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  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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