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  • AIME
    Notes on Flotation-1916 (2531750c-1e54-44ab-a140-4d0fe9d2339b)

    DAVID COLE, El Paso, Tex. (communication to the Secretary*).-I notice that Mr. Callow takes issue with me on certain points I have previously contributed to the Transactions, to which I would reply,"

    Jan 5, 1917

  • AIME
    The Solvent Extraction Process

    By A. W. Ashbrook

    The process of solvent extraction.(or liquid-liquid extraction) is a separation technique involving mass transfer across a phase boundary, and as such is not limited to metal transfer from an aqueous

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Flotation Of Copper Ore In A Pneumatic Flotation Cell

    By Li Changgen, A. Bahr

    The adaptability of pneumatic flotation cells for the flotation of sulfide ore and the conditions for sulfide ore flotation in pneumatic cells were investigated. The advantages of pneumatic flotation

    Jan 1, 1993

  • AIME
    Coal - Coal Strip Mining-Is It Reaching a Peak?

    By Hubert E. Risser

    Although, for about a half-century the percentage of coal production provided through strip mining has steadily increased, recent trends indicate that a peak in percentage (not tonnage) is being appro

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    The Interaction Between Fine Particles And Porous Adsorbents In Slurry Systems

    By F. W. Petersen

    Slurry reactors are being used extensively throughout the chemical, biochemical and mineral processing industries. This paper describes the interaction between fine ore particles and granular porous a

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Application Of A Computer Simulation Model To A Contour - Area Mines

    By L. Barry Phelps

    The application of an open-pit Materials Handling Simulator (OPMHS) to analyze mine planning and scheduling problems in large surface mines is discussed. The mine chosen for this application employed

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Slurry Rheology Influence on the Performance of Mineral/Coal Grinding Circuit

    By Richard R. Klimpel

    The first part of this two-part article summarizes the result of a 10-year, multimillion dollar research and plant testing program involving operating mining companies throughout the world. The progra

    Oct 12, 1982

  • SME
    J. Steven Gardner; An interview with the 2015 SME President

    "What is your assessment of the minerals business?My experience with mining has been primarily in the coal sector until about 10 years ago, when I also became heavily involved in the aggregates and in

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AIME
    Further Discussion of Fracture Gradient Prediction and Its Application in Oilfield Operations

    By T. K. Smith

    The comments contained in the discussion of the paper concerning the prediction of fracture gradients are of considerable interest, since the subject is of a very controversial and timely nature. It i

    Jan 1, 1970

  • AUSIMM
    Application of High Resolution Video Camera for Blast Evaluation

    By Adhikari G. R, Raju N. M

    The breaking of rock by explosives occurs so rapidly that the details of the phenomenon cannot he observed by the unaided eye. High resolution cameras and VCRs offer a means of slowing down the blas

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    South Dakota Gold Mining: Regulations, Compliance, And Environmental History

    By T. V. Durkin

    Approximately 1,390 t (44.7 million ounces) of gold have been produced in South Dakota since 1875. South Dakota's mining laws attempt to strike a balance between economic development and environm

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Grindability Of Microwave-Heated Ores

    By A. Güngör, Ü. Atalay

    Thermal treatment can significantly improve industrial comminution operations by reducing energy requirements and increasing mineral liberation. The assistance of thermal pretreatment prior to grin

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AIME
    Ocean Mining Faces Problems - Push In Oceanography May Yield Solutions

    Oceanographers are tooling up. Back of the build-up is Navy defense work and private business. Business is dipping toes in the ocean gingerly and not sure whether the motivation is based on logic or i

    Jan 8, 1967

  • AIME
    Flotation of Molybdenite At the Morenci Concentrator

    By J. E. Papin

    Morenci ores contain as an average about 0.015 pct molybdenite, MoS2. Incidental to the concentrating operations applied for the recovery of copper minerals, approximately two-thirds of the molybdenit

    Jan 2, 1955

  • SME
    Macroeconomic and Political Determinants of Resource Nationalism

    By Wenhua Li, Tsuyoshi Adachi

    Resource nationalism is essentially mandatory government intervention in natural resources businesses by political or economic means in order to benefit the nation and the people. It is attacking the

    Jan 1, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Rare Earth in Australia

    Monazite sand is processed at the rate of 25-30 tons per week at Rare Earth Corporation of Australia's plant at Port Pirie. Main products are rare earth concentrates of cerium, lanthanum and

    Jan 1, 1972

  • SME
    Mineralogical Characterization of Leachable Elements in Ten Slags From Canadian Nonferrous Sulfide Smelters

    By D. Koren, D. Carson

    Disposal of smelter slag may be subjected to regulatory leach tests to deter- mine whether they produce a leachate containing contaminants in excess of stated limits. Contaminants that are most often

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Mining and Hydraulic Transport of Minerals from Deep-Ocean Floor (bf680df2-1f92-458d-8f28-9e08eefa5209)

    By J. S. Chung

    As part of ongoing deep-ocean mining research, hydraulic transport systems as well as status of deep-ocean mining systems are reviewed in the aspects of manganese nodules and crusts from 800-6,000-m d

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AIME
    Iron and Steel Division - Influence of Silicon on the Activity of Carbon in Liquid Iron

    By Orvar Nyquist, Klaus W. K. Lange, John Chipman

    Liquid Fe-C-Si alloys containing 0 to 12 pet Si and up to 4 pet C were equilibrated with carburizing gases at 1550°C. Two to 5 alloys simultaneously were held in close proximity for 5 to 7 hr to est

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SAIMM
    SPOTLIGHT on ladle metallurgy

    By D. W. de Vos

    A school on the principles and practices of ladle metallurgy, organized by the Technical Committee: Metals Technology of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, was held at the Universit

    Jan 1, 1990