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  • SME
    Modeling Truck-Shovel Systems As Multiple-Chain Closed Queuing Networks (39a088bc-3c9a-4c32-af64-1369ec2cd787)

    By P. K. Muduli

    The number and the type of trucks and shovels are two important factors in determining the optimal design parameters of an open-pit mining system. Characteristics of trucks' arrival and service-t

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Newmont USA and Derrick Corporation Collaborate on Technological Advancements of Screen Surface Technology in Gold Processing Plants

    By M. Zaske, E. R. Mortensen

    "As mine operators continuously look for ways to improve functionality and increase capacity of their facilities, existing process equipment is often pushed to and past its designed limitations. As a

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SME
    Improving Conveyor Transfer Point Performance in Hard Rock Mines

    By R. Shields

    "Hard rock mines move large volumes of material. But the conveyors essential to this movement suffer lots of problems, including carryback, spillage, dust, and belt wander. Many of these issues are cr

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SME
    Requirement of Airflow Reversal with Respect to the Proposed Nuclear Waste Repository in Basalt

    By Daniel J. Brunner

    The U. S. Department of Energy (D.O.E.) requires that the prospective nuclear waste repository in Basalt at Hanford, Washington, comply with State of California mine and tunnel safety orders. These re

    Jan 1, 1988

  • SME
    Mining and Hydraulic Transport of Minerals from Deep-Ocean Floor (bf680df2-1f92-458d-8f28-9e08eefa5209)

    By J. S. Chung

    As part of ongoing deep-ocean mining research, hydraulic transport systems as well as status of deep-ocean mining systems are reviewed in the aspects of manganese nodules and crusts from 800-6,000-m d

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    PCBs In Underground Mines: EPA/MSHA Enforcement Initiative

    By C. D. Secrest

    Visiting Spring Canyon, a historic coal mining district near Helper, Utah, I was impressed by the great accomplishments that had taken place there. A tour book of the region tells of a period that beg

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Particle Interactions In High Ionic Strength Solutions

    By J. D. Miller

    The recent non-equilibrium electro-phoretic mobility measurements by laser-Doppler electrophoresis coupled with the stability and prevalence of collector colloids in soluble salt flotation systems sug

    Jan 1, 1996

  • SME
    Decreased Carbon Footprint Through Effective Coal Degasification

    Growing concerns of climate change and its potential association with the release of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere have prompted possible legislation which would require minimization of greenhou

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Evaluation Of Glass Fibre Cable Bolts For Mining Applications

    By D. A. Peterson

    A research program is currently in progress at the University of British Columbia to determine the potential of composite cable bolt reinforcement in Canadian mines. Several prototypes of glass fibre

    Jan 1, 1993

  • SME
    Long-Term Stability for Two-Seam Mining at OCI's Big Island Mine

    By J. F. T. Agapito

    Two flat-lying trona seams 3-to 3.5-m thick, approximately 10 m apart, and at depths of 250 m are mined by room-and-pillar at OCI's Big Island Mine in Wyoming. Continuous miners and a yielding pi

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    A Computer-Aided Design Package For Column Flotation

    The criteria used to design, operate and control flotation columns are significantly different from those used for conventional flotation machines. Therefore, a computer-aided design (CAD) package for

    Jan 1, 1990

  • SME
    CFD Model Validation of Pollutant Transport in Open Pit Mine Under Air Inversion

    By K. V. Raj

    "The development and advancement of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) has made it possible to better understand pollutant flow and distribution in deep open pit mines. Open pits located at higher lat

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Improved Leaching Kinetics Of Chalcopyrite With Simultaneous Grinding And Leaching

    By J. R. Cobble

    The Bureau of Mines has developed a process to improve the leaching kinetics of diffusion controlled systems. The system features the Bureau-developed turbomill, an attrition grinder which scrubs the

    Jan 1, 1991

  • SME
    The Abc's Of Incentive Plans

    By Grant R. Brown

    The purpose of this opening paper is to provide an overview of incentives strategies. This overview includes a discussion of the different types of incentives, their advantages and disadvantages and t

    Jan 1, 1983

  • SME
    Peak Particle Velocity Doesn't Cut It

    By G. R. Coonan

    A number of famous studies have shown that house damage relates better to peak particle velocity than to acceleration or displacement. The relationship is true but doesn't go far enough. Why, for

    Jan 1, 1980

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    Chemical Mining - Theoretical And Practical Aspects

    By Paul W. Johnson

    Chemical mining is the in situ extraction of metals from ores located within the confines of a mine (broken or fractured ore, stope fill, caved material, ores in permeable zones) or in dumps, prepared

    Jan 1, 1967

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    Emergency Evacuation Guidance System for Underground Miners

    By D. Bristow, D. Baker, K. Awuah-Offei, A. ur Rehman

    While a body of work exists on intelligent systems for guiding occupants out of buildings during an emergency, the problem of guiding miners out of a mine during an underground emergency has not been

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SME
    A Comparison Of Geochemical Exploration Techniques In The Carolina Slate Belt

    By P. Geoffrey Feiss

    The Piedmont province of the southern Appalachians is becoming the focus of interest for many exploration geologists. In the past, only those deposits with significant surface exposure have been explo

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Processing Of Celestite From Sivas-Nasir / Turkey By Flotation

    By T. Guler

    Turkey has important celestite reserves in Sivas. These reserves have gypsum and/or calcite as gangue minerals. Celestite-calcite ore cannot be concentrated by gravity methods due to the low efficienc

    Jan 1, 1999

  • SME
    Machine Learning Models for Suspension System Performance Prediction in Large Dump Trucks

    By S. Frimpong, D. Ali

    For achieving bulk economic excavation, large dump trucks are being used in majority of the earth moving operations resulting in high impact shovel loading operations (HISLO) which exposes the operato

    Jan 1, 2019