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  • NIOSH
    Hearing Loss in the Mining Industry: Overview of the NIOSH Hearing Loss Prevention Program at the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory

    By R. J. Matetic

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has recognized that Noise-Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) is the most common occupational illness in the United States. The use of heavy e

  • AUSIMM
    Metso SmartTag - The Next Generation and Beyond

    By K J. Riihioja, E Nozawa

    SmartTag is a radio frequency identification (RFID) based technology designed to allow tracking of ore from its source through blasting, run-of-mine (ROM) pads, crushers, intermediate stockpiles and f

    Sep 26, 2011

  • SME
    Quantitative Mineralogical Study Of Ore Domains At Bingham Canyon, Utah, USA ? Introduction - Preprint 09-108

    This geometallurgical study examines the gangue mineral variability at the Bingham Canyon porphyry copper mine in Utah. Understanding an orebody?s mineralogy is important for mine and mill planning be

    Jan 1, 2009

  • NIOSH
    Mine Fire Detection Under Zero Airflow Conditions

    By John C. Edwards, Gene F. Friel, John J. Opferman, Robert A. Franks

    A series of diesel fuel fire experiments were conducted in the Pittsburgh Research Center's Safety Research Coal Mine (SRCM) to determine products-of-combustion (POC) spread rates along a single

  • NIOSH
    RI 2212 The Work of the Ceramic Station of the Bureau of Mines at Columbus, Ohio, in Behalf of the Ceramic IndustryThe Work of the Ceramic Station of the Bureau of Mines at Columbus, Ohio, in Behalf of the Ceramic Industry"

    By Dorsey A. Lyon

    "The ceramic industry of the United States has a total yearly manufactured product of nearly half a billion dollars, despite large foreign importation.After careful investigation of the industry by th

    Feb 1, 1921

  • AIME
    Plastic Deformation Of A Zinc Single Crystal

    By Samuel Hoyt

    This paper gives a short account of plastic deformation as observed in single crystals of zinc, zinc having been selected for the experiments described herein because the phenomena are comparatively s

    Jan 1, 1927

  • IIMP
    Ejecución de chimeneas con el sistema PEM

    By Adelino Taipe Rosales

    El presente texto describe el uso del sistema PEM (Plataformas y escaleras metálicas) como método empleado en la construcción de chimeneas de la minería subterránea. Este sistema ofrece mayor perform

    Jul 31, 2003

  • AIME
    Library (9f98f550-8fb8-480f-a2c7-6d257b057724)

    The Library of the above-named Societies is open from 9 A.M. to 10 P.M. on all. week-days, except holidays, from Sept. 1 to June 30; and from 9 A.M. to 6 P.M. during July and August. The Library conta

    Jan 9, 1916

  • SME
    Use Of Available And Emerging Methods For Location Of Air And Water Filled Cavities In Mines – Status Report On MSHA Demonstration Projects

    By Kelvin K. Wu, George H. Gardner

    On July 24, 2002, a nonfatal entrapment accident occurred at the Quecreek #1 Mine, Black Wolf Coal Company, when an active mining section inadvertently cut into a flooded abandoned mine. This inciden

    Jan 1, 2005

  • NIOSH
    IC 9012 Cobalt Availability - Market Economy Countries - A Minerals Availability Program Appraisal

    By C. P. Mishra

    The Bureau of Mines performed a study of the availability of cobalt from market economy countries. The study entailed the detailed analysis of 97 deposits which contain 3.9 billion lb of cobalt at the

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SAIMM
    Economic Considerations In The Use Of Rubber Tyres In Mechanized Deep-Level Mining

    By R. H. C. Andrew

    With the advent in recent years qf mechanization in deep-level gold and platinum mines, large quantities of rubber was are being used on both production and support vehicles. Conditions in these types

    Jan 1, 1994

  • AIME
    Field Site Data Processing: A High-Frequency Radio Communication Link Between Field Camp and Computer (ac98e92f-b207-4f1c-a324-3c8b6d940267)

    By Joseph Moses Botbol

    This study was designed to demonstrate the viability of using high-frequency radio transmission as a means of communications between a remote field camp and a time- sharing computer system. A field ca

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    A Two Stage Flotation Process for Reducing MgO in a Fine Phosphate Process Stream

    By Ross W. Smith, Xiapeng Zheng, Merrill P. Allen

    The results of flotation of a primary desliming hydrosizer overflow material containing 14.6 wt.% P20, and 3.6 wt.% MgO are presented. The phosphate minerals were collophane and francolite and all min

    Jan 1, 2002

  • NIOSH
    IC 6409 Accident Prevention in Coal Mining

    By Q. H. Forbes

    "The high injury rand fatality rate in coal mining, as compared with other industries, has caused the mining industry to become more and more interested in accident prevention methods.The prevention o

    Dec 1, 1930

  • NIOSH
    IC 6487 A New Signaling Device For Shaft Mines - Description Of Signaling Systems

    By L. D. Stewart

    The main reasons for developing an induction system for signaling from the cage are, first, to increase safety, and second, to effect economies in the operation of cage and ship hoists, especially whe

    Jan 1, 1931

  • CIM
    A New Paipote Process of Continuous Fire Refining of Copper

    By G. Riveros

    A new, continuous fire refining process for copper has been developed and tested at the 5 tph pilot scale. During oxidation, the blister copper flows through a packed bed of crushed refractory bricks

    Jan 1, 2007

  • NIOSH
    RI 9107 - A Photographic Method for Determining Mineral Reflectances in Underground Mines

    By Alan G. Mayton

    The Bureau of Mines conducted a study to (1) determine from laboratory tests the feasibility of a photographic method for determining reflec-tances that may be applied to measuring in-mine mineral ref

    Jan 1, 1987

  • ISEE
    The Spare Technology of Hard Stone Blocks Cut by Using the Low Brisance Explosives

    By A N: Zditovetsky Shishov, M G. Menzhulin

    At present in a building industry demand for products from granite, gabbro and other rocks, steady to erosion, natural and chemical weathering, was essentially increased. It has caused the enlargement

    Jan 1, 1996

  • AIME
    Technical Notes - A Note on the Skin Effect

    By Murray F. Hawkins

    Horner1 and van Everdingen8 ave shown that the pressure drop within the wellbore, as a result of having produced the well at a constant rate q for time t, where t is sufficiently large, is: van Eve

    Jan 1, 1957

  • AIME