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  • SME
    Grouting And Freezing For Shaft Water Control In Milwaukee

    By Patrick J. Doig

    The contract for the construction of the Inline Pump Station for the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District involves the sinking of three shafts and the excavation of a pump chamber. The shafts a

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Mining 1988

    By J. D. Morgan

    The US economy continued to grow steadily in 1988, reaching an annual rate of $5 trillion in the last quarter (US trillion = 1012). The value of domestically processed mineral-based materi¬als rose 20

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Rehabilitation of a Brick-Lined Aqueduct

    By Taehong Kim, Carl Pannuti, Nikolas Sokol, Walter Herrick

    BACKGROUND This paper discusses work performed as part the rehabilitation of the gravity flow section of the New Croton Aqueduct (NCA) during an approximately two year period between 2004 and 2006

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    The Economics of Mechanical Raise Boring

    By James H. Dye, N. E. Norman

    There will be about 300 raise boring machines used worldwide by late 1981, attesting to the acceptance of this drilling system by the mining and construction industries. Over the past few years, many

    Jan 3, 1981

  • SME
    Construction of the Powerhouse Cavern for the Pumped Storage Scheme Kops II in Austria

    By Helmut Westermayr, Michael Tergl

    DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT Geographic Setting The Kops II plant is a pumped storage scheme of the hydroelectric power producer ‘Vorarlberger Illwerke AG’ which is currently under construction in t

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Nuclear Energy?s Future From A Uranium Producer?s Perspective

    Gary R. Steele is vice president, corporate marketing with Energy Fuels Resources. As such, he knows the global uranium market. The following are some of his thoughts on uranium?s place in the globa

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Construction of the West Area CSO Tunnels and Pumping Station

    By Ray Hutton, Darrell Liebno, Taro Nonaka

    Background Population growth and increasingly stringent regulatory controls on water quality across North America have resulted in municipal governments investing heavily in infrastructure to cont

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Cooperative Education In Mineral Engineering: Experience At Montana School Of Mines, Butte

    By W. A. Vine

    Next year, in 1964, Butte will celebrate its Centennial. It was in May, 1864, that the first recorded mining activity took place. During that summer, several rich placers were found on Silver Bow Cree

    Jan 1, 1963

  • SME
    Cable Shovel Health And Longevity In Formation Excavation

    By S. Frimpong

    Cable shovels are used for primary excavation in in-situ and/or pre-fragmented formations in surface mining operations. Poorly fragmented hard rock formations and random occurrence of hard boulders i

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Analysis Of The Mining Engineering Faculty Pipeline

    By M. M. Poulton

    Universities are not immune from the large number of retirements facing the mining industry. Department heads anticipate that we will need to replace all of the senior mining engineering faculty in t

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    The Big Walnut—A Planned Approach

    By Tom Szaraz, Steve Skelhorn

    Part of a major sewer expansion for the City of Columbus, Ohio. The Big Walnut Outfall Augmentation Sewer (BWOAS) consists of 4,000m (13,200 ft) of 3.66m (12 ft)diameter tunnel passing mainly through

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Comparison Of Arched And Flat Seal Designs Using Finite Element Analysis

    The failure of a seal in an underground coal mine can have devastating consequences. Traditionally seals have been constructed as flat walls. Large hydraulic dams, on the other hand, are constructed

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    The Regulation Of Coal Mine Subsidence In Colorado

    By James A. Pendleton

    In response to Public Law 95-87 (SMCRA), Colorado promulgated regulations governing the mining of Coal. These regulations require the prediction, monitoring and mitigation of "material damage" caused

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Multi-Attribute Selection Method For Mining Trucks

    By D. Komljenovic, V. Kecojevic

    Selection of the best possible truck type (model) is of crucial importance for the mine decision-makers. In this paper, authors contribute to the body of knowledge by developing a novel methodology f

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Cable-Shovel Dipper Dynamics

    By M. A. Raza

    Cable shovels are capital-expensive and primary production equipment in many surface mines. The forces acting on the shovel dipper vary as the dipper moves through the muck-pile. The variations in the

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Mojave Sustainability Project – Model For Community Partnerships

    By Neville Slade, Doug Shumway, Dayan Anderson, Joe Siefke, Curtis James

    The Mojave Desert is a particularly fragile ecosystem that faces several significant impacts. These include rapid housing development, overdrafted water supplies and loss of wildlife habitat — all a

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    2012 Fox Conference Turns Its Focus To International Projects

    For the first time in its history, the George A. Fox Conference let its focus venture away from the friendly confines of the East Coast of the United States to spend part of the one-day conference loo

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Minerals Processing 1991

    Microorganisms are finding more use in the mineral industry, with extensive research efforts being reported in 1991. Most of these research efforts were presented in two major meetings, the SME Annual

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Drilling And Lining Of The Ocean Shafts - Seabrook Power Project

    By B. J. Dave, Ashok J. Desai, Allen J. Hulshizer

    This paper presents various design and construction considerations involved in developing an underwater installation of lined, large diameter shafts not known to have been previously accomplished for

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    73rd Street TARP Relocation McCook Cup Reservoir: Contract 97-156-2H

    By Brent Duncan, Doug Harding, Bob Stier

    The 73rd Street Tunnel Project is part of “The Tunnel and Reservoir Plan” (TARP)also known as the Deep Tunnel Project, and is located in the Village of Bedford Park, County of McCook, State of Illinoi

    Jan 1, 2003