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  • CIM
    Starting Koala North — North America’s first underground diamond mine (3411bd0a-cb31-4972-a1b8-9d78990f23d8)

    By P. Harvey

    "Following initial discovery in 1991, BHP Billiton Diamonds Inc. opened Canada’s first diamond mine, the EKATI Diamond Mine (EKATI) in the Northwest Territories on October 14, 1998. Four short years l

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    Phakisa Number 3 Ventilation Shaft Rehabilitation Project

    By S. Deonarain, L. S. Schultz

    "This paper details the process and methodology followed to rehabilitate a rectangular ventilation shaft, situated in the Free State region of the Witwatersrand Gold Fields in South Africa. The shaft

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Front End Loaders -Trends In Mining

    By L. M. Yokum

    Tremendous strides have been made in front end loaders in the last fifteen years. Fifteen years ago a 2; cubic yard front end loader was the largest standard machine you could purchase. Today there ar

    Jan 1, 1972

  • AUSIMM
    Monitoring Design and Data Management for a Multiwell CO2 Storage/Enhanced Coalbed Methane Test in a Stacked Coal Reservoir, Buchanan County, Virginia, USA

    By S J. Schafrik, C Keles, C Schlosser, E S. Gilliland, A K. Louk, N S. Ripepi, S Keim, J Amante, E Diminick

    Three legacy coalbed methane production wells have been converted to injection wells for a one-year carbon dioxide (CO2) injection test to evaluate the potential for CO2 storage in the coal reservoir

    Nov 4, 2015

  • TMS
    Nickel and Copper Smelting at Inco's Copper Cliff Smelter

    By C. Landolt

    Inco's Copper Cliff Smelter Complex produces some 11 5,000 tonnes per year of nickel and 120,000 tonnes per year of copper. The Smelter flowsheet has changed a number of times over the years. The

    Jan 1, 1993

  • CIM
    Aluminum Ships: Myths and Facts

    By T. Lamb

    There are many honor stories about aluminum in the marine environment and many are not based on facts, so they are myths. Myths must be addressed before progress can be made. This paper attempts to di

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Cryogenic Air Supply for Cooling Built-in-Place Refuge Alternatives in Hot Mine Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration - Springer

    By Miguel Reyes, Bruce Whisner, Joseph Bickson, Lincan Yan, David Yantek, Justin Srednicki, Nicholas Damiano, Eric Bauer

    Built-in-place (BIP) refuge alternatives (RAs) are designed to provide a secure space for miners who cannot escape during a mine emergency. Heat and humidity buildup within RAs may expose miners to ph

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 157 Innovations in the Metallurgy of Lead

    By Oliver C. Ralston, Dorsey A. Lyon

    The data reported in this bulletin are largely the result of experiments conducted by the Salt Lake City station of the Bureau of Mines in cooperation with the department of metallurgical research of

    Jan 1, 1918

  • SME
    Recent Developments For Longwall Roof Support Design And Control

    By V 9. 0 / 300 dpi

    In the time period from the early 1980's to the present, longwall roof support technology has evolved tremendously. Chock supports and caliper shields were replaced by 2-leg or 4-leg lemniscate s

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Health and Safety

    By L. S. Hansen

    Organized efforts toward the prevention of injuries and occupational diseases have been of comparatively recent origin in the mining industry, dating generally from the beginning of this century. Mini

    Jan 1, 1973

  • TMS
    Performance Evaluation, Technical and Environmental Aspects of Biomass Cookstoves: An Exergy Approach

    By Kunwar Pal, S. K. Tyagi, A. K. Pandey

    "This study deals with the performance evaluation, technical and environmental aspects of different cookstove models (NIRE-02, NIRE-03 & NIRE-04). These cookstove models were designed, fabricated and

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Trends In Mine Hoist Selection And Utilization

    By K J. Kidd

    There is general understanding of hoisting systems throughout the mining industry. However, the relative importance of the various parameters influencing hoist selection and utilization is not complet

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    The Application of Safescape Ladders at the Cracow and Golden Grove Operations

    By B Hawkins, S Durkin, V Lawrence

    The requirement for secondary egress from underground workings has long been regulated in Australia. Escape way systems have evolved from simple airleg rising ladders and timber ladders to steel galva

    Mar 24, 2014

  • TMS
    Cost Effective Cleaner Technology for Upgrading Zinc Quality

    By P. M. Tait, N. A. Warner

    "The refining of thermally produced zinc is currently performed using a highly energy intensive and arguably outmoded process, distilling zinc under atmospheric pressure at temperatures of 900°C to 10

    Jan 1, 1998

  • TMS
    Synthesis of Stabilized Potassium Ferrate and its Applications in Water Treatment

    By Nathalie Neveux

    For the first time, dehydrated ferrous sulfate was successfully used for the dry synthesis of potassium ferrate. In addition, ferrate ion is stabilized as a solid solution where hexavalent iron is par

    Jan 1, 1999

  • NIOSH
    Government Actions And The Mineral Industry (35aa520d-3a97-490d-bb46-c0b92558a58c)

    New Trade Status for Mainland China--On January 24, the Congress approved a most-favored-nation trade status with Mainland China for both imports and exports. A Presidential Proclamation had been issu

    Jan 1, 1980

  • TMS
    The Formulation and Use of Mixed Collectors in Sulphide Flotation—Valuable Performance Gains

    By O. Norman Lotter

    The formulation and use of mixed collector suites in sulphide flotation can be traced back as far as 1957 with the work of Glembottskii and his co-workers in Moscow. The subject was reviewed by Lotter

  • NIOSH
    RI 5283 Synthetic Mica Investigations, VIII: The Manufacture Of Fluor-Phlogopite By The Internal Electric-Resistance Melting Process ? Summary

    By R. A. Hatch

    The United States depends mainly on foreign imports, principally India, for an adequate supply of sheet mica suitable for its many uses in the electrical and electronics industries. Sheet mica has, in

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    RI 9544 - Ten-Cycle Bench-Scale Study Of Simplified Clay-Hydrogen Chloride Process For Alumina Production

    By D. E. Shanks

    This U.S. Bureau of Mines (USBM) research simplified an earlier hydrogen chloride (HCI) leach-sparge process developed by the USBM to recover reduction-grade alumina from domestic kaolin clay. Improve

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Investigation of the Source Mechanisms of Mining Induced Seismic Events at Kloof Gold Mine, South Africa - RASIM 2022

    By Musa D. Manzi, Raymond J. Durrheim, Richard T. Masethe

    An investigation into the source mechanism of mining-induced seismic activity plays a vital role in understanding the various modes of failure observed in the underground deep-level South African mini

    Apr 26, 2022