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    Trolley assist aids haulage at Iscor’s Sishen iron mine in South Africa

    By B. J. Vorster

    Introduction The South African Iron and Steel Co. Ltd., in Sishen, operates a large iron ore mine in the Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa. The mine is about 600 km (370 miles) west of Jo

    Jan 4, 1986

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    Design and Construction Performance of a Large Diameter Tunnel Constructed in Soft-Ground by the Stacked Drift Method

    By Paul H. Madsen, Victor S. Romero

    The Tren Urbano project in Puerto Rico includes a 19 m diameter tunnel constructed by the stacked drift method, which involves installation of a pre-supported concrete arch using multiple tunnels. Geo

    Jan 1, 2001

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    Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) Dust Control Using Biocompatible Polymers Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Kwangmin Kim, Junnhyeok Park, Taehee Lee, Minkyu Kim

    Mine tailings storage facilities (TSFs) can be a significant source of fine, respirable dust. This dust poses concerns, especially for nearby communities, because of its detrimental impact on respirat

  • SME
    Tailings Storage Facilities (TSFs) Dust Control Using Biocompatible Polymers Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (6fb672b9-0ca5-4950-bdb0-c8b7f905646a)

    By Kwangmin Kim, Junnhyeok Park, Taehee Lee, Minkyu Kim

    Mine tailings storage facilities (TSFs) can be a significant source of fine, respirable dust. This dust poses concerns, especially for nearby communities, because of its detrimental impact on respirat

  • SME
    The Impact of Black Lung and a Methodology for Controlling Respirable Dust "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2020)"

    By Jay F. Colinet

    Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP), commonly known as black lung, is caused by the inhalation of respirable coal mine dust and is a disabling and potentially fatal lung disease with no cure. Historica

    Jul 30, 2020

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    Bay Tunnel-Design Challenges

    By R. John Caulfield

    The primary water supply system for the City of San Francisco and adjacent peninsula areas consists of aging and deteriorated pipelines crossing under the San Francisco Bay (the Bay). This system is h

  • SME
    Optimizing Grinding And Regrinding Capacity In Mill Design

    By Robert J. Brison

    The intent of this paper is to try to answer the complex question: "How much grinding capacity should be designed into a new mining - milling project?" Much work has been devoted to the technical a

    Jan 1, 1972

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    Geology and Politics Determine Mineral Investment Climate

    Attractive geology does not guarantee mining investment if a region’s policies are bad, according to mining executives surveyed in the Fraser Institute’s seventh Annual Survey of Mining Companies. Com

    Jan 1, 2004

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    Development of a Real‑Time Respirable Coal Dust and Silica Dust Monitoring Instrument Based on Photoacoustic Spectroscopy

    By W. P. Arnott, P. Nascimento, X. L. Wang, K. C. Kocsis, S. J. Taylor, H. Firouzkouhi

    We report the first spectral photoacoustic measurements of silica, coal, and kaolinite dust absorption coefficients from 11 to 13 μm at 5 nm resolution made with a tunable quantum cascade laser. This

    Aug 20, 2022

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    Design Of Coal Transfer Terminals

    By Richard Collins

    The projected depletion and the increasing costs of petroleum and natural gas along with the public and governmental resistance to nuclear energy have caused coal to emerge as one of today's answ

    Jan 1, 1978

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    Dentifying Opportunities To Reduce The Consumption Of Energy Across Mining And Mineral Processing Plants

    By R. Steele

    In addition to compliance with government emissions and reporting requirements, mining and mineral processing companies are increasing energy efficiency to reduce costs and become more competitive in

    Jan 1, 2011

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    Tunnel Boring Machine Development

    By Martin Herrenknecht

    Tunnel boring machine (TBM) development continues to take on not only larger diameters, but also more difficult ground conditions. Ground conditions consisting of unstable faces with water pressures u

    Jan 1, 2008

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    Sag And Ball Mill Operation In Weak Network Conditions

    By P. Burmeister, R. A. Errath, A. Sapin

    Sag Mills are becoming bigger in size almost every year. Concentrator plants are also becoming larger with more SAG and Ball Mills units with Gearless Mill drives installed in one plant. In contradict

    Jan 1, 2001

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    Liquid Membrane Processes For Copper Extraction ? Introduction

    By Ralph W. M. Lai

    The liquid membrane separation process was first patented in 1968 for separating hydrocarbons.(1-4) This stimulated many researchers to join in the area of separating organic compounds. l Since then,

    Jan 1, 1982

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    Parbati Hydroelectric Project Stage II, India—Two Inclined Pressure Shafts with a Honeycomb Segmental Lining Driven by a 5m Hard Rock Double Shield TBM

    By Wolfgang Gütter

    India is targeting to boost its electrical capacity from 100 GW to 200 GW within the next 10 years. The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has decided in2001 to take execution of the 800

    Jan 1, 2005

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    Chloride Leaching Of A Complex Matte: Comparison Of Oxidants

    By H. I. Kim

    The leaching of a complex matte in chlorine and chloride media was studied. The matte was prepared from manganese nodules by the reduction smelting-sulfidation route. From XRD analysis, the major phas

    Jan 1, 2009

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    Pyrrhotite Flotation and its Selectivity Against Pentlandite in the Beneficiation of Nickeliferous Ores: An Electrochemistry Perspective

    By H. R. Manouchehri

    "Pyrrhotite (Po) is one of the most abundant sulfide minerals in processing industry and must be rejected in most cases. Particularly, Po rejection and its selectivity against pentlandite (Pn) have lo

    Jan 1, 2015

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    Old insurance policies : An often unrecognized source of pollution liability insurance

    By Walter R. Curtner

    Many, if not most, of today's pollution liability claims are related to events ("occurrences") that happened in the past. This fact creates an opportunity to obtain a large amount of insurance co

    Jan 10, 1987

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    A Bubble Coalescence Study Using Sound - Preprint 09-076

    By W. Kracht

    Frothers are surfactants used in floatation to aid generation of small bubbles. Studying events at the moment of bubble creation is a challenge because of the short time frame. This presentation intro

    Jan 1, 2009

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    Design and Construction of the Bored, Two-Pass Niagara Water Diversion Tunnel

    By Russel Delmar

    Construction of Ontario Power Generation?s 12.8-m diameter, 10.4-km long water diversion tunnel in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is underway. The tunnel is being excavated by means of a 14.44-m diameter ope

    Jan 1, 2008