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  • SME
    Radioactive Index, Gamma Spectrometry

    By I. Pordea

    The materials used for the construction of buildings contain natural radionuclides of the U238 and Th232 series and are ? 50% due to land radioactivity. Another component of natural radioactivity is K

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Recycling Process Water in Sulfide flotation, Part B: Effect of H2O2 and Process Water Components on Sphalerite flotation From Complex Sulfide

    By F. Ikumapayi

    Hydrogen peroxide production was measured during the grinding of a complex sulfide ore, and its oxidizing effect on solid surfaces was investigated using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR)

  • SME
    Mina Maria: A New Mine In Mexico's Old Cananea Mining District

    By R. J. Reuss

    The ore at this new underground operation is a massive sulfide breccia with high copper values. A major highway and electric transmission line pass directly over the near-surface orebodv. The mining m

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Cryogenic air supply for cooling built-in-place refuge alternatives in hot mines (MME Technical-Paper Abstracts)

    By Miguel Reyes, Bruce Whisner, Joseph Bickson, Lincan Yan, David Yantek, Justin Srednicki, Nicholas Damiano, Eric Bauer

    Built-in-place (BIP) refuge alternatives (RAs) are designed to provide a secure space for miners who cannot escape during a mine emergency. Heat and humidity buildup within RAs may expose miners to ph

  • SME
    Blast Casting At An Eastern Strip Mine (b31012bf-2fc9-4254-a7e6-574a95628df1)

    By R. R. Rollins

    Field data combined with theoretical derivations were used to design a surface mining operation using explosive casting. Calculated casting results varied from 44 to 65% depending on bench height. T

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    A New Hydrometallurgical Concept

    By A. K. Andersen

    One of the prime examples of the versatility of the MARCONAFLO system, which is a body of technology comprising the means to handle, store, load, transport, discharge and reclaim mineral commodities i

    Jan 1, 1975

  • SME
    Rehabilitation Of A Failed Haul Road In An Asbestos Open Pit

    By W. D. Bullock

    The King-Beaver mine of Asbestos Corporation Limited operates an open pit in the city of Thetford Mines, Quebec. The approximate loca-tion of the open pit is at Latitude 46° 02' North and Longitu

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    An Improved Load Measuring Device for Underground Mining Standing Supports

    By Erik Westman, Brandon Stables, Benjamin Mirabile

    "Standing support is often used in conjunction with underground retreat mining. Knowledge of the load-displacement behavior of standing support and loading induced by the mine opening is critical to p

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Supply, Installation, & Commissioning Of The World's Largest Grinding Mill

    By V. Svalbonas, S. M. Jones, A. Boughey

    In June 1998, the world's largest grinding mill, the 40 ft (12.2 m) diameter 20 MW Cadia gearless SAG mill, was commissioned. This was a leap of over40% above the largest operating SAG mill. A

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    A Novel Energy Efficient Process For Ultra-Fine Coal Grinding

    This paper presents the results of an experimental study undertaken to demonstrate the feasibility of using silica sand as a grinding media in stirred ball mills for ultra-fine coal grinding. Laborato

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Electric Vehicle Fleet Optimization Software (EV-FOS) for Planning and Optimizing BEV Fleets in Any Mining Environment

    By Robert Rennie, Taylor Davies, Ahsanul Rafi

    Electric locomotives powered by extensive electrical cabling systems were prevalent in the mining industry in the early days of the 20th Century [1]. Since the movement of tethered electrical mining l

    Jun 25, 2023

  • SME
    Design And Construction Of Earth Bottom Thickeners

    By Edward S. Hsia

    Pluor Utah has been closely associated with the engineering and construction of earth bottom thickeners for porphyry copper operations, for the counter-current decantation circuit of a gold cyanide pl

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Platinum Group Minerals And Their Recoveries From Copper-Nickel Bearing Duluth Gabbro

    By I. Iwasaki

    Precious metals are commonly believed to be recovered along with sulfide minerals in flotation, but a few neutron activation analyses showed that the recoveries of gold and silver were unexpectedly lo

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Slurry Transport System Operation - Introduction

    By D. L. McCain

    In considering slurry transportation for Consolidation Coal Company's Loveridge Mine in Northern West Virginia, many things were taken into account. The advantages of slurry transportation in com

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Improvement Of Plant Yield By Effective Desliming Of Froth Flotation Cell Feed At Elk Run Coal Co. ? Introduction

    By P. J. Bethell

    In the froth flotation process the detrimental effect of slimes on the froth flotability of valuable minerals has long been known.1 Work by Aplan2 on the froth flotation of coal has shown that the pre

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    The Recovery Of Zinc Via Solvent Extraction Using An Organic Agent

    By Paul R. Kruesi

    A patent-applied-for process has been developed in which zinc chloride is extracted by tributyl phosphate in kerosine, and stripped with ethylene glycol or ammoniated ethylene glycol. The anhydrous zi

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Effect of Scale of Premixed Methane-Air Combustion in Confined Space Using Les Model

    By N. S. Aouad

    "Gaseous explosions are one of the most hazardous incidents in process and mining industries. Experimental research in this area is shown to be high risk and expensive. Computational Fluid Dynamics (C

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Development work continues for open-pit mining at Red Dog

    By S. Hodgson

    Introduction The Red Dog zinc/lead deposit in northwest Alaska is the second largest zinc deposit ever discovered. Being developed by Cominco Alaska, with startup scheduled for early 1990, it will ul

    Jan 12, 1988

  • SME
    The Influence Of Coal Characteristics On Boiler Design And Performance

    By K. W. Morris

    Of the fossil fuels used for power generation coal is by far the most variable and complex in its properties. A thorough review of the characteristics of the coal to be fired is essential before boile

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Effects of Major Ions in Recycled Water on Sulfide Minerals Flotation

    By G. Bulut, Ü. Yenial

    "The use of recycled water in flotation has significant effects on flotation and selectivity because the recycled water contains many dissolved compounds and ions that alter the chemistry of the syste

    Jan 1, 2016