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  • AIME
    Mexican Paper - Notes on the Mines and Minerals of Guanajuato, Mexico

    By William P. Blake

    The ancient city of Guanajuato, the capital of the State of that name, has been built up and sustained chiefly by the milling industry based upon the veins of the Veta Madre and La Luz. It is distant

    Jan 1, 1902

  • NIOSH
    OFR-39(3)-77 Accident Cost Indicator Model To Estimate Costs To Industry And Society From Work-Related Injuries And Deaths In Underground Coal Volume III. Supporting Data

    By Daniel G. DiCanio

    This report describes a computer-based model for estimating the tangible costs of injuries and deaths from work-related accidents in underground coal mines. The study undertook to identify and quanti

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Underground Mining: Comparison of Methods

    By Stephen A. Orr

    Underground mining is a dynamic art and science with a diverse set of design, production, and economic criteria that must be considered before selecting an optimal method to extract the ore. While all

    Jan 1, 2008

  • ISEE
    Shotplus - Blast Designs in a Windows Environment

    By Brad H. A Brown, J Paul Tidman

    To design a blast, one must give consideration to safety, economics, geometry, geology, production needs, and a variety of other requirements. To compare designs requires the time to develop alternati

    Jan 1, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    The Geology of the Mungana-Redcap Area, Chillagoe District

    CONTENTSIntroductionGeneral GeologyCoral Reef-Volcanic Set'iesRock TypesMicaceous Sandstone and MudstoneLimestoneVolcanic RocksChertsDepositionDiatremesEarth MovementsRelation of Ore Bodies to St

    Jan 1, 1952

  • NIOSH
    OFR-163-83 The Sixth WVU Conference On Coal Mine Electrotechnology - An Evaluation Of Problems Associated With 1000 Vac Longwall Mining Systems

    By Paul M. Hall

    In the last several years, the coal mining industry has made significant changes in the design of longwall mining systems to make them more productive. Some changes, such as increasing the length of t

    Jan 1, 1982

  • NIOSH
    IC 6631 Mining Laws of Denmark and Danish Possessions

    By E. P. Youngman

    This paper presents one of a series of digests of foreign mining legis- ation and court decisions that is being prepared in advance of a generel report elative to the rights of American citizens to ex

    Jun 1, 1932

  • NIOSH
    OFR-103(1)-82 Feasibility Of Water Diversion And Overburden Dewatering - Volume I: Technical Report

    By Michael L. Clar

    The U.S. Bureau of Mines contracted a study to determine the feasibility of water diversion and overburden dewatering for underground coal mines in the Appalachian Region. All relevant published liter

    Jan 1, 1981

  • AIME
    Mining - Mechanics of Rock Slopes

    By D. H. Trollope

    In engineering in general, close agreement between theoretical predictions and structural performance is rare—this is particularly true in rock slopes. Since the complexity of natural arrangements mak

    Jan 1, 1961

  • NIOSH
    OFR-27-89 Proceedings Of The 23rd International Conference Of Safety In Mines Research Institutes ? Session I ? Mines Fires ? Review Paper: Mine Fires

    By A. F. Roberts

    The subject of mine fires is a very wide one. To give reasonable coherency, the paper concentrates on the behaviour of fires in the ventilated airways of mines; spontaneous combustions are not conside

    Jan 1, 1989

  • NIOSH
    OFR-131-81 The Implementation Of UHF Radio Communications And CCTV Monitoring Systems In A Room And Pillar Metal/Non-Metal Mine Final Report

    By R. A. Isberg

    This report describes the design and implementation of UHF radio and closed-circuit television systems in the Black River room and pillar limestone mine near Butler, Pendleton County, Kentucky. Prior

    Jan 1, 1981

  • DFI
    Ground Improvement for the Distressed Earth Bund Using Stone Column - A Case Study

    By M. Kumaran, A. Vetriselvan, A. Purantharan

    "This paper presents a case history of evaluating the stability of a distressed earth bund and rectification measures carried out. A 5.45 km long, 7m high earth bund for drinking water storage was con

    Jan 1, 2017

  • NIOSH
    OFR-18-73 Investigation Of Requirements And Performance Of Safety Catches On Wire-Rope-Suspended, Man-Carrying Conveyances In United States Coal Mines

    By C. H. Larsen

    The results of a comprehensive investigation of conveyance arrestment devices (safety catches) in United States coal mines are presented. Availability and use, performance, inspection, maintenance, te

    Jan 1, 1972

  • CIM
    The Effect of Patents, Licenses and Trade Marks on New Product Development

    By Primak. George J.

    "In the development of a new product as well as during its introduction on the market, it is very important to give due consideration to problems involving patents, licenses and trade marks. At the ve

    Jan 1, 1973

  • CIM
    Continuous Improvements of Porcupine Joint Venture (PJV) Dome Mine's Gravity Circuit

    By T. Y. Chong, J. A. Folinsbee, M. Fullam

    PJV Dome Mine has used some form of gravity concentration since start of milling operation in 1909 to recover free milling gold. Amalgamation and conventional jigs were first used and were replaced wi

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    The Influence of Some Variables on the Brinell Hardness of Lead

    During the extensive research which has been conducted in the Metallurgy Department of the University of Melbourne, into the properties of lead and its dilute alloys, the Brinell test has been used fo

    Jan 1, 1940

  • CIM
    The end of horizontal zinc retorting in the United States

    By J. E. Dutrizac

    "The end of an era in zinc metallurgy took place on July 31, 1976 when the horizontal retort furnaces of the National Zinc Company in Bartlesville, Oklahoma were permanently shut down (1) . For more t

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AIME
    Cleaning- Bituminous Coal

    By J. R. Campbell

    THE need for standardizing methods of arriving at definite conclusions regarding the cleanability of a given coal, and for measuring the performance of coal-cleaning equipment, is constantly increasin

    Jan 1, 1928

  • NIOSH
    OFR-15-76 Study Of Mine Fire Fighting Using Inert Gases - Summary

    By Rudolf E. Greuer

    This report contains a theoretical study on the usefulness of fighting mine fires with inert gases. Four introductory chapters review the role of fires in the mining industry; the conventional fir

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Lithologic Controls On Subsidence

    By Jr. Abel

    Subsidence is controlled by a complex combination of mining and geologic factors. For example, a world-wide compilation of data shows that, as the percentage of shale in the overying rock mass decreas

    Jan 1, 1980