Metal-mining Practice, Issues 420-424

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - Mining engineering - 512 pages
 

Contents

Examples of face sampling A Channel sampling numbers indicate separate samples 3 and 5 averaged for highgrade band B Pick chip sampling numb...
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Grab sampling
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Grab sampling showing equal spacing of sampling points on muck pile__
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Smallest permissible weight of samples for varying sizes of crushing
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Methods of splitting samples A Brunton quarter shovel B Dia gram of bank or combination riffle sampler C Jones splitter____
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Summary of sampling
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1 Cross sections 2 Longitudinal cross sections for interpolation__
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Specific gravity and cubic feet per ton in place with varying percentage of copper
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Case 1
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Cross section of a laminatedtrough ironore body showing typical structure and analysis of
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Revision of computations
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Plan of shaft No 8 mine Southeast Missouri 16 Plan of shaft Menominee No 1 mine
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Plan of shaft Fresnillo Mex 18 Plan of shaft mine No 2 Marquette range__
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Plan of shaft United Verde mine
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Data on typical vertical shafts
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A Drill carriage B Hezzelwood drill tender used at Ojuela Dur ango Mex 83
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Onecar scraperslide unit Montreal mine From Handbook of Scraper Mucking_ 25 Three types of scrapers used with slides A Hoe type B Semihoe typ...
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Underground loader dipper shovels directly into closecoupled
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Underground loader dipper shovels onto conveyor__
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Underground loader on caterpillar crawl__
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Arrangement of switches for changing cars behind loader_
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Venturi type of compressedair injector used for auxiliary ventilation in the United Verde mine
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A V cut B Pyramid cut C Burnt cut D Slabbing or swing round__
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A Threepiece timber set B Arch timber set C Conventional concrete arch designs for double and singletrack haulageways After Robert W Thomas Te...
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Example of aditdriving costs
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head__ B Special cross
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Safety crosshead used in sinking Eureka shaft
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Shaftsinking skip used at the No 3 Frood shaft 109 1010
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Shaftsinking method Champion mine showing trolley for hoisting bucket
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Small sinking headframes dumping arrangements omitted A For vertical shaft B For inclined shaft
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Arrangement for dumping buckets at the surface used by the Walter Fitch Jr Co Eureka Utah
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Typical Vcut shaft rounds
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Types of shaft rounds A Pyramid cut in 5 by 7foot shaft B Pyramid cut in circular shaft C Benching rounds D Com
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Manhour distribution on typical shaftsinking jobs
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Grout holes drilled for introducing cement to seal off water
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Fig Page
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Method of raising shaft full size
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Sizes of typical drifts and crosscuts
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Plan of Barr mine TriState district__
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A Shrinkage stope showing chutes and raise development B Sub
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Amount of stope development required in typical openstope mines__
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A Manway protected by bulkhead B Timbered raise manway
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Typical raising costs
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Locomotive weights trainloads and grades_
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Examples of underground tramming and haulage costs
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Forms of box scrapers A Reversible box scraper used in soft iron
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Types of platform and stopboard loading chutes A Common form
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Finger chutes A Standard finger chute at Engels mine B Air
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Typical costs of building and installing loading chutes
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Diagrammatic longitudinal vertical section showing ore and wastepass
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Caved stopes
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Example of parallel top slicing scraping to cars flatdipping
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Semishrinkage stope
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Hoisting data___
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A Bulldozing chamber B Grizzly details AlaskaJuneau mine
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III
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Recovery and dilution data
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Total direct mining costs at underground mines
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Curves showing effect of production rate on total direct mining cost per ton
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Average direct cost of mining per ton of ore Mears
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A Sketch of knockdown rocker From Eng and Min Jour B Long tom C Construction of sluice boxes and typical layout for hand work After W A St...
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Representative examples of shoveling into boxes
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Powerdriven dry washer capacity 0 8 cubic yards per hour Goler Gulch Calif June 1932
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Layouts of groundsluice mines A Ravano mine Laurin Mont B Rundle mine Blackhawk Colo C Camp Bird mine Laurin Mont D Harvey mine Lincol...
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Operating data on hydraulic mines
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Typical dragscraper layout
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Typical arrangements using floating washing plant
