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  • SME
    Technology News – Atlas Copco Wagner Announces Improved 10-t LHD

    Atlas Copco Wagner launched its ST1010 Scooptram load haul dumper. The ST1010 replaces the company’s Wagner ST-1000 Scooptram. The improvements to the Wagner ST1010 include increased reliability, ea

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Stress Measurement And Monitoring In Anisotropic Rock - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By W. G. Pariseau

    Reliable stress measurement using hollow inclusion gauges and monitoring stress change using borehole stress meters and borehole deformation gauges in anisotropic rock remains a challenge for the rock

    Mar 2, 2022

  • NIOSH
    IC 8334 Computer Usage For Evaluation Of Design Parameters And Cost Of Heat Exchangers - With No Change In Phase And Pumping Costs Of Both Fluids As Prime Parameters

    By P. R. Jones

    A computer program was written for the design of a shell and tube type heat exchanger on a price optimum basis. The program was designed to meet the following requirements: (1) Triangular pitch; (2) s

    Jan 1, 1967

  • AUSIMM
    The Valuation of Auriferous Alluvial Deposits by the Use of a Keystone Drill

    It is difficult, and probably inadvisable, to frame rigid rules for the valuation of alluvial deposits, for such deposits are very diverse in type, varying, for example, according to the mineral sough

    Jan 1, 1950

  • AIME
    Discussion Of The Papers Presented At The Salt Lake City Meeting, September, 1925

    CONTENTS PAGE ANDERSON, ARVID E., and CAMERON, FRANK K.-Recovery of Copper by Leaching, Ohio Copper Co. of Utah. Discussed by Thomas B. Brighton, H. C. Goodrich, Arvid E. Anderson, Thos. P. Billings

    Jan 12, 1925

  • CIM
    Commissioning of the Intensive Cyanidation Plant to Treat Concentrate from the Selene Mine at the Ares Mill

    By Tad Crowie, Victor Delgado, Nick Katsikaros, Tim Hughes

    "A number of silver producers have identified a need for a system to recover silver and gold from base metal flotation concentrates on site rather than sending the concentrate to third party smelters

    Jan 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    University Mining Education

    Mining education has received almost continuous discussion since its inception and most people engaged in the mining industry and in mining education feel at some time the urge and necessity to expres

    Jan 1, 1959

  • NIOSH
    RI 4321 Recovery Of Lithium From Its Various Ores And Salts

    By J. B. Cunningham

    Lithium in the form of metal, salts, and alloys is particularly important because of increasing industrial uses resulting partly from wartime developments. Lithium carbonate and lithium strontium nitr

    Jan 1, 1948

  • SME
    Current Status of Federal Regulations and Rulemaking in Governing Subsidence Due to Underground Mining

    By Dermot Winters

    The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act (SMCRA, or the Act) was enacted on August 3, 1977. The Act was written, in part, to put an end to uneven environmental standards and to establish minimum

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME-ICGCM
    Caving, Seismicity, and Mine Design in Four Utah Mines

    By Hamid Maleki

    Having developed a methodology for estimating mining-induced seismicity resulting from slip along geological discontinuities in 2003, in this paper, the importance of measurements are high-lighted in

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    A Semi-Empirical Approach To Cutting Force Prediction For Point-Attack Picks

    By R. M. Goktan

    Point-attack picks are one of the most widely used tools for the mechanical excavation of rock and coal. In the literature, some practical formulas have been developed to estimate their performances u

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AIME
    Stability Analysis of Underground Openings Using a Coulomb Failure Criterion

    By L. A. Panek, F. D. Wang, M. C. Sun

    A method of stability analysis of underground opening by the limiting equilibrium approach is presented. The Coulomb shear failure criterion is employed to find possible fracture surfaces and to evalu

    Jan 1, 1972

  • SME
    Evaluation of Whole Body Vibration (WBV) of Dumper Operators Based on Job Cycle Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (4615660d-b95c-47f0-b07e-3e2b55f50187)

    By Sandeep Kumar Jeripotula, Govinda Raj Mandela, Aruna Manglapady

    Dumper operators are frequently exposed to whole body vibration (WBV) in surface mines. Surface mining activities involve the amalgamation of comparatively high intensity of vibration and extended exp

  • NIOSH
    IC 8305 Water Requirements And Uses In Montana Mineral Industries

    By William N. Hale

    This Bureau of Mines report gives a detailed study of water usage in the Montana mineral industries, along with projections for the future. The mineral industry of Montana in 1963 used 36.5 billion ga

    Jan 1, 1966

  • NIOSH
    IC 8305 Water Requirements And Uses In Montana Mineral Industries (2308e6ae-3ef2-45cc-af06-ce0a04b9bb20)

    By William N. Hale

    This Bureau of Mines report gives a detailed study of water usage in the Montana mineral industries, along with projections for the future. The mineral industry of Montana in 1963 used 36.5 billion ga

    Jan 1, 1966

  • AUSIMM
    Deformation by Creep of a Specimen Lead Consisting of Five Large Crystals

    This paper describes the behaviour, under creep conditions, of a cast lead creep specimen consisting of five crystals, the boundaries of these crystals being substantially at right angles to the direc

    Jan 1, 1941

  • AUSIMM
    Project Management in China - Sino GoldÆs Story

    By C Johnstone

    Project management is not a task to be undertaken lightly. Mining projects generally present even more challenges due to ChinaÆs remoteness and complexity. Having experiences in project management in

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Mineralogic Sources Of Metals In Leachates From The Weathering Of Sedex, Massive Sulfide, And Vein Deposit Mining Wastes

    By S. F. Diehl

    Weathered mine waste consists of oxidized primary minerals and chemically unstable secondary phases that can be sources of readily soluble metals and acid rock drainage. Elevated concentrations of met

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Case History: Augered Cast-In-Place Piles For The Pittsburgh International Airport Midfield Terminal

    By Randy R. Huberty

    Although originally designed with deep foundations consisting of all driven steel H piles and drilled caissons, a unique application of Augered Cast-in-Place (ACIP) piles as an alternate design result

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AIME
    Extractive Metallurgy Division - Flocculation of Mineral Suspensions With Coprecipitated Polyelectrolytes

    By Ivan B. Cutler, Milton E. Wadsworth

    Coprecipitation of anionic and cationic polyelectrolytes has been applied to floccula-tion of several mineral systems. Results obtained in a study of the flocculation of kaolinite and hematite suspens

    Jan 1, 1957