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  • NIOSH
    OFR-6-88 Coal Interface Detector Investigation

    By Richard P. Cislo

    The evaluation of the effectiveness of the time domain Coal Interface Detector developed by the General Electric Company under contract H0155120 is the subject of this report. The sensor utilizes diff

    Jan 1, 1987

  • NIOSH
    RI 4801 Estimate Of Known Recoverable Reserves Of Coking Coal In Armstrong County, Pa.

    By James J. Dowd

    The investigation to evaluate the reserves of coking coal in the United States suitable for the manufacture of metallurgical coke is being made by the Bureau of Mines in three parts: (1) To estimate k

    Jan 1, 1951

  • AIME
    Metal Mining - What's New in Mining Safety

    By S. H. Ash, J. J. Forbes

    Probably the newest thing in mining safety, or safety for mines, is the apparent dissatisfaction on the part of the mineral industries, as represented by both management and labor, and the general pub

    Jan 1, 1950

  • CIM
    Metal Mine Ventilation (5a66f77a-e32a-4b69-828a-81ebc3b32b9e)

    By D. Harrington

    Ventilation of underground workings consists in establishment of such control of air currents that the underground workers may work in safety, with maximum comfort and efficiency, and without impairme

    Jan 1, 1933

  • NIOSH
    IC 7064 Effect Of Sulfur Compounds In The Air On Various Materials

    By L. R. Burdick

    This paper presents a review of published investigation dealing with the importance of sulfur compounds in the deterioration of materials or providing some basis for estimating the extent of loss shar

    Jan 1, 1939

  • AIME
    Stock Piling - Past, Present, And Future

    By Richard J. Lund

    Stock piling-and by that I mean well-organized stock piling on a substantial scale-is almost as old as the hills themselves. It was back in early Biblical times, as recounted in the Book of Genesis, t

    Jan 1, 1949

  • SAIMM
    Obituary: Dr Laurence Alison Bushel

    By Jack Levin

    Dr Laurence AlIison Bushel, a former President of the Chemical, Metallurgical and Mining Society of South Africa, now The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, was born in Queenstown on 20

    Jan 1, 1991

  • ISEE
    Blast Movement Measurement for Grade Control

    By Ian R. Firth

    For the majority of open pit precious metal mines in the western United States, grade control practices have evolved as a direct result of the variable geology of the ore body and the lack of a clear

    Jan 1, 2002

  • CIM
    Sustainable and Ethical Mining Practices using Water Treatment Technologies and Corporate Social Responsibility

    By M. Jayaraman

    With the ever increasing demand for commodities, due to changes in lifestyle and increase in population, people are striving to find ways to keep up. Mining is one essential element in the solution. T

    Aug 1, 2013

  • AIME
    A. I. M. E. Pamphlets And'technica1 Publications, 1921-1927

    [Separates of all the Pamphlets published within the last three years (starting with No. 1469) are available, with few exceptions, at Institute headquarters. Separates of all the Technical Publication

    Jan 1, 1926

  • SME
    Installation Of A Supervisory Control System At A Gold Pressure Oxidation Plant (edba5c85-6442-4bfd-bdfb-2b55fb328e40)

    By M. Spangler

    FirstMiss Gold installed a supervisory control system based on Pavilion Technology's Process Insights neural network software and Oil System's PI data historian. The primary goal of the syst

    Jan 1, 1995

  • SME
    Continuous Surface Mining Equipment: How to Achieve Success

    By Edward DeLilla

    For the past 30 years, surface mines have moved toward more highly mechanized, automatic systems that continuously mine overburden and ore to increase productivity, lower operating costs and minimize

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME-ICGCM
    A New Generation of Web-Based Applications for Mine Design

    By Nathaniel Schaefer, Christopher Newman, Zach Agioutantis

    "As mining reserves continue to be developed in deeper and more complex geological and geometric conditions, there has been an increased demand for underground mine designs to better reflect site-spec

    Jan 1, 2017

  • AUSIMM
    McArthur River Mine Heavy Medium Plant – The Benefits of Applying Modern Coal Plant Design Principles to Base Metal Heavy Medium Separation

    By K Cameron, S Strohmayr, J Wallace

    In 2012, a single module heavy medium cyclone plant (HMP) was installed at the Glencore Zinc’s (then Xstrata Zinc) McArthur River lead zinc mine. The HMP formed the first part of the MRM Phase 3 Proje

    Sep 7, 2015

  • AUSIMM
    The HydroFloat Separator ù A New Technology for Recovering Coarse Phosphate Sands

    By T C. Westerfield, G, M J. Mankosa

    An innovative separator known as the HydroFloat cell has been developed specifically for the upgrading of coarse particles that are difficult to recover using conventional flotation cells. The novel c

    Jan 1, 2005

  • NIOSH
    Introduction (191ea09a-8f30-412e-8e53-a39be1fccca1)

    Humankind's interest in measurement of human physical strength probably dates to the first humans. At that time, life was truly a struggle in which the fittest survived. To a great extent, fittes

    Jan 1, 1998

  • NIOSH
    IC 8853 Proceedings Of The Workshop On Techniques For Measurement Of Thermodynamic Properties, Albany, Oreg., August 21-23, 1979

    To improve communication among Government, industry, and academic researchers in the field of thermodynamics, the Federal Bureau of Mines sponsored a Workshop on Techniques for Measurement of Thermody

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Maintenance Scheduling And Inventory Control Computer Systems At The Iron Ore Company Of Canada ? I. Introduction

    By William V. Robinson

    The Iron Ore Company of Canada mines, processes and ships crude iron ore, concentrate and pellets from the rich ore bodies of the Labrador Trough area in the extreme north-eastern part of Canada, some

    Jan 1, 1975

  • NIOSH
    IC 6939 Report Of Work Of The Mining Division, U. S. Bureau Of Mines For Calendar Year 1936, And Program For 1937

    By Chas. F. Jackson

    The work of the mining division is divided between seven sections, each in charge of a supervising engineer, as follows: 1. Metal-mining methods section, the supervising engineer of which is also s

    Jan 1, 1937

  • SME
    Social, Environmental And Governmental Issues Impacting The Uranium Industry

    By Jon J. Indall

    I. INTRODUCTION The challenge of moving the use of nuclear energy from military to civilian use was first issued by President Dwight Eisenhower in his December 8, 1953 “Atoms for Peace” speech deliv

    Jan 1, 2007