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  • AUSIMM
    The Contribution of BHP BillitonÆs Ekati Diamond MineTM to Sustainable Development in CanadaÆs North

    By R Beaulieu, D Burlingame, C Hanks

    The Ekati Diamond MineÖ is CanadaÆs first diamond mine and is located 300 kilometres northeast of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. The development of the mine supports sustainable development

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Current Challenges In PGM Flotation of South African Ores

    By B. D. H. Knights, M. A. W. Bryson

    Flotation of PGM ores, specifically UG-2, presents a number of technical challenges. These centre on the prevalence of chromite. Subject to over-grinding, chromite is primarily recovered to the flotat

    Jan 1, 2009

  • NIOSH
    Bulletin 158 Cost Accounting for Oil Producers

    By CLARENCE G. SMITH

    Prior to the actual development of an oil property it is difficult to determine the quantity of oil under the property and the rate at which this oil can be brought to the surface-factors that determi

    Jan 1, 1917

  • NIOSH
    IC 8386 Bibliography Of Investment And Operating Costs For Chemical And Petroleum Plants, January-December 1967

    By Sidney Katell

    This report, covering the period January 1967 through December 1967, is a continuation of a series that began with the publication of Information Circular 7516 in October 1949. It is the ninth in a se

    Jan 1, 1968

  • AUSIMM
    Good Delay Timing-Prerequisite of Efficient Bench Blasts

    Variations in delay timing can have a marked influence on blasting effectiveness and, hence, on total production costs. In single-row bench blasts, delay firing is invariably more effective than simul

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Floodplain Aggregate Mining In Western Oregon (041e6431-52df-4ad0-a7d9-a5b889f587f6)

    By E. F. Schnitzer

    During 1996 and 1997, Oregon experienced flooding on a scale not seen in many years. Some gravel pits located near rivers experienced erosion and, in several cases, breaches between the gravel pit and

    Jan 1, 1999

  • AIME
    Boston and Keweenaw

    By J. Robert Van Peli

    IT was a strange but highly fruitful marriage-that union of hardy explorers, seeking the rich treasures of copper in the Lake Superior wilderness, with Boston's aristocracy of brains, capital, an

    Jan 1, 1948

  • CIM
    New Nickel Value Chain from Laterite to Stainless Steel – Outotec Ferrochromenickel Process

    By L. Narhi, K. Haavanlammi

    "Approximately two thirds of annual nickel production is used as a raw material in the making of stainless steel, and about 60% of these nickel products are in the form of metallic nickel such as nick

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    A Valid Approach to Equipment Productivity and Reliability Benchmarking

    By R. Adsero

    The volume of data produced by operating mines has increased substantially over the last 10 years. However, the volume of data and analytical capability has been negatively correlated to equipment pr

    Feb 23, 2014

  • DFI
    Pile Load Test Results For Highway 280 Pile Uplift Test Site

    By Douglas Brittsan

    This paper presents pile tension and compression load test results for the Southern Freeway Viaduct (North) pile load test site. The testing program represents a collaboration between California Depar

    Jan 1, 1993

  • CIM
    Comparative tests of two operating procedures for the Turam electromagnetic prospecting system conducted at the McClean uranium deposits in northern Saskatchewan

    By K. Duckworth

    "Comparative tests of the conventional Turam survey configuration and an alternative configuration called the Tx-parallel configuration were conducted at the McClean uranium deposit in northern Saskat

    Jan 1, 1988

  • NIOSH
    IC 6813 Review of Illinois Coal-Mine Fatalities for 1933

    By A. U. Miller

    Since coal -mining records have been kept , reports of all mining States show that each year the lives of many workers have been sacrificed in the production of coal , and Illinois has contributed its

    Nov 1, 1934

  • TMS
    Australian Hydrometallurgy Research and Development

    By James Vaughan

    Australia is a major miner of ore that requires hydrometallurgical processing. According to the 2016 US Geological Survey Minerals Commodities Summaries, the country is 1st for aluminium (bauxite) and

  • SME
    The Jiboia Ti-Zr heavy mineral sands deposit: A new discovery in the coastal plain of the São Francisco River delta, northeast Brazil

    By Ricardo Oliveira Gallart de Menezes, Claudio Gerheim Porto, Reiner Neumann

    The Jiboia heavy mineral sands deposit is a new discovery associated with the São Francisco River delta on the northern coast of Sergipe state. The identified resources are part of the much larger min

    Apr 1, 2024

  • AUSIMM
    Continuous Surface Mining of Medium - Hard Materials

    By Halvorsen N

    For mining medium-hard materials on the surface, "Continuous Surface Miners" have been employed for some years. The latest generation surface miner extends the performance of this type of machine t

    Jan 1, 1990

  • AUSIMM
    Mixed Culture Bacterial Leaching of Manganese Dioxide

    Thirty mixed cultures of microorganisms from soil, water and mineral samples from the Groote Eylandt Mining Company mine site were approximately three times more effective in biodegrading manganese di

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Caterpillar With Tunnel Boom Boosts Productivity On Swiss Project

    A dedicated tunnel construction version of the Caterpillar 328D LCR compact radius excavator is proving highly productive on the A9 Autoroute construction project near Visp, in Switzerland. It is the

    Jan 1, 2009

  • IIMP
    Economía circular en la Industria Metalúrgica Minera

    By Kevin Sierra, Orfelinda Ávalo, David Martínez, Julio Guizado, Edwilde Yoplac

    Los relaves mineros son un subproducto común del proceso de recuperación de los metales y los minerales. En general, consiste en un lodo líquido compuesto de agua y partículas finas de metales y miner

    Sep 29, 2023

  • SME
    Mineral Chemistry and Phase Equilibrium Constraints on the Origin of Accretions Formed During Copper Flash Smelting

    By I. Moreno-Ventas, G. Ríos, J. C. Fernández-Caliani, M. Bacedoni

    "This paper delves into the constraints on the nature, origin and thermal evolution of the accretions formed in the uptake shaft of the flash smelting furnace operated by Atlantic Copper in Huelva, Sp

    Jan 1, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    Consolidation and shear strength testing and stability analysis of coal mine spoil degraded to mud

    By L Bergin, D J. Williams, S Islam, T A. Vangsness

    The flooding of open strip coal mines in the Bowen Basin and Hunter Valley Coalfields of Eastern Australia has the potential to soften the spoil and floor materials to produce “mud”. This mud can act

    Jul 23, 2018