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  • NIOSH
    RI 5309 Characteristics And Analyses Of Ninety-Two Colorado Crude Oils ? Introduction And Summary

    By W. J. Wenger

    Colorado has been producing petroleum since 1863 but only recently has become a major oil State. The first well was drilled on Oil Creek near Florence, but out-put was relatively small until discovery

    Jan 1, 1957

  • SME
    The ABCs of Mine-to-Mill and Metal Price Cycles

    By T. BoBo

    "In the 1990’s metal prices were trending in a long term decline and the usual cost cutting exercises were adopted. Cuts to research and development made innovation difficult and the outlook was grim.

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Some basic problems in coal mine ground control discussed

    By Syd S. Peng

    Coal mine ground control is the science of the application of rock mechanics principles to coal mining operations. More acceptance of ground control techniques by the US coal mining industry has been

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    ION Exchange As A Primary Production Technique In Hydrometallurgy

    Ion exchange (IX) has been in use for a long time, references to IX are made in The Bible, Exodus Chapter 15 vs. 22-25 ?and the waters were made sweet?.1, 2 Aristotle noted a reduction in the salt con

    Feb 27, 2013

  • NIOSH
    RI 3805 Electrolysis of Magnesium into Liquid Cathodes from MgO-Carbon Suspensions in Molten Chlorides

    By Lloyd R. Michels, Burke Cartwright, S. F. Ravitz

    "INTRODUCTION Frequent attempts have be,made in the electrolysis of molten magnesium chloride to regenerate the electrolyte by allowing the chlorice generated at the anwdo to read with magnesium oxide

    Apr 1, 1945

  • CIM
    Why Mining Firms Care: Determining Corporate Rationales for Negotiating Impact and Benefit Agreements

    By Dianne M. Lapierre

    Mining firms in Canada are increasingly incorporating the social and environmental interests of their stakeholders into their projects in an effort to become more sustainable. Such initiatives have in

    May 1, 2008

  • SME
    A Portable Deep Learning-based Solution For Roof Fall Hazard Detection - SME Annual Meeting 2023

    By P. Lopez, E. Wellman, N. Risso, A. Anani

    Current machine learning models used for roof fall hazard prediction are mounted on expensive sensors, computationally expensive, or lack the robustness for accurate prediction in the underground mini

    Feb 1, 2023

  • SAIMM
    Notices (6fcffb5a-0133-4dae-8cf0-7c058922aac3)

    International Solvent Extraction Conference 1971 ISEC '71, which will be held in The Hague, The Netherlands, from 18th to 23rd April, 1971, is being sponsored by the Society of Chemical Industr

  • ISEE
    Developments in Cast Blasting Using High Bulk Strength Explosives at Rietspruit Opencast

    By Mike D. J Bonneau, Malcom Jr Ford

    Rietspruit Opencast Services was one of the first opencast coal mines to successfully employ cast blasting to aid in the burden removal operation. Initial work on cast blasting began at the mine in 19

    Jan 1, 1991

  • DFI
    Sheetpile Wall System With Tiebacks In A Soft Clay Profile - Description - A. Alignment Description

    By Jean J. Abiassi

    The Boston Marine Industrial Park (BMIP) VENT 6 project is a cut and cover tunnel, part of the Central Artery / Tunnel (CA/T) in the city of Boston. The BMIP job will serve as the south approach t

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AIME
    Alumina From Oil Shale

    By John Ward Smith

    Dawsonite-bearing oil shale of Colorado's Green River formation offers a unique and vast (more than 5.9 Gt of A120 j) resource of easily extractable alumina. The processing methods required by th

    Jan 1, 1982

  • IMPC
    Removal of mica from crushed sand by high pressure washing

    By Matheus Tocchini, Henrique Kahn, Juliana Antoniassi, Carina Ulsen, Eldon Masini

    "Sand and gravel are the second and third largest minerals in production in Brazil, and this is increasing noticeably. The extraction of natural sand from river beds is increasingly restricted and mos

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    Electronic Detonator Performance Evaluation Barrick Goldstrike Mines Inc.

    By Doug Bartley, Roy McKinstry, John Floyd

    In March of 2001, Barrick Goldstrike became the first surface gold operation in North America to evaluate the advantages of electronic detonators. A detailed study was conducted to quantify the benefi

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    The Wawa diamond enigma

    By J. Buckle

    "Recognition of the diamond potential of the Wawa subprovince was initially determined from regional data using a kimberlite model. The world’s largest stable Precambrian craton, the Superior Province

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SAIMM
    Design Considerations For The Damang Open Pit Expansion

    By A. Haines, O. Varaud, I. Baidoo

    Abosso Goldfields Limited (AGL) is in the process of developing an expansion of their Damang Open Pit gold mine in Ghana. AGL acquired the Damang mine in January 2002, with SRK participating in the ge

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Surface Free Energy Characterization Of Fine Particles

    By I. Yildirim

    Free energy of interaction between particles in water can be calculated if one knows the values of appropriate interfacial tensions, which in turn can be determined from the surface free energies of t

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Mines Business Planning at the Vale Inco Ontario Operations

    By Richard Jundis

    At the Vale Inco Ontario Operations, the working environment is rapidly evolving with organizational changes, new business systems and software tools. These changes are required in order to meet today

    May 1, 2009

  • NIOSH
    Use Of Tungsten To Reduce Vibration Exposure In Aircraft Manufacturing - Introduction

    By Michael J. Jorgensen, Anoop Polsani, Khurram S. Khan

    Riveting operations in aircraft manufacturing involves the use of power tools for manually drilling holes for the rivets, power drills for the setting of the holes for the rivets, as well as rivet gun

    Jan 6, 2006

  • SME
    Bi-Product Utilization, Lignins, Lignosulfonates And Their Many Applications

    By S. L. Lebo, J. D. Gargulak

    Lignin, the second most abundant natural polymer and bi-product of the pulp and paper industry, has been commercially available in a number of forms since 1940. This growing industry is fueled by dem

    Jan 1, 2002

  • TMS
    An Update On Flash Converting At Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation

    By Ryan Walton

    The Flash Converting Furnace at Kennecott Utah Copper converted over 465kmt of high-grade matte in 2002 but was restricted due to low matte production to 395kmt in 2003. This paper presents updated op

    Jan 1, 2005