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  • AUSIMM
    Paiam - A Plan for a New Sustainable High Altitude Equatorial Town in Papua New Guinea

    Paiam is a new township in the high mountains of Papua New Guinea built in association with the Porgera Joint Venture mine, one of the world's largest and most remote open cut gold mines. The Pai

    Jun 1, 2010

  • SME
    Boring At High Thrust And Its Potential In The Hard-Rock Mining Industry In South Africa

    By J. W. Wilson, P. C. Graham

    SUMMARY The Witwatersrand quartzites in which South African gold mining operations are moat exclusively conducted, are notoriously difficult and costly to drill. Despite this situation, however, wi

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Bench Scale Biochemical Reactor Treatment of Uranium, Radium, and Selenium

    By R. Schipper

    Two bench scale biochemical reactors (BCRs) were operated over a period of 3 months for the removal of uranium, radium, and selenium from mining influenced water (MIW). A BCR is an anaerobic reactor c

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Incorporating Indigenous Technologies Into Enhanced Stormwater, Erosion And Sediment Control Systems

    By R. C. Warner, L. Mills, S. D. Botts, M. Marticorena

    The Antamina Mine is located in the mountainous region of the Ancash Department of Peru at an elevation of approximately 4200m.The 120 km main access road crosses the headwaters of numerous high-value

    Jan 1, 2004

  • IOM3
    Enhancement of dump truck operating efficiency: part 1: method of shovel and truck matching to obtain whole numbers; part 2: optimization of haul-road gradients; part 3: effect of reduced payload

    By I. R. Hanby

    A simple solution to the problem of whether to round the calculated number of trucks up or down to the nearest whole number is to adopt as criterion the minimum cost per unit volume/mass moved, assumi

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SAIMM
    Pneumatic Injection Of Solids Into Pyrometallurgical Processes: Past, Present, And Future

    By J. Kirsch

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, pneumatic transport, pneumatic transport Dense-phase pneumatic injection has begun to replace more traditional furnace-feeding systems. The paper describes the technology

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Magnetic, Gravity and Radiometric Surveys of the Waihi-Waitekauri Region, New Zealand

    By C A. Locke, J Cassidy, J L. Mauk

    The Waihi-Waitekauri region hosts numerous low-sulfidation epithermal deposits that both outcrop and occur at depth. Zones of intense hydrothermal alteration enclose the Au-Ag bearing quartz vein depo

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Problem of Tunnel Construction in Himalayan Region: An Actual Encounter

    By M. D. Khattar

    Problems discussed concern encountering of high temperatures [up to 66°C] and heavy flow of water [150 L.P.S] during the construction of the 10.15 MØH.R.T. for the 2500 MW Nathpa Jhakri Hydro Power Pr

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AIME
    San Francisco Paper - Hardinge Mill Data

    By Arthur F. Taggart

    The following conclusions on the work of the Hardinge mill are based on data furnished to the writer by the Hardinge Conical Mill Co. in the form of the mesh cards hereto appended. Energy units (E. U.

    Jan 1, 1916

  • SME
    Driving the Twin Bore Running Tunnels by Earth Pressure Balance Machine on the Sound Transit C-710 Beacon Hill Station and Tunnels Project

    By Chris Tattersall, Tomyuki Kudo, Peter Raleigh, Nestor Garavelli, Steve Redmond, Michael J. Lehnen

    Twin bore running tunnels driven approximately 4,500 route feet by a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) EPB Tunnel Boring Machine link the West Portal and East Portal on this complex Light Rail Project

    Jan 1, 2007

  • DFI
    Caisson Design And Construction Challenges On The New Tiger Stadium Project - Summary

    By Fritz J. Klingler

    From site demolition, to design, to construction, Detroit's new Tiger Stadium project is required to be completed within a short 2 ½ years from award of the design-build contract. Such extreme sc

    Jan 1, 1999

  • DFI
    25 Story Structure On River Flood Plain Soils Improved By Vibrocompaction And Compaction Grouting

    By Frank Callanan

    The Ameristar Casino expansion project included the design and construction of a 25-story hotel and 9-story parking structure expansion. The site is located in a floodplain on the banks of the Missour

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Chambers Creek Interceptor Sewer Tunnel

    By J. Jeffrey Wagner, Michael J. Bailey, Peter M. Douglass

    The Chambers Creek Interceptor Sewer Tunnel project consisted of 2-1/2 miles (4 kilometres) of nominal 9-foot (2.7-metre) O.D. tunnel driven through predominantly glacially overridden soils. Mole-Coll

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AUSIMM
    Development Aspects of the Golden Cross Project

    Permitting, engineering and evaluation, detailed design and construction aspects of the Golden Cross goldmining project in New Zealand are briefly reviewed. The extremely lengthy and complicated gover

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Groundwater Control for Sydney Tunnels

    By Paul Hewitt, Tim Smirnoff

    Design and construction of the Epping to Chatswood Rail Line tunnels in Sydney, Australia required an innovative approach to define hydrogeological properties of the Sydney Hawkesbury Sandstone and pr

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AIME
    Reservoir Engineering Equipment - A Thermoelectric Device for Measuring Thermal Conductivity of Rock

    By A. M. Khan, I. Fatt

    A new type of steady-state thermal conductivity apparatus is presented and described. Results of measurements on Berea sandstone, Solehofen limestone, Bandera sandstone and Bakelite are presented. The

    Jan 1, 1966

  • AIME
    Institute Committees (35dd4367-35ef-46fd-aa4b-82e230070f42)

    New York Meets first Wednesday after first Tuesday of each month. J. E. JOHNSON, JR., Chairman. EDGAR RICHARD, Vice-Chairman. D. M. LIDDELL, Secretary, 7 Wall St., New York, N. Y. C. A. BOHN, Tr

    Jan 7, 1917

  • NIOSH
    RI 9431 - Development and Testing of a Computer-Assisted Remote-Control System for the Compact Loader-Trammer

    By T. M. Ruff

    A prototype mucking machine designed to operate in narrow-vein stopes was developed by Foster- Miller, Inc., Waltham, MA, under contract with the U.S. Bureau of Mines. The machine, called a compact lo

    Jan 1, 1992

  • ISEE
    Predictability of a High Explosives Shock Tube for Testing Blast Resistant Windows

    By Braden T. Lusk, Shannon P. Lusk, Kyle A. Perry

    A high explosives shock tube has been constructed and developed to test blast resistant windows with pressure versus time waveforms similar to waveforms generated by arena testing. Calibration of the

    Jan 1, 2010

  • NIOSH
    Effects of Platelet Activating Factor on Various Physiological Parameters of Neutrophils, Alveolar Macrophages, and Alveolar Type II Cells

    By D. J. Judy, D. J. Rabovsky, W. H. Pailes, V. Castranova, K. Van Dyke, J. Rabovsky, N. A. Sapola, M. McPeek

    "Platelet activating factor (PAF) can be released from pneumocytes following exposure to occupational dust (Am. Rev. Respir. Dis. 135:83, 1987). In addition, PAF has been shown to induce pulmonary inf

    Jan 1, 1988