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  • SME
    Water transformation: Turning liabilities into assets (1a124506-933a-48c4-9975-0791fbeb4393)

    By B. Waterman, D. Ramey, L. Schlink

    "Water is a primary commodity for most industrial processes. It has become a global focus in light of climate change and population growth. Reuse of process water has two major benefits - minimize the

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Lime Substitutes For The Treatment Of Acid Mine Drainage (72bf0b1b-0332-4a1c-b1a5-bc738cf0f204)

    By George W. Heunisch

    The properties of Neutra-Fix® and Neutra-Ment® , two new lime substitutes for the treatment of acid mine drainage (Arm), have been compared with lime and Alkament®, two products presently in use for A

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    In soft ground, adaptable muck removal is key

    By Desiree Willis

    At 6 percent downgrade to a low point beneath California?s Sacramento River, the Lower Northwest Interceptor Sewer was a difficult project from the outset. Project owner Sacramento County Regional Sa

    Jun 1, 2010

  • SME
    Development of a Kinetic Model of the Bacterial Dissolution of Copper Concentrate Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (SPRINGER)

    By Mohammad Ranjbar Hamghavandi, Mohammad Ranjbar, Zahra Manafi, Mohammad Hassan Fazaelipoor, Mahin Schaffie

    The present study introduces a new approach to understand the copper dissolution rate and to find an adapted mathematical statement for particle shrinkage rate in a batch bioleaching system. Four size

  • SME
    Sinking And Commissioning Of The Eastern Twin Shaft System At Buffelsfontein Gold Mining Company Limited ? Introduction

    By G. L. Smit

    The Buffelsfontein Gold Mining Company is situated in the Klerks-dorp district of the Province of the Transvaal in the Republic of South Africa, approximately 100 miles west of Johannesburg. Gold p

    Jan 1, 1964

  • SME
    Silica Sand Symposium Draws A Large Crowd In Minneapolis

    By Greg Beckstrom

    On Oct. 1-3, SME?s Twin Cities chapter (SME TC), in cooperation with the University of Minnesota ? Duluth?s Precambrian Research Center (UMD-PRC), cohosted a symposium on silica sand mining and proces

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Geochemistry of Critical Minerals in Mine Waste in Grant, Sierra, and Socorro Counties, New Mexico - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Zohreh Kazemi Motlagh, Virginia T. McLemore

    Critical minerals are nonfuel minerals, essential to the U.S. economy and national security, whose supply chain may be disrupted. Mine wastes are potential sources of critical minerals. The goal of th

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    An Economic Analysis Of Conversion To Coal-Fired Cement Kilns In The Philippines And South Korea

    By Adrian C. Dorenfeld

    The lesser developed countries (LDC's) may be classified into two categories: 1) oil producers, and 2) non-oil producers. The non-oil producing LDC's, as a class, are at present in very diff

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Developing A New Process Design For The Southwestern Oregon Industrial Mineral Bearing Placer System Via Practical Study Of The Unique Deposition, Mineralogy, And Dry Tailing Requirements - Introduction - Preprint 09-038

    By J. Drew

    Oregon Resources Corporation (ORC), an industrial minerals mining company, is currently engaged in the development of a new process design that will allow the unique paleo-beach placer deposits of sou

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    An Automated Microscopic Method For The Determination Of Pyrite Size Distributions In Crushed Coal

    By G. A. Irdi

    An automated method of microscopy for determining the pyrite size distribution on two base coals that were crushed to 28 mesh x 0 has been developed. Polished epoxy-bound coal pellets were prepared an

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Deep Inclined Water Intake Shafts At The Navajo Generating Station

    By Albert Ruiz

    The 2,250-MW, coal-fired Navajo Generating Station located in Page, AZ draws water from Lake Powell using submersible pumps installed in five inclined shafts. Drought threatens to lower the reservoir

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Stress Distributions In Longwall Mining ? Introduction

    By Robert Stefanko

    Longwall mining appears very attractive from an engineering standpoint because of its simplicity. The use of one long, continuous face can simplify power distribution, ventilation, and supervision, an

    Jan 1, 1963

  • SME
    Laboratory Testing for Sulfide Flotation Process Development

    "A carefully planned laboratory test program is the foundation for the successful development of a sulfide flotation process. In this paper, the development of a copper-molybdenum flotation process is

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Pretreatment of refractory gold ore by curing with concentrated sulfuric acid - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By Yisa Liu, Lili Xu, Shina Li, Kang Li, Jiong Dong, Zichen Yin, Ruixin Ma

    With the evolving landscape of gold mineral resource development and utilization, the easily treatable gold resources are continuously decreasing, while refractory gold minerals are becoming the most

    Feb 19, 2024

  • SME
    A design tool for improving the safety of highwall mining operations - SME Transactions 2015

    By Y. Luo

    Highwall mining, which is a relatively new mining method, is a preferred and often the only feasible method for extracting coal reserve left by surface mining operations in areas with steep terrain an

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Life-Cycle Costing - An Economic Approach to Evaluate the Operational Equipment of Tunnels

    By Hans Adden, Anne Lehan, Markus Thewes

    "1. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION Traditionally design processes are focussed at creating new tunnels for lowest building cost. But the trend towards sustainable constructions in tunnelling has greatly

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Recent Developments In High-Pressure Water-Jet Assisted Cutting Of Rock And Coal

    By George K. Schenck

    INTRODUCTION Recent advances in high-pressure water jet technology can be effectively employed in mining and tunneling. The new equipment is based on available industrial hardware such as pumps, no

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Tbm Shield Abandonment Beneath the Fraser River for Connecting Tunnel and River Riser of the Annacis Island WWTP New Outfall System - NAT2024

    By John Newby, Ulf Gwildis, Ken Massé, Guillaume Roux

    How to connect an effluent conveyance tunnel to riser shaft and diffuser arms of an outfall system is dictated by the ground conditions, which ideally include rock or soil strata of low permeability.

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    Evaluation of deep-seated crib block fire tests (7bc9e718-229c-42f8-a8a2-7a3b0ae77860)

    By M. A. Trevits

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), is conducting research to test, evaluate, improve or modify coa

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Bioleaching Of A High Sulfur Coal

    By A. E. Torma

    The efficiency of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans in the desulfurization of a high-sulfur content New Mexico coal was demonstrated. The optimum condition of process variables were found to be pH = 2.3, part

    Jan 1, 1987