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No Page 49 Data on placer mines using power excavators with floating washing plants
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Essential elements of movable dryland washing and goldsaving plant
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Typical setups for movable dryland washers
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Data on placer mines using power excavators with dryland washing plants
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Lancha Plana dredge El Oro mine No 3
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Data on typical gold dredges
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Operating data on golddredging operations
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Flow sheet of Warren Creek dredge using jigs
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Vertical section of glory hole Britannia mine
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Typical section of glory hole in Hilltop ore body Fresnillo A First stage B Second stage C Final stage
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A Cross section of New Idria Calif ore body B Plan of New Idria pit 100foot level
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Data on typical gloryhole operations
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Typical section showing method of fixing the ultimate stripping limits Bingham Utah
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Method of determining point of cutoff between ore and waste
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Plan of United Verde pit July 1 1929_
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Typical section through No 3 raise showing dumps on three levels United Verde mine__
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Spruce openpit beltconveyor system Eveleth Minn
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Plan of general arrangement of Spruce conveyorbelt system
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Spruce truckdumping station
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Spruce towerexcavator station_
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Drilling and blasting practice Utah Copper mine
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Data on powershovel operations
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Schedules for gold and silver ores at lead smelters July 1936
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Flow sheet of Argonaut mill
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Flow sheet of south mill Homestake mine A Coarsegrinding section 1927 B Finegrinding section 1927
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Flow sheet of AlaskaJuneau mill__
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Flow sheet of Golden Anchor mill Burgdorf Idaho
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Flow sheet of small gold concentrator using straight flotation
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Flow sheet of Coniaurum mill_
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Flow sheet of Big Jim mill___
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Goldmilling data
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Gravity flow sheet of Calumet and Hecla Conglomerate mill
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Flow sheet of No 1 section Cananea concentrator_
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Comparison of combined gravity and bulk flotation with differential flotation at Cananea
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Flow sheet of Miami Copper Co concentrator 1932
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Flow sheet of Miami concentrate retreatment and filter plants
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Flow sheet of flotation at Britannia concentrator
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Data on copperore concentrators
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Flow sheet of White Bird concentrator gravity followed by flotation
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Flow sheet of Tybo concentrator selective flotation
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Data on lead and zinc concentrators_
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Total costs of producing ore concentrates or bullion
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Schedules for gold and silver ores at copper smelters July 1936
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Comparisons of gross and net values per dry ton of ores and con centrates 479
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Page 480 - ... whose assays shall be final if within the limits of the assays of the two parties; if not, the assay which is nearer to that of the umpire shall prevail. The party...
Page 480 - The party whose assay is the farther from that of the umpire shall pay the cost of the umpire's assay for the constituent of the ores which is in dispute. In the event that the umpire's assay is equally distant from the assay of each party, costs will be split equally. In case of seller's failure to make or submit assays, buyer's assays shall govern.
Page 4 - For the purpose of the present discussion, it is sufficient to note that all these different types of equipment and supplies must be considered.
Page 223 - stop ing" is employed in its broader sense to mean operation of excavation of ore by means of a series of horizontal, vertical, or inclined workings in veins or large irregular bodies of ore or by rooms in flat deposits. It covers...
Page 44 - RJ, Mining Methods and Costs at the Teck-Hughes Gold Mines (Ltd.), Kirkland Lake. Ontario: Bureau of Minos Inf.
Page 328 - Their bed rock is slightly above the creek bed and the surface topography shows no indication of benching. River-bar placers: Placers on gravel flats in or adjacent to the beds of large streams. Gravel-plain placers: Placers found in the gravels of the coastal or other low-land plains. Sea-beach placers: Placers reconcentrated from the coastal-plain gravels by the waves along the seashore. Ancient beach placers: Deposits found on the coastal plain along a line of elevated beaches.
Page 480 - Any such ores which are delivered to the purchase depot shall, unless otherwise specifically agreed to by buyer, become the property of the buyer as liquidated damages for buyer's expense of weighing, sampling, and assaying, and after sampling may be placed in process, commingled, or otherwise disposed of by buyer. If seller has any question as to the quality of his ore, it is suggested that before shipment and delivery to the purchase depot a representative sample be submitted to the buyer or to...
Page 480 - One-tenth of 1 percent (0.1 percent) of the lead content by wet assay will be allowed free. The excess will be charged at 50 cents per pound, fractions in proportion. Moisture.- — A minimum deduction of 1 percent will be made from wet weight; when over 1 percent is contained, the actual moisture will be deducted.
Page 17 - Lead and zinc mining and milling in the United States; current practices and costs: US Bur.
Page 480 - Pay for 95 per cent (minimum deduction of one-half ounce) at the average Handy and Harman New York silver quotations for the calendar week, including date of arrival of last car of each lot at plant of Buyer; or, if higher, at the realized Mint price, provided silver qualifies for Government purchase and affidavit is furnished, less a deduction in either case of l1/^ cents per ounce.

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