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  • SME
    2009 Permeation Test Results For Grouts Made With Ultrafine Cements

    By Raymond W. Henn

    The 30th annual short course ?Grouting Fundamentals and Current Practice? was held at the Colorado School of Mines, June 22-26, 2009. The field demonstration portion of the course was conducted June 2

    Jan 1, 2009

  • ISEE
    What We Learned While Determining VOD’s in Underground Small Hole Blasting

    By Scott Rosenthal, Kyle Murphy

    This paper discusses the trials and tribulations of obtaining Velocity of Detonation (VOD) readings in small diameter blast holes in an underground mine. Montana Technological University (Montana Tech

  • CIM
    Fugitive Dust Control at Porcupine Joint Venture – Dome Mine

    By John Folinsbee, Brian Danyliw, Tony Y. Chong

    "Control of fugitive dust has become increasingly important in the mining industry both from a health and safety and environmental standpoint. Mining operations in particular have required improved fu

    Jan 1, 2005

  • NIOSH
    IC 8826 Materials Recycling - An Overview Of The Sixth Mineral Waste Utilization Symposium

    This Bureau of Mines report reviews the information presented at the Sixth Mineral Waste Utilization Symposium cosponsored by the Bureau of Mines, U.S. Department of the Interior, and the IIT Research

    Jan 1, 1980

  • CIM
    Application of Passive Sonar Technology to Mineral Processing and Oil Sands Applications “If you can measure it, you can manage it.”

    By Mark Fernald, Christian O’Keefe, John Viega

    "In this presentation, the SONARtrac™ technology platform will be described. CiDRA's proprietary clamp-on, passive sonar array-based flow meter technology performs two independent measurements – flow

    Jan 1, 2007

  • AIME
    Ore Deposits Of The Boulder Batholith Of Montana

    By Paul Billingsley

    THE purpose of this paper is a comparison, based on genesis, of the ore deposits associated with the igneous rocks of the central Montana Rockies. Considered separately, without attention to their ori

    Jan 4, 1917

  • SAIMM
    eForce..Newest generation of electrostatic separator for the minerals sands industry

    By E. Yan

    Electrostatic separation has been a mainstay of minerals sands flowsheets for over 50 years. Recent electrostatic developments have shown better conductor/non-conductor separation than technology prev

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Approximation of Surface Area of Fines in Blast Induced Fragmentation

    Approximation of Surface Area of Fines in Blast Induced Fragmentation The surface area of fragmentation, especially in the finer size fractions, is a useful property to characterise the mechanisms of

    Sep 13, 2010

  • AIME
    Institute of Metals Division - Discussion: Effects of Surface Conditions on the Stress-Strain Curves of Aluminum and Gold Single Crystals

    By I. R. Kramer

    I. R. Kramer (Martin Co.)—In a recent paper Nakada and Chalmers24 reported some observations of effects of surface conditions on the stress-strain curves of aluminum and gold single crystals. It is of

    Jan 1, 1965

  • CIM
    The Role of Flotation in the Recovery of Gold

    By I. Jackman

    "Gold is present in different forms and associations in different ores. Flotation is used to recover gold and minerals associated with gold, but the applicability and type of flotation vary. The purpo

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME-ICGCM
    Stability of Slopes in Discontinuously Jointed Rock (4d3fd7d1-f3a8-44f5-b86c-03d96a9b1123)

    By T. M. Tharp

    Attempts to analyze the stability of slopes, foundations and underground openings in discontinuously jointed rock have generally assumed full joint continuity or ignored the role of stress concentrati

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    Geophysical Characteristics, Deep Structure, Magmatism and Metallogeny of the Pacific Belt

    By L A. Maslov

    We have considered the following characteristics of the crust and upper mantle of the Pacific Belt: seismic wave velocity anomalies, mechanical stress and shear deformation rate fields, heat flow and

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SAIMM
    Towards Benchmarking Of Safety Performance In The Platinum Sector

    By B. Genc

    Safety in South African mines is a subject of significant interest, since many mining companies are experiencing production deficits due to safety-related stoppages. In this paper, safety data from t

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME-ICGCM
    Application of Electrohydrodynamic Method and High-Pressure Water Jets as Non-Blasting Alternative of Rock Breaking and Splitting in Open Pits

    By Krzysztof Kotwica

    The steady demand for rock materials leads not only to on increase in mining but to the need for decreasing the loss of material in the process of exploitation as well. It brings about an increase in

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Stabilization Of Organic Soil With The Limix System

    By Magnus Ruin

    The dry deep mixing method for stabilization of soft soil has been used in the Scandinavian countries for 25 years. The typical application has been stabilization of soft inorganic clay. Today the met

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Auxiliary ventilation design – why and how mines waste so much power on inferior systems

    By D J. Brake

    There has been a strong trend over the past decade in hard rock mines towards the use of very high powered auxiliary (or secondary) fans; in many mines, the installed power for the secondary ventilati

    Aug 28, 2017

  • NIOSH
    RI 3930 Exploration of Vanadium Region of Western CO and Eastern UT

    By W. P. Huleatt, Jr. Traver, Jr. Hazen

    "Vanadium and uranium occur widely distributed throughout western Colorado and eastern Utah, and a few deposits have been found in northeastern Arizona and northwestern. New Mexico. The area in which

    Sep 1, 1946

  • IOM3
    Limits of explosibillity of mixtures of coal dust and methane

    By P. Golledge, A. D. S. Gillies

    An investigation has been carried on samples of three Queensland coal dusts to determine the potential explosibility of dust-gas mixtures. The explosion potential of the samples was classified by the

    Jun 19, 1905

  • SME
    Developments in real time personal diesel particulate monitoring in mines

    Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) issues are very high profile currently in both Australian coal and metal mines and Australian states are generally moving to acknowledge and to broadly follow US 2008 f

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AIME
    Chicago the Mecca for Engineers, June 26-30

    By AIME AIME

    PLANS are now well advanced for the joint meeting of the Institute and over a dozen other engineering societies in Chicago during the week beginning June 26: Engineers' Week at A Century of Progr

    Jan 1, 1933