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  • AIME
    Acid and High Analysis Fertilizer Production From Western Phosphate Rock

    By Robert J. McNally

    There are three primary plant nutrients-nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium--expressed in any fertilizer compound as percent N, percent P2O5, and percent K20, in that order. This article will be conce

    Oct 1, 1956

  • SME-ICGCM
    A Case Study Of Grouted Roof Bolt Loading In A Two-Entry Gate Road

    By Stephen P. Signer

    A field test was conducted by the U.S. Bureau of Mines at the Cyprus Plateau Starpoint No. 2 Mine. near Price. UT. to study the support rock interaction mechanics. Twelve instrumented. fully grouted r

    Jan 1, 1990

  • NIOSH
    Continuous Gas Monitoring Using Tube Bundles At The Joanne Mine Fire

    By L. E. Dalverny

    This Bureau of Mines report describes the deployment, 5-month operation, and lessons gained from a continuous gas monitoring system using sampling-tube bundles at an underground mine fire in West Virg

    Jan 1, 1975

  • SME
    Ground Observation System (GOS): A Web-Based Data Information Center for Ground Control Monitoring

    By E. C. Westman, W. R. Thomas, W. J. Conrad, A. J. R. Russell

    "Understanding ground control problems continues to remain a focus of the mining engineering community. To aid mine operators and engineers in identifying and responding to ground control issues, the

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Applying Raman Spectrocospy And Multivariate Statistical Analysis To The Characterization Of Minerals

    By T. Deschaines

    Raman Spectroscopy has become increasingly popular as a method to rapidly identify and characterize minerals, gem stones and other inorganic materials. Raman spectroscopy provides valuable information

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Changes in the Converter Slag Chemistry Due to the Southern Peru Ilo Smelter Modernization

    By J. Suarez Condezo, E. Herrera Alarcon

    The Ilo Smelter Modernization Project will require treating the slag from the Peirce Smith converters in Slag Cleaning Furnaces using pig iron technology. Currently the slags from the converters show

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Seismic Rehabilitation Of Seattle's Pier 69

    By David Pierce

    The Port of Seattle, one of the largest on the west coast of North America, made a strong statement regarding their support for reusing existing structures when a decision was made to rehabilitate Pie

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Natural vs. Synthetic Magnesites in the Manufacture of Refractories

    By O. M. Wicken

    Magnesite has the unique combination of properties that make it useful in a wide variety of metallurgical applications. The use of refractory magnesite has been increasing throughout the world, but th

    Jan 1, 1964

  • CIM
    Mechanical Properties of Precipitation Hardened Supersaturated Al-Sc-Zr

    By Joseph Licavoli, Paul Sanders, Yang Yang

    "Al-Sc-Zr alloys form thermally stable L12 precipitates which provide high temperature strength. Although the overall fraction of L12 Al3Sc and Al3Zr may be increased by increasing scandium (Sc) and z

    Jan 1, 2018

  • NIOSH
    RI 9017 - Triboelectric Effects on Polyethylene Methane Drainage Pipelines

    By R. L. King, J. Cervik, A. A. Campoli

    The Bureau of Mines performed laboratory experiments to evaluate the triboelectric effect of particulate-laden gas streams on polyethylene pipe at various velocity, humidity, dust-size, and dust-load

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Detecting Mining Induced Seismic Sources in Drill Core - RASIM 2022

    By Rene Padilla, Siyanda B. Mngadi, Gerrie van Aswegen, Peter Stonestreet

    While many mine tunnels are developed through ground that must be riddled with the sources of small (and larger) mining induced seismic events, recorded by the mine seismic monitoring systems, we do n

    Apr 26, 2022

  • NIOSH
    Quantitative Analysis of Silica in Silica-Kaolin Mixtures by Photoacoustic and Diffuse Reflectance Spectroscopies

    By M. S. Seehra, R. S. Pandurangi

    "INTRODUCTION Silica and kaolin (a layer aluminosilicate) are among the major constituents of most coal mine dusts.' Whereas kaolin is cytotoxic in vitro but nonfibrogenic in vivo in humans and experi

    Mar 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Modelling Intact Rock Strength of Clay-Rich Rocks with Geochemistry at the Simandou Iron Ore Deposit, Guinea, West Africa

    By M Campbell, A Jeffcoate, J-C Vannay, B Perriaux

    Phyllite waste rock at the Simandou Pic de Fon and Oueleba Iron Ore deposits (Guinea, West Africa) variably weather to form clay-rich rocks. This weathering modifies the mineralogical, geochemical and

    Aug 12, 2013

  • SME
    New Collector Chemistries For Sulfide Mineral Flotation

    By R. R. Klimpel

    The use of froth flotation as a means of separating and upgrading sulfide mineral concentrates is standard industrial practice throughout the world. Froth flotation is also widely recognized to be a v

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Mining History in the Black Hawk Mining District, Burro Mountains, Southwestern New Mexico - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Virginia T. McLemore

    The Black Hawk district in New Mexico hosts an unusual type of deposit: arsenide five-element veins. These deposits are Ag-Co-Ni-Bi-As-bearing carbonate veins with local concentrations of U, Pb, Zn, S

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SAIMM
    IT concept design for a mid–size construction company in Poland APCOM 2021

    By S. F. Böde, K. Böde

    This paper focuses on developing a comprehensive and pragmatic information technology (IT) strategy for low-margin construction activities. This forms part of the realignment of the general business s

    Sep 1, 2021

  • SME
    Effect of Scale of Premixed Methane-Air Combustion in Confined Space Using Les Model

    By N. S. Aouad

    "Gaseous explosions are one of the most hazardous incidents in process and mining industries. Experimental research in this area is shown to be high risk and expensive. Computational Fluid Dynamics (C

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AIME
    Reservoir Engineering - General - Prediction of K-Values for Ternary Hydrocarbon Systems: Conditions up to the Critical Point

    By G. Thodos, R. J. Smialek

    A method has been developed that permits the correlations of Mehra and Thodos8 and Dastur and thodos2 for binary systems to be used for the prediction of the vapor-liquid equilibrium constants of the

    Jan 1, 1965

  • TMS
    Characterization of Copper Oxides by Eds-Sem Depth Profiling, EIS And XRD

    By David Cocke

    Study of surface and subsurface interfacial chemistry of metallic and similar systems has its enormous technological importance. Copper, for example, is a common component of many alloys and bulk amor

    Jan 1, 2009

  • TMS
    Lean Operations Strategy To Combat Uncertainties In Temperature At Bof End Point, Tapping, Deoxidation, Alloy Addition And Thermal History

    By Deepu Philip, Pratik Agarwal, Ajay Kumar Shukla, Ishani Shukla, G Rajesh

    Steel plants generally employ static BOF end point control models to arrive at a given temperature and chemistry at the end of blow. These end point models have now been supplemented with chaos contro

    Jan 1, 2014