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  • DFI
    Drilled Shaft Acceptance Criteria Based Upon Thermal Integrity Profiling

    By Garland Likins, Gray Mullins, George Piscsalko

    "Quality control of drilled shafts is greatly dependent upon the practices of the site personnel. For drilled shafts cast under slurry, inspection of the hole prior to concreting is very difficult or

    Jan 1, 2016

  • ISEE
    Explosive Operations for Constructing a Tunnel Based PCB Collection System

    By Gerard McAlinden, Daniel Frost, Patrick McAlinden, James McAlinden

    In an effort to recover Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s) that had leached into bedrock below the Hudson River in Upstate New York, a shaft and tunnel complex was designed that would allow installatio

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Evaluation of the mechanical properti of wood-derived charcoal briquettes for use as a reductant

    By H. W. J. P. Neomagus, R. K. K. Mbaya, J. R. Bunt, N. T. Leokaoke, N. W. Makgobelele

    Silicon Smelters consumes more than 80000 t/a of wood-derived charcoal as carbonaceous reductant in the production of silicon metal. More than 10% of this material is discarded as fines (<6 mm) genera

    May 1, 2021

  • NIOSH
    RI 6609 Recent Catalyst Developments In The Hot-Gas-Recycle Process

    By A. J. Forney

    Recent experiments used catalysts of plate assemblies in synthesizing high-Btu gas and gasoline indirectly from coal. A gas with a heating value of 925 to 943 Bt-: per cubic foot has been prod u la th

    Jan 1, 1965

  • AIME
    The Professional Examination Of Undeveloped Mineral Properties.

    By Charles Catlett

    (Chattanooga Meeting, October, 1M.) THE terms " developed " and " undeveloped " are necessarily relative and cover a wide range; but the latter is here applied to cases in which the information at ha

    Mar 1, 1909

  • CIM
    Continuous SAG Volumetric Charge Measurement

    By Andre Vien, Jean-François Dupont

    "Over the past several years, Svedala has developed a continuous charge monitor (CCM) for tumbling mills. It consists of a strain gauge embedded into a rubber lifter and associated electronics. This p

    Jan 1, 2001

  • NIOSH
    RI 2871 Flue Dusts from Copper Smelters of the Southwest: Composition of Treatment

    By William A. Sloan

    "In smelting operations, finely divided material called ""flue dust"" is carried by the moving gases from the roasters and furnaces; it is partly settled and recovered in the flue system. The flue dus

    May 1, 1928

  • CIM
    Integrating the Strengths of SAG and HPGR in Flexible Circuit Designs

    Despite the claims of energy efficiency and the considerable development that has gone into dramatically extending rolls? life and facilitating rolls? change-out, in the six years since the last SAG c

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Improving the lead flotation recovery at Lakan lead-zinc processing plant using high-intensity conditioning

    By K. Barani, F. Moradpouri, M. Godarzi

    A sampling campaign carried out on the lead flotation circuit at Lakan lead-zinc processing plant demonstrated that the Pb recovery was only about 68-69%. Characterization of the Pb flotation tailing

    Apr 2, 2022

  • CIM
    Designing Ventilation Systems for Potrooms using Computational Fluid Dynamics Modeling

    By T. Plikas, L. Gunnewiek

    Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling was used to evaluate the performance and optimize the design of a potroom ventilation system in an aluminium smelter facility. The ventilation system must e

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    The Rainfall Simulator for Hydrolic and Erosion Experiments on Mines, with an Example of its Application at Ranger Uranium Mine, Northern Territory, Australia

    By F Hancock

    A rainfall simulator was developed to assist with hydrogeomorphic research into the stability of engineered landforms associated with rehabilitated uranium mines in the Top End of Australia. It can be

    Jan 1, 1997

  • TMS
    Recovery of Metals and Nonmetals from Waste Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs) by Physical Recycling Techniques

    By Muammer Kaya

    This paper reviews the existing and state of art knowledge for electronic waste (e-waste) recycling. Electrical/electronic equipments (EEEs) which are unwanted, broken or discarded by their original u

    Mar 1, 2017

  • TMS
    Semi-Pilot Plant Test for Injection Smelting of Zinc Calcine

    By M. Fujikawa, S. Goto, M. Nishikawa

    "The semi-pilot scale plant for injection smelting of zinc calcine was operated under the committee of Joint Research Organization of Injection Metallurgy. The capacity of the plant is 10 ton metallic

    Jan 1, 1988

  • CIM
    Examination of Selected Copper Electrowinning Additives

    By Michael S. Moats, Alex Luyima, Tomas Oliveira

    Some commercial copper electrowinning facilities use Cyquest N-900 (a polyacrylamide) or HydroStar (a modified polysaccharide) to improve the density and smoothness of copper electrodeposits. However

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AIME
    The 4 W’s of Fuel Cells – Who-What-Where-When

    By Ernst M. Cohn

    The demonstrations of the "Silent Sentry" by Union Carbide Corp. in 1957 and of a special tractor-plow by Allis-Chalmers in 1959 ushered in the technology era of fuel cells. The idea for direct conver

    Jan 9, 1964

  • NIOSH
    OFR-180-84 Remote Manual Control Roof Bolter

    By Peter de Bakker

    The objective of this contract was to develop a simple, reliable, economical, remote-control roof bolting module for installation of mechanical and resin bolts. It was to be capable of placing longer

    Jan 1, 1983

  • TMS
    Modeling Of EAF Slag Chemistry For Optimal Slag Foaming And Refractory Service Life

    By James P. Bennett

    EAF slag chemistry and its control have been recognized as important in producing quality steel at a low price for a number of decades. EAF steel producers make lime and dolomite additions to furnaces

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Shoring And Caissons At The Air Canada Centre/Raptors Stadium

    By Dawn C. Tattle

    [ ] Panoramic View of Completed Facade Supports The following case history describes the installation of earth retention systems, historical facade supports and structural caissons by Anchor Shor

    Jan 1, 1997

  • CIM
    Encapsulation of Mercury in Gossan Tailings Murray Brook Mine, New Brunswick, Canada

    By Robert Harris, Peter Pheeney

    "The Murray Brook gold mine operated from September 1989 to March 1991. Approximately 1.2 million tonnes of gossan were mined from an open pit and treated at a rate of 900 tonnes per day. The facility

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Using existing data to improve the delineation of ore at the Olympic Dam Fe-oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit

    By K Ehrig, J Griffith

    An extensive suite of elements are routinely assayed on all resource drill core samples to assist in deposit scale resource definition, local mine scale delineation of ore zones, and ore characterisat

    Sep 20, 2017