March 2024

Volume 75    Issue 3

FEATURED ARTICLES

Marc A. Herpfer; An interview with the 2024 SME President
William Gleason
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Innovative approaches to building technical capability for a modern mining and metals organization
Brendan Howard
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New model for predicting the erosional performance of rehabilitated mine sites
Jon Pelletier, Nathan Abramson, Satya Chataut, Sriram Ananthanarayan, Dave Ludwick, Brendan Roddy
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TECHNICAL PAPER ABSTRACTS

Extended abstracts from the SME journal Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration
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Valorization of air-cooled EAF manganese slag in comminution processes: An investigation into the breakage characterization
Laura Suarez, Par Jonsen, Jorgen Kajberg
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Blockchain technology and the mining industry: A review
Ankit Jha, Aaron Young, Javad Sattarvand
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Geological domaining with unsupervised clustering and ensemble support vector classification
Kasimcan Koruk, Julian M. Ortiz
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Respirable coal mine dust in the vicinity of a roof bolter: An inter-laboratory study to compare wet versus dry dust collection systems
F. Animah, A. Greth, S. Afrouz, C. Keles, T. Akinseye, L. Pan, W.R. Reed, E. Sarver
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3D characterization of auriferous pyrite flotation samples for liberation and grain exposure analysis using micro X?ray computed tomography
Amanda N. Erskine, Jiaqi Jin, Chen-Luh Lin, Jan D. Miller, Shijie Wang
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Machine learning for slope failure prediction based on inverse velocity and dimensionless inverse velocity
Maral Malekian, Moe Momayez, Pat Bellett, Fernanda Carrea, Eranda Tennakoon
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TUNNELING AND UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION

Geological domaining with unsupervised clustering and ensemble support vector classification
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Applying automation and machine learning for tunnel inspections
LiLing Chen, Young Loo, Fabio Panella, Tristan Joubert, Michael Devriendt, Nasir Qureshi, Ahmad Ali
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Using the digital geologist to count cobbles at the RSC7 tunnel
Shane Yanagisawa, Dan Preston, Don Deere, Robert Marshall
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USGS annual mining review       PDF
 

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