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  • SME
    Network Conditions That Ensure Correct Prediction Of Airflow Direction When Developing Connecting Airways (b6b919b1-beb1-4e00-ba6b-5570aea37183)

    By J. M. Mutmansky

    The usual method employed to determine the direction of flow in a connecting airway in advance is to conduct a survey between the two existing nodes being connected by means of the new airway. It is t

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Three Pillars of Mineral Valuation

    By F. L. Pirkle, W. C. Bagby

    The International Mineral Valuation (IMVAL) Committee, founded in 2012, develops strategies for conducting mineral valuations. These strategies have been developed into a mineral asset valuation templ

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Luncheon Speech

    By Lowell T. Harmison

    I appreciate very much the invitation to speak with you and the opportunity of bringing you messages from both the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the Assistant Secretary

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Plant Performance Improvements Using Grinding Circuit ?Classification System Effciency?

    By Robert E. Mclvor

    Classification system efficiency (CSE) is a simple metric that can be used to measure and increase ball milling circuit efficiency. It is defined as the percentage of the ball mill energy being used t

  • SME
    Lake Mathews Outlet Facilities’ Shaft Construction, Metropolitian Water District of Southern California

    By Stuart M. Lipofsky, Norm Hutchins

    The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California has undertaken the Lake Mathews Outlet Facilities project to replace the existing outlet facilities. In the late1990s, consulting engineers for t

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Heavy Mineral Deposits Of The Fox Hills Formation Located Near Limon, CO

    By F. L. Pirkle

    A heavy mineral deposit about 1.6 km (1 mile) in length, 0.13 km (0.08 mile) in width and averaging about 3 m (10 ft) in thickness is exposed approximately 130 km (80 miles) east of Denver, along Inte

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Using Computer Software To Aid In Electronic Mine Permitting

    By Jr. Wilkinson

    In today's work environment a tremendous amount of data is required to provide the regulatory agencies justification to issue a mining permit. The demands for data, specifically environmental cha

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Reinforcement Learning Applied to Fleet Allocation and Informed Short-Term Production Planning of Industrial Mining Complexes

    By J. P. De Carvalho, R. Dimitrakopoulos

    An actor-critic reinforcement learning approach is presented to improve the production of an industrial mining complex by defining shovel allocation and adapting the short-term plan given grade-contro

    Jun 25, 2023

  • SME
    Ball Mill Media Optimization through Functional Performance Modeling

    By T. P. Weldum, W. Conger

    "The objective of the study conducted by the authors is to determine what media size(s) addition will maximize any given plant ball mill’s grinding efficiency (Fig. 1). The functional performance para

    Jan 11, 2018

  • SME
    The Light at the End of a 40 Year Old Tunnel - Retrofitting of an Existing Tunnel as part of The New Second Ave Subway Project, New York

    By Richard Giffen, Michael Trabold, Pablo Lemus

    "As part of the new 2nd Ave Subway Project, an existing tunnel constructed in the 1970’s will be connected to the new subway and used as new running tunnels. The existing tunnel had to be modified to

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Zircon

    Almost all of the world?s zirconium is mined in the form of zircon (ZrSiO4), the majority as a coproduct of titanium mining from heavy mineral sands deposits. These are placer type deposits, in whic

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Timely Mine Production Reporting And Mine Planning Utah Copper Division's Bingham Canyon Mine

    By G. Paul Anderson

    Personnel at Utah Copper Division's Bingham Canyon Mine use current computing technology to compile pertinent production statistics and mining plans. Within hours after the day's work has be

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Laboratory Extraction Of Copper From Chalcocite By Roasting, Reduction And Smelting

    By M. M. Fine

    Development of a process for winning copper from pelletized chalcocite concentrate without matte smelting and converting is underway at the Twin Cities Metallurgy Research Center, Bureau of Mines. The

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    Variation Of The Surface Composition Of Coal With Rank, And Its Influence On Contact Angles

    By R. J. Good

    It is well known that the elimination of impurities such as iron pyrite, shale, clay, silica, etc., from coal, by floatation [Sun, 1954; Aplan, 1983] and selective oil agglomeration [Keller and Burry;

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Risk Reduction and Performance Improvement through TBM Robotization

    By Salam Moubarak, Thomas Camus

    "INTRODUCTION Since the introduction, several decades ago, of the first concepts of tunnel boring machines (TBMs), the unremitting increase of mechanized and automated tasks and the reduction of manua

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Coal, Uranium, And Iron: Similar Challenges

    By John S. Anderson

    The need for fuels and minerals in this country is estimated to double, triple, or even quadruple by the end of the present century. Even assuming more recycling of scrap metals and some priority allo

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SME
    Measuring the Effectiveness of Mining Shovels

    By S. Frimpong, E. Siami-Irdemoosa, S. R. Dindarloo

    "Electric and hydraulic shovels are the dominant loading machinery in surface mining operations. Despite their critical role in production and their high capital and operating costs, no reliable and c

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Evaluating The Productivity Of A Shovel-Truck Materials Haulage System Using A Cyclic Queueing Model (5b752e78-bed8-43b9-9fd8-4e6df8b17db2)

    By Ralph W. Barbaro

    This paper presents a cyclic queueing model which evaluates the productivity of a shovel-truck materials haulage system. For a cyclic queueing problem with exponentially distributed service times, a c

    Jan 1, 1986

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    Mining and Metals Industry Structure and Interaction with the Circular Economy

    "INTRODUCTION In recent years, there has been increasing focus on environmental and social impacts of the extractive industries, climate change and resource scarcity. The concept of the circular econo

    Jan 1, 2018

  • SME
    A Deeper Look At Contractor Injuries In Underground Coal Mines

    By D. Pappas

    Over the past decade, the number of contractors working in underground coal mines has nearly doubled; however, the effect this has had on the industry's injury rates has been the subject of much

    Jan 1, 2011