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  • AUSIMM
    Case Study – Application of RISKGATE to Managing Strata Failure in an Australian Coalmine

    By J Harris, J Turner, P Kirsch

    Coal mining is recognised globally as a hazardous activity, and as a result operates under high levels of regulatory and public scrutiny while managing a workforce operating in a high-risk environment

    Nov 5, 2014

  • SME
    Risk Management for Soft Ground Tunnels in New York

    By Andy Thompson, Frank Perrone

    "As part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s $10.5bn East Side Access Project in New York, 3,200 m of tunnel had to be constructed in rock, mix face and soft ground conditions beneath one o

    Jan 1, 2016

  • DFI
    Execution Example of the Expanded Dry Jet Mixing (EX-DJM) Method (71db6e71-57a4-4d54-81bc-d746d501291d)

    By Kiyotaka Ohno, Nobushige Yasuoka, Yosuke Hioki

    "The diameter of improved columns adopted by the original DJM Method had been 1000 mm, however, in order to comply with the social need for construction cost reduction, the Expanded Dry Jet Mixing (EX

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Mitigation and Management of Blast Generated Fume in Eastern Australia

    By Muamer Medusalic, Kim Henley, Lucas Bottomley

    The period from 2009 to 2012 has witnessed a large rise in the number of blast-generated fume events in Eastern Australia, where highly visible oxides of nitrogen (NOx) are produced from coal mine bla

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Fuel Acquisition And Use Independent Power Projects

    By F. G. Hyde

    Passage of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policy Act ("PURPA") in I 978 created an entirely new industry that is referred to today as the Independent Power Producers ("IPP"). Requirements of project

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Mine Disaster Crisis Management

    By J. S. Gardner

    Fortunately, few mining professionals have dealt with what all mining professionals fear---a mine disaster. Unfortunately, many have dealt with ?accidents? which may or may not claim lives but neverth

    Feb 23, 2014

  • ISEE
    Preventing Blast Damage to Underground Infrastructure from Open Pit Operations

    By C. Liley

    Open cut blasting at the Ernest Henry mine has the potential to cause damage to nearby underground workings. This paper is a case study of the blast vibration management project which was conducted to

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Minimizing Impacts on Streams Due to Underground Mining by Predicting Surface Ground Movements (d951173a-61f5-4d4f-9d81-afec78e0ae93)

    By G. B. J. Leon, M. Karmis, C. Newman

    "The prediction of surface deformations due to underground mining operations has been a long recognized practice with case studies documented as far back as 1556 in Georgius Agricola's De Re Metallica

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Overview of Current Us Longwall Gateroad Support Practices

    By I. B. Tulu, M. M. Sears

    "In 2015, 40 longwall mines provided nearly 60% of the US coal production from underground mining methods. This represents a substantial, yet gradual increase from just under 50% over the last 5 years

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Hectorite Deposits In The McDermitt Caldera Of Nevada (27e16b6c-6f89-41c3-9773-07f73822e55a)

    By I. E. Odom

    The rare magnesium-lithium clay mineral hectorite occurs at many places in the McDermitt caldera of Nevada-Oregon. Commercial development of several high purity deposits began in 1986. The hectorite

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME-ICGCM
    Influence of a Coal Mine Subsidence on An Adjacent Dam

    By Nengxiong Xu

    The WTZ coal mine is located adjacent to an auxiliary dam in P. R. China. The mining-induced ground movements are calculated using a 3-D numerical procedure based on the finite difference method (FDM)

    Jan 1, 2013

  • CIM
    Thin Spray-On Liner: A Project Update on Current Work In Sudbury, Canada

    By C. Graham

    Thin Spray-On Liners (TSLs) have been researched and in development for over two decades and yet their fully functional and widely justifiable application in mining has yet to be achieved. While the e

    Aug 1, 2013

  • DFI
    St. Louis Service Base Floating Wharf Mooring System Replacement

    By A. Bozorgzadeh, B. M. Jensen, B. N. Koelling, B. R. Murtaugh

    "The Service Base mooring system originally consisted of two general types of structures, 19 timber piles cabled together and steel three-legged pipe piles. The St. Louis District fleet moored to the

    Jan 1, 2017

  • CIM
    Performance Prediction of Rock TBMS Considering Uncertainties in the Geotechnical Parameters

    By G. V. Theja, V. B. Maji

    Large infrastructure projects like tunnel excavations, underground constructions face innumerable risks. For successful completion of these projects, it is essential that we foresee and understand ris

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    Productivity Enhancement Driver Assistance for Mining Machinery Based on Unique Two-Dimensional Radar Sensor Fusion Concept

    By C Augustin, M Hahn, K Nienhaus

    Operators of mining machinery like haul trucks or excavators have very limited information about the exact distance to other equipment as well as to the natural boundaries like berms, walls and struct

    Sep 26, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Contract Mining Lihir Gold Mine

    Lihir Gold Mine is situated in a dormant volcanic caldera on a small island off PNG. Not æextinctÆ but dormant. Current ground temperatures are up to 150 degrees Celsius with active geysers in the wor

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Coal Exploration - Fence Lake Project, Catron County, New Mexico

    By Marcie A. Greenberg

    The Fence Lake Project is located in the Salt Lake coal field, an extension of the San Juan Basin. Geologic formations exposed in the Project area range in age from late Cretaceous to Quaternary. Coal

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    The Effect of TBM Diameter on Ring Installation Time - RETC2021

    By Jamal Rostami, Tala Tahernia

    TBM utilization rate is a component of machine performance prediction and critical for developing a reliable estimate of the construction completion time and cost of the tunnel. Estimation of the util

    Jun 13, 2021

  • SME
    Hybrid Shoring Design for the Courthouse Commons Tunnel in San Diego, California: Controlling and Predicting Ground Movements - NAT2022

    By Maryam Motamed, Jeremy Stone, Leigh Anne Zhang

    Controlling and predicting ground movements are essential to the design of shoring systems. The Courthouse Commons tunnel in San Diego, California, included a 56-foot-deep temporary shaft as a launchi

    Dec 1, 2022

  • DFI
    Innovative Design for Retaining Structures using Combined Products

    By Clifford Taylor, Alexander Zöhrer

    "The execution of deep basement excavations under narrow conditions is one of the most challenging tasks in geotechnics. The vicinity of neighbouring buildings, roads, and underground structures such

    Jan 1, 1900