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  • SAIMM
    Reaction Mechanisms Of Charcoal And Coke In The Silicon Process

    By H. Tveit, E. H. Myrhaug, J. K. Tuset

    Silicon metal as a commodity material is produced by carbothermic reduction of quartz in electric submerged arc furnaces, where CO2 forms as a by-product. Since 1997 the Norwegian Ferroalloy Producers

    Jan 1, 2004

  • ISEE
    Quake, Quarry, or Quack

    By Dominic Orf, Gregory Poole

    On December 12, 2018 at 4:14 AM EST, an earthquake registering a 4.4 magnitude on the Richter Scale occurred in central Tennessee. According to a survey posted on the USGS website, this earthquake was

  • SAIMM
    SRC rock mass classification applied to tunnels under high tectonic stress

    By L. I. Gonzalez de Vallejo

    SRC rockmass classification have been applied to 25 tunnels in Spain and Italy, for which it was found that much heavier supports than those estimated by the RMR index were required. SRC and RMR indi

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Utilizing Strain Criteria to Predict Highwall Stability Performance

    By H. Warren Newcomen

    Assessments of the stability performance of open pit highwalls have traditionally been based on consideration of surface movement rates. Although generally accepted in industry, this approach presents

    May 1, 2004

  • CIM
    POWERPLAY - Realizing Savings Through Energy Management

    By Andy Lemay

    Vale (previously known as CVRD) is: ? The second-largest mining company by market capitalization (NYSE:RIO) ? Headquartered in Brazil ? Global workforce of over 100,000 employees including outsourc

    May 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Boring a Slime Dam

    By Met B

    IN the followmg paper an account is given of work performed by the author for the purpose of sampling a slime dam on the leases of the North Mount Farrell Co. N.L., at Tullah, Tasmania, during the sum

    Jan 1, 1928

  • AUSIMM
    Operating Experience with Gasification Plant, Morwell

    Yallourn brown coal and its characteristics have been the subject of innumerable papers and discussions. The Lurgi process adopted for the production of Towns gas by the gasification of brown coal has

    Jan 1, 1960

  • NIOSH
    OFR-162(2)-81 Interactive Mine-Power-System Analysis - User's Manual

    By Richard A. Rivell

    This document is a users manual intended as a reference for personnel interested in the analysis of coal-mine-electrical-power systems under either normal operating conditions or fault situations. The

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SAIMM
    Immediate Ground Support, After Development Or Stope Face Exposure, Can Prevent Falls Of Ground.

    By B Vorster

    Falls of Ground is one of the highest causes of incidents, accidents and fatal injuries in our mines today. These falls of ground may occur as soon as the face is exposed after blasting or after m

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SAIMM
    Design and construction of tunnel portals under difficult geotechnical conditions

    By R. M. Spang

    Abstract Between the German city of Dresden and the Czech capital Prague a 4-lane highway is under con-struction. At the outskirts of Dresden it will cross the narrow and deeply eroded Weißeritz V

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Full NAT 2024 Proceedings - NAT2024

    By SME SME

    NORTH AMERICAN TUNNELING 2024 PROCEEDINGS

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    Rate Phenomena In Uranium Extraction By Amines

    By Charles F. Coleman

    Kinetics studies and other rate measurements are reviewed in the amine extraction of uranium and of some other related and associated metal ions. Equilibration' is relatively fast in the uranium

    Jan 1, 1979

  • AUSIMM
    New Directions - Old Ideas Hydrocarbon Prospects of the Strzelecki Group Onshore Gippsland Basin

    By McNicol M. D

    Petroleum exploration in onshore Gippsland was directed in the 1950s and 1960s towards plays in the basal Latrobe and Strzelecki Groups, but these became forgotten in the 1970s with the Latrobe play

    Jan 1, 1992

  • CIM
    Expansion of Uranium Milling at Denison Mines Limited

    By E. LaRocque

    "Long term contracts requiring delivery of 6,000,000 pounds of U308 per year to its customers have made it necessary for Denison Mines to expand its milling capacity from 7,100 tons per day to 15,000

    Jan 1, 1982

  • IOM3
    Development of seismic risk assessment method for application to rockburst-prone sites in deep-level South African gold mines

    By R. D. Stewart

    Paper presented at the conference: Risk assessment in the extractive industries, held in Exeter, UK, 23-24 March 1994, and first published London: IMM, 1994, preprint volume, 18pp., 5 refs. A seismic

    Aug 1, 1995

  • AUSIMM
    Coal Research in New Zealand - Exploration to Utilisation: Making Applied Links in the Energy and Coal Industries

    By A H. Clemens, T A. Moore

    This paper discusses a number of technical issues related to marketing coal. It outlines how the results of research undertaken in New Zealand and overseas can help producers address a range of techni

    Jan 1, 1997

  • IOM3
    Numerical modelling for underground excavation design

    By M. W. Grabinsky, M. S. Diederichs, E. Hoek

    Provided that they are used correctly, numerical models can be of considerable assistance to mining engineers in designing underground excavations. Guidance is given to the engineer or geologist who i

    Jan 1, 1991

  • IOM3
    Development of Schytill and Geldart diagrams for determining the fluidization conditions for chlorination of anatase-charcoal mixtures

    By R Adamian, F. T. Da Silva, D. H. Gameiro

    Schytill and Geldart diagrams were developed for the TiO2-C-Cl2 system at 1 073 and 1 273 K, so as to define the hypothetical relations between particle sizes and chlorine velocity for simultaneous fl

    Jun 21, 1905

  • AUSIMM
    Notes on the Geology of the Pinnacles Mine and District

    A homely simile will serve to epitomise an interpretation of the rock structures and associated phenomena of the block of country under review, as it appears to the writer.Disregarding the many thousa

    Jan 1, 1927

  • SAIMM
    Modeling of factors influencing the extent of mud infiltration in a fractured rock mass

    By C. Tan, C. Detournay

    Wellbore stability is a major concern for drilling in naturally fractured formations. The infiltration of drilling mud into the fractures is a factor, which may compromise wellbore integrity due to t

    Jan 1, 2003