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  • SME
    Non-Diesel Interferences With NIOSH Analytical Method 5040 In Underground Metal/Nonmetal Mines

    By L. Lacerda, C. Rose, E. Zellers

    Approximately six hundred air sample measurements were taken at several U.S. underground metal/nonmetal mines in 1998 and 1999. This air sampling effort was organized by the Nevada Mining Association

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Process Development Metallurgical Studies for Gold Cyanidation Process

    By S. Acar

    "In recent years the gold mining industry has been challenged by declining metal prices as well as having to treat ores that have low grades and are refractory in nature. Many factors must be consider

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Statistical Methods Of Estimating Mining Costs

    By K. R. Long

    Until it was defunded in 1995, the U.S. Bureau of Mines maintained a Cost Estimating System (CES) for prefeasibility-type economic evaluations of mineral deposits and estimating costs at producing and

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Processing Of Arsenic Bearing Gold Ores (2002 SME Annual Meeting)

    By V. E. Chrapunov, T. V. Chnyrenkova, R. A. Isakova, V. A. Luganov

    Arsenic-gold bearing ores are used as a flux in smelting or leached out to extract gold. To decrease arsenic content in processed materials and to break up the lattice to free the gold, raw materials

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    BlastingTechniques and Modern Explosives Allow More Efficient Coal Mining

    The first of this three part series examines he history and some of the properties and characteristics of explosives. Use of explosives is discussed for underground and surface coal operations—the la

    Jan 7, 1981

  • SME
    Tunneling In Saprolites -- Soil Or Rock?

    By Brenda Myers-Bohlke, Tor L. Brekke

    INTRODUCTION In recent years several cities in the Eastern United States have constructed subway systems in deeply weathered igneous and metamorphic rocks. Portions of these transit tunnels and sha

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Passive Radon Dosimetry Using Track Etch Detectors - A Comparative Study

    By E. Piesch, M. Urban, G. M. Hassib

    INTRODUCTION In radon dosimetry diffusion chambers with passive [a]-detectors are now in current use to investigate the long-term accumulated indoor exposure of radon and daughters. For the diffusi

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2005 – Bauxite and Alumina

    By P. S. Baker

    CRU estimates that the global supply of metallurgical grade alumina (MGA) grew by 5 percent during 2005 to a little more than 61 Mt (67 million st). About 30.7 Mt (33.8 million st), or 50.3 percent,

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Sinking And Commissioning Of The Eastern Twin Shaft System At Buffelsfontein Gold Mining Company Limited ? Introduction

    By G. L. Smit

    The Buffelsfontein Gold Mining Company is situated in the Klerks-dorp district of the Province of the Transvaal in the Republic of South Africa, approximately 100 miles west of Johannesburg. Gold p

    Jan 1, 1964

  • SME
    Optimization of Fire Suppression Nozzle Location on Simulated Mobile Mine Equipment - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Liming Yuan, Wei Tang, RICHARD THOMAS, DAVOOD BAHRAMI

    The location and orientation of fire suppression nozzles is critical in suppressing mobile mine equipment fires. To effectively suppress such fires, optimization needs to be considered for the suppres

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    DeMet? Membrane Electrolytic Cell Application for Improved Metal Processing and Residual Recovery

    By P. James

    Blue Planet Strategies (BPS) focuses on improved resource utilization and targets converting wastes into resources. New BPS capability (DEMET) wrings extra value from mining and processing wastes by

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Analysis and Repair of Failed Copper SX Plant Mix Boxes: An Application of First Principles - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By Ron Derrick

    SX operators have conducted extensive shut-downs and repairs over the years to mitigate solution leaks from failed stainless steel false floors and walls in rectangular mixersettler mix boxes. Hydrody

    Feb 1, 2024

  • SME
    Mining In The South West Pacific Region

    By C. Chamberlain

    The mining industry continues to underpin the regional economy. Australia, benefiting from a weak currency, receives 27% of the total goods export value from non-energy mining lead by aluminium, iron

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Construction Of The 1122 / 1130 Tunnels on the Superconducting Super Collider Project

    By Tom B. Corry

    INTRODUCTION Located approximately 48 km (30 miles) south of Dallas, Texas, use to be the site of the Superconducting Super Collider. For those of you unfamiliar with the project, this was a multi-

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    The Minetrain Project; Developing an Advanced-Level Training Program for Mining Professionals in an Actual Deep Mine Site

    By Z. Zhang, M. S. Gonzalez, M. de P. Bueno, P. Holopainen, S. Luukkanen

    "Despite being a field of study that requires practical knowledge and experience, mining engineering education follows the same pattern in most mining universities around the world, consisting of theo

    Oct 1, 2019

  • SME
    Value-Based Objective Functions Applied to Circuit Analysis

    By A. Noble

    "Linear circuit analysis (LCA) is a fundamental tool that may be used to evaluate, design and improve the performance of mineral separation. The traditional LCA methodology provides a comparative eval

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Pre-Excavation Grouting at the Hemphill site — Atlanta WSP Tunnel

    By Konner Horton, Adam L. Bedell, Don Del Nero, Brian Jones

    "The City of Atlanta’s Water Supply Program Tunnel project includes a 7,315-m (24,000-ft) long, 4-m (13-ft) diameter, hard rock tunnel. A complex aspect of the project involves connecting five, blind

    Jan 9, 2018

  • SME
    A Review Of Rock Support And Falls In Us Coal Mine Intersections - Preprint 09-132

    The support of the roof in coal mines remains a critical safety issue with 3 fatalities from roof falls in 2007 and 430 injuries from roof falls in 2006. A snapshot survey by the authors of room desig

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Mine Lanps

    Man’s search beneath the earth for minerals has always required light, and the devices used to provide illumination have been both innovative and unusual —from stone vessels holding fat and a wick of

    Jan 7, 1980

  • SME
    Comparison of MERV 16 and HEPA filters for cab filtration of underground mining equipment

    By J. D. Noll, J. A. Organiscak, A. B. Cecala

    Significant strides have been made in optimizing the design of filtration and pressurization systems used on the enclosed cabs of mobile mining equipment to reduce respirable dust and provide the best

    Aug 1, 2016