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  • SME
    Design And Construction Of Norad Expansion Project "Excavation Phase"

    By Gerald G. Griswold, Allan G. Provost

    INTRODUCTION The Norad Expansion Project was located 10 miles southwest of Colorado Springs, Colorado, within Cheyenne Mountain. The expansion areas to be excavated would be adjacent to the existin

    Jan 1, 1979

  • CIM
    Uranium Milling in Northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin Past, Present and Future

    By Chuck Edwards

    "Milling operations in northern Saskatchewan’s Athabasca Basin have produced uranium continuously since 1975. Over that period, the Athabasca Basin has been one of the world’s premier uranium camps, y

    Jan 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    OFR-78-84 Development Of A Conveyor Belt Service Machine

    By James L. Eirls

    Tracor MBA under a contract to U.S. DOI Bureau of Mines designed, developed, fabricated and demonstrated a conveyor belt service machine. It is self-contained, battery powered, rubber tired and capabl

    Jan 1, 1983

  • AUSIMM
    Official Opening and Address to the 2000 New Zealand Minerals & Mining Conference

    Good morning and thanks for the chance to talk to you. It's really pleasing to see so many industry representatives here I want to spend a few minutes talking about issues relating to your indust

    Jan 1, 2000

  • CIM
    Pilot-Scale Frother Testing at Highland Valley Copper

    By S. D. D. Welsby

    "A pilot-scale flotation column was used to evaluate four polyglycol frothers at Teck’s Highland Valley Copper Mine. The column was fed with flotation plant feed from the grinding circuit cyclone over

    Jan 1, 2014

  • SME
    Enhanced Mobility Of Arsenic In Mine-Impacted Systems As A Result Of Anthropogenic Eutrophication

    By A. Martin

    Detailed porewater profiles of arsenic and other interstitial metabolites were used to assess the relationship between trophic status, sediment redox chemistry and arsenic mobility in a historic taili

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Sampling the supergiant Olympic Dam iron-oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia

    By F F. Pitard, K J. Ehrig

    The Olympic Dam iron-oxide copper-gold (IOCG) uranium-silver deposit is second in size only to Norilsk, the gigantic metalliferous deposit. Olympic Dam is the largest publicly declared uranium, fifth

    May 9, 2017

  • SME
    Strategic Alignment: A Mining Industry Challenge

    By Russell Barr

    Strategic alignment throughout a mining organization is critical to effective strategic execution and good business performance. The alignment of strategic goals and objectives in the different operat

    Jan 1, 2008

  • DFI
    Critical Evaluation of Indian Standard for the Design of Laterally Loaded Piles

    By Sanket Rawat, Ravi Kant Mittal, Vikash Prasad

    "The understanding of the response of pile foundations under various types of loads is a necessary prerequisite to analyze and design them properly. Therefore, this paper highlights and compares the p

    Jan 1, 2017

  • NIOSH
    RI 6896 Equation Of State For Helium-Nitrogen Mixtures From 133.15° To 748.15° K With Pressures To 300 Atmospheres

    By Robert E. Wood

    The compressibility factors, Z, of helium, nitrogen, and helium-nitrogen mixtures in the three-dimensional space of temperature, pressure, and gas composition have been related to the Leiden form of t

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SAIMM
    Trial Of The BX Conical-Ended Borehole Overcoring Stress Measurement Technique

    By H. Ogasawara

    Information on rock stress is important for safe mining in seismically active ground. On a major gold mine, a few tens of crews are continuously conducting geological drilling with small pneumatic mac

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SME
    Influence Of Environmental Regulations On The Design Of Barrick Goldstrike’s Roaster Off-Gas Cleaning Circuit (59b0e343-de58-4518-9d0e-e7d0bcede677)

    By A. Cole, F. Porretta

    Barrick Gold recently implemented an oxygen roasting process to treat carbonaceous ore from its Goldstrike property in Nevada. One of the key project challenges was the design of the roaster gas clean

    Jan 1, 2002

  • SME
    Cut And Fill Narrow Vein Mining At Hollister

    Narrow vein mining, with enough challenge and also where the cutting edge technology can be applied, is still a very important and exciting portion of the mining industry. Based on the deposit charact

    Jan 1, 2012

  • DFI
    A Unique Solution To Mitigate Movement At The Jefferson Memorial Seawall

    By Jesús E. Gómez

    In the Summer of 2011, emergency repairs to the Jefferson Memorial North Plaza and Seawall were completed. These repairs were necessitated by settlement and lateral movement of the seawall and North

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Triaxial tests of carboniferous slates with static and dynamic loading

    By B. Zlender

    ABSTRACT: The paper presents investigation of carboniferous slates from the Trojane hilly area performed on series of samples of equal material. The results of static loading tests show that carbonife

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    An online expert for industrial minerals processes

    By D. G. Hulbert, D. J. Oosthuizen, D. de V. van der Spuy

    Expert Online, as a software system, is aimed at providing plant operators in the minerals industry with effective training and on-the-job assistance. It incorporates a number of features to achieve t

    Jan 1, 2003

  • DFI
    Advantages of Pressed-In Sheet Piles for New Orleans’ Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System Flood Control Project

    By Ian Vaz, Takefumi Takuma

    "The New Orleans area has been repeatedly flooded by major storms and hurricanes since its French colonial era. After severe flooding in May 1995, the U.S. Congress authorized a massive flood protecti

    Jan 1, 2017

  • AIME
    Surveying And Sampling Diamond-Drill Holes.

    By E. E. White

    (Cleveland Meeting, October, 1912.) IN, August, 1911, I read a paper before the Lake Superior Mining Institute' on surveying and sampling diamond-drill holes. The present paper gives a more thor

    Nov 1, 1912

  • NIOSH
    RI 7055 Lightweight Aggregates - Expansion Properties Of Selected Michigan Shales

    By James H. Aase

    Shales from 10 locations in Michigan were sampled, tested, and evaluated to determine their suitability as raw materials for producing lightweight aggregate by rotary-kiln methods. Sampling procedures

    Jan 1, 1967

  • DFI
    Diaphragm Walls Acting As Anchor Curtains Of Laterally Loaded Structures - Synopsis

    By J. Matos e Silva

    The paper refers two examples of structures located in seismic areas (Cases 1 and 2). The first one (Case 1) is the Torroal Bridge, located about 100 Km South of Lisbon, in the road Troia-Grandola

    Jan 1, 1996