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  • SME
    Assessing the Safety Culture of Underground Coal Mining: Results and Recommendations

    By C. L. Kosmoski

    In recent years, coal mining safety has attained national attention due to several highly publicized disasters. Despite these threats to worker safety and health, the U.S. relies on the mining of coal

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Converting Saprolite (a Low-Grade Unutilized Material) into Refractory Aggregates: A Viable Substitute for Calcined Clay in the Refractory Industry - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)

    By G. T. Daware, M. J. Chaddha, S. P. Masurkar, P. G. Bhukte, A. Agnihotri

    JNARDDC has evaluated bauxite deposits of India from the geo-technological point of view. During the evaluation studies, it was observed that bauxite deposits are associated with saprolite resources.

    Apr 12, 2021

  • SME
    Improving Dust Control On Longwall Shearers

    By R. A. Pimentel

    Many longwall operators experience difficulty complying with the federal regulation limiting average dust exposure. Others are currently in compliance, but the dust exposure limit keeps then from incr

    Jan 1, 1984

  • SME
    Transactions Volume 332 2012 - SME Transactions 2012

    By Emily Wortman-Wunder

    As the 2012 president of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, Inc., I am pleased to present the 2012 issue of the Transactions of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy, and Exploration, V

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    The Future Of Hydraulic Mining In Western U.S.A. ? Introduction

    By Arthur W. T. Grimley

    Hydraulic coal mining is being successfully practiced in China, U.S.S.R., Japan and Canada and in each country, excepting Japan where suitable sites are not available, the system is being expanded to

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    A Simplified Device For The Froth Flotation Of Fine Coal (Progress Report)

    By O. B. Bucklen

    The Coal Research Bureau of the School of Mines at West Virginia University, using a modified design of a Russian flotation device, was able to obtain a clean coal product containing 7.64 percent ash

    Jan 1, 1964

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals Resources: Reporting According to Clause 49 of JORC 2012

    By Andrew Scogings

    The current edition of The Australasian Joint Ore Reserves Committee (JORC) Code was published in 2012 and, after a transition period, the 2012 edition came into mandatory operation on Dec. 1, 2013.

  • SME
    Mapping of Gold Mineralization in Ichadih, North Singhbhum Mobile Belt, India Using Electrical Resistivity Tomography and Self-Potential Methods "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By SAHENDRA SINGH, SANJIT KUMAR PAL, DHARMITA HORO

    The North Singhbhum Mobile Belt (NSMB) lies between two crustal-scale shear zones, the South Purulia Shear Zone (SPSZ) at the north, and the Singhbhum Shear Zone (SSZ) at the south. The Babaikundi-Bir

    Oct 26, 2020

  • SME
    Selective Carbothermic Reduction and Smelting (SCRS) Process for Beneficiation of Low-grade Iron-manganese Mineral Deposits "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Basak Anameric

    This study reports preliminary feasibility investigations for utilization of the selective carbothermic reduction and smelting (SCRS) processing scheme to beneficiate low-grade iron-manganese (Fe-Mn)

    Nov 23, 2020

  • SME
    Isothermal and Non-Isothermal Reduction Behaviors of Iron Ore Compacts in Pure Hydrogen Atmosphere and Kinetic Analysis "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Meng Li, Hao Nie, Weitian Ding, Mamdouh Omran, Ying Li, Yao Ge, Yaowei Yu, Abourehab Hammam, Lei Zan

    This study examines the isothermal and non-isothermal reduction behaviors of iron ore compacts in a pure hydrogen atmosphere and compares the results obtained during the reduction process by CO. The d

    Sep 29, 2020

  • SME
    Mining For Operational Excellence

    By Russell Barr

    Operational excellence is generally known as a management system integrated across critical functions that is geared towards continually improving operational performance. Functional areas such as he

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Advance Exploration by Stochastic Inversion of Tunnel Seismic Waves - A Numerical Study

    By Tamara Nestorovic, Luan T. Nguyen

    "With the aim to mitigate excavation risks and reduce the costs caused by tunnel boring machine (TBM) stoppage when tunneling under uncertain soil conditions, prediction ahead of the tunnel face has b

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Estimating the Density of Molten CaF2-Al2O3-CaO Slags based on Optical Basicity

    By B. Birol, M. N. Saridede

    "Slag density is a significant factor in determining the process efficiency of the electroslag remelting (ESR) process, where calcium fluoride (CaF2)-based slag is formed synthetically to refine metal

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Communications + Computers = Innovative Mine Management ? Introduction

    By J. R. Mackie

    Reserve Mining Company, the first large-scale taconite pellet producer in the United States, mines it's crude ore at the Peter Mitchell Mire located on the eastern end of the Mesabi Iron Range ne

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    Tunnel Boring Machine to be Used on Australian Decline Tunnel

    On Dec. 20, 2013, an 8-m (26.2-ft) diameter Robbins hybrid single shield/earth pressure balance tunnel boring machine (EPB TBM) was launched to bore the Grosvenor decline tunnel for Australia?s Anglo

  • SME
    A Longwall Simulation Model

    By Charles B. Manula

    This paper describes the development of a mathematical model for simulating the behavior of a longwall coal production system. The longwall simulator is a design simulator incorporating both determini

    Jan 1, 1978

  • SME
    Fundamentals and Applications of Green Modifiers for Froth Flotation - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2022)

    By ANDREW HOBERT, Maoming Fan

    Low-cost and environment-friendly green froth flotation modifiers of plant origin, such as guar gum, carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), and starch, have been used in flotation of some sulfide and non-sulf

    Jan 6, 2022

  • SME
    The Role Of Nitrogen In The Flotation Of By-Product Molybdenite At Gibraltar Mines ? Introduction

    By Michael A. Redfearn

    The use of nitrogen in molybdenite flotation circuits is a relatively new concept utilized by only a few mines around the world. This paper briefly discusses circuit chemistry and the reason for its s

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Investigation of Alumina-Based Ceramic Production from Aluminum Black Dross "Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2021)"

    By Umay Cinarli, Ahmet Turan

    High-energy consumption in primary aluminum production (from bauxite ores) makes secondary aluminum production (from metallic raw materials such as scrap and dross) very critical. Aluminum dross, as a

    Oct 26, 2020

  • SME
    Impact of face ventilation and nitrogen inertization on hazardous gas distribution in bleederless longwall gobs

    By J. Marts

    Underground longwall coal mining sections are operated as sealed gobs if the coal is prone to spontaneous combustion. Sealing along the gate roads during longwall face retreat limits the flow of fresh

    Sep 1, 2013