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  • SME
    Using the K.I.S.S. principle in ventilation modeling

    By T. R. Paquin

    Powerful, easy to manipulate, ventilation modeling software is readily available to most mining engineers. Too often when preparing an initial ventilation model, engineers will go overboard in their d

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Altered Mining Extraction Sequence and Rock Mass Response in Vale 402 OB at Creighton Mine

    By Denis Thibodeau

    his paper describes a study of an altered mining extraction and the resulting Rockmass response at VALE?s Creighton Mine. Typically, the deep mining zones have strict stope extraction guidelines to

    May 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    Analysis of Electrostatic Separation for Rutile Cleaning Duty Using a Plate Electrode Assisted High Tension Roll Separator

    Analysis of Electrostatic Separation for Rutile Cleaning Duty Using a Plate Electrode Assisted High Tension Roll Separator A plate assisted electrostatic high tension roll separator has been used for

    Sep 13, 2010

  • NIOSH
    Continuous Miner Spray Considerations For Optimizing Scrubber Performance In Exhaust Ventilation Systems

    By John Organiscak

    A majority of continuous mining machines employ a water spray system and a machine mounted flooded-bed scrubber to suppress and capture dust during coal mining. These machine mounted dust control syst

    Jan 1, 2010

  • NIOSH
    IC 7512 A Reconnaissance of Lode Mines and Prospects in the Bohemia Mining District, Lane and Douglas Counties, Oreg

    By John W. Taber

    The Bohemia mining district is a small but intensely mineralized area in western Oregon . For its size , it has made a substantial although somewhat sporadic production of gold throughout a long perio

    Aug 1, 1949

  • CIM
    Temporal Observations of the Geochemistry and Mineralogy of a Sulfide-rich Mine-tailings Impoundment, Heath Steele Mines, New Brunswick

    By J. L. Jambor, E. J. Reardon, E. C. Appleyard, J. A. Cherry

    Since the 1957 initiation of deposition of mill tailings at the Heath Steele mine, New Brunswick, periodic detailed studies of the tailings geochemistry and mineralogy have been conducted, thereby pro

    Jan 1, 1992

  • NIOSH
    RI 3585 Carbon Monoxide And Particulate Matter In Air Of Holland Tunnel And Metropolitan New York - Introduction

    By W. P. Yant

    This report describes result of a study of the carbon monoxide and particulate matter in the air of the Holland, Tunnel and metropolitan New York made by the Bureau of Mines (which had participated in

    Jan 1, 1941

  • SME
    Design Considerations For A High Tonnage Counter Current Decantation (CCD) Thickener Plant

    By D. Anthony, R. A. Williams, R. Raponi

    Barrick Gold Corporation in conjunction with SNC Lavalin Engineers and Constructors have developed basic engineering design for counter current decantation thickener (CCD) plants capable of processing

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ABM
    Otimização De Protocolo De Preparação De Amostras Em Laboratório De Análises Físicas

    By Flávia Guimarães Rocha Godinho Campos Vargas

    Amostragem pode ser definida como a sequência de operações que visam retirar do todo (lote) uma parcela (amostra) que conserve as propriedades de interesse do lote. O menor erro possível em um protoco

    Aug 17, 2017

  • DFI
    Urban Legends: Two Case Studies That Redefine "Impossible"

    By Grant R. J. Bearss

    Due to environmental concerns in urban construction, many typically simple projects become very complex or feasibly impossible. The introduction of relatively new concepts has redefined "impossible",

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    How Should Mining Companies Select the Optimal Portfolio of Production Projects Considering the Risk of their NPV

    By Júlio C. Lúcio

    Consider the case of a mining company with N investment opportunities in projects of different commodities. The problem is: since the company has limitation of capital, equipments, technical staffs, e

    May 1, 2009

  • AIME
    Annual Meeting of Petroleum Geologists

    THE twelfth annual meeting of the American Asso-ciation of Petroleum Geologists will be held in Tulsa, Okla., on March 24 to 26, at the Mayo Hotel. The per-sonnel of the committee on arrangements for

    Jan 2, 1927

  • SME
    Surface Force Measurements Between Precious Metals Under Controlled Potential Conditons

    Many investigators measured surface forces between hydrophobic macroscopic surfaces using atomic force microscope (AFM). Some investigators observed long-range attractions and attributed them to the p

    Jan 1, 2012

  • ISEE
    Design of Large-Scale Choked Destress Blasts in Mine Pillars Using the Empirical Destressability Index Methodology

    By Richard Brummer, John Hadjigeorgiou, Patrick Andrieux

    Some of the major challenges associated with underground mining at depth and/or under high extraction ratios are related to the resulting high stress levels, which can lead to the failure and collapse

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    RI 9433 - Rock Mechanics Investigations at the Lucky Friday Mine (In Three Parts)

    By M. P. Board, J. K. Whyatt, T. J. Williams

    The U.S. Bureau of Mines has been conducting a series of rock mechanics investigations at the Lucky Friday Mime in the Coeur d'Alene Mining District of northern Idaho. In the present study, the e

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Drill & Blast Optimization in India an Economic & Environmental Review

    By C. Navalkar

    Systematic drilling & blasting techniques are currently being viewed in the mining & construction industry as a correct 8z scientific approach for optimization process in rock excavation, as drill & b

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    The Need For Innovation In Arid Land Reclamation

    By S. Grogan

    Next year marks the tenth anniversary of the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA). As the U.S. coal industry scrambles to cope with serious economic difficulties, it is appropriate to ex

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AIME
    Personnel Service (e7a218ca-8836-4725-9b66-8a43b9fdf5c3)

    THE following employment items are made available to AIME members on a nonprofit basis by the Engineering Societies Personnel Service, Inc , operating in cooperation with the Four Founder Societies Lo

    Jan 1, 1952

  • AIME
    PART IV - Mass- and Heat-Transfer Phenomena in the Reduction of Cupric Oxide by Hydrogen

    By J. C. Yannopoulos, N. J. Themelis

    Ah electronic thermogravirnetric balance was used to measure the veductioiz rule o single cirpric oxide particles suspended in a stream of hydrogen. Very jzne thermocouples embedded in lie center and

    Jan 1, 1967

  • AIME
    PART IV - The Solubility of Nitrogen in Liquid Fe-Ni-Co Alloys

    By Robert D. Pehlke, Robert G. Blossey

    The solubility of nitrogen in liquid binary and ternary Fe-Ni-Co alloys has been measured by the Sieverts' method between 1550°and 1700°C. Solubility data and standard free energzes and enthalpie

    Jan 1, 1967