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  • SME
    Design Of Initial And Final Support Of Pressure Tunnels In The Phoenix "SGC"

    By Timothy P. Smirnoff, Tracy K. Lundin

    INTRODUCTION The City of Phoenix, Arizona is located in the Phoenix Basin watershed which is prone to flash flooding several times each year. The runoff from these storms moves from the mountains i

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Port Authority Of Alleghany County North Shore Connector Project Tunnels And Station Shell Case History Contracts 003 And 006

    By Paul Zick

    The Port Authority of Allegheny County North Shore Connector (NSC) Project involves TBM excavation of twin 690 m (2,240 lf) precast segment lined light rail tunnels through soil and rock under the All

  • DFI
    Piled Raft Design For High Rise Buildings In East London, UK

    By D. P. Nicholson

    The current phase of office development at Canary Wharf in the London Docklands includes twelve multi-storey buildings varying from eighteen to forty stories in height. The area of Canary Wharf South

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Hydrothermal Silicification and Alteration of Breccias from Lucky Strike and Menez Gwen hydrothermal fields (Mid-Atlantic Ridge, Azores)

    By I. A. Costa, Y. Fouquet, F. Barriga

    "Lucky Strike and Menez Gwen are two hydrothermally active sites located along the border of the Azorean plateau, southwest of the Azores islands where the alteration processes affecting basaltic rock

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    The Effectiveness Of Several Enclosed Cab Filters And Systems For Reducing Diesel Particulate Matter

    By J. Noll

    Many underground metal/nonmetal mines are using enclosed cabs on mining equipment to reduce the exposure of miners to diesel particulate matter (DPM). However, some enclosed cab systems may not be me

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Plant Performance Improvements Using Grinding Circuit ?Classification System Efficiency?

    ?Classification System Efficiency (CSE)? is a simple, powerful concept which can be used to measure and improve ball mill circuit efficiency. This paper describes six plant case studies which demonstr

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Notes on Flotation Test Work at Anyox on Granby Ores

    By A. C. Halferdahl

    The Granby ores may be divided into three groups or classes. The No. I ore is a heavy pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, sulphide carrying some free silica, and calcite. No. 2 ore carries the same gene

    Jan 1, 1924

  • AUSIMM
    Optimising Plant Feed Quality and Process Performance Using Geoscan Elemental Analysis

    By H Kurth

    Geoscan is used for multi-elemental analysis of conveyed bulk materials in real time. It has been used for coal analysis since the 1990s, in the cement industry, and since 2003 for measuring mineral o

    Sep 7, 2015

  • ISEE
    The Use of Laser Profiling, High Speed Cameras and Videography to Analyze Blasting Results in Underground Mining

    By Bruce Notthup

    Using a Three Dimensional Laser Profiler, persomrel from Austin Powder were able to determine drilling patterns for use in underground mine Room and Pillar blasting operations, The faces had got out o

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AIME
    Proceedings o f the Ninetieth Meeting, Bethlehem, Pa., February, 1906

    By AIME AIME

    General Local Committee.-John Fritz, Chairman; A. B. de Saulles, Vice-Chairman.; R. M. Bird, Treasurer; Henry S. Drinker, Secretary; Robert H. Sayre, E. P. Wilbur, Charles M. Dodson, Abraham S. Schrop

    May 1, 1906

  • CIM
    Dispersion study on slimes from Niobec

    By J. A. Finch, A. R. Laplante, R. Espinosa-Gomez

    "The Niobec concentrator rejects up to /5% of the Nb as slimes (-10u.m). The recovery of Nb from these slimes by column flotation is being studied. An essential condition for selective flotation is sl

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Mining Foundation of the Southwest Honors Year 2000 Inductees

    The 18th annual American Mining Hall of Fame Awards Banquet sponsored by the Mining Foundation of the Southwest will be held on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2000 at The Westin La Paloma in Tucson, AZ. The 200

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Process Control... And Where Are We Going?

    By Brian Flintoff

    "When I was first asked to prepare this paper and presentation in late June, I thought it might be fun to ""step back and paint the bigger picture."" Having attempted to do this, fun is not the first

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    Infrared Imager as a Tool for Monitoring of Power Shovels, Gearcase Bearings and Electric Motors

    Thermal method of diagnostic as a nondestructive monitoring is based on data logging of infrared radiation from heated surface or from the associated thermal field. Monitoring of gearcases and motors

    Dec 6, 2010

  • NIOSH
    Upper Body Joint Coordination Under Vibration - Introduction

    By Jueun Lee, Jong-Hwa Yoon, K. Rider, Bernard J. Martin

    Whole body vibration is known to affect movement accuracy [1], however little is known about changes in the organization of movement and movement strategies used to limit the influences of perturbatio

    Jan 6, 2006

  • DFI
    Centrifuge Modeling of Temperature Effects on the Pullout Capacity of Energy Piles in Clay

    By John S. McCartney, Ismaail Ghaaowd

    This study presents the results from centrifuge modeling experiments performed to understand the effects of temperature changes on the pullout capacity of scale-model energy piles embedded in normally

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME-ICGCM
    Advanced Development of the Radio Imaging Methods

    By Gerald Stolarczyk

    The Radio Imaging Method (RIM) is based upon electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation in the coal seam waveguide. The radio geophysics theory underlying RIM was developed by Hill of the national Institu

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Hydrometallurgy into the Next Millennium

    Hydrometallurgy has a history of over 300 years with copper leachingand cementation having been exploited in Spain as far back as 1670.Since then, hydrometallurgy has become an integral, expanding bra

    Jan 1, 2001

  • NIOSH
    Measurement Of Airflow In A Simulated Underground Mine Environment Using An Ultrasonic Anemometer

    By M. J. Senk, A. Lusin

    Federal regulations require that methane liberated at the face be diluted and removed to maintain methane gas concentrations below 1 pct (CFR) in working places and intake air courses. The delivery a

  • SAIMM
    Improvement of the Cobalt Process at the Chemicals of Africa (Chemaf) Usoke Plant – Effect of Seed Recycle

    By Jo Katembo, Patty Bwando, Patient K. Ilunga, Yves Kalubi, Emman Mulaj

    "From 2010, the dolomite concentration in the ore fed to the Usoke Plant increased, resulting in a significant increase in the gangue acid consumption and Mg build-up in the circuit, and thus an incre

    Jan 1, 2015