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  • NIOSH
    OFR-39(7)-82 Experiments On Personal Equipment For Low Seam Coal Miners: VI. Comparisons Of Bumping Hazards With High And Low Profile Helmets.

    By Mark Sanders

    This report describes an experiment which was conducted to compare the relative bumping hazard of a low and high profile hard hat (helmet) in a low seam mining environment. The study was specifically

    Jan 1, 1980

  • SME-ICGCM
    Longwall Shield Recovery Using Mobile Roof Supports (64264c53-830d-4e84-b91e-78532103884a)

    By Frank Chase

    Longwall mining has gained the reputation as being the safest extraction method in underground coal mines. However, one of the most difficult tasks associated with longwall mining is moving the face

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SME
    Web Enabled Industrial Desktop To Increase Overall Process Effectiveness In Metallurgical Plants

    By J. P. Kennedy, O. A. Bascur

    Large metallurgical complexes have more data than a small city and these data change as internal and external conditions evolve. Staffing turnover hinders experienced-based decisions especially with

    Jan 1, 2002

  • AUSIMM
    Creative Tension: Environmental Issues and Resource Development

    All development proposals have to run the gauntlet of the approvals process. Major resource projects are generally subject to particularly intense scrutiny. The key element in the approvals process

    Jan 1, 1992

  • SME
    Effects of Early Strength Agent on Macro-Mechanical Properties and Microstructure of Gangue-Cemented Paste Backfill

    Gangue-cemented paste backfill (GCPB), is a well-established green mining technology and significantly improves the recovery rate of mineral resources, prevents mine dynamic disasters, reduces surface

    Jan 7, 2020

  • CIM
    Decision Support Programs

    By Hamid Butt

    Information Technology ??Advanced Information Technology is dramatically changing information flow within organizations. This enables employees to have information at their fingertips to make informe

    May 1, 2006

  • CIM
    Improved Cleaner Circuit Performance at the Degrussa Copper Mine with an In Situ Column Sparging System

    By E. Wasmund

    "Sandfire’s DeGrussa Copper-Gold operation in West Australia is a new high grade copper sulfide mine, which includes a 1.5 Mtpa concentrator which was completed in 2013.Early after commissioning, it w

    Jan 1, 2016

  • DFI
    Technical Note - Hollow Threaded Rebar For Cross Hole Sonic Logging Access Tubes Combined With Longitudinal Concrete Reinforcing In Drilled Shafts

    By Josef K. Alter

    Crosshole Sonic Logging (CSL) of drilled shafts requires 1.5-in (38-mm) or 2-in (51-mm) I.D. sonic access tubes to be installed inside the steel reinforcement cage. The sonic access tubes do not contr

    Jan 1, 2011

  • AUSIMM
    Gravity Flow Full-scale Tests at Esmeralda Mine’s Block-2, El Teniente

    By D Garcés, M Meléndez, R Castro, E Viera

    Enhancing the understanding of gravity flow in caving operations is a key factor in the design, operation and success of caving methods. Consequently, much research has been performed to increase know

    May 9, 2016

  • IIMP
    Caracterización geomecánica en Cerro Verde y sus implicancias en la voladura

    By Jorge Dueñas

    La voladura de rocas es uno de los métodos tradicionales que fragmenta y perfila la nueva geometría del macizo rocoso, especialmente en operaciones mineras a cielo abierto. En esta perspectiva, el pre

    Jul 31, 2003

  • ISEE
    New and Improved ISO-Seismic 3D Analysis System for Mapping Ground Vibration Patters Around a Blast

    By D T. Froedge

    At the 1990 Symposium of the Society of Explosives Engineering, D.T. Froedge, President of GeoSonics Inc., presented a paper entitled "Differential Topographic Vibration Isomapping", which detailed th

    Jan 1, 1992

  • NIOSH
    OFR-11-71 Designing And Planning Open Pit Mining Operations With Computer Simulation Solutions ? Summary

    By Y. L. Su

    Deterministic and stochastic simulation were combined to develop a computer model of an open pit mining system using bucket wheel excavators and related materials handling equipment. The model is clos

    Jan 1, 1971

  • CIM
    Optimization of the Xstrata Copper-Horne Smelter Operation Using Discrete Event Simulation

    By J. M. Simard, S. Morissette, P. Coursol, P. Mackey

    A new, powerful model is presented that focuses on plant logistics and scheduling aspects of the smelting, converting, fire refining and casting operations at the Horne smelter. This plant complex is

    Jan 1, 2009

  • NIOSH
    MLA 39-87 - Mineral Resources Of The Twelve Mile Creek Study Area, Malheur County, Oregon - Summary

    By Steven W. Schmauch

    In 1986, at the request of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Bureau of Mines Studied 25,340 acres of the 28,960-acre Twelve Mile Creek Wilderness Study Area (OR-003-162) in order to evaluat

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Utilization Of Belt Air To Ventilate Working Sections In Underground Coal Mines

    By F. Calizaya

    This paper describes the basic requirements for the utilization of belt air to ventilate working sections at remote locations in relation to the main fans. It highlights the risks involved, potential

    Jan 1, 2008

  • CIM
    Haile Gold Mine Metallurgy and Flowsheet Review

    By P. Tittes, M. Deal, M. Spicher, S. McDaniel, J. Wickens

    "Haile Gold Mine is located near Kershaw, South Carolina, approximately 50 miles south of Charlotte, North Carolina. Gold was first discovered at the site in 1827, and the property has been through se

    Jan 1, 2013

  • AIME
    Drilling – Equipment, Methods and Materials - Mechanics of Differential Pressure Sticking of Drill Collars

    By H. D. Outmans

    A method has been developed for determining the relative water wet-tability (fraction of the surface wet by water) of porous media. This method involves the adsorption of methylene blue dye from an aq

  • SAIMM
    An analysis of the practical and economic implications of systematic underground drilling in deep South African gold mines

    By D. G. Krige

    Using chip sample data and spatial structure parameters from a large mined-out section of a South African gold mine the advantages to be gained from a regular underground borehole drilling programme h

    Jan 1, 2003

  • NIOSH
    OFR-76(2)-75 Mine Electrical Systems Evaluation - Explosion-Proofing Of Mine Containers - Introduction

    By Robert Stefanko

    In the context of the following report, an hazardous location can be described as any industrial area in which flammable or explosive gases, vapors, and dusts can be encountered. When electrical appar

    Jan 1, 1974

  • ABM
    Nível De Serviço Na Operação De Aços Longos Da Csn

    By Larissa Manso Miguel Gonçalves

    A partir da latente necessidade de se manter competitivo perante seus concorrentes, as empresas vêm buscando se diferenciar através de inovações e melhoria contínua de processos. Com base nesse concei

    Oct 30, 2017