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  • SME
    Room-and-pillar panel design method to avoid surface subsidence (baff531e-1217-4963-ad11-1cde90cbd566)

    By Y. Luo

    Cuando se diseña y operan minas de carbón subterráneas con el método de cámaras y pilares, es siempre difícil obtener un buen equilibrio entre la prevención de subsidencia de la superficie y la obtenc

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Geometallurgy For Two Recovery Process Operations At Cripple Creek & Victor Gold Mine

    By Stacey Leichliter

    The Cripple Creek and Victor (CC&V) Gold Mine (Cresson Project) (Fig. 1) is undergoing an expansion to extend production to the year 2025. This expansion involves building a high-grade ore mill, anot

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SME
    Impact of Integrated Mine-Plant-Waste-Tailings Scheduling on Iron Ore Project Configuration - SME Annual Meeting 2026

    By Klaydison Silva, Pedro Silva, Letícia Damet

    The current situation of the global mining economy is increasingly focused on the utilization of materials previously discarded in the mining process. The waste from the past, through new processing r

    Feb 22, 2026

  • SME
    Western Coal Use In Industrial Boilers

    By Kenneth L. Maloney

    Ten small and intermediate-sized [11 GJ/hr to 264 GJ/hr (10,000 lb/hr steam to 250,000 lb/hr steam)] coal-fired boilers in the upper Midwest have each been tested on both a bituminous eastern coal and

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    The Lead-Zinc Anomaly

    By David B. Brooks

    I gratefully acknowledge the help of a number of American and Canadian geologists, in both federal surveys and in private firms, who took the time to discuss this problem with me. Hans Landsberg and B

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    Shaft Design Criteria ? Introduction

    By Kot F. Unrug

    When reading different studies discussing trends in coal mining, it appears that a substantial expansion of output by the year 2000 is predicted, even in the most pessimistic forecasts. Depletion of s

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    WTC 2016 attracts more than 2,300 professionals from around the world

    By Steve Karl

    "The International Tunnelling and Underground Space Association (ITA) held its 42nd General Assembly along with the 2016 World Tunnel Congress (WTC) April 22-28 in San Francisco, CA. The event was co-

    Jun 1, 2016

  • SME
    Research on Failure Mechanism and Stability Control Technology of Dynamic Pressure Roadway in Ultra‑Thick Coal Seams Under a High Depth of Cover - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Jian Wang, Xiaoming Sun, Ming Jiang, Fuxin Shen, Chengyu Miao, Wenchao Zhao, Yong Zhang

    The increased thickness of the coal seam leads to higher goaf roof collapse height. In contrast, the dynamic pressure from the mining of ultra-thick coal seams generates higher abutment pressures arou

    Sep 25, 2023

  • 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
    Galvanic Corrosion Between Graphitic Rock And Ground Support In Underground Mines - SME Annual Meeting 2023

    By C. Sunderman, G. Feagan, C. Stazick

    Galvanic corrosion between dissimilar materials, such as steel and graphite, leads to safety concerns for many industries, including mining. In this study, researchers from the National Institute for

    Feb 1, 2023

  • SME
    Monoalkyldithiocarbamates As Promoters For Copper Oxide And Carbonate Minerals

    By M. F. Werneke

    Flotation of the carbonate, oxide and silicate minerals of copper (malachite, azurite, chrysocolla) has been the subject of much research in recent years, but few effective solutions to this problem h

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    The power of Bazin—Production forecasting with the Bazin methodology

    By Andre Vien, SANDRO DAVID DI, Frank Laroche

    In 1994, Claude Bazin presented a novel method for linking size data from milling models to the feed input of flotation models. It was achieved with the simple addition of a metal/mineral distribution

  • SME
    F. Animah, A. Greth, S. Afrouz, C. Keles, T. Akinseye, L. Pan, W. R. Reed, E. Sarver - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By S. Afrouz, C. Keles, W. R. Reed, E. Sarver, T. Akinseye, A. Greth, L. Pan, F. Animah

    Among underground coal miners, roof bolter operators are generally considered to have some of the highest risks for hazardous respirable dust exposure. This is because bolting requires drilling into r

    Jan 5, 2024

  • SME
    Geology And Mineralization Of The Wyoming Province

    By W. D. Hausel

    The Wyoming Province is an Archean craton which underlies portions of Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, and much of Wyoming. The cratonic block consists of Archean age granite-gneiss with interspersed gre

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Modeling And Field Verification Of Roof-Bolt Systems

    By Thomas W. Smelser

    A full-scale geotechnical model of a 15-foot (4.6 m) wide coal mine entry in correlation with computer finite-element analysis (FEA) is being employed at the Bureau of Mines Spokane Research Center fo

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Out of the comfort zone: Quantifying country risk for foreign mining project investment feasibility

    By MATT RENAUD, Mustafa Kumral

    Mining corporations have spread their operations worldwide in the last few decades. The reason behind widening operations geographically can be seen as it being part of a risk diversification strategy

  • SME
    Using Augmented Reality Assistance in Mine Rescue - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By Ava Segal, Doga Cagdas Demirkan, Abhidipta Mallik, Sebnem Duzgun, Andrew J. Petruska

    Search and rescue operations in mining heavily rely on humans. In the context of emergency situations within underground tunnels, the potential to utilize sensory technology for navigation assistance

    Feb 1, 2024

  • SME
    Milling of Integrated Sulfide-Oxide Ores

    By Paul M. Jr. Musgrove, Thomas D. Henderson, Mark B. Nesbitt

    Introduction History. Vat leaching operations began in October 1953. Since that time, about 4.2 million tpy of oxide ore averaging 0.72% copper have been treated. Economic conditions, improved operat

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Satisfying temperature requirements in mobile refuge alternatives

    By Kenneth Deaton

    "A packaged cooling system is being developed for refuge alternatives (RAs) that will meet U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) qualification guidelines for deployment in coal mines. This

    Dec 1, 2016

  • SME
    Simultaneous Stochastic Optimization of Production Scheduling at Twin Creeks Mining Complex, Nevada

    "Twin Creeks is a gold mining complex that is part of Newmont’s Nevada operations. The mining complex is composed of two openpits, Mega and Vista, external ore sources and a set of existing stockpiles

    Dec 1, 2018