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  • AUSIMM
    Analysis of Heavy Mineral Sands by Quantitative X-Ray Powder Diffraction and Mineral Liberation Analyser û Implications for Process Control

    By S M. C Verryn, K Deysel

    In heavy mineral sands ilmenite, rutile and zircon are present in economic concentrations. These minerals are important sources of Fe, Ti and Zr for various industrial uses. The beach sands of norther

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Aluminum Dust for Silicosis

    Leading Article from "British Medical Journal," London, 4th, November, 1944.Assuming that silica exerts its injurious effect upon animal tissue through a slow transformation into silicic aci

    Jan 1, 1945

  • CIM
    Stereolithography, a Rapid Prototyping Technique for Orebody Modeling and Mine Design

    By Christopher P. O?Connor

    Stereolithography is a well known rapid prototyping technique in the manufacturing sector. Essentially it is a three dimensional printing process that produces plastic prototype parts from standard CA

    May 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Magnetic Gold: Losses from a Gold Recovery Circuit

    By Adil Aledresse, N. Emre Altun, Bern Klein, Nuri Hmidi, Brent Hilscher

    A study was conducted to investigate high gold grades in water lines and carbon fines collected from the Musselwhite gold recovery circuit. It was discovered that fine magnetic particles in the overfl

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME-ICGCM
    Evaluation Of Tailgate Ground And Support Interaction In The Illinois Basin For The Development Of A Ground Reaction Curve Based Standing Support Design (b187e562-fd74-46c1-b2f9-93667db20030)

    By Dennis Dolinar

    Improperly designed support systems have led to unplanned roof falls in longwall tailgates. To prevent such falls requires appropriate support and adequately designed support systems. The National Ins

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Assessing Vertimill Ultrafine Grinding Performance: The Gibraltar Mine Case

    By Keith Merriam, Jim McDonnell, Peter Radziszewski, Rob Rotzinger, Ian DeHart

    "Taseko Mines Limited Gibraltar copper-molybdenum mine recommenced operation in 2004 with the initiation of a series of development projects to increase throughput capacity as well as modernize the mi

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Bench Face and Quarry Fragmentation Analysis: 3D Imaging vs. Scaling References

    By Daniel Ko, Ian Bell, Shahram Tafazoli, Bahram Sameti, Aylin Azmin

    Image-based remote sensing of rock fragmentation in mining and quarry applications essentially treats each rock in the image as a data object in order to determine the rock size distribution. An obvio

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Review And Applicability Of Yielding Support Systems For Bump Prone Coal Mines In The Western United States - Preprint 09-027

    In bump-prone coal mines, roof and rib support is subject to dynamic as well as static loading. Although less frequently encountered, the dynamic loading component can result in violent coal expulsio

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    Explosively Loaded Vessel for Dynamic Experiments at Advanced Photon Source

    By Christian J. Sorensen, Christopher Armstrong, Andrew Matejunas

    A team consisting of junior and senior mechanical engineering students at New Mexico Tech worked on the design of an explosively loaded vessel, with a maximum load of 15 grams (0.53 oz) TNT equivalent

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Effect of Explosive Type on Particle Velocity Criteria in Ground Vibration

    By SMF Hossaini

    With the aim of a clearer understanding of the applicability of existing empirical equations for blast induced ground vibration, an investigation has been conducted on three mostly applied forms of su

    Jan 1, 2004

  • NIOSH
    OFR-164-77 Conceptual Design And Engineering, Economic And Environmental Analysis Of Surface Pit Slope Caving Mining System

    By H. M. Coggin

    The study summarizes the state of the art in rock mechanics, open pit and underground mining, leaching, geology, metallurgy and financial analysis Conceptual design of pit slope caving technique and a

    Jan 1, 1977

  • DFI
    The Design Of Deepwater Wharves Which Are In The Complex Geological Conditions Of Pearl River Estuary

    By F. W. Liang

    The geology of pearl River estuary belongs in strong weathered rock quaternary geological systen, so the conditions are complication. Since 80's we built the first deepwater wharf of Shenzhen chi

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals Review 2011

    Editor?s note: Each year, the June issue of Mining Engineering features an industrial minerals review. Several people put in a fair amount of time in developing the material for this issue, all the

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Co-Generation: A Challenge For Furnace Off-Gas Cleaning Systems

    By E. S. Schubert

    Keywords: co-generation, furnace CO-gas cleaning, disintegrator scrubber, Theisen In a closed, electric, reduction furnace, no oxygen enters the furnace from the surrounding environment. The off-g

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Improvements in the Mercury Abatement and Process Efficiency of Adsorption, Desorption and Regeneration Gold Processing Operations

    By C Barton, B Randall, T Weldon, M Lefler

    FLSmidth-Summit Valley Technologies has been a leader in gold processing equipment for nearly two decades. Over the past several years an extensive research and development effort has led to improveme

    Jul 15, 2013

  • CIM
    Review of Self-Heating Testing Methodologies

    By J. E. Nesset, F. Rosenblum, J. A. Finch

    "The self-heating of sulphides can be a major hazard in mining operations and concentrate handling, particularly during transportation and associated storage. Self-heating results from the oxidation o

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Untangling The Octopus" Bored-In Pile Construction - On Nysdot Project D256424 Ithaca, New York - Executive Summary - Bored-In Pile Construction

    By Andrew L. Peterson

    CATOH Inc. of Weedsport, New York recently completed a very challenging Bored-In Pile project which features unique construction techniques in the installation and load testing of 45 and 100 ton capac

    Jan 1, 1997

  • NIOSH
    Review Of The Mineral-Fuel Industries

    By Warren E. Morrison

    Stimulated by 4 years of continuous economic growth without inflation, demand for energy in the United States reached an alltime high in 1964. Total value of production of goods and services (gross na

    Jan 1, 1965

  • DFI
    Lessons Learned From Installation Of ACIP Piles In Various Geologic Settings Of The NYC Region

    By Frank J. Arland

    Augered-Cast-in-Place piles have been used successfully for many deep foundation applications. The four case studies discussed herein describe ACIP pile projects where problems developed during ACIP p

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Geometallurgy - What do you Really Need to Know from Exploration through to Production?

    By K Ehrig

    You are a geologist, geometallurgist, or metallurgist/process engineer and are fortunate enough to work for an organisation who asks you to design/execute a geometallurgy program. What seems like a si

    Jul 15, 2013