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  • SME
    Avoiding Disputes on Challenging Ground Conditions in the Lake Mead Intake No. 3 TBM Starter Tunnel

    By Erika Moonin, Jim Nickerson, Marcus Jensen

    "This paper will explain how the Contractor and Owner avoided a contractual dispute involving characterization, impacts, and final remedy for challenging ground conditions encountered during drill and

    Jan 1, 2016

  • NIOSH
    OFR-63-75 Testing And Evaluation Of Rotary Water Seals For Wet-Head Continuous Mining Machines

    By Robert D. Saltsman

    Two modes of seal application were identified, and promising state-of-the-art seals of both types -shaft and drum -were selected for initial rating by non-destructive testing. Only one shaft seal surv

    Jan 1, 1975

  • NIOSH
    RI 4972 Analyses Of Tipple And Delivered Samples Of Coal (Collected During The Fiscal Year 1952) ? Introduction

    By S. J. Aresco

    The Bureau of Mines has been active in promoting the purchase of coal for Government use under specificetiona that define the requirements in terms of heating value of the coal, expressed in British t

    Jan 1, 1953

  • NIOSH
    RI 5866 The Foam-Drive Process For Increasing The Recovery Of Oil ? Introduction And Summary

    By A. N. Fried

    With the growing importance of fluid injection in recent years, the petroleum industry has been investigating and field- testing a variety of new methods designed to modify the physical properties of

    Jan 1, 1961

  • NIOSH
    Accidents From Explosives At Metal And Nonmetallic Mines - Metal-And Nonmetallic-Mine Accident-Prevention Course - Section 4 - Purpose And Scope

    The first metal-mine accident-prevention course was prepared and published in 1942-45 as a series of seven miners' circulars (Nos. 51-57). The scope of the course has been broadened, revised, and

    Jan 1, 1957

  • SAIMM
    Geotechnical Investigation Of Decline Shaft Portals

    By R. A. Puchner

    The location of a decline shaft portal can have far reaching implications if the geotechnical conditions are not suited for safe and cost effective excavation. Ideally the portal should be positioned

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Geotechnical Investigation Of Decline Shaft Portals (98716578-d9a6-4b5f-b3d0-51b497360883)

    By R. A. Puchner

    The location of a decline shaft portal can have far reaching implications if the geotechnical conditions are not suited for safe and cost effective excavation. Ideally the portal should be positioned

    Jan 1, 2009

  • NIOSH
    IC 7908 Underground Mining Methods And Cost At Three Salt Wash Uranium Mines Of Climax Uranium Co. ? Summary And Introduction

    By W. L. Dare

    This information circular is one of a series published by the Federal Bureau of Mines in which the methods and costs of producing uranium ore on the Colorado Plateau are discussed. This report describ

    Jan 1, 1959

  • AUSIMM
    Marine Recovery of Tunnel Boring Machine from Botany Bay

    By S Norman

    The Water Delivery Alliance (WDA) was established to design, construct and commission the pump station and desalinated water delivery pipeline to link the desalination plant on the Kurnell Peninsula (

    Mar 8, 2011

  • SME
    Have Emerging Technologies Reached the Point Where Diesel Particulate Matter can be removed from Underground Mines?

    By K. C. Kocsis

    "Diesel-powered equipment has allowed the mining industry to raise production rates and significantly improve productivity, as it is rugged, mobile and reliable, but its widespread use in underground

    Jan 10, 2017

  • AIME
    Mining and Milling at the Spanish Mine

    By JAMES BRADLEY

    THE Spanish mine is in Nevada County, California, 21 miles northeast of Nevada City by road, and 3 miles north of the town of Washington. The mill and surface buildings are on Poorman's Creek at

    Jan 1, 1931

  • AIME
    Drying Low-rank Coals in the Entrained and Fluidized State

    By V. F. Parry, J. B. Goodman

    The low-rank coals containing 10 to 50 pet natural bed moisture represent over half of the tonnage reserve of the available solid fuels of the United States, but only about 2 pet of United States coal

    Jan 1, 1949

  • AUSIMM
    Paper No. 177. The Treatment of Sulphide Ores in Victoria.

    FOR many years past it has been the practice at the Bairnsdale School of Mines to treat any parcels of auriferous concentrates sent in from the surrounding district by roasting them in a handworked re

    Jan 1, 1909

  • CIM
    The Bethlehem Molybdenum Plant

    By E. A. Lowe, A. F. Bellamy, J. W. Smith

    "In the autumn of 1977 Bethlehem management initiated feasibility studies on recovery of by-product molybdenum from concentrate produced at the existing Highland Valley mining operation. Over the fall

    Jan 1, 1980

  • AUSIMM
    The Failure of Lead by Creep

    From time to time lead, which is normally considered to be a soft ductile metal, fails by cracking. The cracks which form appear to be of two distinct types-(a) those which follow a zig-zag course aro

    Jan 1, 1935

  • AIME
    The Central Power-Station Of The De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., Kimberley, South Africa.

    By Percy A. Robbins

    I. INTRODUCTION. THE central power-station. of the De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., was designed and built under my supervision about five years ago. Since no detailed description of this plant has

    Mar 1, 1908

  • NIOSH
    OFR-48-84 Evaluation Of Proposed Human Subject Certification Test For Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus

    By J. Frederick Stampfer

    Current certification testing of self-contained breathing apparatus includes tests with human subjects wearing the apparatus while exercising. During these tests, certain apparatus variables are measu

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Out of the Comfort Zone: Quantifying Country Risk for Foreign Mining Project Investment Feasibilities - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By MATT RENAUD, Mustafa Kumral

    As high-quality mineral deposits are thoroughly exploited, mines of the future will have to move towards more remote and lower quality projects. With these projects comes an increased business risk to

    Sep 30, 2021

  • CIM
    Overview of the Agrium Kapuskasing phosphate operation

    By R. Pressacco

    "IntroductionAgrium’s history in fertilizer production and marketing goes back to 1931. Today, Agrium Inc. is a world leader in the production, distribution, and marketing of fertilizers and related p

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Optimising Flow in the Mining Value Chain

    By A Dunne, R Kruger, H Coleman, P G. Laurens

    External and internal challenges in mining are increasing the difficulty and complexity of operating mines. The external mining environment has a big impact on mining operations and is driving the foc

    Jul 13, 2015