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  • SME
    Ore Control Technological Innovations at Goldcorp Peñasquito Mine.

    By S. Gering, R. Ruiz, C. H. Calderon-Arteaga, J. Barrios

    "INTRODUCTION Located in the northeast corner of Zacatecas State, Mexico, the Peñasquito Operation is comprised of the Peñasco and Chile Colorado (Brecha Azul) deposits. Open pit mining (pre-stripping

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    Ferrominera Orinoco's Puerto Ordaz Mineral Processing Facility, History,. Capabilities & Prospects

    By Alton G. Woody

    Like so many installations of its type approaching middle age, the ore processing and shipping facilities in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela, have taken a lot of twists and turns in their lifetime. The object

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    "Failure Prevention" An Economic Necessity In Designing Sophisticated Systems

    By Alfred Opengart

    During any rush hour, tens of thousands of automobiles clog the main highways leading into or out of our large cities. Inevitably one or more cars stall or plow into another, causing a momentous traff

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    Recycling Power Plant Fly Ash And Its New Application For Construction Materials - Preprint 09-037

    By N. S. Kim

    Economically favored Cr and Cu leaching out process from spent power plant fly ash (PPFA) had been investigated. PPFA, bearing of C, S, V, Ni, Cu and Cr, has been widely used as an assistant fuel in c

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Mining Of Medium Hard Rock Without Blasting By Means Of Cutting. Experiences And Economics Of The Wirtgen Surface Miner

    By B. Schimm

    Improve the mines productivity by simplifying the mining process, for these tasks the Wirtgen Surface Miner offers an attractive alternative. Surface Miners cut, crush and load material in one opera

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Bolting Solution Dramatically Reduces the Risk of Hand Injuries

    By E. Stone, R. Reagan

    Risk of hand injury is very real for operators carrying out conventional bolting operations with power torque tools, reaction arms and backup wrenches. Bolting operations of this type are common today

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Operating Manuals As A Tool In Operator Training For Metallurgical Plant Start-Ups

    By S. R. Brown

    A number of relatively recent factors associated with the design of new metallurgical processing plants have made the effective training of operators a requirement for a successful start-up. Some of t

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    A Novel Approach To Processing Coal Combustion Ash And Organic Bio-Solids - Introduction And Background - Preprint 09-110

    By R. Mensah-Biney

    The NC State University Minerals Research Laboratory (MRL) and Waste Reduction Partners (WRP) of the Land of Sky Regional Council joined efforts in 2000 to initiate a technically sound and practical p

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Alaska's Rare Earth Deposit And Resource Potential

    By James C. Barker

    Alaska?s known mineral endowment includes some of the largest and highest grade deposits of various metals, including gold, copper and zinc. Recently, Alaska has also been active in the worldwide sear

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Case Study – PVC Ventilation Duct Ventilating Underground Mining Operation

    By T. Weatherwax, A. Rai, J. Poor

    "This paper provides an overview of the current use of auxiliary ventilation products and the challenges with limited air quantity in dead-end entry or working faces. The PVC’s low frictional factor,

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Evaluation Of Mining Project Investments Using A System Dynamics Approach - SME Annual Meeting 2026

    By Onur Golbası, Berk Gokce

    Investment decisions in the mining industry are complicated by sector-specific uncertainties. This study presents a multi-submodule system dynamics model to capture the dynamic complexities of decisio

    Feb 22, 2026

  • SME
    Monitoring Used as an Alarm System in Tunneling

    By M. Perolo, A. Contini, E. Ramelli, G. Borgonovo, L. Locatelli

    This paper presents the ground settlement monitoring system used during the construction of two tunnels bored by two EPB TBMs, beneath the existing and active railway embankment in Bologna (Italy). Th

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    How Harnessing Computer Vision and Machine Learning Will Revolutionize Global Mining

    By Ravi Sahu

    "In the global mining industry, there are those who seem resigned to the fact that the mining industry has always operated according to certain time-tested principles that don’t involve jumping on eve

    Jan 5, 2018

  • SME
    Industrial Waste Disposal By Deep Well Injection

    By A. C. Barlow

    The use of deep wells for waste disposal is not a new technique. The production phase of the oil industry has been using this method to dispose of unwanted oil field brine since the 1930's The a

    Jan 1, 1964

  • SME
    Ashbridges Bay Treatment Plant Outfall TBM Risk Mitigation— Prescriptiveness and Verification of TBM Fabrication - RETC2023

    By Dan Ifrim, Andre Solecki

    Tunneling could be a major challenge to tunneling contractors as tunneling operations can be seriously affected by the Tunnel Boring Machine (TBM) performance. Specifying the appropriate TBM methodolo

    Jun 13, 2023

  • SME
    Room-and-pillar panel design method to avoid surface subsidence (baff531e-1217-4963-ad11-1cde90cbd566)

    By Y. Luo

    Cuando se diseña y operan minas de carbón subterráneas con el método de cámaras y pilares, es siempre difícil obtener un buen equilibrio entre la prevención de subsidencia de la superficie y la obtenc

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Mine Seismicity and The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

    Many mining operations generate seismic signals. They come from blasting and from underground mine failures such as rockbursts, longwall first caves, coal bumps and pillar collapses. Traditionally,

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Transforming Safety in Colombia’s Underground Gold Mines: A Decade of Lessons from Occupational Accidents - SME Annual Meeting 2026

    By Lina Ospino Ballesta, Oscar J. Restrepo Baena, Juan Diaz Martínez

    Artisanal and small-scale underground gold mining in Colombia plays a significant role in the country’s economy, but it faces persistent occupational hazards that threaten worker safety. Despite minin

    Feb 22, 2026

  • SME
    Overexcavation Risk Management During Pressurized Face Tunneling in the Pacific Northwest - RETC2023

    By Ulf Georg Gwildis

    Overexcavation and ground loss events during pressurized-face TBMadvance in soft ground can result in unplanned deformations above the tunnel and damage to existing infrastructure. Successfully managi

    Jun 13, 2023

  • SME
    Enhancement of Seismic Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Members Using Embossed Macro-Synthetic Fibers

    By Erik S. Bernard

    "INTRODUCTION Reinforced Concrete (RC) members such as beams and columns are usually required to include stirrups to maintain post-crack shear capacity, and some may include stirrups that act as confi

    Jan 1, 2016