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  • NIOSH
    OFR-15-80 Technical And Economic Evaluation Of Underground Disposal Of Coal Mining Wastes

    By M. F. Bucek

    This report summarizes the activities performed and the results achieved during a two-phased investigation of the technical and economic feasibility of disposing of coal mine refuse underground in act

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME
    Characterization of San Diego’s Stadium Conglomerate for Tunnel Design

    By S. J. Boone, A. Poschmann, C. Pound, A. Pace

    San Diego’s Stadium Conglomerate consists of poorly cemented cobbles, gravel, sand, silt and clay. Conventional laboratory and in-situ testing is not suitable for characterizing its engineering proper

    Jan 1, 2001

  • NIOSH
    IC 8102 Injury Experience In The Metal Industries, 1958 ? Introduction And Summary

    By John C. Machisak

    INJURY experience and employment data at all metal mines in the United States and Alaska are presented in this Information Circular for the calendar year 1958. This publication covers the metal mining

    Jan 1, 1962

  • IOM3
    Trace-element geochemistry and alteration facies associated with epithermal gold-silver mineralization in the evolving volcanic centre, Rosita Hills, Colorado, USA

    By C. J. A. Mcewan, C. M. Rice

    The Rosita Hills contain rich, vein- and breccia pipe-hosted precious metal deposits. Volcanic activity occurred in two cycles - an early, mainly andesitic cone-building phase that terminated in the f

    Jan 1, 1991

  • NIOSH
    Technology News - No. 491 - NIOSH Releases Two New Safety Training Videos

    Objective To develop safety training tools for mine health and safety trainers that fill gaps in currently available materials and help capture the wisdom and knowledge of “expert miners.” Backg

    Jun 1, 2001

  • SAIMM
    Modelling water uptake in highly compacted bentonite in environmental sealing barriers

    By W. Wittke, J. Gattermann

    ABSTRACT: One alternative to close a radioactive waste repository in rock salt is the construction of a “Cross Section Closure (CSC)“ sealing barrier. The proposed material for the CSC is highly compa

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SME
    Geometallurgical Modeling of the Escondida Deposit - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Andres Salazar, Carlos Delgado Robles, Richard K. Preece

    Minera Escondida, located in the Antofagasta Region of northern Chile, is the world’s largest producer of copper as concentrate and SX-EW cathode. Projects to increase mill and flotation capacity bega

    Aug 31, 2023

  • AUSIMM
    Development of a Goaf Pipe Gas Sampling Technique in Detecting Spontaneous Combustion in Collieries

    A recently developed technique for use in collieries is described in which samples of gas of relatively high vitiation value are obtained from points deep within a developing goaf by means of pipes. T

    Jan 1, 1961

  • ISEE
    Blast Modeling with Sabrex 3.5 and Its Applications to Improve Mine Productivity

    By Stephen H. Chung

    The blasting performances identified above are considered to be the most practical ones for judging the effectiveness of a design combining explosives / rock / drill pattern. In a total blast design p

    Jan 1, 1994

  • CIM
    Influence of hydrogen peroxide addition on the corrosion of carbon steel by concentrated sulphuric acid

    By C. M. Davidson, D. J. Drexler

    "Sulphuric acid treated with hydrogen peroxide to destroy organic contaminants could conceivably show increased corrosivity toward carbon steel shipping and storage vessels, caused by the persistence

    Jan 1, 1987

  • NIOSH
    IC 8089 Proceedings: Tenth International Conference Of Directors Of Safety In Mines Research ? Introduction

    The Tenth International Conference of Directors of Safety in Mines Research was held in the United States from September 28 through October 2, 1959, at Hotel Webster Hall, Pittsburgh, Pa. The Conferen

    Jan 1, 1962

  • AUSIMM
    Mesothermal Gold Mineralisation in the Tectonically Active Southern Alps: Analogues for the Otago Schist?

    By P O. Koons, R J. Norris, S C. Cox

     The Southern Alps is an active oblique collisional zone which has a characteristic wedge-shaped geometry above a low-angle ductile shear zone. The Main Divide region is a relatively low strain z

    Jan 1, 1997

  • NIOSH
    RI 5914 Engineering Study Of Water Injection In 14 Oil Reservoirs Of North Louisiana ? Summary

    By Paul Meadows

    This Bureau of Mines report presents operating practices and results of pressure maintenance and secondary recovery by water injection or by water injection supplemented by gas injection. Particular e

    Jan 1, 1962

  • AIME
    Part II – February 1968 - Papers - Dislocation Structures in Niobium (Columbium) Single Crystals Observed by Optical Microscopy

    By R. G. Vardiman, M. R. Achter

    Observations of dislocation structure in niobium are presented using two techniques. Triangular pits developed by electroetching are confined to orientations in the stereographic triangle between the

    Jan 1, 1969

  • NIOSH
    OFR-76(2)-75 Mine Electrical Systems Evaluation - Explosion-Proofing Of Mine Containers - Introduction

    By Robert Stefanko

    In the context of the following report, an hazardous location can be described as any industrial area in which flammable or explosive gases, vapors, and dusts can be encountered. When electrical appar

    Jan 1, 1974

  • SAIMM
    Metal Dusting On Alloys 602CA And 800 - Synopsis

    By F. M. L. Mulaudzi

    Metal dusting is a corrosion phenomenon that occurs in strongly carburizing gas atmospheres at elevated temperatures. Reaction kinetics and product characterizations of Alloys 602CA and 800 were exami

    Jan 1, 2012

  • CIM
    Mineral processing, research and development projects in Nova Scotia conducted through the Canada/Nova Scotia Mineral Development Agreement

    By D. M. Doyle, P. J. Hannon

    "The Canada/Nova Scotia Mineral Development Agreement (M.D.A.) is a subsidiary of a five-year Economic and Regional Development Agreement, signed on June 11, 1984. The objectives of the M.D.A. are to

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AIME
    The Antimony Deposits of Arkansas

    By Charles E. Wait

    IT is said by some that the occurrence of a deposit of sulphide of antimony in Southwestern Arkansas has been known for fifteen or twenty years. Whether or not such is the case I am not prepared to sa

    Jan 1, 1880

  • ISEE
    Analysis of Rock Fragmentation by Blasting Using Combined CFD/FEZ/DEM Models

    By Alejandro Ferrada Vergara, Héctor Espinoza Muñoz

    Drilling and blasting stages are considered factors that impact downstream processes significantly and over all the mining business value chain. Adequate control of these processes may represent energ

    Jan 1, 2016

  • AUSIMM
    Mount Bischoff Extended Tin Mining Co., Waratah, Tasmania

    During August, 1926, with the consent of Mr. Schell, mine manager, the writer conducted a mill test on this company's concentrators. Mr. Schell not only gave him his permission, but rendered all

    Jan 1, 1928