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  • SME
    Canadian Companies Make Their Pitch At PDAC

    At the Prospectors and Developers Annual Convention (PDAC) in Toronto, Canada mining and exploration companies of all sizes were on hand to discuss the year that was and those that will be. The follow

    Jan 1, 2009

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    Mineral resources in the Portuguese continental shelf

    By Raquel Costa, Aldino Campos, Frederico Carvalho Dias, Pedro Madureira, Patrícia Conceição, Ana Filipa Marques, Andreia Afonso, Maria Ana Martins, António Calado, Luísa Pinto Ribeiro

    Since its formation in 2004, the Task Group for the Extension of the Continental Shelf (EMEPC) has been collecting hydrographic, geological and geophysical data to support the extension of the contine

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    The Search For Asbestos Within The Peter Mitchell Taconite Iron Ore Mine, Near Babbitt, Minnesota

    By Malcolm Ross

    Asbestos crystallizes within rock formations undergoing intense deformation characterized by folding, faulting, shearing, and dilation. Some of these conditions have prevailed during formation of the

    Jan 1, 2007

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    1994 Jackling Lecture - Mining Geostatistics - Forty Years Passed. What Lies Ahead?

    By Jean-Michel Rendu

    That you are giving the Daniel C. Jackling award to me is a great personal honor. But more significantly, it is a recognition that geostatistics has come of age. And since I am considered by many as b

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    NAT 2010 Full Proceedings - NAT2010

    By Bradford F. Townsend, Matthew E. Fowler, Michael F. Smithson, Lawrence R. Eckert

    All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Information contained in this work has been obtained by SME, Inc. from sources believed to be reliable. However, neither SME nor its autho

    Dec 1, 2010

  • SME
    Field tests of second generation proximity detection systems on continuous miners

    By Jeffrey A. Yonkey, Timothy J. Lutz, Jacob L. Carr, Christopher C. Jobes

    "Since 1984, there have been 39 fatalities involving striking and pinning of the operator and other workers by the continuous mining machine (CMM). In January 2015, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Adm

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Steps outlined to ensure precious metals miners have good relationships with their refiners

    By P. D. Chamberlain, R. M. Nadkarni, D. J. Kinneberg

    Introduction The relationship between precious metal miners and gold refiners has been uneasy over the years. Reasons for this uneasiness and lack of trust include technical factors, economics of sca

    Jan 10, 1986

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    Silver In Transition ? Introduction

    By Mark E. Emerson

    1967 will be remembered as the year the world realized it was running out of silver. In May of this year a new era in tin the history of the white metal was begun as the power of the U.S. Treasury to

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    Full NAT 2024 Proceedings - NAT2024

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    NORTH AMERICAN TUNNELING 2024 PROCEEDINGS

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    Safe Slot Hole Excavation With A New Boxhole Boring Machine - Introduction

    By W. Burger

    In underground mines worldwide, a large number of short and small diameter slot holes need to be excavated. Herrenknecht has developed and built a new boxholeboring machine based on the well-proven Mi

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    GMSG Guideline: Determining the Bond Efficiency of Industrial Grinding Circuits

    "Use of the Bond Work Index to size industrial grinding equipment was widely known. Bond also described its application for measuring grinding circuit efficiency. Bond Work Index efficiency has been w

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Mine Planning Software Models Empire Mine Ore

    By Allan E. Koski

    Ceveland-Cliffs uses a specialized software package in mine planning at the Empire Mine, an iron ore mine it manages on Michigan’s Marquette Iron Range. The application puts together years of mining

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Methods To Minimize Injuries In Materials-Handling Processes In Underground Mines (8a2ca766-e5d6-42d2-94f0-4090d406125e)

    By C. C. Clark, P. W. Patton, B. M. Stewart

    Handling materials in underground mines continues to be a major safety problem. To help reduce materials-handling injuries, researchers at the Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Underground Mining: Challenges And Solutions In Subsidence Perspective (d1803fca-596b-4cc5-8f04-4e52c00599a3)

    By S. K. Singh

    To meet increasing demand of coal, underground mining is largely being replaced by the exploitation at deeper horizons and with greater complexities. The exploitation-proposition may be below not-to-b

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Closing the Historic Alaska-Juneau Mine

    By Joseph L. Petrillo

    In July 1997, Kvaerner Environmental signed a unique contract with Echo Bay Alaska called the Transfer Risk and Accelerate Closure (TRAC). The contract called for Kvaerner to assume the responsibilit

    Jan 1, 1999

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    Remediating Historic Mine sites in Colorado

    By James Dunn

    “The strongest argument of the detractor (of mining)is that the fields are devastated by mining operations ...They argue that the woods and groves are cut down, for there is need of an endless amount

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Electro-Biochemical Reactor (EBR) Technology for Selenium Removal from British Columbia’s Coal-Mining Waste Waters

    By A. J. Martin, M. J. Peoples, D. J. Adams, A. Opara

    "The weathering of coal mine waste rock releases iron, calcium, sulfate and associated trace elements like selenium (Se). Nitrogen species are also found in association with coal-mining drainages main

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    New Dragline Bucket Improves Stripping Efficiency

    By Dean Bray

    During the past three years, a new rear-dumping dragline bucket technology has been patented, developed and tested at North Dakota coal mines. Field testing has shown that this new concept in draglin

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Massive Tires Keep The Industry Rolling

    One of the biggest challenges for the mining industry is, quite literally, how to the keep the equipment rolling. There is a limited amount of companies that manufacture the 4.2-m- (14-ft-) tall, 5,

    Jan 1, 2008

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    Mining Heritage: Preservation And Sustainable Development Of An Outstanding Universal Value

    By J. Kretschmann

    Mining heritage can be of outstanding value for many regions around the world, because mining has been done for thousands of years for the benefit of mankind and its development. This paper presents a

    Feb 27, 2013