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  • SME
    Introduction of a New Environmentally Friendly Acid Mist Suppressant in Copper Electrowinning—Acorga® EW98 - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Justin Jensen, Luis Moya, Jose Carlos Durazo, William Szolga, Tyler McCallum, Tim Doubleday

    Sulfuric acid mist is an undesired by-product of the copper electrowinning process, caused by oxygen evolution at the anode which entrains droplets of the acidic copper electrolyte solution. As the ox

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    Production begins at Pecket, Chile’s first large scale, open-pit coal operation and world’s southernmost mine

    By Tim Neil, O&apos

    Introduction Compania de Carbones de Chile (Cocar SA) has brought into production Chile's first large-scale, open-pit coal mine, located in the Magellan Province. The US $65 million project i

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Understanding Acid Consumption And Its Relationship With Copper Recovery

    By M. L. Free

    Acid consumption in copper heap leaching is determined by the minerals present in the ore. Gangue minerals such as biotite and chlorite consume acid together with copper-bearing minerals such as chrys

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Futuristic, Underground Coal Mining Production Technology

    By R. K. Singhal

    The underground coal mining systems have kept pace with the developments that have occurred in other types of mining industry. A diversified group of machines with high horsepower motors, built-in mic

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    St. Joe Milling Concepts - Design Overview

    By H. M. Ray

    The discovery of the New Lead Belt in the mid-'50s began a search for mill design criteria that is continuously updated. The opportunity to design, construct, and operate four new mills in the sp

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Citric acid leaching performance at high solid-to-liquid ratios for lithium-ion battery recycling

    By G. Akdogan, S. M. Bradshaw, A. P. Van Wyk, T. Punt

    This study investigated the performance of citric acid as lixiviant for cathode material from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). Black mass containing 84.2 weight percent MNC (LiNi0.45Mn0.4Co0.

    Apr 1, 2025

  • SME
    Trailing Cable - Getting Your Money's Worth

    By Cliff Holloway

    The past year has been difficult for Canada's primary industries. The mining, oil and forestry industries have been hit by low prices and a reduced demand for natural resources. Foreign competiti

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Thrust Faulting In Franciscan Rocks At Permanente, California

    By Donald Towse

    The Permanente plant of Kaiser Cement & Gypsum Corporation is located at a unique thick deposit of Calera Limestone (Figure 1) on the southwest side of San Francisco Bay. Limestone is rare in the eug

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Improved Drill and Blast Designs Free $3.6m of Ore for Surface Copper Mine - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Liz Diaz, Tacio Ferreira

    Capstone Copper’s Pinto Valley Mine faced challenges in recovering rock and ore on final walls because of geotechnical constraints that require restrictions on methods for loading blastholes adjacent

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    Rubber-Lined Balling Drums At United States Steel's Atlantic City Ore Operations

    By Russell L. Dahl

    In a continuing effort to improve plant efficiency, United States Steel's Atlantic City Ore Operations completed the rubber lining of its balling drums in late 1982. This resulted in benefits of

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Starting My Profession

    My first regular job nearly fell through. My parents were spending the summer in California and I joined them at Lake Tahoe where we were guests at the lovely summer home of the Reids of Belmont. The

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Education

    The next 13 years gave me an education that anyone, then or now, would well envy. W.T. Reid had founded Belmont School along the lines of Groton and, as at Groton, he sent many graduates to Harvard. H

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Lignite and Sustainability

    By K. Häge

    "Die Nachhaltigkeit der Braunkohlengewinnung in der öffentlichen Wahrnehmung wird nur weiter erfolgreich kommuniziert werden können, wenn durch konkretes Handeln glaubhaft gezeigt wird, dass die offen

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Future Trends On Urban Environmental Issues: National, State And Local Government Directions

    By Alan C. Richter

    Introduction The East-West Gateway Coordinating Council is an organization of local governments formed in 1965 to identify regional problems and to formulate policies, plans and programs to resolve

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Regulations In Nevada Affecting Industrial Minerals

    By R. Fields

    Nevada is primarily known today for its nation-leading production of gold and silver. However, industrial mineral production continues to play an important role in providing construction materials to

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Exploration Budgets Rise; Companies Spent More Than $12 Billion In 2010

    With commodity prices rising again and market conditions stabilizing, the Metals Economics Group (MEG) found that most mining companies increased their exploration budgets in 2010. In the groups 21st

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Gaby Copper Mining finds success with new level measurement technology

    Gaby Copper Mining?s Gabriela Mistral property is located in the Antofagasta region of northern Chile, at an altitude of 2,660 m (8,727 ft) above sea level. The reserve contains an estimated 562 Mt (6

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Overburden Movement Due to Underground Mining

    By W. M. Ma, Daniel W. H. Su, K. Centofanti, Yi Luo, W. L. Zhong, Syd S. Peng

    1.1 INTRODUCTION When underground mining involves total extraction, it induces overburden strata movements. If not properly planned it causes surface subsidence and affects surface environmental con

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Discussion of paper “Testing and analysis of cement foam materials for coal mine seals” - SME Transactions 2015

    By K. J. Ma, L. Ma, J. Stankus

    The paper’s intent is to evaluate pumpable foamed cementitious mine seal material by determining the shear strength of a generic foamed cement in the laboratory. The tests were conducted on three scal

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Porter Square Rock Chamber

    By David E. Thompson, Edward S. Plotkin

    The Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) Red Line Extension Northwest is nearing the final stages of construction. The 3. 1 mile extension of the Red Line from the existing Harvard Square

    Jan 1, 1983