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  • SAIMM
    Spontaneous combustion risk in South African coalfields

    By B. Genc

    "The risk of spontaneous combustion is well known in the South African coal mining industry. In the coming years it is very possible that the incidence of spontaneous combustion will increase from cur

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Biodegradation of manganese dioxide tailings

    By Madgwick J. C

    Microaerobic biodegradation oflow-grade manganese dioxide slurry tailings was demonstrated in enrichment cultures treated with dilute molasses at 30°C and pH 5·8. Supplementary nitrogenous n

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Maintaining Ring Gears in Ball Mills

    By David Kress

    Mill crushing drive systems are essential to cement producers. With the increased emphasis on operating efficiency, it is vital that these systems be dependable and reliable. No one needs the costs

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME-ICGCM
    Design And Backfill Installation Considerations For Cut-And-Cover Coal Mine Slope Entry Using Steel Supports And Lagging (5aeac579-3675-40a9-b37e-6b4c5af947be)

    By Larry DeGraff

    With the increase of new mine development in the past several years, many coal mines have decided to self- perform the design and construction for their slope development projects. The development pr

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Ore Handling for the McArthur River and Cigar Lake Projects

    By Chuck Edwards

    "The development of two large, high-grade uranium projects has been proposed for northern Saskatchewan. The projects are now under review by a joint federal/provincial panel. The McArthur River projec

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SAIMM
    Equipment selection based on the AHP and Yager’s method

    By M. Yavuz

    One of the challenging problems for optimization in mining operations is to choose the best equipment among the alternatives. Equipment selection is an important task for mine management due to its op

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Design and Startup of Cortez Gold Mine’s Pipeline Mill

    By Randy N. Powell

    The Pipeline gold ore body was discovered in Lander County, NV in March 1991. Construction of the new mine and mill did not start until early March 1996. The $289-million project was placed on a fas

    Jan 1, 1999

  • DFI
    Industry Practice Standards And DFI Practice Guidelines For Structural Slurry Walls - First Edition - Title ? Table Of Contents - Part I Industry Practice Standards - 1. Classification Of Slurry Wall Panels

    There are many ways to classify structural slurry wall elements, but the DFI committee chooses to limit these descriptions to three functional requirements, namely: design function, plan configuration

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    U.S. Longwall Development Projected to Increase

    By James F. Kvitkovich, George V. Weisdack

    Editor’s note: This is the second part of a two-part series on longwall mining in the United States. Part one was published in the December 2005 issue of ME (pp. 21-26). It provided a history of lo

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Possibilities and Working of the Specific Agglomeration of Fibrous Materials and Residues

    Possibilities and Working of the Specific Agglomeration of Fibrous Materials and Residues Plant based fibrous materials are becoming of increasing interest in a multitude of industrial applications.

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Factors Contributing to the Occurrence of Unexploded Charges in Underground Blasting Practice

    The presence of undetonated explosives in a rock face after firing constitutes a hazard which can result in a fatal or serious accident if undetected before drilling commences.Most accidents caused by

    Jan 1, 1956

  • CIM
    Throughput and Recovery Improvements Following Commissioning of the Mount Milligan Mine

    By P. Miranda, K. Le, G. Maes, R. Peters

    "The Mount Milligan Mine, owned by Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc. (TCM), started operations in September of 2013. It is located between the communities of Fort St. James and Mackenzie and is the f

    Jan 1, 2015

  • 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
    Pit Optimization on Clustered Realizations: Identifying Functional Scenarios Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Tyler Acorn, Brandon Wilson, Jeff Boisvert

    Scenario-level uncertainty is a representation of large-scale differences encountered when considering ultimate mining pits optimized over various subsets of stochastic realizations. Accounting for sc

  • SME
    Pit Optimization on Clustered Realizations: Identifying Functional Scenarios Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (91c0eb25-b83e-4f9f-8ccb-a6f7d555458c)

    By Tyler Acorn, Brandon Wilson, Jeff Boisvert

    Scenario-level uncertainty is a representation of large-scale differences encountered when considering ultimate mining pits optimized over various subsets of stochastic realizations. Accounting for sc

  • SAIMM
    Dealing with high-grade data in resource estimation

    By O. Leuangthong, M. Nowak

    "The impact of high-grade data on resource estimation has been a longstanding topic of interest in the mining industry. Concerns related to possible over-estimation of resources in such cases have led

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Construction of a Monolithic Silica Reverberatory Furnace Bottom

    A poured slag bottom is universally considered to be the best type bottom for copper reverberatory furnaces. It is impervious to molten matte and ready for immediate use.When molten slag is not availa

    Jan 1, 1939

  • SAIMM
    Destruction Of Underground Methane At Beatrix Gold Mine - Synopsis

    Beatrix Gold Mine, a deep-level gold mine in the Free State province of South Africa, has the highest methane emission rate of any gold mine in the country. Methane is emitted from underground sources

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Some Suggestions Concerning Ore Recurrence South of Kalgoorlie

    Suggestions have been made at various times that there may be a recurrence of lodes similar to those at Kalgoorlie in the country to the south of the Golden Mile, but, so far as is known, there has be

    Jan 1, 1950

  • CIM
    On-Line Mine ? A New Concept for Improving Mining Economy Through On-Line Mineral Analysis

    By Ilpo O. Auranen

    Background: Mines of today are moving ever increasing tonnages of rock. The new ore bodies tend be of lower grade and located deeper in the earth?s crust. The industry?s focus to overcome this ?deep

    Oct 1, 2009