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  • ISEE
    Analysis of Parameters of the Ground Vibration Produced by Bench Blasting at a Boron Open Pit Mine in Turkey

    By Gungor Tuncer, Ali Kahriman, Abdulkadir Karadogan, Mehmet Aksoy, Kagan Ozdemire

    With increasing environmental constraints on the levels of disturbance induced by blasting operations upon nearby residents, there is an increasing need to be able to design cautious blasting with gre

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    Water Utilization by Oil Sands Mines in Alberta

    By Leslie F. Sawatsky

    Raw water import requirements for oils sands mines depends mainly on factors such as ore processing rate, ore material characteristics, tailings processing technology, tailings storage systems, proces

    May 1, 2004

  • NIOSH
    IC 8048 Bibliography Of Zirconium: Supplement To Information Circulars 7771 And 7830 ? Introduction

    By Eleanor Abshire

    THIS PUBLICATION is the third to be prepared as a result of a cooperative project by the Bureau of Ships and the Bureau of Mines for accumulating literature published on zirconium and hafnium. The und

    Jan 1, 1962

  • ISEE
    Deadhead and Dry-run Testing of a 3-inch Emulsion Gear Pump

    By C. M. Badeen, J. Paige, W. Evans, L. McCauley, A. Caddies, I. Alilovic, R. Turcotte, C. O. Lyogun, C. Bonner

    Gear pumps are very commonly used for the pumping of AN-water based emulsion products for both handling and blast loading applications. The potential major hazardous problems likely to be encountered

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Creative distribution techniques can help market penetration of industrial minerals

    By Mark P. Juzli

    During the 1980s, a revolution has been taking place in industrial minerals marketing. Transportation deregulation and a handful of creative marketing and distribution managers have completely changed

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    TBM Breakthroughs in Pressurized Conditions—Three Rivers Protection and Overflow Reduction Tunnel (3RPORT) and Northeast Boundary Tunnel (NEBT) Projects - NAT2022

    By Francesco Chiappalone, Filippo Azzarà, Raffaele Aliberti, Daniele Nebbia, Lance Waddell

    As part of the 3RPORT and NEBT Projects, 5-mile Combined Sewer Overflow Tunnels were excavated with a 19 ft diameter Slurry and 26 ft diameter EPB Tunnel Boring Machines. Due to the difficult geologic

    Dec 1, 2022

  • CIM
    Geological and Hydrogeological Conditions for Forming Uranium Occurrences in the Froqlos-Jabal Abou Rabah Region, Palmyrides, Syria

    By R. Al-Hent, M. Aissa, J. Asfahani

    "This paper focuses on determining the favorable geological and hydrogeological conditions for forming uranium occurrences in the Froqlos-Jabal Abou Rabah region, Palmyrides, Syria. Eighty rock sample

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Fugitive Dust Control at Porcupine Joint Venture – Dome Mine

    By John Folinsbee, Brian Danyliw, Tony Y. Chong

    "Control of fugitive dust has become increasingly important in the mining industry both from a health and safety and environmental standpoint. Mining operations in particular have required improved fu

    Jan 1, 2005

  • ISEE
    Detonation Line Standards and Specifications-Someday?

    By James A. McGrath

    "The predominant key word associated with all commercial blasting methods is “safety”. Safetyshould take precedent over all other aspects of the entire explosives industry which on a wholehas had an e

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    Optimisation of Flotation Pulp Selectivity Utilising Nodal Analysis

    By Kym Runge, Emmy Manlapig

    "The objective of an industrial flotation circuit is to separate valuable minerals from non-valuable minerals utilising differences in their flotation recovery rate. Regrinding and reagent addition ar

    Jan 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Project Delivery

    By E Skinner, G Lane

    Project delivery strategies are determined by project context, business case requirements, scale of project, market conditions, ownerÆs capability and preference, contractorÆs experience, resource and

    Jul 15, 2013

  • SME
    Underground Facilities for the Superconducting Super Collider

    By John E. Shively, Tracy K. Lundin, Francis Fong

    The Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) features two 20 TeV counter rotating proton beams which will be housed in 87 km (54 miles) of tunnel. Four additional lower energy particle accelerators will b

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Flotation Froth Image Segmentation Based on Highlight Correction and Parameter Adaptation Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (ff8d32fd-da4e-43f4-8da2-8beb808a22d7)

    By Wen Tao Liu, Tong Tian, Fu Sheng Niu, Xiu Man Liang

    In order to address the difficulty of accurate segmentation of froth images of different sizes, a method of froth image segmentation based on highlight correction and parameter adaptation is proposed.

  • SME-ICGCM
    Global Trends in Coal Mine Horizontal Stress Measurements

    By Christopher Mark

    Knowledge of in situ stresses is fundamental to many studies in earth sciences, and coal mine ground control is no exception. During the past 20 years, it has become clear that horizontal stress is

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    Response to Load for Four Different Types of Bored Piles

    By Mario Terceros H., Bengt H. Fellenius

    "ABSTRACTFour strain-gage instrumented bored piles were constructed in a sedimentary, dense to very dense, fine to medium sand in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Two of the test piles were the normally used bore

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME-ICGCM
    Pillar Design Considering the Plastic Behavior of the Coal Seam

    By Andre Zingano

    The variation in pillar behavior at underground coal mines working in the Bonito coal seam is observed in both research and mining company case studies. There is no consistency in pillar behavior, as

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Transactions Volume 344 - 2018 - SME Transactions 2018

    By Chee S. Theng

    As the 2018 president of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Inc., I am pleased to present the 2018 issue of the Transactions of the Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Inc., Vol

    Jan 1, 2018

  • NIOSH
    OFR-6-73 Portable Mine Dust Concentration Instrument - I. Introduction

    By C. E. Lapple

    To improve mine health and safety conditions, there is need for a portable instrument that mine inspectors can use routinely for rapidly checking concentrations of dust in mine atmospheres. On October

    Jan 1, 1972

  • AUSIMM
    The Influence of Pyrite on the Pulp Chemistry and Copper Flotation Response of a Chalcopyrite Ore

    By L Teixeira, C J. Greet, P Karageorgos

    Pyrite is ubiquitous within copper ores, and presents significant challenges to most operations in terms of its impact on copper sulfide concentrate grade and recovery.Samples of ore containing from 3

    Sep 7, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Support stability mechanism in a coal face with large angles in both strike and dip

    By X. Q. Cao, D. S. Zhang, L. Q. Ma

    To solve the support stability control problem for a coal face with large angles along both strike and dip (CLSD), the ’support-surrounding rock’ mechanical model has been developed, which takes into

    Jan 1, 2015