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  • SME
    Loosening And Face Stability With Shallow Overburden In The ?Sitina Tunnel,? Bratislava, Slovakia

    By Chikaosa Tanimoto

    INTRODUCTION Bratislava is located at the intersection of important traffic routes, including motor-ways, roads, railways, air traffic, trading, and inland waterway with an important harbour. The con

  • AUSIMM
    Mineralisation of the Morobe Goldfield, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea

    By B A. Mowat, T M. Leach

    The Morobe Goldfield inPapua New Guinea has produced in excess of 120 tonnes of gold from predominantly alluvial sources. Hardrock gold has been mined historically at Wau (23 t) and Edie Creek (4 t) a

    Jan 1, 1995

  • AIME
    Coal - Daily Maintenance and Complete Overhaul of Continuous Miners

    By J. Mason

    In order that the use of continuous mining machines be most economic, the equipment must be operated at rated capacity as much of the time as possible and downtime for repairs kept at a minimum. A lar

    Jan 1, 1961

  • SME
    Technology News – Atlas Copco Wagner Announces Improved 10-t LHD

    Atlas Copco Wagner launched its ST1010 Scooptram load haul dumper. The ST1010 replaces the company’s Wagner ST-1000 Scooptram. The improvements to the Wagner ST1010 include increased reliability, ea

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Deep sea mining: from exploration to exploitation

    By Laurens de Jonge, Wiebe Boomsma, Rodney Norman, Stanislav Verichev

    "Earth provides natural resources, such as fossil fuels and minerals that are vital for human life. As the global demand grows, especially for strategic minerals, commodity prices rapidly rise. Thus t

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SAIMM
    An Overview Of PGM Smelting In Zimbabwe - Zimplats Operations

    By L. Mabiza

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, circular furnace, PGM, platinum, Peirce-Smith converter, Zimbabwe The Zimplats Smelter, located on the northern part of the Great Dyke, at the Selous Metallurgical Comple

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Building a University and Center For Energy in Sumatra, Indonesia

    By Tony Szwilski

    Indonesia has enormous mineral resources. Its population of more than 180 million people inhabit most of the more than 13,000 islands. The country is becoming a significant economic power in Southeast

    Jan 1, 1991

  • AUSIMM
    The Design of Continuous Thickeners for Flocculated Materials

    By Goldney L. H

    The authors review the literature and discuss the application of methods to the design of thickeners for ilocculated metallurgical pulps. The use and evaluation of flocculents is described. Experiment

    Jan 1, 1959

  • SAIMM
    Comparison of operator line-of-sight (LOS) assessment techniques: evaluation of an underground load-haul-dump (LHD) mobile mining vehicle - Synopsis

    By J. West

    For many years line-of-sight (LOS) issues for underground mobile equipment is a growing focus of research. This research is a result of the numerous fatalities and injuries which occur in the mining i

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    The AusIMM in New Zealand

    In this, the centennial year of The Institute, it is appropriate that the history of the Institute in New Zealand be recorded. I am indebted to John Dew, compiler of the centenary publication æMining

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    The Priceless Ingredients

    By Grant P. Cordon

    Our subject, "Safety, Legal, and Contracting," is a range of topics which covers a broad spectrum, but is obviously Intended to focus our attention upon certain particular aspects of tunnel problems.

    Jan 1, 1974

  • NIOSH
    RI 3546 Effect Of Particle Size On The Rate Of Oxidation Of Anthracite ? Introduction

    By G. S. Scott

    In the course of the investigation into the causes, behavior, and control of mine fires, which the Bureau of Mines is now conducting, some attention was given to the subject of spontaneous heating.

    Jan 1, 1941

  • NIOSH
    OFR-9(1)-72 Coal Mine Rescue And Survival System - Volume I - Survival Subsystem - Introduction - Contract Information

    This volume constitutes the Survival Subsystem portion of the final report for the Coal Mine Rescue and Survival System (CMR&SS) program, which was conducted by the Westinghouse Electric Corporation u

    Jan 1, 1971

  • AUSIMM
    The importance of the shape, orientation and roughness of free faces in commercial blasting operations

    Blasts should be designed so as to maximise the percentage of charges which shoot to a free face (Le, to a pronounced rock/air interface).Free faces should be rough, parallel and reasonably near to bl

    Jan 1, 1986

  • AUSIMM
    Paper No. 182. Modern Methods in Mine Surveying.

    THE art of mine surveying has made very great progress in recent years, and is still advancing, perhaps faster than any other branch of surveying. The scope of the mine surveyor's duties has grea

    Jan 1, 1909

  • NIOSH
    IN FOCUS?Cable bolts: a ?new support?

    By Thomas P. Mucho

    Cable bolts are emerging as the newest ?twist? for roof support in U.S. underground coal mines. For decades cable bolts installed in underground metal mines in the United States and Canada used cement

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    An Overview Of The S & K Copper Mine Heap Leach, SX-EW Process Monywa Project, Myanmar

    By D. J. Kunz

    Myanmar Ivanhoe Copper Company Ltd. (MICCL) has been operating the Sabetaung- Kyisintaung (S&K) Project producing LME Grade A Copper Cathode using the Heap Leach-SX-EW Process since 1998. The minerali

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    An Automatic Dust Sampler

    A device is described which is suitable for the automatic sampling of dust in dust laden flue gases. This device, called a Venturi Sampler, consists of two pipes each fitted with a suitably designed v

    Jan 1, 1959

  • CIM
    Triboelectric Belt Separator for Beneficiation of Fine Minerals (b8c28651-e717-4f81-b978-f5aac17e36a1)

    By Stephen A. Gasiorowski, Frank J. Hrach, James D. Bittner

    Separation Technologies, LLC (ST) has developed a processing system based on triboelectric charging and electrostatic separation that provides the mineral processing industry a means to beneficiate fi

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    OFR-125(1)-83 Technological Innovation In The Copper Industry

    By Alfred Weiss

    These volumes report on the study initiated by the U. S. Bureau of Mines to develop and apply a methodology to quantitatively assess the probability and potential benefits of technological innovation

    Jan 1, 1983