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  • SAIMM
    Automated SEM study of PGM distribution across a UG2 flotation concentrate bank: implications for understanding PGM floatability ? Synopsis

    By D. Chetty

    The characterization of platinum group minerals (PGMs) from concentrator flotation circuits provides valuable information towards understanding PGM recovery under given milling and flotation condition

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Controlling Conveyor Dust Before it Becomes a Problem

    By Neil F. Archer

    Due to the increased chance of violations and shutdowns by the U.S Occupational Safety and Health Administration(OSHA) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a company can save itself pro

    Jan 1, 2003

  • NIOSH
    OFR-30-76 Design Evaluation For Development Of An Advanced Bolter Module - Section 1 - Summary

    This report covers the work performed by the Advanced Products Division of FMC Corporation under Bureau of Hines Contract J0155166, Design Evaluation for Development of an Advanced Bolter Module.

    Jan 1, 1975

  • SME-ICGCM
    Numerical simulation of coal pillar loading with the aid of a strain-softening finite difference model

    By A. T. Iannacchione

    Numerical simulation of coal pi1lar loading has traditionally been a difficult task due to the unique and highly variable properties of coal and the inability of numerical procedures to duplicate thes

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Sustainable mining operations with Atlas Copco’s products

    By L. Bergkvist

    "History can provide many answers with regard to what today’s mining industry looks like and how we got to where we are today. It has always been self-evident that safety has to be given the highest p

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Bubble Surface Area Flux: A Parameter to Characterize Flotation Cells

    By R. Filippone, Donald Leroux, Colin Hardie, G. Leichtle, Cesar Gomez, Jim A. Finch

    "Bubble surface area flux (Sb) is the surface area of bubbles per unit time per unit cross-sectional area of flotation machine. The units are: (m2 bubble surface/s)/(m2 cell) or s -1. For bubbles of m

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    A Critical Analysis of Overcoring Stress Measurements from US Underground Coal Mines

    By J. A. Rusnak, M. M. Gadde, S. S. Peng

    In situ stresses are one of the key inputs to a successful underground excavation design. Because of the complex mechanisms involved in arriving at the current state of stress at a point in the Earth’

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Geology of the Deep Ore Zone, Ertsberg East Skarn System, Irian Jaya

    By H Susanto, N Belluz, D Flint, A Edw

    The Deep Ore Zone (DOZ) is a block cave mining operation exploiting a diluted reserve of 131 million tonnes grading 1.06 per cent copper and 0.81 g/t gold in the lower portion of the Ertsberg East Ska

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SAIMM
    Presidential Address: Rock Engineering - Good Design Or Good Judgement?

    Rock engineering has now been practised as a discipline for about50 years, and many sophisticated methods of analysis for use in rock engineering design have been developed. However, analysis is only

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    The Petrography of Some Triassic Ipswich Coals

    By Taylor G. H

    The Triassic Ipswich (SE. Queensland) coals are of bituminous rank. The more exact rank of individual samples was determined by measuring the reflectance of the vitrinite. While in general the rank of

    Jan 1, 1963

  • AUSIMM
    Stress and Deformation of Mine Openings

    Flat jack stress determinations in selected colliery roadways have revealed a range of measured stress from 330 lb/sq. in. tension to 3,750 lb/sq. in. compression. Photoelastic examination of loaded p

    Jan 1, 1963

  • CIM
    Automated Real-Time Elementary Analysis of Drill Dust using LIBS Technology

    By Karl Nienhaus

    The BGMR has developed a method for an online-analysis during drilling processes in cooperation with Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology in Aachen and various industrial partners. This allows fo

    Oct 1, 2009

  • SME
    Improving Power Plant Performance And Reducing Emissions Through The Use Of Pneumatic Dry Cleaning For Low Rank Coal

    By R. J. Snoby, J. K. Alderman

    Although once fairly common as a method of coal preparation in the United States, dry cleaning has virtually disappeared. Low-rank coals used for power generation in the western U.S. are suited for dr

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Mineralogic Sources Of Metals In Leachates From The Weathering Of Sedex, Massive Sulfide, And Vein Deposit Mining Wastes

    By S. F. Diehl

    Weathered mine waste consists of oxidized primary minerals and chemically unstable secondary phases that can be sources of readily soluble metals and acid rock drainage. Elevated concentrations of met

    Jan 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    Case History Of The Response Of A Longwall Entry Subjected To Concentrated Horizontal Stress

    By D. Oyler

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL), RAG Pennsylvania and Strata Control Technologies of Australia collaborated in an intensive study

  • AUSIMM
    No. 2 Open Hearth Plant at Port Kembla

    By Edmonds W, Jeffcoat R

    The completion of the first two open hearth furnaces in the new No. 2 open hearth plant at Port Kembla will increase Australian production of steel by 350,000 tons of ingots per annum.The paper gives

    Jan 1, 1957

  • AUSIMM
    Two Hg-Au Occurrences in the West Sumatra Permian Volcanic-Plutonic Arc West of Bangko in Sumatra, Indonesia

    By I M. van Waveren, F Hasibuan, M J. Crow

    "An EXTENDED ABSTRACT is available for download. A full-length paper was not prepared for this presentation. Two Hg-Au occurrences west of Bangko, Sumatra occur within the West Sumatra Permian Volcani

    Mar 18, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Property Trends in Latrobe Valley Brown Coals and Implications for Future Utilisation

    By Wood W, Bell A

    Brown coal production in Victoria's Latrobe Valley Region (Figure 1) continues to rise and currently stands at around 50 Mt per annum. With the exception of around 2 Mt used to produce some 700

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AIME
    Deoxidation with Silicion in the Basic Open Hearth Process

    By Herty, C. H.

    Three distinct processes take place during the conversion of iron ore to steel. First: the raw ore is reduced to metallic iron in the blast furnace and during this reduction certain constituents are

    Jan 1, 1957

  • SAIMM
    Optimization of shuttle car utilization atan underground coal mine

    By P. R. Segopolo

    "The purpose of the project is to convert current shuttle car utilization on an underground coal mine to best practice by focusing on change-out points and tramming routes, which have a major influenc

    Jan 1, 2015