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  • SME
    Design and Construction of the Bored, Two-Pass Niagara Water Diversion Tunnel

    By Russel Delmar

    Construction of Ontario Power Generation?s 12.8-m diameter, 10.4-km long water diversion tunnel in Niagara Falls, Ontario, is underway. The tunnel is being excavated by means of a 14.44-m diameter ope

    Jan 1, 2008

  • AUSIMM
    Investigations for a New Flowsheet and Plant at Wattle Gully Gold Mines N.L.

    By Woodcock J. T, Jackson N

    Wattle Gully Gold Mines N.L. of Chewton, Victoria, has decided to replace its present battery plant by a new mill to treat a free milling gold ore, after fine grinding, by concentrating coarse gold in

    Jan 1, 1959

  • CIM
    Optimisation of Flotation Pulp Selectivity Utilising Nodal Analysis

    By Kym Runge, Emmy Manlapig

    "The objective of an industrial flotation circuit is to separate valuable minerals from non-valuable minerals utilising differences in their flotation recovery rate. Regrinding and reagent addition ar

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AIME
    Papers - Theoretical - Flow of Heat from an Intrusive Body into Country Rock (T. P. 1677, with discussion)

    By C. E. Van Orstrand

    An intrusive body is a mass of igneous rock that has migrated upward, presumably from great depths. Great variations in form, composition and depth of burial occur. It is not proposed in this paper to

    Jan 1, 1946

  • AIME
    Papers - Theoretical - Flow of Heat from an Intrusive Body into Country Rock (T. P. 1677, with discussion)

    By C. E. Van Orstrand

    An intrusive body is a mass of igneous rock that has migrated upward, presumably from great depths. Great variations in form, composition and depth of burial occur. It is not proposed in this paper to

    Jan 1, 1946

  • NIOSH
    OFR-77-82 Fiber Optics Technology For Underground Mine Communication Systems

    By David Bendersky

    This report covers the activities of a feasibility study of fiber optics technology fur use in mines. The objective of the study was to evaluate, both technically and cost-wise, the possible use of fi

    Jan 1, 1982

  • AUSIMM
    Mineral Composition of The Tin Ores of Renison Bell Tasmania

    By Edwards A. B

    Renison Bell is on the Emu Bay Railway, midway between Zeehan and Rosebery on the west coast of Tasmania. The tin deposits in this area have been described by G. A. WaIler (1902), L. K. Ward (1909), H

    Jan 1, 1943

  • NIOSH
    RI 4892 Petroleum-Engineering Study Of K.M.A. Reservoir, Southwestern Part Of K.M.A. Oil Field, Wichita And Archer Counties, Tex.

    By Rollie P. Dobyns

    The K.M.A. reservoir was discovered to be oil bearing at a depth of 3,719 feet on March 11, 1931. Extensive development, however, was not begun immediately, because the discovery well had a low initia

    Jan 1, 1952

  • AUSIMM
    Significant Properties of Blast Furnace Coke

    In preparing this paper, the writer hopes to achieve two main objects. Firstly, an indication of the desirable features of coke from the viewpoint of a blast furnace operator should be of assistance a

    Jan 1, 1957

  • TMS
    Depth through Breadth: Addressing the Grand Challenges of Teaching Sustainability

    By Svetlana Nikitina

    While many question "sustainability" as an intellectual field on the grounds that it is too broad and "undisciplined," we are able to achieve a good balance between breadth of coverage and depth of in

    Jan 1, 2010

  • AUSIMM
    Spodumene: A Mineral Source of Lithium

    By Elliott A, Kingsnorth D. J

    The development of a large high grade spodumene orebody, in excess of 30M tonnes containing at least 7M tonnes at 4.0% Li20, by Lithium Australia Ltd at Greenbushes, Western Australia is significan

    Jan 1, 1989

  • AUSIMM
    Alteration at Kisladag gold mine, Turkey – a progressive study in geology, geotechnics and geometallurgy

    By Y Öztas, S McKinley, T Baker

    The Kisladag Mine, Turkey, is a large porphyry gold deposit which is mined by open pit methods. In operation for over ten years, Kisladag provides an excellent example of how attention to a geologic f

    Sep 20, 2017

  • SME
    Iron Ore of Canada case study; A cause for concern

    "With millions of dollars and thousands of lives at stake, the Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) turned to a private wireless network for help.IOC needed a network that possessed the ability to adapt t

    Jan 1, 2015

  • ISEE
    A High=Preformance Vibration Monitoring and Data Distribution System for Large-Scale Urban Development Projects

    By Robert Lee, Pertti Paavola

    Automated vibration monitoring and web-based data distribution has proven itself on the largest single construction project ever undertaken in Finland. The excavation for the Kamppi Center Project in

    Jan 1, 2004

  • CIM
    25 Years of Collector Development for Sulphide Mineral Flotation

    By B. S. Fee, R. R. Klimpel

    "Froth flotation is the most widely used and economic means of concentrating metal sulfide ores such as those containing copper, lead, zinc, nickel, molybdenum, and pyrite. Also recoverable are other

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    AUV and ROV magnetometer surveys, compensation

    By Peter Kowalczyk

    Magnetic surveying and map production is well established in land based mineral exploration. Magnetic data are routinely used to map geology in covered terrains, to estimate the depth to basement in o

    Sep 1, 2014

  • TMS
    Atomization Of Granules Using A Single Fluid Technique

    By Hani Henein

    Recent innovations in atomization of molten metals have occurred in the area of single fluid atomization. Impulse Atomization (IA), one of the single fluid techniques, provides unique capabilities to

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    Whim Creek Copper Project û StraitÆs Bridesmaid Gets to the Altar

    By P Storey, B Deans, T Lancaster

    Straits completed its Feasibility study on the Whim Creek Copper Project in 1996. At this stage WCCP provided Straits with an open pit mine - heap leach - SX-EW copper project to follow on from its su

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Applied Mineralogy of the Kevitsa Nickel-Copper-PGE Deposit, SodankylS, Northern Finland

    By F Gervilla, J Laukkanen

    The Kevitsa Ni-Cu-PGE deposit in northern Finland contains disseminated Ni-Cu-Fe sulfides, and platinum-group minerals (PGM). The 2.05 Ga-old ultramafic-mafic, funnel-shaped intrusion is intruded into

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    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