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  • SME
    "Copper Heap Leach - From Permits To Cathodes"

    By Jackson G. Jenkins

    Magma Copper Company's San Manuel SX-EW facility has operated since May, 1986. The original facility had a design capacity of 25,000 tons per year of electrowon copper cathode produced by process

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    "Key Technologies of Large RectangularPipe Jacking Machine"

    By Lianhui Jia, Yali Han

    "The key technologies of a large rectangular pipe jacking machine with dimensions of 10.12m × 7.27m (width x height) include selection of rectangular cross-section cutting modes, analysis on the stren

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    "Minesite" A Basis For Mineral Resource Planning (Getting The Rock In The Box Isn't Like It Use To Be)

    By David L. Brostrom, William C. Brice, Perry A. Canton

    The business of mineral exploration and development has become much more than simply a problem of locating orebodies and designing mines. Favorable economic analysis of mining and processing feasibili

    Jan 1, 1974

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    "Pit lake water treatment assists with legacy acid rock drainage issue in anticipation of restart at Mount Todd gold mine"

    By P. B. Moran, J. W. Rozelle, J. Forbort

    "The Mount Todd gold mine is located approximately 50 km (31 miles) north of the town of Katherine in the Northern Territory (NT) of Australia just off the Stewart Highway, and was operated in the 199

    Apr 1, 2016

  • SME
    "Stemming Tunnels At The Nevada Test Site"

    By H. F. Haller

    Large volume sand plugs are placed in tunnels to stem underground explosions at the Atomic Energy Commision's Nevada Test Site. Placement through long, narrow accessways is like stemming coyote h

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    "The Effect Of Coal Strip Mine Reclamation On Midwest Water Supplies"

    By James A. Deane

    Strip mine reclamation Fs the process of restoring the land affected by the mining process to its most productive use. This can be timber production, pasture, crop land, wildlife and/or recreational u

    Jan 1, 1965

  • SME
    10. Mineral Park Porphyry Copper Deposit - History - Mapping and Drilling - 1951-1952

    By Annan Cook

    J.R. Atkinson, office engineer to Kennecott Copper Corp., summarized data on the Mineral Park area [Wallapai (Chloride) Mining District, Mohave County, Arizona, Fig. 1] and submitted it to the New Yor

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    120-Year Design Lifetime of Plastics

    By Eckl, Martin, Stefan Lemke, Martin Londschien

    "Tunnels are built with a design life expectancy of over 100 years. One key component of such a design is the waterproofing system, which must reliably fulfil its function during the whole service lif

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    1997 Jackling Lecture - Porphyry Copper Geology: A Late Century View

    By Spencer R. Titley

    "For his pioneering contributions to the understanding of the geology of porphyry copper systems" Recipient Of The 1997 D. C. Jackling Award SPENCER R. TITLEY Introduction The subject of thi

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    1997 Jackling Lecture - Porphyry Copper Geology: A Late Century View ? Introduction

    By Spencer R. Titley

    The subject of this lecture, a late century perspective on porphyry copper geology, is one of current interest and importance as the search for these ores remains intense. It is presented in the belie

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    2-D FEM parametric numerical analysis of inclined coal pillars

    By Kostas Kaklis, Zach Agioutantis, Robin Flattery

    Pillars are used as the primary support structures for underground mining to maintain stability by supporting the over laying strata. In the case of horizontal seams, the pillars are typically subject

  • SME
    2010 Permeation Test Results For Grouts Made With Ultrafine Cement

    By Raymond W. Henn

    The 31th annual short course ?Grouting Fundamentals and Current Practice? was held at the Colorado School of Mines, in Golden, CO June 7-11, 2010. The field demonstration portion of the course was con

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    2011 Review Of Zirconium

    By R. Adams

    Zirconium is the 20th most abundant element in the Earth?s crust and it most often occurs in the form of silicate (as zircon), less often in the oxide form (as baddeleyite or caldesite). Historically,

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    2013 Review of Ground Calcium Carbonate

    By J. Gauntt

    Calcium carbonate is one of the most widely used industrial minerals in applications like cement, lime, agriculture, power plant fluegas desulfurization (FGD) and construction aggregates. Most applica

  • SME
    2017 Minnesota Conference; Global Expertise and a Local Focus

    "The mining industry suffers from a number of incorrect perceptions, one of which is that it is an outdated industry that has not changed for hundreds of years. But the truth of the matter is that min

    Jan 6, 2017

  • SME
    2021 MPD Student Video Contest – Winning Abstracts - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By Qingqing Huang, Aaron Noble

    The Mineral & Metallurgical Processing Division (MPD) of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration held the first MPD Student Video Contest during the spring of 2021. The event showcased the wo

    Sep 13, 2021

  • SME
    2022 MPD Student Poster Contest – Winning Abstracts

    By Qingqing Huang, Mohammad Rezaee

    The Mineral & Metallurgical Processing Division (MPD) of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration held the 12th MPD Student Poster Contest on March 2, 2022, during the MINEXCHANGE 2022 SME Ann

    Nov 22, 2022

  • SME
    30 Years Of On-Stream Analysis At The Pyhasal Mine

    By S. Uihteenmaki

    Pyhasalmi is a massive sulfide orebody located in central Finland. The mine has been in operation since 1962. The flotation concentrator produces Cu, Zn, Pb and pyrite concentrates. The plant has used

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    30. Discovery of the Kidd Creek Mine near Timmins, Ontario

    By Brian W. Hester

    Ore was first discovered at the Kidd Creek mine site during the first few days of December 1963 when a diamond drill hole there cut sulfide mineralization. This event marked the end of the search star

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    40 Years of Experience in the Use of Umbrella Arch Method in Tunneling: Problems and Solutions

    By Georgios Kalamaras, Sebastiano Pelizza, Carlo Alessio

    "This article describes, through the presentation of five cases-history, technological advances that the Authors together with Tunneling Contractors devised for coping with adverse geotechnical condit

    Jan 1, 2016