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  • SME
    Measuring Carbon Emissions From Base Metal Mine Sites

    By M. J. Farrell

    The threat of global warming and its prominent position in public discussion and political debate requires all industry to take stock of its contribution to rising atmospheric concentration of greenho

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Practical Aspects Of Cathodoluminescence Petrography Applied To Alkali Syenite And Carbonatite

    By H. L. Barwood

    Luminescence excited by electron bombardment, or cathodoluminescence (CL), is a very useful tool in petrographic examination of rocks, minerals and ores. Differences in luminescence colors and intensi

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Is The Mining Industry Ready To Go Green?

    By Michele Ashby

    The mining industry is facing new risks from peak commodities, the energy and economic crisis and stock market pressures. The Green Mining Industry Initiative is a risk management strategy for the fut

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Technology News – Atlas Copco Wagner Announces Improved 10-t LHD

    Atlas Copco Wagner launched its ST1010 Scooptram load haul dumper. The ST1010 replaces the company’s Wagner ST-1000 Scooptram. The improvements to the Wagner ST1010 include increased reliability, ea

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Past, Present, and Future of Texas Industrial Minerals Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Brent A. Elliott, J. Richard Kyle

    Texas is a major producer of industrial mineral resources required by the state’s ever-growing population that now exceeds 28 million. Texas typically ranks in the top three states for the value of no

  • SME
    Mt. Baker Ridge Tunnel: Construction Of A Large Diameter Soft Ground Tunnel By The Stacked Drift Method

    By John F. MacDonald

    This paper describes the driving of a 400 m long by 25 m diameter highway tunnel through sensitive, overconsolidated silts and clays. The design concept requires the construction of the permanent supp

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Tunnelling on the South East Transit Project

    By T. W. Peglas, J. Doherty, R. A. Day

    The South East Transit Project is a $520 million project in Brisbane, Australia which includes the construction of a 32 km Busway to access the south-eastern suburbs. Close to the centre of Brisbane,

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Performance Monitoring Of A Block Cave Mine Using Signal Processing And Waveform Analysis Of GPS Data

    By D. Rutledge

    Discrete (digital) signal processing techniques are proving to be very valuable tools for miners using the block cave method. Waveform analysis of different measured signals associated with active min

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Evaluating Ventilation Parameters For Extended-Cut Mining – Preprint 97-148

    By J. P. Rider

    The number of extended cut mining systems has increased significantly in coal mines over the last decade, and there is a constant push to extend the face ventilation systems to even greater setback di

    Feb 24, 1997

  • SME
    Latest Information on Underground Construction Presented at 2006 NAT

    By William R. Yernberg

    The 2006 North American Tunneling (NAT) Conference was held June 10-15, 2006, in Chicago, IL. The biennial conference was the first NAT conference by the newly formed Underground Construction Associat

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Handling The Impacts Of Blasting On Grand Central Terminal For The MTA?s East Side Access Project

    By A. J. Thompson

    The Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) East Side Access project (ESA) will, when it is complete, provide a new link to the east side of Manhattan from Long Island, NY that, linked with the Se

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Kennecott Utah Copper Smelter Modernization

    By C. J. Newman

    Before 1995, the smelting process at the Kennecott Utah Copper Corp. (KUCC) smelter consisted of Noranda reactors and Pierce-Smith converters. When considering expansion, it was decided that the exis

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Influence Of Environmental Regulations On The Design Of Barrick Goldstrike’s Roaster Off-Gas Cleaning Circuit (59b0e343-de58-4518-9d0e-e7d0bcede677)

    By A. Cole, F. Porretta

    Barrick Gold recently implemented an oxygen roasting process to treat carbonaceous ore from its Goldstrike property in Nevada. One of the key project challenges was the design of the roaster gas clean

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Jabali / Yanbu – A New Source Of Zinc In The Middle East (fe9d2734-cc3c-4ef2-b8ec-54ed953ef19a)

    By K. M. Stone, N. J. G. Masson, A. C. Woollett

    The Jabali zinc deposit, in Yemen, contains at least 9.4 Mt at a grade of 10.7% zinc, 2.2% lead and 77g/t silver. The zinc occurs as smithsonite with minor hydrozincite. The Jabali ore does not produc

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Study on Strata Control Based on Pillar Stress and Surface Cracks in Shallow Multi-Seam Mining

    In order to ensure safe mining and reduce surface damage in shallow multiple-seam mining, the failure characteristics of interburden strata with different coal pillar offset distances between pillars

    Jul 28, 2020

  • SME
    Lithologic and Structural Constraints on TBM Tunneling in New York City

    By Charles Merguerian

    In medium- to high-grade metamorphic terrains such as found in New York City(NYC), rock mass texture and mineralogy are important factors in predicting TBM penetration destiny. Integration of data fro

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Advances In The Practical Implementation Of Indicator Geostatistics

    By Clayton V. Deutsch

    Indicator Kriging (IK) is being commonly applied to mineral resource assessment problems. More recently, indicator simulation has also been used for sensitivity analysis and difficult change of suppor

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Toward Open-Source Hardware and Software for the Mining Industry: a Case Study of Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System for Non-Metallic Underground Mines Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Mokhinabonu Mardonova, Yosoon Choi

    Open-source technology for supporting the Industry 4.0 has become the target of academic research in many sectors. This study reviewed the trends of open-source technology, its forms, and some industr

  • SME
    Avoiding Disputes on Challenging Ground Conditions in the Lake Mead Intake No. 3 TBM Starter Tunnel

    By Erika Moonin, Jim Nickerson, Marcus Jensen

    "This paper will explain how the Contractor and Owner avoided a contractual dispute involving characterization, impacts, and final remedy for challenging ground conditions encountered during drill and

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Toward Open-Source Hardware and Software for the Mining Industry: a Case Study of Low-Cost Environmental Monitoring System for Non-Metallic Underground Mines Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (3a9c5e4e-b387-4996-946a-2dab73f8a3f7)

    By Mokhinabonu Mardonova, Yosoon Choi

    Open-source technology for supporting the Industry 4.0 has become the target of academic research in many sectors. This study reviewed the trends of open-source technology, its forms, and some industr