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  • SME
    The Anomalies of the Purple Line Extension, Section 1, Los Angeles - NAT2024

    By James Corcoran, Richard McLane, Joseph DeMello, Eric Carlson, Hans van de Vrugt

    The Los Angeles County Transportation Authority’s Purple Line Extension Phase 1 is a $3.12 billion (USD) design-build, underground heavy rail project, connecting an existing station at Wilshire Boulev

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    Global Views of Mining From the ?World?s Mining Capital?

    By William Gleason

    During the 116th National Western Mining Conference and Exhibition in Denver, CO, the host city was often referred to as world?s mining capital, so it was fitting that the conference looked at the min

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals Resources: Reporting According to Clause 49 of JORC 2012

    By Andrew Scogings

    The current edition of The Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) Code was published in 2012 and, after a transition period, the 2012 edition came into mandatory operation on Dec. 1, 2013.

  • SME
    A Summary Of Respirable Coal Mine Crystalline Silica Dust Research Accomplished Through The Miner Act Under The Niosh Office Of Mine Safety And Health Research - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By W. R. Reed, G. W. Luxbacher

    As directed by the MINER act of 2006, the NIOSH Office of Mine Health & Safety Research (OMSHR) has annually awarded contracts to enhance mine safety and health. OMSHR has a history of research that f

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SME
    AECL's Mine-By Experiment - From Concept To Construction

    The Canadian concept for nuclear fuel waste disposal is being assessed by AECL Research in a series of experiments at its Underground Research Laboratory (URL) near Lac du Bonnet. Manitoba, Canada. As

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Effectiveness of the CPDM in Reducing Overexposures to Coal Mine Dust (Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration)

    By Steven E. Mischler, Jay F. Colinet

    The study analyzes the impact of the Continuous Personal Dust Monitor (CPDM) on reducing overexposures to coal mine dust. It compares compliance sampling data before and after the implementation of th

    Feb 22, 2022

  • SME
    Fire Size and Response Time Predictions in Underground Coal Mines Using Neural Networks

    By Brian Y. Lattimer, Kray D. Luxbacher, Jonathan L. Hodges, Manuel J. Barros-Daza

    The abstract discusses the importance of predicting fire response time (the time before conditions become untenable for firefighters) in underground coal mines. It introduces a data-driven approach us

    Mar 6, 2022

  • SME
    The Future of Transit Tunneling in Washington, D.C.

    By Brian Zelenko, William H. Hansmire

    "By the time the latest expansion of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) system, known locally as Metro and which opened in 1976, is completed in 2020, the system will serve 97

    Jan 6, 2018

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals review 2014

    "Editor’s note: Each year, 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 while doing their o

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Estimating Life Cycle Greenhouse Gas Emissions For A Surface Coal Mine

    By O. Ditsele

    Coal plays an important role in the energy needs of the World. Given its wide abundance and low cost, coal use is bound to increase with the growing energy demand. Despite its importance, there are gr

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Ventilation monitoring and control in mines

    By MAHESH SHRIWAS, CHRISTOPHER PRITCHARD

    Ventilation monitoring and control in mines are becoming an integral part of day-to-day activity for maintaining the health and safety of miners. This paper evaluates potential real-time monitoring so

  • SME
    Current Concepts in Coal Export Terminal Design

    By R. W. Carn, D. Vincent

    Environmental Considerations With significant increases in bulk coal movements through terminals, operators are under constant social and political pressure to reduce or remove environmental pollut

    Jan 7, 1983

  • SME
    Coal Division - Elements In Coal And Potential Environmental Concerns Arising From These Elements

    The Environmental Session will consist of five papers dealing with various aspects of trace elements associated with coal. Analytical procedures to determine the amounts of trace elements will be disc

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Mining Heritage: Preservation And Sustainable Development Of An Outstanding Universal Value

    By J. Kretschmann

    Mining heritage can be of outstanding value for many regions around the world, because mining has been done for thousands of years for the benefit of mankind and its development. This paper presents a

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Cellular backfill — A Review of Some of the Basics

    By David Crouthamel, Raymond Henn

    "The need to fill the void space or annulus created between an excavated tunnel or shaft and the final lining system has long been a requirement in underground construction. Most of those types of voi

    Jan 12, 2017

  • SME
    The New Face of Mining; Breakthroughs in Results Leveraging the People Factor

    By Steve Zaffron, Olga Loffredi, Eric Seedorff, Mary Poulton

    "The New Face of Mining is a recognition of the central role of human beings in mining and the underappreciated power they can have in generating breakthroughs in business performance and shareholder

    Oct 1, 2019

  • SME
    Residence Time Distribution In Single Big Industrial Flotation Cells

    By J. Yianatos

    The collection zone residence time distribution (RTD) of mechanical self-aerated flotation cells was characterized for liquid and solid per size class (-45 mm, +45-150 mm and +150 mm). It was found th

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Tracking Mine Safety Performance Trends To Assess The Risk For A Fatality

    By H. Kinilakodi

    The authors previously developed a methodology that combines injury and citation measures into an overall mine safety performance evaluation tool, called the safe performance index (SPI). It can be ea

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Demonstrating the Financial Impact of Mining Injuries with the “Safety Pays in Mining” Web Application

    By J. R. Heberger

    "“Safety Pays in Mining” web application developed by the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Mining Program, helps mines determine the potential costs associated with mining in

    Dec 1, 2018

  • SME
    Field tests of second generation proximity detection systems on continuous miners

    By Jeffrey A. Yonkey, Timothy J. Lutz, Jacob L. Carr, Christopher C. Jobes

    "Since 1984, there have been 39 fatalities involving striking and pinning of the operator and other workers by the continuous mining machine (CMM). In January 2015, the U.S. Mine Safety and Health Adm

    Jan 1, 2014