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  • SME
    Design and Construction Challenges at the Piney Branch CSO 049 Storage Tunnel in Washington, DC - NAT2024

    By 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

  • SME
    Hot Surface Ignition Of Liquid Fuels Under Ventilation

    By 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

  • SME
    Western Energy Eliminates Spoil Rehandle With ScraperBenching

    Western 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

  • SME
    Rock Tunneling And Rock Excavation In New York City Methods, Problems, Innovations

    By 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

  • SME
    Plans For A Gold Vat Leaching Plant In Mexico

    By 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

  • SME
    What happened to my gold? Questions to ask

    By 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

  • SME
    Dust Control by Air-Blocking Shelves and Dust Collector-to-Bailing Airflow Ratios for a Surface Mine Drill Shroud

    By 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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    A Microcrack Model for the Deformation and Strength of Algerie Granite

    By 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

  • SME
    16. History of the Discovery of the Afton Copper-Gold Deposit, Kamloops, BC, Canada - Introduction

    By 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

  • SME
    Use Of Geostatistics In Prediction Coal Quality Ranges For An Underground Room And Pillar Mine ? Introduction

    By 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

  • SME
    The Effect Of Metal Ions On Both The Stability And Zeta Potential Of Barite Suspensions - Introduction

    By 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

  • SME
    Geology and production of humate and weathered coal in New Mexico

    By 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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    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

  • SME
    Spray Grouting for Tunnel Support in Sandstone

    By 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

  • SME
    An Integrated Approach To Designing Gold Plants

    By 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 Rehabilitation

    By 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

  • SME
    Natural Attenuation of Cyanide by Soil Material

    By 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

  • SME
    Chemical Fuels And Other Organometallic Compounds: Their Impact On The Mineral Industry ? I. Introduction

    By 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