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  • CIM
    How Ethical Funds is Engaging For Change

    By Robert Walker

    Agenda ? Investment thesis ? Engagement ? Competitive advantages Corporate engagement ?The ESG Services team carries out engagement activity with the companies in the Ethical Funds portfol

    Aug 1, 2013

  • SME
    Geologic study of gravels of the Agua Fria River, Phoenix, AZ

    By William H. Langer

    The annual consumption of sand and gravel aggregate in 2006 in the Phoenix, AZ metropolitan area was about 76 Mt (84 million st) (USGS, 2009), or about 18 t (20 st) per capita. Quaternary alluvial dep

    Jan 2, 2010

  • SME
    Producing Structural Concrete While using Mine Tailings as a Substitute for Fine Aggregate

    By J. M. Bray, R. R. H. Cohen, P. Kiousis, S. R. Al-Abed

    "INTRODUCTION Conventional tailing storage and management practices typically utilize engineered facilities, such as ring dikes and valley impoundments. To reduce the environmental costs associated wi

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Corrosion Rate Determination In Industrial Ore Grinding Environments

    By A. E. Isaacson

    Bureau of Mines researchers developed and tested equipment to measure corrosion rates on a commercial-scale mill. Bench-scale experiments were designed for duplicating ore grinding conditions closely

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Caterpillar Introduces New Product Lines at Press Days ‘96

    By William R. Yernberg

    Caterpillar introduced 21 new products during Caterpillar Press Days ‘96, held in June at the company’s proving grounds near Tucson, AZ. The event, billed as the largest product introduction ever hel

    Jan 1, 1996

  • AUSIMM
    Stacking and Reclaiming Facilities at the Thiess Bros Pty Ltd, South Blackwater Coal Mine from Conception to Operation

    By R Hoskings

    Conceptual studies of the run of mine stockpiling and reclaiming requirements commenced in 1975. Final selection of equipment was made in 1978 and the equipment was commissioned in June, 1979. Equipm

    Jan 1, 1980

  • NIOSH
    Abrasive Materials (ABRASIVE MATERIALS- 1993)

    By Gordon T. Austin

    The combined value of production of natural abrasives, which include tripoli, special silica stone, garnet, staurolite, and emery, increased in 1993. The increase in the value of tripoli production wa

    Jan 1, 1993

  • NIOSH
    Practical Application Of A Partial Cab To Reduce The A-Weighted Sound Level At The Operator’s Station On Surface Drill Rigs

    By D. K. Ingram, P. Jurovcik

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) identified hearing loss as the most common job-related disease in the United States in its 1996 National Occupational Research Agenda.

  • CIM
    Industrial Evaluation of Sonic Injection in a Peirce-Smith Converter at the Lonmin Platinum Smelter

    By G. A. Bezuidenhout, J. Davis, S. Lefume, J. P. T. Kapusta, D. K. Chibwe

    "Although the centennial of the Peirce-Smith (PS) converting process has recently been celebrated, the technology has essentially not changed much since its inception. PS converting is used extensivel

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    RI 3761 History of Water Flooding of Oil Sands in Kansas

    By Peter Grandone

    "INTRODUCTION The injection of water into partly depleted-oil-bearing formations as a means of supplying additional energy to flow oil wells now is recognized by the petroleum industry as an effective

    Jul 1, 1944

  • CIM
    Deformation and Structural Controls on Gold Mineralization in the Clarence Stream Shear Zone, Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada

    By K. G. Thorne, D. R. Lentz, A. F. Park

    "The Main zone of the Clarence Stream gold deposit is hosted by a shear zone adjacent to the Saint George batholith in southwestern New Brunswick. The mineralization history relates to progressive def

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Is your mine closure a sustainability failure? Transform your asset and create a self supporting neighbouring community. It’s as easy as ABCD!

    By K Cochrane

    Time and time again history shows us that mine closures are sustainability failures. Mine operators do not know how to turn the mine closure into an asset and communities around the mine do not know h

    Jul 25, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Mining Methods in the Waihi Mine, N.Z.

    By Johnston W. H

    MINING operations in the Waihi mine began, under the present proprietorship in the year 1889. Previous to this, and as far back as the year 1880, the presence of reefs in the Martha Hill had been know

    Jan 1, 1912

  • AIME
    An Old Mine Is Given New Life With A Modern Hoisting Plant

    By R. G. Schaal

    The Magma Mine at Superior, Arizona had an unimpressive beginning as a. worked out silver mine that was purchased in 1910 for $130,000 and then incorporated into the Magma Copper Company which has bee

    Jan 1, 1975

  • SME
    Reconciliation Wars — Who’s Data Is Right?

    By J. Best, K. Gallant

    This paper explores the age-old concept of mine-mill reconciliation from a new perspective. Advances in reconciliation processes have been slow to materialize because in the quest for “rightness”, eng

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Studies in Comparative Petrofabric Analysis: The Broken Hill Lode and its Immediate Wall Rock

    The conclusions reached by den Tex after a study of the fabric of some rocks from Broken Hill have been used to support the epigenetic hypothesis for the origin of the ore, first by Edwards (1959, p.

    Jan 1, 1962

  • AUSIMM
    The Minerals Sector and Sustainable Development in Saudi Arabia

    There is no doubt that the mining sector is considered to be the backbone of many countries. Furthermore, it has played an important role in the prosperity of nations, whether developed or developing.

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    The Program Of Ore Dilution Control In Mining At White Pine Copper Company ? Introduction

    By Chester O. Ensign

    The White Pine Mine is situated in the southwestern portion of the Keweenaw Peninsula of Upper Michigan approximately 6 miles south of Lake Superior (Fig. 1). It is east of the Porcupine Mountains in

    Jan 1, 1964

  • NIOSH
    IC 9400 Analyses Of Natural Gases, 1993

    By Stella Sigler

    This publication contains analyses and related source data for 153 natural gas samples from 16 States. Of the total samples, 149 were collected during calendar year 1993. The remainder were collected

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AUSIMM
    A New Approach to Mining Research in Canada

    By A Galley, M Plouffe, T Hynes

    Canadian mining research has recently been reinvigorated through a pan-Canadian research strategy driven by the industry, the research community and government departments. These organisations have co

    Jul 10, 2012