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  • SME
    Innovative Mining Systems For Low-Cost Production In Very Thick Alluvial Deposits

    By G. Goellner

    The thick alluvial sand and gravel deposits along the base of the San Gabriel mountain range in Southern California area have been mined for construction aggregates for over 100 years. Encroachment of

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Risk-Management Process for Tailings Control

    By Franco Oboni, Iain G. Bruce

    The design of tailings containment structures relies on well-understood engineering methods being applied consistently. Unfortunately, not all facilities are designed or managed to the same level of

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Prediction Of Coal Continuity, Quality, And Mining Conditions As Afforded By Deposystem Analysis ? Introduction

    By R. H. Mullennex

    Application of depositional analysis concepts is becoming an ever-increasingly more important and more useable tool in exploration and development of coals in the Appalachian basin. Over the past deca

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    Mini Symposium - Management Practices In The Mining Industry ? Industrial Relations In The Mining Industry

    By Thomas F. Connors

    The end of an era is here. The pony-express era of industrial relations in the coal industry is ending. Those professionals who know it must end to insure the industry's future are happy, relieve

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Laboratory Assessment Of Rock Fragmentation Process By Continuous Miners – Preprint 97-172

    By V. B. Achanti, A. W. Khair

    Laboratory studies were carried out at West Virginia University to investigate the rock fragmentation mechanism by continuous miners using an automated rotary cutting simulator. The primary factors in

    Feb 24, 1997

  • SME
    Construction of a Mixed Face Reach Through Granitic Rocks and Conglomerate

    By John J. Murray, Michael T. McRae, Michael A. Krulc, Kathy L. Schuler

    The San Vicente Pipeline Tunnel Project involves the construction of an 8.5-foot-diameter water pipeline in an 11 mile tunnel in San Diego, California. The tunnel is located in extremely variable geol

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Auxiliary Operations

    By Christopher J. Vise

    Although production operations at mines, representing the extraction and removal of the mined material, often appear to receive the greatest amount of attention, the emphasis given to auxiliary operat

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    Managing Copper In Leach Solution At The Çöpler Gold Mine: Laboratory Testing And Process Design

    By M. Botz

    Alacer Gold Corporation is constructing the Çöpler Gold Mine in eastern Turkey. Mining commenced in the fourth quarter of 2009 and gold production started in the fourth quarter of 2010. The mine is

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Exploration sampling; The key to better mining projects

    By Barton G. Stone

    "Sampling is the process of taking a small portion of an article such that the consistency of the portion shall be representative of the whole," (Baxter and Parks, 1939)."An orebody is a mixture of mi

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Adaptive Environmental Management - "Reactive or Adaptive?"

    By Charles J. Kucera

    Today's highly publicized issues of resource development and environmental protection are not new. But recently these issues have been played one against the other, and some would have us believe

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Kennecott Celebrates Its Centennial

    On June 4, Kennecott Utah Copper (KUC)marked the centennial of the founding of the original company. Bill Champion is president and chief executive officer of KUC. He said, “What has happened during

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Electrolytic Removal of Iron from Aluminum Sulfate Solutions

    By S. C. Sun

    A study(1) on the sulfuric acid extraction of alumina from some Pennsylvania ferruginous clays indicated that the published electrolytic method(2)(3) seems to be more efficient than the known chemical

    Jan 1, 1968

  • SME
    Postmining Operations

    By Richard B. Stein

    Section 25 has been assembled to give the geological, mining, or metallurgical engineer an overview of some of the important downstream operations that typically follow mining activities. This subject

    Jan 1, 2008

  • SME
    More than 1,800 exhibitors in 12 halls will be at MINExpo International 2016

    By William Gleason

    "It is the largest mining exhibition in the world that attracts thousands of attendees from around the world to Las Vegas, NV once every four years. Despite the recent struggles in the mining industry

    Sep 1, 2016

  • SME
    The Greatest Challenges in TBM Tunneling: Experiences From the Field

    By Jim Clark

    Tunnel boring machine (TBM) tunneling is an ever-increasing prospect for underground construction, and, with each new tunnel bored, there are unknown elements. When boring through the earth, even ext

  • SME
    Northwest Mining Association Sparks Glimmer of Mining Hope

    By Steve Kral

    The domestic mining industry may be in the doldrums but there appears to be hope, at least from a regulatory standpoint. At least one US senator believes that the events of Sept. 11, 2001 made man

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Greenland: A Potential Trove of Minerals

    By Louis W. Cope

    Many Americans have seen Greenland while flying over it on their way to or from Europe. Few have visited this largest island in the world. Portions of the 20 percent of the territory that are not ic

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Experiences with Undermining by Coal in South Africa

    By J. N. Van der Merwe

    The paper provides an overview of subsidence research which was done by the Sasol Company in South Africa over a period of more than six years. The magnitudes of subsidence elements in South Africa ar

    Jan 1, 1986

  • SME
    The Outlook For Mica

    By S. A. Montague

    In spite of the many new insulating materials, both synthetic and manufactured, that have been put on the market since the end of World War II, and notwithstanding the many millions of dollars applied

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SME
    Evaluation of operational strategies for heap leaching of gold ores under subzero temperatures, Coffee Project, Kaminak Gold

    By Todd Schrauf, James Scott, Mark Smith

    "Cyanide heap leaching of gold ores in areas with extremely low winter temperatures requires special considerations to prevent freezing of the leach solution. Factors that impact the solution temperat

    Apr 1, 2016