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  • SME
    Mine Modeling Software for Less Than $1000 – Usefulness and Limitations

    By Betty L. Gibbs

    Geologically simple deposits can be modeled quickly and easily with inexpensive gridding and mapping software. Hundreds of mines around the world use RockWorks99 and Surfer 7 for generating contour m

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    National Mining Hall Of Fame To Honor Four (c2bf092c-db9b-40a9-aef1-4f24d0616a10)

    Ceremonies for the induction of four mining industry pioneers into the National Mining Hall of Fame will be held Saturday, Sept. 13, 2008 at the Charles F. Barber Pavilion of the Museum Convention Cen

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Validation of the Predicted Heat Strain Model in Hot Underground Mines Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Paloma Lazaro, Moe Momayez

    Heat-related illnesses (HRI) are relatively common in both hot surface and underground mining operations. When workers are exposed to extreme heat or strenuous work in a hot environment, they become p

  • SME
    Validation of the Predicted Heat Strain Model in Hot Underground Mines Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (b1204250-b5e6-44a6-902f-6383dbcaf5a3)

    By Paloma Lazaro, Moe Momayez

    Heat-related illnesses (HRI) are relatively common in both hot surface and underground mining operations. When workers are exposed to extreme heat or strenuous work in a hot environment, they become p

  • SME
    Paste Thickener Technology For Mine Backfill

    By J. Stephen Slottee, Jerold Johnson

    The use of a thickener, without filtration, to produce a non-settling paste (also called thickened tailings) with non-Newtonian rheology has been practiced in Australia for many years for the disposal

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Optimization of Surface Mining Dig Limits with a Practical Heuristic Algorithm Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (e8f12701-6e05-4369-9a27-d2734d7cf05f)

    By Y. V. Vasylchuk

    This paper presents an algorithm for optimizing the classification of surface mine material subject to excavating constraints. High-resolution expected profit models are input and optimized to classif

  • SME
    Optimization of Surface Mining Dig Limits with a Practical Heuristic Algorithm Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Y. V. Vasylchuk

    This paper presents an algorithm for optimizing the classification of surface mine material subject to excavating constraints. High-resolution expected profit models are input and optimized to classif

  • SME
    Determining The Amplitude Of Certainty For Empirical Rock Failure Criteria

    By K. Oraee

    The empirical rock failure criteria play an important role in predicting the mechanical behavior of rocks, since affecting parameters on the behavioral properties of rocks are complex and numerous. Us

    Jan 1, 2012

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    West Elk Mine: The Conversion From An Exhausting To A Forcing Ventilation System

    By J. C. Poulos

    The West Elk Mine is located near Somerset, Colorado approximately 70 miles southeast of Grand Junction, Colorado and 72 miles southwest of Glenwood Springs, Colorado on state highway 133 (Figure 1).

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Comparison Of Arched And Flat Seal Designs Using Finite Element Analysis

    The failure of a seal in an underground coal mine can have devastating consequences. Traditionally seals have been constructed as flat walls. Large hydraulic dams, on the other hand, are constructed

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Mining Faculty in the United States: Current Status and Sustainability

    By M. K. McCarter

    The history of mining education, like the history of the mining industry, is typified by “boom and bust” cycles. In academia, the perpetual problem can be stated as “too many graduates for the jobs o

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Geological domaining with unsupervised clustering and ensemble support vector classification

    By Kasimcan Koruk, Julian M. Ortiz

    A geological model accounting for uncertainties possesses important advantages for resource estimation. Machine learning algorithms (MLAs) employed on multivariate geochemical datasets open up ways to

    Mar 1, 2024

  • SME
    An Innovative Approach to Tunneling in the Swelling Queenston Formation of Southern Ontario

    By Michael Hughes, Paul Bonapace, Harry Charalambu, Stephen Rigbey

    Ontario Power Generation is building a 10.4-km water diversion tunnel in Niagara Falls, Canada. The tunnel is a two-pass, cast-in-place prestressed concrete-lined pres-sure tunnel with a nominal inter

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Longwall Control At Shoal Creek

    By Debasis Deb

    The first version of the longwall strata control and maintenance system (LSCMS) has been successfully developed by the Strata Control Re¬search Team at the University of Alabama. The system includes a

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Modelling of Geomechanics and Geoecological State of Massif in Region of Large-Scale Mining Work with Using of Supercomputer Technology

    By O. Konovalov, M. Zhuravkov

    In report the results of performance of research works on building up of the connected geoecological and geomechanical monitoring system for modelling and study of a state of mining massif in a region

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Simulation Of Spontaneous Heating In Longwall Gob Area With A Bleederless Ventilation System

    By A. C. Smith

    Although only used in a few U.S. longwall mines, bleeder-less ventilation systems can be an effective spontaneous combustion control method in mines having a demonstrated history of spontaneous combus

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Studies On Water-Injection Cyclone For Processing Iron Ore Fines

    By U. B. Kodukula

    Attempts are made to evaluate the feasibility of using a water-injection cyclone for the concentration of iron ore fines. The separation characteristics of clay fines, containing large amounts of alum

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Solutions Management At Cerro Verde

    By O. Bernal, G. Velarde

    Sociedad Minera Cerro Verde, majority owned by Phelps Dodge produces 200M lbs per year of LME Grade A copper from low cost leaching of secondary sulfides and SXEW processing. Central to the success of

    Jan 1, 2004

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    Design, Excavation, Support Of A Large Diameter Coal Mine Access Decline Using A Tunnel Boring Machine

    By Steve Polegato, J. Coady Marsh, Gary Landry

    The Donkin-Morien Mine in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, has successfully completed the excavation of a 7.6m (25-ft) diameter access decline over a distance of 3.5km out under the Atlantic Ocean. The tunne

    Jan 1, 1985

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    A Resource Evaluation Study Of The Los Bronces Breccia-Porphyry Copper-Molybdenum Sulfide Deposit, Chile

    By L. R. Stoiser

    The mineral resource potential of the Los Bronces deposit was successfully evaluated by an intense, coordinated program over a 37-month period (April 1978-May 1981) as part of an economic feasibility

    Jan 1, 1982