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  • SME
    Optimizing Truck And Haul Road Economics (5fcf97a8-f2f5-450a-adfd-a1ffc956870d)

    By M. D. Monroe

    Getting the best match between truck and haul road requires examination of many factors and their effect on the bottom line. Most mines use a bottom line measure based in some way on cost per ton of m

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    A Computer Simulation Model to Evaluate the Effect of Dispatching

    By E. Bonates

    Dispatching systems have attracted considerable attention in the last years due to substantial gains in productivity achieved through their implementation. These systems will be extensively used in th

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Simulation of Recovery of Upper Remnant Coal Pillar While Mining the Ultra-Close Lower Panel Using Longwall Top Coal Caving

    By Pengfei Wang, Guorui Feng

    "With the depletion of easily minable coal seams, less favorable reserves under adverse conditions have to be mined out to meet the market demand. Due to several historical reasons, a large amount of

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Making Better Maintenance Decisions With Statistics

    By E. R. Mueller

    The natural lives of machines and components vary tremendously! Maintenance managers struggle constantly to maximize their equipment lives while minimizing their maintenance costs, but they normally l

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Use Of Seismic Tomography In Mining

    By D. F. Scott

    Spokane Research Center personnel have been investigating the use of seismic tomography to monitor the behavior of a rock mass, detect hazardous ground conditions, and assess the mechanical integrity

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Risk Assessment Applied To Water Supply And Dewatering At A New Mine

    By I. Cameron-Clarke

    This paper describes the design of a wellfield to provide a water supply for a new mine in southern Africa. A hydrogeological investigation was conducted that included the drilling and test pumping of

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Artificial Neural Networks: An Emerging Technique To Model And Control Mineral Processing Plants

    By Daniel Hodouin

    Artificial neural networks (ANN) are of growing interest in a wide variety of applications. Pattern recognition, speech processing, financial analysis, signal processing and process control are at pre

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    The Move to LED Tunnel Lighting - LED Tunnel Luminaires are Replacing Traditional Tunnel Lighting Fixtures

    By Michael N. Maltezos

    "There is certainly no argument that LED lighting systems have taken a strong foothold in the lighting marketplace over the last several years. This has even proven true in the world of transportation

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    South Texas Coal Supply: Innovative Plan To Serve The Future Industrial Coal Markets Of The Gulf Coast Region

    By T. V. Shockley

    The Gulf Coast, from New Orleans, Louisiana to Brownsville, Texas, is one of the largest high energy consuming areas in the United States. This region has areas of very high industrial density. The lo

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    The North American Sulfur Market: Structure And Outlook

    By N. Edmonson

    Apart from its role as an essential input to a wide array of agricultural chemicals and industrial processes, sulfur is interesting in that its supply involves competition between primary product and

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Mine Planning And Emission Control Strategies Using Geostatistics ? Introduction

    By Francis Martino

    There are numerous techniques and predictive models used by geologists and mining engineers to define coal reserves and plan mines. The traditional reserve estimation methods commonly used include the

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    The evolution of drill bit and chuck isolators to reduce roof bolting machine drilling noise - SME Transactions 2011

    By J. Peterson, R. Michael, D. Yantek, E. Ferro

    Among underground coal miners, hearing loss remains one of the most common occupational illnesses. To address this problem, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Office of Min

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    World’s largest live tunnel connection at TARP McCook Tunnel

    By Faruk Oksuz, Dave Schiemann, Matt Trotter, Mike Padilla, Carmen Scalise, Miquel Sanchez

    "The McCook Main Tunnel system consists of a 10-m (33-ft) finished diameter, 490-m (1,600-ft) long, hard rock tunnel constructed from a 27.5-m (90- ft) diameter and 92-m (300-ft) deep main gate and tu

    Sep 1, 2016

  • SME
    Changes In Wyoming's Industrial Minerals Industry 1996-1999

    By Ray E. Harris

    New developments have occurred in Wyoming's industrial minerals industry since the 32nd Forum on the Geology of Industrial Minerals in Laramie, Wyoming in 1996. The soda ash trona and bentonite i

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Topical Survey of Rheinbraun AG's Belt Conveyor Systems

    By Ulrich Benatzky

    Rheinbraun AG, Germany, is the management company of the mining and raw materials division of RWE AG. Rheinbraun's core business and major functional area is opencast lignite mining in the Rhinel

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    The Development Of Kalengwa Mine In Zambia

    By Peter B. Knuckey

    1, Introduction Location Kalengwa mine is located in the North Western Province of Zambia, 402 kilometre by unpaved road to the west of Kitwe, which is roughly in the centre of the Zambian Copperbel

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SME
    On the Management of Gangue Minerals in the Flotation of Platinum Group Minerals

    By K. C. Corin, B. McFadzean, J. G. Wiese

    The Bushveld Complex of South Africa contains almost 90% of the world’s reserves of platinum group minerals (PGMs). In the flotation of PGMs, there are significant challenges arising from the need to

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Soil Reconstruction And Land Use Planning Considerations For Texas Surface Lignite Mines - Reclamation Planning

    By D. G. Purdy

    Planning, as defined in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary, is a detailed program of action designed to achieve an end. When developing a detailed plan to incorporate all the complex activities

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Processing of Glauconitic Siltstone for Potash Recovery "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration"

    By Nikhil Dhawan, Débora Moreira, Yogendra Pratap, Himanshu Tanvar

    A glauconitic siltstone sample with a potash content of 10% is investigated as a potential potash source. The fine grain structure comprises potash bearing phases of glauconite, muscovite, and microcl

    May 4, 2020

  • SME
    Optimizing Nitrogen Injection for Progessively Sealed Panels

    By J. A. Marts, R. C. Gilmore, Jr. Bogin, S. A. Saki, J. F. Brune, J. W. Grubb

    "Colorado School of MinesResearchers at Colorado School of Mines (CSM) have developed computational fluid dynamic (CFD) models to study gas distributions and explosion and fire hazards in longwall gob

    Jan 1, 2015