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  • SME
    St. Cloud Mining Company’s Stone House Zeolite Mine And New Uses For Clinoptilolite

    By G. S. Austin

    The St. Cloud Mining Company extracts clinoptilolite about 6.5 km south of Winston, Sierra County, New Mexico. Production is about 18,000 mt/year. Natural zeolites are good adsorbents for positively c

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Source Path Contibution Analysis Of An Underground Haul Truck Used In Metal/Non-Metal Mines

    By J. S. Peterson

    Occupational noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) has been recognized by the National Occupational Research Agenda (NORA) as the most common job-related disease in the United States. Roughly 30 million w

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Political-Risk Management in the Northern Andean Countries

    By W. J. Spat

    Political risk is an integral part of the mining business in northern Andean countries. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela all have a higher than average political risk compared with other South A

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    New Minnesota Mining Projects Remain On Track Despite Economy

    Despite the current economic downturn that is now decimating iron ore production, Minnesota?s mining operators remain optimistic about the long-term prospects for the industry. Reflecting this optimis

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SME
    Redefining the Ultimate Pit: Improving NPV by Factoring Scheduling into Design

    By H. Burton

    "The selection of the ultimate pit shell has a major impact on the overall value of a mining project. The size and shape of this pit drives the selection of pushbacks, equipment, and project strategy,

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Autogenous Grinding And Concentration Of A Michigan Native Copper Ore

    By Constance F. Acton

    Based on laboratory structure analyses, a pilot plant investigation was undertaken to evaluate a Michigan conglomerate native copper ore. Comminution or sized feed was accomplished using wet, closed c

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Mineralogical Overview Of The Behavior Of Gold In Conventional Copper Electrorefinery Anode Slimes Processing Circuits

    By T. T. Chen

    The behavior of gold in a conventional copper electrorefinery anode slimes treatment process is expounded on in this study. In the raw anode slimes generated in a copper electrorefinery, gold occurs m

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Rich Hill, Arizona: Historic Gold District, Modern Gold Rush

    By Erik Melchiorre, M. Katherine Crombie, Dante Lauretta, Chris Gholson

    Rich Hill, also known as Weaver District No. 2, is among the most productive placer gold locations in Arizona. Located near Congress, AZ (Fig. 1), this district hosted major placer rushes in the 1860

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Construction Aggregates Industry Trends Inspire Innovation

    By Bruce W. Woolpert

    During the SME Board of Directors’ midyear meeting in Monterey, CA Aug. 25, I discussed trends in the construction aggregates industry. Many construction-material suppliers may not have yet fully int

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Role Of The Tunneling Machine

    By William H. Hamilton

    INTRODUCTION It was not very many years ago that tunneling machine manufacturers spent considerable time trying to convince contractors and mine operators of the advantages of mechanical tunnel bor

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Magmont Mine Closure Under Missouri Metallic Minerals Act

    By M. F. Bradley, G. M. Schoen

    The Magmont Mine, a 50/50 venture between Cominco American Incorporated (the Operator) and Dresser Industries, Inc., (Halliburton), is a metallic mining and milling facility in the new lead belt of Mi

    Jan 1, 2001

  • SME
    Barrick’s Gold Production to Increase by 40 Percent

    Barrick Gold plans to have four new gold mines in production by 2006. Together, the mines would increase the company’s output by 40 percent. The projects include Veladero in Argentina, Alto Chica

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Liebherr Celebrates 50th Anniversary, Introduces 300-ton Mining Truck

    By William R. Yernberg

    In October 1999, Liebherr-America, Liebherr Construction and Liebherr Mining Equipment held anopen house at its Newport News, VA, plant. The open house was held to celebrate the company’s50th anni

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SME
    Rare Earths in Review - A Decade of Decline & Deception

    "How Wall Street Darling Molycorp Undermined the U.S. Economy, Degraded our National Security and Distorted the Global Economic Balance and How These Falsehoods Continue to be Promoted Even Today INTR

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Driving the Twin Bore Running Tunnels by Earth Pressure Balance Machine on the Sound Transit C-710 Beacon Hill Station and Tunnels Project

    By Chris Tattersall, Tomyuki Kudo, Peter Raleigh, Nestor Garavelli, Steve Redmond, Michael J. Lehnen

    Twin bore running tunnels driven approximately 4,500 route feet by a Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) EPB Tunnel Boring Machine link the West Portal and East Portal on this complex Light Rail Project

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Tunneling Alternatives For Subway Connection In Downtown Chicago

    By A. Ayoubian, V. Nasri

    This Tunnel Connection project will include construction of two short tunnels to connect the existing subway tunnels (Red and Blue lines) in the northern loop area of downtown Chicago through a new st

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Completion And Commissioning Of The SMART Dual-Purpose Tunnel ? Introduction

    By Arthur Darby

    The city of Kuala Lumpur was founded in 1857 by miners seeking tin near the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers. The rapid development of the city and surrounding area since independence has led

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Parbati Hydroelectric Project Stage II, India—Two Inclined Pressure Shafts with a Honeycomb Segmental Lining Driven by a 5m Hard Rock Double Shield TBM

    By Wolfgang Gütter

    India is targeting to boost its electrical capacity from 100 GW to 200 GW within the next 10 years. The National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) has decided in2001 to take execution of the 800

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Prediction of Surface Subsidence by Probability Function Integration Method

    By W. L. Zhong

    Probability function integration method is one of the influence function method. It is a widely accepted method in many mining districts in China and Poland mainly because its theory and formulae can

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Single Bore Solution For Transit Tunnels

    By Verya Nasri

    The use of a single tunnel boring machine (TBM) tunnel of approximately 12 to 13 m (40 ft to 43 ft) diameter for transit systems to house both light rail or subway tracks in a stacked configuration is

    Jan 1, 2010