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  • SME
    A Field Survey of Rare Earth Element Concentrations in Process Streams Produced by Coal Preparation Plants in the Eastern USA Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Gerald H. Luttrell, Mohammad Rezaee, Roe-Hoan Yoon, Rick Q. Honaker, Aaron Noble, Abhijit Bhagavatula, Michael J. Kiser

    A field study was undertaken to experimentally measure the concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs) contained in the process streams generated by a group of 20 coal preparation plants located in t

  • SME
    Gravity Concentration of Chromite Fines

    By N. Duru

    "Gravity concentration is still a challenging area in the mineral industry. This is mainly because of the fine size valuable mineral losses to the tailings during its application. But the recent devel

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Radiation Exposure Assessment Following The 1978 Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill

    By Kathleen Kreiss, A. James Ruttenber

    INTRODUCTION Early in the morning of July 16, 1979, there was a breach in the earthen retaining dam of a tailings pond at the United Nuclear Corporation's (UNC's) Church Rock uranium mill

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Mineral Processing Control Systems - Past And Future - Introduction

    By Lynn B. Hales

    Unfortunately, the term "control" has a negative connotation in the minds of many of our operating plant personnel. Whereas the opposite is true of those associated with research and technical centers

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Performance Evaluation of Rockburst Prediction Based on PSO‑SVM, HHO‑SVM, and MFO‑SVM Hybrid Models - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Manoj Khandelwal, Jian Zhou, Yingui Qiu, Peixi Yang, Pingan Peng

    Rockburst prediction is crucial in deep hard rock mines and tunnels to make safer working conditions. Due to the complex interaction of many factors involved in rockburst prediction, such as multi-var

    Feb 3, 2023

  • SME
    Load State Identification Method for Wet Ball Mills Based on the MEEMD Singular Value Entropy and PNN Classification Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Xiaoyan Luo, Congcong Dai, Gaipin Cai, Xin Liu, Lu Zong

    To overcome the difficulty of accurately judging the load state of a wet ball mill during the grinding process, a method of mill load identification based on the singular value entropy of the modified

  • SME
    Design And Application Of Rare-Earth Magnetic Separators

    By Peter L. Dunn

    With the advent of new high-strength magnetic materials, rare-earth magnetic separators have become more common place for processing heavy mineral sands. In many instances, rare-earth magnets have rep

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    An Overview Of The U.S. Department Of Energy's Initiative In Advanced Coal Cleaning For Acid Rain Control

    By III Feeley

    Coal is the nation's most abundant fossil energy resource and serves as the primary fuel for the U.S. electric-power industry. However, its continued and expanded use is often challenged by the n

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Metal Production

    By Omar A. Muhtadi, R. Bruce Thorndycraft, David A. Milligan

    9.1 INTRODUCTION Precious metals in a leach solution are extracted, concentrated, and purified to complete the process begun in the heap and to produce an end product which will provide an economic p

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Evaluation Of The Altair Centrifugal Jig For Fine Particle Separations

    By M. K. Mohanty

    Due to inefficiencies of the flotation process, significant effort has been recently provided to develop gravity separators for treating ultrafine particles. As a result, several enhanced gravity conc

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Assessment Of The Real Economic Feasibility Of Potential Critical Raw Materials Mining Projects In The U.s.; Implementation Of A Newly Developed Computational Tool - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By M. A. Islam, H. Mischo, G. Barakos

    Among the thirty-five declared critical raw materials (CRM) in the United States, there is no sustainable domestic production for the fourteen of them, while for some others domestic supply does not m

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SME
    Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Tunnel Design and Construction - NAT2022

    By Gunjan R. Bhattarai, Kumar Bhattarai

    Recently, there has been an enormous increase of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and their applications by researchers, government agencies, and the underground constr

    Dec 1, 2022

  • SME
    Seismic Velocities in Unconsolidated Permafrost

    By F. R. Corwin, M. S. King, R. W. Zimmerman

    A model has been developed to relate the velocities of seismic waves in unconsolidated permafrost to the porosity and the extent of freezing. The permafrost is idealized as an assemblage of spherical

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Impact of face ventilation and nitrogen inertization on hazardous gas distribution in bleederless longwall gobs

    By J. Marts

    Underground longwall coal mining sections are operated as sealed gobs if the coal is prone to spontaneous combustion. Sealing along the gate roads during longwall face retreat limits the flow of fresh

    Sep 1, 2013

  • SME
    Determination of the Fire Hazards of Mine Materials Using a Radiant Panel (ME Technical Papers)

    By R. A. Thomas, C. D. Litton

    "The objective of this study was to develop a laboratory-scale method to rank the ignition and fire hazards of commonly used underground mine materials and to eliminate the need for the expensive larg

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Deister Flotaire Column Flotation Cell-Plant Experience

    By John A. Christophersen, Adolf J. Jonaitis

    Coal flotation applications utilizing column flotation have been shown to improve grade and recovery when compared with traditional mechanical cell flotation. Deister Flotaire Column Flotation Machine

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    The Role of Research in Pyrometallurgy Technology Development—From Fundamentals to Process Improvements—Future Opportunities

    By Evgueni Jak

    Pyrometallurgy is an important sector of modern industrial society actively participating in solving current environmental, economic, materials scarcity and other challenges. Recent advances in analyt

  • SME
    Y2K - No PROBLEM?

    By John William Carlson

    The Y2K or "Millenium" bug is a tiny critter, comprising no more than two digits in a date field. This bug, like its' more lethal cousins of biological and computer virus fame, has the potential to de

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Peak Torque Calculations for Backstops

    By Dr. -Ing. Karlheinz Timtner

    This paper deals with the complicated and often misunderstood relationship between torsional windup, load sharing and peak torques in conveyor backstops. The principals apply in low speed, intermediat

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Assessing the Quality of Incident Investigations and its Effect on Safety Performance: A Study of the Ghanaian Mining Industry

    By E. Stemn

    Incident investigation is of utmost importance in most high-risk industries. This study was undertaken to study the content of past investigation reports to determine the effectiveness of the incident

    Jan 1, 2019