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    Steps outlined to ensure precious metals miners have good relationships with their refiners

    By P. D. Chamberlain, R. M. Nadkarni, D. J. Kinneberg

    Introduction The relationship between precious metal miners and gold refiners has been uneasy over the years. Reasons for this uneasiness and lack of trust include technical factors, economics of sca

    Jan 10, 1986

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    Applicable Analytical Tools For A Seismic Design Of Underground Excavations

    By Christopher M. St. John, Tony F. Zahrah

    Empirical and numerical methods are the two extremes of the tools available for the seismic design of subsurface excavations and underground structures. Both have their limitations: when relying on pu

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Communication : The missing link in the minerals industry

    By Pat C. Hautala, J. R. Hoskins

    This is a new era for the minerals industry. Never before has there been more need for effective communication. So said Robert Anderson, chairman and chief executive officer of Hanna Mining Co. He was

    Jan 1, 1985

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    Recycling Power Plant Fly Ash And Its New Application For Construction Materials - Preprint 09-037

    By N. S. Kim

    Economically favored Cr and Cu leaching out process from spent power plant fly ash (PPFA) had been investigated. PPFA, bearing of C, S, V, Ni, Cu and Cr, has been widely used as an assistant fuel in c

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    bauma Exhibitors Display Their Products to Largest Crowd Ever

    The title of “the world’s biggest volume-produced hydraulic breaker,” that was held for more than a decade by the Atlas HB 7,000, changed hands with the launch of Atlas Copco’s HB 10,000 at bauma 2007

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Statistical Significance Of Some Operating Parameters On Dolomite Removal From Phosphate Using Amphoteric Collector

    By A. M. Elmahdy

    An amphoteric collector was tested for dolomite removal from phosphate ore. The effects of some operating parameters and their significance on the flotation of dolomite were studied using statisticall

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Evaluation Of Cyanide Producing Microorganisms To Recover Gold From Low-Grade Ore ? Introduction

    By D. Shin

    The gold leaching using cyanide from ore or waste has been almost universally in use [1]. Recently, biological gold bioleaching using cyanide producing bacteria, e.g. Chromobacterium violaceum, Pseudo

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Processing of Banded Hematite Quartzite Ore for Recovery of Iron Values Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (86b8819b-6b05-4951-9ba6-26bcd1fd2904)

    By Nikhil Dhawan, Veeranjaneyulu Rayapudi

    This study investigates upgrading of low-grade banded hematite quartzite iron ore (Fe ~31%). Conventional beneficiation was found to be futile. The susceptibility of iron phases to microwave exposure

  • SME
    Application of PVC as Novel Roasting Additive in Vanadium Extraction from Stone Coal Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Guowen Dong, Qiyong Li, Qiang Li, Tiejun Chen, Zhihong Wu, Junying Wan

    In order to search for a more economical and effective roasting additive for extracting vanadium from stone coal and solve the question of the disposal of PVC waste, PVC waste was proposed as a novel

  • SME
    Application of PVC as Novel Roasting Additive in Vanadium Extraction from Stone Coal Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (ca0ec95f-10f5-48a5-aea4-df2622b87a44)

    By Guowen Dong, Qiyong Li, Qiang Li, Tiejun Chen, Zhihong Wu, Junying Wan

    In order to search for a more economical and effective roasting additive for extracting vanadium from stone coal and solve the question of the disposal of PVC waste, PVC waste was proposed as a novel

  • SME
    Ventilation System Operating Cost Comparison Between A Conventional And An Automated Underground Metal Mine

    By C. K. Kocsis, S. Hardcastle

    Mine ventilation, requires electricity to operate the fans and fossil fuel for heating. Typically, this accounts for approximately 40% of the overall underground energy consumption. This is considerab

    Jan 1, 2002

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    Toxic effects of deep-sea mining - can we apply shallow-water standard toxicity test protocols to the deep sea?

    By Marina Carreiro-Silva, Cátia Cardoso, Bruce Shillito, Lisa Mevenkamp, Alastair Brown, Maria J. Bebianno, Juliette Ravaux, Inês Martins, Nélia C. Mestre, S. Sousa Vânia

    Mineral extraction activities in the deep sea will expose the local fauna to potentially toxic compounds. However, very few data are currently available on the complex ecotoxicological risks to deep-s

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    English Sea Drives - A Success Story

    By Joseph L. Margin

    From a stubborn start to record setting performances in little over a year, that is the story of the English Running Tunnel Boring Machines. The program to transfer technical information on these high

    Jan 1, 1991

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    Critical Considerations in Robotic Seabed Drilling

    By Steve Stuart

    Deep-sea mineral SMS deposits present some of the world’s most challenging conditions for drilling equipment. As robotic seabed drilling services mature so too the ways that clients engage with servic

    Sep 1, 2014

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    Construction of the Big Walnut Augmentation/Rickenbacker Interceptor Tunnel (BWARI, Part 1) —Columbus, Ohio

    By Glen D. Frank, Jeremy P. Theys, Mina M. Shinouda, Gary W. Gilbert

    PURPOSE OF THE PROJECT The Big Walnut Augmentation Rickenbacker Interceptor project began in 1995with the preparation of the Scope of Services for the design of the Rickenbacker Interceptor, with

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Geochemistry of ilmenite and applications to ilmenite provenance and Ti-mineral exploration

    By Antonio Pineda, Roger K. McLimans, Felicity E. Lloyd

    lmenite is a primary ore feed to the DuPont chloride process for the manufacture of titanium diox-ide pigment. We seek to determine ilmenite geochemistry as a function of original source and as-certai

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    St. Cloud Mining Company’s Stone House Zeolite Mine And New Uses For Clinoptilolite

    By G. S. Austin

    The St. Cloud Mining Company extracts clinoptilolite about 6.5 km south of Winston, Sierra County, New Mexico. Production is about 18,000 mt/year. Natural zeolites are good adsorbents for positively c

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Evaluation Of Sulfuric Acid Baking And Leaching Of Enargite Concentrates

    By M. S. Safarzadeh

    Over the last fifty years, the treatment of enargite concentrates has not received much attention primarily because of the availability of other clean concentrates suitable for processing with existin

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Large Diameter Tunnel Boring Machine Development

    By Martin Herrenknecht

    The world?s growing population and rapidly proceeding urbanization are boosting an enormous demand for new and high-capacity infrastructures to secure the mobility of goods and people. Densely popula

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Practical Application Of A Partial Cab To Reduce The A-Weighted Sound Level At The Operator’s Station On Surface Drill Rigs (16e0ea79-d925-4b2c-a99c-4b4744e63b41)

    By P. Jurovcik, D. Yantek, D. Ingram

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) identified hearing loss as the most common job-related disease in the United States in its 1996 National Occupational Research Agenda.

    Jan 1, 2007