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  • CIM
    Investigation of an active noise control system to reduce the noise emitted by an industrial stack

    By Martin Bouchard, Bruno Paillard, Jean-Claude Dubé, André L’Espérance

    "A precise analysis of the noise emitted by an aluminum plant has shown that one of the main sources of noise is the noise emitted by an exhaust stack 40 m high and 1.8 m diametre, emitting a pure ton

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Subsidence of bedrock above abandoned coal mines in Illinois produces few fractures

    By R. A. Bauer

    Investigations of bedrock within subsided areas over abandoned coal mines in Illinois reveal very little disturbance of the bedrock. In areas that have surface subsidence of 0.3 to 1 m (1 to 3.25 ft),

    Jan 1, 1987

  • DFI
    Construction Dewatering Challenges in Urban Environments

    By Rafael A. Rivera

    "Since the dawn of construction, there has been a need for excavations, which sometimes need to occur below the groundwater table. Excavations in themselves are difficult enough, with the myriad of re

    Jan 1, 2017

  • AIME
    New York Paper February, 1918 - Some Practical Hints in Bucket-elevator Operation

    By A. M. Nicholas

    WheN attempting to lift mill pulp containing a considerable percentage of wolframite, in an ordinary bucket elevator, difficulty was encountered from the tendency of the tungsten minerals to settle, o

    Jan 1, 1918

  • AIME
    Beneficiation Of Florida Dolomite Phosphate Ores

    By G. V. Sullivan, B. E. Davis, T. O. Llewellyn

    The Bureau of Mines, US Department of the Interior, conducted studies to recover phosphate from four dolomitic southern Florida deposits not currently mined. The samples contained 5.8-10.2% P205 and 1

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Emplacement And Mineralization Of The San Cristobal Ag-Zn-Pb Deposit, Southern Bolivia

    By S. E. Phillipson

    The Late Miocene San Cristobal Ag-Zn-Pb deposit represents syngenetic and epigenetic mineralization with low- and high-sulfidation characteristics. Geology is characterized by barren dacitic ring fra

    Jan 1, 2001

  • IMPC
    Manufacture of OPC Using Waste Sludge Generated at POSCO

    By Gi-Chun Han, Ki-Suk Han, Korea Energy Management Corp., Jin-Sang Cho, Hyung-Seok Kim, Jae-Hyun Oh

    This study has been carried out to use the waste sludges generated at Pohang Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. (POSCO) as the raw materials of Ordinary Portland Cement (OPC). The burnability index of the raw mixt

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Co-Generation: A Challenge For Furnace Off-Gas Cleaning Systems

    By E. S. Schubert

    Keywords: co-generation, furnace CO-gas cleaning, disintegrator scrubber, Theisen In a closed, electric, reduction furnace, no oxygen enters the furnace from the surrounding environment. The off-g

    Jan 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    RI 3468 Chemical Considerations Relating To Fires In Anthracite Refuse ? Introduction (1067f50f-d311-4814-b182-e930b23927c4)

    By G. W. Jones

    Fires in anthracite refuse banks are troublesome and may become exceedingly costly to combat. Instances are known in which refuse-bank fires have grown to such magnitude that entire mining properties

    Jan 1, 1939

  • ISEE
    A Student’s Path to the Explosives Industry

    By Brandon Axelrod

    This paper follows a student’s interest in explosives which began at an early age after watching a television program highlighting explosives engineering. The use of explosives in those programs led t

    Jan 1, 2015

  • IMPC
    Effective Utilization of Biomass Waste Using Hydrothermal Treatment

    By M. Nonaka

    An attempt to produce fuel from biomass waste by hydrothermal treatment has been made with expectation to effectively utilize a renewable source of energy and an unexploited energy resource. In this p

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AIME
    Effects of Maintenance Practice on Wire Rope Life in Dragline Applications

    By W. E. Anderson, T. M. Brady

    As part of a larger study to identify factors influencing the practical operating life of wire rope used on large draglines in surface coal mining, field trips to operating surface coal mines were mad

    Jan 11, 1979

  • NIOSH
    OFR-49-76 The Development Of A System To Suppress And Extinguish Fully Developed Coal Dust Explosions: Progress Report

    By L. D. Johnson

    On a project which is to develop a system to suppress coal dust explosions, a facility has been built and several devices tested. The facility is a 317-foot, 4.5-foot diameter shock tube and to date 5

    Jan 1, 1972

  • AIME
    Grindability and Grinding Characteristics of Ores (3617ad8d-1b02-4467-acfa-f839071afacb)

    By Walter L. Maxson, Fred C. Bond

    THIS paper is a continuation of two earlier papers, l, 2 and presents new data on the grindability of various ores and other materials-the results of several years of intermittent research work on the

    Jan 1, 1938

  • AIME
    Symposia - Symposuim on Determination of Hydrogen in Steel - A Modified Vacuum Extraction Apparatus

    By W. D. Brown

    Newell1 has shown that hydrogen is removed from steel in a vacuum at a temperature of 500° to 900° C. within 136 hr. Holm and Thompson2 also state that, especially when the hydrogen is high, the resul

    Jan 1, 1945

  • AUSIMM
    Tectonic Setting of Stratiform Ore Deposits Buried in Sedimentary Cover of the Pacific Ocean

    Five types of mineral resource were known in the sedimentary cover of the oceans and seas floors prior to the 1980s: 1. hydrocarbon fields including some very large zones of oil and gas accumulation;

    Jan 1, 1995

  • NIOSH
    IC 9101 Domestic Consumption Trends, 1972-82, And Forecasts To 1993 For 12 Major Metals

    Consumption and intensity of use trends for 12 metals, by industrial end use, were estimated for 1972 through 1982 by the Bureau of Mines and U.S. Department of Commerce. The trends were then forecast

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SAIMM
    Metal Recovery from TiCl4 slurry by Evaporation and Acid Leaching

    By X. Xiang, W. Xia, J. Yin

    "TiCl4 slurry containing valuable metals is an unavoidable by-product of the titanium ore chlorination process. The recovery of these valuable metals, which include titanium, niobium, tantalum, and al

    May 1, 2019

  • AUSIMM
    Bearing Capacity and Deformation Characteristics of Ponded Fine Grained Coal Mine Tailings

    It is now becoming mandatory in Australia to rehabilitate ponded fine grained coal mine tailings, which may well have been deposited initially with no consideration as to how or whether this could be

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Challenges of Quality Management in Sampling and Measurement of Geometallurgical Variables

    The prime objective of geometallurgy is to improve the profitability of mines through the use of spatial models of rock properties that have a significant impact on value. Although a key property is t

    Mar 1, 2010