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  • AUSIMM
    Groundwater Management Guidelines for Mining Industry in Arid Western Australia - Examples from the Pilbara

    By D Abbott

    Mining in Western Australia places significant economic and environmental responsibility on Government and the mining industry. Groundwater abstraction is regulated by the Department of Water. The Dep

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    Achieving Uniformity and Consistency in Explosives Regulation

    By Lawrence C. Schneider

    In the past decade regulations governing the manufacture, distribution, storage, and use of explosives have proliferated. These laws have been developed by a host of federal agencies with no coordinat

    Jan 1, 1981

  • CIM
    Lamella Thickener Performance in Potash Refining (eda27180-f1f6-4ab3-854e-c986b2a1249d)

    By Douglas M. Smith, G. A. Maki

    "The initial development of the massive potash deposits of the prairie evaporite formation took place over a decade ending in 1970. The potash mining and refining facility near Rocanvi11e, Saskatchewa

    Jan 1, 1983

  • ISEE
    Innovative Blasting - Oversize Reduction at the Timbarra Gold Mine in Australia

    By G. Hames, A. Drake, B. Sampson

    The Timbarra opencut gold mine is located about 30 km(19 miles) southeast of Tenterfield in northern NSW some 4 hours by car from Brisbane, the capital city of Queensland in Australia. It was a small

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Visualization of Fine Bubbles and Their Role in Fine Particle Flotation

    By Wei Sun, Jaewon Choung, Zhenghe Xu, Zhangming Cui

    "High intensity conditioning has been demonstrated in a number of cases to enhance fine particle flotation. The improvement could be attributed to the enhanced formation of particle aggregates. Howeve

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AIME
    Natural Gas Technology - The Importance of Reliable Data in Gas-Condensate Calculations

    By R. F. Hinds

    A pressurizing system was designed and built to apply a radial pressure of 5.000 psi to rock samples. Samples of the Bradford, Weir and Kirkwood sandstones were subjected to radial pressures parallel

  • SME
    Strata Control Problems In Mining Multiple Western Coal Seams

    By K. M. Kolin

    ABSTRACT OF ORAL PRESENTATION A discussion of current U. S. Bureau of Mines research into the problem of strata control in multiple Western coal seams will be presented. The problem and research prio

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME-ICGCM
    Proposed Criteria For Subsidence Damage To Buildings (d2ee0f1e-295b-4fb1-ab17-d19f1e17df4a)

    By Swapan Bhattacharya

    United States federal and state regulatory authorities require underground mine operators to adopt adequate measures to minimize material damage to the surface caused by nine subsidence. This paper pr

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    Permeability of Coal in Relation to Gas Outburst and Drainage

    By J D. St George

    In this paper a laboratory investigation into the effect of confining stress, water content and gas desorption on coal permeability is presented. Of major significance is the effect of coal permeabili

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AIME
    Minerals Beneficiation - Analysis of the Wash Thickener-Two Stage Filtration Circuit

    By R. S. Olson

    An analysis of the wash thickener-two stage filtration circuit was undertaken to quantitatively describe the circuit performance. On the basis of information developed in this study, the factors of ma

    Jan 1, 1963

  • AIME
    Coal - Coal Strip Mining-Is It Reaching a Peak?

    By Hubert E. Risser

    Although, for about a half-century the percentage of coal production provided through strip mining has steadily increased, recent trends indicate that a peak in percentage (not tonnage) is being appro

    Jan 1, 1970

  • AUSIMM
    Inception and Evolution of Cenozoic Arc-Type Volcanism in Northern New Zealand

    By P M. Black, T Itaya

    Arc-type volcanic activity has been a major feature of the late Cenozoic geological evolution of the Pacific-Australian plate boundary in the northernNew Zealand region. The time/space distribution pa

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    How Particles Stick to Bubbles - The Influence of pH and Hydrophobicity in Flotation

    How Particles Stick to Bubbles - The Influence of pH and Hydrophobicity in Flotation

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AIME
    Geology - Quantitizing Geological Parameters for the Prediction of Stable Slopes

    By W. C. Lacy

    This article is a progress report of a program designed to quantitatively evaluate geological parameters to predict stable slope angles. The author feels that, although there does not appear to be any

    Jan 1, 1963

  • AUSIMM
    Modern Gold Plants - A Design Overview

    By L G. B Wadley

    The Australian gold industry has made large steps forward in the last few years. This progress has been driven by improvements in mining and processing technology, the high price of gold and by a favo

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AIME
    Coal - Some Geological Factors Affecting the Upper Freeport Coal and Its Quality

    By E. F. Koppe

    The Upper Freeport coal in the Freeport and New Kensington quadrangles, Pennsylvania, varies from a bony streak to a thick coal deposit often exceeding ninety inches, the "Double" or "Thick Freeport".

    Jan 1, 1961

  • AUSIMM
    Geochemical and Isotopic Constraints for High-Grade Gold Mineralisation at Waitangi Deposit, Thames District, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand

    By S Henderson

    The Thames gold-silver deposits are part of the Hauraki goldfield, situated within the Miocene to Pliocene calc-alkaline Coromandel Volcanic Zone (CVZ). The Waitangi vein system is one of the minerali

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SAIMM
    Thermodynamic Investigations Of Corrosion Phenomena Caused By Metal Halide Salt Melts In High Temperature Discharge Lamps

    By T. Markus, K. Hilpert

    Discharge vessels of advanced light sources are made of translucent polycrystalline Al2O3(PCA).These tubes contain salt mixtures, which essentially consist of metal halides. The salt mixture is presen

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Sr and Nd isotopic composition of Jan Mayen and Loki’s Castle: a progress report

    By M. I. F. S. Cruz, R. Pedersen, F. J. A. S. Barriga, A. Dias, A. F. A. Marques

    "Underwater hydrothermal vents are known since the 1970s and their importance for the global economy is growing as new discoveries and new assessments are made each year (Cherkashov et al., 2010; Corl

    Sep 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Cummins Tier 4 Technology

    By Evelynn Stirling

    Agenda ? Emissions legislation ? Cummins Tier 4 Technology ? Cummins Experience with Technology ? Operation and Maintenance Impact The Emissions Challenge ? The 2014/5 emissions regulations pr

    Aug 1, 2013