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  • CIM
    Pressure Welding, Solid-State: Role of Hot Deformation

    By H. J. McQueen

    Pressure welding is a solid state joining technique that depends on bringing the parts into sufficiently close contact that inter-atomic bonds are achieved. Pressing is more effective at elevated temp

    Jan 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    RI 8275 Instrument To Measure the Initial Deformation of Rock Around Underground Openings

    By Michael J. Beus

    This Bureau of Mines report describes a tunnel stress relaxation gage (TSR) developed to measure initial radial displacement around full-sized underground openings. The TSR technique was shown to b

    Jan 1, 1978

  • CIM
    The First Two Years of Milling at Renabie

    By E. G. Kearnery

    Introduction It is believed that the present paper will be of some interest, not because of any outstanding features of Renabie milling practice but because Renabie is the first gold mining propert

    Jan 1, 1950

  • SME-ICGCM
    Rockburst Control Measures at INCO's Creighton Mine

    By P. Oliver

    Rockburst conditions were first encountered at Inco's Sudbury area operations in the mid 1930's when mining advanced to below the 610 m (2000 ft.) horizon. Now, mining is being carried out a

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Rock Cutting By Jets: A Promising Method Of Oil Well Drilling ? Introduction

    By R. Feenstra

    In the course of time, an increasing number of investigations on jet cutting all kinds of material, such as rocks1, 2, 3, metals4, 5, and wood6 have been reported to serve various applications. This p

    Jan 1, 1974

  • NIOSH
    RI 8829 Structure and Porosity of Electrodeposited Platinum Evaluation of Four Plating Methods

    By R. P. Walters, M. J. Lynch, D. R. Flinn

    The Bureau of Mines evaluated tthhee feasibility of substituting platinum- coated metals for bulk platinum shapes as a means for conserving platinum . Platinum coatings were prepared using four differ

    Jan 1, 1965

  • CIM
    Milling Practice at Premier

    By W. J. Asselstine

    Introduction This paper is prepared from data gathered for a similar paper to be submitted to the United States Bureau of Mines, for publication as one of their information circulars. It covers the h

    Jan 1, 1933

  • NIOSH
    RI 4041 Diamond Drilling and Diamond Bit Investigation. Part 1. Drilling Tests in Uniform Granite

    By ALBERT LONG, Wing G. Agnew, FELIX CHAYES, Alton Gabriel, Leonard Obert

    Although the technique of diamond drilling was developed nearly 80 years ago, the use of this process as an aid to mining and other fields of engineering has increased greatly during the last decade ,

    Mar 1, 1947

  • SME
    Comparative Analysis of the Effect of Microwave Pre-treatment on the Milling and Liberation Characteristics of Mineral Matters of Different Morphologies

    By R. Venugopal, V. K. Saxena, S. K. Tripathy

    "This study was carried out to understand the impact of variation in material morphology on the efficacy of microwave pretreatment. Three different types of mineral matter – coal, iron ore and mangane

    Jan 1, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Grade Estimation from Radial Basis Functions – How Does it Compare with Conventional Geostatistical Estimation?

    By P F. Hodkiewicz, J de Lacey, M Stewart, R Lane

    "Implicit modelling is an approach to spatial modelling in which the distribution of a target variable is described by a unique mathematical function that is derived directly from the underlying data

    Aug 18, 2014

  • CIM
    The Production of High-Purity Tellurium

    By P. H. Jennings

    Commercial tellurium commonly contains heavy basemetal impurities such as lead, copper, iron, etc., as well as selenium and oxygen. The base metals may be removed by vacuum distillation or by zone mel

    Feb 1, 1966

  • CIM
    The Production of High-Purity Tellurium (964f8e8f-af45-47ca-b189-05e96895f095)

    By P. H. Jennings, J. C. T. Farge

    Commercial tellurium commonly contains heavy base-metal impurities such as lead, copper, iron, etc., as well as selenium and oxygen. The base metals may be removed by vacuum distillation or by zone me

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Scaleup of Pressure Oxidation Processes

    By D. D. Gertenbach

    "The successful commercialization of a pressure oxidation (POX) process for recovering metal values, including gold, copper, zinc, nickel and molybdenum, is the result of a carefully planned developme

    Jan 1, 2016

  • AIME
    Precipitating and Drying Cement Copper at Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Facility (d99153e6-6508-48ae-be0b-262baadda362)

    By William D. Southard, Joseph W. Schlitt, Bruce P. Ream, Lawrence J. Haug

    The operation of Kennecott 's Bingham Canyon copper precipitation plant, one of the world's largest, is described. This description includes a brief historical review of precipitation at Bin

    Jan 1, 1980

  • AIME
    Precipitating and Drying Cement Copper at Kennecott's Bingham Canyon Facility

    By W. Joseph Schlitt, William D. Southard, Bruce P. Ream, Lawrence J. Haug

    The operation of Kennecott's Bingham Canyon copper precipitation plant, one of the world's largest, is described. This description includes a brief historical review of precipitation at Bing

    Jan 6, 1979

  • AUSIMM
    Chronostatistics ù A Powerful, Pragmatic New Science for Metallurgists

    Forty years ago Dr Pierre M Gy, a metallurgist, introduced variography as applied to monitoring a process. Consequently, his followers used the variogram to elaborate meaningful process control charts

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Developing a Virtual Reality Environment for Mining Research Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SPRINGER)

    By Brendan Demich, Brendan Macdonald, Timothy J. Orr, Jason Navoyski, Jennica L. Bellanca, William J. Helfrich

    Recent advances in computing, rendering, and display technologies have generated increased accessibility for virtual reality (VR). VR allows the creation of dynamic, high-fidelity environments to simu

  • AUSIMM
    On the Joint Multipoint Simulation of Discrete and Continuous Geometallurgical Parameters

    By K G. van den Boogaart, M Lehmann, U Mueller

    Geometallurgical parameters are descriptions of the mineralogy and microstructure of the ore determining its mineralogical and microstructural characteristics. From a conditional geostatistical simula

    Nov 24, 2014

  • NIOSH
    IC 8039 Spectrochemical Analysis Of High-Purity Metals: A Review And Bibliography Of Recent Literature ? Summary And Introduction

    By Maurice J. Peterson

    The applications of optical spectrochemical methods of analysis for determining trace impurities in metals are described, and the need for developing analytical procedures capable of accurately determ

    Jan 1, 1961

  • AUSIMM
    Determining Gold Particle Size in Gravity Ores for Sampling and Metallurgical Characterisation - Discussion and Test Protocol

    Sampling protocols and metallurgical flow sheets should be designed to suit the style of mineralisation in question. In support, the a priori need for evaluation programs is the characterisation of th

    Aug 1, 2010