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  • SME
    Developing a Softwall Mining Machine

    By K. S. Mortensen

    The softwall mining system is a novel, new method of mining mineral deposits in soft, shallow, nonrock ground conditions. This method can mine the ore layer without substantially disturbing the exist

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    GIS Applications in Underground Mining

    By Anthony D. Hammond

    The use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool to analyze and display data is gathering momentum in the mining industry. Of particular interest is the capability of GIS to link spatial fea

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Inland Steel Uses Technology, Cost Control, and Employee Involvement to Improve Its Productivity

    By Samuel A. Reipas

    Introduction The ore mining industry has been successful because of technological progress and huge sums of capital investment. But new technology and plants have not come cheap. The problem now is c

    Jan 11, 1983

  • SME
    Proposal for a top-down/bottom-up Approach to build up Indicators of Sustainable Development for Use in the Mining Industry in Africa

    By G. Récoché, A. Chamaret, M. O’Connor

    Building indicators that respond to all stakeholders' needs is a time-consuming and complex exercise, with certain questions still unsolved. The aim of the current three-year research project, ca

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Shaft Construction in Toronto Using Slurry Walls

    By Vince Luongo

    PROJECT DESCRIPTION The York Durham Sanitary System (YDSS) Interceptor in the Town of Richmond Hill located just north of Toronto, Ontario, Canada will see the construction of a tunnel extending a

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Manufacturers Should Strive for Quality, Cost Effectiveness to Boost Productivity

    By A. Fred Gelding

    Introduction In preparing this paper considerable time was spent attempting to find some upbeat data about the mining industry, so those of us in the field could feel somewhat better about future pro

    Jan 11, 1983

  • SME
    MINExpo INTERNATIONAL 2000 Largest Ever Held

    By Tim O’Neil

    The search for precious metals opened up the American West. And Nevada was right in the heart of this development. In the mid-19th century, prospectors seeking gold roamed the hills of Nevada and di

    Jan 1, 2000

  • 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
    What we learned about MINING ENGINEERING and you

    By Marianne Snedeker

    In September 1985 we published a questionnaire asking about the content of MINING ENGINEERING and about your interests. By Dec. 10, our cutoff date, we had 430 responses, representing about 1.5% of th

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Increasing Coarse Particle Recovery Using The Flsmidth Selective Froth Recovery System

    The recovery of coarse particles has been widely recognized as being limited by the froth in mineral flotation. In response to this, FLSmidth has developed the Selective Froth Recovery (SFR) System.

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    The Development Of A PC, Image-Based, On-Line Particle-Size Analyzer

    By J. D. Miller, C. L. Lin

    A PC, image-based, on-line instrument for measuring coarse particle size on a conveyor belt is under development. The hardware and software required to implement such a system are discussed, including

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Save Your Energy and Improve Your Productivity

    By W. J. Kennedy, John D. Gardner

    Introduction During the past 10 years, energy costs in mining have risen from about 4% to as much as 25% of total production cost. When combined with declining ore grades, these costs exert inordinat

    Jan 11, 1983

  • SME
    Members Ready for Mining Industry Upswing at SME’s Annual Meeting

    By Steve Kral

    It seems that mining has been in the doldrums for awhile. Except for gold, metals prices remain depressed. And economic conditions in the United States and around the globe have put governments in a

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Effect Of Longwall Face Advance On Spontaneous Heating In Longwall Gob Area - Preprint 09-053

    By L. Yuan

    To reduce fire hazards from spontaneous combustion of coal in longwall gob areas, a series of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were conducted by National Institute for Occupational Safet

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Nickel Laterite Processing: Second Generation Design Considerations

    By N. L. Hayward, V. H. Ness

    In the past decade Australia has seen the development, construction and commissioning of three complex processing plants for the treatment of lateritic nickel ores. These have all been based on high p

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Inorganic Polymers Improve Bitumen Recovery From Low Grade Canadian Oil Sands

    By A. Mahmoudkhani

    There has been a continuous interest in chemical aids for processing Canadian oil sands by hot water extraction process since the first commercial industry operation in 1967. Several inorganic and org

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Prediction Of Subsidence Basin By The Weibull Distribution Function

    By R. H. Zeng

    Many subsidence researchers in the U. S. have developed new empirical function methods to predict subsidence, or attempted to validate some empirical functions developed by foreign researchers for use

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Geotechnical Investigations and Preliminary Design for the LBNF Far Site Conventional Facilities

    By Seth Pollak, Jon Hurt, Mark Havekost, David Vardiman, James Schick

    "INTRODUCTION The Long Baseline Neutrino Facility (LBNF) Far Site Conventional Facilities are proposed to be sited at the Sanford Underground Research Facility (SURF) located within the former Homesta

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Evaluation of a PC Image-Based On-Line Coarse Particle Size Analyzer

    By Y. K. Yen, J. D. Miller, C. L. Lin

    A PC image-based, on-line coarse particle size analysis system is being developed for the control of crushing and grinding circuits. Initial results had indicated that the system is accurate when test

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Modeling For Real-Time Performance Measurement: A Strategic Approach

    By Russell Barr, Robert E. Cook

    As most mining companies are taking advantage of the high market prices for base metals such as steel, copper and zinc, numerous challenges still face them. While demand is strong from countries like

    Jan 1, 2007