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  • CIM
    The Colomac Project

    By V. N. Bryant

    "1.0 SYNOPSISThe Colomac property, located 137 miles by air northwest of Yellowknife in Canada's NWT. will recover gold from 10,000 tons per day of open pit ore.The decision to proceed with the projec

    Jan 1, 1990

  • CIM
    Water Power in British Columbia

    By Ernest Davis

    WATER power, until developed, produces nothing, but when harnessed it continues to produce, it might be said, indefinitely. Hence the importance of developing all feasible water powers. British Colu

    Jan 1, 1942

  • DFI
    Pin Piles For Seismic Rehabilitation Of Bridges

    Since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake in the San Francisco Bay Area, the California Department of Transportation (CALTRANS) has accelerated seismic upgrading of their bridges. Many structures can be i

    Jan 1, 1993

  • NIOSH
    IC 9300 Miners' Views About Why People Go Under Unsupported Roof And How To Stop Them

    By Robert H. Peters

    Groundfall accidents have been the leading cause of fatalities in the underground coal mining industry for many years. Statistics from the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) indicate that ap

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Construction of Headrace Tunnel of Uma Oya Water Conveyance Project, Sri Lanka

    By Jamal Rostami, Ataollah Rahbar

    "Uma Oya Multipurpose Development Project is under construction in Sri Lanka. This project involves 2 Rolled Concrete Core (RCC) Dams connected through a tunnel currently under construction by Drill a

    Jan 1, 2016

  • NIOSH
    RI 4415 Investigation Of Zinc-Lead Deposits On Extensions Of The Miami Trough, Ottawa County, Okla., And Cherokee County, Kans.

    By Clinton C. Knox

    Attention of mine operators and engineers in the Picher zinc-lead field has been drawn increasingly in recent years to marginal ore deposits lying at greater than normal depth below surface in the mar

    Jan 1, 1949

  • NIOSH
    IC 7446 Annual Report of Research and Technologic Work on Coal, Fiscal Year 1947

    By P. M. Ambrose, A. C. FtELDNER

    This , the twelfth annual report of research and technologic work conducted by the Bureau of Mines on coal and coal products , summarizes the research and tests conducted frah July 1, 1946, to July 1,

    Jan 1, 1948

  • DFI
    Complex Piling Works At London Blackfriars Station

    By Jamie D. McEwan

    To cater for the future introduction of 12 car trains, London Blackfriars railway station is being extended from the north end to span across the River Thames. Following the demolition of existing bui

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Necessity Driving Change and Improvement to the Cleaner Circuit at Lumwana Copper Concentrator

    By G. Cordingley, A. Mwanza

    Lumwana is an open pit Copper mine located in the Northwestern Province of Zambia approximately 80 km west from the provincial capital of Solwezi, approximately 300 km northwest from the Copperbelt an

    Jan 1, 2014

  • DFI
    Instrumentation Of Construction Vibrations

    By Mark R. Svinkin

    Construction vibrations may adversely affect surrounding buildings and their effects range from human discomfort and disturbance of sensitive devices to visible structural damage. There is no unique c

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Site Investigations And Geotechnical Assessment For The Construction Of The Deep Underground Science And Engineering Laboratory At The Former Homestake Mine

    By Z. J. Hladysz

    A Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL) is being planned at the site of the former Homestake Gold Mine in Lead, South Dakota, under the sponsorship of the National Science Founda

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Case History Of The Support Of Excavation System Used At The Atlantic Building Project In Washington, DC

    By Joseph C. Gillen

    This paper discusses the design, construction, and performance of the support of excavation system used at The Atlantic Building jobsite. The support of excavation system had to be adaptable to the d

    Jan 1, 2006

  • NIOSH
    OFR-133-83 Development Of Environmentally Attractive Leachants - Volume 1 - A Minitest For In Situ Uranium Leaching

    By Robert S. Schechter

    A minitest, consisting of an injection/production well and at least two observation wells designed to detect the arrival of injected fluid leached minerals, and nonideal flow, is considered in this re

    Jan 1, 1983

  • CIM
    Performance of Large Low- and High-Aspect Ratio SAG Mills at Gold Fields’ Ghanaian and Australian Mines

    By Michael I. Brittan, Craig M. Sams

    "Economies of scale and the variable characteristics of many large ore deposits have resulted in grinding installations using very large SAG mills fitted with variable speed drives. Low-aspectratio si

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Coal Workers? Pneumoconiosis Prevalence Disparity Between Australia And The United States

    By G. J. Joy

    Although rates of pneumoconiosis in coal miners have declined substantially in the United States since the passage of the Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969, new cases continue to occur,

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Pile Foundation Solutions in the Deep Quaternary Sediments of Botany Bay

    By Paul A. O’Brien, Gary A. Chapman, Thomas G. Cuniowski

    "The new Amcor B9 paper mill in Botany, NSW, Australia, involved the design and construction of a new paper mill founded within the Botany Basin Sediments. There were numerous design and construction

    Jan 1, 1900

  • CIM
    Industry Requirements for Introduction of Alternate Energies with Emphasis on Hydrogen Fuel Cells

    By Fred Delabbio

    There are presently several issues that the mining industry is facing, such as underground air quality, deep mining and green house gas emissions, which could be addressed by the application of altern

    May 1, 2007

  • NIOSH
    RI 3581 National Safety Competition Of 1940

    By W. W. Adams

    [The sfxteeith e-mud ?7ntior_,il SnS~ty Cn~potitior,, cohduc ted by th Bureau of Mines, United Stntes'I3epnrtzel?t oL' the Interior, hstc fist been closed, and the resvlt s reveal tbt t!:e c

    Jan 1, 1941

  • SME
    Copper Precipitation And Cyanide Recovery Pilot Testing For The Newmont Yanacocha Project

    By S. Acar, M. Botz

    Introduction In 2007, Newmont Mining Corporation will begin construction of a milling and cyanidation leaching circuit for the Yanacocha site in Peru. Ore to be processed in the circuit contains a r

    Jan 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Canadian Clean Power Coalition Project: The evaluation of options for CO2 extraction from existing and new coal-fired power plants

    By D. du Plessis, R. Stobbs

    The Canadian Clean Power Coalition (CCPC) was created in 2001 to protect and enhance Canada’s vast coal and other carbon-based resource wealth, and to ensure that environmental public policy decisions

    Jan 1, 2006