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  • SME
    Lake Cumberland Raw Water Intake Structure—Somerset Water Service

    By Timothy M. Bruner, William J. Maloney

    Faced with rapid growth that strained their current water supply capabilities, the Somerset Water Service in Somerset, KY decided to construct a new intake structure on the shore of Lake Cumberland. W

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    ANI’S Innovative Single Motor Twin Pinion [SMTP] Grinding Mill Drive

    By J. B. Hadaway

    The current limit to power transmission for grinding mills through one mill pinion is approximately 7,500kW. Above this power rating either twin pinion arrangements or Gearless drives are required. Th

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Conditions For Making Direct Reduced Iron, Transition Direct Reduced Iron And Pig Iron Nuggets In A Laboratory Furnace - Temperature-Time Transformations

    By B. Anameric

    The pig iron nugget process is gaining in importance as an alternative to the traditional blast furnace. Throughout the process, self-reducing?fluxing dried greenballs composed of iron ore concentrate

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Mining Foundation of the Southwest to host 31st annual banquet

    The 31st annual American Hall of Fame Awards Banquet and Fundraiser sponsored by the Mining Foundation of the Southwest (MFSW) will be held at the JW Marriott Tucson Starr Pass Resort on Saturday, Dec

    Nov 1, 2013

  • SME
    Prediction Of Subsidence Basin By The Weibull Distribution Function

    By R. H. Zeng

    Many subsidence researchers in the U. S. have developed new empirical function methods to predict subsidence, or attempted to validate some empirical functions developed by foreign researchers for use

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Overview of Low-Rank Coal Drying – Preprint 97-61

    By W. G. Willson, D. E. Walsh, B. Irwin

    Low-rank coal (LRC) drying processes are generally categorized by operating temperature, drying environment and type of feed (either sized or ground coal). Within these broad categories, drying proce

    Feb 24, 1997

  • SME
    Borehole Mining: Getting More Versatile

    By Marcus A. Wiley, Gregory Abramov

    Borehole mining (BHM) is a remotely operated method of extracting rock material through boreholes by high-pressure water jets. Figure 1 illustrates a BHM tool and fluids circulation. The tool consist

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Maximizing Value By Protecting Your Intellectual Property Assets ? Introduction

    By S. E. Chetlin

    In the mid-1970?s, the market value of tangible assets of S&P 500 companies far outstripped the value of intangible assets, including intellectual property (e.g., 83% tangible assets v. 17% intangible

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Recovery Of Phosphate Values From Benefication Wastes

    By N. Abdel-Khalek, A. Youssef

    The tailings from beneficiation of Florida phosphate ore contain considerable phosphate values. These tailings are currently discharged into large disposal areas. More than three million tons of P2O5

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Acid Rock Drainage from Abandoned Mines to High-Andean Lakes

    By José A. Rios, José A. Vidalôn

    The case study of a highland area in the Central Andes of Peru, where many abandoned polymetallic mines are found, is presented. Some of these mines generate metal leaching and acid rock drainage (ML/

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Occupational Pulmonary Diseases

    By E. A. Metz

    Work related pulmonary diseases are in the top TEN causes of occupational disability and death in the United States. Likewise, it also ranks high inmost of the other industrial countries. It is d

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Experimental Study Of Residence Time Distributions Of Ball-Mill Circuits Grinding Coal-Water Mixtures

    By K. Shoji

    Residence time distributions (RTDs) were estimated by water tracing in a number of wet overflow ball mills (diameters 0.38 to 4.65 m) producing dense, coal-water slurries. In open-circuit mills of 0.3

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Sustainable mining operations with Atlas Copco’s products

    By L. Bergkvist

    "History can provide many answers with regard to what today’s mining industry looks like and how we got to where we are today. It has always been self-evident that safety has to be given the highest p

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Reducing Mercury Production At Bald Mountain Mine

    By J. Wickens

    This paper discusses how Bald Mountain Mine dramatically reduced mercury production by treating process solutions with a liquid reagent called UNR 811A. The reagent is marketed by Cherokee Chemical C

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Analysis Of Us Small-Mine Compliance Feasibility With Proposed New Respirable Dust Standards And Implications For Better Dust Control Methods

    By R. L. Grayson

    In 2010, MSHA began holding hearings on a new coal mine respirable dust rule, which proposes a 1.0 mg/m3 standard, a separate 0.1 mg/m3 quartz standard, and the use of single-shift samples for complia

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    New approaches detailed for gold exploration in the Canadian shield

    By H. R. Butler, J. F. Church, A. T. MacGibbon

    Introduction Inco is the major North American nickel producer. Initially based in Sudbury, Ontario, its past exploration activity was directed toward finding new nickel deposits. New nickel sulfide d

    Jan 2, 1987

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2004 - Kaolin

    By R. L. Virta

    Twenty-three companies mined kaolin in nine States in 2004. Production was estimated to be 7.6 Mt (8.3 million st) valued at $912 million, based on preliminary data. This was a slight decrease from

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Educational Programs And Partnerships In Mineral Engineering

    By Wijnand Dalmijn, Hans de Ruiter

    Experience over the past eight years has proven that partnership and cooperation in mineral engineering education is essential to maintain programs in this field. At this moment the joint European Min

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Discover mining?s history at Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum

    While SME is hosting its Annual Meeting at the Phoenix Convention Center, Feb. 28 to March 3, one of the finest collections of mining history will be on display just 15 blocks away at the Arizona Mini

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    An Analysis Of Recent MSHA Accident Datafor Underground Metal Mines Using Backfill

    By J. B. Seymour

    This paper provides an overview of the current use of backfill for ground support in underground metal mines in the United States and a summary of recent accident data reported for these mines by the

    Feb 27, 2013