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  • SME
    Inductive Electrostatic Gradiometry (IESG) Deciphers Keweenawan Copper Plumbing System

    By J. Trow

    Dowsing is really IESG which inductively locates electric gradients (dv/dx) on the flanks of SP anomalies. "Sensors" are in one?s head. The "meter" consists of one?s body, limbs, and two $.69 welding

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Prospectors and Developers Meeting – Some Reflections

    By Bruce Gellar

    In March, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) held its annual conference in Toronto, Ontario. This is the third PDAC meeting the author has attended. The following are some

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Risk management competence in Australia gets a boost from new software

    By Sandy Worden

    Coal mining companies in Australia are managing the high-consequence risks across their operations more effectively by using an interactive online risk management system known as Riskgate Developed

    Jul 1, 2013

  • SME
    Waterproofing of a Subsea Tunnel with a Unique Sprayable Membrane— The Nordöy Road Tunnel, Faroe Islands

    By Sigurd L. Lamhauge, Karl Gunnar Holter, Svein E. Kristiansen

    An innovative sprayable waterproofing membrane in combination with the traditional Nordic method of waterproofing with polyethylene foam sheets was used for the waterproofing of the tunnel. The spraya

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Rockworks Earthapps - A Free Collection Of 74 Programs Forcreating Geologically-Related Diagrams Within Google Earth

    By J. Reed

    The RockWorks EarthApps represent a free collection of 74 geology-related programs that read data from a built-in datasheet and create diagrams within Google Earth. EarthApps also includes programs th

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Pre-Excavation Grouting at the Hemphill site — Atlanta WSP Tunnel

    By Konner Horton, Adam L. Bedell, Don Del Nero, Brian Jones

    "The City of Atlanta’s Water Supply Program Tunnel project includes a 7,315-m (24,000-ft) long, 4-m (13-ft) diameter, hard rock tunnel. A complex aspect of the project involves connecting five, blind

    Jan 9, 2018

  • SME
    Optimal Sizing Of Conventionally-Sunk Ventilation Shafts Based Upon Capital And Operating Criteria (e05ee128-628b-45f8-8a69-2e8e36ccc831)

    By Y. J. Wang

    The selection of a shaft size for ventilation purposes is a classic problem of concern to mining engineers. This presentation is concerned with the sizing of conventionally-sunk circular shafts with c

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    First North American Longwall in Pitching Seams Proven Feasible

    By James F. Reynolds

    Introduction There are 1.4 Gt (1.5 billion st) of recoverable coal under less than 914 m (3,000 ft) of cover in Colorado in pitching seams. Snowmass Coal Co., in cooperation with the US Department

    Jan 12, 1983

  • SME
    Mining And Enviromining Law For Industrial Minerals And Rocks

    With the advent of the environmental "green" movement of the 1960s, eventually leading to Earth Day 1970, Congress responded by passage of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 1970. NEPA gave

    Jan 1, 1994

  • SME
    Effects of Temperature and pH on Pressure Filtration of Coal Refuse Slurry

    By G. S. S. Raman, M. S. Klima

    Coal refuse slurries stored in tailings impoundments can potentially lead to environmental concerns such as effluent seepage, property devaluation, and in extreme cases, dam failures. Pressure filtrat

    Jun 17, 2019

  • SME
    Effects of Temperature and pH on Pressure Filtration of Coal Refuse Slurry Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By G. S. S. Raman, M. S. Klima

    Coal refuse slurries stored in tailings impoundments can potentially lead to environmental concerns such as effluent seepage, property devaluation, and in extreme cases, dam failures. Pressure filtrat

  • SME
    Effects of Temperature and pH on Pressure Filtration of Coal Refuse Slurry Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (08bb591f-8b35-4c27-9be5-b591d55e4b86)

    By G. S. S. Raman, M. S. Klima

    Coal refuse slurries stored in tailings impoundments can potentially lead to environmental concerns such as effluent seepage, property devaluation, and in extreme cases, dam failures. Pressure filtrat

  • SME
    The Use Of Instrumented Split-Set Rock Bolts To Monitor Strain In The Walls Of A Deep Underground Mine Stope

    By F. Maciosek, D. Denton, J. Johnson

    Researchers from the Spokane Research Laboratory of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health and personnel from Coeur Silver Valley, Wallace, ID, conducted tests using rock strain st

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SME
    Australian Mineral Sands Operations 1982 ? Introduction

    By V. J. McSweeney

    This paper is directed at interested parties outside the Beach Sand Industry : the scope is quite broad. The geomorphology described is a successful working hypothesis which guided the author during p

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    DRONE-BASED APPLICATIONS FOR TAILINGS DAM MONITORING - SME Annual Conference 2023

    By J. A. G. Llerena, J. Sattarvand

    Tailings dam failures have been occurring in recent years. They are considered more vulnerable than hydraulic dams due to the lack of regulations on specific design criteria, and stability requirement

    Feb 1, 2023

  • SME
    Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project, Iceland Extreme Underground Construction

    By Bernhard Leist, William D. Leech, Johann Kröyer, Holger Evers

    Landsvirkjun—the national electric power company of Iceland—is building the Kárahnjúkar Hydroelectric Project in eastern Iceland. Two glacial river systems will be dammed and channeled through a serie

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Reconnaissance Study Of The Association Of Zeolites With Mesothelioma Cancer Occurrences In Central Turkey - Introduction

    By Frederick A. Mumpton

    Recent findings by medical workers on the association of certain zeolite minerals with the high incidence of pleural mesothelioma in two small Turkish villages have caused considerable excitement both

    Jan 1, 1979

  • SME
    Evaluation of Pollution of Mining Areas in Aspect of their Future Use and Development

    By D. J. Pyra, J. Kudelko, Korzekwam W.

    Polkowice region (Lower Silesia, Poland) is an area, where the copper mining activity started about 40 years ago and new technologies were applied. There are 3 underground mines, 3 processing plants,

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SME
    Flotation Plant Instrumentation

    By Dexter C. Hatch

    At MacIntyre Development of the National Lead Company, Taha s, New York,, the flotation plant was set up to recover ilmenite from the finer size fraction of the ore that cannot be efficiently treated

    Jan 1, 1962

  • SME
    Automated Conditions Mining at Sylvite

    By William G. Schultz

    Sylvite of Canada, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Co., operates an 8000 TPD potash mine and refinery located nine miles North East of Rocanville, Saskatchewan. Prior to Hu

    Jan 1, 1972