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  • SME
    Reducing Fuel Costs - Virginia Power's Transportation Program

    By James O. Mawyer

    Fuel is a major .cost for power generating utilities. Virginia Power is completing one of the nation's largest coal reconversion programs. As a result, 10 million tons of coal will now be used at

    Jan 1, 1986

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    Computational Fluid Dynamics Study Of Tracer Gas Dispersion In A Mine After Different Ventilation Damage Scenarios

    Tracer gases are an effective method for assessment of mine ventilation systems, but their dispersion characteristics can differ substantially as ventilation parameters, such as flow path and velocity

    Jan 1, 2012

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    Anticipated Behavior Of Silty Sands In Tunneling

    By Ronald E. Heuer, Debra L. Virgens

    INTRODUCTION Behavior of clay soils in response to tunneling is reasonably well understood by reference to the tunnel stability factor NT = Pz/su (Peck, 1969; Heuer, 1974). With this analysis tool,

    Jan 1, 1987

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    Influence Of Deep Mining On The Ground Water Regime At A Mine In Northern Appalachia

    By Robert W. Bruhn

    Ground movements associated with high extraction underground coal mining, such as pillar retreat and longwall, are some- times large enough to disrupt the ground water regime as well as damage buildin

    Jan 1, 1986

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    Investigation of Occupational Accidents in Western Lignite Corporation by Using the Efficiency Assessment Approach Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (a017703a-5db6-4c3d-94be-c80359dfab6f)

    By Cem Şensöğüt, Özer Ören, Yaşar Kasap

    The mining sector, which has an important place in terms of raw material and energy supply, is referred as a sector with one of the highest fatal accidents in comparison with other sectors. In this ce

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    Modification and Enhanced Testing of Data Mining-Based Algorithm to Detect Subtle Errors in Temperature Sensors in Gold Stripping Circuit Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (cca8e619-0fb1-422a-925d-6e04d2a067f5)

    By Eduardo Pimenta de Melo, Rambabu Pothina, Rajive Ganguli

    Sensors are everywhere in the mining industry, with sensor information being used to monitor and operate processes. Therefore, when sensor information is wrong, economic losses can occur. Unfortunatel

  • SME
    Safe Slot Hole Excavation With A New Boxhole Boring Machine - Introduction

    By W. Burger

    In underground mines worldwide, a large number of short and small diameter slot holes need to be excavated. Herrenknecht has developed and built a new boxholeboring machine based on the well-proven Mi

    Jan 1, 2012

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    Job Site Security: Risk Management beyond Gates, Guards and Guns

    By Eric Jacobs

    "Building and operating tunnels has been a highstakes endeavor in terms of costs, complexity, safety and impact on contractors, owners and the public for a long time. There are many variables that nee

    Jun 1, 2019

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    Concurrent Segment Lining and TBM Design: A Coordinated Approach for Tunneling Success

    By M. Younis, E. Comis

    "The success of a tunnel project relies on many factors, but one of the most important is also the most overlooked: coordination by all parties involved during the design stages. This is particularly

    Jan 1, 2016

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    Adaptive Reuse of Mined Lands for Solar Energy

    By D. Anderson Willis, Alan A. Campoli, Douglas Mynear, Seth Mittle, J. Steven Gardner

    "The diversification of energy sources in the United States has seen some major shifts during the past decade resulting from:• A sudden abundance of low-cost natural gas becoming available through adv

    Jun 1, 2019

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    Beneficiation Of 3 Mm X 0.15 Mm Fine Coal With Two-Stage Hindered Bed Settling Equipment

    By R. J. Snoby, M. A. Short, A. Jungmann

    In processing coal, the low concentrate value requires high capacity production and sharp classification/separation techniques to reduce specific production costs. The allflux separator meets these c

    Jan 1, 2001

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    Discussions - Relationship of Fault Displacement to Gouge and Breccia Thickness

    By E. C. Robertson

    D.G. Wilder I found the suggestion that the amount of displacement of a fault can be numerically related to the thickness of gouge or breccia to be both intuitively satisfying and intriguing. I hav

    Jan 12, 1984

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    Production Of Cultured Marble vs. Natural Marble Products

    By T. Lamond, J. O. Costello

    Marble is a preferred surfacing material in up-scale buildings. Its use increased in the 1870's with rising national wealth and declined in the 1950's when synthetic materials for these appl

    Jan 1, 1999

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    A Review of the Modified Zincex® Process From Skorpion to Horsehead

    By M. S. Moats

    In the 1990?s, Técnicas Reunidas developed the Modified ZINCEX® Process to recover zinc from ores and secondary materials. The heart of this process was the use of solvent extraction to produce purif

    Feb 23, 2014

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    Does sustainable mining have any meaning?

    Sustainable development is at odds with reality in the minerals industry. Increasing world population and aspirations are leading to increased energy and mineral consumption. Non-renewable fossil fuel

    Jan 1, 2011

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    A Field Study Of US Longwall Coal Mine Ventilation And Bleeder Performance

    By S. J. Schatzel

    Longwall coal mine operators in the US are required to ventilate multi-panel longwall districts but may have little or no knowledge about what happens to the ventilation air between the inlet evaluati

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Modern Caverns In Gotham?Geotechnical And Design Challenges For Large Rock Caverns In Manhattan

    By Timothy P. Smirnoff

    Sustaining the region?s mobility needs, achieving projected economic growth, and maintain Midtown Manhattan as a center of regional, national and global importance has led to continued investment in c

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    Lithologic Controls On Aggregate Quality In A Mountain-Front Alluvial System--An Example From The Colorado Front Range

    By D. A. Lindsey

    Gravel lithology affects the quality of aggregate because different rock types in gravel have different physical and chemical properties. The lithologic composition of alluvial gravel reflects the com

    Jan 1, 2002

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    The Tichauer-DeTomi Matrix: a Tool for Assessment of Geological Uncertainty in Small-scale Mining Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (9437b467-4b8d-4115-856e-5795cdbb6370)

    By Giorgio De Tomi, Ricardo Tichauer

    Mineral exploration is a critical step for success in mining. However, small-scale mining often ignores exploration best practices. This paper introduces the Tichauer-DeTomi Matrix, a tool for assessm

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    3D modelling of offshore alluvial tin mineralization in Ringarooma Bay, Tasmania

    By Michelle Stokes, Alexandra Miller, Campbell McKenzie

    "The ancestral Ringarooma River in northeast Tasmania has transported alluvial tin and other heavy minerals from their onshore source of stanniferous Devonian granites downstream into what is now Ring

    Sep 1, 2014