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  • SME
    Detailed Fire Safety Design of Subways for Arson-Initiated Design Fires Innovation, Coordination, Implementation

    By Sandeep Upadhya, Marc Morgan, Baljinder Bassi, James Fletcher, Mike Deevy, Nishant Nayan

    "In order to protect public safety in the event of a deliberate fire attack, underground rail authorities are increasingly considering the need to design for arson-initiated fire scenarios. Where typi

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Canadian Sulphur From Sour Gas

    By C. M. Bartley

    Canada has been a producer of sulphur in various forms for about 100 years, Pyrites, as a source of sulphur dioxide for the manufacture of sulphuric acid, were being mined in the 1860's. Smelter

    Jan 1, 1964

  • SME
    Material Handling In Modern Ore Pelletizing Plants ? Introduction

    By J. F. Oyler

    One of the most important applications of material handling engineering technology occurs in iron ore pelletizing plants. Although the total installed value of material handling systems in such plants

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Application Of The Shrinking Core Model For Copper Oxide Leaching (SME-AIME Fall Meeting & Exibit St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 1977 )

    By John L. Shafer

    Often an in situ leach is the only practical economic method for copper recovery from small low grade oxide deposits. The decision to develop a copper property by an in-situ blast and leach is strongl

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    The Status Of Tunnel And Raise Boring

    By Richard J. Robbins

    Mechanical raise and tunnel boring are new techniques to most of the mining industry. Coal, salt and potash have been bored economically, but until recently boring machines were not designed specifica

    Jan 1, 1964

  • SME
    Short Cycle Back-Pulse Filtration And Computer Modeling Of Ccd Circuits By Iterative Solver

    By Gordon R. S. Smith

    This paper is in two parts. The first part describes Membrane Back-Pulse Filtration and the effects of very short filter downtimes on cycle filtration rates. Part II describes the use of Membrane Ba

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Fertilizer For Food Production

    By P. O. Ripley

    Into this tumultuous twentieth century, every second, two new babies are born. This is 5,412 per hour, and 130,000 per day. Relentlessly, consistently, alarmingly, they add to the more than three bill

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Effect Of Mass And Economic Allocation On Tellurium Life Cycle Impacts - SME Annual Meeting 2023

    By M. Moats, I. E. Paschalidou, K. Awuah-Offei

    Tellurium (Te) is a rare metalloid that is predominantly produced from the treatment of anode slimes formed during copper (Cu) electrolytic refining. The US Government lists Te as one of the 50 critic

    Feb 1, 2023

  • SME
    Pacific Rim Markets For Export Coal And Australia's Market Share

    By George E. Edwards

    Pacific Rim markets for export coal already represent a larger market than the total tonnage imported into the European Community countries and they will continue to expand. The largest importers will

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    The Sustainable Value Journey: Part 1 ? Using it-OT Integration to Exploit the Mining Value Chain

    By J. Starwood

    Post-super-cycle mining executives must exploit every aspect of the value chain to deliver continued value to stakeholders. Integrating enterprise-wide information technology with value-chain-wide ope

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Differential Adhesion Of Hydrophobic Bacteria Onto Coal And Associated Minerals

    By A. M. Raichur

    The selective adhesion of hydrophobic Mycobacterium phlei to coal particles is responsible for flocculation of fine coal from associated ash forming minerals. The driving force for the differential ad

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Photoelastic Analysis Of A Composite Model

    By R. K. Agarwal

    In this paper a simple three-layered medium is considered. A circular hole is centrally located in the intermediate layer. The layered sheet is loaded uniaxially perpendicular to the stratification. T

    Jan 1, 1968

  • SME
    Material Balances In Metallurgical Studies: Current Use At Warren Spring Laboratory

    By G. W. Cutting

    Interlocking material balances on complex mineral dressing plants greatly assist in metallurgical investigations: indeed, without such a balance, there is no firm basis upon which to base process perf

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Arizona Conference Continues to Foster Camaraderie in the Southwest

    By Chee Theng

    "It is not surprising that the most popular key takeaway from the Developing Diversity in Mining workshop (see box) held on the first day of the SME Arizona Conference in December was, “Have more part

    Feb 1, 2019

  • SME
    Deep Neural Network Models for Improving Truck Productivity Prediction in Open‑pit Mines - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By Wei Victor Liu, Omer Faruk Ugurlu, Chengkai Fan, Bei Jiang

    The accurate prediction of truck productivity plays a pivotal role in improving the efficiency and profitability of open-pit mining operations. However, predicting truck productivity is challenging ow

    Feb 12, 2024

  • SME
    The Grasberg Open Pit: Ertsberg's Big Brother Comes Onstream In Indonesia

    By R. J. Hickson

    The Grasberg copper-gold deposit was discovered in Spring 1988, just one year prior to the planned closure of Freeport Indonesia's original Ertsberg open pit copper mine. In spite of Grasberg&apo

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Caterpillar Introduces New Product Lines at Press Days ‘96

    By William R. Yernberg

    Caterpillar introduced 21 new products during Caterpillar Press Days ‘96, held in June at the company’s proving grounds near Tucson, AZ. The event, billed as the largest product introduction ever hel

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Loading Characteristics of Mechanical Rib Bolts Determined Through Testing and Numerical Modeling

    By Gamal Rashed, Zorica Radakovic-Guzina, Khaled Mohamed

    "Underground coal mines use mechanical bolts in addition to other types of bolts to control the rib deformation and to stabilize the yielded coal ribs. Limited research has been conducted to understan

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Adsorption Behavior Of Oleate On Brucite As Revealed By FT-IR Spectroscopy

    By A. W. Wensel

    The adsorption behavior of sodium oleate on brucite, Mg (OH)2, has been studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Both internal reflection and diffuse reflection (DRIFT) methods were used to

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Wemco's New Smartcell-Flotation With An Attitude

    By Jr. Foot

    EIMCO Process Equipment Company has introduced the new SmartCell series of conventional flotation cells. The flagship of this new development is the 5000 ft3 cell that is the largest available in indu

    Jan 1, 1997