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Geology of the Athabasca BasinBy F. F. Langford
"The Athabasca Basin occupies about 100,000 km2 of the northwest corner of Saskatchewan with its western margin extending about 50 km into Alberta (Fig. 1). The basin is filled with a Helikian sequenc
Jan 1, 1986
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A Visual Sensing Approach to Estimate Material Hauling Cycles in Heavy Construction and Surface Mining JobsitesBy E. Rezazadeh Azar
Dump trucks are the main mean for hauling earth material within and outside of the construction and open-pit mining jobsites. The real-time monitoring of the material transportation trips is beneficia
Aug 1, 2013
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Regulatory Issues Regarding The Recycling Of Electric Arc Furnace Dust And Its Use As A Slag FluidizerBy Jim Sundal
Primary steel manufacturers using electric arc furnaces generate one of the largest hazardous waste streams nationwide. The waste stream, known as electric arc furnace dust, is a listed hazardous wast
Jan 1, 1994
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Embrace the Unknown; How to Incorporate Uncertainty in Mine PlanningBy C. Roos
"Mining companies have included quantifying uncertainty, or at least risk, as a requirement of project justification for many years. However, many times this process lags behind the traditional mine p
Jan 8, 2017
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Ternium-siderar Slab Continuous Caster N°1, 20 Years Of Technological ChangesBy Raúl Daniel López
Ternium-Siderar steelmaking has been focused in permanent improvements and process optimization. At present the Slab Continuous Caster N°1 has been totally transformed after 20 years of uninterrupted
Jul 30, 2018
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RI 3887 Observation on the Use of a Diesel Freight Locomotive through a Railway TunnelBy L. H. McGuire, L. B. Berger
"During the period October 31 to November 4, 1944, tests were conducted by the Bureau of Mines in the Cascade Tunnel of the Great Northern Railway Cc. to determine the effects upon the tunnel atmosphe
Jun 1, 1946
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Evolution Of Helical Screw Pile Design And InstallationBy Michael Perlow
Helical screw piles in use since 1838 are routinely used for energy, transportation, municipal, industrial, marine and coastal infrastructure as well as for excavation support, environmental remediati
Jan 1, 2011
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Research and Natural ResourcesBy N. H. Grace
"IntroductionA STRIKING FEATURE of the past twenty years has been the application of organized scientific and industrial research to problems of national defence and security and to the development of
Jan 1, 1952
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Techniques and Methodologies for Improving Thickener PerformanceBy Tuan V. Nguyen, Kosta Simic, Louis Mittoni, Murray Rudman, Jean D. Swift, John B. Farrow, Phillip D. Fawell
"Research projects towards developing a sound understanding of the factors controlling the performance of gravity thickeners have been conducted by the AJ Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Hydrom
Jan 1, 2003
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Development – Back to BasicsBy I T. Ross
In the last 50 years there have been tremendous improvements in equipment used in development on underground mines. Compressed air powered jacklegs have been replaced by high powered electro-hydraulic
Mar 24, 2014
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The Implementation Of High Performance Solutions For The Production Of Advanced Highstrength Steel Grades Hot-stripBy Josef Maierl
For the production of advanced high strength steel grades (AHSS) like API X80/X100, dual-phase, martensitic and complex-phase grades a number of hot strip mills need to extend their limits in terms of
Aug 16, 2017
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RI 3790 Sponge Iron - A Progress ReportBy R. S. Dean
"INTRODUCTION The idea of direct steel is by no means new. Although the work of Bessemer and Siemens provided simple and effective moans for converting pig iron into steel and established the ""blast-
Jan 1, 1945
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IC 7890 Block-Caving Mining Methods and Costs, Bagdad Mine, Bagdad Copper CorpBy W. R. Hardwick
This paper describes block -caving methods and practices of the Bagdad Copper Corp. in Yavapai County , Ariz . It is one of a series being prepared by the Federal Bureau of Mines on mining methods , p
Jan 1, 1959
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The Moffat Tunnel in ColoradoBy AIME AIME
DREAMS do come true at times, although it is evidently better to believe in engineers than to "believe in fairies" if most dreams are to be translated into fact. It was a fine dream that David H. Moff
Jan 1, 1925
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Transportation is Key to a profitable industrial minerals businessBy Norbert T. Rogers
An accepted statement of fact is that, next to agriculture, transportation is the second most important industry in the world. The transportation networks of the United States have greatly contributed
Jan 1, 1989
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Sonic Drilling and Sensitive InfrastructureBy George Burnhart
"Sonic drilling is a relatively new technology even though it has been in development since the late 1940s. It was initially funded by the U.S. petroleum industry and then, in the late 40s, Russian sc
Jan 1, 2008
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Alteration Mineralogy -A Powerful Tool For Precious Metals Exploration And Ore ControlPrecious metals exploration is increasingly involved with concealed, deeper-seated gold-silver deposits which exhibit considerably more challenges to the geologist than near-surface, oxidized ores. Th
Jan 1, 1993
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RI 3701 Evaporation Losses of Aviation Gasoline in Standing StorageBy Peter Grandone
"INTRODUCTION The Bureau of Mines, recognizing the importance of knowing the evapor¬ation losses of aviation gasoline as larger quantities of this material must be stored, has made studies at a large
May 1, 1943
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Copper And Its FutureBy John G. Hall
Everyone forms his own mental picture when the subject of copper is mentioned. To an architect, copper is a warm, enduring metal with a quiet beauty; to the historian, man's first metal; to the p
Jan 1, 1968
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Profits in the Copper Wire and Brass IndustryBy Arthur Notman
THE raw material men in all industries, and copper is no exception, are accustomed to think of them- selves as the whole show, and not without justice, for if there were no copper mines the world woul
Jan 1, 1926