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  • SME
    Human Health Effects Associated With The Commercial Use Of Grunerite Asbestos (Amosite): Paterson, NJ; Tyler, TX; Uxbridge, UK

    By Joseph Ribak

    Grunerite asbestos (amosite) has been shown in epidemiological and experimental animal studies to cause lung cancer, mesothelioma and pulmonary fibrosis commonly referred to as asbestosis. An overview

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    US Share of World Mineral Markets: Where Are We Headed?

    By Graham Davis

    The future of the world's minerals industries is often painted as bleak. Peter Drucker has repeatedly proposed that the demand for minerals has become "uncoupled" from world economic growth.&apos

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Precious metals exploration fails to makeup for declines in other minerals

    By E. D. Attanasi, J. H. DeYoung

    Mineral exploration activity in the US suffered through another depressed year in 1984. And continued strength in precious metals (and possibly industrial minerals) exploration failed to make up for d

    Jan 5, 1985

  • SME
    Recovery And Utilization Of Bottom Ash Magnetics For Coal Cleaning Medium - Preprint 09-002

    By R. Q. Honaker

    Dense medium processes are used to clean over 50% of the coal that is fed into preparation plant facilities worldwide. The dense medium is formed using ultrafine magnetite which is recovered after the

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Mining Labor Survey Sheds Light on Wages and Benefit Plans

    By Jennifer B. Leinart

    Sixty percent of the mines responding to the sixth annual Mining Cost Service labor survey reported increases in wages averaging 3.4% over the preceding 12 months. Only one mine reported a decrease in

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    High-resolution AUV-surveys of a sediment-covered massive sulfide occurrence in the Mediterranean Sea

    By Isobel Yeo, Luca Cocchi, Sven Petersen, Nico Augustin, Sean Plunkett, Ingo Klaucke

    Exploration for seafloor massive sulfides is currently mainly focused on investigation for active hydrothermal vent fields. However, most of the resource potential is thought to be related to inactive

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    Us Geological Survey 1999 Resource Assessment Of Selected Coal Zones In The Northern Rocky Mountains And Great Plains Region, Wyoming, Montana, And North Dakota

    By M. S. Ellis, D. J. Nichols

    In 1999, 1,100 million short tons of coal were produced in the United States, 38 percent from the Northern Rocky Mountains and Great Plains region. This coal has low ash content, and has sulfur conten

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Development of Environmental Performance Indicators based Environmental Management Systems for Steel Industry

    By A. K. Dikshit, H. R. Murty, S. K. Gupta

    This paper deals with the development of environment performance indicators (EPIs) for the steel industry. Environmental performance has become one of the key measures of business success. Emergence o

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Numerical Simulation of Laboratory Strength Tests Using a Stochastic Approach Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (64afd044-d268-43ce-8f2e-500a0684ddfe)

    By Yuting Xue, Danqing Gao, Brijes Mishra

    Heterogeneity and discontinuity significantly affect rock strength. For accurate stability prediction, intact rock behavior is imperatively included in rock mass behavior. However, past research large

  • SME
    Numerical Simulation of Laboratory Strength Tests Using a Stochastic Approach Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Yuting Xue, Danqing Gao, Brijes Mishra

    Heterogeneity and discontinuity significantly affect rock strength. For accurate stability prediction, intact rock behavior is imperatively included in rock mass behavior. However, past research large

  • SME
    Evaluations Of Bit Sleeve And Twisted-Body Bit Designs For Controlling Roof Bolter Dust

    By T. W. Beck

    Drilling into coal mine roof strata to install roof bolts has the potential to release substantial quantities of respirable dust. Due to the proximity of drill holes to the breathing zone of roof bolt

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Settling Velocities Of Particulate Systems - A Critical Review Of Some Useful Models

    By A. K. Majumder

    Particle motion in fluids is a subject of considerable practical importance to engineers working in fields such as hydraulics, river mechanics, chemical engineering and mineral processing. Many mathem

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    New Application Of Organic Coating To Existing Ground Support Products - Preprint 09-107

    By M. Slatter

    The need for anti-corrosion coatings has existed for many years in the ground support industry, but the application requirements have made coating selection limited. Varying groundwater and chemical

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Pilot-Scale Study Of Fluorite Beneficiation Using A Cyclonic Static Microbubble Flotation Column

    By X. Zhou

    In this study, the cyclonic static microbubble flotation column (FCSMC) was investigated for fluorite beneficiation. The structure and principle of the specially designed column are described. Fluorit

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Analytic Approach For Sizing Feeders And Gathering Belts In Mines Using Discrete-Vehicle Face Haulage

    By J. C. Yingling

    [New stochastic process models are developed to calculate the probability of various fill levels in section feeders as a function of vehicle interarrival times, payloads and feeder-discharge rates. Th

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2005 – Common Clay and Shale

    By R. L. Virta

    Common clay is a natural, fine-grained material composed of hydrous aluminum silicates. Shale is a laminated sedimentary rock that is formed by the consolidation of clay, mud or silt. Production

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Strong dollar and imports steal momentum from US mining recovery

    By J. D. Morgan

    Demand for nonfuel minerals depends on the overall state of the economy, which steadily improved each quarter in 1984. New housing starts rose to 1.8 million units. Automakers turned out about 15% mor

    Jan 5, 1985

  • SME
    Experts Discuss Reserves Reporting at SME Meeting

    By Steve Kral

    Mining is a risky business. The cost of exploring for new mineral deposits is high and the success rate of finding one worthy of development is relatively low. And once a deposit is identified, ther

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Optimal Orebody Reconstruction And Visualisation

    The authors summarise the development and recent advances in the reconstruction and visualisation of three-dimensional objects from point data and describe applications to the reconstruction of orebod

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2005 – Construction Aggregates

    By T. J. Nelson

    Natural aggregates, primarily stone, sand and gravel, are recovered from widespread, naturally occurring mineral deposits and processed for use primarily in the construction industry. They are mined,

    Jan 1, 2006