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  • SME
    Dust Control at Koolyanobbing

    By Tan Zhenxiang

    INTRODUCTION Koolyanobbing is an open cut iron ore mine, which is located in Yilgarn region of Western Australia. To prevent the operators from suffering silicosis diseases and protect the air fro

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Recycled Road Aggregates ? Introduction

    By Charles R. Marek

    There is an ever-increasing need for quality construction materials to provide the necessary housing and transportation facilities required for the protection and movement of people and goods. By the

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Methane Control On Longwalls - European And U.S. Practices ? Introduction

    By Joseph Cervik

    Common methods of controlling gob gas in U.S. nines are by means of ventilation of gob areas and gas drainage through surf ace boreholes. Costs of drilling surface gob holes increase as deeper coalbed

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Concentration Capacity In Treating Copper-Cobalt And Copper-Zinc Ores In Gecamines, Zaire

    By M. S. Prasad

    This paper presents the process methods of beneficiating various copper-cobalt and copper-zinc ores mined by Gecamines in Zaire. Geology and mineralization of both sedimentary and vein type deposits a

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    Prereduced Pellets From Iron And Steelmaking Wastes

    By W. K. Dressel

    Over 2 million tons of steel furnace dusts are produced each year in the United States. Recycling of these dusts rather than disposal would conserve mineral resources, reduce land requirements for dis

    Jan 1, 1973

  • SME
    Coal Handling System For The Cerrejon Coal Project

    By Rick A. Croote

    The objective of the Cerrejon Coal Project is to mine and export a minimum of 15 million metric tons per year of bituminous coal from the Guajira Pennisula in Colombia, South America. Major components

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    The Use Of Detailed Testing In Obtaining Failure Criteria For Grinding Mill Structures

    By V. Svalbonas

    In the establishment of a useful failure criteria for complicated, fabricated structures, two basic areas of knowledge must be evaluated: 1. The accuracy of the applied stress analysis must be known

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Novel Precious Metal Processes

    By C. G. Anderson

    The treatment of concentrates for the recovery of the precious metals imposes many processing and environmental challenges. Hydrometallurgical technology for recovery of values from refractory preciou

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    High-Pressure Grinding Rolls In Industrial Application - 1. Introduction And Summary

    By Michael von Seebach

    High-pressure grinding rolls subject the feed material to pressures of 200 N/mm? During this process considerable size reduction and the Formation of flakes occur. This paper describes the basic consi

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    The Mineral Baby; Iconic Graphic Continues to Tell Important Story

    By David M. Abbott

    "The picture of the baby surrounded by the number of (usually) pounds of a variety of mineral products a newborn will use in a lifetime has been widely distributed over the years, both on the web and

    Jan 6, 2017

  • SME
    Alpha Radiation In Natural Caves

    By Keith A. Yarborough

    INTRODUCTION The National Park Service (NPS) conducted a research program from mid-1975 to early 1978 to measure alpha radiation levels in natural caves which it administers. Subsequently, a long-t

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Attracting Engineering Students To The Mining Industry

    By Willard C. Lacy

    INTRODUCTION A program to insure adequate talent for development and management of our mineral resources entails two equally important and interrelated aspects: 1) attracting and retaining promising

    Jan 1, 1971

  • SME
    Case study of controlled recirculation at a Wyoming trona mine - SME Transactions 2013

    By G. Frey, D. Scott, C. Pritchard

    Controlled recirculation has been used in the metal/nonmetal mining industry for energy savings when heating and cooling air, in undersea mining and for increasing airflow to mining areas. For safe an

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SME
    Process Evaluation and Flowsheet Development for the Recovery of Rare Earth Elements from Coal and Associated Byproducts

    By J. Herbst, J. Groppo, A. Noble, R. Q. Honaker

    "Coal and coal byproducts produced annually contain enough rare earth elements (REEs) to meet current U.S. demand. The REEs exist in the form of minerals, ion-exchanged elements associated with clays

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    The Use Of Infrared Transparent Optical Fibers As Evanescent Wave Sensors In Mineral Processing

    By W. M. Cross

    Optical fibers have revolutionized the telecommunication industry, because of their ability to transmit large amounts of data over long distances. Without optical fibers many of the communication tech

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Current Pulverized Fuel Burning Technology For Industrial Mineral Processes

    By E. Neumann

    With fuel costs unstable but escalating, solid fuels are playing an increasingly larger part in industrial concerns. Coal, petroleum coke and wood are examined from a burner system design viewpoint an

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    The Performance Of The Batac Jig For Cleaning Fine And Coarse Coal Sizes - Introduction

    By Raymond E. Zimmerman

    The cleaning of coal by the use of jigs is one of the oldest methods of separating coal from its impurities. Although in many situations jigs have been replaced by other methods, by far the largest pe

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SME
    Laboratory Baffled-Column Flotation Of Mixed Campbelueagle Seam Bituminous Coal

    By K. J. Shoop

    This study investigates the use of a horizontally-baffled column (7.6 cm inside diameter by 344.2 cm high) to reduce the ash content of a high ash bituminous coal. Tests were carried out to determine

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Experience With Horizontal Stress In The Sydney Coalfield

    By Daniel A. Payne

    For many years underground mining in the Sydney Coalfield has suffered from the effects of high horizontal stresses. It is only in the last 15 years that they have come to be recognized, understood, p

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SME
    Case Study of EPB-TBM Crossing through Boulder Cluster and Method Selected for Claim Resolution - RETC2021

    By Ehsan Nasiri, Keivan Pak Iman

    Historically, boulders are a frequent source of problem in soft ground tunneling. It is important to attempt to make an assessment of the nature and quantity of the boulders, although in many cases, i

    Jun 13, 2021