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  • AIME
    Dean Cooley Elected President of Federated American Engineering Societies

    By AIME AIME

    MORTIMER ELWYN COOLEY, dean of the College of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Michigan, has been elected president of the American Engineering Council of the Federated American Engin

    Jan 1, 1921

  • SAIMM
    New Approach to Evaluate the TOWS Matrix and its Application in a Mining Company

    By I. Cerny, M. Vanek, J. Hubácek

    "SWOT analyses and the closely related TOWS matrix are frequent starting points for an organization to develop its strategy. The paper deals with the evaluation of the TOWS matrix and presents three n

    Dec 1, 2018

  • CIM
    Dust in British Columbia Mines

    By D. A. MacLeod

    DURING the past fourteen months, dust surveys have been made at thirty-six mines in the Province. These surveys are made to determine the concentration of dust in the mine atmosphere, the flow of air

    Jan 1, 1939

  • TMS
    A Thermodynamic Model For The Reaction Zone Of Lead Blast Furnace

    By Pengfu Tan

    A thermodynamic model has been developed to predict the distribution behaviors of Cu, Fe, S, O, Pb, Zn, As, and heat balance in a lead blast furnace. The modeling results have been validated by the pl

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME-ICGCM
    Application of Laser Scanning for Rock Mass Characterization and Discrete Fracture Network Generation in an Underground Limestone Mine

    By Juan J. Monsalve, Nino Ripepi, Richard Bishop, Jon Baggett

    "Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is a useful technology for rock mass characterization. A laser scanner produces a massive point cloud of a scanned area, such as an exposed rock surface in an undergr

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Temperature-Dependent Langmuir’s Model in the Coal and Methane Sorption Process: Statistics Relationship

    By N. Ripepi

    "The Langmuir model has been widely used for the coal-methane sorption process via an isothermal test. However, even though the temperature-dependent Langmuir model were recognized theoretically and e

    Jan 1, 2016

  • IMPC
    Breakup And Re-Formation Of Bubble Clusters In A Flotation Cell

    By Z. Chen

    This study is concerned with the behavior of bubble clusters in a well-controlled turbulent flow. We used a specially designed cell where the bubble aggregates could be formed and exposed to breakage

    Sep 1, 2012

  • TMS
    Model Studies of Heat Transfer and Flow in Slag-Cleaning Furnaces

    By S. Kang, D. G. C. Robertson

    Slag cleaning furnaces require extensive wall cooling because they involve the use of a superheated slag bath. This is in direct contrast to smelting furnaces, where the wall is usually (but not alway

    Jan 1, 1999

  • ISEE
    How Complexity Analysis contributes to blasting practice

    By Marilena Cardu, Mauricio Dompiri, Jacopo Seccatore

    Blasting in geological bodies is an industrial process acting in an environment characterized by high uncertainties (natural joints, faults, voids, abrupt structural changes), which are transposed int

    Jan 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    RI 7548 Preparing Copper Powder From Cemented Copper

    By R. D. Groves

    Techniques were developed for preparing metallurgical-grade copper powder from industrially produced cement copper. Flotation was used for rejecting discrete gangue particles, acid leaching to remove

    Jan 1, 1971

  • ISEE
    HMX Based Electronic Initiation System for Blasting in High Temperature Ground and/or Extremely Reactive Ground Phase 2 – Blasting Campaign in Western USA

    By Karl Dufresne

    Blasting in geothermally high temperature ground and/or extremely reactive ground is an increasing common challenge for surface and underground mines. Many current PETN based non-electric and electron

    Jan 21, 2025

  • AIME
    Reminiscences of Robert H. Richards - Anaconda Round Table, The Wilfley Table and the Ten-spigot Classifier

    By AIME AIME

    WHEN I was getting data for my books on ore dressing, I traveled across the continent, visiting a great many mills, always accompanied by my vanning shovel, and I got to be a joke among the millmen. T

    Jan 1, 1934

  • AUSIMM
    The Approval of a Gold Mine in the Solomon Islands ù Environmental Planning Issues

    The Gold Ridge Mine is an open-cut gold mine in the Solomon Islands. The mine is owned and operated by Gold Ridge Mining Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Ross Mining NL. At the invitation of the

    Jan 1, 1999

  • NIOSH
    RI 6721 Lurgi-Gasifier Tests Of Pittsburgh-Bed Coal

    By W. H. Oppelt

    Two exploratory gasification tests of limited duration were made at Dorsten, Germany, with strongly coking Pittsburgh-bed coal in a fixed-bed pressure gasifier. To reduce the coking potential of the A

    Jan 1, 1966

  • AUSIMM
    Trends in real‐time instrumentation and monitoring techniques for tailings dams

    By L Clarkson, D Williams, P Redcliffe, F van der Wal

    This research presents a snapshot and insight into the trends, patterns, and common considerations identified in the current standing of real-time tailings dam monitoring practice. Based primarily on

    Jul 1, 2021

  • SME
    Domestic Fluorspar Developments And Outlook

    By Wm. I. Weisman

    Sometimes in assessing where we are and where we are going it is informative to take a look at where we have been. Whether or not it adds to our understanding of the present, I think it may be interes

    Jan 1, 1978

  • NIOSH
    RI 6078 Studies Of Magnesium Alloys For Use At Moderate Temperatures

    By R. L. Crosby

    From studies of wrought magnesium alloys containing rare-earth elements, data are presented on the mechanical properties of the alloys at room temperature and at temperatures of 100°, 200°, and 300° C

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SME
    Application Of Grace Umbrella Technique To Processing Of Phosphate Rock

    By Phil W. Welch

    At first glance, the similarity between the fine grinding of cement clinker and coarse grinding done in other mineral processing industries may seem remote. However, it is interesting to note that the

    Jan 1, 1975

  • CIM
    Hydraulic Fracturing of Large Igneous Rock Samples under Triaxial Compression

    By M. Feinendegen, Ph. Siebert, C. Clauser, K. Willbrand, M. Ziegler

    "Three institutes of RWTH Aachen University collaborate on laboratory tests and numerical simulations of hydraulically driven fractures in igneous rocks. The project´s target is to enhance the underst

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    The Mine Haul Road Optimisation Alliance - An Industry and Academia Collaboration

    "The Mine Haul Road Optimization Alliance is an Australian industry-academia collaboration which has been developed to support mine haul road operators by fully integrating mine road design research s

    Jan 1, 2016