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  • SME
    Performance Of Modern Spirals Cleaning Fine Coal

    By E. G. Kelly

    This paper describes the performance of a modern compound trough profile spiral that is optimized for fine coal cleaning. Reduced performance (Tromp) curves are presented to compare these new spirals

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Fluorine Consumption Trends Of The Aluminum Industry -1978 (7702c2fa-4e01-4c9f-acef-6a2597b7b8c4)

    By Guy D. Bruno

    Through the remainder of this century, world consumption of fluorine per ton of primary aluminum produced will continue to be substantially reduced. Growth of the primary industry will offset some of

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Electromagnetic Interference from Personal Dust Monitors and Other Electronic Devices with Proximity Detection Systems

    By R. J. Matetic, J. Noll, C. Zhou, J. DuCarme, M. Reyes, J. Srednicki

    "In April 2016, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) began requiring the use of continuous personal dust monitors to monitor and measure respirable mine dust exposures to underground

    Jan 5, 2018

  • SME
    Applications Of Surface And Borehole Geophysics To Uranium Waste Disposal Practices

    By Muriel S. Robinette

    Ground-water contamination from uranium operations could be avoided with proper site analysis techniques. Contamination from tailings disposal sites is carried downgradient within permeable hydrostra

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Case Studies Of Long-Term Methane Extraction From Coal

    By M. A. Trevits

    The explosion hazard presented by methane gas in coal is confronted daily in the mining industry. Research has developed several viable methods for gas control in addition to conventional dilution by

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Measurement of thermal conductivity of sandstone using Lee’s apparatus: A case study

    By BHAMIDIPATI S. SASTRY, KATTAMURI PAVAN KUMAR, ADITYA PANDEY

    Several laboratory methods are available to determine the thermal conductivity of rocks, but most of them are complex and cumbersome. The present study explains the working principle of Lee’s apparatu

  • SME
    Optimum Drilling And Blasting Procedures

    In some 35 years in the explosive and construction industries, we have probably seen the extremes in drilling and blasting practices. All of you know that it is difficult if not impossible, to separat

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Use Of Lightweight Flyash Blocks To Construct Fills On Sensitive Soils

    By E. B. Kroeger

    One of the problems encountered when constructing a roadway is the planned route often needs to cross soils that are soft and highly compressible. An approach to dealing with soft and compressible so

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Geometallurgical Studies for the Mineração Rio Do Norte Bauxites Plateau Saracá III, Brazil

    By M. A. S. Martins, H. Medeiros, B. Y. B. Dos Santos

    This paper contains the geometallurgical studies, performed for Mineração Rio do Norte bauxites, applied to a selected area belonging to Plateau Saracá III, referring to an exploitation period of one

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Land Use Change In Mt. Penteli Marble Quarries

    By Elias Apostolidis

    Since 500 B.C. Mt. Penteli has been famous as white marble production site, which provided the birthstones for the construction of Athens Acropolis and Parthenon. The Aloula quarry belongs to ?Diony

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Ultrafine Coal Single Stage Dewatering And Briquetting Process (189606f4-4c50-42f6-8da0-154a5c569c6b)

    By J. W. Wilson

    In the ultrafine coal cleaning process, small coal particles (-400 mesh) are produced during the pulverizing operation. After the coal cleaning process, these ultrafine particles are very difficult to

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Geology And The Bottom Line

    By Bobby J. Timmons

    Luck; blind, beginner's, fisherman's, or whatever type, plays an important role in romance, racing, football, gambling, and mineral exploration. However, for each of these; education, traini

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    The Effect Of Overall Pit Slope And Pit Geometry On The Dispersion Of Pollutants In A Hypothetical Arctic Open-Pit Mine

    By A. Choudhury

    Deep open-pit mines are becoming increasingly common in the highly mineralized arctic and sub-arctic regions. Air inversion is a frequent occurrence in these regions, and is exacerbated by complex geo

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    3.2 Ore-Body Modeling - 1. Technical Overview ? Introduction

    By B. T. Stanley

    The basic geological data, derived from boreholes, exploratory test pits, drivages, and mine development, include information on parameters such as ore thicknesses, grades, depths below surface, struc

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Government's Role In The Shared Commitment - 1. Introduction

    By S. Rideout

    As Assistant Director for Program Support for the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Interior, I am responsible for the regulatory and a

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Coal Markets Under Acid Rain Legislation

    By J. Platt

    Debate over acid rain legislation has presented a moving target for coal and utility company planners attempting to figure out how legislation will affect their business environment. In spite of disag

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Leaching Of Gold And Silver From A Kupol Composite Sample: Assessment Of The CANMET Enhanced Leaching Process (CELP)

    By G. Deschênes

    In an earlier study (Deschênes et al., 2009), gold and silver were shown to be efficiently extracted from samples taken from the Kupol Mine in Russia using lead nitrate in a cyanide leach system. In t

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Evaluating Options in Design of the Akron Northside Interceptor Tunnel (NSIT) Tunnel Diversion and Flow Control Structure - NAT2024

    By Dominick Mandalari, David Mast, Heather Ullinger, Juan Granja, Amanda Foote

    The City of Akron will construct the Northside Interceptor Tunnel (NSIT) project to control and reduce combined sewer overflows. One component of the project a large diameter tunnel diversion / flow c

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    Property Sales --Getting From Here To There

    By R. E. MacDougall

    Very few mineral properties spend their entire lifespans from discovery to depletion in the hands of one owner. More likely, properties will have several owners, and partial interests may change quite

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    3.3 Open-Pit Limits Analysis - 1. Technical Overview

    By Y. C. Kim

    One aspect of long-range mine planning in an open-pit mine is first to define the ultimate pit limit, i.e., the projected size and shape of the pit at the end of its life. This chapter is concerned wi

    Jan 1, 1979