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  • NIOSH
    RI 3254 The National Safety Competition of 1933

    By W. W. Adams

    "The ninth yearly National Safety Competition covering the calendar year 1933, conducted by the United States Bureau of Mines, w participated in by 332 mines and quarries situated in 35 States. Enroll

    Jul 1, 1934

  • SME-ICGCM
    Surface damage due to longwall mining - A case study

    By P. M. Lin

    A subsidence monitoring program over a longwall panel was established (1) to explore the impacts of dynamic subsidence on the ground surface and structures and (2) to correlate the movements between t

    Jan 1, 1989

  • CIM
    Column Flotation in an Oilsand Application

    By Kim Wiwchar, Elizabeth Mbaja, Lynne Dang, Jim Furey, Anita Marks

    "Suncor Energy Inc., located north of Fort McMurray, Alberta, commenced pilot scale operation using a CPT 4’ diameter flotation column in March 2003. This larger scale trial follows two previously suc

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Effect Of Cold Reduction And Annealing Temperature On Texture Evolution Of AISI 441 Ferritic Stainless Steel ? Synopsis

    By M. G. Maruma

    The effect of the amount of cold reduction and annealing temperature on the evolution of the texture of AISI 441 steel is reported. The steel was cold rolled by 62%, 78%, and 82%, followed by isotherm

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SME
    Replacing The Stone and Rebuilding the Pentagon

    By Jim Owens

    The methodology of quarrying changed significantly in the Indiana limestone industry in the 60 years between Sept. 11, 1941 and Sept. 11, 2001. The former was the date of the Pentagon groundbreaking

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    A Case Study On The Operation Of A Flottweg Tricanter® Centrifuge For Solvent-Extraction Crud Treatment At Bwana Mkubwa, Ndola, Zambia

    By Gift Chisakuta, Bravo Mbao, Nils Schwarz, Angus Feather, Anthony Mukutuma

    Bwana Mkubwa is a 50 000 tons per annum copper cathode producer, owned by First Quantum Minerals and located in Ndola, on the Zambian Copperbelt. The Bwana Mkubwa solvent-extraction circuit was starte

    Jan 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Start-Up and Early Optimization of the New Afton Concentrator

    By C. O’Hara, S. Roy, K. Swedburg, J. Katchen

    "New Gold Inc.’s New Afton concentrator commenced operation in June 2012, producing a copper-gold-silver concentrate. During the first two years of operation, various optimization efforts have improve

    Jan 1, 2015

  • NIOSH
    Comparison Of Seismic Tomography, Strain Relief, And Ultrasonic Velocity Measurements To Evaluate Stress In An Underground Pillar

    By D. K. Denton, J. M. Girard, D. F. Scott, T. J. Williams

    Personnel from the Spokane Research Laboratory, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, examined an underground pillar at the Homestake Mine, Lead, SD. Investigations involved strain re

  • AUSIMM
    Uranium in Tertiary Stream Channels, Lake Frome Area, South Australia

    Uranium exploration over a wide area of the Southern Frame Embayment, South Australia, has defined a number of Lower Tertiary fluvial palaeochannels incised in older rocks. The buried channels contain

    Jan 1, 1978

  • AUSIMM
    Various Interpretations of Coal Petrographic Nomenclature and their Effects on Maceral Analyses

    The commonly used Stopes-Heerlen coal petrographic classification and nomenclature has over the years been subject to variable interpretations. This paper discusses the problem with specific reference

    Jan 1, 1970

  • AUSIMM
    Stress and Deformation of Mine Openings

    Flat jack stress determinations in selected colliery roadways have revealed a range of measured stress from 330 lb/sq. in. tension to 3,750 lb/sq. in. compression. Photoelastic examination of loaded p

    Jan 1, 1963

  • NIOSH
    RI 3613 Manganese Investigations - Metallurgical Division - 3. Ore-Dressing Studies Of Manganese Ores - Concentration Of Manganese Nodules From Chamberlain, S. Dak. ? Introduction

    By F. D. DeVaney

    The low-grade deposits of manganese ores along the Missouri River near Chamberlain, S. Dak., are known to contain one of the largest reserves of manganese in the United States. Manganese occurs as con

    Jan 1, 1942

  • CIM
    A Review of the Geology of Gold in Nova Scotia

    By Milton C. Graves, Marcos Zentilli

    "Gold has been reported from most geological environments in Nova Scotia; however, virtually all production (circa 2,000, 000 troy ounces; circa 60 tonnes) has come from that part of the province to t

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Effects Of Joint Persistence On Jointed Rock Masses

    By W. G. Pariseau

    Equivalent elastic properties of discontinuously jointed rock masses are computed using a non-representative volume element(NRVE) approach within a three dimensional finite element program. Joint pers

    Jan 1, 2003

  • NIOSH
    OFR-24-87 Products Of The Oxidative Thermal Degradation Of Mine Stoppings And Mine Reinforcing Materials

    By K. L. Paciorek

    The primary objective of this program was to determine the toxic fume and fire hazard of materials used in the construction of mine stoppings and in the sealing and reinforcing of mine ribs and roofs.

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AIME
    Drilling – Equipment, Methods and Materials - Laboratory Studies of Formation Damage in Sands Con...

    By A. E. Anderson, H. J. Hilll

    Laboratory data for 155 field muds and 77 .shales have been used to develop correlations to estimate the net streaming potential component of the SP. Analysis of these data and comparison with field t

  • SME
    Bismark – Mexico’s New Major Zinc Mine

    By J. C. Haptonstall

    The Bismark Mine is located in northern Chihuahua, Mexico, 150 km (95 miles) southwest of Ciudad Juarez (Fig.1). The ore deposit was discovered in 1979 and was placed in production in 1992. The produc

    Jan 1, 1994

  • NIOSH
    RI 7388 Columbium Alloy Development With Boron, Hafnium, And Tungsten

    By H. R. Babitzke

    As part of a continuing project to develop refractory metal alloys for high-temperature structural applications, the Bureau of Mines applied solid solution and precipitation strengthening techniques t

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SAIMM
    Contribution On Nickel, Zinc And Sulphur Co-Deposition During Cobalt Electrowinning

    By K Kongolo, M K. Kalenga

    It is well known that the electrochemical precipitation of metals from aqueous solutions is conducted by the electrochemical standard potential scale. This scale indicates the order of nobility of di

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    A Case Study of the Stability of a Non-Typical Bleeder Entry System at a U.S. Longwall Mine

    By Ihsan Berk Tulu, Mark Van Dyke, Ted Klemetti, Deniz Tuncay

    "Longwall abutment loads are influenced by several factors, including depth of cover, pillar sizes, panel dimensions, geological setting, mining height, proximity to gob, intersection type, and size o

    Jan 1, 2019