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  • SAIMM
    Can We Decrease The Ecological Footprint Of Base Metal Production By Recycling? - 1. Introduction

    By PC Pistorius, DR Groot

    The South African base metals industry has been one mainly focused on the production of metals or metal compounds from primary ores. This is true for metals such as titanium, vanadium, chrome, mangane

    Jan 1, 2007

  • TMS
    Acustic-Pulsation-Based Intensification Of Heat Transfer In Continuous Furnaces

    By Alexey Lozhko

    The technical-and-economic furnace exploitation indices are considerably influenced by the system of heat utilization. In the situation of total output decrease works are forced to exploit furnaces at

    Jan 1, 2006

  • ISEE
    Controlled Blasting in a Historic Mining Town

    By John Yenter

    "Unique blasting problems during reconstruction and expansion of 100 year old buildings toaccommodate gambling. Located on steep mountainous terrain and linked by narrowroadways, the towns of Central

    Jan 1, 1993

  • ISEE
    Standards, Environmental Regulations and Consequences for Tunnel Blasting Projects in Urban Areas in Sweden

    By Rundqvist

    The best method to minimise disturbances from traffic to the neighbourhood and in Urban is probably to go underground. For obvious reasons this will cause vibrations, noise and other environmental eff

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AIME
  • SME
    Long-Range Planning Commission: Report of the Scope Committee

    By Charles C. Dahl, Gordon C. Presley, Andrew E. Nevin, Bruce A. Kennedy

    How does SME-AIME cope with profound changes in technology, markets - and most importantly - in employment patterns facing its membership today? This is the question that prompted the Society's B

    Jan 4, 1984

  • CIM
    Symposium on Tailings Revegetation

    By E. Watkins, J. C. LeRoy, A. Vivyurka

    "TAILINGS REVEGETATIONWelcome to the Revegetation Session. My instructions are to introduce the Speakers and to provide a general introduction.I do the latter with humility not only because of a lack

    Jan 1, 1975

  • CIM
    Chloride hydrometallurgy for complex sulphides: A review

    By D. S. Flett

    "The current state-of-the-art of chloride hydrometallurgy for treatment of complex sulphide bulk concentrates is reviewed. General considerations regarding the various flowsheet steps are examined and

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Conflict Management And The Resolution Of Natural Resource Disputes In The Mining Industry

    Environmental conflict management approaches and procedures have been used to successfully address and resolve a variety of issues, problems, and conflicts related to the extraction of natural resourc

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME-ICGCM
    Ground Pressure Control With Use Of Freezing Rocks On The Ore Deposits Of Yakutia

    By G. P. Neobutov

    The near surface inclined gold ore deposit is mined out at freezing temperature. The replacement of ore pillars by artificial freezing rocks during the rock pressures control in this conditions presen

    Jan 1, 1996

  • CIM
    The First Electrolytic Copper Refinery in the USA at the Chemical Copper Co. Phoenixville, Pa – History Revisited

    By E. Wraith, W. W. Culver, B. Wesstrom, P. J. Mackey

    Electrodeposited copper of the 1860s was of unprecedented purity, although the profound significance of this achievement was not fully realised until the dawn of the electrical age a decade or so late

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Parameter Estimation Of The Inverse Distance Estimation Algorithm - Preprint 09-116

    By G. Jalkanen

    Parameter estimation of the inverse distance estimation algorithm is presented. The objective function to be minimized is a sum of squared cross validation errors. The unknowns to be estimated are the

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Shortwall facebreak beneath a dolerite sill—learning points from a recent event at Matla Coal mine

    By J. W. Latilla, J. J. van Wijk

    A running facebreak ahead of the powered support units occurred on the number 4 seam at Matla Coal’s number 3 shaft (Matla 3) in April and May 2002.Very difficult mining conditions were experienced fo

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Proactive Measures for Fatality Prevention in the Mining Industry ù Why Fatalities Persist While Lost Time Injuries Decline

    The traditional measure of Lost Time Injury Frequency Rate (LTIFR) as a measure of improvement in safety performance is recognised as inadequate and misleading, lulling managers into believing that sa

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    The Regulation Opportunity - Prelude

    By R. Dillinger

    In the environmentally conscious social atmosphere today, reclamation in surface mines has become a main issue to the public and the regulatory committees. In response to this increased attention, ma

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AIME
    Forthcoming Meetings Of Societies (f32eb768-261f-4f69-aadb-44087505a3ce)

    Organization Place Date 1919 National Drainage Congress St. Louis, Mo. Nov. 11-13 American Mining Congress St. Louis, Mo. Nov. 1.7-21 Canadian Mining Institute Vancouver, B. C. Nov.. 26-28 America

    Jan 11, 1919

  • CIM
    The need for technology standards for mobile equipment in the mining industry

    By T. Skinner, M. Sahebkar

    "In recent years, the mining industry has been inundated with new technologies and software systems to aid in productivity improvement. Accompanying this increased level of technology and computer sys

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Optimising Stope Sequences for Long Term Mine Planning

    By André van Wageningen

    Long-term mine scheduling is one of the most difficult optimization problems. The problem is said to be NP-complete in that the best possible solution cannot be found any quicker than checking all pos

    May 1, 2004

  • NIOSH
    MLA 14-92 - Mineral Investigation Of The Valle Vidal Unit, Carson National Forest, Colfax And Taos Counties, New Mexico

    By John R. McDonnell

    The Valle Vidal Unit comprises 100,000 acres In Taos and Colfax: Counties, New Mexico. The unit was donated to the American public In 1982 by the Pennzoll Co. and is administered by the U.S. Departmen

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SAIMM
    Managing the hazard of wind blast/air blast in caving operations in underground mines

    By P. Sharma, J. C. W. Fowler

    This paper discusses the wind blast / air blast phenomenon, how it is managed in coal mines and how it might best be managed in other underground mines. L'article qui suit a pour objets de dé

    Jan 1, 2003