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  • NIOSH
    Coal-Mine Accidents In The United States 1935 - Introduction

    By W. W. Adams

    In mining coal, the Nation's principal mineral fuel, loss of life has been much lower recently than in earlier years when coal mining contributed so heavily to the industrial-accident death toll

    Jan 1, 1938

  • NIOSH
    RI 5283 Synthetic Mica Investigations, VIII: The Manufacture Of Fluor-Phlogopite By The Internal Electric-Resistance Melting Process ? Summary

    By R. A. Hatch

    The United States depends mainly on foreign imports, principally India, for an adequate supply of sheet mica suitable for its many uses in the electrical and electronics industries. Sheet mica has, in

    Jan 1, 1956

  • NIOSH
    IC 8420 Computer Usage For Evaluation Of Design Parameters And Cost Of Heat Exchangers - With Change In Phase On Shell Side

    By P. R. Jones

    The Bureau of Mines has written a computer program for the design and cost of a shell and tube type heat exchanger, in which a change in phase occurs on the shell side. The total cost, which was minim

    Jan 1, 1969

  • SME
    Characteristic Curves Revisited: A More Logical Approach to Determining Operating Points – Preprint 97-53

    By L. M. English, Y. J. Wang

    When plotted as head vs. volume, fan curves start high and decrease in head with increasing volume while mine head curves start low and rise with increasing volume. Their intersection is the system op

    Feb 24, 1997

  • AUSIMM
    High Temperature Electrochemical Measurement of Tin Oxide Activity in Slag

    Few, if any, reliable thermodynamic data are available for the activity of tin oxide in slags. In this work, the activity of the oxide in silica saturated iron silicate slags has been measured at 1573

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    Opening the Doorway to Self Management in the Mining Industry - The Reduced Site Surveillance Programme

    When the HSE Act was introduced in New Zealand in April 1993, one of the prime aims of the Government was to signal to the industry. The Government's recognition of the employer as the key person

    Jan 1, 1997

  • NIOSH
    RI 9495 - A Field Trial for Sealing Abandoned Mine Shafts and Adits With Lightweight Concrete

    By E. H. Skinner

    An abandoned mine shaft near Omar, in Logan County, W, was permanently sealed through a cooperative agreement between the West Virginia Department of Commerce, Labor, and Environmental Resources, Divi

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SAIMM
    Mining Complex Geology, Mitigation of Float Dust, and Developing Autonomous Machine Capability Using Horizon Sensing Technology for Coal Seam Boundary Detection

    By L. G. Stolarczyk, J. Duncan

    "SynopsisLong before the environmental movement, coal miners were suffering from occupational diseases that became apparent in the later years of service, and especially during the retirement years. C

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    Blast Master Plan: the Key to efficiency and optimization. Case study at Ellatzite copper mine.

    By Grigor Mishev, Georgi Petrov, Benjamin Cebrian

    Before designing a single blast or all the blasts on a pit level, it is critical to assess the main goal on each. To do this, a series of constraints must be taken into account: wall protection, vibra

    Jan 1, 2016

  • IOM3
    An energy-based approach to blast design

    By D. W. Taylor, I. W. Farmer, N. Mojtabai

    Rittinger's and Bond's descriptions of rock crushing relate the energy input required to fracture rock and the surface energy required to form new fractures to the change in specific surface area of f

    Jun 19, 1905

  • AIME
    Outlook for World Consumption of Metals and Fuels

    By A. B. Parsons

    AT the outset, the authors of this paper desire to file a disclaimer and an, explanation. They have no inside information from occult sources; neither of them feigns clairvoyant powers in the slightes

    Jan 1, 1937

  • CIM
    150th Anniversary Victoria Bridge, 1859 - mid-December, first train; 1860 August, celebration

    By H. J. McQueen

    ORDER OF PRESENTATION ?INTRODUCTION TO THE VICTORIA BRIDGE ?REASONS FOR A BRIDGE AT MONTREAL ?RAILROAD BRIDGE REQUIREMENTS ?IRON PRODUCTION CANADA / WORLD AL ?METALLURGICAL INDUSTRY CANADA ?FA

    May 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    IC 6770 Manganese Its Occurrence, Milling, and MetalIurgy. Part III

    By Edmund S. Leaver, R. S. Dean, T. L. Joseph

    The metallurgy of manganese has developed along the lines of iron metal¬ lurgy. Enough high-grade ore has Been available so that by reduction with carbon it could be turned into an iron-ma.nga.nese al

    May 1, 1934

  • SME
    Lake Cumberland Raw Water Intake Structure—Somerset Water Service

    By Timothy M. Bruner, William J. Maloney

    Faced with rapid growth that strained their current water supply capabilities, the Somerset Water Service in Somerset, KY decided to construct a new intake structure on the shore of Lake Cumberland. W

    Jan 1, 2001

  • AUSIMM
    Tertiary Training - Non-degree Courses

    In addressing the need for non-degree tertiary training, let us examine some recent reviews of engineering and geoscience education. The Finniston Report (1) criticised the formation of engineers in

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AIME
    Geology - The Need of a New Philosophy of Prospecting, 1960 Jackling Lecture (Mining Engineering Jun 1960, pg 570)

    By L. B. Slichter

    Prospecting is certainly the world's biggest and best gambling business. It is a game where the chips cost many thousands and where many millions, even billions, can be won. An attractive feature

    Jan 1, 1961

  • CIM
    Hydraulic Excavator versus Electric Rope Shovel Performance

    By J. Sammut, T. G. Joseph, R. Andreev, M. Curley

    "Decisions regarding mining method and subsequent choice of excavator must take into account the quantitative factors of productivity, availability, and capital, operating, and maintenance costs. Dig

    Jan 1, 2019

  • CIM
    Salitre Project Brazil

    By Roberto Busato Belger

    - Fertilizer Business Overview - Supply -Demand Balance in the World - Supply -Demand Balance in Brazil - Brazilian Market Growth Opportunities - Fosfertil Operations - Fosfertil Expansion Plan

    May 1, 2010

  • NIOSH
    IC 8415 Bibliography Of Investment And Operating Costs For Chemical And Petroleum Plants, January-December 1968 ? Introduction

    By Sidney Katell

    This report, covering the period January 1968 through December 1968, is a continuation of a series that began with the publication of Information Circular 7516 in October 1949. It is the tenth in a se

    Jan 1, 1969

  • AUSIMM
    Some Rb-Sr Measurements on Granites Near Mount Isa

    Rb-Sr measurements on total-rock samples of granitic rocks from the Mount Isa region have confirmed the existence of two periods of granite-forming activity. The Kalkadoon Granite, together with the E

    Jan 1, 1966