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Remediation Of Historical Smelter Contamination Midvale Slag Superfund Site - Operable Unit One Midvale, Ut - Introduction - Preprint 09-012
The Midvale Slag Site covers 300 acres in Midvale, Salt Lake County, Utah. Midvale (population 10,000) is part of the Salt Lake City metropolitan area (population 936,000). Between 1902 and 1971, Un
Jan 1, 2009
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Boggo Road Busway Project, Brisbane, Australia
By Ted Nye
This paper describes a number of aspects of the design and construction of a driven tunnel which forms part of the Boggo Road Busway project. The driven tunnel is 430m long with an excavated width of
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Monitoring Reclaimed Mine Land For Stray CO2 Hazards
By M. Moagabo
CO2 emissions from carbonate laden reclaimed mine spoil has been shown to pose a hazard to residents in homes built on or adjacent to such land. The objective of this project was to develop a soil CO2
Jan 1, 2012
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How To Increase Plant Performance With Artificial Intelligence And Expert Systems - Preprint 09-074
By L. B. Hales
Expert control of grinding and flotation plants has been successfully used in the minerals industry since the 1970?s. The earliest of these systems were written in a hard-coded fashion in FORTRAN, BAS
Jan 1, 2009
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Effective Planning Of Underground Space?Planning And Implementation Of The First Underground Water Reservoirs In Hong Kong
By T. H. Chan
As the University of Hong Kong and their advisors planned their new Centennial Campus it became clear that they would have to re-provide existing water reservoirs on an adjacent site with new salt wat
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Using GIS To Identify High Value Areas In Large Coal Resources
By J. Kern, T. F. Torries
Identifying high value areas of unmined coal when large quantities of coal are available relative to annual markets is difficult because of the uncertainty of when the coal is to be mined. A GIS based
Jan 1, 1999
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The Rib-In-Roc Pre-Reinforcement System For Large Underground Openings
By Bengt L. Stillborg
INTRODUCTION This paper summarizes the result of a two and a half year research program. The objective of the research was to develop a fundamental understanding of the Rib-in-Roc method. Through t
Jan 1, 1979
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Rare elements in seafloor massive sulfides of the Semyenov hydrothermal cluster, Mid-Atlantic Ridge
By Georgy Cherkashov, Svetlana Babaeva, Tamara Stepanova, Firstova. Anna
Seafloor massive sulfides (SMS) study in the Russian Exploration Area at the northern equatorial Mid Atlantic Ridge began after signing the contract with International Seabed Authority in 2012. In ord
Sep 1, 2014
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Significant Developments In Dry Rare-Earth Magnetic Separation - Preprint 09-004
By M. Dobbins
The advent of the more efficient and effective rare-earth roll (RER) separator in the early 1980?s began a new era of dry magnetic separation. The RER units quickly became the separator of choice with
Jan 1, 2009
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AUV and ROV magnetometer surveys, compensation
By Peter Kowalczyk
Magnetic surveying and map production is well established in land based mineral exploration. Magnetic data are routinely used to map geology in covered terrains, to estimate the depth to basement in o
Sep 1, 2014
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Reclamation And Remediation Of The Abandoned Belle Eldridge Mine Near Deadwood, South Dakota
By A. D. Davis, C. J. Webb, C. S. Johnson, J. L. Porter
The abandoned Belle Eldridge Mine near Deadwood, South Dakota, is on land controlled by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) property. The mine produced primarily lead and zinc during the first h
Jan 1, 2002
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Synthetic aperture sonar as a tool for rapid high resolution deposit estimation
By Rolf Birger Pedersen, Alden Ross Denny
"Synthetic Aperature Sonar (SAS) is a powerful tool for ultra-high resolution marine survey. The Kongsberg HiSAS system deployed on the HUGIN AUV has a rangeindependent resolution of 3x3 cm for sonar
Sep 1, 2014
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Our Government's Stifling Excesses
By R. E. Murray
"It is a gloomy moment in the history of our country. Not in the lifetime of most men has there been so much grave and deep apprehension; never has the future seemed so incalculable as at this time. T
Jan 1, 1980
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Evaluation Of Blast Fragmentation In Quarries Nearby Istanbul ? Introduction
By T. Hudaverdi
Control of the particle size distribution of a muckpile after blasting is always an important subject for mining industry. Blasting has a significant impact on downstream processes such as loading, cr
Jan 1, 2012
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Arizona?s Mining History Featured At Precious Metals Symposium
All aspects of precious metals processing were featured at a symposium held Oct. 3-6, 2007, at Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson, AZ. Although billed as "Precious Metals Processing: Advances in
Jan 1, 2008
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Engineered Pumpable pHoam?: A New Innovative Method For Mitigating Ard
If one can embrace the medical analogue, much of the mining industry currently suffers from a massive bacterial infection. When pyrite-bearing or sulfide-bearing rock formations, tailings, or mine was
Jan 1, 2012
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AUV- and ROV-based exploration of active and inactive seafloor massive sulfide deposits at the Semyenov and Irinovskoe sites on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
By J. W. Jamieson, J. Escartin, A. Steinführer
Evidence of hydrothermal activity on two Mid-Atlantic Ridge oceanic core complexes (OCCs), at 13º30’N (the Semyenov 1 through 5 fields) and 13º20’N (the Irinovskoe field) (Fig. 1) were studied using C
Sep 1, 2014
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Optimization of Surface Mining Dig Limits with a Practical Heuristic Algorithm Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (e8f12701-6e05-4369-9a27-d2734d7cf05f)
By Y. V. Vasylchuk
This paper presents an algorithm for optimizing the classification of surface mine material subject to excavating constraints. High-resolution expected profit models are input and optimized to classif
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Optimization of Surface Mining Dig Limits with a Practical Heuristic Algorithm Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration
By Y. V. Vasylchuk
This paper presents an algorithm for optimizing the classification of surface mine material subject to excavating constraints. High-resolution expected profit models are input and optimized to classif
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Design/Build Agreement For The Niagara Tunnel Project
By Russel Delmar, Rick Everdell, Harry Charalambu, John Tait
Award of the Design/Build Agreement for construction of Ontario Power Generation’s (OPG’s) Niagara Tunnel Project was made after an intensive 8-month international procurement process. The 14.4-m diam
Jan 1, 2007