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Evaluation on Underground Refuge Alternatives and Explosion Survivability: a Review
By Taghi Sherizadeh, Kutay E. Karadeniz, Dogukan Guner, Samuel Nowak
Underground mining environments bring occupational health and safety issues with some severe dangers such as mine disasters like explosions. During such events, miners might escape using main access o
Sep 24, 2022
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Tom O’Neil: An Interview With the 2003 SME President
The status and outlook for mining, in your view. Minerals remain a major part of the world’s economic foundation. The fortunes of the mining industry rise and fall with general economic trends, but m
Jan 1, 2003
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Adventures in Microtunneling
By Joseph Clare, Elizabeth Anderson, Mike McGinley, Ron Hines, Judy Cochran
The South Lake Union Pipelines contract for King County Wastewater Treatment Division and Seattle Public Utilities in Seattle, Washington included three 1.8 m (72-in)inside diameter microtunneled pipe
Jan 1, 2005
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Design And Subsurface Construction At Yucca Mountain, Nevada
By John F. Beesley
INTRODUCTION This paper discusses the design of the subsurface nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada; and possible concepts for construction of the subsurface facility. Subsurface constr
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Transfer of German environmental expertise for mine site rehabilitation challenges worldwide - A case study: Vietnam
By R. Barthel, O. Nitzsche, J. Pateiro Fernández, T. Cramer
The Hong Gai coal field in northeast Vietnam has been the main coal mining area of Vietnam for more than 150 years. Anthracite coal is produced from several open pit and underground mines situated clo
Jan 1, 2011
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Characteristics Of Chimney Subsidence Sinkhole Development From Abandoned Underground Coal Mines Along The Colorado Front Range
By Gordon M. Matheson
The factors which control chimney subsidence sinkhole development in weak rock were assessed by analyzing the characteristics of approximately 3000 chimney subsidence features along the Colorado Front
Jan 1, 1986
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Feasibility Evaluation For The Excavation Of Large Hemispherical Cavities At The Nevada Test Site
By Robert P. Kennedy, Andrew H. Merritt, Edward J. Cording, Thomas R. Kipp
INTRODUCTION Measurement of certain data associated with nuclear testing necessitates the reception of waves at the instrument location which are unaffected by reflection off internal structures
Jan 1, 1979
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Mining Review (8ea836c9-6346-4229-805b-5f63a4114d3f)
Minerals contribute to the U.S. gross domestic prod-uct (GDP) at several levels?mining, processing and manufacturing finished products. In 2008, the estimated growth rate for the real GDP of the Unite
Jan 1, 2009
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Construction Of The East Side Access Manhattan Tunnels
By Don Hickey
The MTA in conjunction with LIRR, are in the process of expanding one of the largest commuter railroads in the country, with over 260,000 passengers a day. The LIRR, which provides 700 passenger train
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Exploring a shallow seafloor hydrothermal system on the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge
By R. B. Pedersen, A. Filipa, A. Marques
"Shallow-depth (<200m) high temperature submarine hydrothermal systems are not commonly observed on mid-ocean ridge settings, as most known systems are located within arc - island-arc volcanic setting
Sep 1, 2014
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Possibilities And Limitations Of Waterjet-Assisted Tunnel Boring In German Coal Mines
By Wilhelm Knickmeyer, Johannes Henneke
PREFACE For about 1 year Bergbau-Forschung GmbH, central research institute of the German Coal Mining Industry, undertakes full size tests for waterjet assisted tunnel¬boring in German coal mines (
Jan 1, 1979
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Patterning of Gold and Polystyrene Nanoparticles into Mesostructures Using a Laser-based Particle Deposition
By J. Drelich, C. L. White, Ch. Zhou, W. M. Cross, E. T. Zellers, E. M. Nadorny
A laser-based particle deposition (LBPD) technique has recently been developed at Michigan Technological University for patterning mesostructures made of nanoparticles and their clusters. The LBPD tec
Jan 1, 2003
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Grouting and Segmental Linings—Proceed with Caution
By Thomas Gregor, Brian Garrod
As the popularity of precast concrete segmental linings for tunnels is growing in North America, some problems related to grouting of, and near, these linings are starting to appear. The installat
Jan 1, 2005
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Application Of Highwall Mining System For Recovering Coal Of End-Walls In China
According to the previous research, it is found that the thickness of cover is mostly less than 100 m for highwall mining system. However, for most of the Chinese surface coal mines, the mining depth
Jan 1, 2012
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The Status Of Gold And Silver Leaching Operations In The United States
By Michael G. Pojar, Peter G. Chamberlain
Solution mining, primarily by heap leaching, has emerged as an important method for mining gold and silver in the United States. Heap leaching offers many economic and environmental advantages over co
Jan 1, 1981
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St. Louis Skinker–McCausland Tunnel
By Jozef F. Zurawski
River Des Peres Foul water Interceptor (Skinker–McCausland Tunnel) is a gravity sewer tunnel constructed to eliminate dry sewage overflows during high river stages and to improve the wastewater collec
Jan 1, 2001
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Measurement and Analysis of Foundation Tilt Resulting From Mine Subsidence in Southern Illinois
By Larry R. Powell
The Bureau of Mines, in cooperation with the Illinois Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund, is monitoring the response of two foundations to ground movements induced by subsidence from high extraction minin
Jan 1, 1986
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Reducing Longwall Noise With Acoustical Material On The Shields - 4 Preliminary Analysis – Preprint 97-108
By A. D. Prokop, J. P. Rider
Along with increased production from longwall units has come the likelihood of increased worker noise exposures. In recent years, equipment has become larger, more powerful, and noisier than its prede
Feb 24, 1997
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Tunneling Methods Under Low Cover Conditions
By Terry M. Tilley, Gregory P. Sherry
Purpose This is a unique project because the mining and tunneling industries have become highly mechanized and cannot normally accommodate a project where surface disturbance must be minimized or e
Jan 1, 2005
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Expediting the Environmental Planning Process for Small Mine Permit Applications
By Gary J. Fletcher
Mining and processing activities which are proposed on private land, state leases, or unpatented mining claims are governed by numerous local, state, and federal laws which identify the procedures and
Jan 1, 1987