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  • SAIMM
    Spotlight ? INFACON 7 ? Trondheim, Norway, June 1995

    By N. A. Barcza

    INFACON 7, the seventh International Ferro Alloys Congress, took place in Trondheim, Norway, in June 1995. The main aim of the Congress, which was held under the auspices of Euroalliages and the Norw

    Jan 1, 1996

  • CIM
    Difficult Mining Conditions in 153 Orebody at a Depth of 4550 ft at Vale Inco?s Coleman Mine

    Vale Inco?s Coleman Mine 153 Orebody is a narrow vein deposit with a dip that varies from 30 to 70 degrees. It has a strike length of 1200-feet and the current mining extends from the 4250 level to 51

    May 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Lamella Thickener Performance in Potash Refining (eda27180-f1f6-4ab3-854e-c986b2a1249d)

    By Douglas M. Smith, G. A. Maki

    "The initial development of the massive potash deposits of the prairie evaporite formation took place over a decade ending in 1970. The potash mining and refining facility near Rocanvi11e, Saskatchewa

    Jan 1, 1983

  • IMMS
    Shallow-Marine Gold Mineralization In The Lihir Island Area, Papua New Guinea

    By Peter M. Herzig

    In 1994 and 1998 the German research vessel R/V Sonne undertook detailed mapping and sampling of the largely uncharted offshore areas of the Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni island chain in the New Ireland Basi

    Jan 1, 1998

  • NIOSH
    RI 4285 Measurement Of Coking Pressure In A Small Laboratory Oven

    By B. W. Naugle

    A small-scale laboratory coke oven similar to those described by Swiniarski, Cryan, and Altieri and Fuchs, Sandhoff, Taylor, and Gauger was built by the Bureau of Mines in 1943. Tests made since that

    Jan 1, 1948

  • NIOSH
    RI 3475 Hazard Of Mercury Vapor In Analytical Petroleum Laboratories ? Introduction

    By C. F. McCarroll

    [Laboratory research and, control in the production an. utilization of petroleum and it 3 products have expanded greatly during the past decade, and much of the routine control and experimental equipm

    Jan 1, 1939

  • SME
    Consequences Of The Forest Service Cercla Action At Mansfield Canyon

    By R. M. Corn

    The Non-Time Critical Forest service CERCLA Action at Mansfield Canyon, Santa Cruz County, Arizona designated previous locators of unpatented mining claims as owners/operators of the Hazardous Waste F

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Leadership Versus Management: Observations On The Successes And Failures Of Cost Reduction Programs

    By B. Cavender

    Mining managers trying to rapidly reduce production costs tend to implement a traditional set of top-down managerial practices: layoffs of employees, renegotiation of supplier contracts, cancellation

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    An Industry Perspective on the Current US Metal Mining Engineering Education - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Leping Liu, Li‑Ting Chen, Sachin Urade, Pengbo Chu

    Mining industry requires constant adaptation to its practices in response to the dynamic change of the societal demand. Little information exists regarding how the US metal mining engineering educatio

    Jun 26, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Violent Rupture of Mid-Crustal Barriers by Fluidised Breccia (Cloncurry Fe-Oxide-Cu-Au District, Australia): Implications for Cu-Au Mineralisation and Kimberlites

    By L R. Marshall, M J. Rubenach, T G. Blenkinsop, J S. Cleverley

    The source and transport regions of fluidised (transported) breccias outcrop in the Cloncurry Fe-oxide-Cu-Au district, providing insights into the origins of other fluidised magmatic-hydrothermal brec

    Jan 1, 2005

  • NIOSH
    Analysis Of Practical Ground Control Issues In Highwall Mining

    By R. Karl Zipf, Suresh Bhatt

    Highwall mining is an important coal mining method. It appears that upwards of 60 highwall miners are presently in operation, and they may account for approximately 4% of total U.S. coal production.

  • NIOSH
    New Tools To Monitor Personal Exposure To Respirable Coal Mine Dust

    The compliance sampling method for coal mine dust in the United States has not changed appreciably in the last 30 years. A call for more frequent sampling with immediately available results is leadin

  • DFI
    Issues In The Performance-Based Seismic Evaluation Of Sheet Pile Quay Walls

    By Dimitris Pachakis

    In this paper, the authors give a brief overview of the current practice guidelines and tools for the seismic design of sheet pile quay walls, emphasizing how the design guidelines are lacking when th

    Jan 1, 2011

  • TMS
    Progress In Converting And Casting

    By Theo Lehner

    Turning matte into anodes continues to be an area to watch: for visitors to see pyrometallurgy in action; for metallurgists to keep up with modern smelting furnaces and ever increasing production rate

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    Acidic Effluents, Their Production and Characteristics

    By C. C. Walden, A. Bruynesteyn

    "Chemical and biological aspects of the formation of acidic effluents from sulfide waste materials are discussed. Test procedures to determine the acid producing potential of waste materials, as well

    Jan 1, 1980

  • CIM
    Introduction to the Meliadine Project

    By M. Gaumont, F. Robichaud

    "Agnico Eagle Mines Limited (AEM) is a Canadian-based gold producer with operations in Canada, Finland and Mexico. In 2010, AEM produced its first gold bar in Nunavut, Canada as it started its Meadowb

    Jan 1, 2016

  • CIM
    Mining at Depth

    "Many underground mines are achieving extended life and optimizing existing facilities by mining at greater depths. The challenges to do this require a sound engineering approach to mine design and mi

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Auburn Furnace Services

    By R. S. McDonald

    Auburn began operations 40 years ago with an office in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, to provide services to Inco Limited. Over the next 40 years, operations expanded considerably, with projects being und

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Sintering technologies of sinter mixtures containing high proportions of magnetite concentrates

    By H Han, L Lu

    Due to the international depletion of reserves of traditional high-grade iron ore, the ore resources available throughout the world, especially in steel mills in East Asia, have changed drastically fr

    Jul 24, 2017

  • SAIMM
    Modular Mixer-Settlers for SXPlant Sustainability

    By Henri Fredriksson, Rami Saario, Mark Weatherseed, Juri Matinheikki

    "The challenges facing the mining industry include complex ores and declining grades, together with increasing capital costs and environmental regulations. In addition, future commodity price uncertai

    Jan 1, 2015