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  • SME
    Agglomeration Scale: A Method to Improve Leaching Performance - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By Sara Swiokla Korsikas, Toren Olson, Amado Guzman, Yuri O. Zepeda P

    Ore agglomeration has been used as part of the heap leaching process for the last 40 years. However, industrial experience shows that the lack of a universal agglomeration standard has limited the ben

    Feb 9, 2024

  • SME
    Recovery of Valuable Elements from Chinese Coal Byproducts

    By Yuemin Zhao, Wenxuan Liu, Maoming Fan, Zhanyuan Long

    "Coal is mainly composed of energy-producing elements carbon and hydrogen. In addition to these elements, coal usually contains many other valuable elements, including iron, aluminum, silicon, rare ea

    Jan 3, 2018

  • SME
    Maximizing Mine Life Of Resources ? A Case Study For Zlatna Panega Quarry, Bulgaria

    By I. Mikov

    Established in the 60-ies, the Zlatna Panega quarry is a cement raw materials quarry supplying 95% of the needs of the Zlatna Panega Cement Plant with limestone, marl and other silica-aluminates. The

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Optimal Pitwall Shapes to Increase Financial Return and Decrease Carbon Footprint of Open Pit Mines

    By G. ALBORNOZ, S. Utili, A. AGOSTI, C. VALDERRAMA, R. PELL, N. Morales

    The steepness of the slopes of an open pit mine has a substantial influence on the financial return of the mine. The paper proposes a novel design methodology where overall steeper pitwalls are employ

    Feb 9, 2022

  • SME
    Recycling of SmCo Magnets by Removal of Iron via Oxidative Leaching - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By Bernd Friedrich, Elif Emil‑Kaya, Merve Papakci

    In the production of SmCo permanent magnets with excellent temperature stability, corrosion resistance, and oxidation resistance, samarium (Sm), one of the rare earth elements (REEs), and cobalt (Co)

    Feb 15, 2024

  • SME
    The Importance Of Chemical And Mineralogical Data In Evaluating Apatitic Phosphate Ores

    By L. R. Gremillion

    Chemical and mineralogical data on 25 apatitic phosphate ores of diverse origins from commercial deposits around the world were widely variable. From 14 to 18 chemical constituents of each sample were

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    The Last Adventures

    There are bound to be changes with age, so I should not have been surprised or disappointed when what I had considered as high ad- ventures were much fewer and more widely scattered in the last 20 yea

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Development And Initial Implementation Of EPRI's Coal Quality Impact Model (CQIM) In The Southern Electric System

    By C. N. Logan

    The Southern Company is one of the nation's largest electric utilities and is the parent firm of five operating companies: Alabama Power, Georgia Power, Gulf Power, Mississippi Power and Savannah

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Nasa’s Lunar Ice-mining Competition - SME Annual Meeting 2023

    By D. Meadows, P. Carrato, E. Wingate, K. Churchill

    Extracting lunar ice, to be processed into pure water or hydrolyzed into oxygen and hydrogen, faces many challenges. On the Moon icy-regolith deposits that contain up to 10% water are found within Per

    Feb 1, 2023

  • SME
    An Improved Simulation Model For Semi-Autogenous Grinding

    By L. G. Austin

    The model originally proposed by Austin, et al., has been modified in the light of further investigation of the breakage laws in SAG milling. The model uses a fully-mixed reactor for short L/D mills a

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Prediction Of Coal Continuity, Quality, And Mining Conditions As Afforded By Deposystem Analysis ? Introduction

    By R. H. Mullennex

    Application of depositional analysis concepts is becoming an ever-increasingly more important and more useable tool in exploration and development of coals in the Appalachian basin. Over the past deca

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Extraterritorial Application Of Us Laws: An Overview Of The FCPA And The Alien Tort Statute And The Implications For The Mining Sector

    By J. Drimmer

    The past several decades have seen the rapid expansion of multinational mining companies? exploration and production activities around the globe. This trend has resulted from a number of factors, incl

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Applications of Wireless Indoor Positioning Systems and Technologies in Underground Mining: a Review - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By Rushikesh Battulwar, Javad Sattarvand, Joseph Seamons, Masoud Zare

    In the last decade, new developments took place in the area of indoor positioning (or localization). Since the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) cannot be used in underground mines, other tech

    Sep 5, 2021

  • SME
    Formation And Detection Of Elemental Sulfur On The Surface Of Sphalerite In Aqueous Systems

    By R. K. Clifford

    The formation of elemental sulfur on the surface of sphalerite in aqueous systems was investigated. Hallimond tube flotation tests showed that unoxidized sphalerite did not float well without a collec

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Optimization of Cable Bolting Strategies at a Canadian Underground Mine

    By Efstratios Karampinos, John Hadjigeorgiou, Philippe Morissette

    "Ground support is a critical element in maintaining the stability of mining drives in deep and high stress mines. In challenging ground conditions, it is necessary to continuously explore ground supp

    Jan 4, 2018

  • SME
    Shiloh Church Molybdenum Deposit Polk County, Georgia ? Introduction

    By Donald W. Foss

    The Shiloh Church deposit is a very significant molybdenum occurrence in an ususual, perhaps unique, geologic environment. Work done to date indicate that several million tons of "ore" may be present,

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Reduction Behaviors of Iron Ore Compacts in Pure Hydrogen Atmosphere and Kinetic Analysis "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Meng Li, Hao Nie, Weitian Ding, Mamdouh Omran, Ying Li, Yao Ge, Yaowei Yu, Abourehab Hammam, Lei Zan

    This study examines the isothermal and non-isothermal reduction behaviors of iron ore compacts in a pure hydrogen atmosphere and compares the results obtained during the reduction process by CO. The d

    Sep 29, 2020

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 1985

    By R. C. Richardson

    Barite Worldwide barite production for 1985 decreased 1.3%, while US barite production increased 1.4%, according to US Bureau of Mines statistics. The increase in US production is attributed to hea

    Jan 5, 1986

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals Resources: Reporting According to Clause 49 of JORC 2012

    By Andrew Scogings

    The current edition of The Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) Code was published in 2012 and, after a transition period, the 2012 edition came into mandatory operation on Dec. 1, 2013.

  • SME
    Using Rock Geomechanical Characteristics to Estimate Bond Work Index for Mining Production Blocks - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By Omid Asghari, Amin Mousavi, Arshad Ranjbar

    Geometallurgical modeling of the production benches is an attempt to estimate the geometallurgical variables of the different ore domains, which leads to a better understanding of the ore and its prop

    Oct 28, 2021