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  • AUSIMM
    Diversity in Leadership - 'Be Free, in a Unfree World'

    Diversity; what a wonderful topic. Diversity; the condition or quality of being diverse, different, varied to the point that the very word diversity means different things to different people. As on

    Jan 1, 1996

  • IMPC
    Complex Technology Development for Processing Secondary Raw Materials of Aluminum Production for Use in the Electrolysis Process

    By E. V. Zelinskaya, A. E. Burdonov

    "In the raw aluminum production processon electrolyzers with self-baking anodes, during technological operations, flow-regulated treatment and adjustment of the electrolyte chemical composition produc

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Limestone-Nature's Gift To The Environment

    By F. A. Renninger

    Limestone and dolomite are the most common rock types mined and quarried as industrial minerals in the United States. In 1993 over 720 million tons of limestone and dolomite valued at over 3.1 billion

    Jan 1, 1995

  • CIM
    Failure Physics and its Importance in IVHM

    By Zhong Zhang, Xijia Wu, Prakash C. Patnaik

    "The integrated vehicle health management (IVHM) aims to provide life cycle management decisions for military platforms and their propulsion systems with reduced life cycle cost and increased operatio

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Interaction of dust with the DC plasma arc - a computational modelling investigation

    By Q. G. Reynolds

    The presence of dust and fume suspended in the freeboard region is a common feature of the operation of direct current (DC) plasma smelting furnaces. This occurs primarily as a result of the use of fi

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Early Development of the Theory of Froth Flotation

    By J T. Smit

    The theory of froth flotation developed slowly, in almost all cases lagging behind practical developments in the operation of flotation processes. This was largely the result of a lack of understandin

    Jan 1, 2005

  • NIOSH
    RI 3325 A Study Of Oxidation Of The Oil In Two Air-And Air-Gas-Repressuring Projects ? Introduction

    By T. W. Johnson

    One of the common methods of increasing recovery of oil from partly depleted oil sands is to inject natural gas, air, or air-gas mixtures into the sand, thereby supplying energy to move oil into the w

    Jan 1, 1937

  • AIME
    Technical Papers and Notes - Institute of Metals Division - Tensile Strength of Sintered Iron Powder as a Function of Surface Area and Particle Shape

    By S. B. Twiss, P. R. Basford

    The relationship between areas of iron powders, briquettes, and sintered compacts and tensile strength has been determined. It has been found necessary to distinguish between two types of areas which

    Jan 1, 1959

  • ISEE
    Don't Wage War in the Media, or Be Silent and Forfeit It All!

    By S D. Cummings

    "CRACKS CONCERN CORPORATION" Was the headline on the front page of the Terre Haute Tribune Star, March 1994. Having spent several years following up on blast-induced damage allegations made this artic

    Jan 1, 1995

  • CIM
    Reduced wear on mine car wheels in the Kiruna Mine

    By J. Eric Nylund

    "Intensive mechanization and automation in the LKAB, Kiruna Mine in Sweden have resulted in substantial rise in productivity and decrease in production cost. Capital investment in a modern mine today

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AIME
    37. Geology and Exploitation of Uranium Deposits in the Lisbon Valley

    By Hiram B. Woon

    Uranium ore deposits in the Lisbon Valley area are in an arcuate belt, 15 miles long by one-half-mile wide, on the southwest flank of the Lisbon Valley anticline. They range in size from 500 to 1,500,

    Jan 1, 1968

  • AUSIMM
    Change Challenges for Large Open Pit Mines

    By R Durchholz, A-J Heiertz, R Schmitz

    Mining of lignite is the largest bulk materials handling activity in Europe. In order to mine this lignite, with an average calorific value of only a third of bituminous coal in an economical way, hig

    Sep 18, 2012

  • AUSIMM
    A Review of the Coal and Iignite Resources of Western Australia

    By Wilson AC

    Permian coal from Western Australia's only producing coalfield at Collie is the dominant fuel used in generating electricity for the State's interconnected grid. Collie coal is sub-bitum

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Geologic And Geostatistical Applications To Mine Production At Inspiration (1723e282-81a7-42f4-8db5-273c2ebb6ddb)

    By James W. Clark

    This paper is a description of certain geologic aspects of the Inspiration mining operation. It is not a geologic description of the Inspiration deposit nor an exposition of all the geologic work invo

    Jan 1, 1984

  • NIOSH
    Contrasting Respirable Quartz and Kaolin Retention of Lecithin Surfactant and Expression of Membranolytic Activity Following Phospholipase A2 Digestion

    By E. D. Regad, W. E. Wallace, P. S. Mike, C. A. Hill, V. Vallyathan, M. J. Keane

    "Respirable-sized quartz, a well-established fibrogenic mineral dust, is compared with kaolin in erythrocyte hemolysis assays aher treatment with saline dispersion of dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine,

    Mar 1, 1992

  • SME
    Computerized Mine Planning In Michigan Iron Ore (PRIPRINT 94-20 )

    By A. E. Koski

    This paper will review recent developments in the area of mine planning at the Empire Mine. It illustrates how one of the largest iron mines in North America has adapted computerized mine planning to

    Jan 1, 1994

  • ISEE
    A Maximum Instantaneous Charge Map for Environmental Protection in Rock Blasting at the Serra Sul Mine (S11D)

    By Raúl Carretero de la Hoz, Leonardo Soares Chaves, João Paulo Soares Toneli, Francisco Felipe da Silva Dantas, Marcos Peres Lopes, Marcus Vinicius da Silva Gonçalves

    The mining activity results in environmental impact and thus requires the adoption of techniques to minimize its effects. The rock blasting process is required to break up and move the rock enabling t

    Jan 21, 2025

  • AUSIMM
    Diesel Particulate Matter in Underground Mines ù Controlling the Risk

    By F Djukic, T Fisher, G Irving

    Questionnaires were sent to 12 underground metalliferous mines in Queensland to enquire how these mines control diesel emissions from mobile diesel engines used underground. Where responses or control

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Sequential Excavation Method with Ground Freezing for DC Water’s First Street Tunnel

    By Stephen Njoloma, William Bracken, Harald Cordes, Ivan Hee

    "DC Water’s First Street Tunnel (FST) is part of the $2.6 billion Clean Rivers Project designed to reduce the occurrence of combined sewer overflows into local waterways. Due to flood events in the Bl

    Jan 3, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    What category cyclone is devastating your plant?

    By T G. Vizcarra, B Wong

    Optimisation projects are regularly undertaken without knowing the root cause of an issue. It is all well and good to trial a multitude of flotation reagents, change the operating characteristics of y

    Aug 29, 2018