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  • SME
    Formal Assessment and Measurement of Data Utilization and Value for Mines Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By M. Mustafa Kahraman, Sean Dessureault, W. Pratt Rogers

    Most contemporary mines have considerable amounts of data. Structured and unstructured large data sets are colloquially named big data. Much of the data in mining operations come from a variety of sys

  • SME
    Iron Ore Concentrate Particle Size Controlling Through Application of Microwave at the HPGR Feed Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Maurício Covcevich Bagatini, Maycon Athayde

    Nowadays, the HPGR (high-pressure grinding rolls) is an intermediate step between filtering and balling in the most modern iron ore pelletizing operation. The operation debottlenecks filtering process

  • SME
    What You Told us about Mining Engineering and You

    By Marianne Snedeker

    In January we published a questionnaire asking about the content of MINING ENGINEERING and about your interests. At the same time we hired an outside firm, READEX Inc., of St. Paul, MN, to send the sa

    Jan 6, 1982

  • SME
    Crushing and grinding at Bond Gold’s Colosseum mine : An update

    By R. L. Beatty

    Bond International Gold's Colosseum gold mine was discovered in 1865. No recorded production occurred, however, until the 1930s, with production of about 19 kg (615 oz) of gold. The mine was clos

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Optimization of Through-The-Earth Radio Communications via Mine Overburden Conductivity Estimation

    By M. Ralchenko, C. Samson, M. Svilans, C. Walsh

    "Through-the-Earth (TTE) radio has been proposed as a means of emergency communications in mines. The propagation of a TTE radio signal depends chiefly on the subsurface conductivity distribution. Rob

    Jan 7, 2018

  • SME
    Assessing Longwall Gateroad Ground Response and Support Alternatives - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By Peter Zhang, I. BERK TULU, Morgan M. Sears, Mark Van Dyke, Heather Dougherty, Ted Klemetti, Gabriel S. Esterhuizen

    Ground falls in longwall gateroad entries remain a concern in modern longwall operations. The gateroads are subject to changing horizontal and vertical ground stress induced by longwall extraction. Th

    May 13, 2021

  • SME
    Machine Learning Driven Domain Modeling for Stratigraphic Deposits

    By Carlos Fonseca, Gustavo Usero, Roberto Mentzingen Rolo, Gabriel Moreira, Octavio Rosa de Almeida Guimarães

    Geological domain modeling is an important step in mineral resources evaluation. The procedure can be laborious and time-consuming, especially in multivariate settings. However, estimates are signific

    Jun 25, 2023

  • SME
    Chemical Reactivity and Alteration of Pyrite Mineral in the Kubi Gold Concession in Ghana - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2024)

    By Gabriel K. Nzulu, Lars Hultman, Per Eklund, Martin Magnuson, Abu Yaya, Prosper M. Nude, Hans Högberg

    Pyrite is the most common among the group of sulfide minerals in the Earth and abundant in most geological settings. This gangue mineral in association with garnet, hematite, magnetite, and other sulf

    Feb 27, 2024

  • SME
    Health And Safety: Tools To Keep Miners Safe Will Be On Display

    Critical safety tools to locate miners underground are featured by several exhibitors at MINExpo. Communication was the buzzword for health and safety products at the 2008 MINExpo, and it is still imp

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Andacollo Gold-Production In Sight Ahead Of Schedule And Under Budget

    By G. M. Bernard

    The Andacollo gold mine is located near the small town of Andacollo, Chile (population 14,000) in the fourth region. It is approximately 35 miles by paved road from the coastal city of La Serena, and

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Hydrothermal activity and first characterization of hydrothermal mineralization and fluids from the Southern New Hebrides Arc (Vanuatu, SW Pacific)

    By Florian Häckel, Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera, Benjamin Bühring, Katja Schmidt, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, KoschinskyM Andrea

    "The Vanuatu island arc and its adjacent back-arc basins form part of the southern New Hebrides subduction system in the southwestern Pacific Ocean within a triangle defined by the Solomon Islands, Ne

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    Molybdenum Flotation Practice - Cell Type Selection And Design Considerations

    Several of the larger copper projects recently built have included a molybdenum byproduct circuit as part of the overall project due to the favorable molybdenum market conditions and overall economic

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Exploration Review (e158c23d-a823-415e-bda3-083a036f2393)

    By D. R. Wilburn

    This summary of international mineral exploration activities for the year 2013 draws upon information from industry sources, published literature and U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) specialists. The su

  • SME
    Application Of Pressure Foam To Control Respirable Dust In A Longwall Mining Section

    By Sandip K. Mukherjee

    This paper describes the application of pressure foam to control respirable dust in a double-drum longwall mining section. The feasibility of passing an adequate quantity of pressure foam through the

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    A History of Gold Mining in Oatman & Gold Road, Az - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By Terence P. McNulty

    Gold-bearing outcrops were discovered in 1862 by Union soldiers garrisoned at Needles, CA, near the northwest corner of the future State of Arizona. Sporadic mining began several years later, but engi

    Feb 1, 2024

  • SME
    Analysis Of Sudden Floor Heave In Deep Western U.S. Mines - Preprint 09-010

    By H. Maleki

    As mining continues toward deeper reserves in thick western US coal fields, the control of mining induced-seismicity has become a priority in many operations in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. Gradual f

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    What we learned about MINING ENGINEERING and you

    By Marianne Snedeker

    In September 1985 we published a questionnaire asking about the content of MINING ENGINEERING and about your interests. By Dec. 10, our cutoff date, we had 430 responses, representing about 1.5% of th

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    A Comparison Of Reclamation Requirements And Costs Under State And Federal Hard-Rock Mine Reclamation Laws

    By D. L. Moellenberg

    Under various state laws enacted mostly within the last 20 years, reclamation requirements and standards for hard-rock mining operations have been established virtually everywhere in the western Unite

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Banning Cyanide Use at McDonald – An Attack on Open-Pit Mining

    By Richard H. De Voto

    The McDonald gold project and two satellite gold deposits near Lincoln, MT were discovered in the early 1990s. They contain at least 307.9 t (9.9 million oz) of gold and 933 t (30 million oz)of silve

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Results of an Opioid Hazard Awareness Training Intervention for Stone, Sand, and Gravel Miners - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2022)

    By CORA ROELOFS

    In the USA, miners are at higher risk for work-related disorders that could precipitate an opioid prescription, injury-related opioid prescriptions, and opioid overdose. We aimed to support prevention

    Nov 19, 2021