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  • TMS
    Study on Selectively Separating Iron Constituents in Copper Smelting Slags

    By Hongyang Cao

    The iron constituents selectively separated from the modified copper slags by magnetic separation and flotation.were studied. The results of magnetic separation for modified copper smelting slags show

    Jan 1, 2009

  • DFI
    Appropriate Field Measurements For Testing Capacity-Prediction Methods For Piles Installed By Vibration - Introduction

    By Michael W. Neill, O&apos

    The engineering profession generally does not accept vibro-driven piles as bearing piles unless their capacities can be verified by restriking with an impact hammer, which significantly reduces the ec

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME
    Impact of China on drilling grade barite

    By W. J. Miles

    At the beginning of the 20th century, barite was a mineral of minor importance in the United States. Its primary use was to extend lead oxide in white paint. Barite also added the special qualities of

    Jan 1, 2009

  • AUSIMM
    Optimising Plant Feed Quality and Process Performance Using Geoscan Elemental Analysis

    By H Kurth

    Geoscan is used for multi-elemental analysis of conveyed bulk materials in real time. It has been used for coal analysis since the 1990s, in the cement industry, and since 2003 for measuring mineral o

    Sep 7, 2015

  • SME
    Climate Change For Mine Planners: Some Fundamentals

    By R. D. Williams

    In spite of the increasingly polarized and politicized view of climate science and climate change in the United States, many of the principles behind the ?theory? of Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW)

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SME
    Phelps Dodge, Caterpillar Use Technology to Lower Costs

    By Steve Kral

    For the past several years, copper producers have faced a tough business climate. Nagging low prices forced many them to reduce their production and make other drastic cutbacks just to breakeven. An

    Jan 1, 2004

  • DFI
    Secant Pile Walls - Design, Construction And Case History

    By Ketan H. Trivedi

    This paper describes the method of analyses used for the design of temporary and permanent Secant Pile Walls, describes various aspects of construction including, guide walls, sequence of pile install

    Jan 1, 2006

  • TMS
    Eco-Efficient Recycling Alternatives For End-Of-Life Cathode Ray Tubes

    By Jeremy Gregory

    The disposal of end-of-life electronics is an issue receiving increasing scrutiny. This paper evaluates several alternatives for recycling cathode ray tubes (CRTs) within monitors and televisions. T

    Jan 1, 2006

  • DFI
    Elimination Of Heave Forces On Lightly Loaded Piles In Swelling Clay - Summary

    By Basem Sh. Hazzan

    In the last four decades significant effort has been devoted to designing piles in expansive clay soils. Nevertheless, only a scant effort has been devoted to the elimination of heave forces acting on

    Jan 1, 1999

  • CIM
    An Overview of the Oil Sands Process, Comparing it to Conventional Mineral Processing

    By Gavin Ritson, Chris Ward

    "The oil sands industry is still fairly young with the first viable oil sand operation having been started in Alberta in 1960. Since then numerous modifications and improvements have been tried and im

    Jan 1, 2009

  • CIM
    Underhand Cut and Fill Mining as Practiced in Three Deep Hard Rock Mines in the United States

    By Ted J. Williams

    Underhand cut and fill mining methods are used at the Lucky Friday, Stillwater, and Galena mines in the western US in an effort to safely mine in difficult ground conditions and as a primary mining me

    May 1, 2007

  • AUSIMM
    Commissioning and Operating an Autogeneous Mill at Karowe Diamond Mine

    By N A. Sikwa, L M. van Niekerk, G N. Ndlovu

    In June 2012, Lucara Diamond Corporation officially commissioned its Karowe Diamond Mine in Letlhakane, Botswana. The processing plant circuit incorporates variable speed autogeneous milling, a first

    Jul 15, 2013

  • IPMI
    The IPMI Journal 2023

    By IPMI Educational and Scientific Foundation

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the availability of this fourth issue of the IPMI Journal, a publication of the International Precious Metals Educational and Scientific Foundation. This dig

    Dec 1, 2023

  • CIM
    The Application of Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development?s ?Seven Questions of Sustainability? to a Planning Process in Alberta

    By Don Peel

    Mineral aggregate, the most widely used mineral resource globally, has attracted little academic or public interest. Of all mining developments, the aggregate resource is seldom factored into resource

    May 1, 2004

  • AUSIMM
    Swamp Works – A New Approach to Develop Space Mining and Resource Extraction Technologies at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center: Prospecting, Excavation, Load, Haul and Dump for In Situ Resource Utilisation

    By A J. Nick, I I. Townsend, J M. Schuler, J D. Smith, R P. Mueller, L Sibille, K Leucht, J J. Fox

    The first steps for in situ resource utilisation (ISRU) on target bodies such as the Moon, Mars and near-Earth asteroids (NEA), and even comets, involve the same sequence of steps as in the terrestria

    Nov 4, 2015

  • IMMS
    Ocean Diamond Mining's Quest For More Efficient Diamond Recovery

    By André. C. Louw

    Diamond production from the reworked beach and river channel gravels along the west coasts of South Africa and Namibia is well known throughout the world, not only for the exceptional quality of the d

    Jan 1, 1998

  • AUSIMM
    Metallurgical Effects Associated with the use of Cemented Backfill at the Zinc Corporation, Limited and New Broken Hill Consolidated Limited

    The addition of cement to underground backfill at The Zinc Corporation, Limited and New Broken Hill Consolidated Limited, Broken Hill commenced in 1967. A deterioration in metallurgical performance at

    Jan 1, 1971

  • AUSIMM
    Operation of a Rapped Sieve Bend

    By Firth B. A

    The classification performance of a Dutch State Mines (DSM) Rapped Sieve Bend has been investigated in a series of experiments. Coal slurries of a nominal 0.5 mm size were classified in the separation

    Jan 1, 1983

  • CIM
    Two New Structures of Hydroxamate Collectors and Their Application to Ilmenite and Wolframite Flotation

    By Brian Hart, Hong Zhong, Liuyin Xia, Kyle Douglas

    "The application of hydroxamic acid as flotation collectors is fast becoming of significant interest for the selective flotation of oxide minerals along with upgrading oxidised based metal ores and mi

    Jan 1, 2015

  • NIOSH
    Technology News - No. 527 - The Partial Cab: A New Noise Engineering Control For Surface Drill Rigs

    The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), in partnership with stakeholders in the mining and surface drilling industries, con-ducted research to develop engineering control te

    Jan 8, 2007