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  • SME
    Mining Foundation of the Southwest Selects 1999 honorees

    The Mining Foundation of the Southwest (MFSW)promotes public understanding and education related to the mining industry. Towards this goal, the Foundation has funded several projects from donations a

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Removal of Oxyanions from Metals' Extraction Wastewater by Modified Zeolite

    By V. T. Panayotov, M. I. Panayotova

    Wastewater from mining and mineral processing activities is often polluted by anion forming metals, such as molybdenum and chromium. Low cost materials, including zeolites, are studied for removing he

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    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

  • SAIMM
    Design of Merensky Reef Crush Pillars

    By B. P. Watson

    The Bushveld platinum group metal deposits are two distinct, shallow-dipping stratiform tabular orebodies which strike for many hundreds of kilometres. Mining is extensive, with depths ranging from cl

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Advancing Asset Performance at the Montcalm Operation

    By Juan Anes, Dominic Fragomeni, Tim Edwards, Dave Scott, Simon Yu

    "The Montcalm concentrator operation was successfully commissioned in fall of 2004 at the Xstrata Copper’s Kidd Creek Metallurgical Site, Timmins. The start-up met or exceeded the Type 1 profile as de

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Old insurance policies : An often unrecognized source of pollution liability insurance

    By Walter R. Curtner

    Many, if not most, of today's pollution liability claims are related to events ("occurrences") that happened in the past. This fact creates an opportunity to obtain a large amount of insurance co

    Jan 10, 1987

  • NIOSH
    IC 7743 Mining Methods And Costs At The Morning Mine, American Smelting & Refining Co., Shoshone County, Idaho - Introduction And Summary

    By John R. Reynolds

    This paper describes mining and milling methods of the American Smelting & Refining Co. at the Morning mine in the Mullan area of the Coeur d'Alene mining region in Idaho and is one of a series o

    Jan 1, 1956

  • AUSIMM
    Field Trial of a Bulk Mineral for the Assay of Nickel in Lateritic Ores

    By Garnsey R. G T, Wenk G. J, Toop A, Sowerby B. D

    A bulk mineral analyser (BMA) suitable for the determination of Cu or Ni in bulk ore samples has been developed at the Lucas Heights Research Laboratories. This analyser, which uses the nuclear resona

    Jan 1, 1983

  • DFI
    Secant Pile Walls - Design, Construction And Case History

    By Ketan H. Trivedi

    This paper describes the method of analyses used for the design of temporary and permanent Secant Pile Walls, describes various aspects of construction including, guide walls, sequence of pile install

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Technical Papers - Estimating Excavator Teeth Consumption Rates

    By C. J. Roos

    Ground-engaging tools are used to prevent damage to the main components of earth-moving equipment. These tools consist of everything from shovel teeth to replaceable drill bits to dozer wear plates. T

    Jan 1, 2010

  • ISEE
    200 Blasting in the New Millennium - The Cold Hard Facts About Winter Driving for Blasters

    By Ann Barron

    For millions of people, cold weather is a fact of line – and one that can make a major challenge out of just getting to work. But for those working in the blasting industry, a number of obstacles are

    Jan 1, 2004

  • NIOSH
    MLA 17-94 - Mineral Resource Investigation Of Eight Roadless Areas In Montana

    By Ronald B. Stotelmeyer

    This report summarizes the U.S. Bureau of Mines evaluation of the mineral resources of eight roadless areas in several National Forests in Montana. The areas are amoung those that have been proposed a

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SAIMM
    Electrochemical Effects Of Direct Current On The Reduction Of Manganese Oxide From Molten MnO-SiO2-CaO- AI2O3 Slag

    By X. W. Pan

    It has been found that the MnO content of a slag decreases sharply when direct current is applied to a 1T1£tal-Slagsystem consisting of liquid Mn-Si-Ccsat metals and MnO-SiO2-CaO-AI203 slag in graphit

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Considerations on Quality Assurance/Quality Control and Sample Security

    By G Gosson

    An important requirement in every geological quality control program is that the identity and grades of the control samples (duplicates, certified reference materials (CRMs), and blanks) must remain æ

    Jan 1, 2008

  • NIOSH
    RI 6219 Beneficiation Of Aluminum Plant Residues

    By R. S. McClain

    Continuous-circuit flotation and batch-scale precipitation tests were made by the Bureau of Nines to determine rejection of carbon and recovery of fluorine and aluminum compounds from aluminum reducti

    Jan 1, 1963

  • SME
    Observations on the 2005 PDAC Convention

    By Bruce Geller

    The 2005 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention continued the upbeat mood found in 2004. The global mining industry is booming due to higher commodity prices in nearly eve

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Paper No. 168. Presidential Address. Progress of Mining in Western Australia.

    GENTLEMEN, lt is with much pleasure I meet you tonight at this the second meeting of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineers, held in Western Australia, and I sincerely thank you for the honour

    Jan 1, 1909

  • DFI
    Repair Methods for Corroded Steel Piles (0af709a8-9f1e-4f35-81ea-c69c3ee7fb05)

    By C. Vipulanandan, M. Dawood, Dongmei Pan

    "With the aging infrastructure, there is a need to maintain and extend the service life of steel structures in general and steel piles in particular. Steel piles support not only vertical loads but al

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Actual vs. Baseline Tracking During TBM Tunneling In Highly Variable Glacial Geology

    By Ulf G. Gwildis

    The Bright water Conveyance System includes 21 km of tunnels mined by two earth pressure balance Tunnel Boring Machines (TBMs) and two slurry TBMs. The probabilistic baseline approach defined in the G

  • AIME
    Proceedings of the Eighty-Seventh Meeting, Lake Superior, September, 1904

    By Nelson P. Hulst

    COMMITTEES. DULUTH.-Nelson P. Hulst, Chairman; J. B. Adams, W. C. Agnew, M. H. Alworth, C. W. Andrews, R. Angst, William R. Appleby, C. E. Bailey, G. G. Barnum, E. F. Bradt, Mylie Bunnell, George L.

    Jan 1, 1905