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Design and Construction Challenges at the Piney Branch CSO 049 Storage Tunnel in Washington, DC - NAT2024By Ritika Kundu, Moussa Wone, Amanda M. Morgan, Tatiana K. Proctor
The Piney Branch CSO 049 Storage Tunnel (PBST) will be the last major project for the DC Clean Rivers Program. The project includes construction of a 2,200-foot-long, 18-foot-internal-diameter storage
Jun 23, 2024
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Hot Surface Ignition Of Liquid Fuels Under VentilationBy Liming Yuan, Wei Tang, RICHARD THOMAS, JOHN SOLES, DAVOOD BAHRAMI
Mine equipment fires remain as one of the most concerning safety issues in the mining industry, and most equipment fires were caused by hot surface ignitions. Detailed experimental investigations were
Oct 1, 2022
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Western Energy Eliminates Spoil Rehandle With ScraperBenchingWestern Energy Co.'s Rosebud mine in Colstrip, MT, has implemented innovative mining techniques in the past,* and following in that tradition, new techniques for overburden removal were recently
Jan 2, 1981
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Rock Tunneling And Rock Excavation In New York City Methods, Problems, InnovationsBy Morris Loshinsky, George Ziegler
The New York City Transit System is celebrating its Diamond Jubilee this year. In 1904, 9.3 route miles of New York's first subway was placed in operation in lower Manhattan. Since that date the
Jan 1, 1979
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Plans For A Gold Vat Leaching Plant In MexicoBy Louis W. Cope
The Compañía El Zapote Yacimiento Y Minas, S.A. has an ore body containing 650,000 tons of 0.185 oz/t gold ore in Mexico. Metallurgical testwork has been done to determine the response of this ore to
Jan 1, 1984
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What happened to my gold? Questions to askBy C. Roos
Traditionally within the mining industry, the main functional process flow for resource and reserve evaluation proceeds from geologists who build the geological model, to resource estimation geologist
Jan 1, 2014
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Dust Control by Air-Blocking Shelves and Dust Collector-to-Bailing Airflow Ratios for a Surface Mine Drill ShroudBy M. Li, W. R. Reed, J. P. Rider, J. D. Potts
"The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) recently developed a series of validated models utilizing computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to study the effects of air-blocking she
Jan 5, 2018
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What happened to my gold? Questions to ask (88fbd98e-c145-4e97-8580-5590d2b64813)By C. Roos
Tradicionalmente en la industria minera, el flujo principal del proceso funcional para la evaluación de recursos y reservas procede de geólogos que elaboran el modelo geológico, de allí a los geólogos
Jan 1, 2014
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A Microcrack Model for the Deformation and Strength of Algerie GraniteBy Paul E. Senseny
Data from triaxial compression tests per- formed at confining pressures between 0 and 100 MPa are used to evaluate parameters in a contitutive model that is based on microcracking. The tensorial formu
Jan 1, 1986
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16. History of the Discovery of the Afton Copper-Gold Deposit, Kamloops, BC, Canada - IntroductionBy Alan J. Reed
The Afton copper-gold mine is located in the southern interior of British Columbia, 16 km (10 miles) west of Kamloops and 257 km (160 miles) northeast of Vancouver. 'An aerial view of the propert
Jan 1, 1991
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Use Of Geostatistics In Prediction Coal Quality Ranges For An Underground Room And Pillar Mine ? IntroductionBy Kadri Dagdelen
New underground coal mines have become increasingly expensive to open. A simple drift mine producing a raw coal product can cost as much as $50 million while a new shaft mine producing a washed coal p
Jan 1, 1983
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The Effect Of Metal Ions On Both The Stability And Zeta Potential Of Barite Suspensions - IntroductionBy Zygmunt Sadowski
Problems encountered in barite flotation from various waste materials such as spent drilling muds are likely to be closely connected with the effect of chemical additives and metal ions present either
Jan 1, 1986
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Geology and production of humate and weathered coal in New MexicoBy G. H. Roybal, J. M. Barker
Humate mining in New Mexico is a small industry [455 m3 (16,079 cu yd) valued at $395,894 for 1983] with three mines active in 1985. Either humate (carbonaceous claystones rich in organic matter) or w
Jan 1, 1987
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An Evaluation of an E-Field Through-the-Earth (TTE) Communications System at an Underground Longwall Mine in West Virginia"A commercially available Through-the-Earth (TTE) communications system was evaluated at an active underground longwall mine in West Virginia. This TTE system uses electric field (E-field) sensing to
Jan 1, 2016
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Colorado School of Mines mine rescue simulator (7c0de085-2364-4d63-8ea9-d782e691a33b)By C. Geier
Previous mine incidents show weaknesses in mine rescue preparedness from poor training in decision making, leadership and incident command center (ICC) protocols. Computer simulations offer a larger r
Feb 1, 2014
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Spray Grouting for Tunnel Support in SandstoneBy Charles R. Nelson
INTRODUCTION The support of openings in weak sandstones can be achieved by spraying on a liquid grout which will soak in and harden to form a shell. In the St. Peter sandstone of the Minneapolis-St
Jan 1, 1982
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An Integrated Approach To Designing Gold PlantsBy Darrell M. Hladun, Linda M. Dufour
The benefits of computer simulation in the design of a refractory gold autoclave facility is discussed. Three computer simulation programs used for autoclave design are briefly described in this pap
Jan 1, 1996
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Infrastructure Upgrade Through Innovative Tunnel RehabilitationBy Charles A. Maliszewski, James M. Galvin, Gerhard Urschitz
With obvious signs of deterioration, the double track, historically registered Bergen Tunnels as part of the commuter rail system in New Jersey waited for rehabilitation for a long time. Serious water
Jan 1, 2003
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Natural Attenuation of Cyanide by Soil MaterialBy Roman Z. Pyrih
Subsurface migration of cyanide is attenuated by naturally occurring geochemical and biogeochemical processes. Geochemical mechanisms which remove or immobilize cyanide and metal-cyanide complexes inc
Jan 1, 1990
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Chemical Fuels And Other Organometallic Compounds: Their Impact On The Mineral Industry ? I. IntroductionBy D. R. Gibbons
This morning I would like to speak to you about an area of chemistry that is enjoying a revival-organometallic compounds. This renewed interest, principally stimulated by defense needs, has already cr
Jan 1, 1958