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  • AUSIMM
    Role of Quality Assurance in Manufacturing of Mining Equipment

    Coal Mining machinery has undergone enormous changes in design and complexity of controls in the past 10 years. Specialised, high productivity equipment has been manufactured in Australia, in sufficie

    Jan 1, 1991

  • NIOSH
    OFR-43(2)-77 Mine Fire Protection For Underground Storage Areas - Introduction

    Large quantities of combustible materials are often found in underground metal and nonmetal mines, with support timber predominating. Wood lagging and timber, wires and cables, brattice cloth, hose, p

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Proceedings Of Earth Retention Systems 2003: A Joint Conference - Earth Retention Systems In The Urban Environment - Special Considerations

    By George J. Tamara

    The urban environment presents special challenges for the design and construction of earth retention systems. Complications arising from difficult subsurface conditions are compounded by the presence

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Voith TPKL Fill Control Coupling: Capabilities, Performance, and Reliability

    By Roland Hoet

    Mine operators, conveyor system designers, consultants, and manufacturers have had opportunities over the past decade to utilize various actively controlled technologies to drive complex underground c

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AIME
    Reservoir Engineering – Laboratory Research - An Evaluation of the Procedures Used in the Determination of the Grain Densities of Petroleum Reservoir Mineral

    By C. S. Brooks

    Several of the commonly used methods for deter-mination of effective grain densities of minerals have been evaluated for accuracy and precision, and their applicability to various types of petroleum r

    Jan 1, 1958

  • AIME
    Reservoir Engineering – Laboratory Research - An Evaluation of a Gas Drive Method for Determining Relative Permeability Relationships

    By D. R. Parrish, W. E. Lamoreaux, W. W. Owens

    Several methods are now being used by the industry for determining the gas-oil flow characteristics of reservoir rock samples. Most of the laboratory experirnerltal rlzethods can be classified either

    Jan 1, 1957

  • NIOSH
    PS4/USBM 4204 - Dust Center Project Reports - Characterization of the Mechanism of Lung Injury

    By G. L. Bartlett

    "INTRODUCTION The major objective of our research is to help reduce the incidence and severity of coal worker's pneumoconiosis (CWP). To that end, this project is designed to improve our understanding

    Jan 1, 1988

  • DFI
  • SME
    Dynamic Loading Mechanism and Stability Control of Gob‑Side Entry Retaining with Thick and Hard Roof: Insights from Numerical Simulation and Field Test - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Weijian Yu, Jianbiao Bai, Jinlin Xin, Shiqiang Xu, Shuai Yan, Zizheng Zhang, Hai Wu

    The retained roadway subjected to dynamic loading from thick and hard roof (THF) fracturing caused severe deformations in the thick coal seam (TCS). Understanding the dynamic loading mechanism of gob-

    Feb 23, 2023

  • SME
    A Bigger Pump Is Not Always The Answer

    By Russ Darr

    New methods and techniques in the field of hydrogeology are being developed constantly. One of these advances has been brought about through the use of inexpensive microcomputers. The formulas used in

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SAIMM
    Increased productivity with AC drives for mining excavators and haul trucks

    By G. M. Brown, B. J. Ebacher, W. G. Koellner

    Introduction There is a continual economic push to increase the productivity of mobile material handling equipment used in open pit mines. This includes the largest electrical machines: excavators

    Sep 1, 2001

  • AIME
    Iron and Steel Division - The Thermodynamics of Solid Iron at Elevated Temperatures

    By Philip D. Anderson, Ralph Hultgren

    Heat contents of extremely pure iron were measured over the range 300"to 1433"K, using a diphenyl ether calorimeter. Results from three samples containing widely differing impurities agreed with one a

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SME
    Surface and Hybrid Mining: Aqueous Extraction Methods

    By W. J. Schitt

    Section 15 covers a loose collection of topics that involve water in some way. The chapters in this section include Dredge and Placer Mining (Chapter 15.1), Solution Mining: Surface Techniques (Chapte

    Jan 1, 2008

  • NIOSH
    Crushing And Grinding - Introduction

    By John Gross

    From the time when man first pounded one rock upon another or used heat and sudden chilling with water to disintegrate rock, the art of crushing advanced but slowly to the mule-driven arrastre and the

    Jan 1, 1938

  • NIOSH
    OFR-108-77 The Effect Of Organizational Climate And Policy On Coal Mine Safety

    By Mark S. Sanders

    The present study was designed to explore the contribution of organizational climate and management practices to the injury experience in underground coal mines. A cross-lagged panel design was used i

    Jan 1, 1976

  • AUSIMM
    Critical process design considerations from test work to operations

    By A Dennis, T Hunter, R Coleman

    For metallurgical plant design, it is necessary to progress through successive phases of test work, piloting and process development before involving all the other engineering disciplines and “freezin

    Sep 11, 2017

  • SME
    Computerized Maintenance System At The Carol Project

    By C. Jardine

    The concept of the system is to minimize costly unscheduled breakdowns of equipment by replacing components earlier than their "life" expectancy. Periodic unit services are scheduled according to pre

    Jan 1, 1979

  • CIM
    Locating Pre-Slide Topography Using Site Investigation Data, Case Study of the Maskun Landslide, Iran

    By V. Maazallahi, A. Rouleau, A. Saeidi

    "The geometry of the terrain topography before and after the failure are the essential factors for analyzing a landslide and for the design of remedial works. This paper presents a method to determine

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AIME
    Papers - - Production Engineering - Interpretation of Well Test Data in Gas-condensate Fields (TP 2053, Petr. Tech., July 1946)

    By J. O. Lewis

    The operation of gas-condensate fields is comparatively new and involves physical principles with which the industry was not prcviously familiar. It has been necessary to devise methods for testing ga

    Jan 1, 1947

  • AIME
    Papers - - Production Engineering - Interpretation of Well Test Data in Gas-condensate Fields (TP 2053, Petr. Tech., July 1946)

    By J. O. Lewis

    The operation of gas-condensate fields is comparatively new and involves physical principles with which the industry was not prcviously familiar. It has been necessary to devise methods for testing ga

    Jan 1, 1947