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  • NIOSH
    OFR-50-80 The Field Testing Of Several Mine Roof Fall Alarm Systems In An Anticipated Natural Roof Fall In The White Pine Mined-Out Windpipe Area

    By Walter L. Finlay

    The Bureau of Mines has developed prototype instruments promising to improve the ability to warn of imminent roof falls. An unusually good opportunity to test these comparatively under natural caving

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Supply, Installation, & Commissioning Of The World's Largest Grinding Mill

    By V. Svalbonas, S. M. Jones, A. Boughey

    In June 1998, the world's largest grinding mill, the 40 ft (12.2 m) diameter 20 MW Cadia gearless SAG mill, was commissioned. This was a leap of over40% above the largest operating SAG mill. A

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Microcomputers and Mining : Background and Setting

    By Thomas C. Shapiro

    Introduction In recent years - even months - the number of articles on computers has increased rapidly. One can hardly pick up a newspaper or magazine without seeing a computer-related article. The a

    Jan 2, 1984

  • CIM
    Performance of Rock Slopes during the 2010/11 Canterbury Earthquakes (New Zealand)

    By G. Archibald, M. McSaveney, J. Wartman, M. Yetton, C. Massey, C. Holden, A. Kaiser

    "The 2010/11 Canterbury earthquakes triggered many mass movements in the Port Hills including rockfalls, rock and debris avalanches, slides and slumps and associated cliff-top cracking. The most abund

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AIME
    Official Institute Reports for the Year 1935

    To THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE MEMBERS OF THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGICAL ENGINEERS GENTLEMEN: Herewith are transmitted the joint report of the Treasurer and Finance Committee

    Jan 1, 1936

  • CIM
    Twenty Five Years of Sonic Injection Plant Trials and Implementation — Let’s Take Stock

    By Joël P. T. Kapusta

    Back in 1995, Air Liquide and Union Minière presented a joint paper at the Copper 95 – Cobre 95 Conference in Santiago, Chile, describing the first full scale plant trials of shrouded sonic injection

    Jan 1, 2019

  • AUSIMM
    Disseminated Gold in Turbidite-Hosted Gold Deposits of Reefton (South Island, New Zealand), Victoria (Australia) and Nova Scotia (Canada)

    By P K. Smith, N G. Corner, R J. Ryan, D C. Arne, F P. Bierlein

    The Reefton Goldfield has produced 67 t of gold from mesothermal vein gold deposits in metasedimentary rocks of the Greenland Group (Cambrian-Ordovician). The Globe-Progress deposit contributed 13.2 t

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    The Behavior of Rocks when Exposed to Microwave Radiation

    By N. Gharib, F. Hassani, P. Nekoovaght

    "Novel rock breakage techniques are becoming more viable and attractive to industry. Microwave energy, as a thermal energy capable of inducing micro cracks through differential heating (therefore expa

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Plastics From Shredder Residue: Pilot Plant Experiences And Data

    By S. Christiansen, G. R. Winslow, R. W. Kobler

    Todays End of Life vehicles are shredded and their metal components recovered and recycled by standard methods. The remaining non-metallic fraction is shredder residue, and contains vast amounts of hi

    Jan 1, 2001

  • NIOSH
    IC 8105 Predicting Suitability Of Variable-Composition Liquefied Petroleum Gases For Use In Appliances

    By Joseph Grumer

    Theory pertaining to the exchangeability of fuel gases on appliances has been extended to exchanges of propane or butane with mixtures of these. In particular, new considerations were developed bearin

    Jan 1, 1962

  • AUSIMM
    Normal Fault Hosted Quartz-Scheelite Lodes and Associated Vein Swarm, Glenorchy, NW Otago

    Lower greenschist quartzo-feldspathic schists within the N-S trending Earnslaw Synform of the Upper Wakatipu area are pervaded by late-stage quartz filled extensional and extensional shear fractures,

    Jan 1, 2001

  • DFI
    Deep Soil Stabilization Using Lime Cement Columns - Synopsis:

    By Melvin I. Esrig

    Lime Cement column stabilization of soft clay and sand in Salt Lake City, Utah and in San Francisco California is described and discussed. Stabilization permitted the construction, in a single stage,

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Rehabilitation of New Croton Aqueduct Shafts

    By W. James Marold

    The New Croton Aqueduct (NCA) was the first major water supply tunnel for New York City. The 50-km (31-mi) long tunnel has 33 open shafts 6 m (20 ft) to 121 m (397 ft) deep. The tunnel and shafts are

    Jan 1, 2008

  • NIOSH
    RI 7237 Application Of Statistical Response Surface Fitting In Predicting Lignite Properties

    By Manuel Gomez

    The Bureau of Mines used data from 31 core samples to develop prediction equations for evaluating chemical and carbonization properties of six seam units in a lignite deposit approximately 2 miles wid

    Jan 1, 1969

  • NIOSH
    RI 8959 - Bulkheads and Drains for High Sandfill Stopes

    By R. L. Soderberg

    Large open stopes mined by vertical crater retreat or sublevel s are sometimes backfilled with uncemented sand to support the stope walls and alleviate rock bursts. The failure of bulkheads in two dif

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SAIMM
    Automatic data selection, worker exclusion zones and an attempt to identify precursory activity in real time: Routine and research activities in seismology at Sibanye-Stillwater Ltd

    By P. Lenegan, R. Masethe, R. I. L. Ferreira

    Underground mining in high rock-stress environments can induce unanticipated dynamic rockmass deformation, posing a serious risk to the workforce. Data collected by seismic networks are imperative for

    Jan 12, 2025

  • NIOSH
    RI 2661 Exhaust Gases From Engines Using Ethyl Gasoline

    By B. G. H. Thomas, W. P. Yant, A. C. Fieldner, R. R. Sayers, W. J. McConnell

    "One of the outstanding problems confronting automotive engineers in attempting to construct motors of greater economy is that of eliminating the ""knock"" from the operation of the engine. Recent inv

    Dec 1, 1924

  • NIOSH
    Trade

    By Charles L. Kimbell

    In 1988, the aggregate value of total world international export trade in mineral commodities was estimated at nearly $542 billion in current (1988) dollars, which was about 8.6% above the 1987 level,

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    ICGCM China—History, Networking, and Education

    By Syd Peng, W. B. Guo, F. Du, L. Yang, J. Yw. Cheng

    The annual ICGCM China was initiated in 2014. Up to 2023, ICGCM China has been held 9 times. In the 9 conferences during the past 10 years, about 559 papers in 17 topical areas were presented and atte

    Jun 25, 2024

  • NIOSH
    The Mineral Industry Of The Islands Of The Caribbean - Aruba

    By Ivette E. Torres

    Aruba, formerly a. part of the Netherlands Antilles, separated on January I, 1986, and became an autonomous part of the Netherlands. Full independence of the island from the Netherlands is scheduled f

    Jan 1, 1989