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  • CIM
    Back Caving Mechanism and Preventive Measures for Deep Open Stopes ? Case Studies

    By Jerry Ran

    Stope back caving in a mine using open stope mining interrupts the planned mining sequence and causes oversize muck and dilution with adverse economic implications. As many underground mines are minin

    May 1, 2004

  • NIOSH
    RI 3545 Progress Reports -Metallurgical Division ? 41. Matte Smelting Of Manganese ? Introduction (64a39346-18e1-489a-9d89-fb7a2a30c194)

    By C. E. Wood

    [Because of the renewed i~,ortanc of the strate ic netal ~ngane8e the Bureau of Mines is conductin further ro~aarch on pyrometallurgica1 ~ethods of boneficiating 0 ngani.foro'l iron ores nnn lo\,

    Jan 1, 1940

  • AUSIMM
    Operating Strategies for Custodians of Company Assets Creating Wealth

    By A L. Welsh, P S. Newling

    Mill operators are entrusted to manage what are normally the largest capital assets on any mine site. Achieving maximum utilisation and lowest costs that drive operating margins are realised by applyi

    Sep 7, 2015

  • SME
    Exploratory Fea & Conceptual Design Findings Of Large Diameter Segmentally Lined Shaft

    By D. Kruse

    Top down constructed large diameter (up to 90 m [300 ft]) shaft design and constructability issues present an interesting suite of challenges and opportunities highlighted in this paper. The study cov

    Jan 1, 2011

  • NIOSH
    IC 9031 Computer Program For Calculating Gravimetric Primary Standard Gas Mixtures

    By Ernest W. Loya

    The Bureau of Mines has developed a computer program for calculating the composition of gravimetric primary standard gas mixtures. The Fortran IV program applies corrections due to buoyancy variations

    Jan 1, 1985

  • AUSIMM
    Coal Petrology Applied to the Correlation of Some New South Wales Permian Coals

    Detailed petrographic analyses of coal seams from the Newcastle, Illawarra, and Lithgow Coal Measures were made for a number of localities for each of twelve seams. From these analyses characteristic

    Jan 1, 1967

  • SME
    The Order of Kinetic Models, Rate Constant Distribution, and Maximum Combustible Recovery in Gilsonite Flotation Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration

    By Yousef Ghorbani, Jafar Abdolahi Sharif, Fatemeh Kazemi, Ataallah Bahrami

    Kinetic models are the most important tool for predicting and evaluating the performance of flotation circuits. Gilsonite is a natural fossil resource similar to an oil asphalt, high in asphaltenes. H

  • SME
    The Order of Kinetic Models, Rate Constant Distribution, and Maximum Combustible Recovery in Gilsonite Flotation Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration (b37efcd2-92b5-49b0-85f9-0979b717b191)

    By Yousef Ghorbani, Jafar Abdolahi Sharif, Fatemeh Kazemi, Ataallah Bahrami

    Kinetic models are the most important tool for predicting and evaluating the performance of flotation circuits. Gilsonite is a natural fossil resource similar to an oil asphalt, high in asphaltenes. H

  • SME
    A new Perspective: Regional Development with Mining as a By-Product The Example "NFN-NaturFreizeitverbund Niederrhein GmbH"

    By H. -J. Langhoff

    "The paper describes not a result, but a starting point to implement sustainable development to a region characterized by a typical down river landscape, agriculture, and extractive industry. The Natu

    Jan 1, 2005

  • AUSIMM
    Laboratory Determination of the Ash Content of Some Australian Coals Using Radioisotope Techniques

    By Fookes R. A, Gardner K. J, Gravitis V. L, Watt J. S, Steffner E. J

    Two radioisotope techniques suitable for the rapid laboratory determination of the ash content of coal have been tested ou unwashed coal samples from four Australian coal seams. In one techniqne, meas

    Jan 1, 1982

  • ISEE
    Demolition of the Milwaukee Railroad Trestle Pier, Lind, WA

    By William C. B. Gates

    Demolition blasting next to an active railroad can be very challenging because of track safety, blasting vibrations, potential track fouling by blast debris, and short work windows on a live track. Re

    Jan 1, 2016

  • SME
    Industrial Minerals 2002

    Editor’s note: As usual, the June issue features an industrial minerals review. And some thanks are in order. Thank you to the industrial minerals annual-review editor, to the technical committees

    Jan 1, 2003

  • AUSIMM
    Notes on Sampling

    This paper is intended partly as a summary of the conclusions that have been arrived at by various authorities on this matter, and also with a view to initiate some discussion on the subject, especial

    Jan 1, 1904

  • CIM
    Technological Advances in Telecommunications for Mines

    By Patrick M. Y. Waye

    As mines utilise more automation in mining operations to improve efficiency and safety, a corresponding increasing demand is placed on the transport of information. Some of the recent technological ad

    May 1, 2001

  • CIM
    Open systems standards for computing in the mining industry

    By L. K. Daneshmend

    Key issues in managing information systems in the minerals industry will likely continue to be those relating to the integration and interoperability of disparate systems. This paper argues that, in o

    Jan 1, 2000

  • AUSIMM
    Geometric and Dynamic Analysis of some Faults in the Western Coalfield of New South Wales

    By Creasey J. W, Huntington J. F

    Faults cutting the Lithgow and Katoomba seams in some collieries of the Western Coalfield can be classified, on the basis of spatial pattern, into three principal groups: meridional swarms of closely

    Jan 1, 1981

  • NIOSH
    RI 9075 - Arch Canopy Design Procedure for Rehabilitation of High-Roof-Fall Areas

    By Richard A. Allwes

    This Bureau of Mines report presents a procedure for the design of an arch canopy for use in rehabilitating a high-roof-fall area. Only dy-namic line loading of an unbackfilled arch canopy at its crow

    Jan 1, 1987

  • AUSIMM
    Silica Gelation in Risdon Leach Pulp

    The polymerisation of silica is found to interfere with thickening of leach pulps at Risdon. Hydroxyl ion and fluoride ion are catalysts for this reaction. Stability may be obtained by the presence of

    Jan 1, 1958

  • CIM
    Explosives choice at East Kemptville Mine

    By J. M. Houston

    "In October 1982, Rio Algom Limited, purchased a tin prospect near East Kemptville, Nova Scotia, from Shell Canada Resources. This purchase led to the development of the first substantial tin mine in

    Jan 1, 1987

  • SME
    Analysis Of Sudden Floor Heave In Deep Western U.S. Mines - Preprint 09-010

    By H. Maleki

    As mining continues toward deeper reserves in thick western US coal fields, the control of mining induced-seismicity has become a priority in many operations in Utah, Colorado, and Wyoming. Gradual f

    Jan 1, 2009