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  • SME
    5. Discovery of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

    By 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 Industry

    By 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 Applications

    By 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 Mining

    By 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 Data

    By 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 routes

    By 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 Florida

    By 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 ScraperBenching

    Western 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 ? Introduction

    By 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 - Introduction

    By 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 resins

    By 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 Potash

    By 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 seam

    By 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 Mine

    By 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 Rock

    By 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 Settlement

    By 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 Emissions

    Diesel 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 Quarries

    By 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