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  • SME
    Mine Permitting: A Lawyer's Perspective

    By R. W. Sims

    "He?s an SOB, but he's my SOB." Many of us have heard this line in reference to attorneys, and can appreciate the humor. However, the thought reflects a deeper attitude that lawyers should be use

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Environmental And Economic Considerations In Multiple Seam Mining In Appalachia

    By Terry A. Rightnour

    Multiple seam mining is predominant throughout the central Pennsylvania Appalachian coal fields. Wide ranges in individual seam thickness, coal quality, and overburden characteristics are common throu

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Passive mine blast attenuators qconstructed of rock rubble for protecting ventilation seals - SME Transactions 2009

    By M. R. Hieb, J. R. Britt, S. P. Harteis, M. J. Sapko, E. S. Weiss, R. K. Zipf

    The design requirements for mine ventilation seals have undergone a radical transformation in recent years, and these revisions have greatly increased the cost of the seal designs and their constructi

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    The Role Of The State Of The Art Geology In Discoveries In Poland

    By M. Niec

    Poland lies at the junction of three geologic provinces: the East European Precambrian platform, the Middle European Paleozoic platform, and the Alpine orogenic belt comprising the Carpathian Mountain

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Unique Characteristics for the Design and Construction of the New Twin Tunnel “Caltanissetta”, on Highway 640 in Sicily, Italy - Practical Experience in Using ø15.08 m (50 feet) Diameter E.P.B. Machine

    By Pier Francesco Paglini, Gian Luca Menchini, Pier Francesco Boschi

    "PROJECTThe “Caltanissetta” Tunnel is part of the ANAS S.p.A (National Autonomous Roads Corporation) $ 1.3 Billion Highway 640 Caltanissetta-Agrigento (Sicily, Italy) Rehabilitation Project, consistin

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Unexpected Post-Excavation Damage to a 28"-Thick Segment Lining - Failure Mechanism and Rehabilitation Measures

    By Jens Classen, Martino Gatti

    "GENERAL PROJECT DATAThe Sparvo Tunnel is part of the “Variante di Valico” project, a new 65km (40mi) highway link between Bologna and Florence, designed to renew the existing A1 route which connects

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Geology Says Otherwise - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By William H. Langer

    I spent 41 years as a geologist with the US Geological Survey (USGS) conducting geologic studies and preparing peer reviewed maps and reports describing the results of those studies. Since retiring fr

    Feb 1, 2024

  • SME
    Differing Site Conditions and Dispute Avoidance Under the FIDIC Emerald Book for Underground Works

    By Jürg Künzle

    Underground construction is a matter of dealing with the inherent uncertainty of subsurface geology. If the encountered conditions are less favorable than the expected ones, the execution of excavatio

    Jun 13, 2021

  • SME
    Suboptimization Procedure For Truck Haulage In A Room And Pillar Mine

    By Peter G. Zambas

    In planning an underground room and pillar mine, the selection of the shaft or portal location and the orientation of the main haulage arteries is of paramount importance, particularly in view of the

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SME
    Added Value Opportunities In Industrial Minerals

    By Steven B. Van Kouteren

    Added value is a term loosely used in the industry, but what exactly does it mean? What does it take to make a value-added product and more importantly how does a company maintain the value added to i

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Using a QSO Expert Model to Generate Quarry Optimization Plan to Improve Operation at Lafargeholcim Limestone Quarry, Crystal River, FL

    By K. Boakye, T. Newman, P. Bláha, M. B. Toelle

    "This paper presents a quarry optimization plan using a block model and an in-house development quarry scheduling and optimization software (QSO Expert) to help improve quarry operations at Crystal Ri

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Modernization Of The LKAB Pelletizing Plant At Svappavaara, Sweden

    By Knut H. Hubert

    The GRATE-KILN System plant at Svappavaara, Sweden, was constructed for LKAB by Allis-Chalmers under a turnkey contract and commissioned in 1969. The plant was designed to produce iron ore pellets fro

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Laboratory Investigation Of Bio-Heap Leaching To Remove Sulfur From Kiln Feed Materials (15872d85-4950-43dc-bb8e-5b83bfbb9ba7)

    By M. A. Cornachione

    The west central upper Peninsula of Michigan contains a large resource of graphitic slate. The slate has potential industrial use as a substitute for shale currently used in the production of portland

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Respirable Crystalline Silica Dust—Practical Impacts and Solutions in Tunnelling - RETC2021

    By Rainer Antretter

    While respirable crystalline silica (RCS) dust that arises in industrial production mostly emanates from point sources and can be well mitigated, the extraction of dust is much more difficult in under

    Jun 13, 2021

  • SME
    Preconcentration and pressure oxidation of Porgera refractory gold ore

    By J. A. King, D. R. Weir, P. C. Robinson

    The complex mineralogy of the Porgera resource has a pronounced effect on process selection for the recovery of refractory gold and silver. Intimate association of gold with pyrite necessitates a high

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Circulation of Sodium Sulfate Solution Produced During NiMH Battery Waste Processing

    By A. Porvali, V. Agarwal, M. Lundström

    Hydrometallurgical recovery of rare earth elements (REE) from NiMH battery waste can be performed using sulfuric acid leaching followed by selective precipitation as double salt (REENa(SO4)2•H2O) by a

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Quantifying Environmentally Persistent Free Radicals (Epfrs) Of Submicron Coal Dust - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By R. Zhang, S. Azam, S. Liu, J. H. Golbeck, V. Kurashov, S. Bhattacharyya

    Free radicals (FRs) present in coal dust directly influence the interaction behavior between lung cells and dust particles. FRs are atoms or groups containing unpaired electrons, with strong chemical

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SME
    Blasting Mechanics ? Introduction

    By L. Donovan Clark

    The term "powder factor" is almost universally accepted as the measure of the efficiency of a blasting program. It represents the economics of blasting since it designates quantity of explosive (there

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    Feasibility Of In Situ Leaching Of Metallic Ores Other Than Copper And Uranium

    By George M. Potter

    Under contractural arrangements with the Bureau of Mines, Mountain States Research and Development, Inc. (MSRD) completed a technological investigation to determine the feasibility of in situ mining o

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    A Field Study of Mineral Scale Buildup on Lined and Traditional PE Water Pipes

    By A. Pezzuto

    "Pipes are used on mine sites in a variety of applications including transport of slurry, conveying clean and processing water, and in mine dewatering. Mine waters and slurries can cause pipe wear and

    Jan 1, 2017