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  • SME
    Selection, Purchase And Maintenance Of Mining Equipment

    By P. C. Dagneau

    QUEBEC CARTIER MINING COMPANY was incorporated in 1957 to explore and develop low grade iron are deposits in Northeastern Quebec. Four separate deposits were located and identified as being of ore qua

    Jan 1, 1993

  • NIOSH
    OFR-25(2)-74 Improved Sensors And Fire Control Systems For Mining Equipment - Phase II - Final Report - Executive Summary - I. Introduction, Summary, And Results - Introduction

    U.S. Bureau of Mines contract H0122053, "Improved Sensors and Fire Control Systems for Mining Equipment", was an investigative effort involving: ? Study of the fire problem on large mobile mining e

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    Evaluation of Airborne Crocidolite Fibers at an Asbestos-Cement Plant

    By Matthew S. Sanchez, Richard J. Lee, Matthew D. Zock, Drew R. Van Orden, Yumi Kamiya, Edward B. Ilgren

    In many developing countries, asbestos is still used for friction products, insulation, and asbestoscement products. However, there is very limited modern data evaluating the airborne concentrations o

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Zen and the Art of Specification Writing (e9db141e-c90d-4781-a8d7-fdfe990e01c7)

    By R. A. Nemchek

    ABSTRACT Concentrator plant design has evolved from large numbers of small grinding mills to small numbers of large mills. Consequently, plant performance often hinges on the productivity of a single

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    Report on the 11th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting

    By A T. Spathis

    The 11th International Symposium on Rock Fragmentation by Blasting (FRAGBLAST 11) was held in Sydney, Australia, between 24-26 August, 2015. The 93 papers, including six keynote presentations, covered

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The State of Sampling Practice in the South African Minerals Industry

    The state of sampling practice in South African minerals industry must be appreciated in the context of the changes that the country has recently lived through. These include the entrepreneurship and

    Mar 1, 2010

  • AIME
    Mining Engineering's 1977 Annual Review

    It is probably safe to say that, as the economic well-being of the mining industry goes, so goes the fortunes of mineral explorationists. And in 1977 the industry was not well at all. The year-long de

    Jan 5, 1978

  • NIOSH
    OFR-78-79 Development Of A High Energy Impact Breaker For Shaft Sinking - Initial Feasibility And Field Trials In A Rectangular Shaft

    By S. H. E. Phillips

    This report describes the initial feasibility, the development and the field demonstration of a system for shaft sinking employing a high energy mechanical impact rock breaker and a compatible muck di

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AIME
    How the St. Joseph Lead Company Grew ? A Forward-Looking Management Builds a Great Enterprise From a Small Missouri Mine

    By Irwin H. Cornell

    BRIEFLY stated, the history of the St. Joseph Lead Co. is the story of how a group of men, working for ten years as officers without salaries and stockholders without dividends, developed a small mine

    Jan 1, 1947

  • SME
    What’s in a name? A look at the who, what and why of forming a joint venture partnership

    By Michael Roach

    "There’s a bit of confusion and misinformation in the tunneling and underground construction industry regarding contractor joint ventures. If it was all so clear I would not have been "asked" to write

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Precious metals exploration fails to makeup for declines in other minerals

    By E. D. Attanasi, J. H. DeYoung

    Mineral exploration activity in the US suffered through another depressed year in 1984. And continued strength in precious metals (and possibly industrial minerals) exploration failed to make up for d

    Jan 5, 1985

  • SME
    NIOSH Extramural Research Funding: Fulfilling the Mandate of the MINER Act

    By J. F. Burr, D. P. Snyder, G. W. Luxbacher

    "The Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act (MINER Act) of 2006 (PL 109-236, 2006) established the Office of Mine Safety and Health, functioning as the Office of Mine Safety and Health Resear

    Jan 10, 2018

  • SME
    Bulk Handling Technology; Designing for the Future by Innovating the Present

    By R. Todd Swinderman

    "Higher production demands across all bulk handling segments require increased efficiency at the lowest cost of operation, in the safest and most effective manner possible. As conveyor systems become

    Jan 7, 2017

  • DFI
    Case Studies In Mission Bay, San Francisco: Deep Foundations In Challenging Soil Conditions

    By Lori A. Simpson

    Mission Bay is a 300-acre reclaimed site in San Francisco, California, that is currently being redeveloped. Plans include new neighborhoods, parks, a new University of California, San Francisco, rese

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AIME
    147th Meeting of the Institute - More Than 2100 People, a New Record, Renew Old Friendship and Discuss 200 Papers

    By AIME AIME

    CERTAINLY in point of attendance, and doubtless in several other ways as well, the 147th meeting of the A.I.M.E. was the best ever held. In times of depression, mining engineers and metallurgists have

    Jan 1, 1937

  • AIME
    The Public Relations of the Engineer

    By Francis A. Thomson

    T HE engineer of today is by his training, by his traditions, and by the service which he must render, irrevocably committed to taking his part in public life along with the members of the older profe

    Jan 1, 1925

  • AUSIMM
    The Canadian Experience ù Disclosure Standards for Mineral Projects

    After considerable input from the mining industry, the Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA) finalised National Instrument 43-101: Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. This Instrument, whi

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Materials Challenges in Mine, Mill, and Smelters

    By N. Behnood

    "This paper describes how material selection, quality assurance, and failure investigation play important roles in the efficiency and safety of mining and metallurgical operations.INTRODUCTION Materia

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Using a Coal Mine Safety Regime Approach to the Management of High-Voltage Electrical Isolation

    By J Joy, D Griffiths, A Bye, G V. Kizil

    Poor standards of electrical installation and maintenance continue to contribute to electrical related fatalities and injury risk in the mining industry. Electrical isolation has the potential to init

    Nov 20, 2012

  • NIOSH
    IC 7490 German Low-Temperature Coal-Tar Industry

    By E. O. RHODES

    This report is one of a series written by members of the Solid Fuels Mission to Germany describing wartime developments in the mining, prepara- tion, and utilization of coal. This mission was organize

    Feb 1, 1949