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  • SME
    The Use Of Instrumented Split-Set Rock Bolts To Monitor Strain In The Walls Of A Deep Underground Mine Stope

    By F. Maciosek, D. Denton, J. Johnson

    Researchers from the Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and personnel from Coeur Silver Valley, Wallace, ID, conducted tests using rock strain st

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Caterpillar Adds to its Mining Line; New Haul Trucks Fill Out the Surface Mining Portfolio

    By William Gleason

    "Caterpillar is the largest manufacturer of mining equipment in the world. In hundreds of surface mines around the globe, Caterpillar’s flagship 793 haul trucks can be found moving material for copper

    Dec 1, 2018

  • SME
    Optimization of Surface Mining Dig Limits with a Practical Heuristic Algorithm Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (e8f12701-6e05-4369-9a27-d2734d7cf05f)

    By Y. V. Vasylchuk

    This paper presents an algorithm for optimizing the classification of surface mine material subject to excavating constraints. High-resolution expected profit models are input and optimized to classif

  • SME
    Optimization of Surface Mining Dig Limits with a Practical Heuristic Algorithm Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Y. V. Vasylchuk

    This paper presents an algorithm for optimizing the classification of surface mine material subject to excavating constraints. High-resolution expected profit models are input and optimized to classif

  • SME
    The Arizona Copper Province And The Texas Lineament

    By Jacques B. Wertz

    Recurring movements remotely connected with the Murray fracture zone and the San Andreas fault complex, together with the slow northwestward drift affecting the Baja California peninsula, could progre

    Jan 1, 1970

  • SME
    Case Study in Monitoring Mining Induced Subsidence Using Photogrammetry and Conventional Surveys

    By Rodger C. Fry

    Underground coal mining has been active within the East Mountain property since the mid 1950's. As a result, coal from two seams has been extracted within large areas allowing surface subsidence

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    The Gold Price: Paradox And Promise

    By P. Sarnoff

    Gold has always been a crisis investment. For centuries gold has been considered globally the money of last resort. In time of war, inflation, financial uncertainty, political upheaval there has with

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Heinrich Revisited: a New Data-Driven Examination of the Safety Pyramid "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2020)"

    By Jennifer L. Bell, PATRICK L. YORIO, Emily J. Haas, Susan M. Moore, Lee A. Greenawald

    Although researchers have struggled to replicate Heinrich’s safety triangle findings (Heinrich 1931) for various reasons (e.g., no access to his original database and it is unclear if the database was

    Jul 25, 2020

  • SME
    Drainage Services Department West Kowloon Drainage Improvement, Stage 2, Phase 2, Kai Tak Transfer Scheme, Design and Build Contract

    By David Hake, David Salisbury

    The Drainage Services Department (DSD) of the Hong Kong SAR Government commissioned the design and construction of the West Kowloon Drainage Improvement, Stage 2, Phase 2, Kai Tak Transfer Scheme (KTT

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Cathodoluminescence (Cl) Microscopy Application To Refractories And Slags

    By R. E. Moore

    Refractories are unique ceramic materials, which are used in large quantities in steel making furnaces, metal smelting vessels, and glass melting tanks. They are required to possess high thermal shock

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Cooperative Education In Mineral Engineering: Experience At Montana School Of Mines, Butte

    By W. A. Vine

    Next year, in 1964, Butte will celebrate its Centennial. It was in May, 1864, that the first recorded mining activity took place. During that summer, several rich placers were found on Silver Bow Cree

    Jan 1, 1963

  • SME
    Genesis Of Salt Dome Hosted Metallic Sulfide Deposits: The Role Of Hydrocarbons And Related Fluids

    By Peter E. Price

    Salt dome hosted metallic sulfide deposits are the product of a complex evolutionary system involving halokinesis, cap rock development and diagenesis, and the generation, migration, and accumulation

    Jan 1, 2013

  • SME
    Review And Applicability Of Yielding Support Systems For Bump Prone Coal Mines In The Western United States - Preprint 09-027

    In bump-prone coal mines, roof and rib support is subject to dynamic as well as static loading. Although less frequently encountered, the dynamic loading component can result in violent coal expulsio

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    A Next Generation Mining Machine Guidance and Control System

    By Janet A. Flinn, David G. Fileccia

    Machine guidance and control systems have become more pervasive in the mining industry in recent years but not always from mining-experienced providers. Dozers, motor graders, scrapers, excavators, sh

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SME
    Evaluation of Post-blast Re-entry Times Based on Gas Monitoring of Return Air Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By L. Yuan, J. H. Rowland, D. Bahrami, R. Thomas

    Blasting is the main method of production in many non-coal underground mining operations and produces multiple toxic gases as a result. The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) requires mine o

  • SME
    Comparison of PFC2D Modeled Damage and the Practical Damage Limits from Drift Blast Design Software

    By M. Kuchta, S. Iverson

    INTRODUCTION Underground blasting with perimeter damage control can reduce the requirement for loose rock scaling and reduce the risk of ground-fall injury. In previous work Johnson and associates (2

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    Foamed Grout Controls Underground Coal-Mine Fire

    By Joseph J. Feiler

    Fires in underground coal mines are persistent problems anywhere in the world that coal is mined. Coal fires pose safety and health hazards in the form of mine subsidence, loss of energy reserves, de

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Project Management For Dummies, Or “How To Improve Your Project Success Ratio In the New Millenium”

    By R. J. Hickson

    From 1993 through 1999 Cyprus Amax Minerals Company successfully completed eight major construction projects around the world. Six greenfield mines were brought into production, an ongoing operation w

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Gold and Silver Assay Methods in the Mining and Metallurgy Industry

    By L. C. Stone, J. C. Parr, T. N. Anderson, D. Metcalf

    An increase in the importance of low-grade materials as sources of gold and silver has led to the need for improved analytical methods on leach solutions, ores and various effluents, residues, and in-

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Mining ?nance Challenges;Second Annual Conference Explores the Issues

    Obtaining financing for mining and exploration projects has been difficult for the last several years, particularly for junior companies. Today, though, the purse strings of investors appear to be loo