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  • SME
    Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) investigation of impacts of an obstruction on airflow in underground mines - SME Transactions 2012

    By L. Zhou, A. Martikainen, G. Goodman

    Continuous airflow monitoring can improve the safety of the underground work force by ensuring the uninterrupted and controlled distribution of mine ventilation to all working areas. Air velocity meas

    Jan 1, 2012

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division Program Has Large and Interested Audiences

    By E. A. Anderson

    THIS seems to be the year for superlatives in A.I.M.E. meetings. The programs of the various Divisions and Institute committees offered an abundance of interesting and valuable information in the form

    Jan 1, 1944

  • AIME
    Drilling Selection Requires Value Judgments - Principles Of Drilling

    The selection of a particular machine for production drilling is the most critical drill evaluation the pit engineer is called upon to make. It is a true engineering design problem requiring value jud

    Jan 10, 1967

  • SME
    Forecasting Rapid Excavation Demands In The Urban Sector

    By Richard Newcomb

    Since the report of the 1972 Rapid Excavation Conference in the city of Chicago, speculation has continued concerning the estimates of tunneling demand. Little has been published that would persuade m

    Jan 1, 1974

  • AIME
    Recent Outstanding Developments in the Non-metallic Mineral Industries

    By Oliver Bowles

    THE most important non-metallic mineral industries from a tonnage standpoint are those that are allied with the construction industries and are engaged in handling sand and gravel, crushed stone, buil

    Jan 1, 1930

  • NIOSH
    IC 9103 Uranium Occurrences In The Northern Darby Mountains, Seward Peninsula, AK

    By Jeffrey Y. Foley

    In 1980, the Bureau of Mines investigated the northern Darby Mountains on the Seward Peninsula, AK, for radioactive mineral deposits. Uranium is concentrated in silicified shear zones in biotite quart

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AIME
    The Rôle and Fate of the Connate Water in Oil and Gas Sands*

    By E. W. Shaw

    Continued discussion of the paper of Roswell H. JOHNSON, presented at the New York meeting, February, 1915, and printed in Bulletin No. 98, February, 1915, pp. 221 to 226. See also Bulletin No. 101, M

    Jan 7, 1915

  • AIME
    The Effect of High Litharge in the Crucible-Assay for Silver

    By Richard W. Lodge

    Ix the crucible-method of assaying ores for silver a certain amount of litharge is essential to supply sufficient lead to collect the precious metals. The object of this paper is to point out that the

    Sep 1, 1907

  • TMS
    Mineralogical and Compositional Variations of the Nickel-Cobalt Mineralization in the Southeast Missouri Mining District

    By David R. Jessey

    An ore microscopic and geochemical study of the nickel-cobalt occurrence in the Southeast Missouri Mining District has revealed several significant relationships. Siegenite [(Ni,Co)3S4] is the dominan

    Jan 1, 1981

  • AIME
    Cleveland Paper - The Alundum Extraction-Thimble Used in the Determination of Copper

    By L. W. Bahney

    The photograph, Fig. 1, shows the apparatus a little less than half size, consisting of a filtering-flask fitted with rubber stopper through which passes a bent glass tube, and an extraction-thimble f

    Jan 1, 1913

  • SME
    Grinding and flotation optimization using operational intelligence (Mining Engineering )

    By O. A. Bascur

    In recent years, metal-producing companies have increased their investment in automation and technological innovation, embracing new opportunities to enable transformational change. Transformation to

  • CIM
    Canada's Newest Asbestos Producer -Advotote Mines limited

    By J R. M Hutcheson

    Advocate Mines Limited came into initial production on June 30, 1963, with an annual capacity in excess of 60,000 tons of high-quality chrysotile asbestos fihres, thus strengthening Canada's posi

    Jan 1, 1965

  • CIM
    Automatic Anode Setting at Albras

    By L. S. Almeida, U. A. Courbassier, C. T. Guimãaraes, M. N. Souza, V. L. Silva, H. P. Dias, G. A. Bicalho, B. S. Rocha, P. N. Rodrigues, A. Carnevale

    During primary aluminum production the anode changing is a very important task. So improvements on it will be essential to avoid disturbance and have a better operational control. After anode changing

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Port Inland Operations

    By J. E. Brownhill

    This paper does not deal with the typical start-up issues of equipment, production capacity or work force. This is a description of the challenges faced and the changes made by the project team to bri

    Jan 1, 1994

  • IIMP
    Despacho Remoto. Control y Monitoreo de Flota de Carguío y Acarreo fuera de Mina

    By Erik Pérez, Emanuel De la Cruz

    El Despacho Remoto es un sistema de Control y Monitoreo de Flota operado desde el hogar, Implementado por Antamina, que permite a los operadores de despacho monitorear y controlar los equipos de cargu

    Sep 30, 2022

  • AIME
    Minerals Beneficiation - Cananea's Program for Leaching in Place

    By R. C. Weed

    LEACHING in place at Cananea began in the 1920's on a limited scale. The first plants were small wooden boxes located underground in the Capote and Oversight mines, and output was low. Scrap iron

    Jan 1, 1957

  • SME
    Baffled-Column Flotation Of A Coal Plant Fine-Waste Stream (c115aacc-9fc7-435d-b4fa-d86803716a49)

    By S. K. Kawatra

    It is common in coal-cleaning operations to produce a fine waste stream which contains a considerable amount of coal, but which is not economical to recover both because it is mixed with large amounts

    Jan 1, 1994

  • DFI
    Diaphragm Walls for Infrastructure Projects how to Deal with Complex Demands?

    By Franz-Werner Gerressen, Manfred Schoepf

    "Diaphragm walls are known as underground structural elements commonly used as retention systems for excavation pits and shafts and permanent foundation walls or elements. It can be anticipated that,

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Unresolved Problems In Thickener Design And Theory

    By Bryant Fitch

    This paper will review thickening theory, from the ( ) of the practicing engineer, with particular emphasis on ( ) uncertainty or disagreement. It will attempt to outline broadly what we know

    Jan 1, 1971

  • AUSIMM
    Rethinking variogram modelling

    By A Boucher, M Baudin, P Androszczuk, I Minniakhmetov, A Rigby, P Machado, M Wright, B Van Dijken

    IGO Ltd’s (IGO’s) Nova Operation (Nova), which is 160 km east-north-east of the town of Norseman in Western Australia (WA), mines and processes nickel-copper-cobalt (Ni-Cu-Co) sulfide ore from the mag

    Mar 22, 2022