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Leveraging IIoT to Improve Machine Safety in the Mining Industry Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (4481c22f-86ff-4396-9b10-ec9dd65a183b)
By D. Parks, A. Miller, M. McNinch, R. Jacksha
Each year, hundreds of mine workers are involved in machinery-related accidents. Many of these accidents involve inadequate or improper use of lockout/tagout (LOTO) procedures. To mitigate the occurre
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Is Bigger Better? Colorado MPD Examines Age-Old Question
Never known as a conference to shy away from its share of off-color jokes, the Colorado Mineral Processing Division?s Annual Meeting returned to the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, CO April 26-28
Jan 1, 2012
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NAT 2008 Full Proceedings - NAT2008
By Bradford F. Townsend, Marc R. Kritzer, Michael F. Roach, Dennis Ofiara
All Rights Reserved. Printed in the United States of America. Information contained in this work has been obtained by SME, Inc. from sources believed to be reliable. However, neither SME nor its autho
Dec 1, 2008
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Ventilation monitoring and control in mines
By MAHESH SHRIWAS, CHRISTOPHER PRITCHARD
Ventilation monitoring and control in mines are becoming an integral part of day-to-day activity for maintaining the health and safety of miners. This paper evaluates potential real-time monitoring so
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Greenland: A Potential Trove of Minerals
By Louis W. Cope
Many Americans have seen Greenland while flying over it on their way to or from Europe. Few have visited this largest island in the world. Portions of the 20 percent of the territory that are not ic
Jan 1, 2004
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Stress control methods help to optimize underground mine design
By Mark Lawshe, Shosie Serata
The conventional method of mining underground, using narrow rooms and wide pillars, has proven to be poorly adapted to the powerful earth forces that act on underground openings. The high costs of roo
Jan 1, 1989
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Challenges In CFD Modeling Of Air Flow In Open-Pit Mines
By K. V. Raj
In the mining industry, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling is used extensively to simulate air flow in underground mines. CFD modeling of pollutant transport in open-pit mines is relatively n
Feb 27, 2013
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Yule Quarry Back in Business Again
By Rex E. Loesby
The marble deposits of Yule Creek were first discovered in the late1870s. Minor quarrying occurred between that discovery and the early 1900s. Major development occurred in 1905, when Channing Meek,
Jan 1, 2003
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Modified design of pillar based on estimated stresses and strength of pillar in an underground limestone mine
By Juan J. Monsalve, AMAN SONI, Nino Ripepi, Richard Bishop
The design and strength of pillars are important parameters when implementing the room-and-pillar mining method in a limestone mine. The process becomes complex with the presence of karst voids, which
Jun 1, 2023
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Deep neural network models for improving truck productivity prediction in openpit mines
By Wei Victor Liu, Omer Faruk Ugurlu, Chengkai Fan, Bei Jiang
Accurate prediction of truck productivity plays a pivotal role in improving the efficiency and profitability of openpit mining operations. This paper proposes a deep neural network (DNN) model to over
Jul 1, 2024
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A Report On Airborne AFMAG, The Theory, Equipment, And Operation In Western United States ? Introduction
By William Crowe Kellogg
By now the term AFMAG has been fairly well introduced to the mining industry. Several papers have been presented and published concerning AFMAG (references 1 and 2). However, the term AFMAG remains ra
Jan 1, 1960
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The Alpha Foundation; Improving mine safety through research
By Michael Karmis
"In December 2011, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of West Virginia, the U.S. Department of Justice, Alpha Natural Resources (ANR) and Alpha Appalachia Holdings entered into a non
Jan 1, 2014
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Two-Seam Mining Stability at OCI’s Big Island Trona Mina
By J. F. T. Agapito
OCI Wyoming mines two flat-lying trona seams that are 3- to 3.5-m- (10- to 11.5-ft-) thick, about10 m (33 ft) apart and 250-m- (820-ft-) deep at its Big Island Mine in Wyoming. Continuous miners and
Jan 1, 2000
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Geologic study of gravels of the Agua Fria River, Phoenix, AZ
By William H. Langer
The annual consumption of sand and gravel aggregate in 2006 in the Phoenix, AZ metropolitan area was about 76 Mt (84 million st) (USGS, 2009), or about 18 t (20 st) per capita. Quaternary alluvial dep
Jan 2, 2010
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Innovation On The Iron Range: Report On The SME Minnesota Section Meeting
At long last, mining is on the rebound in Minnesota?s Iron Range and the excitement is starting to show. The SME Minnesota Section?s annual meeting was once again held in the heart of Iron Range count
Jan 1, 2011
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New Dragline Bucket Improves Stripping Efficiency
By Dean Bray
During the past three years, a new rear-dumping dragline bucket technology has been patented, developed and tested at North Dakota coal mines. Field testing has shown that this new concept in draglin
Jan 1, 1999
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Evaluation Of Dust Exposures Associated With Mist Drilling Technology For Roof Bolters
By T. W. Beck
Overexposure to respirable dust remains a widespread health hazard to roof bolter occupations in underground coal mines. Recently implemented mist drilling technology was evaluated for its effectivene
Jan 1, 2008
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Railroad Interface Management For Mta East Side Access Project Tunnels And Structures
By Michael A. Piepenburg
The East Side Access (ESA) Project will extend Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) into midtown Manhattan via 11 km of tunnels, a new terminal station and associated support facilities. In addition to the ha
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Hydrothermal activity and first characterization of hydrothermal mineralization and fluids from the Southern New Hebrides Arc (Vanuatu, SW Pacific)
By Florian Häckel, Ulrich Schwarz-Schampera, Benjamin Bühring, Katja Schmidt, Dieter Garbe-Schönberg, KoschinskyM Andrea
"The Vanuatu island arc and its adjacent back-arc basins form part of the southern New Hebrides subduction system in the southwestern Pacific Ocean within a triangle defined by the Solomon Islands, Ne
Sep 1, 2014
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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