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  • SME
    SME Annual Conference & Expo

    By Georgene Renner, Chee Theng, William Gleason

    "With more than 900 booth spaces sold and 630 exhibiting companies displaying their wares, there was something for all 7,804 attendees on the exhibit floor of the 2015 SME Annual Conference & Expo in

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    SFRC Segmental Lining Design for a Pressurised Tunnel

    By Sotiris Psomas, Colin M. Eddie

    "Steel Fibre Reinforced Concrete (SFRC) Segmental Tunnel Linings have successfully been used for over 20 years in the UK and have been adopted in a number of high profile projects such as High Speed 1

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Environmental Issues of Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining in the Tarkwa Mining Area of Ghana

    By N. K. Dumakor-Dupey, K. J. Bansah

    "We made site visits to determine potential environmental issues caused by artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in the Tarkwa Mining Area (TMA) of Ghana. Activities of the diggers were observed to d

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Discrete Fracture Network Modeling In Support Of In Situ Leach Mining

    By Bill Dershowitz

    Consider a deep gold orebody with grade of 4 g/t (0.11 oz/st). At the time of this writing, with gold prices at historic highs, it could be a good, but not great, prospect. But if it is a vein deposit

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Top Coal Movement Law of Dynamic Group Caving Method in LTCC with an Inclined Seam "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2020)"

    By Weijie Wei, Jinwang Zhang, Shengli Yang

    Due to the unbalanced top coal drawing process, the recovery ratio is low, and the equipment stability is poor in the longwall top coal caving mining (LTCC) with an inclined seam. Aimed at these probl

    Jul 7, 2020

  • SME
    Flowsheet Analysis For Mass Balance Calculations In Overdefined Metallurgical Systems With Recycle

    By James Wm. White

    Calculation of consistent steady-state mass balances in operating metallurgical plants and pilot plants is of interest for many reasons. In general, enough data can - and should - be collected to over

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Optimizing the Metallurgical Properties of Pellets Through Operational Trial Using Inconel Basket

    By Sumit Kumar Hota, Asadi Srinivasa Reddy, Ashok Kumar, Ashish Agrawal, Surajit Sinha, Chandra Sekhar, Tanay Ray

    In the current operational facility, due to the absence of pellet pot facility, a novel technique is developed wherein the pellets with different chemistries prepared in the laboratory are fired in an

    May 24, 2022

  • SME
    The uranium boom in Namibia - rise of a new giant - SME Transactions 2012

    By H. Mischo, R. Ellmies

    Uranium has been mined in Namibia since the 1970s. The worldwide increasing need for energy in the early 2000s has led to the development and opening of a second uranium mine in 2007 and has triggered

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Long‑Distance Advanced Pre‑grouting Layer Flexible Reinforcement Mechanism and Its Application in Large Mining Height Coal Face

    By Shaoyang Yan, Xinming Chen, Huazhe Jiao, Huaibao Chu, Chang Wang

    In terms of the technical problems of rib spalling in large mining height coal face, a long-distance advanced pre-grouting layer flexible reinforcement technology is proposed in this paper. Based on t

    Sep 27, 2022

  • SME
    Computerized Maintenance System At The Carol Project

    By C. Jardine

    The concept of the system is to minimize costly unscheduled breakdowns of equipment by replacing components earlier than their "life" expectancy. Periodic unit services are scheduled according to pre

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Installation Of 0.84 M (33 In) Cyclones On The Primary Grinding Circuit At Cyprus Sierrita Corporation

    By L. N. Hill

    The classifiers on the primary grinding circuit at Cyprus Sierrita have been upgraded from 0.66 m (26 in) diameter hydrocyclones to 0.84 m (33 in) diameter hydrocyclones. This has resulted in a 4.3 %

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Determination of the Fire Hazards of Mine Materials Using a Radiant Panel (ME Technical Papers)

    By R. A. Thomas, C. D. Litton

    "The objective of this study was to develop a laboratory-scale method to rank the ignition and fire hazards of commonly used underground mine materials and to eliminate the need for the expensive larg

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    The Critical Minerals Initiative of the US Geological Survey’s Mineral Deposit Database Project: USMIN "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Patrick Scott, Germán Schmeda, Morgan Mullins, Liam Knudsen, Bradley S. Van Gosen, Carma A. San Juan, Nicholas A. Karl, Jeffrey L. Mauk, Clayton Forbush

    The objective of the US Geological Survey’s mineral deposit database project (USMIN) is to develop a comprehensive twentyfirst century geospatial database that is the authoritative source of the most

    Feb 8, 2021

  • SME
    An Exploratory Investigation on the Effectiveness of a Novel Vibration‑Enhanced Flooded‑Bed Dust Scrubber - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By Mahmud Esad Uluer, Seyed Hassan Amini, Aaron Noble, Matt Shigo

    Airborne coal mine dust is an unintended and unavoidable result of coal extraction operations that raises notable health and safety concerns. Modern mining techniques utilize several dust mitigation s

    Dec 27, 2023

  • SME
    Recovery Of Gold And Silver From Oxidation Leach Residues By Ammoniacal Thiosulphate Leaching

    By R. M. G. S. Berezowsky

    An atmospheric ammoniacal thiosulphate leach system was developed to recover gold and silver from residues of the ammoniacal oxidation leaching of sulphidic copper concentrates. Extractions of 88 - 95

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Pilot Plant Testing of a New Process for Rhenium Recovery from Copper PLS

    By C. Bryce

    Rhenium is primarily recovered as a by-product from molybdenum roasting circuits. However, rhenium is also present in copper heap leach solutions at very low concentrations and represents a potential

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Alternatives To Pumping?

    By R. L. Loofbourow

    Most wet mines face unquantified water costs as well as the obvious wing costs. Both kinds of cost are multiplied by work at greater depth and by higher unit prices. This intensified challenge merits

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Kennecott Utah Copper Smelter Modernization (127c52b5-4f83-464f-bcae-2f259e9fd980)

    By C. J. Newman

    Prior to 1995, the smelting process at the Kennecott Utah Copper Corporation (KUCC) smelter consisted of Noranda reactors and Pierce-Smith converters. In the consideration of expansion opportunities,

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Handling Concentrates - A Sticky Problem ? Introduction

    By Robert M. Abrams

    The passage of an ore pulp through the froth flotation process results in the production, after dewatering, of a finely divided concentrate. This intermediate product Trust be handled to the subsequen

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    A Framework for Detecting and Extracting Discontinuities Based on Machine Learning

    By Jianbo Hu, Tao Zheng, Zhao Qihua, Rui Su

    Rock mass discontinuities play a significant role in evaluating the stability of rock slopes. It is necessary to collect and analyze these discontinuities to fully understand the mechanical and deform

    Nov 6, 2022