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  • SAIMM
    Optimisation of pit to sag mill network using mixed integer linear programming APCOM 2021

    By Z. Saw, C. Poveda, N. L. Mai

    Optimising the throughput of a mining network comprising all equipment from shovels to semi-autogenous grinding (SAG) mills is a complicated task, yet the potential benefits can be significant. Key mo

    Sep 1, 2021

  • TMS
    Life Cycle Assessments of Incineration Treatment for Sharp Medical Waste

    By Maria Rashidi, Maryam Ghodrat, Bijan Samali

    Treatment of sharp medical waste (waste disposable syringes) produced in hospitals or health care facilities in an environmentally sound ways have raised concerns relating to public health and occupat

    Mar 1, 2017

  • SME
    Scalable Framework for Worker Safety Assessments Inspired by Navajo Nation Mine Reclamation - SME Annual Meeting 2026

    By Ashley Woodward, S. Katharine Hammond, Mayela Padilla-Salas

    This paper presents a scalable framework for worker safety assessments. The paper focuses on uranium mine reclamation in underserved communities, specifically Cove Chapter of the Navajo Nation. By int

    Feb 22, 2026

  • CIM
    Archean Lode Gold and Base Metal Deposits: Evidence for Metal Separation into Independent Hydrothermal Systems

    By R. W. Hodder

    "Archean lode gold deposits of both vein and chemical sedimentary types typically have major enrichments of certain rare elements, including Au, Ag, As, Sb, B, W, Se, Te and Bi, coupled with low or ne

    Jan 1, 1982

  • SME
    Raise Boring - The Reaming Cycle

    By Euclid P. Worden

    INTRODUCTION Today, conventional raise boring is an accepted method of development in underground mines and on major construction projects. Over the years that this technique, and its associated ma

    Jan 1, 1985

  • NIOSH
    IC 6786 Placer Mining In The Western United States - Part I. General Information, Hand-Shoveling, And Ground-Sluicing ? Introduction

    By E. D. Gardner

    Placer mining is the mining and treatment of alluvial deposits for the recovery, of their valuable minerals. The method has been used principally for mining gold, but a large proportion of the world&a

    Jan 1, 1934

  • CIM
    Relative Discovery Potential of the Principal Economic Metals

    By C. J. Sullivan

    "The outlook for supplying the world's metal needs in the next twenty-five years is good, although in several cases basic costs are likely to increase with rising demand. Metal prices calculated at a

    Jan 1, 1970

  • CIM
    Origins of Electrorerefining: Birth of the Technology and the World's First Commercial Electrorefinery

    By A. E. Wraith, J. Protheroe Jones, P. J. Mackey

    The world’s first copper electrorefinery started production in 1869 at Burry Port in South Wales. Built within the Pembrey Copper Works which had commenced smelting operations in 1849, the new refiner

    Jan 1, 2019

  • NIOSH
    IC 6408 Milling Methods And Costs At The Homestake Mine, Lead, S. Dak. ? Introduction

    By Allan J. Clark

    This paper, describing the milling practice of the Homestake Mining Co., is one of a series being prepared by the Bureau of Mines. The author acknowledges the assistance of T. G. Chapman, one of th

    Jan 1, 1931

  • SME
    PDAC 2011; More Than 22,000 Expected At Annual Conference

    By Steve Kral

    The Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) was established in 1932 in response to proposed regulations that would have threatened prospectors in Ontario. From there, the association

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Design Selection for Large-Scale Grinding Operations ù AG/SAG or HPGR?

    By J Hudson

    Autogenous (AG) and Semi Autogenous (SAG) grinding mills are the conventional selection for large-scale grinding circuits. It is accepted that these forms of comminution are not the most energy effici

    Jan 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Unsustainability of Very Large Gold Producers—12 Years Later

    By H. R. Bullis

    "A 2003 paper discussed the idea that as gold mining companies grow larger it becomes more difficult for them to discover or acquire new gold deposits large enough to replace extracted reserves on an

    Jan 1, 2019

  • SAIMM
    Rock Engineering Method To Pre-Evaluate Old, Small Coal Pillars For Secondary Mining ? Synopsis

    By J. N. Van der Merwe

    Due to the approaching depletion of reserves in the Witbank Coalfield, and the fact that the Waterberg Coalfield is as yet under developed, there is increasing pressure to extend the lives of the oper

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    A Practical Application Of Geostatistical Methods To Quality And Mineral Reserve Modelling Of Cement Raw Materials ? Synopsis

    By T. Y. Yunsel

    Estimation techniques such as polygonal, triangular prism, trapezoid, isopach maps, and inverse distance methods are often used in ore or industrial minerals deposit evaluation. These techniques do no

    Jan 1, 2012

  • NIOSH
    RI 3149 Salts in Tri-State Mill Waters: Their Ill-Effect on the Flotation of Blende and Their Removal

    By Warren Howes, A. B. Campbell, W. H. Ode

    "INTRODUCTION The mines in the eastern part of the now active region of the Tri-State zinc district of Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma have unusually acid water, which during periods of moderate or no

    Mar 1, 1932

  • DFI
    UB Digs Deep and Builds Over Adjacent Subway for New Medical Building Hub

    By Lisa R. Papandrea, David Chen, Walter E. Kaeck

    "Construction of the University at Buffalo’s new School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences (UB-SMBS) required excavation in variable ground to a depth of more than 40 ft adjacent to the NFTA Metro su

    Jan 1, 2016

  • CIM
    Lessons Learned From Expanding Al-Agoza Hospital in Egypt

    By Nehad Elsafty

    It is always necessary to expand existing buildings, so that they could meet the growing societal needs. Compared with demolishing them and then constructing new ones, the expansion of existing buildi

    Aug 1, 2013

  • NIOSH
    Crushing And Grinding - Introduction

    By John Gross

    From the time when man first pounded one rock upon another or used heat and sudden chilling with water to disintegrate rock, the art of crushing advanced but slowly to the mule-driven arrastre and the

    Jan 1, 1938

  • NIOSH
    OFR-50(2)-75 Evaluation Of Mill Tailings Disposal Practices And Potential Dam Stability Problems In Southwestern United States. ? V.2 - Investigation Report, Phelps Dodge Corporation, Morenci Tailings Dams, Morenci, Arizona

    Volume 2 presents the results of studies of Phelps Dodge Corporation's tailings embankments numbers 1West and 2 West, at Morenci, Ariz. The work involved compilation and description of pertinent

    Jan 1, 1974

  • AUSIMM
    Improving Drive Stability through Efficient Development Blasting Design and Practices

    By P Klaric

    Drive stability is critical in block/panel cave mining. The production levels of these mines are required to remain operational for the entire life-of-mine which can be in excess of 30 years. It is th

    Aug 24, 2015