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  • DFI
    The Seven Steps To Foundation Retrofit

    By Javier Rodriguez

    Adaptive re-use of existing structures in urban environments has become very common due to lack of available space in our cities and requirements for increased structural capacity. Often, it involves

    Jan 1, 2006

  • NIOSH
    IC 8859 An Introduction To The Mine Inspection Data Analysis System (MIDAS)

    By W. F. Watts

    This report describes the Mine Inspection Data Analysis System (MIDAS) developed by the Bureau of Mines to analyze the records of industrial hygiene samples collected by the Mine Safety and Health Adm

    Jan 1, 1981

  • CIM
    Economic Optimisation of Pb-Zn Concentrates By Regrinding and Cyanidation of Silver from Zinc Concentrate

    By Carlos Avalos Casillas, Saul Ortiz Landeros

    The current work shows metallurgical results obtained at the Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo Tecnológico (Peñoles CIDT), as a continuation of the work first published in February 2012. With the a

    Jan 1, 2014

  • CIM
    Fabrication of Gold Nanoparticle Superlattices and Their Optical and Electronic Properties

    By Toshiharu Teranishi

    When we apply the Au nanoparticle superlattices to the future nanooptical and nanoelectronic devices, the control of not only the particle size but also the interparticle spacing and symmetry of super

    Oct 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    The Tennant Creek Goldfield

    The Tennant Creek goldfield is situated in the Northern Territory, 360 miles north of Alice Springs, or a tot~l distance of 1,300 miles north of Adelaide, and 600 miles south of Darwin. The auriferous

    Jan 1, 1942

  • SAIMM
    Effect of Reclaimed Bauxite on Andalusite-Based Refractory Castables for Tundish Applications

    By E. Matinde, S. L. Msibi

    "The robust nature of alumina refractory materials presents opportunities for their in-process reclaiming and re-use in non-critical applications. Virgin refractories can be substituted with different

    Jun 1, 2019

  • DFI
    Arbitration - The Tender Trap

    By James Green

    It has often been said that the best contracts written are by people who are suspicious of each other. The Spanish philosopher, Ortega y Gasset, said: "Every contract is an Act of Distrust." T

    Jan 1, 1987

  • NIOSH
    RI 4523 Laboratory Study Of Asphalts From Native Bitumens And Bituminous Sandstones

    By Rethel L. Hubbard

    Fourteen straight-run asphalts were prepared in the laboratory from bitumens obtained from three sources: (1) native bitumen from Rozel Point, Utah, (2). bitumen extracted from Athabaska bituminous sa

    Jan 1, 1949

  • AUSIMM
    Conceptual Exploration for Tin, Gold and Diamond Placer Deposits in ‘Sundaland’ (Indonesia and Malaysia) by Understanding the Late Cainozoic Stratigraphic Context

    By D A-F Batchelor

    "An EXTENDED ABSTRACT is available for download. A full-length paper was not prepared for this presentation.South-East Asia represents the world’s most productive tin province, mainly from placers. Ka

    Mar 18, 2015

  • NIOSH
    RI 7139 Electrification Of Ammonium Nitrate In Pneumatic Loading

    By E. L. Litchfield

    The electrification of ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (AN-FO) blasting agents by pneumatic loaders is described and discussed. The consequences of the electrification are considered in light of the initiat

    Jan 1, 1968

  • CIM
    Economic Evaluation of Activated Carbon for Gold Milling Circuits

    By M. Drozd, M. Somppi, Z. Yamak

    "Granular activated carbon is widely used in the gold mining industry for gold extraction from aurocyanide-containing slurry. The extraction process can employ carbon as part of the gold recovery oper

    Jan 1, 2017

  • SAIMM
    Corrosion Protection Of Reinforcement For Concrete Structures

    By R. E. Wilmot

    The problem of corrosion of reinforcement in concrete structures is internationally recognised and represents the single biggest expenditure in the preservation of steel reinforced concrete structures

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Metallurgical Testing: Modeling Recovery versus Ore Grade

    By Manqiu Xu

    "Ore grades are decreasing and ore deposits are becoming more complex. In order to make a sound economical decision about a mining project, metallurgical testwork must be carried out. A few large “rep

    Jan 1, 2013

  • DFI
    Settelement Of A Piled-Raft Foundation Considering Lateral Pile Resistance

    By Helen S. W. Chow

    The use of piled raft foundations for tall buildings has been increasing in this decade as it is an economical alternative to conventional piled foundations. Piled rafts are composite structures compr

    Jan 1, 2006

  • AUSIMM
    West Works-Mount Morgan Chlorination

    THE treatment by chlorination of the Mount Morgan Gold Mining Company's ores was first accomplished, early in 1886, by a works having a capacity of 25,000 tons per annum. Shortly afterwards anoth

    Jan 1, 1910

  • SAIMM
    The Transformation Of Ferrochromium Smelting Technologies During The Last Decades

    By J. Daavittila, P. Jokinen, M. Honkaniemi

    In the latter part of the 1980?s Outokumpu Chrome in Tornio, Finland, was in a situation when its twenty-year-old ferrochrome plant was becoming inefficient to sustain economically sound production. T

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Advanced Mill Relining ? A Key Operational Control (Not Simply A ?Must Do? Maintenance Function)

    RME has a vision for a new grinding plant operational paradigm made possible by RME's fast, safe Mill Relining System. Some new liner designs can degrade SAG mill performance because of mill vol

    Jan 1, 2007

  • ISEE
    Application of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mixture for Stemming Performance Optimization

    By Braden Lusk, Paul Sainato, Josh Calnan, Hiago Vasconcelos, Luis Felipe Marinho

    "Blasting and rock fragmentation is one the most important unit operations in mining. Since itsintroduction into the mine production cycle, mining has become more efficient in mineral production(Hartm

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Considerations For Blending Low-Rank and High-Rank Coals – Preprint 97-15

    By O. Ogunsola, M. Downing

    This paper gives a brief overview of impacts of coal blending on coal-fired power plants performance and discuses the preliminary results of an on-going study aimed at evaluating the effect of coal pr

    Feb 24, 1997

  • AIME
    Necrology (f4d26498-e6b2-4315-840a-ee44a01b6677)

    The following is a list of members who died in 1928. It is compiled from reports to the Secretary's office. Biographical sketches published in Mining and Metallurgy are indicated in the

    Jan 1, 1929