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  • SME
    Hong Kong Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme Stage I—Deep Tunnels

    By Will Foreman, Douglas D. McLearie, Edwin K. H. Tong, William H. Hansmire

    Hong Kong’s Strategic Sewage Disposal Scheme (SSDS) Stage I involves the provision of a system of deep tunnels for transporting to a central treatment works wastewater collected from a number of catch

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Mini Symposium ? Rock Reinforcement - Design Of Rock Reinforcement Systems - Rationale For The Design Of Rock Reinforcement Systems

    By V. Rajaram

    Rock reinforcement systems are used in open pit and underground mines to stabilize the rock mass in-situ and provide safe working conditions. Significant progress has been made to date in the design a

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Ihor Kunasz: An Interview With SME's 1998 President

    Editor's note: Biographical information about Ihor Kunasz, president, Newmont Uzbekistan, can be found in the February 1998 issue of ME, page 94 and in the May 1996 issue, page 92. Your perso

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Residual diesel range organics in process waters from laboratory fine coal flotation tests (cf0c922c-3ef1-4110-a5ac-c4a4d4e8705b)

    By J. Morris, R. Sellaro

    Petro-diesel is a common collector for coal flotation, but the partitioning of diesel range organics (DROs) in process streams has not been widely studied. Preliminary research suggested that under no

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Comparative Analysis Of Open Pit Mine Scheduling Techniques For Strategic Mine Planning Of The Tintaya Copper Mine In Peru

    By D. Bernabe

    The mine scheduling process defines a mining sequence across the life of the mine and stipulates the amount of ore, waste, and specific blocks to be mined each year so that the highest economic return

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Selective Extraction of Zinc from Zinc Ferrite "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By VIVEK KASHYAP, PATRICK TAYLOR

    The presence of iron in sphalerite induces the formation of zinc ferrite (ZF) during roasting. Zinc refinery residues (ZRR) and electric arc furnace dust (EAFD) contain a significant amount of zinc fe

    Sep 16, 2020

  • SME
    Specific Problems Connected With The Application Of Full-Face Tunnelling Machines In German Coal Mines

    By Peter Loehr

    Full-face tunnelling machines were introduced into German coal mines 12 years ago. It was aimed to utilize these highly efficient systems to drive mine tunnels in rock so that the large demand for dev

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Uncertainty-Based Mine Production Scheduling For Ore Grade Control Using Conditional Simulation And Multiobjective Genetic Algorithms

    By B. Samanta

    This paper highlights the use of an innovative mine production scheduling scheme for grade-control planning tasks that take into consideration grade-model uncertainty. The scheduling exercise has been

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SME
    An Investigation On The Stability Of A Deep Open Pit Lignite Mine Using Finite Elements Analysis

    By E. Stiakakis

    The paper presents a geotechnical simulation of the "Mavropigi" open pit mine (Western Macedonia Lignite Center, Greece), using the finite element method. The simulation was based on the initial plann

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Betze-Post Pit Slope Stability Monitoring At Barrick Goldstrike

    By R. Sharon

    Barrick Goldstrike Mines, Inc. Betze-Post open pit operations, located in northeastern Nevada, have experienced slope instability attributed to the presence of generally weak rock mass conditions, loc

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Modernization Of The LKAB Pelletizing Plant At Svappavaara, Sweden

    By Knut H. Hubert

    The GRATE-KILN System plant at Svappavaara, Sweden, was constructed for LKAB by Allis-Chalmers under a turnkey contract and commissioned in 1969. The plant was designed to produce iron ore pellets fro

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Residual diesel range organics in process waters from laboratory fine coal flotation tests (7edfe308-966e-40bd-b7f1-bfecd1e71bed)

    By J. Morris, R. Sellaro

    El petrodiesel es un colector común para la flotación de carbón, pero la partición de compuestos orgánicos de diesel (DRO por sus siglas en inglés) en corrientes de proceso no ha sido ampliamente estu

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Separation And Extraction Of Lead-Zinc Metals From Egyptian Ore At Red Sea Coast

    By M. A. Rabah

    This paper focuses on the separation and extraction of lead and zinc from Egyptian ore at the Eastern Desert close to Red Sea. The ore sample contains cerussite, galena, hemimorphite and other impurit

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Modeling and Optimization of Aqueous Mineral Carbonation for Cement Kiln Dust Using Response Surface Methodology Integrated with Box-Behnken and Central Composite Design Approaches "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration"

    By MOHAMED WAEL, ANASTASIA GOEVA, ABDULAZIZ TAWFEEQI, IHTISHAM TARIQ, S. M. ZAKIR HOSSAIN, NIAZ ALI KHAN, MUHAMMAD FAISAL IRFAN

    Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is an attractive area of research in such fields as CO2 mineral carbonation, global warming and sustainable energy systems. In this study, carbonation efficiency for a

    Jun 5, 2020

  • SME
    DeMet? Membrane Electrolytic Cell Application for Improved Metal Processing and Residual Recovery

    By P. James

    Blue Planet Strategies (BPS) focuses on improved resource utilization and targets converting wastes into resources. New BPS capability (DEMET) wrings extra value from mining and processing wastes by

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Fundamentals Of Metal Sulfide Biooxidation

    By G. J. Olson

    This paper describes the microbiology basics underlying heap and tank biooxidation of metal sulfide ores and concentrates. The primary organisms are identified and described along with the reactions

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    New Methodology Enables Improved Evaluation Of Flotation Collectors

    By B. Cousins

    Flotation reagents are critical to the optimum performance of flotation circuits. How a flotation reagent performs within the first few cells of a flotation train is a key indicator of how well it wil

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Controversial Mining Projects - Can You Ever Be Prepared?

    By A. W. Czarnowsky

    More than ever before, mining projects are besieged from growing regulatory, political, public, and special interest group pressure. Administrative and legal appeals to permits and environmental docum

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    A Feasibility Study For The Production Of Filter Aids From Kansas Volcanic Ash ? Introduction

    By William R. Hess

    Volcanic ash, although a little-used Kansas resource, is available in forty counties with estimated, reserves of more than 20 million tons. It was first produced in Kansas in the early 1900?s but not

    Jan 1, 1965

  • SME
    Diversity and Technology take Center Stage at the 2019 SME Annual Conference & Expo

    By Georgene Renner, Chee Theng, William Gleason

    "A walk through the exhibit hall or a glance at the technical programing that was offered at the 2019 SME Annual Conference & Expo and CMA 121st National Western Mining Conference in Denver, CO, Feb.

    May 1, 2019