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  • TMS
    A Study on the Mechanism of Magnetite Formation Based on Iron Isotope Fractionation

    By Payman Roonasi

    Having knowledge of mechanism of magnetite formation is essential in a number of industrial processes including magnetite synthesis and corrosion of iron. In this study, magnetite nanoparticle was syn

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Pacific Rim Markets For Export Coal And Australia's Market Share

    By George E. Edwards

    Pacific Rim markets for export coal already represent a larger market than the total tonnage imported into the European Community countries and they will continue to expand. The largest importers will

    Jan 1, 1982

  • ISEE
    Effects of Electronic Detonators in Underground Tunneling Applications

    By Charles Zdazinsky

    Over-break is undesirable in underground civil construction because it excessively damages rock along the perimeter of the tunnel, which directly influences the cycle times of advancement. A quicker c

    Jan 1, 2015

  • NIOSH
    RI 8171 Multipoint Detection of Products of Combustion With Tube Bundles - Transit Times, Transmissions of Submicrometer Particulates, and General Applicability

    By Martin Hertzberg

    This Bureau of Mines study concerns the use of the tube bundle method as a sensitive and reliable detector of mine fires. The method involves the pneumatic, sequential sampling of many points in a sys

    Jan 1, 1976

  • TMS
    Chemical Co-Deposited PbS - CuS Thin Film Characterization: Effect of Annealing

    By Mishark Nnabuchi

    A heterojunction of PbS - CuS thin film has been grown on glass slides by SGT. The films were annealed for 1hr at temperature of 373K and 423K respectively. The optical properties were characterized u

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Uranium Mine Remediation In Northern Australia

    By Peter Waggitt

    Northern Australia has been home to uranium mining for over 70 years, more or less continuously. In the early days, post World War 2, there was little effort made to remediate workings at the end of o

    Jan 1, 2020

  • NIOSH
    OFR-93-83 Cable Fault Locator Research

    By C. A. Cole

    This work consists of research in cable fault location and the construction of four field-test units based on the research. Swept-frequency sounding of mine cables with RF signals has been the techniq

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AUSIMM
    Flotation Mechanism Design for Improved Metallurgical and Energy Performance

    By R Coleman

    The flotation mechanism plays a key role in the flotation process. It is used to provide the contact between solid particles and bubbles and also the energy for these particles and bubbles to attach.

    Aug 8, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Fatal Flaws in Technical Due Diligences

    By A J. H Newell

    The background and the basis for conducting a Technical Due Diligence are discussed as well as the source information, typical studies and potential limitations. Typical short comings including ‘show-

    Sep 7, 2015

  • SAIMM
    An investigation into mining coal losses at Klipspruit Colliery

    By W. W. de Graaf, M. J. Ntsekhe

    Klipspruit Colliery is experiencing coal losses, which leads to a negative impact on coal production and subsequently loss in revenue. This study aimed to identify the possible causes of coal losses i

    Jun 10, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Automation of the Kimberley Nickel Mine Flotation Operation Using an Advanced Control System

    By J Knoblauch, D, P J. J Strobos, C Foggo

    The Sally Malay Project is located 120 km north of Halls Creek in the eastern Kimberley region. Since commissioning, ongoing improvements on the plant have resulted in recoveries now greatly exceeding

    Jan 1, 2006

  • NIOSH
    RI 4408 Thermochemical study of the olivines and orthopyroxenes (ba15a029-4a3f-44b7-9d8b-0199ec4551f5)

    By D. R. Torgoson, Th. G. Sahama

    "This paper contains some new thermodynamic data for silicates in the series Mg2SiO4-Fe2siO4 and MgSiO3-FeSiO3 and gives the results of a thermodynamic attack on the problems of stability end paragene

    Feb 1, 1949

  • SME
    Pushing the limits of Slurry Microtunneling and Direct Pipe® in North America

    By Gerhard Lang

    "Slurry Microtunneling is a well-established technology building on over 20 years of experience in successful tunnel installations under all kinds of soil conditions across the U.S. and Canada. Recent

    Jan 1, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Optimisation Opportunities for High Pressure Grinding Rolls Circuits

    By B Davis, A H. Benzer, A N. Mainza, C M. Evertsson, L M. Tavares, M M. Hilden, M S. Powell, C Rule, G Asbj÷rnsson

    The Mogalakwena North Concentrator of Anglo Platinum Operations was built with the capability to allow for future projected expansion. Several research groups, currently working with Anglo American on

    Oct 29, 2012

  • SME
    Pit Lake Water Quality In The Western U.S.: Unifying Concepts

    By A. Davis

    Pit lake chemistry depends on the lithology and hydrologic characteristics of the ultimate pit surface, the availability of buffering capacity in the wall rock versus oxidizable sulfide content, and t

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME-ICGCM
    Structural Geological and Stress Controls on Natural Gas Inrushes in Southern West Virginia Longwall Coal Mines

    By Sandin E. Phillipson

    "On April 5, 2010 a massive dust-fueled explosion at a longwall mine in southern West Virginia claimed the lives of 29 miners. The mine had experienced large gas inrushes from the floor on two known p

    Jan 1, 2016

  • CIM
    Leaching Of Copper Flash Furnace Dusts with Weak Acid Bleed and Arsenic Precipitation as Scorodite and Arsenical Jarosite

    By A. Roca, G. Ríos, I. Ruíz, M. Cruells

    Flash Smelting Furnace (FSF) hot dust-laden is cooled in a waste heat boiler (WHB) and then dedusted in electrostatic precipitators (ESP’s) before being treated, together with the Peirce Smith Convert

    Jan 1, 2019

  • DFI
    Large Diameter Shafts - Youghiogheny Reservoir Bridge

    By Paul J. Lewis

    Estimation of the axial side shear resistance of drilled shaft rock sockets is directly related to the unconfined compressive strength of the bedrock. Commonly, the mean unconfined compressive strengt

    Jan 1, 2005

  • IIMP
    Teck – Aurubis: Un enfoque integrado desde la mina hasta el metal para desarrollar depósitos de cobre con alto contenido de arsénico usando el proceso CESL

    By Keith Mayhew

    Ante la alta demanda de cobre por el crecimiento urbano e industrial y para la construcción de infraestructuras, la industria del cobre necesita una solución para el desarrollo sustentable de los recu

    Sep 12, 2011

  • ISEE
    Breaking the Nitrate Based Explosives Greenhouse – The Dawn of Production Scale Hydrogen Peroxide Emulsion (HPE) for Industrial Blasting

    By D. S. Scovira, T. Gustavsson

    Exiting WW2 (mid-1940s), the potential of nitrates (ammonium nitrate, calcium nitrate, sodium nitrate) and hydrogen peroxide for application as a commercial explosives for mining, construction, and ot

    Jan 1, 2024