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  • SME
    Session 5: Assessment Of Health Risk Associated With Exposure To Nonasbestiform Amphiboles Including Ingestion Studies: Rapporteus?s Report

    Paper 1: Risk of gastrointestinal cancers from inhalation and ingestion of asbestos, John F. Gamble Selikoff suggested the hypothesis that asbestos exposure is causally associated with increased

    Jan 1, 2007

  • NIOSH
    OFR-135-77 Multilift Longwall Mining Methods For Thick Coal Design And Feasibility

    By John Wilson

    This report describes the performance of Phase I of a project to design, analyze, and demonstrate a multilift longwall mining method applicable to mining coal seams twelve (12) feet or more in thickne

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Innovative Precipitation-Flocculation Process for Treating Turbid Waters from Gualaxo do Norte River, Brazil Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By H. A. Oliveira, A. Azevedo

    Physical and chemical characterization and solid/liquid separation of turbid waters from a river affected by an iron tailing rupture disaster (Gualaxo do Norte River, Brazil) were studied at bench sca

  • SME
    Innovative Precipitation-Flocculation Process for Treating Turbid Waters from Gualaxo do Norte River, Brazil Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (9ea0be5c-dee1-4a93-a1ee-3cfd2aa5bfaf)

    By H. A. Oliveira, A. Azevedo

    Physical and chemical characterization and solid/liquid separation of turbid waters from a river affected by an iron tailing rupture disaster (Gualaxo do Norte River, Brazil) were studied at bench sca

  • SME
    Development Of A Methodology That Integrates Environmental And Social Variables In The Investment Decision Process For Mining Projects

    By J. A. Botín

    In modern mining, the core of mine planning and design is the block model, a simplified representation wherein the ore deposit is divided in a number of virtual rock cubes, each characterized by techn

    Feb 27, 2013

  • CIM
    Optimizing performance of AG/SAG mills – A design approach

    By Sanjeeva Latchireddi, Travis Orser

    "Today’s high capacity semiautogenous grinding (SAG) mills expend vast amounts of energy and in doing so consume tons of shell liners and steel balls, while processing ore. The energy efficiency of th

    Jan 1, 2005

  • NIOSH
    IC 7348 European Shale-Treating Practice ? Introduction

    By William W. Odell

    In Europe and in certain other foreign countries studies have been made, extending over a period of years, relating to the winning of oil from oil shale. More work has been done in these countries tha

    Jan 1, 1946

  • CIM
    Hydraulic Fill Research at James Cook University in the new Millennium

    By K. Pirapakaran

    The Geotechnical Engineering research group at James Cook University has been working closely with all the leading mines in Australia in the area of minefills. They have carried out substantial resear

    May 1, 2007

  • SME
    Haul Truck Safety And Virtual Environments Training

    By A. Schaum

    On average, there are approximately 10 fatal haul truck accidents per year. The most common causes for haul truck accidents include mechanical problems, inadequate training and insufficient road/berm

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    North American Tunneling Conference Drives Value

    The theme of the 2012 North American Tunneling conference (NAT) was ?Tunneling: Driving Value.? This theme best reflects where the tunneling and underground construction industry is to-day. Major ad

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    The Potential of Lithium: Peruvian Case - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By Alexander Darío Huamán Ccorahua, Cayo Fernando Soto Buendía, Jhonatan Raphael Rojas Ventura

    Lithium is a top-quality mineral in the energy market, with growing demand. It has many applications in medical, nuclear, and energy industries. The purpose of this article is to quantify and analyze

    Feb 1, 2024

  • SME
    Annual Review 2001 – The United States 2001

    By R. F. Balazik

    By March 2001, shrinking global markets, reduced consumer spending and declines in domestic manufacturing and industrial output ended the longest economic expansion in US history and pushed the nation

    Jan 1, 2002

  • IOM3
    River diversions at Aredor mine, Guinea, West Africa

    The Aredor mine employs conventional dragline methods to exploit alluvial diamond deposits. Production began in 1984 with the policy of mining in the terrraces during the wet season and in the river f

    Sep 1, 1991

  • SME
    Optimum Sublevel Height and Drift Spacing in Sublevel Cave Mining Based on Random Medium Theory Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (6ee2c5d0-4d40-4945-8e70-9bbd8477aa28)

    By Fengyu Ren, Ruslan Puscasu, Kunpeng Yu, Gideon Chitombo, Liangliang Kang

    Weak rock mass and poor flow of material can cause excessive ore loss and dilution in sublevel caving. This paper proposes a method to establish design parameters for an inclined deposit within a weak

  • CIM
    Formability Improvment for AZ31 Magnesium Alloy Rolled at Wide Range of Rolling Speed and Reductions COM 2014 - 53rd Annual Conference of Metallurgists

    By H. Utsunomiya, J. Su, K. S. Tamimi, S. Yue, M. Sanjari, L. Kestens, Hara, A. S. Kabir, R. Petrov

    Manufacturing of thin sheet is difficult in industries. Some approaches, such as small-draft multi-pass rolling, intermediate annealing, isothermal rolling and high-speed rolling were proposed to over

    Jan 1, 2014

  • NIOSH
    Mining And Quarrying Trends In The Metals And Industrial Minerals Industries

    By Arnold O. Tanner

    Tables based on 1985 data, which were not available in time for publication of the "1985 Minerals Yearbook," are included in this chapter; corresponding tables for 1986 are not yet available. Raw nonf

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SAIMM
    Shaft Sinking Scheduling/Planning - Introduction (545beb62-d4f4-42b2-aefa-514c1419aba6)

    By P. N. Lategan

    Mining companies are challenged with increased difficulty in delivering capital projects on schedule and within budget. In 2005, PricewaterhouseCoopers global review of major capital projects in the m

    Jan 1, 2009

  • IIMP
    Prospección, exploración y desarrollo del yacimiento de Cuajone

    By Oscar Concha

    El presente texto describe la exploración, geología, controles estructurales, mineralización y los tipos de alteración hidrotermal del yacimiento minero Cuajone, situado al sur de la Cordillera Occide

    Apr 26, 1999

  • ISEE
    A Case Study Applying the Multiple Blasthole Fragmentation Model (MBF) at an Open Pit Mine

    By C. McAllister, D. Preece, J. Berendzen

    The Multiple Blasthole Fragmentation (MBF) model was developed recently and has been reported in previous papers. The MBF model accepts inputs from the blast design, such as: location and orientation

    Jan 1, 2016

  • NIOSH
    Minerals In The U.S. Economy: Ten-Year Supply-Demand Profiles For Mineral And Fuel Commodities (1966-75) - U.S. Minerals Supply/Demand Flow Diagrams And Tables

    The accompanying supply/demand flow diagrams and 10-year tables for mineral and fuel commodities present essential data required by government, industry, and others to formulate policies and programs

    Jan 1, 2012