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  • NIOSH
    OFR-3(2)-80 The Development of A Cross-Pit Overburden Handling System - Volume II - Appendix

    By J. Ritchey

    This report describes the engineering feasibility and economic advantages of using a mobile bridge-type cross-pit belt conveyor system in conjunction with a large dragline to excavate and transport sp

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME-ICGCM
    Major Hazard Risk Assessment Applied To Pillar Recovery Operations (ad413764-c947-4465-9ec3-62ea91281168)

    By A. T. Iannacchione

    Recent fatal injuries occurring during pillar retreat coal mining call for better identification of the hazards and recognition of risks. Ground control hazards associated with room-and-pillar retrea

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Review And Application Of Stope Support Design Criteria

    Stope support systems, typically consisting of props and packs, are used extensively in the gold and platinum mining industry to stabilize the rock mass in the excavation vicinity and to reduce the ha

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Guadarrama Tunnel Construction with Double Shield TBMs

    By F. Mendaña

    The characteristics of the igneous and metamorphic bedrock, extra-hard and abrasive, of the Guadarrama Tunnels, a bi-tube project of length 28.4 km without any intermediate attack, are first commented

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    The Method of Moments - A New Method for the Inversion of Gamma-Ray Logs from Uraniferous Zones

    By Lee T. J

    The area, A, under a gamma-ray log that passes through a horizontal bed given by: A = gl/k. Here is the equivalent concentration of U3O8 in the body, l the thickness of the body, and k the calibration

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Incorporating Cycle Time Dependency In Truck-Shovel Modeling

    By A. Anani

    The need to optimize surface mining operations has led to the use of discrete event simulation (DES) modeling of truck-shovel systems. Often, these models assume truck cycle times are independent and

    Feb 27, 2013

  • DFI
    Use of Porous Concrete in Secant Bored Pile Walls

    By Matthias Pulsfort, Markus Herten, Rolf Breitenbücher, Claudia Fierenkothen

    "Secant bored pile walls are frequently used as retaining walls in watertight excavations to cut off ground water aquifers and are subsequently exposed to ground water pressure loading in addition to

    Jan 1, 2017

  • NIOSH
    OFR-69(1)-75 Research and Development Contract for Coal Mine Communication System - Volume I Summary and Results of System Study - Section 1 - Introduction

    This report is a compilation of all information obtained in accordance with the requirements of contracts S0122076 and H0232056. A series of eight coal mines were visited to determine their communicat

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Leaching Process and Mechanism of Weathered Crust Elution-Deposited Rare Earth Ore Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Zhigao Xu, Ming Wu, Jun Qu, Rong Zhang, Wenrui Nie, Ruan Chi, Zhenyue Zhang, Zhengyan He

    The leaching processes and mechanisms of weathered crust elution-deposited rare earth (RE) ores with ammonium sulfate were investigated for their high efficiency and low consumption exploitation. The

  • SME
    Leaching Process and Mechanism of Weathered Crust Elution-Deposited Rare Earth Ore Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (a7b06571-a8d3-42ef-a017-d7b434b4427d)

    By Zhigao Xu, Ming Wu, Jun Qu, Rong Zhang, Wenrui Nie, Ruan Chi, Zhenyue Zhang, Zhengyan He

    The leaching processes and mechanisms of weathered crust elution-deposited rare earth (RE) ores with ammonium sulfate were investigated for their high efficiency and low consumption exploitation. The

  • AUSIMM
    Fast Adsorption Phenomena at Air/Liquid Interfaces

    Fast Adsorption Phenomena at Air/Liquid Interfaces

    Sep 13, 2010

  • SME
    Use Of Pressure Swing Adsorption Technology To Inert Sealed Mine Areas With Nitrogen - Preprint 09-137

    By M. A. Trevits

    Mine seals are used in underground coal mines throughout the United States to isolate abandoned mining areas from the active mine workings. The objective of adding inert gas to a sealed mine area is

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - The Effect of Oxygen on the Solubility of Sulfur in Gamma Iron at 1324°C (TN)

    By N. A. D. Parlee, I. D. Shah, W. C. Phelps

    THIS note reports on a continuation of a program on the thermodynamics of Fe-S-X systems in the "steel-burning" temperature range begun by Bock, Barloga, and parlee.' Small coils of 0.039-i

    Jan 1, 1965

  • NIOSH
    IC 7490 German Low-Temperature Coal-Tar Industry

    By E. O. RHODES

    This report is one of a series written by members of the Solid Fuels Mission to Germany describing wartime developments in the mining, prepara- tion, and utilization of coal. This mission was organize

    Feb 1, 1949

  • CIM
    Suitability of PEM Fuelcells for Underground Mining Vehicles

    By Marc C. Bétournay

    Hydrogen fuelcells are a known technology, having been applied to stationary (e.g equipment, buildings, power plants) and vehicle applications (e.g transit buses, space shuttles). There is currently a

    May 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Alteration Associated with Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits, and its Exploration Significance

    By W Herrmann, R R. Large

    Volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) deposits in ancient, submarine volcanic belts of Australia include mound, lens and sheet-style Zn-rich polymetallic deposits, massive and disseminated pyritic Cu

    Jan 1, 2002

  • TMS
    Study Of Non-Wetting Liquid Flow In A Bed Of Mono-Sized Particle Packing Under The Influence Of Lateral Gas Injection

    Gas-liquid contacting in the packed bed is a common operation in metallurgical reactors. Research has shown that, unlike wetting flow, non-wetting liquid flows in the form of discrete droplets or rivu

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Time-Cost Trade-Off Analyses Of Longwall Face Transfers (9fed35d2-a29b-498b-8fbf-dd4e54acd8ad)

    By C. Patrick

    Longwall face-to-face equipment transfers or moves are, for many companies, the largest single source of non-productive time in a longwall mining system. Detailed planning and resourceful thinking are

    Jan 1, 1994

  • CIM
    Fire in No. II South, No. 26 Colliery, Glace Bay

    By W. Leblanc, J. Phalen

    This paper tells the story of a serious mine fire on a mechanized longwall face in a submarine coal mine at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. The story gives, in chronological order, a technical account of the

    Jan 1, 1976

  • DFI
    Applicability of Wet Grab Sampling to Quality Assurance of Deep Mixing Method

    By Masaki Kitazume

    "Abstract The wet type and dry type of deep mixing methods have been developed and widely applied for on-land and marine constructions in Japan. The quality assurance (QA) of the methods has been usua

    Jan 1, 2014