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  • CIM
    Adjunct Chemical Dust Control Strategies for High Tonnage Mining Operations

    By Brian Danyliw

    "Dust control is an increasingly important consideration for all mining operations from a health, safety, environmental and maintenance perspective. Modern mining operations incorporate a variety of m

    Jan 1, 2015

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - Mechanical Properties of Stainless Steel Powder - Discussion

    By George A. Roberts, Arthur H. Grobe

    H. H. Hausner (Sylvania Electric Products Inc., Bayside, N. Y.)—I tested the 18-8 stainless steel powder described by Grobe and Roberts and the results were excellent. The powder was compacted and sin

    Jan 1, 1952

  • SME
    Exposure To Airborne Amphibole Structures And Health Risks: Libby, Montana

    By Bertram Price

    Libby, Montana is the site of a large vermiculite deposit that was mined between 1920 and 1990 to extract vermiculite for commercial applications such as insulation, gardening products, and constructi

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    What Is The Best Energy-Delivery System For Hand-Held Stope Drilling And Associated Equipment In Narrow-Reef Hard Rock Mines? ? Synopsis

    By P. J. Petit

    Changing mining conditions, legislative issues, rising costs, and the constrained supply of skills and electricity in South Africa, have been some of the criteria forcing mine operators and engineers

    Jan 1, 2013

  • CIM
    Galvanizing plant trial using the nickel-zinc process

    By C. J. Allen, L. Battiston

    "Introduction It has long been recognized by the hot-dip galvanizing industry that the characteristics of the galvanized coating can be influenced significantly by steel and pro cessing variables. Pro

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    The Use and Abuse of Feasibility Studies

    By N Cusworth

    The development of a resource project inevitably requires the investigation of a vast range of issues across most engineering disciplines û mining, metallurgical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanic

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Morphology and Mineralogy of Shallow Submarine Hydrothermal Vents of the Calypso Geothermal Field, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

    The Calypso geothermal field, mapped by the R V Sonne (cruise SO-135) in 1998, includes four main sites, the Northern Vent Area (centred on 37¦ 36.7'S, 177¦ 06.2'E, area 1.5 km2), Central Ve

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Improving the Gold Gravity Performance: an Investigation into the Laboratory and Plant Gravity Recoveries

    By Sunil Koppalkar, Guillaume Noel, Ahmed Bouajila, Makni Sami, Claude Gagnon

    "Gold gravity recovery circuits utilizing enhanced gravity separators have become an integral part of many of the modern gold processing plants. Thus, efforts to improve the operating efficiency have

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Experimental Shaft Machine for Nuclear Waste Disposal

    By Dennis Ofiara, Michael Lewis

    An experimental 1.75 meter Shaft Boring Machine was designed and manufactured by The Robbins Company. The drill was used by contractor Drillcon Raise AB to drill test shafts at an SKB underground test

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Performance Of The Lorraine Mine Site Cover To Limit Oxygen Migration

    By Bruno Bussière, Michel Aubertin, Anne-Marie Dagenais, Johanne Cyr

    A five steps remediation program was commissioned in 1998 for the acid generating Lorraine mine site, located in the Témiscamingue region, Quebec, Canada. It included, as the main expenditure, a cover

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Risk Ranking In Tunneling Projects With Fuzzy Electre Method

    By A. Yazadni-Chamzini

    Risk ranking of projects is one of the importance parts of the complicated risk management procedure. Recognizing the riskiest criteria enable the managers to plan for risk reduction. The first stage

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 185 Pennsylvania Mining Statutes Annotated

    By J. W. Thompson

    That the governor is hereby authorized to appoint a commission of seven persons, to be known as the industrial accidents commission-two of whom shall be employers of labor, two of whom shall be employ

    Jan 1, 1920

  • DFI
    Sonic Drilling Offers Quality Control And Non-Destructive Advantages To Geotechnical And Construction Drilling On Sensitive Infrastructure Sites

    By John P. Davis

    The use of conventional, circulatory air rotary and fluid rotary, cased and uncased drilling methods in the vicinity of sensitive infrastructure can have deleterious effects on the ground conditions s

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Instrumented Load Tests On Closed-And Open-Ended Piles

    By Junhwan Lee

    Pipe piles can be either closed- or open-ended piles. Pile load capacity for a closed-ended pile consists of the shaft and base resistances, while, for an open-ended pile, it consists of shaft, soil p

    Jan 1, 2003

  • NIOSH
    IC 9490 - Job Training Analysis: A Process For Quickly Developing A Roadmap For Teaching And Evaluating Job Skills

    By James M. Baugher, Donald W. Conrad, William J. Wiehagen

    This report describes a process for quickly developing information that is useful for skills training. The process is called job training analysis (JTA). Its main use is to structure skills training

    Jan 8, 2006

  • AIME
    Washington Survey - The Productivity Dilemma

    By Freeman Bishop

    More than a few discussions are taking place these days among management economists seeking a way out of the dilemma of lower productivity vs. higher labor costs. Most suggestions would be illegal und

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SAIMM
    Trends in Productivity in the South African Gold Mining Industry

    By T. Tholana, P. N. Neingo

    "Mining companies globally are currently facing severe economic and financial challenges. In addition to global challenges, the South African mining industry has to face other operational challenges t

    Jan 1, 2016

  • NIOSH
    OFR-82(2)-75 Probe Drill Guidance System - Volume 2 - Appendix A - Computer Program

    By Llewellyn A. Rubin

    ROUTINES AND SUBROUTINES A- 1 Wait Loop (Wait) A- 2 Receiver Processing (RCVP) A- 3 Control Panel Sequence (CPNL) A-4 Interrupt Routine (INTRP) A- 5 Math Processing Routine (PROC) A-6 Input

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    Subsidence Potential In The Eastern Kentucky Coal Field

    By C. A. Johnson, K. F. Unrug

    The identification of the major subsidence areas in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Field has been made to distinguish the subsidence phenomena on the basis of geographical location. Further, this identific

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Mine Planning Software Models Empire Mine Ore

    By Allan E. Koski

    Ceveland-Cliffs uses a specialized software package in mine planning at the Empire Mine, an iron ore mine it manages on Michigan’s Marquette Iron Range. The application puts together years of mining

    Jan 1, 2000