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  • NIOSH
    RI 7079 Recovery Of Alumina And Iron From Pacific Northwest Bauxites By The Pedersen Process

    By Oliver C. Fursman

    The Bureau of Mines undertook this investigation in order to determine the feasibility of producing commercially acceptable alumina and iron by application of the Pedersen process to high-silica, high

    Jan 1, 1968

  • NIOSH
    RI 7858 Chemical Analysis of Slickensides From Coal Mine Roof Shale

    By George A. Savanick

    Coal mine roof shales fracture preferentially at slickensided surfaces because of weak or nonexistent adhesion between two slickensided rock surfaces. The purpose of this Bureau of Mines research was

    Jan 1, 1974

  • IOM3
    Sulphur isotope study of Ni-Fe-Cu mineralization in the Shetland ophiolite

    By R. A. Ixer, R. A. Lord, H. M. Prichard, A. J. Boyce, P. McConville, C. T. Pillinger, I. P. Wright, J. Maynard

    Analysis of 62 samples show that the sulphides throughout the igneous stratigraphy have a magmatic signature, with the exception of the uppermost gabbros and the lowermost basal thrust talc-carbonate

    Jun 19, 1905

  • SAIMM
    Defect and mould variable prediction in continuous casting

    By I. K. Craig, F. R. Camisani-Calzolari

    Defects which occur at the surface of a continuously cast slab impede the throughput of final product, because an extra stage in the process is required to grind the defects away before further proces

    Jan 1, 2003

  • NIOSH
    MLA 32-86 - Mineral Resources Of The Little Blitzen Gorge Study Area, Harney County, Oregon ? Summary

    By Thomas J. Peters

    In 1984, at the request of the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Mines studied 7,000 acres of the 9,240-acre Little Blitzen Gorge Wilderness Study Area in Harney County, OR, to evaluate its min

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Improved Selectivity Of Super-Conducting Dry HGMS Of Fine Powders By Vibration

    By Y. Wang, E. Forssberg, A. Johansson, B. Chan

    A super-conducting high gradient magnetic separator with matrix vibration in dry separation mode is a powder purification device, which has been used to remove weakly magnetic impure particles from fi

    Jan 1, 2001

  • NIOSH
    Working in Noise with a Hearing Loss: Perceptions from Workers, Supervisors, and Hearing Conservation Program Managers

    By Robert F. Randolph, Christa L. Themann, Efrem R. Reeves, Thais C. Morata, Babette L. Verbsky, David C. Byrne

    Objective: Workers with hearing loss face special problems, especially when working in noise. How­ever, conventional hearing conservation practices do not distinguish between workers with normal heari

  • DFI
    Site Solutions For The Pisa Tower Remediation - 1 - Introduction

    By Paolo Heiniger

    The aim of this paper is to present the operative solutions devised and then adopted to implement the underexcavation (soil extraction) of the Tower of Pisa, by means of soil extraction. The inter

    Jan 1, 2000

  • NIOSH
    MLA 28-84 - Mineral Investigation Of The Bristol/Granite Mountains Wilderness Study Area (BLM No. CDCA-256), San Bernardino County, California

    By Charles Sabine

    The U.S. Bureau of Mines studied mines and prospects in the Bristol/Granite Mountains Wilderness Study Area (WSA) in 1982. The 45,000 acre WSA, located in the eastern Mojave Desert of California, is u

    Jan 1, 1984

  • NIOSH
    OFR-14-84 Improved Crowd Limit Switches And Greenhorn For Electric Shovels

    By Gary Choate

    The work presented in this report represents the background activity which led to the fabrication and testing of a greenhorn and crowd limit switch system for electric shovels. The program began With

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    The Centenary Of The Discovery Of Platinum In The Bushveld Complex (10 November, 1906)

    By R. G. Cawthorn

    The earliest authenticated scientific report of the occurrence of platinum in rocks from the Bushveld Complex appears to be by William Bettel on 10 November 1906. Thereafter, prospecting of the chromi

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Microphone Height Effects on Blast-Induces Air Overpressure

    By Randall M. Wheeler, Kenneth K. Eltschlager

    Blasting Seismographs use microphones to measure air overpressure from blasting. The microphone height above the ground has been the object of some controversy. The current ISEE “Field Practice Guidel

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Geochemical and Isotopic Constraints for High-Grade Gold Mineralisation at Waitangi Deposit, Thames District, Coromandel Peninsula, North Island, New Zealand

    By S Henderson

    The Thames gold-silver deposits are part of the Hauraki goldfield, situated within the Miocene to Pliocene calc-alkaline Coromandel Volcanic Zone (CVZ). The Waitangi vein system is one of the minerali

    Jan 1, 1993

  • TMS
    Motivating Sustainable Material Use through Industry-Level Simulation Modeling of Platinum Stocks and Flows

    By Elisa Alonso

    Manufacturing firms that rely on finite resources have a stake in ensuring sustainable materials use. Higher material prices and uncertain material supply, consequences associated with scarcity, can b

    Jan 1, 2010

  • NIOSH
    OFR-38-75 Electromagnetic Noise In McElroy Mine

    By M. Kanda

    Two different techniques were used to make measurements of the absolute value of electromagnetic noise in and above an operating coal mine, McElroy Mine, located near Moundsville, West Virginia. The e

    Jan 1, 1974

  • IMPC
    Influence of the Addition of Sr on the Aspect Ratio of Aragonite in Ca(OH)2-CO2-H2O System

    By Seoul National University, Ki-Ho Kim, Jong-Pyo Kim, Sung-Min Joo, Hee-Chan Cho, Hyung-Seok Kim

    Aragonite was synthesized in addition of Mg2+ ion and SrCO3 seed by carbonation process, and the best condition and mechanism of the synthesis was studied by analysis of continuous pH change, ICP, XRD

    Jan 1, 2003

  • IMPC
    Using DEM to Model Ore Breakage within a Pilot Scale Sag Mill

    By Rob D. Morrision, Paul W. Cleary

    "The best accepted method for design of autogenous and semi-autogenous mills is to carry out pilot scale test work using a 1.8 m diameter by 0.6 m long pilot scale test mill. The load in such a mill t

    Jan 1, 2003

  • CIM
    Advancements in Coarse and Fine Particle Flotation

    By M. Fan, M. Mankosa, G. Luttrell

    "Column and other non-conventional flotation approaches continue to provide benefits where conventional flotation processes have exhibited limited success. This is particularly evident with respect to

    Jan 1, 2010

  • DFI
    A New Method of Quality Control for Construction Joints in Diaphragm Walls

    By Nikolaus Schneider

    "Abstract: The combination of failure in joints of diaphragm walls and their exposure to water pressure may have far reaching effects ranging from water leakage to the risk of catastrophic loss of sta

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AIME
    Technical Notes - Flotation of Right- and Left-Hand Quartz Using an Optically Active Collector

    By K. Takahashi, I. Iwasaki

    it is well known1 that racemic mixtures of optical isomers can be separated by passing their solutions through a column packed with r- or 1-quartz powder so that one of the isomers becomes adsorbed se

    Jan 1, 1969