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  • SAIMM
    Safety Considerations When Blasting Off The Solid In Underground Fiery Coal Mines

    By G. V. R. Landman

    In the early days of underground coal mining, the use of explosives to break coal resulted in a large number of disastrous methane and coal dust explosions and consequential loss of life. Research by

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SAIMM
    Support system performance under different corrosion conditions - Synopsis

    This paper reports on recent field observations on the performance of support systems under different corrosion environments in Canadian underground mines. Phenomenological data are used to gain a bet

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME-ICGCM
    New Era in Longwall Top Coal Caving Geomechanics

    By Abouzar Vakili

    Longwall Top Coal Caving (LTCC), as the most attractive method for thick coal seams, has been suffering from insufficient geomechanical understanding for the past few years. Cavability without doubt

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Metallurgical Progress in the Australian Commonwealth

    By Met M. E

    In choosing the subject for my address to you this evening I was actuated by the knowledge that in the past Australian metallurgical problems have been solved by the introduction of extremely interest

    Jan 1, 1936

  • CIM
    Dense Medium Separation and its Importance to Canada’s Diamond Mining Industry

    By Dave Price

    "Canada is scheduled to become the 4th highest diamond revenue producing country in the world by year 2004 with the already operating Ekati Mine and the anticipated operation of the Jericho Mine in 20

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Professional Mining Education in New Zealand - Where to from Here?

    The theme of this Conference is 'The Future of Mining in New Zealand' to be addressed at a time of deepening economic concern. To ensure the assessment and development of our mineral resourc

    Jan 1, 1991

  • NIOSH
    IC 8208 Loading And Transportation At Zinc-Lead Mines, The Eagle-Picher Co., Jo Daviess County, Ill. And Lafayette County, Wis.

    By William A. Beck

    This report describes the loading and transportation practices employed at the zinc-lead mines of The Eagle-Picher Co., Jo Daviess County, Ill., and Lafayette County, Wis. The report also gives a brie

    Jan 1, 1964

  • SAIMM
    Presidential Address: Platinum Perspectives - Introduction

    By L. A. Cramer

    Platinum metal was first utilized by the Inca civilization in South America where it was found in alluvial deposits along the San Juan and Atrato rivers that lie between the Andean mountain range in C

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Why combine reverse circulation and diamond drilling in Mineral Resource estimation at Purnama?

    By A N. Kasnanto, D A. Sims, J Pocoe, B Pulungan

    In this case study we compare the sampling quality of diamond drilling (DD) and reverse circulation (RC) drilling at the high sulfidation Purnama gold–silver (Au-Ag) deposit located in northern Sumatr

    Sep 20, 2017

  • NIOSH
    OFR-33-73 A Seismic Communications Investigation Employing A Piezoelextric Transducer

    By Craig C. Johnson

    The purpose of this effort was to investigate the feasibility of employing a piezoelectric transducer for seismic communications applications in mine environments. The transducer, a government furnish

    Jan 1, 1972

  • AUSIMM
    Tecnical note-lineament guidelines to mine development: a continuing case history, northeastern Queensland

    LANDSAT imagery has renewed interest in linear features first recognised by E. S. Hills in a physiographic model of Australia. Certain of these lineaments are aligned with structures which control min

    Jan 1, 1986

  • TMS
    Enhanced Recovery of Manganese and Silver from Refractory Ores Through Biotreatment

    By P. A. Rusin

    Many manganiferous silver deposits remain undeveloped because standard chemical extraction methods yield poor recoveries or are ' environmentally unacceptable. Biotreatment of such ore deposits i

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    The Blue Asbestos Deposits of the Hamersley Ranges (19c1a807-8e29-4e48-b49c-0186628feb0e)

    Crocidolite deposits in the Hamersley Ranges, NW. of Western Australia, occur over a length of 180 miles and a width of 20' to 30 miles. Their stratigraphic environment and mineralogy is comparab

    Jan 1, 1964

  • NIOSH
    RI 5721 Preparation Characteristics Of Coal From Preston County, W. Va. ? Summary

    By T. E. Gray

    This report describes the preparation characteristics of the signifi¬cant coalbeds in Preston County, W. Va. It is one in a series of reports planned to determine coals suitable for the production of

    Jan 1, 1961

  • SME
    Government and Miners Meet to Increase Indian Exploration and Mining

    By Andrew E. Nevin

    The government of India convened a precedent-setting meeting in New Delhi on Nov. 12, 2001.The meeting brought together regulators and the mining industry in an attempt to fix the industry’s mine deve

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Namew Lake Mill Project

    By K. Hoover, G. Labarre, S. Rantanen

    "As part of the Namew Lake project a mill was constructed to treat 1900 tpd of ore grading approximately 0.90% CU and 2.45% Ni to produce copper and nickel concentrates.Nickel occurs mainly as pentlan

    Jan 1, 1990

  • DFI
    Test Pile Program To Determine Axial Capacity And Pile Setup For The Biloxi Bay Bridge

    By W. Robert Thompson

    Hurricane Katrina caused significant damage to transportation structures on the Gulf coast in August, 2005, including the destruction of the US 90 Bridge over Biloxi Bay, Mississippi. Part of the suc

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Processing Strategies for Hidden Valley Operations

    By J Watt

    The Hidden Valley Gold Project is located in a remote and mountainous area of the Morobe Province approximately 30 km south of the township of Bulolo and approximately 90 km south-southwest of the pro

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    The Post-Mining Water Balance

    By A Watson

    We tend to overestimate the volume of water used to process ore and the evaporation from tailings and heap leach stockpiles. During mine operation, a significant portion of the water collected from on

    Jan 1, 2009

  • IOM3
    The Strait tin market: the Penang price

    By Fergusson E.

    An account is given of the history and operation of the Straits Tin market and the Penang price. The procedure by which the official ruling tin price is determined is presented and the way in which bi

    Dec 30, 1971