testwork combined with more modern quantitative mineralogical techn

    Jan 1, 2010

  • AIME
    Sampling (c0900e42-2fd2-49e2-b4bf-af3517069e7d)

    By R. E. Zimmerman, T. W. Guy

    IN approaching the problems of sampling coal, a brief statement of certain facts that are more or less taken for granted may be helpful: 1. The coal-mine operator needs reliable data as to the physi

    Jan 1, 1950

  • AIME
    Recent Developments In Lead-Smelting Practice

    By O. P. Chisholm

    The most noticeable change in lead smelting over the past few years has been the increase in the smelting rate of lead blast furnaces. For several years a great deal of attention has been paid to the

    Jan 1, 1941

  • SAIMM
    Closing your slag tap-hole

    By S. C. Essack

    "Tenova Pyromet has designed a slag flow control valve that throttles the flow of slag in order to control the tapping rate. In addition, the valve has proved to be a reliable tool for closing the fur

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Statistical Assessment Of Scale Effect On Rock Properties Using The Theory Of Extremes (a88bd68b-1039-4f02-9939-cf8b1021a976)

    By T. M. Yegulalp

    A new explanation of the scale dependency of the strength properties of rock is presented based on the theory of extremes. A review of past work on specimen size strength relationship is followed by a

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    In-Situ Measurements Of Copper And Moisture In An Operating Heap Using Advanced Geophysics

    By K. Lang

    A test section of the upper most lift and underlying lifts of a large scale copper heap leach operation was instrumented and monitored with advanced wireline geophysics, fiber optics and resistivity e

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Municipal Sludge Biosolids in Mined Land Reclamation – Great Basin Pilot Study

    By David Loomis

    Unlike previous gold mining booms in Nevada's Great Basin, the current boom includes a serious commitment to mine reclamation. Many of the smaller mines began reclaiming in the late 1980s but met

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AUSIMM
    Commissioning of Two 750 kW Centrifugal Fans at PT Freeport IndonesiaÆs Deep Ore Zone Mine

    By K Karmawan, T Casten

    The PT Freeport Indonesiaæs Deep Ore Zone (DOZ) copper deposit is located in the province of Irian-Jaya, Indonesia. Currently, a block cave mine is being developed around this deposit. Production is s

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Experimental Investigation of a Heap Leaching Process on Montauban Gold Tailings

    By J. Dionne

    "Next to the actual mine of Les Explorations Muscocho Ltée in Montauban, Quebéc, you could find a total of 364 000 tons of flotation tailings assaying 1.4 Au g/t et 82 g Ag/t to the south of the munic

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Another Disappointing Year for Industrial Minerals

    A glance at the following chart reveals that because of the continued poor economy, the slump in industrial mineral production continued into 1980. Gypsum was down 17% from 1979; cement down 9%, sand

    Jan 5, 1981

  • NIOSH
    RI 3205 The Development of an Electrolytic Method for the Determination of Inclusions in Plain-Carbon Steels

    By G. R. Fitterer, E. A. Krockenberger, B. E. Sockman, R. B. Meneilly, J. F. Eckel, E. W. Marshall

    "Steel manufacturers have noticed a decided tendency on the part of many of their customers to become more exacting in their steel specifications. Under these conditions, the steel must not only meet

    May 1, 1933

  • CIM
    Impact of air distribution profile on banks in a Zn cleaning circuit

    By R. Dahlke, J. A. Finch

    A campaign was undertaken during the greater part of 2001 at Noranda’s Brunswick mine concentrator to investigate the role of gas (air) superficial rate (Jg) distribution to the cells in the final Zn

    Jan 1, 2004

  • DFI
    Stabilization Of Organic Soil With The Limix System

    By Magnus Ruin

    The dry deep mixing method for stabilization of soft soil has been used in the Scandinavian countries for 25 years. The typical application has been stabilization of soft inorganic clay. Today the met

    Jan 1, 2001