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  • CIM
    Stope Sequence Optimization for Narrow Vein, Long Term Mine Planning

    By André van Wageningen

    Long term mine scheduling is one of the most difficult optimization problems. The problem is said to be NP-complete in that the best possible solution cannot be found any quicker than checking all pos

    Oct 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    The Geology of Tinaroo Area, North Queensland

    The upper amphibolite-grade mctasediments of thc rinaroo area, North Queensland, form part of a regional aurcole to the large Tinaroo Batholith and are the stratigraphic equivalents of the Hodgkinson

    Jan 1, 1982

  • NIOSH
    RI 4890 Investigation Of The Millett Copper Deposit Iliamna Lake, Southwestern Alaska

    By F. A. Rutledge

    The Millet copper deposit is on the north shore of Iliamna Lake in southwestern Alaska. Copper mineralization occurs in a zone of altered limestone .adjacent to and intruded by a diorite porphyry with

    Jan 1, 1952

  • SME
    APPLICATION OF VIRTUAL REALITY IN THE MINING INDUSTRY – WHERE WE ARE NOW? - SME Annual Conference 2023

    By N. Akbulut, A. Anani

    From the initial planning phases to the closing of a mine, mining is an industry where high attention, care, and sensitivity are needed in every step of the mine life. Since mining projects have a lon

    Feb 1, 2023

  • SME
    Text Mining Analysis of U.S. Department of Labor’s MSHA Fatal Accident Reports for Coal Mining

    By M. W. Buche, E. Tarshizi, R. Chappidi, B. Inti

    "Coal mining is an age-old method of power production in the world. It is also widely known for the associated risks during mining. Although the number of mishaps has dropped dramatically over the yea

    Jan 4, 2018

  • AUSIMM
    Epithermal Gold-Silver Mineralisation - Karangahake

    A subsurface study of the Maria Lode and associated hydrothermal alteration of andesites within the Karangahake epithermal gold-silver deposit defined the local evolutionary sequence in the once activ

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AUSIMM
    Notes on the New Broken Hill Consolidated Ltd. Service Shaft

    This paper briefly describes the shaft, including sinking, steel sets and their installation, shaft equipment and winders.INTRODUCTIONThe New Broken Hill Consolidated Ltd. Service Shaft is a vertical

    Jan 1, 1957

  • AIME
    Addresses Given at Banquet

    By Lawrence Addicks

    T HIS has been a most momentous year in the annals of the Institute. We have been in the midst of a situation which, were it not for the convulsions of social unrest with which life is surrounded on e

    Jan 1, 1920

  • AIME
    Extractive Metallurgy Division - Optimum Conditions for Zone Refining (TN)

    By W. A. Tiller, J. D. Harrison

    HOT pressing of powder particles has gained importance recently, since it affords a method in which high densities are rapidly attained. In a recent study on hot pressing of alumina powders, Mangsen,

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2004 – Pumice and Pumicite

    By G. C. Presley

    Estimated domestic production of pumice and pumicite in 2004 increased about 23 percent since 2003, according to the U. S. Geological Survey (USGS). The USGS estimate of domestic production of 687 kt

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    Application of the SART Process to Heap Leaching of Gold-Copper Ores at Maricunga, Chile

    By Kevan J. R. Ford, Chris A. Fleming, Robert D. Henderson

    "Kinross Gold Corporation’s Maricunga mine in Chile presents an ideal opportunity to apply the SART process to a heap leach operation. Given increasing levels of cyanide complexed copper in current pr

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Sumps Aids the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited in Saxonvale Feasibility Study

    By G T. Kukla

    A Seam deposit User oriented Mine Planning System (SUMPS) was developed by The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Limited (BHP) at its head office in Melbourne. It is one of the computer mine planning sy

    Jan 1, 1980

  • AUSIMM
    Recent Developments in Rock Drill Steel

    By Met B. E

    The increasing pace of modern mining makes constantly greater demands upon the several contributing departments of rock breaking and transport, and rock-drilling, as the spearhead of attack, has recei

    Jan 1, 1936

  • NIOSH
    OFR-9-78 Developing Geological Structural Criteria For Predicting Unstable Mine Roof Rocks

    By David K. Hylbert

    This study was designed to investigate roof falls in room-and-pillar drift coal mines and to determine geologic methods for predicting unstable roof conditions. The study area was located in Harlan Co

    Jan 1, 1977

  • AIME
    Rock Bursts - A Symposium (60f4f2fa-16ca-42d3-a35b-d369fc39531a)

    By Philip B. Bucky

    CONTENTS [PACEPACE r. What Is a Rock Burst?2 4. How Can Rock Bursts Be Predicted? . 35 Jack Spalding2Jack Spalding35 A. F. Robertson 2, 5A. F. Robertson35 W. R. Crane 2A. B. Yates and P. J. She

    Jan 1, 1942

  • NIOSH
    RI 4429 Missouri Valley Manganese Deposits South Dakota Part III. Mining And Beneficiation Studies

    By Paul Zinner

    Efforts to win an enriched manganiferous product from the Missouri Valley deposits of South Dakota have included an application of most known ore-dressing devices and have been largely unsuccessful. A

    Jan 1, 1949

  • NIOSH
    IC 7691 Technology Of Lignitic Coals - In Two Parts-Part 1: Summary Of Industrial Development Possibilities; European Technology On Lignitic Coals; Occurrence And Properties; - 1. Summary Of Industrial Development Possibilities

    As a part of its overall wealth in fuel resources, the United States possesses large reserves of coal of ignite rank. According to recent estimates of the Federal Geological Survey (3, 5),l/ the assur

    Jan 1, 1954

  • AIME
  • SAIMM
    Leaching Of Rare Earth Elements From Bentonite Clay - Synopsis

    By J. G. van der Watt

    Due to increasing concerns of global rare earth element shortfalls in the near future, possible alternative sources of rare earth elements have recently become of economic interest. One such alternati

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Controlled Solidification Of Ferrosilicon

    By L. Arnberg, E. Ott

    The microstructure of ferrosilicon is important since it controls the disintegration of the material during crushing and thus the generation of fines. Therefore a study of the microstructure formation

    Jan 1, 2004