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  • IMMS
    The New Exclusive Economic Zone Gas And Mineral Deposits A Target For New Exploration

    By Alexander Malahoff

    With its new continental shelf beyond the exclusive economic zone, New Zealand is a country with just 4% of its territory above water. The other 96% is submerged. New Zealand's marine territory c

    Jan 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    Introduction (059e6624-6dd3-4655-9bd6-41ec23a927ea)

    By Lloyd A. Morley, Alan M. Christman

    General An important part of any mine power distribution system is its con¬nection to earth or ground. The grounding network serves to protect men and machinery from the hazards associated with elect

    Jan 1, 1976

  • AUSIMM
    Reconciliation at the Musselwhite Mine - From Exploration to Production

    The Musselwhite mine, located in northwestern Ontario, Canada, has been an underground narrow-vein gold producer since the spring of 1997. As an exploration project at the feasibility stage, much effo

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Internalising Environmental Management - Bringing the Environment into Management

    The mining industry was one of the first industry groups to be confronted by and to respond to public and government pressure to improve its environmental management. Companies operating in New Zea

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Improved Blast Results with Variable Density, Gassed Emulsions

    By L D. Lawrence, R S. Day, Gordon Coleman

    Commercial emulsion explosives are typically characterized by their relatively high detonation velocities due to the intimacy of oxidizer and fuel and to their sensitization with glass microballoons.

    Jan 1, 1990

  • DFI
    Capacity Prediction Vs. Performance Of Driven Pre-Cast Pre-Stressed Concrete Piles In Chesapeake, Virginia

    By Emad Farouz

    This paper compares the predicted axial capacity of driven Pre-cast Pre-stressed Concrete (PPC) piles for the Lake Gaston Water Treatment Plant (LGWTP) using several design methodologies versus the ax

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Stillwater Tunnel Project

    By Harold G. Arthur

    INTRODUCTION Stillwater Tunnel construction is scheduled to start in the spring of 1973. The tunnel will be the site of an extensive program in rapid excavation research. This paper presents a prog

    Jan 1, 1997

  • DFI
    Pile Foundations For Algiers New Airport Terminal

    By Ramdane Bahar

    The new Algiers airport building is a reinforced concrete building of more than 80 thousand square meters of floor slabs. It is located at Dar-EI-Beida, near the old passenger terminal, about 20 km ea

    Jan 1, 2002

  • ISEE
    Blasting Safety

    By Thomas E. Lobb, Harry C. Verakis

    Significant progress has been made in the reduction of serious injuries and fatalities resulting from mine blasting operations. Despite the progress, injuries and fatalities continue to occur. A leadi

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Risk Management Strategies for Southern Nevada Water Authority’s Lake Mead Intake No. 2

    By Steven W. DeCou, Marcus R. Jensen, Stephen Navin

    The Lake Mead Intake No. 2 is a project constructed for the Southern Nevada Water Authority which includes a 12-foot diameter lake tap and intake shaft constructed in over 225 feet of water; 1650 feet

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AUSIMM
    Alkali Roasting of Chromite

    By Lawson F

    Chrome chemicals are commercially produced by the alkali roasting of chromite ores with sodium carbonate. Results of tests conducted in a laboratory furnace indicated that the sodium carbonate reacted

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Guidance For The Beneficial Use Of Fly Ash On Coal Mines In Virginia (USA)

    Coal fly ash and flue gas desulfurization (FGD) sludges can be returned to mine pits, fills and revegetation zones in Virginia by regulation if (and only if) a positive beneficial use can be shown. Ut

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Geologic Prediction In Tunneling And Rapid Excavation

    By Dennis J. Lachel, Lloyd B. Underwood

    In recent years a great number of papers have been presented at symposiums and have appeared in the literature relative to geologic prediction for rapid excavation and tunneling. Many of these papers

    Jan 1, 1997

  • CIM
    Impact of Building Information Modeling on Just-in-Time Material Delivery

    By O. Moselhi

    The purpose of this research is to evaluate the impact of Building Information Modeling (BIM) on Just-In-Time (JIT) material delivery, with a focus on how the use of BIM can help improve efficient imp

    Aug 1, 2013

  • SME
    Heap Leaching of Fine Agglomerated Tailings at Asamera’s Gooseberry Mine

    By Jeff W. Butwell

    Mill flotation tailings impounded at the Gooseberry Mine site between 1976 and 1984 were determined to be an economic source of gold and silver. The tailings would be recoverable by standard heap leac

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Study of the Size Distribution of the Carlin Trend Gold Deposits

    The Carlin Trend is North America's premier gold producing district. It is located in northeastern Nevada's Elko and Eureka Counties along a northwest trending belt about 65 km (40 miles) lo

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    An Integrated Bioreactor System For The Treatment Of Cyanide, Metals And Nitrates In Mine Process Water

    By Leslie Thompson, Randy Hiebert, Marietta Canty

    A paper is presented in which an innovative biological process is described for the treatment of cyanide-, metals-, and nitrate-contaminated mine process water. The technology is capable of detoxifyin

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    New Techniques In Deep Pre-Sinking Of Mine Shafts

    By Cyril Heever

    ROCKS outcropping in Elandsrand's lease area consist of quartzite, shale and lava of the Pretoria group and are underlain first by 1 300 metres of dolomite and then by the Black Reef series. This

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Selection Considerations for 218 t (240 st) Off-Highway Trucks

    By T. S. Golosinski

    Most of the 154 t (170 st) truck fleets that were predominant in large surface mines in the 1970s and 1980s are approaching the end of their economic life. One replacement option considered by min

    Jan 1, 1992

  • AUSIMM
    Strategic Planning for the Future of Illawarra Coal

    In the future, Illawarra Coal, the primary metallurgical coal producer in the southern coal fields of New South Wales, will face many unique challenges not found in other coal or minerals production a

    Jan 1, 2007