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  • NIOSH
    OFR-47D-86 Testing Of Adhesives And Polycarbonate Lenses In A Simulated Mine Environment - Part 4 - Final Technical Report

    By Charles H. Parr

    A testing program was conducted to determine the suitability and reliability of adhesives and polycarbonate lenses for extended use in luminaires in mine environments. Polycarbonates were exposed, fo

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Emerging Data Processing Technologies for TBM Projects— State of the Art and Outlook - RETC2021

    By Ulrich Maidl, Jamal Rostami, Ulf Gwildis

    Tunnel Boring Machines (TBM) have more or less become the preferred method of tunneling in various ground conditions and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC) or microprocessors are standard features o

    Jun 13, 2021

  • CIM
    Circuit Design and Operational Philosophy Related to Custom Gold Ore Processing at Pamour

    By R. D. Lindsay

    Pamour Porcupine Mines, Limited has been actively engaged in the ''Custom Tolling'' of Gold-Bearing materials throughout the past decade. Experience acquired in this area was utilized to design and co

    Jan 1, 1987

  • CIM
    Improving Sulphide Recoveries in Complex Gold Ore Bodies Using Cost Effective Pre-Concentration by Gravity

    By Yaw Boadi, Andrew McCallum, Sandy Gray, Yavuz Atasoy, Peter Wemyss

    "Various full-scale test programs and installations of the InLine Pressure Jig (IPJ) have provided evidence that pre-concentration of the difficult to leach sulphide mineral through gravity can provid

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ABM
    Siemens Vai Laser Welder Industrial Results On A Large Range Of Product

    By Hervé Thomasson

    Siemens VAI has made an important Research & Development effort since 10 years on laser welder field. The last step of this program was in 2010, the evolution of its laser welder range by implementing

    Jul 30, 2018

  • NIOSH
    IC 7259 Accidents Due To Misuse Of Explosives

    By D. Harrington

    Misuse of explosives and heedless disregard of well-known safety rules covering the use of commercial explosives cause many avoidable accidents resulting in the death or maiming of men who can ill be

    Jan 1, 1943

  • AUSIMM
    Interactive Modelling and Visualisation of Large Deposits Using Linear Octrees

    Large deposits present computational challenges to todayÆs commercial orebody modelling systems that are based on conventional block models. We describe a system that is specifically engineered to mod

    Sep 26, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Potential Use of Thin Spray-on Liners for Gas Management in Underground Coal Mines

    "Coal seam gas problems can adversely affect the safety and productivity of underground coal mines, leading to fatalities and financial losses. Conventional gas management technologies using ventilati

    Jan 1, 2016

  • CIM
    Characterising Groundwater in Rock Slopes using a Combined Remote Sensing - Numerical Modelling Approach

    By C. Hunt, J. Vivas, D. M. Allen

    "In this paper we present the results of a combined remote sensing - numerical modelling study to improve our understanding of groundwater seepage in open pit and natural rock slopes, and to investiga

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Bad Bergzabern Bypass Tunnel—NATM Tunneling Through Vineyards - RETC2023

    By Ralf Plinninger, Pafos Busch, Richard Gradnik

    This paper presents the details of the Bad Bergzabern tunnel project. This tunnel is the main part of the B427 federal road bypass, intended to improve the regional traffic infrastructure and to reduc

    Jun 13, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Ore Characterisation for Mine to Mill Fragmentation

    By A Scott, S Kanchibotla, J Segui

    The æMine to MillÆ concept is not new. In fact, it is the underlying objective of every mine. Unfortunately, in many operations the management structure and reporting systems have created independent

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Mineral Separations With A Magneto Gravimetric Separator

    By R. C. Bunge

    A magnetogravimetric separation is the consequence of two competing forces with opposing directions, i.e., magnetic buoyancy and gravitation (or centrifugal force). While magnetic buoyancy is a functi

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    Economically Mineable Resource in an Underground Metalliferous Mine

    By Bell I. F

    In 1985, ZC Mines (now Pasminco South) had been unprofitable for some years due to a combination of high operating costs, low metal prices, low head grade and an aging and inadequate mining infrastr

    Jan 1, 1992

  • CIM
    Enhanced Gravity Recovery of Base Metal and Industrial Minerals

    "Mineral separation by exploiting the differences in mineral or metal specific gravities (sg) has been used since antiquity. In the modern era, this is most commonly seen in the recovery of gold by t

    Jan 1, 2017

  • CIM
    Dual Truck Mobile Sizer- DTMS

    By Glenn Davis

    In the world of large scale open pit mining, the majority of a mines operating cost is tied to the removal and transportation of the overburden waste material. Typically, many large haul trucks are

    May 1, 2010

  • AIME
    Cartels-Their Significance for American Business

    By AIME AIME

    FREE competition, long the controlling ideal of domestic trade within the United States, has had the fundamental geographical advantage of functioning in the world's largest area of unrestricted

    Jan 1, 1944

  • SME
    Problems In Gaging Markets For Specialty Fillers

    By Harry W. Barr

    Judging by the inquiries that come to Battelle, a number of companies have run into problems in determining the size and character of markets for mineral fillers in general and specialty fillers in pa

    Jan 1, 1961

  • SME-ICGCM
    The Next Generation of Cable Bolts for Improved Ground Support

    By Stephen C. Tadolini

    PC-Strand tendons, commonly referred to as cable bolts, have become a major rock reinforcement device for underground mining and civil applications. The most common configuration is a 1+6 strand, whic

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Geology Says Otherwise - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By William H. Langer

    I spent 41 years as a geologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS) conducting geologic studies and preparing peer reviewed maps and reports describing the results of those studies. Since retiring fr

    Feb 1, 2024

  • DFI
    Hollow Core Bar Micropiles - Design Parameters Interpreted From 404 Load Tests

    By Jesús E. Gómez

    This work is a continuation of a paper presented in the 32nd DFI Annual Conference, Colorado 2007, titled ?Hollow Core Bar Micropiles - Design parameters interpreted from 260 load tests.? The first pa

    Jan 1, 2008