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  • NIOSH
    Factors Affecting The Location Of Methanometers On Mining Equipment

    The U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (Title 30) requires that a methane monitor be placed on every mining machine to continuously observe and record methane levels at the face. The monitor must provid

  • SAIMM
    Investigations and assessment of the dust hazard state after the coal dust explosions on 2002 in the ‘Jas-mos’ and in the ‘Rudul/towy’ collieries

    By K. Cybulski

    In 2002 a coal dust explosions occurred in the Polish collieries “Jas-Mos” and “Rydultowy” in the Upper Silesia coal basin. In the “Jas-Mos” colliery the coal dust explosion was initiated in the face

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Do Light-Emitting Diode Cap Lamps Enable Improvements In Miner Safety? - Preprint 09-090

    By J. Sammarco

    Proper illumination is critical to a miner?s ability to detect hazards in underground mines. Moving hazards are often located in the miner?s peripheral field-of-view, while slip/trip/fall hazards are

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Northwest Mining Association Returns To Spokane For 113th Meeting

    On Nov 1, 2007 House Resolution 2262 ? The Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007 ? was passed by the U.S. House by a vote of 244-166. HR-2262, among other things, would impose a 4-per-cent roy

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Large Arena Test Simulator Using Small High Explosive Charges.

    By Paul Worsey, Larry Frost, Braden Lusk, Seok Bin Lim

    For certification of blast resistant windows, current tests consist of arena tests or large air gun tests. Arena tests involve the detonation of more than 1000 pounds of explosives with windows placed

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AIME
    Information Requirements For Equity Issues

    By E. L. Affleck, W. G. Stevenson

    In both Canada and the United States, a company making a public offering of securities must comply with regulations which have been passed by Federal, State and/or Provincial Legislatures. These r

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Can The Toxicity Of Asbestos Be Reduced? - Preprint 09-124

    By F. Habashi

    Asbestos, an extremely useful natural resource, has been studied extensively mineralogically and for industrial application. Its extraction from ores has been greatly improved with respect to safety i

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Strategic Alignment: A Mining Industry Challenge

    By Russell Barr

    Strategic alignment throughout a mining organization is critical to effective strategic execution and good business performance. The alignment of strategic goals and objectives in the different operat

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    The Development Of An Agglomerate Through The Use Of FeMn Waste

    By K. P. Davey

    In 1998 an initial objective was given to the author, to process valuable off grade High Carbon Ferro Manganese (FeMn) metal fines profitably. The previous attempts that had been made to re-melt these

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    The Design, Commissioning And Operation Of The Castle Valley Plant In Wellington, Ut

    By P. J. Bethell

    Background Increasingly complex geological conditions, with the presence of high ash binders in the mining horizon were encountered at the A.C. I. Dugout Mine near Price, Utah. This led to the prod

    Jan 1, 2008

  • CIM
    St. Andrew Goldfields

    By P. Massi

    "Wholly owned by the Coniagas Mining Company, the oldest continuously listed mining company on the Toronto Stock Exchange, St. Andrew Goldfields is located on Hwy. 101 approximately 30 miles east of d

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Helmet Cam: A Tool For Assessing Miners? Exposure To Respirable Dust In The Metal/Nonmetal Mining Industry

    By A. B. Cecala

    Video technology coupled with data logging exposure monitors have been used to evaluate worker exposure to different types of contaminants. However, previous application of this technology used a stat

    Feb 27, 2013

  • CIM
    Alumina from Clays

    By Karim El-Ouassiti, Marc Minville, Stéphane Chabot, Claude Bazin, Valérie Ouellet

    "Alumina is the main source of aluminium and it is extracted almost exclusively from bauxite ores found in the Southern hemisphere. Clays are abundant minerals that contain from 15 to 40% w/w of alumi

    Jan 1, 2005

  • NIOSH
    IC 6831 The Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association And Its Awards ? Introduction

    By D. Harrington

    Every few weeks United States newspapers of 25 or 30 years age ran scare-heads telling of some mine disaster, which was a first-page attraction for a day or two and then was forgotton until another di

    Jan 1, 1935

  • NIOSH
    RI 4988 Future of Birmingham Red Iron Ore, Jefferson Co. AL

    By J. R. Thoenen, B. H. Clemmons, A. H. Reed

    "INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARYOverall red-ore reserves in the Birmingham, Ala., area were estimated in 1910 by E. F. Burchard 4/. Since then mining has progressed into areas classed by Burchard as ""unava

    Jul 1, 1953

  • CIM
    Ensuring Adequate Safety When Using Hydrogen as a Fuel

    By D. Allan Coutts

    Demonstration projects using hydrogen as a fuel are becoming very common. Often these projects rely on project-specific risk evaluations to support project safety decisions. This is necessary becaus

    May 1, 2007

  • SME
    The Deep Underground Science And Engineering Laboratory And The Construction Of Physics Megacaverns

    By C. Laughton

    The Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) is to be constructed at the defunct Homestake Mine, in South Dakota. As a cornerstone of DUSEL?s research program, it is intended to con

  • SAIMM
    Kinetics And Thermodynamic Parameters For The Manufacturing Of Anhydrous Zirconium Tetrafluoride With Ammonium Acid Fluoride As Fluorinating Agent ? Synopsis

    By C. J. Pretorius

    More than 30 percent of the global demand for zircon (ZrSi04) is supplied by South Africa. A significant amount of the zircon is exported, and beneficiated products are then imported for industrial ap

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Development and application of new technology for 3D Geomechanical model test of large underground group caverns

    By S. Jiansheng, H. Nakayama, D. Lu, A. Wang

    ABSTRACT: New techniques and methods for 3D geo-mechanical model test are presented in this paper. The new model material NIOS with high density and low cost; the so-called DPSS (Discrete Principal St

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AIME