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  • SME
    Sodium Sulfate – 5,000 Years of Mining and Processing Salt Cake

    By Donald E. Garrett

    Sodium sulfate is one of the larger tonnage industrial minerals. A little more than half of this tonnage — 3 Mt/a (3.3 million stpy) of natural product— is recovered from ore deposits. Most of the r

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Estimating N Value from Data in Press-In Piling

    By Yukihiro Ishihara, Nanase Ogawa, Ming Lei

    "Abstract In the Press-in Method, a static jacking force is used to install a prefabricated pile, while a reaction force is gained from previously installed piles. This piling technique has solved pro

    Jan 1, 2014

  • NIOSH
    RI 3334 Application Of Sand Filters To Oil-Field Brine-Disposal Systems ? Introduction (93e8faa1-0e91-4300-a0d1-51a7ae78e22d)

    By Sam S. Taylor

    Disposal of brines produced with crude petroleum and natural gas is a continually increasing problem. The necessity for studying this problem has been realized more generally in recent years, and in A

    Jan 1, 1937

  • NIOSH
    RI 3334 Application Of Sand Filters To Oil-Field Brine-Disposal Systems ? Introduction

    By Sam S. Taylor

    Disposal of brines produced with crude petroleum and natural gas is a continually increasing problem. The necessity for studying this problem has been realized more generally in recent years, and in A

    Jan 1, 1937

  • CIM
    New Support Concepts for Hard Rock Mining Applications

    By Thomas M. Barczak

    A critical safety component for all underground mining is intrinsic and standing support systems. Specifically, tabular hardrock mining exploits a wide variety of deposits that require various metho

    May 1, 2007

  • TMS
    Copper Matte Granulation At The Kennecottutah Copper Smelter

    By David B. George

    Kennecott Utah Copper adopted Outokumpu Flash Smelting and Kennecott-Outokumpu Flash Converting in 1995, a process based on granulating high grade copper matte. While nickel mattes and very small qu

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Milling and Treatment at the Waihi Mine, N.Z.

    IN presenting a'description of milling and treatment methods at the Waihi mine, it is advisable to first traverse a good deal of the past history of the mine, and show the various steps which hav

    Jan 1, 1912

  • ISEE
    Signature Hole Analysis and Vibration Modeling: An Indonesian Case Study

    By Wawa Jaka Sungkawa, Slamet Rachman Jaka, Tom Dermody

    Nowadays, with such a focus on environmental protection, surface mining activities have come under pressure to ensure their activities do not adversely affect the local surroundings. As part of the ex

  • NIOSH
    IC 8289 Iron And Steel Scrap In Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, And Texas (e79374e4-82c3-4b21-80b2-ff9548ee56cc)

    By Frank B. Fulkerson

    A study was made of scrap iron and steel in the South Central States in order to determine trends in processing, shipment, and consumption if this important commodity. These data were derived in part

    Jan 1, 1966

  • NIOSH
    MLA 88-83 - Mines And Prospects In The Loon Creek Mining District, Custer County, Idaho ? Summary

    By James Ridenour

    This report represents the first comprehensive accounting of lode mining sites in the Loon Creek mining district, Custer County, Idaho. Thirty-five mine and prospect locations have been added to the B

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SAIMM
    Stability Considerations for Slopes Excavated in Fine Hard Soils/Soft Rocks at Cobre Las Cruces Mine, Sevilla, Spain

    By J. M. Galera, M. D. Rodriguez, V. Pozo, S. Cooper

    "Cobre Las Cruces mine extracts copper minerals from a VMS deposit located in the well-known Iberian Pyrite Belt (IPB). As an open pit, it is distinguished geologically from other IPB mines by the pre

    Jul 1, 2019

  • SME
    Subsidence Monitoring - Case History (0d38711c-ff49-495c-b908-b20ac8ac067d)

    By Dr. Peter J. Conroy

    The current study is part of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) on-going subsidence research program. The long-term objective of the DOE program is to develop analytical methods of subsidence

    Jan 1, 1982

  • CIM
    Anaconda Mining Inc.’s Point Rousse Project Cyanide Destruction System Development Study

    By Neri Roux, Chris Budgell, Allan Cramm, Leo Cheung

    "Anaconda Mining Inc. is investigating potential improvements and expansions to their operating plant located on the Baie Verte Peninsula in Newfoundland. An extensive batch and continuous bench scale

    Jan 1, 2017

  • DFI
    Large-Scale Earthquake-Induced Landslide Repair Following New Zealand’s Kaikoura Earthquakes

    By Mathew Avery, Colby Barrett

    In November 2016, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake caused more than 100,000 cubic meters of rock and debris to tumble down and bury the transportation infrastructure below Ohau Point in New Zealand. All rou

    Jan 1, 2018

  • AIME
    Minerals Beneficiation - Feedback Process Control of Mineral Flotation. Part I. Development of a Model for Froth Flotation

    By H. R. Cooper

    Beginning from the point of view that process control of ore flotation can be approached by on-line analysis of processing behavior, an equation was developed which has characteristics useful for a mu

    Jan 1, 1967

  • AIME
    Reservoir Engineering- Laboratory Research - Casing Temperature Studies in Steam Injection Wells

    By K. Leutwyler

    The key to realistic casing stress analysis in thermal recovery installations is accurate knowledge of the temperatures involved. Much information leading to prediction of heat losses from tubing stri

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    Measurement and Analysis of Ground Movement and Load Redistribution at a Longwall Mine in Central Utah

    To gather additional field data from the western United States, researchers from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) installed an array of field instrumentation at a long

    Jan 7, 2020

  • DFI
    Plastic Piling

    By Magued G. Iskander

    The deterioration of concrete, steel, and timber is a serious hindrance to construction in marine and corrosive environments. Composite materials such as fiber-reinforced polymers (FRP) can offer perf

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AIME
    Coal - Subsurface Disposal of Mine Water

    By Robert Stefanko

    With passage of the Clean Streams Act of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its impact on the coal industry, considerable research has been conducted to explore various approaches to the problem, in

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SME
    Challenges And Triumphs Of A Large-Diameter Microtunnel Relief Interceptor Sewer In Indianapolis

    By Jeremy Morris

    The city of Indianapolis has more than 25,000 homes currently on septic systems. Many of these systems do not function well because of their age and surrounding soil conditions. As Indianapolis has wo

    Jan 1, 2011