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  • SME
    Applications Of Time Domain Reflectometry In The Mining Industry

    By K. M. O’Connor

    Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) is a pulse testing technique developed by the telecommunications and power industry for use in locating breaks in cables. Variations of this principle have been utilize

    Jan 1, 2003

  • TMS
    Mathematical Modeling of Mean Flow Stress during Hot Strip Rolling of NB Microalloyed Steels

    By John J. Jonas, Sang-Hyun Cho, Ki-Bong Kang

    "The recrystallization behavior of Nb micro alloyed steels containing Cr, Mo, Ni and Ti. was studied using hot torsion testing with the aim of modeling the recrystallization processes and the mean flo

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Kalgoorlie Tailings Retreatment Project- A Case Study

    The Kalgoorlie Tailings Retreatment Project (or "Kaltails") involves the reclamation and retreatment of approximately 50 million tonnes of gold tailing situated on the Golden Mile at Kalgoorlie, Wes

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AIME
    Adsorption Of Sodium Ion On Quartz

    By P. A. Laxen, H. R. Spedden, A. M. Gaudin

    WHEN a mineral particle is fractured, bonds between the atoms are broken. The unsatisfied forces that appear at the newly formed surface1 are considered to be responsible for the adsorption of ions at

    Jan 1, 1952

  • SME
    Attacking The Small-Mine Fatality Problem In West Virginia

    By G. D. Elliot, R. L. Grayson, G. L. Winn

    For the years 1990 and 1991, West Virginia's underground coal small-mine fatality rate was approximately 10 times higher than the national coal-industry fatality rate. Although the number of fata

    Jan 1, 1996

  • AUSIMM
    Effects of Initiation Delay Time on Narrow Reef Stope Blasting

    By Brinkmann J. R

    In the narrow stopes of South African gold mines, rockbreaking is carried out by drilling and blasting with safety fuse and igniter cord being used as the initiation system. The fuse/gniter cord sys

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AIME
    Thermal Dewatering

    By Joseph W. Leonard, T. S. Spicer

    INTRODUCTION Reasons for Thermal Drying The continuing increase in the percentage of minus %-inch coal produced as a result of the increased use of mechanical mining methods has, over the year

    Jan 1, 1968

  • SME
    Seismic Prospecting For Bauxite And Kaolin Eufaula Bauxite District, Alabama ? Introduction

    By T. J. Joiner

    A critical demand exists to develop new mineral resources, and the need for exploration techniques to supplement costly test drilling is becoming; more acute. In the past few years more industries hav

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Finite Element Modeling of Surface Subsidence induced by Underground Coal Mining

    By Daniel W. H. Su

    The ability to predict the effects of longwall mining on topography and surface structures is important for any coal company in making permit applications and anticipating potential mining problems. T

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AUSIMM
    Exploiting Mineral Waste Products in the Republic of Kazakhstan

    By D A. Aitzhanova, E Zh Omirzakova

    The Republic of Kazakhstan has well developed mining and metallurgical complex. In modern conditions, when deposits of useful minerals are running thin, it is very important to find additional sources

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    A Model Study of the BHP New Zealand Steel Ironmaking Melter

    By C Garlick, O Gregory, H Rogers, B I. Winters, Z C. Ye

    BHP New Zealand Steel produces iron from titaniferous ironsand by a direct reduction process comprising multihearth furnaces/rotary kilns/electric iron melters. The electric iron melter is a six-in-li

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AIME
    Mechanism Of Precipitation From The Solid Solution Of Silver In Aluminum

    By R. F. Mehl, C. S. Barrett, A. H. Geisler

    THE complicated nature of the property changes that accompany age-hardening has made it necessary to reconsider and to elaborate the simple dispersion theory.1 It has been apparent for some time that

    Jan 1, 1941

  • CIM
    Optimum Design of Open-Pit Mines

    By Helmut Lerchs

    An open-pit mining operation can be viewed as a process by which the open surface of a mine is continuously deformed. The planning of a mining program involves the design of the final shape of this op

    Jan 1, 1965

  • AUSIMM
    Stratiform Ores And Metamorphic Processes-Some thoughts Arising From Broken Hill

    The overall mineral assemblage of the Broken Hill orebody is similar to that of a skarn. However unlike the classical skarns it does not represent contact metamorphism of pre-existing limestone bed

    Jan 1, 1983

  • DFI
    Diving Underground - Through a Hologram - To Better Understand Foundation Risk

    By Scott A. Anderson, Benjamin S. Rivers, Derrick D. Dasenbrock, Silas Nichols

    Unknown geotechnical conditions are a major source of risk. Unexplored places vastly outnumber the sampled and tested ones, and widely spaced boreholes with intermittent tests and samples are the norm

    Jan 1, 2019

  • AIME
    Canadian Paper - The Electromotive Force of Metals in Cyanide Solutions

    By S. B. Christy

    The practice of the cyanide-process of gold-extraction has brought to light many important contradictions of familiar chemical analogies, which still obscure both the theory and the practice of the ar

    Jan 1, 1901

  • AUSIMM
    The Energy Outlook in the Pacific Basin Region (0d1a04ad-4b32-49e8-99a0-89cb5b1072bb)

    The outlook for suppliers of energy to the expanding economies of the Pacific Basin region is essentially positive, but particularly for exporters of high quality steam coal. This paper argues that ec

    Jan 1, 1990

  • CIM
    Rapid Solidification of Al-Ni Alloys by Electrosparkdeposition

    By G. Portillo

    Electrospark Deposition (ESD) is a pulsed-arc micro-welding process characterized by using high current electrical pulses, of a short duration, to deposit an electrode material on a metallic substrate

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AIME
    The Magmatic Origin Of Vein-Forming Waters In Southeastern Alaska

    By Arthur C. Spencer

    HAVING suggested magmatic waters as the probable agents of vein- and ore-deposition in southeastern Alaska in a paper entitled, The Geology of the Treadwell Ore-Deposits,1 it is with particular intere

    Jan 1, 1913

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - The Solubility of Lithium in Aluminum

    By R. P. Marshall, L. P. Costas

    The solid solubility of lithium in aluminum was determined by two independent techniques, electrical resistivity and microhardness, and the results are in close agreement. The solubility limits X-ray

    Jan 1, 1962