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  • SME
    Oil Mining : An Emerging Technology

    By John S. Hutchins, David L. Wassum

    Mining engineers are ready to take a big step into a new field-oil mining. To understand the subject, one must look at the world's oil supply and demand as well as petroleum technology successes

    Jan 12, 1981

  • SME
    Mining 1990

    By J. D. Morgan

    In the first half of the year, lessening of cold war tensions was welcome. But Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in the second half led to the Persian Gulf War in January and February 1991. This caused a

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    Marine Minerals and Ocean Mining Potential in the North Atlantic

    By Steinar L. Ellefmo, Fredrik Søreide

    "The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and Nordic Ocean Resources AS, with support from Statoil ASA have carried out a project reviewing the knowledge about seabed mineral resource

    Sep 1, 2014

  • SME
    Some Approaches And Methods For Real-Time DPM Ambient Monitoring In Underground Mines

    By A. D. S. Gillies

    Diesel engine particulate matter pollution is a matter of concern currently in underground mines worldwide. A number of real-time Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) monitors have been developed in recen

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Site Specific Blasting Model For Mine-To-Mill Optimization

    By K. M. Kim

    A site-specific blasting model has been developed for the Asarco Mission mine. The main inputs to the model are the in-situ block size (F80), the post-blast fragmentation (P80) and the intact tensile

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Battle Mountain describes the geology of its Fortitude gold-silver deposit at Copper Canyon

    By R. G. Benson, P. R. Wotruba, K. W. Schmidt

    Introduction The Fortitude deposit is located in Nevada's Battle Mountain mining district in the central Great Basin region of the Basin and Range province of the western US. The deposit is at C

    Jan 7, 1986

  • SME
    A Rock Mass Classification Scheme For The Planning Of Caving Mine Drift Supports

    By Z. T. Bieniawski, E. H. Skinner, R. A. Cummings, F. S. Kendorski

    INTRODUCTION Caving Mine Drift Support Design The support of production drifts remains a high-cost item facing the developer or operator of an underground caving mine. Support costs are incurre

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    How To Increase Plant Performance With Artificial Intelligence And Expert Systems - Preprint 09-074

    By L. B. Hales

    Expert control of grinding and flotation plants has been successfully used in the minerals industry since the 1970?s. The earliest of these systems were written in a hard-coded fashion in FORTRAN, BAS

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    TBM Excavability: Prediction and Machine–Rock Interaction

    By Z. T. Bieniawski, José Miguel Galera, Benjamín Celada

    TBM case histories from over 400 tunnel sections are analyzed presenting a comprehensive application of the Rock Mass Excavability (RME) index (Bieniawski et al.2006). The paper introduces two new adj

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Extensive Concrete and Shotcrete Systems for the World?s Longest Tunnel (Gotthard Base Tunnel?56km)

    By Jürg Schlumpf

    Concrete is one of the decisive construction materials, also for the AlpTransit Gotthard Tunnel. The client has many requirements, and many are the solution possibilities that concrete systems can off

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Utilization Of Belt Air To Ventilate Working Sections In Underground Coal Mines

    By F. Calizaya

    This paper describes the basic requirements for the utilization of belt air to ventilate working sections at remote locations in relation to the main fans. It highlights the risks involved, potential

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Bulk-scale laboratory experiments of re-entering a sealed heating

    By W. K. Hitchcock

    Anecdotal evidence suggests that re-entering a sealed heating poses a significant hazard, whereby the original heating is rejuvenated at an accelerated rate forcing withdrawal and re-sealing of the ar

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Economic Evaluation And Sensitivity-Risk Analysis Of Zarshuran Gold Mine Project

    By K. Oraee

    Zarshuran gold deposit, with the total reserves of some 12.5 million tons of 4.18 g/ton ore, is considered to be an important gold mining project in the area. In this paper the feasibility studies of

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    An Algorithm For Analyticalsolutions And Analysis Of Mineral Processing Circuits

    By A. Noble

    Traditional simulations of mineral processing circuits are solved by straightforward numerical techniques which require iteration to accommodate recirculating loads. Depending on the complexity of the

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Drop Shafts for Narragansett Bay Commission CSO Abatement Program, Providence, Rhode Island

    By Rafael C. Castro, Geoffrey Hughes, Fredrick (Rick) Vincent, Philip H. Albert

    Seven pairs of drop and ventilation shafts, between two and nine feet in diameter, will convey combined sewer flow to a 230-foot-deep, 26-foot diameter storage tunnel. This paper will present case his

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Mineral Property and Claim Databases

    By Stone. Jon P.

    INTRODUCTION Countries that are currently developing their mineral potential have unique information systems requirements to support these activities. The mining laws usually grant the State consi

    Jan 1, 1987

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    METSI - Innovative solutions and technologies for management of mining related water in South Africa

    By R. Schwarz, E. Pusch, A. Juch

    "The paper describes in general the objectives, goals as well as theoretical background of "METSI"-project proposal submitted to German BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research). The METSI pro

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2005 - Cement

    By J. MacFadyen

    The U.S. cement industry, including Puerto Rico, again set a record in terms of production and shipments. The increase in shipments came primarily from imports of portland cement as domestic producti

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Application of PVC as Novel Roasting Additive in Vanadium Extraction from Stone Coal Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Guowen Dong, Qiyong Li, Qiang Li, Tiejun Chen, Zhihong Wu, Junying Wan

    In order to search for a more economical and effective roasting additive for extracting vanadium from stone coal and solve the question of the disposal of PVC waste, PVC waste was proposed as a novel

  • SME
    Application of PVC as Novel Roasting Additive in Vanadium Extraction from Stone Coal Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (ca0ec95f-10f5-48a5-aea4-df2622b87a44)

    By Guowen Dong, Qiyong Li, Qiang Li, Tiejun Chen, Zhihong Wu, Junying Wan

    In order to search for a more economical and effective roasting additive for extracting vanadium from stone coal and solve the question of the disposal of PVC waste, PVC waste was proposed as a novel