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An Empirical Relationship For Trona Mine Design
By William G. Fischer
This paper attempts to close the gap between extensive rock testing with field measurements and the mine operator's need for safe mine layouts and alternatives. It was found that many of the vari
Jan 1, 1984
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Industrial Minerals review 2017
By Jack Bedder, Nils Backeberg
"Native antimony metal is rare and antimony generally occurs together with gold, lead, copper and silver. There are more than 100 antimony minerals, although the sulfide mineral stibnite is the main e
Jan 7, 2018
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Geology Of Wyoming's Powder River Coal Field
By G. B. Glass
In 1996, 92.5% or 233 Mt (257.4 million st) of coal produced in Wyoming came from the Wyodak coal zone in the eastern Powder River Coal Field. While the mined portions of the zone consist of one to th
Jan 1, 1998
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Production Operations
By Lee W. Saperstien
At the heart of the mining process are a number of basic and fundamental tasks whose regular and repeated performance constitute the mining cycle. As will be discussed presently, these tasks are the b
Jan 1, 2008
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Development of Mine Haul Road Surfacing Condition Monitoring Through Digital Image Processing
By S. Pastor, S. Hahn
"As the concept of autonomous haulage systems (AHS) moves from proto-types to production-ready applications, the operating performance of the haul road will become ‘mission critical’ to the overall su
Jan 1, 2015
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Oil Shale Mining - Present And Future
By R. B. Crookston
This paper presents the status and mining method chosen by each of the active underground oil shale projects in the united States today. Potential improvements in equipment and methods on the near-ter
Jan 1, 1981
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Government Role and Influence in Mining
By Thomas V. Falkie
In bygone days, the mineral engineer spent most of his/her time on the technical aspects of designing, building, and managing mineral operations. In the last few decades, mostly since the 1960s, incre
Jan 1, 2008
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Comparison Of Oleate Adsorption At Calcite And Fluorite Surfaces: An In-Situ FT-NIR/IRS And MLRS Study
By C. A. Young
In-situ Fourier transform infrared/internal reflection spectroscopy (FT ?IR/IRS) has been extended to study oleate adsorption at a calcite surface. The birefringent and transmission limitations of cal
Jan 1, 1993
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Application Of Slag Technology To Recycling Of Solid Wastes
By Paul B. Queneau
Formulation and commercial utilization of solid-waste incinerator slag by-product is the focus of this paper. Particular attention is given to iron aluminosilicate melts having compositions similar to
Jan 1, 1991
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New Trends In Video Analytics And Surveillance Systems And Its Potential Applications For The Mining Industry
By F. Mielli
Camera systems and video surveillance are usually associated with people and asset protection. However, they can be applied in a mine environment beyond conventional surveillance: For process monitori
Feb 27, 2013
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Synthetic Zeolites: Properties And Applications ? Introduction
By Donald W. Breck
Zeolites were first recognized as a new group of minerals by Cronstedt with the discovery of stilbite in 1756. The word zeolite was coined from the two Greek words meaning "to boil" and "a stone" beca
Jan 1, 1973
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New Approaches for Mine Control Stations for SME Mining Companies via OPC UA
By T. Krichler
"Current mine control stations are either single-position systems with high engineering effort or all-in-a-box solutions with low integration possibilities of third-party devices. Above all, both appr
Jan 1, 2018
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Small Mine Financing in Canada : One Person’s Experience
By William L. Young
There is an old saying in Canada: "Mines are made as much as discovered." What follows is Young's perception of his experience developing and financing the Cochrane Hill gold mine project. In
Jan 6, 1982
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Stratabound Tungsten Deposits In Metamorphic Terrains: Stratabound Scheelite Deposits Of Northeast Brazil
By J. C. Reid
Pre-cambrian scheelite deposits in Northeastern Brazil are widespread in a high grade metamorphic terrain. Previously these deposits had been interpreted as contact-metasomatic. In this paper, a volca
Jan 1, 1983
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The U.S. Cement Industry Operating In An Unfriendly Environment
Cement in 1975 indeed did operate in an unfriendly environment. World recession, escalating costs, fuel crises, reduced product demand . . . . all led to market conditions detrimental to industry prof
Jan 1, 1976
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Reclamation of Canmore Creek; Example of a Successful Walk Away Pit Lake Closure
By H. Gerry Stephenson, Devin Castendyk
"One of the most important environmental issues associated with contemporary openpit mining is the closure of mine pit lakes, and the perpetual legacy these lakes can potentially generate. Ideally, su
Aug 1, 2019
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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
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Industrial Minerals In Mexico
By Guillermo P. Selas
Perhaps this is the first time that an analysis of the industrial minerals panorama has been made in Mexico for that type of commodities. Because the non-metallic minerals lack the glamour of the meta
Jan 1, 1974
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Diesel Exhaust Contamination Of Mine Ventilation Systems ? 1. Introduction
By P. C. Thakur
The productivity in coal mines, measured in terns of the output per manshift depends largely on the efficiency and speed of men and materials transport between working faces and the surface. The mecha
Jan 1, 1975
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Mining the Lake Superior Ores.
By Duluth Engineers' Club, Engineers' Club of Northern Minnesota
"Prospecting and Exploration. Since the Lake Superior ores occur in pockets or distinct bodies and vary much as to character and location, the actual mining of the ores is preceded by much work of an
Jan 1, 1920