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  • SME
    Scaleup of Pressure Oxidation Processes

    By D. D. Gertenbach

    "The successful commercialization of a pressure oxidation (POX) process for recovering metal values, including gold, copper, zinc, nickel and molybdenum, is the result of a carefully planned developme

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Use Of Oxide Coated Stream Gravels In Geochemical Survey: A Test Case

    By Philip R. Whitney

    Precipitation of hydrous manganese/iron oxides in streams can be readily observed in much of the northeastern United States, and is apparently a common phenomenon in other glaciated areas (1,2,3,4).

    Jan 1, 1975

  • SME
    Vegetative Stabilization Tests On An Acidic Copper Tailing

    By W. R. McDonald

    The U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Mines, conducted field tests on acidic copper tailing as part of its program to devise, improve, and demonstrate technology for stabilizing mining and mi

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Mining Efficiency And Equipment Analysis As Affected By Mining Conditions

    By Kent E. McElhattan

    The selection of efficiency machinery for an underground mining system is a highly skilled art. Modern techniques of mining, based on sound engineering principles, increase the probability of success.

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
    Geology Of The Cove Gold-Silver Deposit

    By B. A. Kuyper

    The Cove gold-silver deposit is located 50 km southwest of Battle Mountain, Nevada and 1.5 km northeast of the McCoy Mine. Total proven and probable reserves are 48.7 Mt (53.7 Mst) with an average gra

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Processing of Peridotite Rocks of Chromite Ore Overburden into Magnesium Salts and Micro Silica Mining, "Metallurgy & Exploration"

    By Kallam V. K. Reddy, VADAPALLI SANJANA, Veerendra Singh, Gajanan Kapure

    This work describes a leaching process for the conversion of high-magnesium peridotite rock, which is a chromite ore overburden, into two valuable products: magnesium salts and micro silica. Under nor

    May 5, 2020

  • SME
    Calibration Of Low-cost Particulate Matter Sensors For Coal Dust Monitoring - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By Y. Wang, G. Xu, N. A. Amoah, A. Kumar

    Mining-induced coal dust causes various respiratory diseases to mine workers, such as coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP). Current available underground monitors are expensive, heavy and only measure m

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SME
    Pilot Plant Testing of a New Process for Rhenium Recovery from Copper PLS

    By C. Bryce

    Rhenium is primarily recovered as a by-product from molybdenum roasting circuits. However, rhenium is also present in copper heap leach solutions at very low concentrations and represents a potential

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Case Study Of Longwall Mining Effects On Water Wells (d7837608-758a-4c0d-8f16-7743cdca435a)

    By R. J. Matetic

    Mining operations have long been accused of causing a disruption to local, domestic and agricultural water supplies. More recently, concern for water supplies has increased with the advent of high-ext

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Dust Control In High-Productivity Coal Mines: Observations And Strategies In High-Quartz Sections

    By L. Xu

    Since the establishment of the standard dust concentration of 2 mg/m3, a strong effort has been made by mining engineers and researchers to provide better dust control equipment and procedures for und

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Recovering Rare Earths from Waste Phosphors using Froth Flotation and Selective Flocculation

    By G. Mei

    "This study explores froth flotation and selective flocculation methods to recycle waste phosphors containing several rare earth elements, namely, yttrium (Y), europium (Eu), cerium (Ce) and terbium (

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Evaluation of Whole Body Vibration (WBV) of Dumper Operators Based on Job Cycle Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Sandeep Kumar Jeripotula, Govinda Raj Mandela, Aruna Manglapady

    Dumper operators are frequently exposed to whole body vibration (WBV) in surface mines. Surface mining activities involve the amalgamation of comparatively high intensity of vibration and extended exp

  • SME
    Breaking the Wall of ASM Mercury Pollution: The Lantern Retort

    By D. K. Adjei, G. Ofori-Sarpong, R. K. Amankwah

    "Mercury (Hg) is toxic and has long-term effect on the muscle tissues, the brain and the central nervous system functions due to its bioaccumulation and biotransformation effect. Hg pollution around t

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Characterizing REEs in Alaskan Coal and Ash

    By T. Gupta, T. Ghosh

    "In recent years, the demand for Rare Earth Elements (REE) have grown rapidly due to increasing demand and global supply shortage. The supply deficit of these critical elements has encouraged the sear

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Technical Developments Leading To Modern Solvent Extraction Diluents

    By M. D. Bishop

    Early solvent extraction circuits in the uranium industry utilized bona fide kerosenes as diluents for extractant chemicals. These kerosenes were used successfully in the uranium industry; however, at

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Gold In Northeastern Siberia (33e12904-44ad-4fe1-b644-921665adc84c)

    By Wladyslaw John Cieslewicz

    Geologically, this region is occupied by Mesozoids, a folded belt of Triassic and Jurassic sediments and volcanics. Gold mineralization is of Upper Jurassic age. Most of the stream placers formed duri

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Clay Mineral Encapsulation Of Silica Minerals In Bentonites And Some Other Clays (96-159)

    By I. E. Odom

    A study was made of the physical and chemical nature of silica minerals found as natural impurities in bentonites and montmorillonitic Fuller&apos;s earth clay products as well as in <10 micron dust f

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Clarified Solutions By Reversible Cake Filtration

    By Judson G. Brown

    In order to filter small amounts of fine slimy solids the reversible cake-filtration process was developed. The filterable solids contents lion in feeds can range from less than 1 ppm up to about 5%.

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SME
    A Newly Developed And Commercially Proven On-Line Viscometer Offers Significant Benefits In Mineral Processing

    By N. T. Cowper

    Slurry viscosity ultimately affects the majority of mineral extraction processes. However, to date its role has been disguised because mineral processing equipment has been conservatively designed to

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Automatic Hydraulic Takeups For Belt Conveyors

    By Donald D. Murphy

    My first contact with underground, bolt conveyors came when I was hired as a draftsman by the La-Del Conveyor & Manufacturing Company in 1935. At that tine relatively few nines were using haulage belt

    Jan 1, 1963