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  • SME
    Treatment Of Manganiferous Silver Ores For Recovery Of Silver In View Of Changed Precious Metal Economics

    By Clement K. Chase

    Since the dawn of cyanidation leaching techniques for precious metals, certain manganese-bearing silver ores have been a problem due to low silver extraction. Since simultaneous occurrence of silver a

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    The Importance Of Water Utilization For Maximizing Grinding Circuit Classification System Efficiency - Preprint 09-067

    The Functional Performance Equation for ball milling circuits allows us to isolate the circuit classification system efficiency (CSE) from the mill?s grinding performance. The factors which affect cir

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Asbestos Mining In Russia: Approaches To Public Health Risk Assessment

    By A. Korchevskiy

    While Russia continues to be a worldwide leader in asbestos production, the environmental and health status around Russian asbestos mines is not well known and understood, internationally. A literatu

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Technology News – Excavators Designed for Use in Confined Spaces

    Komatsu America International has introduced two new hydraulic excavators. They can work in congested and confined areas. The tight tail swing radius of the PC128US-2 and PC22-8USLC-2 enables the exc

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Heat Stress in Hot Underground Mines: a Brief Literature Review "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Paloma Lazaro, Moe Momayez

    Interactions between human beings and their work environment require the body to regulate its temperature by balancing heat production and loss. Comfortable environmental conditions are crucial for ke

    Oct 6, 2020

  • SME
    Eskay Creek Mine And Mill – A Continued Success

    By G. Biles, K. Loughran, R. Anand

    The Eskay Creek Mine, a high-grade gold and silver underground mine in northwestern British Columbia started operations in late 1994. For the first three years of operation, ore was crushed to minus

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Analysis Of Sampling And Slurry Flow Using Multi-Physics Modeling - Preprint 09-058

    By D. McBride

    Representative samples are required from process streams in order to accurately measure chemical and physical characteristics. This information can then be used by process operators and metallurgists

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Electrolytic Removal of Iron from Aluminum Sulfate Solutions

    By S. C. Sun

    A study(1) on the sulfuric acid extraction of alumina from some Pennsylvania ferruginous clays indicated that the published electrolytic method(2)(3) seems to be more efficient than the known chemical

    Jan 1, 1968

  • SME
    Invensys’ User Conference Discusses Plant Automation and Control

    By Steve Kral

    Invensys is a London-based supplier of automation and control systems to a variety of manufacturing and processing industries. Through its global subsidiaries, Invensys provides customized, advanced

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Optimisation Of Single-Layer Cover Made Of Desulphurized Tailings: Application To The Doyon Mine

    By I. Demers

    Doyon mine, Quebec, Canada evaluates the possibility of desulphurizing their tailings to produce material to be used in as cover over the acid generating tailings disposal site. Laboratory tests were

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    A parametric study for the effect of dip on stone mine pillar stability using a simplified model geometry

    By Morgan M. Sears, Gamal Rashed, Michael M. Murphy, Brent Slaker

    A parametric study was conducted using FLAC3D numerical models to examine the impact of oblique loading on the strength and yield pattern of a stone pillar using two simplified geometry types. In type

  • SME
    A study on the optimum arrangement of buoyancy module for stability of marine flexible riser using genetic algorithm & multi-body dynamic simulation

    By Tae-kyeong Yeu, Cheon-Hong Min, Hyung-woo Kim, Sup Hong, Minuk Lee, Chang-Ho Lee

    This paper concerns the optimum arrangement of the buoyancy module, which is used for stable dynamic motion and structure stability of the marine flexible riser. The main method of this study is simul

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    Legislative Action Important: Key Message at - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By Steve Kral

    The mining industry has waited a long time for the resurgence in commodity prices and demand for its products that it is now experiencing. Base and precious metals prices have reached levels not seen

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Practical Optimization Strategies for Coal-Washing Plants – Preprint 97-70

    By R. P. King

    The MODSIM mineral processing plant simultor is used to find optimal combinations of target separation specific gravities in a typical modem coal washing plant. A plant that is set up with these optim

    Feb 24, 1997

  • SME
    Hydrologic Assessment Of Waste Rock Stockpiles: A Case Study From Ajo Mine, Arizona

    By A. L. Williamson, G. Savci

    Hydrologic assessments of existing and proposed waste rock stockpiles (WRS) are typically required for application of operating and closure permits at mine sites. The results of these assessments can

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Railroad Crossing by Microtunneling: MTBM Successfully Mines Side-by-Side Twin Tunnels Six Feet Below Railroad - West Elizabeth Avenue Storm Drainage Project, Linden, New Jersey

    By Keith Schaeffer

    This paper presents a history of the planning, engineering and construction completed for the railroad tunnel crossing part of the West Elizabeth Avenue Storm Drainage Project, undertaken to relieve f

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Protecting Miners from Coal Bursts During Development Above Historic Mine Workings in Harlan County, Kentucky

    In order to reach a large, untapped reserve of high-quality coal, D8 Cloverlick mine proposed to mine a corridor nearly 2,000 ft deep beneath the Benham Spur of Black Mountain, Kentucky’s highest peak

    Jan 7, 2020

  • SME
    The 1990’s – Politics and the Environment

    By Georgene Renner

    At the beginning of the 1990s, Communism fell and signaled the end of the Cold War. The world rejoiced but also watched and waited to see how those countries would restructure themselves. The 1990

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Heap Leach solution management at Coeur-Rochester

    By Peter A. Anderson

    Innovative solution management is being used at Coeur-Rochester Inc. to increase bullion production and decrease overall costs. New operating programs call for reduced solution application rates to th

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Organic Substrate Selection Criteria For Sulfate Reduction Treatment Of Mining Influenced Waters ? Introduction

    By P. A. Hagerty

    Biological treatment of metals-impacted water using sulfate reduction is a viable means of treatment that has been applied in pilot and full scale at numerous projects. One of the fundamental challen

    Jan 1, 2011