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5. Discovery of Bougainville, Papua New GuineaBy R. J. Cornelius
Gold with minor associated copper mineralization in the area of what is now the Bougainville porphyry copper deposit has been known since the 1920s and was probably known in German colonial times, pre
Jan 1, 1991
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Ghana Makes Change to Revive Its Gold Mining IndustryBy Henry Antwi
The decade of the 1990s promises to be one of increasing internationalization for domestic minerals producers as they scramble to enhance relative positions in highly competitive, international minera
Jan 1, 1992
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Simulation Of Spontaneous Heating In Longwall Gob Area With A Bleederless Ventilation System (86ca8446-27ba-44c4-a5f2-efa11ab0d2b9)By A. C. Smith
Although it is only utilized in a few U.S. longwall mines, a bleederless ventilation system can be an effective spontaneous combustion control method in mines with a demonstrated history of spontaneou
Jan 1, 2008
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Methyl Ester Oxygenated Fuels for Diesel Mining ApplicationsBy D. L. Purcell, B. T. McClure, J. McDonald
The U.S. Bureau of Mines has completed a laboratory evaluation of exhaust emissions from a diesel engine using an oxygenated diesel fuel. The fuels tested were soy methyl esters in a neat (100%) form
Jan 1, 1995
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Microwave links connect 24/7 operations for Newmont MiningBy Charles Rubin
Mining is a capital- and labor-intensive business, and profitability often depends on the ability to squeeze maximum efficiency out of every piece of equipment to achieve safe production. This means k
Jan 4, 2010
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Introduction - Computer-Based Analysis of Geoscience DataBy George S. Koch
Today, after about 30 years of development, computer-based analysis of geoscience data has reached a mature phase. From the tentative early beginnings recorded in the proceedings of the APCOM meetings
Jan 1, 1989
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Statistical correlation of off-highway tire failures with openpit haulage routesBy A. L. Boerner
Off-highway tire costs represent a significant portion of the total mining costs in openpit, truck-shovel operations. To extend the lives of tires, the site-specific factors influencing tire life shou
Jan 1, 2002
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Miocene Clay Deposits Of Peninsular FloridaBy F. Michael Wahl
With the exception of reports on commercial deposits of kaolin, fuller's earth, and other specialty type clays, there is little published information on the extent, properties, and potential uses
Jan 1, 1972
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Western Energy Eliminates Spoil Rehandle With ScraperBenchingWestern Energy Co.'s Rosebud mine in Colstrip, MT, has implemented innovative mining techniques in the past,* and following in that tradition, new techniques for overburden removal were recently
Jan 2, 1981
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Industrial Minerals Of Saskatchewan ? IntroductionBy Lynn I. Kelley
Industrial-mineral production contributes on the order of CDN$1.5 billion per year to the economy of Saskatchewan, Canada. Potash is the primary industrial mineral produced in the province, followed b
Jan 1, 1999
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Environmental Control For Full Face Boring Machines - IntroductionBy Allan E. Hall
The use of full face boring machines in underground mining has increased considerably in recent years and over 200 raise-boring machines are now in use in the Western World. Several tunnel-boring mach
Jan 1, 1980
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Gold recovery from alkaline cyanide solutions by electrochemical elution of strong-base anionic polymeric resinsBy V. A. L. Breguncci, A. H. Martins, C. P. Ribeiro Jr.
This work presents experimental results for the recovery of gold present in alkaline cyanide solutions by using the electroelution technique of strong-base anionic polymeric resins IRA 402-CL from Rho
Jan 1, 2002
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Long Term Behaviour of a Fully Instrumented Test Room in PotashBy Dennis Z. Mraz, Maurice B. Dusseault
INTRODUCTION In 1982 and 1983, as part of the mine design program for a New Brunswick potash mine, series of laboratory tests were conducted on potash and salt samples obtained during the mine exp
Jan 1, 1986
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Short scale spatial variability of sulfur in a coal seamBy R. W. Barbaro, R. V. Ramani, K. V. K. Prasad, P. T. Luckie
The limitation of sulfur dioxide in power plant In this study, the following quality parameters of the coal emissions dictates that sulfur in coal be reduced to the lowest possible level before combus
Jan 1, 1991
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Reclamation Practices at Homestake’s McLaughlin MineBy Raymond E. Krauss
The McLaughlin Mine is based on a world class epithermal gold deposit located in the coastal thrust fault of northern California, about 1 12 air km (70 air miles) north of San Francisco. Owned and
Jan 1, 1990
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Mixing of Rotary Kiln Fines with Fine-Grained Acid-Producing RockBy Kim A. Lapakko, David A. Antonson, Jon R. Wagner
This study examined the potential of mixing rotary kiln fines (RK fines), a waste product generated when limestone is converted to lime (CaO), with acid producing mine waste to provide 1) short-term m
Jan 1, 2000
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Designing Leach Pad Liners For Differential SettlementBy Marc E. Orman, Todd V. Ramey, Mark E. Smith
Heap leaching in certain parts of the world, such as Chile's Atacama Desert, brings unique design problems in the form of possible large differential settlements of the foundation soils due to the dis
Jan 1, 1996
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Technology News: Exhaust Treatment Lessens Underground Vehicle EmissionsDiesel engines are used in underground mining 1 throughout the world. Exhaust gases from those engines contain toxic components. To protect quality in underground mines, diesel emission control was in
Jan 1, 1997
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Land Use Change In Mt. Penteli Marble QuarriesBy Elias Apostolidis
Since 500 B.C. Mt. Penteli has been famous as white marble production site, which provided the birthstones for the construction of Athens Acropolis and Parthenon. The Aloula quarry belongs to ?Diony
Jan 1, 2002
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Increasing Kaltim Prima Coal Overland Conveyor Speed To 8.5 Mps (30155423-28d4-4121-901f-0069696f7abd)By Poltak Sinaga
PT Kaltim Prima Coal's 13.1 km overland conveyor was commissioned in 1991. It is of conventional 3 roller 350 troughed belt type. Cost and performance optimisation during initial design ended up
Jan 1, 2008