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  • NIOSH
    Disease And Illness In U. S. Mining, 1983–2001

    By Edward A. Metz, R. Larry Grayson, Douglas F. Scott

    We describe inconsistencies in disease and illness reporting in U.S. mining, identify under-reporting of disease and illness in U.S. mining, and summarize selected disease and illness in U.S. mining f

  • CIM
    An Open Platform for Underground Vehicle Monitoring

    By Lorrie Fava

    Two needs in the mining industry, to enable overall process improvements, are open systems and network connectivity in underground mines. The Pando project, a collaboration between Symboticware, Vale

    Oct 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Obtaining Maximum Value from Metallurgical Projects - Avoid Throwing it Away

    By A. Eltringham

    Operations downstream of mining and beneficiation are still being subjected to increasing scrutiny as highly capitalized projects have been either slow to achieve their targets or have actually failed

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    The Chemical Treatment of Gold Slime for the Recovery of High Purity Gold and Silver

    The ready solubility of gold in dilute aqueous solutions of the cyanides of the alkalies or alkaline earths provides a convenient method for the separation of the precious metal -from the large surplu

    Jan 1, 1956

  • AIME
    Reminiscences of Metallurgists and Plants in the San Francisco Area

    By ABBOT A. HANKS

    WHEN gold was discovered in California, and San Francisco grew almost over night from a handful of people to many thousands, one of the first difficulties experienced was the lack of money. Gold dust

    Jan 1, 1931

  • AUSIMM
    Machine Monitoring and Automation as Enablers of Lean Mining

    By L Mottola

    Three decades ago mining companies, principally in North America, aided by machine and explosive manufacturers, started significant attempts to develop and implement automated mining systems, mainly u

    Nov 22, 2011

  • AIME
    Extractive Metallurgy Division - Self-Diffusion of Copper in Molten Copper

    By Ling Yang, John Henderson

    Self-diffusion coefficients of copper in molten copper have been measured by the capillary reservoir method in the temperature range 1140o to 1260°C. The results can be represented by the equation D

    Jan 1, 1962

  • CIM
    Review of Statistical Design of Experiments 1n Metallurgical Engineering

    By M. C. Makepeace

    "It is the objective of designed experiments to obtain more information for less material and process cost than can be obtained by traditional experimentation. In this paper, the fundamental concepts

    Jan 1, 1967

  • NIOSH
    Helium: Bibliography Of Technical And Scientific Literature From Its Discovery (1868) To January 1, 1947 - Introduction

    By Henry P. Wheeler

    H ELIUM (chemical symbol: He) is a member of a family of normally gaseous elements, which, because of their zero valence and corresponding lack of chemical activity, are called the "noble" or "inert"

    Jan 1, 1952

  • SME
    TBM Data Management And Quality Assurance For The Brightwater Conveyance Project

    By Jeffrey Mitsopoulos

    King County?s (KC) Brightwater Conveyance Project in Seattle, Washington involves the construction of approximately 21 kilometers (13 miles) of bored tunnel, in three contracts, with four TBM?s which

  • AUSIMM
    Bioleaching of Nickel-Cobalt Oxide Ores

    By P Tzeferis

    An exploratory laboratory work was carried out on microbial leaching of poor non-sulphide nickel ores, not amenable to conventional mineral processing operations. The results have shown that domestic

    Jan 1, 1997

  • AIME
    Mining and Milling Utah Rock Asphalt

    By R. C. FLEMING

    MINING rock asphalt for use as a paving material is an industry which has grown with the spread of the good roads movement. "Mineral Industry During 1930" reports asphaltic pavements constructed, incl

    Jan 1, 1933

  • SME
    Transactions Volume 328 2010 - SME Transactions 2010

    By Emily Wortman-Wunder

    As the 2010 president of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., I am pleased to present the 2010 issue of Transactions of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Vol.

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Modeling of factors influencing the extent of mud infiltration in a fractured rock mass

    By C. Tan, C. Detournay

    Wellbore stability is a major concern for drilling in naturally fractured formations. The infiltration of drilling mud into the fractures is a factor, which may compromise wellbore integrity due to t

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    RETC 2011 Full Proceedings - RETC2011

    By Victor Romero, Steve Redmond

    All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Information contained in this work has been obtained by SME, Inc. from sources believed to be reliable. However, neither SME nor its autho

    Dec 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Modeling the Dynamic Mechanical Behaviour and Texture Evolution of Additively Manufactured Alsi10mg_200c

    By Mohsen Mohammadi, Edward Cyr

    "To date, several studies have been performed on the static mechanical properties of SLM-AlSi10Mg alloy. There have also been more recent studies on the relation between scan strategy, texture, and me

    Jan 1, 2018

  • CIM
    A Chained Book - Now Free to All

    By Hazel Lyman Nickel

    Daring to try where others had failed, Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover translated from the Latin the principal (and first) textbook on the mining and metallurgical profession, De Re Metallica, 1556, whic

    Jan 1, 1949

  • SME
    Geopolymer-based concrete to reduce carbon footprint of the construction industry

    By H. Akbari

    Ordinary portland cement (OPC) is the key pozzalonic component of the concrete mix widely used as a construction material worldwide. B illions of tons of OPC are used in the construction industry each

    Dec 1, 2013

  • SME
    Mine Exploitation

    By Scott G. Britton

    Mine exploitation is a broad subject whose focus is the technical skills or efforts needed for the extraction of mineral from a known ore body. Mine exploitation can be considered the very core of the

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Business Management: Lead the People and Manage the Work

    By M. Bunch

    "THE SUPER CYCLE IS GONE The utopia of the rising sales volume, for mining companies from 2002-2011, was entirely due to rising production volume and prices. The Australian mining sector experienced a

    Jan 1, 2016