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  • NIOSH
    Simulations of Dust Dispersion for a Coal Mine Face Using a Scale Model

    By T. H. Ueng, S. D. Thompson, Y. J. Wang

    "INTRODUCTION There is considerable interest among mining companies and government agencies in finding new ways to better control the generation and dispersion of respirable coal dust. Mine face venti

    Mar 1, 1989

  • CIM
    Cyanide Destruction (Gold Mill Effluents)

    By C. J. Edmonds

    Of the gold mined in Canada over 90 percent is extracted from the ore by the process of "cyanidation". In this process crushed ore is treated with lime to provide "protective alkalinity" and cyanide,

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    Methods Of On-Stream Analysis

    By S. K. Kawatra

    In this paper three methods of on-stream analysis 1) Radiometric techniques, 2) X-ray tube techniques and 3) Neutron activation method are reviewed. Advantages and disadvantages of each method are dis

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME-ICGCM
    Strata Movement of Protective Seam Mining with Large Interburden ?? A Case Study

    By Changsheng Song

    With increasing depth of coal mining in China, the number of coal and gas outbursts has been increasing for years. By means of destressing the protective seam, the gas in the protected seam is drained

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Identification Of Noise Sources On Longwall Panels Using Multiple Time-Synchronized Dosimeters (29ca0bb5-2d84-41df-acdc-84917631e72e)

    By D. Babich, L. Alcorn, E. Spencer, A. Smith

    Noise is one of the most pervasive health hazards in mining. A compilation of Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) noise survey data for Fiscal year 1990 shows that approximately 40% of the t

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AIME
    Registration of Engineers

    By B. B. Gottsberger

    IT SEEMS strange that so many years after the pas¬sage of the first acts requiring registration or licensing of engineers, so few members of the mining branch of the profession are aware of what has t

    Jan 1, 1921

  • TMS
    Motivating Sustainable Material Use through Industry-Level Simulation Modeling of Platinum Stocks and Flows

    By Elisa Alonso

    Manufacturing firms that rely on finite resources have a stake in ensuring sustainable materials use. Higher material prices and uncertain material supply, consequences associated with scarcity, can b

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Crystallex’s Las Cristinas Gold Project (7d5d7696-3ce9-4e3a-a905-204bcf9d3fae)

    By J. R. Goode

    "The Las Cristinas deposit contains about 10.2 million ounces of gold at a grade of 1.3 g/t. The deposit comprises a layer of fully oxidized saprolite (SAPO), a layer of sulphide-enriched saprolite (S

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    The Use Of Boron In Hydrogen Storage

    By D. M. Schubert

    As a clean and renewable energy carrier, hydrogen is an important component of most alternative energy portfolios. Hydrogen combines very high energy content by weight with excellent environmental at

    Jan 1, 2010

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - Creep Fracture of Thoriated Nickel (TN)

    By B. A. Wilcox, A. H. Clauer

    DURING the course of an investigation on the high-temperature creep behavior of TD Nickel* (Ni + 2) vol pct ThO2), it was observed that the creep fractures were similar in appearance to low-tempera

    Jan 1, 1965

  • TMS
    Roller Presses For Secondary Metal Recycling

    By Dr. -Ing. Wolfgang Pietsch

    Many primary metallurgical wastes are in the sh.-ape of turnings; borings, chips, dusts, and other particuletes. While such. materials can be easily segregated and/or upgraded to yield high quality ?s

    Jan 1, 1995

  • CIM
    Thompson Mill MgO Rejection

    By Johnna Muinonen

    "The Thompson Mill processes ores from the Thompson and Birchtree Mines. While the Thompson ore has very little magnesium containing gangue, the Birchtree orebody consists of veins of massive sulphide

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Continued Process Improvements at Campbell Mine

    By Ken Norris

    "Campbell Mine which has been in continuous operation since 1949 has undergone numerous operational changes in the past 3 years. This paper describes the process changes which have occurred at the Cam

    Jan 1, 1994

  • CIM
    Modified Stability Graph Method with a new Rock Stress Factor

    The Stability Graph Method is widely used in Canadian underground hard rock mines for open stope support design and is frequently used in the mine planning phase to assess the viability of stope geome

    May 1, 2011

  • AIME
    Drilling and Producing – Equipment, Methods, and Materials - Effectiveness of Gun Perforating

    By T. O. Allen, J. H. Atterbury

    Laboratory and field tests during the past five years indicated considerable variation in the penetrating power of commercially available gun perforators. Many of the guns which achieved inadequate pe

    Jan 1, 1955

  • AIME
    Coal Division Has Interesting Sessions

    By C. M. Smith

    PILOTED by Cadwallader, Evans, Jr., as chairman, the Coal Division got under way Monday morning for the first of three consecutive sessions. N. F. Patton started the ball rolling with a paper on the e

    Jan 1, 1935

  • SME
    Technology News - Impoundment Project Protects West Virginia Citizens

    Breaks in coal slurry impoundments can threaten the lives and health of area residents, destroy homes and businesses and contaminate water supplies. This dangerous potential looms over coalmining reg

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    A New Tool for Sag Hardness Testing

    By Glenn Kosick, John Starkey, Glenn Dobby

    "A practical new test has been developed for SAG hardness determination. Using two kilogram samples of minus one inch diamond drill core or crushed muck samples, the Starkey SAG Test has been shown to

    Jan 1, 1994

  • CIM
    Precious-Metal-Bearing Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits, Campo Morado, Guerrero, Mexico

    By Robert Cluff

    The Campo Morado precious-metal-bearing, volcanogenic massive sulphide district occurs in a Lower Cretaceous felsic volcanic sequence in a northerly trending belt in the Guerrero Terrane in northeaste

    May 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Design & Development of the Barmac Rotopactor

    By Bryan A. Bartley

    "Jim Macdonald was promoted from Waterworks Engineer to Streetworks Engineer for the Wellington City Council. He thus took over the City quarry and responsibility for its performance. The crushing pla

    Jan 1, 1985