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  • CIM
    Tile catenary idler as a means of energy absorption and spillage prevention

    By Douglas G. Jay

    "Transfer points on belt conveyors have long been a source of problems for both designers and users. Conveyors are generally given a low priority in new equipment layout, thus designers are often forc

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    New Techniques For Reducing Stopping Leakage

    By Robert J. Timko

    New methods of reducing stopping leakage have been investigated by Mine Safety Appliance Research Corporation, working under contract to the U. S. Bureau of Mines. It was found that proper constructio

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Coals In Alaska

    By John J. Mulligan

    Coal is found in every major geographic region throughout Alaska and in two offshore areas. Since about 1852 over 100 small mines have opened and closed. Last years production was almost entirely from

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    How To Obtain More Information Out Of Flotation Kinetics Data ? Introduction

    By R. W. M. Lai

    The study of flotation kinetics was first reported by Garcia-Zuniga1 in 1935. Since then, literature on the subject has grown with the time. 2-19 Although there is an abundance of flotation kinet¬ics

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    World Oil Shale Deposits

    By Paul L. Russell, Charles O. Hook

    While the oil shale resources of the US are becoming increasingly known, few people in this country are aware of the extensive worldwide occurrence of this resource. Two recent international confer

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AIME
    Issues In Rock Mechanics: A Personal View

    By Branko Ladanyi

    In reviewing the current issues in rock mechanics, the author puts an' emphasis on problems related with the needs of extrapolation in scale and time, and of establishing proper conceptual models

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Operating Experiences Using High Pressure Exhaust Mine Fans

    By John W. Stevenson

    At the No. 4 Mine of Jim Walter Resources in Tuscaloosa County in the North Central part of the State of Alabama, the Mary Lee and Blue Creek coal beds lay 2000 feet below the surface. The quantity of

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    An Analysis Of Wet Grinding Circuit Control Using Inferential Particle Size Measurement

    By S. K. Kawatra

    The use of inferential particle sizing for a closed wet grinding circuit control has been practiced for several years. This paper presents a review of some inferential sizing equations developed for p

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Anatomy Of The Federal Coal Leasing Program ? I. Introduction

    By Brian E. McGee

    The Federal Coal Management Program represents the culmination of several years of effort by the Department of the Interior (001) to reformulate the manner in which coal owned by the United States is

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AIME
    Comparative Evaluation Of Fully Vs Semi Autogenous Grinding Of Fire Lake Iron Ore

    By S. S. Nosseir

    INTRODUCTION General Quebec Cartier Mining Co. (QCM) , Canadian subsidiary of U . S. Steel Corporation, operates two iron ore concentrators at the North Shore of Quebec, Canada. In its own oper

    Jan 1, 1982

  • CIM
    A dry milling process for the production of ground mica

    By Jacque Turgeon, Gontran Foy

    "The Mineral Research Centre of the Quebec Department of Energy and Resources has worked extensively on the development of a dry process to extract pure mica flakes from a phlogopite ore. The liberati

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AIME
    Approaches To Evaluating The Permeability And Porosity Of Fractured Rock Masses

    By Charles R. Wilson, Thomas W. Doe, Jane C. S Long, Howard K. Endo

    An approach to treating flow through fractured rocks is presented which involves (1) determining statistical distributions for fracture area, density, orientation, and aperture from field data, (2) co

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Sublevel Caving at Granduc

    By Ralph S. Mattson, Frederick T. Hancock

    GENERAL DESCRIPTION The Granduc mine is situated on the west side of Granduc Mountain in the Leduc River area of north¬west British Columbia about 51 km (32 miles) north¬east of the town of Stewart.

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME-ICGCM
    Roof Bolt Bond Tester; A Device For Nondestructive Testing Of Grouted Bolts

    By Raymond M. Stateham

    The Bureau of Mines has developed a portable, lightweight device for determining the integrity of resin-grouted roof bolts. The instrument functions by sending a known pulse of ulstrasonic energy into

    Jan 1, 1982

  • CIM
    McGill and Dofasco combine to improve batch anneal potential

    By D. S. Harries, R. I. L. Guthrie

    "The use and development of scientific disciplines involved in heat transfer technology, related in general to steel masses and in particular to batch annealing, is demonstrated.The measurable benefit

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    The Use Of Bromine Chloride For Cyanide Destruction

    By K. O. Groves

    Although chlorine oxidation has been found to be effective in destroying the CN ion, an excess of chlorine is needed to drive the reaction to completion. This often results in the formation of residua

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AUSIMM
    Shaft in Rockburst Zone Cu-Ni Thierry Mine, Canada

    Shaft sinking through an amphibolite-granite rock mass experienced rock bursts on the shaft walls and benches. However, rock burst phenomena was exhibited only in granite, which is e1asto-brittle with

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SAIMM
    Calculations of grade and tonnage for two co-products from a projected South African gold mine

    By E. J. Magri

    Consideration is given to the problem of the estimation, from limited data, of the likely grade and tonnage for a new mining property that is to be exploited by the selective mining of two metals that

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Development Of Circum-Pacific Insular Groundwater Bodies ? Introduction

    By Frank L. Peterson

    This paper deals with problems of groundwater development in an insular circum-Pacific environment, and is not oriented as such to mining and mineral development. Nonetheless, because a reliable water

    Jan 1, 1982

  • CIM
    Regional Geological Setting of Gold Deposits, Eastern Red Lake Area, Northwestern Ontario

    By James Pirie

    "The major Archean gold deposits in the Red Lake greenstone belt, which have produced over 374 million grams of gold since 1930, occur near the top of the lower komatiitic to tholeiitic mafic to ultra

    Jan 1, 1982