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  • IOM3
    Opttimisation of development layyouts for retreat longwall mining with particular reference to the Australian coal mines

    By R D. Lama, A Misra

    One of the major factors restricting an increase in the productivity of a longwall mine is lower productivity obtained in a development panel. There has been a significant improvement in gate road dev

    Jan 9, 1996

  • AIME
    Who's Who in Mineral Engineering - The 1978 Membership Directory of the Society of Mining Engineers of AIME

    Who's Who in Mineral Engineering - The 1978 Membership Directory of the Society of Mining Engineers of AIME

    Jan 7, 1978

  • CIM
    Clayburn-Harbison Limited Operations in British Columbia

    By R. H. Beaton

    "About 1905, a plant was constructed at C1ayburn, in the Lower Fraser valley, 4'5 miles east of Vancouver, to process shales from Sumas mountain into heavy clay products. In time, mining operations we

    Jan 1, 1959

  • NIOSH
    IC 6936 Progress Report No. 3 On Investigation Of Detachable Rock-Drill Bits ? Introduction

    By McHenry Mosier

    This paper constitutes the third progress report on a national survey of the use of detachable bits in metal mines. It presents comparative costs of drilling with conventional and detachable bits and

    Jan 1, 1937

  • CIM
    Processing of Calcium Carbonates

    By David R. Skuse, Jacek A. Kostuch, Steven M. Fortier

    "Particulate ground calcium carbonate (GCC) is used as a filler and coating pigment in a wide range of applications including papers, paints, plastics and films. In this paper we will overview the req

    Jan 1, 2004

  • TMS
    Adsorption of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solutions on Synthetic Zeolite

    By M. A. Barakat

    "Adsorption of heavy metal ions specifically, Cu(II), Zn(II), Mn(II), and Cr(VI) from aqueous solution on synthetic 4A Zeolite was evaluated. The 4A zeolite was synthesized previously by dehydroxylati

    Jan 1, 2008

  • IMPC
    Iron Precipitation in Sulphuric Acid Under Pressure Oxidation Conditions at Elevated Temperatures

    By Rhulani F. Maluleke, Francis W. Petersen, John H. Marsh, Johann de T. Steyl, Allan Nesbitt

    "Pressure leaching of chalcopyrite and nickeliferrous pyrrotite at temperatures between 105 and 200 ºC has been proposed as a potentially viable route for the extraction of mineral elements from sulph

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Designing an Advanced RC Drilling Grid for Short-Term Planning in Open Pit Mines: Three Case Studies

    By J. M. Ortiz

    This paper shows the usefulness of geostatistical conditional simulation combined with the quantification of sampling errors obtained from the analyses of fundamental errors ? validated from duplicate

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Telfer Processing Plant Upgrade - The Implementation of Additional Cleaning Capacity and the Regrinding of Copper and Pyrite Concentrates

    By D R. Seaman, B Adamson, F Burns, B A. Seaman, P Manton

    The Telfer concentrator, located in the Great Sandy Desert of Western Australia, consists of a dual train gold/copper operation processing ore from one underground and, currently, two open pit mines w

    Oct 29, 2012

  • NIOSH
    RI 6677 Freezeproofing Lignite

    By Robert C. Ellman

    The Bureau of Mines investigated the factors that cause agglomeration of lignite by freezing during winter shipment and sought methods to avoid it. Tests showed that lignite may be freezeproofed by re

    Jan 1, 1965

  • CIM
    An historical sketch of the Canadian steel industry

    By W. M. Williams

    The Canadian steel industry is now in many ways a mature one, having achieved many technical successes during its hundred-year history. It is interesting to look back over this period, to learn someth

    Jan 1, 1999

  • NIOSH
    An Overview Of Research On Self-Contained Self-Rescuer Training

    By Charles Vaught, Henry J. Kellner, Michael J. Brnich, Henry P. Cole, William J. Wiehagen

    In 1985, U.S. Bureau of Mines and University of Kentucky researchers began a series of studies relating to self-contained self-rescuer (SCSR) donning proficiency. During the next 5 years investigators

    Jan 1, 1993

  • CIM
    Barrick Goldstrike Roaster - Roasting and Gas Handling

    By Andy Cole, Ken Thomas, Stephen Durn, Jacques McMullen

    "The roasting and gas handling circuits of the Barrick Gold’s new Roasting Facility at the Goldstrike Mine in Nevada, USA incorporate well proven technologies in a unique combination. During the desig

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AIME
    Proceedings of Local Sections and Affiliations

    By MAURICE ALTMAYER

    M Y DUTIES, as a member of the Department of Franco-American War Cooperation of the French High Commission were to study the copper and brass industries of America from the mining of the various non-f

    Jan 1, 1920

  • CIM
    The Use of Computational Fluid Dynamics and Discrete Element Modeling to Understand the Effect of Cell Size and Inflow Rate on Flotation Bank Retention Time Distribution and Mechanism Performance

    By Richard Peaker, Jens Lichter, Alexander V. Potapov

    "The recent combination of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Discrete Element Modeling (DEM) can provide considerable insight into the performance of flotation cells. One area of interest from a

    Jan 1, 2007

  • NIOSH
    RI 3618 Review of the Hearing Shale Problem in the Gulf Coast Region

    By Gustav Wafe

    "INTRODUCTION The discovery in 1901 of ""gusher"" oil production at Spindletop, Tex., Tex., a salt-dome structure, led to exploratory drilling on other known domes and known domes and in areas contigu

    Mar 1, 1942

  • AIME
    Reservoir Engineering – General - Pulsed Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Studies of Porosity, Movable Fluid and Permeability of Sandstones

    By A. Timur

    Fluid flow properties of porous media have long been of interest in such varied disciplines as geology, geophysics, soil mechanics, and chemical, civil, and mechanical engineering. This interest has r

    Jan 1, 1970

  • AIME
    51. The Main Tintic Mining District, Utah

    By Hal T. Morris

    The main Tintic mining district in central Utah has produced approximately 13,500,000 tons of ore, containing silver, lead, gold, copper, zinc, and other metals, valued at more than $315,000,000. More

    Jan 1, 1968

  • SAIMM
    Coal Pillar Strength Analysis Based on Size at the Time of Failure

    By J. N. Van der Merwe

    "A major shortcoming of the statistical back-analysis of coal pillar strength is that it relies on the asmined pillar dimensions, not taking into account time-related pillar scaling with subsequent re

    Jul 1, 2019

  • SME
    Microcomputers and Mining : Administrative and Geotechnical Software

    By Thomas C. Shapiro

    This is the final article in a three-part series on microcomputers and application software in the mineral industry. The first article covered microcomputer terms and concepts. The second discussed ex

    Jan 4, 1984