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  • SME
    Mineralogic Sources Of Metals In Leachates From The Weathering Of Sedex, Massive Sulfide, And Vein Deposit Mining Wastes

    By S. F. Diehl

    Weathered mine waste consists of oxidized primary minerals and chemically unstable secondary phases that can be sources of readily soluble metals and acid rock drainage. Elevated concentrations of met

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    The role of coal and CCS in energy policy and sustainable development of Turkey: Is it compatible to the EU energy policy?

    By N. Sahin, K. Baris, A. Ozarslan

    This paper aims to assess the current and future role of coal in energy strategy of Turkey and evaluates the compatibility of the policies to the EU energy policy and strategy. The Turkish government

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Disconnected Piled Raft Foundations Performance (DCPRF) With Cushion

    By Saeed Salehi Malekshah

    In hybrid foundation system or piled raft foundation (PRF), the raft has adequate bearing capacity and piles are usually required to ensure overall stability of foundation and also to act as settlemen

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Simulation And Modeling Of Pillar Stability And Analysis Of Safety Factor

    By Z. Hyder

    Simulation and modeling is powerful tool to analyze real time data and can be used to analyze different scenarios using appropriate software that may reduce need of infield data collection process and

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Mine Wide Protection For Miners, Equipment And Infrastructure

    By W. H. Schiffbauer

    The protection of miners, equipment, and infrastructure is discussed. While the primary focus of the described technology is to prevent miners from being injured, struck-by, or crushed by heavy equipm

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    Precious Metals Leaching from Electronic Wastes

    By F. Rashchi, N. Naseri Joda

    Recycling of electronic wastes is an important subject both from an environmental point of view and also the recovery of valuable materials. In this research, PC board scraps were leached to recover C

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Fluidized Bed Roasting Of Micro-Pelletized Zinc Concentrate: Part I?Pellet Strength And Roasting Kinetics - Synopsis

    By S. Heukelman

    Zinc or, a zinc refinery in South Africa, uses oxygen enrichment of up to 26% O2 in its fluidizing air to increase concentrate-throughput in its fluidized bed roasters. The aim of the study is to dete

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    The Influence Of Slag Basicity And Composition On Conarc Magnesia-Carbon Refractories During The Blowing Phase ? Synopsis

    By A. Muller

    The magnesia-carbon refractories used in the ConArc process experience severe wear as a result of the varying slag composition during the blowing phase. This work determines the basicity range in whic

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Underground Mega Mass Blasting With Electronic Initiation Near Urban Area (fc2c255c-164d-4629-975a-222d3dbec279)

    By J. -F. Lagueux

    Goldex Mine is an underground mine located near the town of Val-d?Or. Multiple innovations were required to work the mine. Due to its low grade, it was important to develop a bulk mining method to ec

    Jan 1, 2011

  • TMS
    Hot Workability of 1.2690 Ledeburitic Tool Steel and Development of Microstructure

    By G. Kugler, M. Tercelj

    "The 1.2690 high alloyed tool steel is usually applied for cold working and is alloyed with carbide-forming elements Cr, V, W and Mo. It exhibits very poor hot deformability. Since there is no enough

    Jan 1, 2011

  • CIM
    An Advance in Nickel Laterite Dust Processing at Pt Inco TBK

    By A. Luckita, A. Samtani, R. Barus, J. R. Donald, J. Syarifuddin

    In conventional Rotary Kiln-Electric Furnace (RK-EF) laterite nickel processing, management of dust continues to be problematic. A more efficient processing of dust represents an opportunity for energ

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Rare Earth Elements - SME Statement

    It is crucial to reestablish a domestic rare earths minerals production industry to help secure the Nation's clean energy future, reduce the U.S. vulnerability to material shortages related to na

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    The Ongoing Evolution Of Stope Panel Support At Impala Platinum Limited - Synopsis

    By N. D. Fernandes

    Labour-intensive narrow reef stoping, as traditionally practised in South African gold and platinum mines, is almost unique in the modern first-world mechanized mining environment. Shortcomings of the

    Jan 1, 2011

  • DFI
    Lateral Load Testing Micropiles To Evaluate The Impact Of Threaded Joints And Casing Embedment On Short Micropiles In Shallow Rock

    By J. Brian Anderson

    Jointed micropiles were investigated to support bridge foundations where shallow rock was present. In this application, micropiles would have some amount of unsupported length, and would be subject t

    Jan 1, 2011

  • TMS
    Development of a Direct Evaporator for the Organic Rankine Cycle

    By Donna Guillen, Matthew Lehar, Sebastian Freund, Jennifer Jackson, Helge Klockow

    "Research and development is currently underway to design an Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system with the evaporator placed directly in the hot exhaust stream produced by a gas turbine (GT). ORCs can b

    Jan 1, 2011

  • TMS
    Characterization of Plastic Materials used in the Automotive Industry (Impact- Stress)

    By A. Rojo, N. J. Ramirez, J. E. Salgado

    "This work aims to characterize the plastics used in a handgrip located in the car interior body in order to improve its design process and be able to predict its behavior when the part is subjected t

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Novel Coal Collector Derived From Pine Tree Pulping

    By J. Hines

    Traditionally, fuel oil or diesel was the collector of choice in coal flotation, but in recent years these materials have come under increased scrutiny because of concerns about the toxicity of some c

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Characterisation Of SO2 In Off-Gas At Zimplats Smelter

    By L. Mabiza

    Keywords: Pyrometallurgy, furnace, sulphur, SO2, off-gas, Zimplats Zimplats embarked on an off-gas sampling campaign in December 2009 to characterise the concentration of SO2 in the off-gas from

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SME
    Dentifying Opportunities To Reduce The Consumption Of Energy Across Mining And Mineral Processing Plants

    By R. Steele

    In addition to compliance with government emissions and reporting requirements, mining and mineral processing companies are increasing energy efficiency to reduce costs and become more competitive in

    Jan 1, 2011

  • TMS
    Effect of Heat Treatment Schedules on the Crystallization Behavior and Thermal Expansion of a Lithium Disilicate Based Glass-Ceramic

    By Onder Guney, Erdem Demirkesenm

    "In this study, the crystallization behavior and thermal expansion coefficient of a lithium disilicate (LS2) based glass-ceramic derived from SiO2-Li02-AhO3-K2O-ZrO2 system was investigated by using x

    Jan 1, 2011