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  • SME
    Equipment adds efficiency, safety to cross passage work

    From a vast army of workers to gargantuan machines to immense volumes of material being moved, almost everything about the Port of Miami Tunnel (POMT) project points to tunneling on a massive scale. A

    Sep 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Monitoring And Quality Control Of A 100 Metre Deep Diaphragm Wall

    By D. A. Bruce

    To check the feasibility and the quality of a very deep diaphragm wall, a tern of adjacent panels has been constructed, up to a depth of 100 m, in the Milan sandy gravelly soil by means of a hydraulic

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    Steam Boilers-A Few Hints as to Proper Management

    I find that during the short time I have been in this district, the majority of boilers are, and have been, receiving very bad usage owing to the difficulties which they have to contend against, viz.,

    Jan 1, 1901

  • AUSIMM
    Taxation Neutrality in Mining

    The Government signalled its intention in the Economic Statement on 17 December 1987 to improve the fairness of the taxation system and to facilitate the process of economic adjustment by: removing t

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Critical Remarks on the Genesis of Ore as Applied to Future Mineral Exploration

    By Reno H. Sales

    The syngenetic, metamorphic water, and source bed concept theories of ore deposition proposed by Anton Gray, C, Lo Knight and others, to explain ores in sedimentary rocks, are challenged on the basis

    Jan 1, 1960

  • IMPC
    On the Relationship between Partial Molar Excess Gibbs Energy and Contact Angle

    By M. C. Harris

    "In the flotation process the contact angle is an important indicator of the hydrophobicity of a mineral particle. There is considerable literature showing that the contact angle increases when the ch

    Jan 1, 2018

  • AIME
    Of Mr. Herzig's paper on a Method for Obtaining the Volume of Small Drifts and Working-Places, Where it is Impossible to Use a Transit

    Fred. T. Greene, Rossland, B. C. (communication to the Secretary): At the beginning of his gaper, Mr. Herzig refers to an article of mine in the Engineering and Mining Journal of January 27, 1900. I w

    Jan 1, 1901

  • SME
    Case Study Of The Conda Partnership's Dry Valley Phosphate Mining Project ? Introduction

    By Mark A. Krall

    The Conda Partnership's Dry Valley Phosphate mine is a thinly bedded, multiple seam, open pit mining operation where selective mining techniques are used to recover phosphatic shales. The mining

    Jan 1, 1984

  • CIM
    Traitement d'une magnétite titanifère pour produire la fonte, le pentoxyde de vanadium et le rutile synthétique

    By Ivan Malinsky, Gérard Castonguay

    "On a développé un procédé qui donne une fonte (2,3% C, 0,07% V) du V2O5 (99%) et un rutile synthétique (94% TiO2) à partir d'un minerai, dont les réserves au Québec sont importantes. Le procédé

    Jan 1, 1983

  • DFI
    CSM: An Innovative Solution For Mixed-In-Situ Retaining Walls, Cut-Off Walls And Soil Improvement

    By Fabrice Mathieu

    The Cutter Soil Mixing (CSM) provides a cost effective solution for the rapid construction of retaining and cut-off walls using new equipment developed from diaphragm wall cutter technology. CSM consi

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Introducing new Council members (f1ecaec8-d397-4bba-a492-7b63c8dd2f98)

    Mr D. Wilson was born in Vereeniging, where he also completed his schooling, matriculating from General Smuts High School in 1977. Mr K.A. van Gessel was born in 1937. His final studies were condu

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Selection And Combustion Of Pulverized Coal In Rotary Lime Kilns

    By V. S. Tadsen

    Today, man is able to probe space because of technological advancements including the ability to control certain combustion reactions very precisely. The recent adjustment of the attitude of Skylab by

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AIME
    Papers - Maintenance - Use of Special Equipment and Materials to Reduce Maintenance Costs in Preparation of Anthracite (Contrib. 137)

    By John S. Johnson

    The maintenance cost, or renewal cost, in any preparation plant is a large item of expense and reflects in the total cost of producing and preparing the ton of coal. It is given constant study to the

    Jan 1, 1947

  • AIME
    Papers - Maintenance - Use of Special Equipment and Materials to Reduce Maintenance Costs in Preparation of Anthracite (Contrib. 137)

    By John S. Johnson

    The maintenance cost, or renewal cost, in any preparation plant is a large item of expense and reflects in the total cost of producing and preparing the ton of coal. It is given constant study to the

    Jan 1, 1947

  • CIM
    Geometallurgical Characterisation and Representative Metallurgical Sampling at Xstrata Process Support

    By J. Sliwinski, J. Oliveira

    "The application of geometallurgy and corresponding sample selection can take on several formats within industry. Current practice can range from a strictly geostatistical approach to one in which geo

    Jan 1, 2013

  • TMS
    Converting Oily Mill Scale And Sludges To Useable Products

    By Leonard A. Duval

    This concept employs a viable energy saving method that uses a solvent to separate oil from particle matter; it can be used in metal forming industries to deoil sludges, oxides, and particle matter th

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Development Of A High Blow Energy Hydraulic Impactor

    By Wm. Ross Wayment, Innes P. Grantmyre

    INTRODUCTION It has been recognized for some time that major changes in mining methods will be required in the near future. Two types of factors contribute to this need for change. Intrinsic factor

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Design Methodology of Pumpable J-Crib Stopping Wall and Jennmar High-Strength Stopping Panel Wall

    By Xiaoting Li, Richard Adasiak, Benjamin Mirabile

    Pumpable J-Crib stopping walls and Jennmar high-strength (HS) stopping panel walls are widely used for resisting high-ventilation air pressures and roof support in underground mines due to their insta

    Jul 1, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Landscape-scale Assessment of Watercourses in Remote Arid South Australia to Inform Mine Planning to Mine Closure

    By K White, C Ferguson, M Harding

    Understanding watercourses and river processes at a landscape scale is vital for managing risk to mining infrastructure and operations as well as minimising future environmental impacts beyond the lif

    Jun 28, 2016

  • SME
    Practical Methods Of Shallow Shaft Sinking

    By James J. Brady, Joginder S. Bhore, Robert B. Gordon, Jimmy W. Honeycutt

    The authors of this paper have a combined construction experience of 70 years. They have served as engineers and managers on projects throughout the United States and Canada. Approximately 50 shafts h

    Jan 1, 1985