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  • CIM
    Observation of Ore Pass System Performance at Brunswick Mine

    Brunswick Mine employs an ore and waste pass system for material transfer. This paper reviews the evolution and performance ore pass systems at the mine. It presents the range of selected configuratio

    Feb 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    A Convenient Method for Survey of Stopes and Development

    THE most important part of the routine survey work on a mine is the keeping up-to-date of plans and sections showing progress of stoping and development work, and the direction of the latter for the p

    Jan 1, 1928

  • SAIMM
    Presidential Address: Post-Mining Use of Rehabilitated Land – An Opportunity for the South African Mining Industry for Sustainable Development

    By M. I. Mthenjane

    "BackgroundThe paper discusses post-mining land use however, the essence of the topic is the emotional motivation behind the decisions related to mining investment and development. Therefore this is n

    Jul 1, 2019

  • SME
    Tunnel Interaction: Hydraulic, Mechanical, And Hydromechanical Approach

    By John Kinneen, Sunghoon Choi, Arne Fareth, Edward S. Barboe, Kyle R. Ott

    A new water treatment plant is to be constructed for a portion of the water supply system of New York City. The project includes construction of new water conveyance tunnels crossing perpendicular and

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Energy And Environmental Policy: Two Sides Of The Same Coin. The Approach Of Coal Extraction Industry For The Development Of Emissions Trading After 2012

    By K. Kavouridis

    The energy and climate protection policy of European Union (EU), and its Member States adopted in 2007 bridges security of supply, environmental protection and competitiveness. The objectives of the E

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Base Metals Concentrate Sales Contracts - Change Pavlov and the Dog

    By S E. Munro, P D. Munro

    The commonly traded base metals concentrates of copper, lead, tin and zinc are sold by miners to custom smelters using contracts whose terms were generally established at the beginning of the 20th cen

    Sep 7, 2015

  • CIM
    Sophisticated Ring Geared Mill Drives Features and Experiences

    By Maarten van de Vijfeijken, Marco Rufli

    "By using the latest generation of medium voltage frequency converters, new possibilities have arisen to improve the grinding process. Beside all the direct and indirect advantages, several dedicated

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Minimole: Development And Field Testing Of A Narrow-Vein Hard Rock Mechanical Mining Machine

    By E. Jackson

    This paper describes highlights of the Placer Dome MiniMole project - the development and testing of a robotic machine for mining narrow ore veins. A prototype hydraulically controlled robotic machin

    Jan 1, 2007

  • CIM
    Investigation of Block Geometrical Properties of the Shale-Limestone Chaotic Complex bimrock of The Santa Barbara Open Pit Mine (Italy)

    By N. Coli

    The exhausted Santa Barbara open pit mine (Tuscany, Italy), owned by the main electric power company in Italy (ENEL S.p.A,) extracted lignite as a fuel for the Santa Barbara thermoelectric power plant

    May 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Ventilating Metalliferous Mines: A Method of Attack Part II

    THE following really forms the second part of, or a sequel to, a paper, " Ventilating Metalliferous Mines: a Method of Attack," read before the Broken Hill Branch of the Australasian Institu

    Jan 1, 1923

  • AIME
    Discussions of Papers Published Prior to July 1960 - Sand Deposits of Titanium Minerals, AIME Trans, 1959, vol 214, page 421

    By J. L. Gillson

    Joseph H. Birman (Chairman, Dept. of Geolcgy, Occidental College, Los Angeles, Calif.) Many thanks to J. L. Gillson for so comprehensive a survey of the titanium sand deposits of the world. Over the p

    Jan 1, 1961

  • DFI
    Excavation Bracing Technology ? Synopsis

    By G. F. Sowers

    Excavation bracing is a special structural system. It is built from the top down. The design is controlled by the economical construction of another structure as well as by the movement of the ground

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Impact of China on drilling grade barite

    By W. J. Miles

    At the beginning of the 20th century, barite was a mineral of minor importance in the United States. Its primary use was to extend lead oxide in white paint. Barite also added the special qualities of

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Occurrence of Tin Ores at Torington, N.S.W.

    The Torington Lodes.This paper describes investigations into mineralogical, petrological and structural associations of cassiterite in occurrences of economic value. The work was carried out in three

    Jan 1, 1950

  • SME
    State-of-Art Grouting Remedy for Ground Improvement

    By Faruk Oksuz, Cary Hirner, William A. Rochford

    Grouting is a frequently utilized remedy in the planning and implementation of ground improvement and tunnel rehabilitation practice. The state-of-art grouting application used for Chicago’s McCook Re

    Jan 1, 2005

  • DFI
    Helical Foundations And Tiebacks: Quality Control, Inspection And Performance Monitoring

    By John S. Pack

    The last 25 years have seen rapid expansion in the use of helical screw pile foundations and tiebacks for new and retrofit construction of buildings and earth retention structures. An estimated $100 m

    Jan 1, 2003

  • TMS
    Study on Selectively Separating Iron Constituents in Copper Smelting Slags

    By Hongyang Cao

    The iron constituents selectively separated from the modified copper slags by magnetic separation and flotation.were studied. The results of magnetic separation for modified copper smelting slags show

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    The Link between Pulp Zone Hydrodynamic Characteristics and Froth Stability in a 125 m3 Flotation Column

    By D. Knuutila, G. Goyette, James A. Finch, G. Bartolacci, A. Fortin, Chi Ho Lau, A. Lockhart

    "In a COREM-McGill collaborative research and development project, gas dispersion parameters and froth properties were manipulated in a copper flotation plant to study interactions between the collect

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    Deep Mix-In-Place Soil/Cement Stabilisation Using Hollow Stem Augers For Excavation At Elland, West Yorkshire

    By J. A. Elliot

    Deep Mix-in-Place soil stabilisation is achieved by forming columns of soil/cement arranged to overlap by secant intersection. Alternate columns are constructed initially and infilled. The cementitiou

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SAIMM
    Optimization of shuttle car utilization atan underground coal mine

    By P. R. Segopolo

    "The purpose of the project is to convert current shuttle car utilization on an underground coal mine to best practice by focusing on change-out points and tramming routes, which have a major influenc

    Jan 1, 2015