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  • NIOSH
    Technologic Trends In The Mineral Industries (Metals And Nonmetals Except Fuels) (e9c2733c-f2dc-45c2-a145-00f901af1626)

    By Frank L. Wideman

    THE TREND towards larger quantities of waste in materials handled at metal and nonmetal mines (excluding fuels) continued. A gain of 10 percent from 1962 in the tonnage of waste removed in mineral ope

    Jan 1, 1964

  • NIOSH
    Multiple Seam Longwall Mining In The U.S.—Lessons For Ground Control

    Relatively few longwall mines in the U.S. operate under multiple seam conditions where the two seams are less than 200 ft apart. This paper describes the experience of six that do. These operations

  • AUSIMM
    The McArthur Lead-Zinc-Silver Deposit

    By S Jephcott

    The McArthur lead-zinc-silver deposit is of the stratiform type. It consists of a mineralised bituminous shale sequence containing some tuffites, numerous graded beds and isolated slump breccia horizo

    Jan 1, 1971

  • CIM
    Resin-in-pulp as an Alternative Process for Gold Recovery from Cyanide Leach Slurries

    "This paper reviews the chemistry involved in the recovery of gold from cyanide solution with anion-exchange resins, and also discusses the most critical aspects of the engineering of an effective res

    Jan 1, 1991

  • NIOSH
    OFR-92-78 Technical Services For Mine Communications Research - Transmit Antennas For Portable VLF To MF Wireless Mine Communications

    By Robert L. Lagace

    An investigation is made of the feasibility of developing compact transmit antennas and/or other means to efficiently couple VLF to MF band radio energy between portable wireless communication units i

    Jan 1, 1977

  • CIM
    Magnetic Conditioning of Sphalerite at Red Dog Mine

    By B Lumsden, B Lacouture

    "Red Dog is one of the largest zinc mines in the world both in terms of reserves and annual production. In 2013, Red Dog produced 551,300 mt of contained zinc and 96,700 mt of contained lead. The mine

    Jan 1, 2016

  • NIOSH
    Time-Lapse Tomography of A Longwall Panel: A Comparison of Location Schemes

    By Kray Luxbacher, Erik Westman, Peter Swanson

    Three-dimensional time-lapse velocity tomograms were generated to image stress redistribution around a longwall panel to produce a better understanding of the mechanisms that lead to ground failure. M

  • AUSIMM
    The Testing and Evaluation of Australian Placer Deposits (a49af85e-318b-4a04-a0c2-bde102a5b398)

    Some important mineral fields are referred to in discussing the formation of placer deposits in Australia.Testing methods include boring by hand, with percussion rigs, with auger and pit digging drill

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Rock Fall Control In Surface Mining With Cable & Ring Net Fences

    By C. O. Brawner, J. Kalejta II

    The classical approach to control rock fall and ravel in open pit mining has been to use catch benches. The width and volume of benches is most dependent on the bench height, size of loading equipmen

    Jan 1, 2002

  • IOM3
    Practical approach to the solubility of colemanite ores

    By S. G. Ozkan

    An investigation was carried out into the effect of physical parameters, such as particle size of the sample, residence time, solid/liquid ratio and impeller speed in the flotation cell, on the solubi

    Jun 21, 1905

  • CIM
    Characteristics of Mineralization at the Main Zone of the Clarence Stream Gold Deposit, Southwestern New Brunswick, Canada: Evidence for an Intrusion-Related Gold System in the Northern Appalachian Orogen

    By K. G. Thorne, L. J. Cabri, L. R. Fyffe, D. R. Lentz, D. Hoy

    "Mineralization at the Main zone of the Clarence Stream gold deposit in southwestern New Brunswick occurs within a parallel series of quartz veins that occupy a NE-trending, steeply north-dipping, bri

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Operation and Performance of the Sishen Jig Plant

    Sishen Iron Ore Mine previously used only A-grade material (>60% Fe in situ value) from the pit for beneficiating in the DMS plant to a final product grade of 66% Fe in lump and 65% Fe fine ore. The B

    Jan 1, 2014

  • ISEE
    Modeling of Dynamic Break in Underground Ring Blasting

    By Troy Williams, Chris Preston, Ian Lipchak

    "Underground blasting operations are challenging from the standpoint of the distribution of explosivesenergy representative of ring blasting. Energy from both shock and pressure regimes of commerciale

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SAIMM
    Identification of Key Performance Areas in the Southern African Surface Mining Delivery Environment

    By A. W. Dougall, T. M. Mmola

    "SynopsisThe global resources and commodities market has become highly competitive. While southern Africa’s abundance of minerals resources is still unrivalled, it has lost considerable dominance in t

    Jan 1, 2015

  • DFI
    New Method for Reduction of Settlement Drilling Casings for Steel Core Piles

    By Larsson Lars-Erik, Rani Isa, Martin Jönsson, Håkan Bredenberg, Mats Larsson

    "IntroductionSteel Core Piles are used extensively in Scandinavian countries, where hard rock is found within reasonable depths. A steel core is cast into a drilled steel tube casing and a rock hole i

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Numerical Analysis of the Early Response of Paste Backfill in a Vertical Stope

    By N. E. Mkadmi

    Backfilling increases the stability of underground stopes and may help reduce the environmental footprint from the mining operation. The barricades holding the backfill in place must be designed to pr

    May 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Factors Affecting The Quality Of Tunnel Infrastructure At Premier Diamond Mine

    By M. S. Smith

    Paper written on project work carried out in partial fulfilment of B. Eng (Mining Engineering) degree The condition of tunnels at Premier has deteriorated to such an extent that an objective viewpo

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Geology and Geochronology of the Mo-polymetallic Ore Deposits in Hainan Island, South China

    By Y R Fu, D R. Xu, C J. Wu, G C. Hu, H Chen

    "An EXTENDED ABSTRACT is available for download. A full-length paper was not prepared for this presentation. Hainan Province (Hainan Island) in South China hosts numerous Mo-polymetallic ore deposits

    Mar 18, 2015

  • CIM
    Stabilization of Lead and Zinc Flotation Circuits at Galmoy Mine, Kilkenny, Ireland

    By Paul Laframboise, Nigel MacDonald, Mike Hallewell, Robert Thorpe

    "Galmoy Mine, owned by Arcon Mines Limited, has operated since 1997, and is one of three operating lead/zinc mines in Ireland. Changes in ore type starting in mid 2002 created challenges to metallurgi

    Jan 1, 2005

  • IIMP
    Proceso de producción metales preciosos en refinería de Ilo

    By Valentín Pamo

    El presente trabajo describe los procesos y equipos que permiten la extracción de metales preciosos de la refinería de Ilo en condiciones agresivas, obligando a investigar materiales resistentes a la

    Sep 9, 2007