Search Documents

  • SME
    Production of High‑Purity Alumina by Combining Solvent Extraction and Precipitation Techniques - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By Jorge Alberto Soares Tenório, Denise Crocce Romano Espinosa, Morgana Rosset, Bárbara da Rocha Pereira

    High-purity alumina finds application in various electronic industry sectors, with approximately 100 million tons of this compound being produced worldwide. Alumina is acquired through the mining proc

    Dec 28, 2023

  • NIOSH
    RI 4912 Soda Sinter Process For Treating Low-Grade Titaniferous Ores

    By Robert T. MacMillan

    A process has been developed in the laboratory and expanded to semi-pilot-plant scale for recovering titania, iron, and byproducts from two types of titaniferous iron ores. A reducing roast with coke

    Jan 1, 1952

  • AIME
    Inspiration's Successful Change to Open-Pit Mining

    By H. C. Weed

    THE Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co., located in the Globe-Miami district at Inspiration, Ariz., became a producer of copper in 1915. From 1915 until 1948, 116,278,000 tons of ore were produced fro

    Jan 8, 1950

  • NIOSH
    Inaccuracy Of Area Sampling For Measuring - The Dust Exposure Of Mining Machine Operators In Coal Mines

    By F. N. Kissell, H. K. Sacks

    This study examines the accuracy of area sampling for measuring the dust exposure of mining machine operators in coal mines. The specific objective of this research was to find locations where an area

  • SME
    Exploration Review (f6032b03-79e7-49ca-8f8a-1df7796897e6)

    By D. R. Wilburn

    This summary of international mineral exploration activities for the year 2009 draws upon information from industry sources, published literature and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) specialists. The su

    May 1, 2010

  • SME
    Application and Verification of an Automated Calculation Tool for Planning and Cost Estimation of Underground Mines - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Franziska Günther, Helmut Mischo

    The calculation of costs for an underground mine, as well as the planning of the equipment and materials to be used, is a complex and time-consuming process. The estimation depends on a multitude of p

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    The Lead-Zinc Anomaly

    By David B. Brooks

    I gratefully acknowledge the help of a number of American and Canadian geologists, in both federal surveys and in private firms, who took the time to discuss this problem with me. Hans Landsberg and B

    Jan 1, 1967

  • TMS
    Occurrence of Bismutii in Cathode at the BHP San Manuel Refinery

    By R. J. Chesher, J. C. Anzalone, T. F. Krusmark

    The BHP Copper Refinery at San Manuel, AZ employs conventional electro-refining technology, plating at a current density of 335 A/m2 on six kilogram copper starter sheets. In 1995, a combination of va

    Jan 1, 1997

  • NIOSH
    RI 8511 Electric-Arc Furnace Processing of Domestic Titaniferous Materials

    By R. H. Nafziger

    The Bureau of Mines evaluated 18 domestic titaniferous materials with widely varying compositions, mineralogy, and physical properties in electric-arc furnaces, Techniques were devised to recover both

    Jan 1, 1980

  • AUSIMM
    Synergies between renewable-powered mines and community development programs throughout mine life cycle and post-closure

    By J Joughin, D Kyan, L Rollin

    In line with the 2015 Paris Agreement and corresponding climate disclosure requirements, many mining companies have publicly disclosed that they are developing and/or implementing ambitious decarbonis

    Aug 2, 2023

  • CIM
    Building stone resources in Saskatchewan

    By Paul Guliov

    Preliminary investigations of stone resources were conducted in the La Range, Johnson Lake-Pelican Narrows-Deschambault Lake and Creighton-Amisk Lake regions of Saskatchewan. The work identified a ric

    Jan 1, 2001

  • TMS
    Strategic Approaches for CO2 Reduction Rate from Fossil Fuel Use in Steel Industry

    By Malti Goel

    "Technology advancements in fossil fuel based energy generation and consumption are currently being aimed at minimization of CO2 emissions. To attain energy security, India must accelerate the pace of

    Jan 1, 2010

  • NIOSH
    RI 5295 Expansion Of Coal In The Sole-Heated Oven - Quantitative Effects Of Dry Bulk Density, Moisture Content, And Particle Size ? Summary

    By B. W. Naugle

    Twenty-nine sole-heated-oven expansion teats were made on 9 different coals, and apparent specific-Brevity tests were made on 12 of the resultant cokes. The coals, which ranged in dry, mineral-matter-

    Jan 1, 1957

  • CIM
    The Production of Elemental Sulphur from Jumping Pound Natural Gas

    By L. T. Munn

    "IT IS NOT necessary here to dwell on the fact that sulphur is currently in short supply. It may be well, however, to •point out that this •storage is not merely a temporary condition, but that, judgi

    Jan 1, 1952

  • AIME
    Foreign Production - Review of Venezuelan Oil Activities in 1927

    By H. J. Wasson

    At the close of 1927 Venezuela was producing at the rate of 205,000 bbl, per day, making it the third country in the world in point of present daily production. For the year, the total was close to 64

    Jan 1, 1928

  • TMS
    Utilization of Borax Solid Wastes in Fast Single-Firing Porcelain Tile Glass-Ceramic Glazes Under Industrial Working Conditions

    By Selvin Yesilay, Guray Kaya, Bekir Karasu, Asli Cakir

    "In this investigation, the wastes of Eti Maden Kirka Boron Company of Turkiye were evaluated in the production of diopside and anorthite-based glass-ceramic glazes suitable for porcelain tiles fast a

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Mill Drive Selection For Variable Speed Gear Driven Mills

    By Craig M. Sams

    Matching mill? drives to mill power draws is a relatively new practice with the introduction of variable speed drive arrangements. Semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mills are the focus of this paper as b

    Jan 1, 1991

  • TMS
    The Removal of Uranium from Acidic Media Using lon-Exchange and/or Extraction Chromatography (063e3763-56bb-45f1-9bf2-d18289035e8c)

    By Jennifer Murphy, Brad S. Schake, Karol Holmes, John R. FitzPatrick, Mike H. West

    "The separation and purification of uranium from either nitric acid or hydrochloric acid media can be accomplished by using either solvent extraction or ion-exchange. Over the past two years at Los Al

    Jan 1, 1996

  • ABM
    Fundamentals Of Developing Fine Grained Structures In “as Rolled” Long Products

    By Douglas Glenn Stalheim

    The demands for improved mechanical properties in hot rolled long products are increasing as the expectations of global Standards and construction designer’s increase. Cost constraints limit the exces

    Jul 30, 2018

  • SME
    Lightweight Aggregate : A Growing Industry In New England ? Introduction

    By Henry N. McCarl

    The New England States form the most northeastern portion of the continental United States and include Connecticut, Rhode island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. These states have an

    Jan 1, 1964