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  • SME
    Use Of Pressure Filter To Eliminate Refuse Slurry Disposal Pond

    By Dale W. Norris

    United States Steel's Cumberland Coal Operations is located in Greene County in the southwest corner of Pennsylvania. The mine and related facilities have been in operation since September of 197

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Assessing the feasibility of a commercially available wireless Internet of Things system to improve conveyor safety

    By K. V. Raj, R. Jacksha

    Conveyor systems persist in being a source of injuries and fatalities in the mining industry. To reduce these incidents, better methods are needed to enhance the monitoring of probable hazards and imp

  • SME
    Accuracy And Precision Of The EPA Reflux Method For Cyanide In Gold-Processing Waste Streaming

    By Carson Sharp Beltch

    The determination of aqueous cyanide is accomplished by either detection in the sample as collected or by removal of the cyanide of the collected sample, followed by detection. The direct determinatio

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Research At The Pittsburgh Coal Research Center United States Department Of The Interior Bureau Of Mines

    By D. E. Wolfson

    As energy requirements in the United States expand with the growth of the Nation, use of coal also can be expected to increase. This optimistic outlook for the coal industry is based on our vast reser

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
    Dispersion Of Inorganic Pigments ? Introduction

    By Robert F. Conley

    In the mining, manufacturing and application of inorganic pigments, dispersion contributes significantly. This is especially true with mineral pigments because of the variety, in slurry operations req

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Evaluation of an E-field through-the-earth (TTE) communications system at an underground longwall mine in West Virginia

    "A commercially available through-the-earth (TTE) communications system was evaluated at an active underground longwall mine in West Virginia. This TTE system uses electricfield (E-field) sensing to s

    Sep 1, 2016

  • SME
    Acid Activated Clays And Their Adsorption Properties

    By Rudolf Fahn

    Bentonites are best suited for the preparation of acid activated clays with efficient adsorption properties. They are weathering products of acid volcanic ashes and their natural deposits are world-wi

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Surface Mining Of Industrial Minerals A Positive Approach To Land Reclamation

    By Frank C. Appleyard

    As the environmental movement gained force during the past few years, it was inevitable that attention would be focused on surface mining, and we have seen this method of extracting minerals from the

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Interrelationship Of Major-Element Limestone Chemistry To Depositional Environments -- An Exploration Technique ? Introduction

    By William H. McLemore

    Geologists searching for carbonate rocks suitable for chemical uses traditionally have relied on extensive laboratory testing in order to locate strata or zones that might be suitable for mining. Howe

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Flotation Studies On Carboxylic Acid Components Of Tall Oils

    By S. S. Hsieh

    The important carboxylic acid components of tall oils were tested individually as phosphate flotation reagents. These included C18 unsaturated fatty acids and C10 to C18 saturated fatty acids and resi

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Micro-Mechanical Modeling To Study Smooth Blasting

    The current understanding of the mechanics of rock fracturing during smooth blasting is largely empirical and qualitative due to an inability to model the dynamic process at the fundamental level. In

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Impact of Regulator Settings on the Formation of Explosive Gas Zones in Bleeder Ventilated Longwall Gobs

    By J. A. Marts, R. C. Gilmore, Jr. Bogin, S. Saki, J. F. Brune, J. W. Grubb

    "Researchers at the Colorado School of Mines have studied the influence of headgate side ventilation controls near the longwall start-up room on the formation of explosive gas zones (EGZs) in undergro

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Complete Load History Of Roof Bolts In An Underground Coal Mine ? Introduction

    By Syd S. Peng

    The key design parameters of roof bolting using expansion - shell type support for underground coal mine roof support are bolt length, bolt spacing, installed load and anchorage capacity. Depending on

    Jan 1, 1976

  • SME
    Simulation of material transport in a SAG mill with different geometric lifter and pulp lifter attributes using DEM

    By Alejandro Gutiérrez, David Ahues, Paola Merino, Felipe González

    The semiautogenous grinding (SAG) mill is one of the most important pieces of equipment in the comminution of materials. Its objective is to reduce the size of the ore until the ore can be released an

  • SME
    Operating A Company Owned Fleet

    By T. M. Storer

    Much has been written and many discussions held on the virtues (and evils?) of a Company-owned motor fleet. Almost invariably these dialogues take a generalized form and thereby lose something since t

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
     The influence of drawbell geometry on hang-ups during ore extraction

    By Dion Weatherley, Raúl Castro, RENE GOMEZ, Pablo Cid

    The study examines the impact of different drawbell geometries on hang-ups during ore extraction in underground mining. Using the discrete element method, the research compares three drawbell geometri

    Sep 1, 2023

  • SME
    A Flotation Study Of The Quartz-Calcite-Hermatite System ? Introduction

    By Geoffrey Purcell

    Improvements which have been made in commericial flotation systems during the past fifty years have resulted more from trial and error methods in the mill than from research in the laboratory. Researc

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    Pulp Density Measurement And Control

    By L. E. Sausa

    Measuring the specific gravity of a pulp in concentrating plants is a relative, y simple procedure, but the desired accuracy is often difficult to attain. Many plants use the system of weighing a know

    Jan 1, 1960

  • SME
    Optimizing Mill Performance: Real—Time Grinding Insights - SME Annual Meeting 2025

    By Karl Gugel, Dante Garcia, Peter Czel, Eduardo Nunez, Joshua Morales, Boris Sullcahuaman

    Real-time operational excellence is achieved through the seamless integration of various components. Key aspects include precise instrumentation, real-time data collection, data analytics, and an effi

    Feb 1, 2025

  • SME
    Subsidence Over Room and Pillar Mining

    By W. M. Ma, Daniel W. H. Su, K. Centofanti, Yi Luo, W. L. Zhong, Syd S. Peng

    8.1 INTRODUCTION Under room and pillar mining if the extraction ratio is low, (i.e., < 50%) a pillar can support the overburden without collapse and there will be no surface subsidence whatsoever. In

    Jan 1, 1992