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  • SME
    Caterpillar’s MINExpo Exhibit Includes a Day at Tinaja Hills

    By Steve Kral

    MINExpo INTERNATIONL 2000 was a good place for companies to introduce new products, technologies and services to the mining industry. Caterpillar took that a step further. The company hosted a one-da

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Extension Of The Geoscience Matrix Method Of Property Valuation To Industrial Minerals

    By D. M. Abbott, H. J. Sandri

    The geoscience matrix method has proven useful for valuing metallic mineral properties lacking delineated mineral resources or reserves. However, the method explicitly excludes commodity markets from

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    The Geita and Kukuluma Mineralised Trends, Lake Victoria Goldfield, Tanzania ù Orebody Characteristics and Project Planning

    By M Skead, H Michael, R Chase, A Davidson

    Ashanti Goldfields CompanyÆs (AshantiÆs) most recent development is the Geita Project in the Lake Victoria Goldfield of NW Tanzania. It comprises six distinct gold deposits within two mineralised tren

    Jan 1, 2000

  • TMS
    Surface Conditioning of ABS for Metallization - A Study on Cleaner Processes

    By Marcela C. Santini, Luiz A. Teixeira

    "Surface conditioning (also referred as etching) of plastics prior to metallization is generally conducted with sulfuric I chromic acid solutions. Although these baths perform well technically, the pr

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME-ICGCM
    Potential Problems Related To Mining Under Or Adjacent To Flooded Workings

    By Stanley J. Michalek

    Good planning is critical to operating a safe and efficient mining operation. As the shallow coal scams become depleted, attention turns toward deeper mineable seams or remnant coal reserves. It is be

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Non-Acidic, Sulfate-Poor, Copper-Enriched Drainage from a Precambrian Stratabound Chalcopyrite/Pyrite Deposit, Carbon County, Wyoming

    By Ron L. Schmiermund

    The Ferris-Haggarty underground mine was abandoned circa 1910, and portal discharge has since resulted in degradation of a trout fishery in the receiving waters of Haggarty Creek. Although tunnel disc

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Measuring attitudes to improve mine safety

    By S. Mason

    Many organizations are realizing that continual improvement in health and safety relies on addressing the potential for various forms of human error. Of these, rule violations are often the most frequ

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME-ICGCM
    Advancements In Reflective Seismic Tomography For The Location Of Old Works And Characterization Of Structural Anomalies Impacting Underground Developments

    By David R. Hanson

    Seismic tomographic imaging, based on the same principles as a medical CAT Scan (Computer-Aided-Tomography). has been used for many years in the oil industry for large-scale subsurface stratigraphic c

    Jan 1, 2000

  • TMS
    Kinetic Studies of Tank Degassing

    By G. A. Irons, D. Guo, D. Angheiina

    To produce low-carbon (<30 ppm) steel in the tank degassing process, a ladle of steel with an oxidizing slag is placed in a vacuum tank equipped with bottom bubbling. The kinetics of this process are

    Jan 1, 2000

  • TMS
    Recycling of Mobile Phone Batteries Using the Ausmelt Catalytic Waste Converter

    By J. Fogarty, J. Sofra

    The mobile telecommunications sector is one of the fastest growing industries worldwide. However, increasingly stringent environmental regulations are placing pressure on manufacturers to accept respo

    Jan 1, 2000

  • TMS
    The preparation and Characterization of Boron-Carbon-Nitrogen Nanotubes by dc Arc Plasma

    By Takayuki Watanabe, Yoshiki Shimizu, Yusuke Moriyoshi

    "B-C-N nanotubes prepared by a flush evaporation method using a de arc plasma were mainly characterized by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and electron energy· loss spectroscopy (EELS). The nan

    Jan 1, 2000

  • TMS
    A New Technology for Production of Two Component Composite Powders with Solvent Extraction-Crystallization Stripping

    By Hideki Yamamoto, Shigeno Matsumoto, Junji Shibata

    "Some fundamental studies were carried out in order to produce composite powders comprising of two or three metal oxides ~y using liquid-liquid extraction and to develop the control technology of the

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Investigating the effects of charge components on metallic chromium production via the aluminothermic route with no external energy

    By G. Orhan, C. Arslan

    The possibility of producing metallic chromium from Cr2O3 via the aluminothermic route, with no external energy supply, was the subject of this laboratory-scale research. The experimental study focuse

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Industrial Ecology and Metal Production

    As the worldÆs population and global standard of living increase, the role of metals in the economy will not diminish in the 21st century, despite substitution and dematerialisation trends. Industrial

    Jan 1, 2000

  • TMS
    The Fracture Toughness of Cold Work Tool Steels

    By E. A. Werner, W. Liebfahrt, J. Blaha

    "The influence of the composition and the microstructure on the plane strain fracture toughness of five cold work tool steels all processed via the powder metallurgical route is investigated using 3-p

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Forecast of Ore Recovery in the Bulk Caving System

    This paper quotes the results of many years of experiments and observations concerning ore drawing from mining blocks in major ore deposits mined by bulk induced caving of ore and country rock. Numero

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Reduction of silica from complex calcite ore for use in seawater magnesia production

    By S. R. S. Sastri, D. K. Senguta, S. K. Bhaumik, G. V. Rao

    The amenability of a calcite-bearing ore to the reduction of silica to below 0.2% by physical beneficiation was studied. The objective was to use the ore as a raw material for seawater magnesia produc

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Failure and downtime reporting — A key to improve mine equipment performance

    By J. Paraszczak

    High productivity of the equipment employed is one of the key factors in reducing production cost in mining. One of the best ways to achieve it is an increase in availability. In order to identify the

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Finding More Ore, Further From the Drill Hole, With DHMMR

    By R Lewis

    Drill hole magnetometric resistivity (DHMMR) is a relatively recent addition to the explorationistsÆ suite of techniques for finding further resources in the vicinity of a drill hole. The method relie

    Jan 1, 2000

  • TMS
    Application of Equal Channel Angular Extrusion to the Control of Microstructure in Stainless Steels

    By T. Asahina, M. Nakamura, M. Mabuchi, I. Shigematsu, M. Nakanishi, G. Yamauchi

    "Commercial stainless steels (SUS304L and SUS430) were subjected to equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) at room temperature to a total strain of 2.3 to 9.2. For each type of stainless steel, it was

    Jan 1, 2000