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RI 3254 The National Safety Competition of 1933By 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
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Surface damage due to longwall mining - A case studyBy 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
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Column Flotation in an Oilsand ApplicationBy 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
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Effect Of Cold Reduction And Annealing Temperature On Texture Evolution Of AISI 441 Ferritic Stainless Steel ? SynopsisBy 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
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Replacing The Stone and Rebuilding the PentagonBy 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
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A Case Study On The Operation Of A Flottweg Tricanter® Centrifuge For Solvent-Extraction Crud Treatment At Bwana Mkubwa, Ndola, ZambiaBy 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
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Start-Up and Early Optimization of the New Afton ConcentratorBy 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
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Comparison Of Seismic Tomography, Strain Relief, And Ultrasonic Velocity Measurements To Evaluate Stress In An Underground PillarBy 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
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Uranium in Tertiary Stream Channels, Lake Frome Area, South AustraliaUranium 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
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Various Interpretations of Coal Petrographic Nomenclature and their Effects on Maceral AnalysesThe 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
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Stress and Deformation of Mine OpeningsFlat 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
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RI 3613 Manganese Investigations - Metallurgical Division - 3. Ore-Dressing Studies Of Manganese Ores - Concentration Of Manganese Nodules From Chamberlain, S. Dak. ? IntroductionBy 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
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A Review of the Geology of Gold in Nova ScotiaBy 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
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Effects Of Joint Persistence On Jointed Rock MassesBy 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
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OFR-24-87 Products Of The Oxidative Thermal Degradation Of Mine Stoppings And Mine Reinforcing MaterialsBy 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
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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
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Bismark – Mexico’s New Major Zinc MineBy 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
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RI 7388 Columbium Alloy Development With Boron, Hafnium, And TungstenBy 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
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Contribution On Nickel, Zinc And Sulphur Co-Deposition During Cobalt ElectrowinningBy 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
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A Case Study of the Stability of a Non-Typical Bleeder Entry System at a U.S. Longwall MineBy 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