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  • SME
    Processing Challenges ? Full Scale Plant Test Of Alternative Ore At The Empire Plant

    By H. Walqui

    The Empire concentrator currently processes magnetite ore from the Empire pit which is approaching the end of its mine life. Over the past two years plant wide tests have been run to access the plant

    Jan 1, 2010

  • SME
    Collapsible Columns to Limit Earth Flow Loading - NAT2024

    By Raymond Sandiford, Kenneth Xu, Taehyun Moon

    Tunnel approach structures situated in slow moving earth flows are subjected to significant earth pressures. The authors have developed a system, utilizing collapsible concrete columns, that limits su

    Jun 23, 2024

  • SME
    Constant Torque Results Of A Medium Voltage Afd Using Output Transformer - SME Annual Meeting 2022

    By T. A. Farr, I. A. Gibbs, F. Guevara, S. R. Simms, G. Nojima

    This paper describes an installation of a medium-voltage adjustable frequency motor drive (AFD) on a high starting torque regrinding mill. This type of application is typically found in the mineral in

    Mar 2, 2022

  • SME
    Application Of The Shrinking Core Model For Copper Oxide Leaching (SME-AIME Fall Meeting & Exibit St. Louis, Missouri, October 19-21, 1977 )

    By John L. Shafer

    Often an in situ leach is the only practical economic method for copper recovery from small low grade oxide deposits. The decision to develop a copper property by an in-situ blast and leach is strongl

    Jan 1, 1977

  • SME
    Lessons Learned at the Trampas Dam Inlet/Outlet Tunnel - RETC2021

    By Todd Kilduff, Paul Wilkinson

    Microtunneling is rarely a straight forward “business as usual” endeavor. More often than not, these projects take twists and turns that require on the fly, out of the box solutions to get the project

    Jun 13, 2021

  • SME
    Exploration sampling; The key to better mining projects

    By Barton G. Stone

    "Sampling is the process of taking a small portion of an article such that the consistency of the portion shall be representative of the whole," (Baxter and Parks, 1939)."An orebody is a mixture of mi

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    The Effect of Mixed Cationic/Anionic Surfactants with Different Ratios on Wetting and Flotation of Quartz

    "The adsorption of mixed cationic/anionic surfactants with different molar ratios onto quartz was investigated. The cationic surfactant used was dodecylamine bromide (DDA), and the anionic surfactant

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Effect of Bucket Geometry, Machine Variables, and Fragmentation Size on Performance of Rubber‑Tired Loaders - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2022)

    By Atta Ur Rehman, Kwame Awuah‑Offei

    This paper examines the effect of bucket geometry (cutting blade profile, floor profile, and blade thickness), speed, motor power output, and muckpile particle sizes on bucket penetration and draft fo

    Oct 29, 2021

  • SME
    Water Coal Slurry Making With Dsd Acid Production Wastewater

    By C. Sun

    With complex component, higher salt content, low biodegradability, DSD acid oxidation wastewater could not be efficiently dealt with traditional methods. It is pointed that the coal water slurry could

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Initial Breakthrough Analysis Between Grasberg Block Caving Mine and Grasberg Open Pit Through Seismicity - RASIM22

    By Eric Sitorus, Septian Prahastudhi, Roy William, Wieda Azani

    In July 2020, massive slope failure occurred in the southeast corner Grasberg open pit. This was the final episode in the breakthrough of Production Block 2 South (PB2S) of the Grasberg Block Cave to

    Jan 1, 2022

  • SME
    Investigation of subsidence events over inactive room-and-pillar mines - SME Transactions 2011

    By Yi Luo

    Subsidence events occurring above inactive room-and-pillar (R&P) mines, including abandoned mines or sealed portions of active mines, are classified as unplanned subsidence, because of their timing an

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Mine Disaster Crisis Management

    By J. S. Gardner

    Fortunately, few mining professionals have dealt with what all mining professionals fear---a mine disaster. Unfortunately, many have dealt with ?accidents? which may or may not claim lives but neverth

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Lepidolite Flotation From Low Grade Ores Using a Cationic Surfactant

    By J. Choi

    For the first time, the influence of stearyl trimethyl ammonium chloride (STAC) as a collector, on the flotation behavior of lepidolite (Uljin, South Korea) was systematically examined in Denver Sub-A

    Feb 23, 2014

  • SME
    Usability of Collaborative “VR Mine Rescue Training” Platform

    By Brendan Demich, Linda L. Chasko, Brendan Macdonald, Timothy J. Orr, Jessie J. Mechling, Cassandra Hoebbel, Jason Navoyski, William Helfrich, Jessica Cohen, Paul E. Schmidt, Jennica L. Bellanca

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in partnership with the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) developed VR Mine Rescue Training (VR-MRT). It is a training plat

    Jun 25, 2023

  • SME
    Commodity Agreements In The Elemental Sulfur Industry

    By James M. Barker

    No commodity agreements now exist for sulfur and a lack of reference to sulfur commodity agreements exists in the literature. Law (1975) made a passing reference to sulfur as one of a group of commodi

    Jan 1, 1985

  • SME
    The ‘Crago Process’ and Its Applicability to a South African Sedimentary Phosphate Deposit - Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration (2023)

    By Jon Pocock, Ashma Singh

    The traditional approach for the beneficiation of South African siliceous sedimentary phosphate ores has been reverse cationic flotation. The robustness of this approach, however, has been a concern d

    May 13, 2023

  • SME
    Health Hazards In Mining The Files And Facilities

    By Martha E. Smith

    INTRODUCTION Radiation is one of the many agents occurring in our environment that is capable of causing cancers. We are all unavoidably exposed to natural background radiation. If we wish to ex

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SME
    Confidence Interval Estimation For Minable Reserves

    By B. M. Davis

    The uncertainty associated with a reserve estimate has generally been expressed as a subjective ranking rather than a quantitative expression of either reliability or uncertainty. These rankings of es

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    The Industrial Uses Of Anthracite

    By Charles G. Zink

    Anthracite is widely known as a domestic or space heating fuel. The prevailing market ratio of domestic to industrial consumption was about 80 to 20 up until 1950. Since then it has been shifting unti

    Jan 1, 1966

  • SME
    Evaluation of Beneficiation Options for Recovery of Ultrafine Thermal Coal

    By A. Suarez, M. Menendez, M. R. Gent, P. Riesgo

    "Recent requirements to reduce thermal coal plant emissions, and ultrafine coal's tendency to produce these emissions due to its typically high ash and moisture contents have limited the use of ultraf

    Jan 1, 2016