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  • SME
    Case Study: Correcting Mechanical And Control Problems On Essroc?s Multi-Drive Station Horizontally Curved Conveyor ? Introduction

    By A. Jennings

    [ ] In November 2005, Essroc Cement, part of the Italcementi Group, commissioned a long overland conveyor at their Nazareth plant in Pennsylvania. This conveyor, tagged CV-105, was designed to tran

    Jan 1, 2012

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    Economy Version Of Small Diameter Rock Boring

    By Daniel Connor, O&apos

    The Cal-Sag Relief Sewer is a 2.6 m (8 ft 6 in.) diameter 9.1 km (5.7 mile) rock tunnel bored in dolomite for the Metropolitan Sanitary District of Greater Chicago. Included in the project are 18 shaf

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Investigation Of The Selectivity Of Ethoxylcarbonyl Thionocarbametes During The Flotation Of Copper Sulfides

    In this study, the flotation performances of ethoxycarbonyl thionocarbamate (ECTC), dialkyl thionocarbamate (DATC) and xanthate copper sulfide collectors are compared by the structure-reactivity relat

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Multi method approach to heavy mineral exploration: Miocene of Denmark

    By T. Rasmussen, T. G. Jørgensen, T. Fischer, R. K. McLimans, C. Knudsen, D. Frei

    Ilmenite-bearing paleo-beach deposits were discovered in Jylland, Denmark using a combination of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR), portable X-ray fluorescence (XMET), bulk XRF analyses, Computer Control

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Enhanced flotation separation of phosphate and dolomite using a new amphoteric collector

    By C. L. Jiang, B. K. Parekh, X. Shao

    Among the impurities present in phosphate ore, dolomite is the most difficult to remove. This is because dolomite and phosphate have similar chemical compositions and because the dissolved species of

    Jan 1, 1999

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    An Innovation Of Practical Underground Stope Design Optimization And Cut-Off Grade Calculation

    An incremental analysis based stope design optimization method was developed at Exodus, an underground project located 30 miles north of Carlin, Nevada. Traditional underground stope design methods, b

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Using Rock Geomechanical Characteristics to Estimate Bond Work Index for Mining Production Blocks - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By Omid Asghari, Amin Mousavi, Arshad Ranjbar

    Geometallurgical modeling of the production benches is an attempt to estimate the geometallurgical variables of the different ore domains, which leads to a better understanding of the ore and its prop

    Oct 28, 2021

  • SME
    Cuprex – new chloride-based hydrometallurgy to recover copper from sulfide ores

    By Enrique Hermana, Raymond F. Dalton, Raymond Price, Barry Hoffman

    Introduction Chloride leaching of sulfidic ores has been known about for 100 years. It is recognized as a highly efficient process to produce concentrated leach solutions. Despite this, chloride leac

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    The Value Proposition: High Annual Return On Investment, And Short-Term Payback Realized In Integrated Mining Processing Automation And Optimization Using IndustrialIT Solutions

    By M. C. Mound, E. Gallestey, C. Colbert

    Continuous operating performance and high profit is one of the major concerns in the mining industry. Information systems are expected to reinforce and enable conformance to these requirements. The co

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Helmet Cam: A Tool For Assessing Miners? Exposure To Respirable Dust In The Metal/Nonmetal Mining Industry

    By A. B. Cecala

    Video technology coupled with data logging exposure monitors have been used to evaluate worker exposure to different types of contaminants. However, previous application of this technology used a stat

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Events leading to Colombia’s Ruiz volcano eruption and its results described

    By Antonio Rivera

    On Nov. 13, 1985, Colombia's Ruiz volcano erupted, killing an estimated 25,000 people and burying several villages. Damages were estimated to be about $US300 million. The following is an accou

    Jan 2, 1986

  • SME
    Sulfate Reduction - Designing Systems For Long Term Treatment (238ad8d9-2dab-4d3c-a3f1-88274f1b5135)

    By J. Wagner, P. Eger

    Although lifetime estimates for sulfate reduction based on total substrate carbon typically range from 20 to 30 years, field and laboratory experiments showed that rates of sulfate reduction decreased

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Innovative Directional Controlled Blasting Technique for Excavation of Unstable Slopes Along a Busy Transportation Route: a Case Study of Konkan Railway in India Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Aditya Rana, A. K. Mishra, M. M. Singh, N. K. Bhagat

    Many cases of derailments, train accidents and traffic interruptions due to the slope failure and rockfall have been reported in the past on Konkan Railway trackline because of unstable rock slopes. T

  • SME
    MINExpo 2000 Exhibitors Display Their Goods & Services

    The following is a summary of some of the companies that were exhibiting their products and services at MINExpo INTERNATIONAL 2000. Atlas Copco develops, manufactures and markets rock drilling too

    Jan 1, 2000

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    Isothermal Reduction Kinetics and Mechanism of Pre-oxidized Ilmenite Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Mingyang Li, Yan Lv, Xiaolong Ma, Xudong Gao, Jie Zhao, Yingyi Zhang

    The reduction process of pre-oxidized ilmenite concentrate powder in 30%CO–70%N2 atmosphere was characterized by thermogravimetric and differential thermogravimetric (TG-DTG) analysis system at the te

  • SME
    Isothermal Reduction Kinetics and Mechanism of Pre-oxidized Ilmenite Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (9bd09701-4fce-4153-aadd-0723612382a9)

    By Mingyang Li, Yan Lv, Xiaolong Ma, Xudong Gao, Jie Zhao, Yingyi Zhang

    The reduction process of pre-oxidized ilmenite concentrate powder in 30%CO–70%N2 atmosphere was characterized by thermogravimetric and differential thermogravimetric (TG-DTG) analysis system at the te

  • SME
    Estimation Of Capital And Operation Costs Of Backhoe Loaders

    By B. Oraee

    Accurate estimation of equipment costs is a key factor in feasibility study and evaluation of design alternatives of mining projects. In this paper, capital and operation costs of backhoe loaders are

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Effect Of Longwall Face Advance On Spontaneous Heating In Longwall Gob Area - Preprint 09-053

    By L. Yuan

    To reduce fire hazards from spontaneous combustion of coal in longwall gob areas, a series of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were conducted by National Institute for Occupational Safet

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Geologists Add Value at Newmont’s Nevada Mines – Part One

    By Wayne Trudel, Lloyd McEvers, Lori Clarke, Eric Saderholm, Charles Lynn Bolin, Leroy Schutz

    Newmont mine geologists in Nevada are most proficient when applying technical expertise with multi-departmental teams in three main settings. The first is value creation through near-mine discovery, d

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Mineral Resource Valuation In The Public Interest

    By James R. Dunn

    The mineral industry" has made and will continue to make important contributions to the growth of our economy. However, the industry is presently under continuous and increasingly severe attacks by or

    Jan 1, 1971