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  • CIM
    Molybdenite in Canada

    By H. H. Claudet

    PROBABLY the first flotation mill for treating molybdenite ores was put into operation .in Norway during 1913, when the writer was employed to introduce and apply the Elmore vacuum flotation process a

    Jan 1, 1944

  • AUSIMM
    The Sams Creek Peralkaline Granite Hosted Gold Deposit, Northwest Nelson, New Zealand ù A New Variant on Alkaline Intrusion-Related Gold Deposits

    By K Faure

    At Sams Creek a peralkaline granite porphyry dyke hosts gold-bearing sulfide-quartz-siderite veins. The granite dyke intrudes Ordovician-Silurian metapelite and quartzite, and has thin lamprophyre dyk

    Jan 1, 2004

  • CIM
    Industrial Development in British Columbia Past, Present, and Future

    By J. C. Ingram

    IT SEEMS particularly appropriate that, in celebrating its Diamond Anniversary, the Canadian Institute of Mining and Metalturgy chose our Province of British Columbia as its locale in this, our own Ce

    Jan 1, 1958

  • ISEE
    Use of Electric Field Measurement and a Weather Data Service for Lightning Warning at the US Bureau of Mines' Pittsburgh Research Center

    By Lon D. Santis

    This paper describes a lightning warning system (LWS) in operation at the U.S. Bureau of Mines' (USBM) Pittsburgh Research Center (PRC) from December, 1989 to April, 1991. An electric field mill measu

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AIME
    Engineering Opportunities in Oriental Countries

    By John Wellington Finch

    WHAT is an engineering opportunity? To the mining .engineer the natural assumption is that the first requisite 'is a mineral deposit, but, of course, it is not so simple as that. There are at var

    Jan 1, 1924

  • SME
    Risk Management in Action—Controlling Difficult Ground by Innovation (dbc5f12b-b47f-4e14-bceb-0a19e2c07d89)

    By A. Moergeli

    The Swiss are currently building the world’s longest tunnel, the 35-mile long Gotthard Base Tunnel. At Sedrun, for the first time in tunneling, four Roadway Support Machines will drive through most di

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Canadian Asbestos In World Competition ? Introduction

    By Karl V. Lindell

    Asbestos is not the name of a distinct mineral species, but rather the commercial term applied to the fibrous form of several minerals differing widely in composition. There are some 30 known varietie

    Jan 1, 1964

  • AIME
    Diamonds In Arkansas.

    By George F. Kunz

    THE recently discovered occurrence of diamonds near Murfreesboro, Pike county, Ark., was brought to. our attention by Mr. Samuel W. Reyburn (Trustee for Messrs. C. S. Stifft, A. D. Cohn, August Zinsse

    Mar 1, 1908

  • CIM
    Coal fields of the East Kootenay region, southeastern British Columbia

    By D. A. Grieve

    "Mineable coal seams in the East Kootenay region belong to the Mist Mountain Formation of the Jurassic -Cretaceous Kootenay Group. Three structurally separate coal fields (Crowsnest, Elk Valley and Fl

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AUSIMM
    Modern Cement Manufacture in Northland

    By R Harding, T Hunt

    For the past 120 years, Portland cement manufacture has been undertaken on the shores of the Whangarei Harbour in northern New Zealand. Through a serendipitous conjunction of geo-chemistry, the argill

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2004 - Nitrogen

    By D. A. Kramer

    Ammonia, the principal source of fixed nitrogen, was produced by 16 companies at 31 plants in the United States during 2003. Fifty-five percent of U.S. ammonia production capacity was centered in Lou

    Jan 1, 2005

  • TMS
    CONSCAN, A Laser Measurement System for Furnaces which are Operating on High Temperatures

    By Oliver Zach

    To know as much as possible about the condition of the refractory material (lining thickness, slag layer, build ups, ...) in an high temperature furnace is very important due to the safety and economi

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AIME
    Research in the Steel Industry

    By John A. Mathews

    RESEARCH in the steel industry, as in other lines of manufacturing, has for its principal purpose the increasing of profits. That is what manufacturing companies are for, and all departments of the or

    Jan 1, 1921

  • AUSIMM
    The Application of Hedging in Mine Finance

    Future metal prices play a direct role in both the economic evaluation and short to medium planning of a mine scheduling sequence. It is difficult to predict with accuracy the future price of volatile

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME-ICGCM
    Application of Regional Subspace Detection to Identify Mining Related Seismicity

    By Keith D. Koper, Kris L. Pankow, Derrick J. A. Chambers, Michael K. McCarter

    "In a mining environment, high quality seismic event catalogs are often useful in interpreting local stress states and identifying areas with elevated ground control risk. Installation, operation, and

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AIME
    Pelletizing Of Various Iron Ore Concentrates And Natural Ores As Practiced By The Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company

    By Roy A. Koski

    INTRODUCTION Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Company, and its subsidiary companies, operate and manage mining, beneficiation, and pelletizing operations in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, the province of O

    Jan 1, 1977

  • CIM
    Highwall mining technology— A review of current status and design methods

    By N. R. Thote, J. L. Porathur, C. P. Verma

    Highwall mining is a highly mechanized coal mining method associated with several advantages, such as a very high production rate (approximately 3,000 t/d) and low production costs. There is no requir

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AIME
    Papres - Metal Mining - Drilling and Blasting Practice of the United States Potash Company at Carlsbad, New Mexico

    By C. A. Pierce

    Underground operations of the United States Potash Co. at its mine near Carlsbad, N.M., have been continuous since the property was opened about five years ago. Approximately one million tons of potas

    Jan 1, 1937

  • NIOSH
    RI 4704 Investigation Of The Coosa Tin Deposits Coosa County, Ala.

    By Jr. Reed

    Cassiterite was discovered in Coosa County, Ala. in 1880 by Judge John S. Bentley. Since that time intensive surface prospecting has revealed the presence of cassiterite in pegmatite bodies that occur

    Jan 1, 1950

  • CIM
    Mining Coal Under the Sea in Nova Scotia

    By Francis Gray

    Mr. F. W. Gray: It is not my intention to read my paper as it is too long, so I will touch only on the high lights. The Sydney field is the most favourable example of undersea coal mining that exists,

    Jan 1, 1927