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  • SAIMM
    Destruction Of Underground Methane At Beatrix Gold Mine - Synopsis

    Beatrix Gold Mine, a deep-level gold mine in the Free State province of South Africa, has the highest methane emission rate of any gold mine in the country. Methane is emitted from underground sources

    Jan 1, 2011

  • TMS
    Slag Valorisation, as an Example of High Temperature Industrial Ecology

    By Geysen. Daneel

    Better slag valorization is part of improving the sustainability of steel, stainless steel and non- ferrous metal production processes. Besides, it can improve the sustainability of other products and

    Jan 1, 2010

  • TMS
    An Evaluation Study: Recent Developments and Processing of Glass Scrap Recycling

    By Burcu Ertug, Necip Ünlü

    "On average, one out of two glass bottles coming on to the market is provided by recycling processes in Europe. Glass recycling has been started by the early of 1970s in Turkey, and the recycling amou

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    RI 3580 Progress Reports -Metallurgical Division ? 48. Electrolytic Manganese And Its Alloys ? Manganese Metal - Methods Of Preparation

    By R. S. Dean

    [Methods s of preparing the manganese metal that has been used in chemical and metallurgical investigations have passed through a cycle. Most of the investigations made e before the turn of the centur

    Jan 1, 1941

  • SAIMM
    Case Study On Quantitative Risk Modelling To Obtain A Realistic Risk-Adjusted Project Valuation ? Synopsis

    By G. R. Lane

    A large opencast gold mining company in Africa had just completed a feasibility study for an expansion of the operations. A traditional net present value project valuation methodology had been used th

    Jan 1, 2013

  • CIM
    Improvement in Quality of Pyrite Concentrate by Low Cost Flotation-Gravity Separation Flowsheet at Fankou Mine

    By Zhao-shu Sun, Mao-lin Li, Rui Cui

    "Fankou Mine produced pyrite concentrate (PC) from the tailings by rougher and scavenger flotation before 2010, with the averaged S grade of 40.54% at recovery of 79.34%. The economic value of PC incr

    Jan 1, 2016

  • NIOSH
    Identification Of Distillable Paraffins, Olefins, Aromatic Hydrocarbons, And Neutral Heterocyclics From A Low-Temperature Bituminous Coal Tar

    By Clarence Karr

    AN EXTENSIVE characterization was conducted on the neutral oil components in a low-temperature bituminous coal tar. A total of tai individual compounds identified with respect to individual isomers, a

    Jan 1, 1967

  • DFI
    The Alternate Technical Concept Process For Foundations At The New Mississippi River Bridge, St. Louis

    By Dan A. Brown

    The New Mississippi River Bridge (MRB) employed conventional design-bid-build procurement, but the bidding process included the opportunity for pre-qualified bidders to develop and propose confidentia

    Jan 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    Possible Mechanism For Surface Vibrations Near Maxwell Hill, West Virginia

    By Anthony Iannacchione, Christopher Mark

    Residents of Maxwell Hill, a suburb of Beckley, West Virginia, reported from January until March of 1988 a series of earth tremors. The tremors rattled dishes, and the noises associated with tremors w

  • CIM
    Chipewyan Granite - a Building-Stone Prospect in Alberta

    By John D. Godfrey

    Geological mapping on the Canadian Shield in northeastern Alberta outlined severalgranitoid rock massespotentially suitable as building stone. A particularly attractive prospect, the Chipewyan Red Gra

    Jan 1, 1979

  • AUSIMM
    Martha Mine Tailings Storage Facilities ù How Do They Stack Up?

    By K M. Brodie, D I. K McLeod, J Ruddock

    Environmental incidents involving mine tailings and waste rock inevitably become highly publicised and serve to damage the credibility of the entire industry. The recent serious incident involving a s

    Jan 1, 2002

  • DFI
    Research on the Influencing Factors of Driving Super Long Piles in Bohai Gulf

    By Liu Run, Jia Zhao-lin, Yan Shu-wang

    "Piles with diameter larger than 2m in engineering can be defined as large diameter pile, and piles used for oil platform foundation in Bohai Gulf, are usually over 100m long and 2m in diameter. Such

    Jan 1, 2014

  • AUSIMM
    Decisions, Decisions – Uncertainty, Variability, Modelling and Psychology

    By S H. Begg

    There is strong evidence that many major oil and gas (O&G) projects are plagued by large cost and schedule overruns, or significant underperformance in productivity. Similar evidence exists for la

    May 9, 2016

  • SAIMM
    Key processes in asset management for 21st century—maximizing business and ITstrategy integration

    By C. Sarkar

    Increased competition in today’s global economy has put mineral industry under excessive pressure to effectively manage production assets to generate business wealth. Capital intensive industry (CII)

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Investigation of Microwave Exposure on Beneficiation of Low-Grade Banded Iron Ore Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Nikhil Dhawan, Shrey Agrawal, Veeranjaneyulu Rayapudi

    India’s steel vision of 2030 requires a huge amount of quality iron ore. The utilization of low-grade iron ores such as banded iron ores will play an important role to achieve the same production. The

  • SME
    Remediating Historic Mine sites in Colorado

    By James Dunn

    “The strongest argument of the detractor (of mining)is that the fields are devastated by mining operations ...They argue that the woods and groves are cut down, for there is need of an endless amount

    Jan 1, 1999

  • NIOSH
    IC 8125 Mica - A Materials Survey - Introduction And Summary

    By Milford L. Skow

    MICA is a group name for a number of complex hydrous aluminum silicate minerals that have a sheet or platy structure and extremely variable and complex compositions containing various metallic ions, p

    Jan 1, 1962

  • CIM
    Zinc and Lead Uses: Technical and Market Trends

    By F. E. Goodwin

    Since the last CIM Zinc and Lead Conference ten years ago, significant technical and market forces have influenced how these metals are used, and the geographic distribution of their uses. Unprecedent

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Lithium Resources

    By Ihor A. Kunasz

    Lithium minerals occur predominantly in pegmatites that contain mineral assemblages derived from the crystallization of post- magmatic fluids or from the metasomatic action of residual peg- matitic fl

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SAIMM
    Role Of Operational Support In Ramp-Up Of The FeNi-II Furnace At Pt Antam In Pomalaa

    By E. J. M. Jahnsen, I. Jauhari, T. Badrujaman, F. A. Stober, B. O. Wasmund, L. R. Nelson, T. Miraza, J. M. A. Geldenhuis, A. Taofik Hidyat

    The role of dedicated operational support in the ramp-up and stabilisation of the FeNi-II furnace for ferro-nickel production at PT Antam?s smelter located in Pomalaa, Indonesia is described. The fur

    Jan 1, 2007