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  • SME
    Satisfying temperature requirements in mobile refuge alternatives

    By Kenneth Deaton

    "A packaged cooling system is being developed for refuge alternatives (RAs) that will meet U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) qualification guidelines for deployment in coal mines. This

    Dec 1, 2016

  • SME
    From Planning to Commissioning: A Complete Overview of the Northeast Boundary Tunnel Project - NAT2024

    By Moussa Wone, Jeff Peterson, Filippo Azzarà, Daniele Nebbia

    The DC Water and Sewer Authority's Long Term Control Plan includes tunnels, sewer separation, pumping station rehabilitation and green infrastructure to reduce combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    The Commercial and Potential Applications of Phosphine Derivatives in Solvent Extraction

    By W. A. Rickelton

    The first commercial use of phosphine derivatives as solvent extraction reagents began in the mid 1970's with the construction of several plants to recover uranium from wet process phosphoric aci

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Economic Evaluation Techniques Applied To The Mine Development Decision ? Introduction

    By Brian W. Mackenzie

    The mine development decision is made on completion of exploration to determine whether or not a mineral deposit should be developed to production and, if so, how. This involves the selection of an op

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
    The Art Of Air Pollution Control As Viewed By TVA

    By C. Jack Powell

    TVA's involvement in air quality programs is perhaps a bit unique. The Tennessee Valley Authority was established in 1933 as a regional resource development agency and therefore must view clean a

    Jan 1, 1972

  • SME
    The Future Of Solution And In-Situ Mining Restoration ? Introduction

    By R. Jacobson

    This paper presents comparison of proposed future solution and in-situ mining methods for in-situ leaching and recovery of uranium, gold, silver, and copper. We propose to show that in the future new

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    The Discovery of the Wild Dog Vein Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea - A Case Study

    By I. D. Lindley

    The Wild Dog vein gold deposit in East New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, forms part of a recently discovered 26 km zone of auriferous quartz vein mineralisation. The deposit, which was discovere

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Plant Evaluation of a Novel Collector for Improved Silica Flotation

    By A. K. Fallaw, D. L. Taylor, G. Wang, L. R. Moore, S. Dobson, C. B. Parkinson

    "Over the years, the decline of high grade ores have become an increasing problem in the global mining industry. As such, techniques and chemistries must change in order to continue to meet the market

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    The Elk River MCHM spill; A case study on managing environmental risks

    By Meredith Scaggs, Emily Sarver, Lucas Rojas Mendoza

    "Early on Jan. 9, 2014, approximately 37,800 L (10,000 gal) of crude 4-methylcyclohexanemethanol (MCHM) leaked from a storage tank sitting on the bank of the Elk River near Charleston, WV (WVDEP, 2014

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Flammability of wider conveyor belts using large-scale fire tests - SME Transactions 2011

    By A. C. Smith, J. H. Rowland III

    The Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response Act of 2006 (MINER Act) established a Technical study panel (the Panel) to provide recommendations on the utilization of belt air and new technology tha

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Eicosanoid Production In The Alveolar Macrophage Exposed To Mineral Dust In Vitro Is Dependent On Surface Chemical Characteristics Of The Dust

    By Laurence M. Demers, Douglas C. Kuhn

    It has been suggested that radicals on the surface of dust particles are key chemical factors in the pathophysiology which results from the occupational inhalation of coal and silica dust. In addition

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    A Model Investigation Of Induction Fans For Underground Mines

    By I. M. Konduri

    Theoretical investigation and laboratory experimentation have shown a great potential for jet fan ventilation in mines. Jet fans, also called induction fans due to the induction effect of the fluid je

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    The Selection Of Drives For Large Grinding Mills - Introduction

    By Wallace N. Thomas

    The present interest in large diameter grinding mills and the rapidly rising cost of the drive in proportion to the cost of the mill establishes a need to explore the drive system in detail. The drive

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
    Copper Heap Leaching At San Manuel

    By J. G. Jenkins

    Magma Copper Co.'s San Manuel solvent extraction/electrowinning (SX-EW) facility has operated since May 1986. The original facility had a design capacity of 22.6 kt/a (25,000 stpy) of electrowon

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Calumet Tunnel Project, A Case History

    By Robert Rautenberg, Ted Budd

    The paper will discuss the successful construction of the largest dollar value ($194.5 million, U.S.) TARP (Tunnel and Reservoir Plan) project built to date for the Metropolitan Water Reclamation Dist

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Tunnel Deformations Caused by Compensation Grouting at Crossrail Farringdon Station

    By Thomas Schwind, Benedikt Grau, Angelos Gakis

    "In Crossrail’s Farringdon station, compensation grouting was successfully utilized to mitigate the surface settlements induced by the tunneling works. The main focus of this study was the platform tu

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Sustainable change of coal-mining regions (ME Technical-Paper Abstracts)

    By Jürgen Kretschmann

    Principally, mining natural resources is a finite business that reaches its limits once the deposits mined are depleted, the resources can no longer be mined in an economically profitable way or subst

  • SME
    Productivity With Trees And Crops On Surface-Mined Lands - What Do We Mean By Productivity?

    By W. Clark Ashby

    Productivity is a fascinating concept. Like motherhood or apple pie, we know it as a good thing. Just what it means is not so clear. To a coal miner we assume it means tons of coal hauled from the m

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Chalcopyrite leaching in a dimethyl sulfoxide solution containing copper chloride (MME Technical-Paper Abstracts)

    By AKIHIRO YOSHIMURA, HIDEKAZU KATO, KOTA TAKATORI, YASUNARI MATSUNO

    Chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) is the most refractory copper mineral when treated in conventional sulfate media leaching systems. This study is the first to examine the use of a dimethyl sulfoxide (CH3SOCH3),

  • SME
    Liebherr Tradition Carries on with the Introduction of a New Haul Truck and Crawler Tractor

    By Steve Kral

    "Liebherr, as most anyone involved with the global mining industry knows, is one of the world’s largest makers of mining and construction heavy equipment. The familyowned company has been around since

    Jan 12, 2017