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  • NIOSH
    A Cost Comparison Of Selected Coal Mines From Australia, Canada, Colombia, South Africa, And The United States

    This report presents production and delivered costs for coal exports from the five major Western coal-exporting countries: Australia, Canada. Colombia, South Africa, and the United States. Cost data w

    Jan 1, 1993

  • NIOSH
    IC 7990 Manganese Deposits of Eastern Arizona

    By C. W. DeLong, L. L. Farnham, L. A. Stewart

    This paper is one of a series covering mineral resources of the Nation . It describes briefly most of the known manganese deposits of eastern Arizona , which for the purpose of this report includes th

    Jan 1, 1961

  • NIOSH
    IC 6418 Men and Mines

    By Scott Turner

    Many of you radio listeners have probably never seen a mine . You may be glad of it, but you should not forget that there is a vast army of men in this country who not only have to see mines , but hav

    Dec 1, 1930

  • SME
    Health and Safety Challenges for China’s Mining Industry

    By Jerry C. Tien

    Mining in China dates back at least 4,000 years. Today, with no less than 103,000 metal/nonmetal mines and between 40,000 to 80,000 coal mines, China’s mining industry is undoubtedly the largest in t

    Jan 1, 2005

  • CIM
    Transferring new technologies to operations

    By Michel Lefebvre, André Piché

    Every organization performing R&D is faced with the challenge of introducing new technologies to its operations. Difficulties must be overcome if companies are to realize the benefits anticipated from

    Jan 1, 1997

  • NIOSH
    MLA 72-85 - Mineral Resources Of The Burnt Lodge Wilderness Study Area, Phillips And Valley Counties, Montana ? Summary

    By J. Douglas Causey

    In 1984, at the request of Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Bureau of Mines studied the 13,730-acre Burnt Lodge (MT-065-278) Wilderness Study Area (WSA) in order to evaluate the mineral resources.

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AUSIMM
    Benchmarking Comminution Energy Consumption for Improved Efficiency

    By G R. Ballantyne, M S. Powell

    A comprehensive Australia-wide survey of comminution energy consumption at copper and gold mines was presented by the authors at the 11th AusIMM Mill Operators’ Conference 2012. The database has been

    Sep 1, 2014

  • TMS
    Native Metals

    By Fathi Habashi

    While it is commonly known that the precious metals and to some extent copper occur in the native state, it is less known that mercury, iron, nickel, and cobalt do occur also in the native state; the

    Jan 1, 1993

  • ISEE
    Signature Hole Analysis and Vibration Modeling: An Indonesian Case Study

    By Wawa Jaka Sungkawa, Slamet Rachman Jaka, Tom Dermody

    Nowadays, with such a focus on environmental protection, surface mining activities have come under pressure to ensure their activities do not adversely affect the local surroundings. As part of the ex

  • NIOSH
    Analysis Of Multiple Seam Stability

    By Frank E. Chase, Deno M. Pappas, Christopher Mark

    Multiple seam interactions are a major ground control hazard in many U.S. underground coal mines. The two most common types are: • Undermining, where stress concentrations caused by previous full

  • AIME
    Noteworthy Advance In Teaching Applied Geology

    TULSA SECTION At the smoker concluding the two day meeting of the Tulsa section of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, Tulsa, Okla., Feb. 26, 1919, Dr. Willis T. Lee, the ne

    Jan 6, 1919

  • ISEE
    Expansion of the Panama Canal

    By Tom Treleaven

    The widening of the Panama Canal to approximately 130 feet (40 m) for its entire length began just a few years ago. The original expansion program was slated for completion in 18 to 20 years, but has

    Jan 1, 1997

  • SME
    Mining Heritage: Preservation And Sustainable Development Of An Outstanding Universal Value

    By J. Kretschmann

    Mining heritage can be of outstanding value for many regions around the world, because mining has been done for thousands of years for the benefit of mankind and its development. This paper presents a

    Feb 27, 2013

  • SAIMM
    Trends in Productivity in the South African Gold Mining Industry

    By T. Tholana, P. N. Neingo

    "Mining companies globally are currently facing severe economic and financial challenges. In addition to global challenges, the South African mining industry has to face other operational challenges t

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Software - Benefits Of Building An Efficient Mine Planning Process

    By W. A. Wilkinson

    Mine planners are under pressure to evaluate the impact of changing economic times and newly acquired data on their mine plans. Incorporating changes such as commodity prices, customer sales, fluctuat

    Jan 1, 2010

  • CIM
    Development of a Vat Leach Process to Extract Gold from the Cochrane Hill Mine, Nova Scotia of Northumberland Mines Limited

    By P. D. R. Maltby

    "With the narrow vein structure of Nova Scotia gold deposits, selective mining is rarely possible and mill heads will be too low (below 0.10 oz per ton of gold) to support a conventional mill of up to

    Jan 1, 1984

  • AIME
    Part VI – June 1968 - Papers - An Electron Microscope Investigation of Explosion-Bonded Metals

    By Lucien F. Trueb

    The microstructure of explosion-bonded pairs of similar and dissimilar metals has been investigated by electron microscopy. A review of the specific problems encountered and the methods used for obtai

    Jan 1, 1969

  • TMS
    Engineering Design of Two Gold Recovery Plants in the People Republic of China

    By T. W. Turk

    In May 1984, Davy McKee Corporation was awarded a contract for engineering design, procurement assistance, project management and startup services for two gold recovery plants? in the People's, R

    Jan 1, 1989

  • SME-ICGCM
    Comparison Of Predictions And Measurements Of Subsidence Caused By Underground Mining In Northern Appalachia

    By H. J. Siriwardane

    This paper presents results from three case studies involving longwall mine panels at which the measured ground movements were compared with the numerical model predictions based on the finite element

    Jan 1, 1988

  • AIME
    New York Paper - Austenite and Austenitic Steels

    By John A. Mathews

    It is a great honor to be asked by the Board of Directors of this Institute to deliver the Henry Marion Howe lecture. The invitation carries with it a great responsibility, which I accept with conside

    Jan 1, 1925