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  • SME
    Review Of Current Florida Phosphate Operations

    By W. M. Houston

    Pebble phosphate deposits of Florida have been established from south of Hardee County to north of the Georgia state line or a distance of over 200 miles and mining has been carried out in an ever-inc

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SME
    What The Surface Mining Law May Mean To Blasting At Stone Quarries

    By Paul H. Miller

    After passage by the Congress, Public Law 95-87, the "Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977" was signed by President Carter on August 3, 1977. This law, in its simplest form, was intended

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Innovation In Slime Processing: Ii. Tin Ore Slime Processing

    By W. Hu

    Gravity concentration has been the main method for tin ore beneficiation, based on the significant difference of density between cassiterite and gangue in the tin ore. However, with the exhaustion of

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Challenges in the battery raw materials supply chain: Achieving decarbonization from a mineral-extraction perspective

    By R. Chandramohan, Landon Jackson, C. Meinke

    Understanding constraints within the raw battery material supply chain is essential for making informed decisions that will ensure the battery industry’s future success. The primary limiting factor fo

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    Delta Carbonate, Inc. -The Development Of A New Calcium Carbonate Filler Producer

    By J. Lizak

    Calcium carbonate is one of the highest volume industrial mineral products in North America. It is used in filler and extender applications, roofing products, floor tile, glass manufacture, etc. Calci

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Shouldn't Mining Stocks Sell At Higher Price Levels?

    By John R. Bogert

    The title of this session is "Wall Street Looks at the Mining Industry," and I am going to attempt to answer the question: Shouldn't Mining Stocks Sell at Higher Price Levels? Or, What Does Wall

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    Barite: World Sources And The U.S. Market

    By S. D. Bearden

    The world's reserve base is adequate for at least 100 years at the current consumption rate. China, India, and the U.S. are expected to remain the leading producing countries. The U.S. will conti

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Felton Quarry Hydrology Investigation

    By R. K. Will

    Granite Construction Company operates a rock quarry in the rugged Santa Cruz Mountains of central California indicated in Figure 1. Open pit methods are used to mine decomposed granite which is proces

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Importance Of Transportation To Industrial Minerals

    By N. T. Rogers

    An accepted statement of fact is that transportation next to agriculture is the second most important industry in the world. The transportation networks of the United States contributed immensely to t

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Copper Leaching Practices

    By E. E. Malouf

    For centuries small amounts of copper have been recovered from acid mine-drainage waters. In recent years, the expansion of copper-bearing waste dump leaching for copper recovery has established a tec

    Jan 1, 1972

  • SME
    Analytical and numerical modeling of the effects of buttressing on slide-head toppling failure

    By Ebelia Manda, Peter RK Chileshe, Sydney Chinyanta, Abdul Samson, Victor Mwango Bowa

    Buttressing is a widely employed control measure for mitigating slope failure in various settings such as openpit mines, road sections, dams, and hilly or rocky terrains. This paper presents a study o

    Jan 1, 2025

  • SME
    A Novel Fire Warning System For Underground Mines

    By K. E. Hjelmstad

    In the event of fire underground, it is essential that all miners be warned as quickly as possible. With mine air, rapidly depleted of oxygen and contaminated with smoke and toxic fire gases, any dela

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Pulp Density Measurement And Control

    By L. E. Sausa

    Measuring the specific gravity of a pulp in concentrating plants is a relative, y simple procedure, but the desired accuracy is often difficult to attain. Many plants use the system of weighing a know

    Jan 1, 1960

  • SME
    Mining History in the Black Hawk Mining District, Burro Mountains, Southwestern New Mexico - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Virginia T. McLemore

    The Black Hawk district in New Mexico hosts an unusual type of deposit: arsenide five-element veins. These deposits are Ag-Co-Ni-Bi-As-bearing carbonate veins with local concentrations of U, Pb, Zn, S

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    Digital Twins: The Future of Tailings Management - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Alvaro Veizaga, Samuel Cuellar

    In recent years, Industry 4.0 has generated a change in the way companies in various industrial sectors design, produce and deliver products and services, and is focused on the interconnection of syst

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    Phosphate Process Stream Composition Measurement By An Image Analysis Technique (57747d20-c112-47e9-85af-b13a26716349)

    By R. D. Grove

    The control of Florida phosphate flotation plants is largely based on the visual observations of experienced operators, both in recognizing good and bad froth conditions and in making judgments about

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Planning the Black Creek Tunnel Project - RETC2023

    By Cary Hirner, Tony Cicchetti, Daniel G. Cressman, Jeff F. Wallace, Prapan Dave, Malcolm Sheehan

    The City of Toronto is currently undertaking the design of the Black Creek Sanitary Trunk Sewer Relief Project. The Project involves the design and construction of approximately 20 kilometers of tunne

    Jun 13, 2023

  • SME
    Asset Maintenance Readiness By Metso Outotec - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By E. Gutierrez, P. Gillies

    Asset Maintenance Readiness (AMR) provides a tailored reliability and maintenance strategy specific to operational needs. AMR delivers reliability and maintenance foundations for the plant and equipme

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SME
    Geotechnical Studies

    By Clinton Strachan, Rob Dorey

    10.1 INTRODUCTION This chapter presents considerations which should be applied to heap leach pad site selection, site evaluation, and design, relative to the geotechnics of the site and ore. 10.1.1

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Mine Emergency Preparedness

    By W. Moser

    During the ten year span from 1978 to 1987, the number of fires which occurred in under-ground coal mines doubled from the previous ten years. Anyone involved with underground coal mines is well aware

    Jan 1, 1993