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  • DFI
    Alternative Deep Foundation Solutions ? Dmm At Lpv-111 In New Orleans

    By Wesley Schmutzler

    The Deep Mixing Method (DMM) was employed to raise and support the LPV (Lake Pontchartrain and Vicinity) -111 Levee in New Orleans. Even using innovative technologies, the tight schedule to achieve t

  • CIM
    Mining Community Sustainability and well-being in British Columbia, Canada

    By Janis A. Shandro

    The mining sector is a major economic driver for Canadian, and British Columbian communities. In parallel strong commitments have been made by industry to the well-being and sustainability of associat

    May 1, 2011

  • SME
    Mining Faculty in the United States: Current Status and Sustainability

    By M. K. McCarter

    The history of mining education, like the history of the mining industry, is typified by “boom and bust” cycles. In academia, the perpetual problem can be stated as “too many graduates for the jobs o

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Underground storage in Sydney, some uncommon rock mechanics features of an uncommon project in Australia

    By N. Gatelier, T. You, J. C. Kandel

    ABSTRACT: Underground hydrocarbons storage is a very specific domain for the designer. He is usually free to adjust the section, shape and layout to cope with the geological and geotechnical condition

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Benefication of Low Grade Ore at the Detour Lake Mine

    "The Detour Lake Mine is located in northeastern, Ontario, approximately 300 kilometres northest of Timmins and 185 kilometres by road northeast of Cochrane. The mill processes a free milling gold or

    Jan 1, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Are You at Risk Under the Resource Management Act 1991 û How To Ensure That You, Your Company and its Officers Avoid Liability by Complying with The Legislation

    The individual or company director who ignores his or her obligations under the Resource Management Act 1991 and under the proposed hazardous substances legislation, ignores them at their peril. Two r

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Methane Explosion Modeling In The Sago Mine - Preprint 09-092

    By W. McMahon

    Following the Sago Mine accident, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) asked the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center to study several possible methane explosion scenarios in

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    The State-Of-The-Art In Coal Pillar Design (6a33d9ed-6bb8-48bc-96fc-7206a236ffd8)

    By 1980, the U.S. mining community had reached a broad consensus regarding coal pillar design. The pillar load could be estimated from tributary area theory, and the pillar strength from empirical for

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Process Improvement Update at Brunswick Mine

    By Jodi Roberts, Curtis Deredin, Jean-Guy Paulin

    "Since the establishment of the Six Sigma quality improvement program in 2001, several projects have been successfully carried out in the copper-lead, zinc, copper separation, lead upgrading and bulk

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME-ICGCM
    A Case History of the Effect of Mine Subsidence on a Concrete Arch Bridge in Northern West Virginia

    By R. B. Alke

    Request to Mine Beneath Bridge The Jabs Run Bridge is a reinforced portland concrete arch filled bridge located on WV Bouts 7 near Pentress, WV. The bridge has a span of 22.9 m (meters) and a height o

    Jan 1, 1984

  • CIM
    Yield Stress Measurement of Cemented Paste Backfill with the Vane Method and Slump Tests

    By A. S. Moghaddam

    The transportation of cemented and non-cemented mine tailings in the form of paste through pipelines is one of the main stages of paste backfill operations. For the purpose of pipeline design, the rhe

    May 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Metallurgical Testing: Modeling Recovery versus Ore Grade

    By Manqiu Xu

    "Ore grades are decreasing and ore deposits are becoming more complex. In order to make a sound economical decision about a mining project, metallurgical testwork must be carried out. A few large “rep

    Jan 1, 2013

  • ISEE
    Low-Cost Method of Using Blasting Videos to Improve Performance

    By Jennifer Ward

    The primary objective of this paper is to establish how a low cost, high definition (HD) camera can allow for easy sustainable recordings of blasting operations. The subsequent analysis of each video

    Jan 1, 2015

  • CIM
    Study of Relationship between Pyrochlore Matrix Composition and Surface Chemistry Effects on Collector Adsorption

    By B. Hart, J. Marois

    "Scanning electron microscopy coupled with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM–EDX), and Time of flight secondary ion mass spectroscopy (TOF-SIMS)were used to analyze pyrochlore grains from Niob

    Jan 1, 2013

  • AUSIMM
    The Relationship of Structure and Ore Deposition at Stawell Goldfield, Victoria

    The Stawell Goldfield, the westernmost of the main Victorian fields, has produced over a million and a quarter ounces of gold from one and three-quarter million tons of ore. The lodes are quartz reefs

    Jan 1, 1960

  • CIM
    Crystallex’s Las Cristinas Gold Project (7d5d7696-3ce9-4e3a-a905-204bcf9d3fae)

    By J. R. Goode

    "The Las Cristinas deposit contains about 10.2 million ounces of gold at a grade of 1.3 g/t. The deposit comprises a layer of fully oxidized saprolite (SAPO), a layer of sulphide-enriched saprolite (S

    Jan 1, 2004

  • NIOSH
    Technology News - No. 529 - New Technology For Ground Control In Multiple-Seam Mining

    Research by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) on multiple-seam mining has resulted in two new ground control products. Information Circular (IC) 9495 In some U.S.

    Jan 11, 2007

  • AIME
    Louis Davidson Ricketts, President

    The following record of the important responsibilities already shouldered by Dr. Ricketts will give some indication of the trust and confidence reposed in him by his colleagues. The Institute is to be

    Jan 3, 1916

  • CIM
    Development of a Magnetically-Levitated Skip to Hoist Ore

    By Ryan W. Ulansky

    This paper presents the conceptual design of a magnetically-levitated skip for use in an underground mine. A skip is used to move rock from an underground mine to its surface processing facility. Conv

    May 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Bacteria Help Civil Engineers; Report Of A Pilot Project

    By John W. M. Lambert

    This paper describes the execution and the results of a new method to seal off leaks in water retaining constructions. The new method, called BioSealing is based on activating the bacteries, present i

    Jan 1, 2006