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  • SME
    Mining Company of the Future;Anglo American CEO Joins Group to Open Discussion

    By William Gleason

    The mining industry is at a crossroads. Currently, there is an estimated $25 billion worth of projects around the world that have been stopped as the consequence of a dispute or disagreement with thei

  • NIOSH
    OFR-54-81 Improving Surface Coal Refuse Disposal Site Inspections

    By R. A. Meister

    The study on improving surface coat refuse disposal site inspections included surface inspections of 15 refuse disposal sites. Monthly aerial photos were taken of the sites and computer methods were u

    Jan 1, 1980

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 212 Analytical Methods for Certain Metals

    By J. P. BONARDI, C. W. Davis, R. B. Moore, J. W. MARDEN, S. C. Lind, J. E. Conley

    The rare metals are becoming increasingly important to our industries. Rare-metal alloys have properties which indicate that we are only on the threshold of the possibilities of their utilization, not

    Jan 1, 1923

  • IIMP
    Waelz process decarbonization using charcoal briquettes

    By Henrique Hipolito, Caio Alves

    Waelz process is a method applied in the zinc oxide production and is one of the largest sources of carbon emissions within the zinc industry. The solid carbon used for heating and for reduction react

    Sep 29, 2023

  • IIMP
    Algorith Development and implementation for georeferenced particle size distribution (PSD) data

    By Javier Illanes, Maurice Moore, Felipe Moroni, Rafael Acosta

    Any organization that subjects its activities to a continuous improvement process must be able to adequately measure the results of the implemented changes in order to pursue better results over time.

    Sep 30, 2022

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 118 Abrstracts of Current Decisions on Mines and Mining

    By J. W. Thompson

    A contract stipUlating for the delivery of quantities of phosphate rock" f. o. b. mines," and stipUlating that" while this contract is in form an absolute sale for a fixed quantity in each year, it is

    Jan 1, 1916

  • CIM
    Techno-economic evaluation of thiosalt treatment processes

    By K. G. Wheeland, J. E. Dutrizac, M. Wasserlauf, A. A. Condy

    Numerous processes for the treatment of thiosalts in base metal milling effluents have been examined in the past decade. Flowsheets for thirteen processes are outlined, and cost estimates are presente

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Sulfide Tailings as Potential Secondary Sources of Critical Minerals: Tellurium - SME Annual Meeting 2024

    By Lana Alagha, Fardis Nakhaei, Jose L. Corchado-Albelo, Noelia Munoz-Garcia, Michèle Heitz

    Sulfide tailings from past and present mining activities are important hosts of critical elements and precious metals. This review paper presented a literature survey on the recovery practices of some

    Feb 1, 2024

  • CIM
    Red Herrings on the Path of Technology Development: Capital Destruction in the Pursuit of a Bad Idea

    By L. M. Southwick

    "The history of extractive metallurgy is replete with examples of commercializing new processing technologies. The successes are widely reported, but failures seldom are. This is unfortunate, for usua

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    Review Of Mining Technology (1dc40e31-63f9-4092-a148-2e045745fedc)

    By James E. Hill

    Tremendous improvements in mining technology have been witnessed during the past 100 years. For example, before 1860 all blastholes were drilled manually and blasting was done with low-energy black-po

    Jan 1, 1966

  • NIOSH
    OFR-26(2)-83 Inflow To Horizontal Drains In Tailings Embankments

    Tailings embankments can develop a high phreatic surface if the original design for the embankment does not include drainage facilities or if existing drainage facilities become ineffective. Subsequen

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    New tunnel boring machine accelerates tunnel construction in deep mining operations

    By Fred Delabbio, Sverker Hartwig

    As openpit copper operations transition from surface mines to underground, the speed of underground infrastructure construction prior to production is critical for maximizing the value of the project.

    Jul 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Kairos Mining: A Comprehensive Approach to Sustained Long-Term Benefits in Copper Processing Plant Automation

    By Luis Castelli, Aldo Bonomelli, Giselle Schifferli, Claudio Zamora

    "This paper introduces the operational concept and the description of a multi-site Remote Support Center for knowledge management and long-term process performance improvement.This centralized Support

    Jan 1, 2010

  • NIOSH
    IC 7203 Development Of The Sand And Gravel Industry ? Introduction

    By Shirley F. Colby

    The past 40 years have seen the sand and gravel industry grow from small roadside pits and holes in farmers' back yards to giant corporations selling millions of tons of sand and gravel each year

    Jan 1, 1942

  • SME-ICGCM
    Investigating Abutment Load

    By Ihsan Berk Tulu

    In the Analysis of Retreat Mining Pillar Stability (ARMPS) program, the magnitude of the abutment loading adjacent to a gob area is calculated using an ?abutment angle? concept. The extent of the abut

    Jan 1, 2012

  • 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

  • AIME
    Muscle Shoals Possibilities

    By PHILIP N. MOORE

    THE development of the power of the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals has become a matter of political interest as well as engineering possibility. The controversy over it has been so active that the f

    Jan 1, 1925

  • AUSIMM
    The influence of charge density and solution ionic strength on polymer flocculant performance

    By JOHN G. RAYNER

    An examination was made of the filtration characteristics of a haematite slurry using a range of polyacrylamide based flocculants in solutions containing up to 3 per cent sodium chloride. The polymers

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Lead and Zinc Smelting Charges

    By Grey CA

    Any economic evaluation of a lead-zinc mining project requires the estimation of net revenue per tonne of concentrate at the "mine gate". The value at the mine gate equals the Net Smelter Return min

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    A global review of geotechnical challenges and ground support practices in sublevel caving mines

    By A D. Campbell

    Sublevel caving (SLC) is a mining method adopted in a wide range of mining depths and ground conditions with various layouts adopted to suit orebody geometry. Sublevel caving offers more flexibility a

    Nov 29, 2022