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  • SME
    In-Mine Study Of High-Expansion Firefighting Foam - Preprint 09-095

    By L. L. Chasko

    A mine fire is one of the most challenging safety issues facing a mine operator and can occur at any location underground. The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) and the Tw

    Jan 1, 2009

  • NIOSH
    RI 9660 - Evaluation Of Systems To Monitor Blind Areas Behind Trucks Used In Road Construction And Maintenance: Phase 1

    By Todd M. Ruff

    The majority of fatalities that occur in road construction work zones in the United States involve a worker being struck by a piece of construction equipment or other vehicle. The Spokane Research La

    Jan 1, 2004

  • NIOSH
    RI 4408 Thermochemical study of the olivines and orthopyroxenes (ba15a029-4a3f-44b7-9d8b-0199ec4551f5)

    By D. R. Torgoson, Th. G. Sahama

    "This paper contains some new thermodynamic data for silicates in the series Mg2SiO4-Fe2siO4 and MgSiO3-FeSiO3 and gives the results of a thermodynamic attack on the problems of stability end paragene

    Feb 1, 1949

  • IOM3
    Monitoring subsidence over submarine coal mines in the Sydney coalfield, Canada, by bathymetric methods

    By R. C. Courtney, D. J. Forrester

    Modern advances have led to sweep and multibeam bathymetric surveying techniques that yield three-dimensional images of the sea floor and have also produced high-powered personal computers with which

    Jun 19, 1905

  • SME
    Diversity of Spontaneous Vegetation on Post-Industrial Sites - Importance in Reclamation Process

    By G. Wozniak, R. Rostanski, H. Pfanz, G. Aschan, E. Sierka

    "Industrial wasteland is a typical element of the landscape of all the industrialised regions in Europe. There are many examples from Poland as well as from other European countries that post-industri

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Designing an Advanced RC Drilling Grid for Short-Term Planning in Open Pit Mines: Three Case Studies

    By J. M. Ortiz

    This paper shows the usefulness of geostatistical conditional simulation combined with the quantification of sampling errors obtained from the analyses of fundamental errors ? validated from duplicate

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Ani-Metprotech Stirred Vertical Mills For Ultra Fine Grinding- Case Studies In Gold, Nickel And Lime Slaking

    By K. S. Liddell

    Ultra fine grinding is becoming increasingly used in the mining industry over recent years. The development of large-scale units for high volume grinding of low value materials and concentrates has op

    Jan 1, 2001

  • CIM
    Energy Savings and Improved Recovery with Small Grinding Media

    By Michel Brissette

    "To recover more valuable ore and considering the complexity of minerals, the needs to grind finer is increasing. To reach the desired fine grinding targets, using the existing grinding media size, th

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Submerged Penetrations Through a Frozen Soil Shoring System - RETC2023

    By Kyle Amoroso, Aaron K. McCain

    Frozen soil shoring has been used for decades in the tunneling industry to provide temporary support of excavation for shafts and cross-passage excavations. However, horizontal penetrations through th

    Jun 13, 2023

  • AIME
    Discussion - Of Mr. Howe's Paper on Piping and Segregation in Steel Ingots (see Trans, xxxviii., 3)

    P. H. Dudley, Yew York, N. Y. (communication to the Secretary*) :—The characteristics of Professor Home's metallurgical papers are, that he is able, from the mass of confusing evidence on the sub

    Jan 1, 1909

  • SME-ICGCM
    Hydraulic Tensioning Of A Birmingham Roof Truss

    By C. W. Bollier

    In recent years, Peabody Coal Company has enjoyed a great amount of success using roof trussing as a secondary support system. Since 1975, over 180,000 trusses have been installed in 12 different Peab

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Water Quality of Reiche Zeche Mine, Freiberg/Saxony, Germany

    By A. Simon, J. Weyer, J. Brune, V. Zhiteneva

    "Reiche Zeche is a lead-zinc-silver deposit in Freiberg, Germany, that was mined for over 800 years. Since 1969, Reiche Zeche has been a teaching and research mine with numerous adits for dewatering l

    Jan 1, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    A New Tool for Extensometer Data Analysis and Improved Understanding of Geotechnical Risk Factors

    By M Szwec, P Corbett, P Sheffield

    Centennial Coal operates the Springvale and Angus Place longwall mining operations that extract coal beneath the Newnes Plateau in the Western Coalfields of New South Wales. Springvale and Angus Place

    Nov 5, 2014

  • SME
    Geomechanical monitoring of an underground bulk mining operation using a novel distributed optical fiber strain sensing method

    By Alper Kirmaci, Taghi Sherizadeh, Gunnar Wurst, Paul Brooks, Dogukan Guner, Samuel Nowak, Mina Esmaeelpour, Kutay Karadeniz

    As mines continue to deepen and become more expansive, active monitoring of larger volumes of rock mass will become more critical to calibrate numerical simulations and to ensure the safety of undergr

    Oct 1, 2024

  • SME
    Determination Of Open Pit Blast Sound Levels Using A Proxy Charge And Multiple Linear Regression - Introduction

    By K. E. Burgher

    Since World War II, the need for the use of explosives in construction, mining, and quarrying near congested urban areas has increased dramatically. Often times a coal mine, once isolated from a city,

    Jan 1, 1987

  • TMS
    Distribution of Platinum-Group Elements in an Ultramafic Complex Near Rainbow Mountain, East-Central Alaska Range

    By James C. Barker

    Near Rainbow Mountain in the east-central Alaska Range an ultramafic complex forms a sill-like intrusion composed of dismembered bodies exposed along the south side of the Denali Fault and Broxson Gul

    Jan 1, 1987

  • DFI
    Case History Of The Support Of Excavation System Used At The Atlantic Building Project In Washington, DC

    By Joseph C. Gillen

    This paper discusses the design, construction, and performance of the support of excavation system used at The Atlantic Building jobsite. The support of excavation system had to be adaptable to the d

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Iron Behavior in the Hydrocoppertm Process

    By L. Haavanlammi

    Iron is a significant component of all copper concentrates leached in the HydroCopperTM process. The metals in the concentrate are leached in a chloride solution by oxidation with cupric ions. Copper

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Flowsheet Development for Thompson Ultramafic Low-Grade Nickel Ores

    By J. A. Bos, Z. Dai, P. Quinn, A. Lee

    A flowsheet is being developed for processing Thompson ultramafic low-grade nickel ores. This type of ore is characterized by high content of serpentinized magnesium silicates which generate slimes du

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Prevention of corrosion in aircraft -an overview of the evolution of materials and protective treatments

    By L. Salnais

    "Aluminum alloy structural components f or aircraft designed prior to the early 1970s, were machined from 2024, 7075 and 7079 plate, bar and forgings in either the T3xxx of the T6xxx tempers. Protecti

    Jan 1, 1988