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1 7.0 CONCLUSIONS 7.1 Summary
 

Summary:  hundred underground and open-pit mines out of the thousands of mines and exploration workings known... likely exposure scenario for the abandoned mines, develop a first order estimate of cancer risks using... on the National Priorities List are outside of the major uranium- producing ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
2 Finnish Underground Lab Juha Peltoniemi
 

Summary:  is to establish an underground research centre in the Pyhäsalmi mine Funded mostly by EU regional development fund... and available premises 95 m 210 m 400 m 660 m 980 m Surface premises: old mining hut Underground facilities... or abandoned mines for additional or ...

  

Source: Technische Universität München, Physik Department, Experimental Physics and Astroparticle Physics Group

 

Collection: Physics

 
3 Sustainable Use and Management of the Subsurface Eduardo F.J. de Mulder1
 

Summary:  where all current underground activities take place except for oil and gas extraction and mining... is dominant. This also holds for mining as water has to be removed to keep mines dry and if abandoned... groundwater levels rise. Groundwater fluxes might impact ...

  

Source: Hack, Robert - Department of Earth Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Engineering

 
4 ICUSESS '92: 5th Int. Conference on Underground Space and Earth Sheltered. Structures. August 2--7, 1992 The use of rock mass classification systems in assessing the long term
 

Summary:  ). 'Evaluation of collapse potential over abandoned room and pillar mines.' Bulletin Association of Engineering... of subsidence over abandoned mine workings in Cretaceous calcarenites'. "Chalk", Thomas Telford, London 1990... ICUSESS '92: 5th Int. Conference on Underground Space and Earth ...

  

Source: Hack, Robert - Department of Earth Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Engineering

 
5 Chapter 2. Uranium Mining and Extraction Processes in the United States In 1946, Congress passed the Atomic Energy Act (AEA), establishing the Atomic Energy Commission
 

Summary:  -sized underground and open-pit mines were either mined out or had become uneconomical and were abandoned... (several to about 100 meters) of the mine opening or pit. Mine maps typically show extensive underground... to several miles. #12;2-2 ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
6 6.0 UNCERTAINTIES The major uncertainty in this analysis is the actual exposure that people will experience.
 

Summary:  will experience. Because many abandoned uranium mines are on federal lands, the most likely exposure scenario... -lying aquifers, so shallow open-pit or underground mines may not contaminate the water because of the limited... to this are Native Americans who live around the uranium mines ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
7 Introduction Uranium is a common element in nature, and has been used for centuries as a coloring agent in
 

Summary:  this report and study are from abandoned conventional open-pit and underground uranium mines, and include... " within this definition. Wastes from conventional uranium mining (both surface and underground... focuses on the impacts associated with conventional surface and ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
8 Technical Report Technologically Enhanced
 

Summary:  and 300­3,000 pCi/g radium-226 (about 11­111 Bq/g). Radon measurements in some abandoned underground mines... 's National Hard Rock Mining Team and Abandoned Mine Lands Team, who are employees of the following EPA... ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
9 Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining Permitting
 

Summary:  John R. Baza DirectorCoal Minerals Abandoned Mine Reclamation Oil and Gas Board of Oil, Gas and Mining... of underground and in situ mining, on-site transportation, concentrating, milling, evaporation, and other primary... mineral deposits and between surface and ...

  

Source: Utah, University of - Center for the Simulation of Accidental Fires and Explosion

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Engineering

 
10 1 INTRODUCTION Appalachian coal recovered during mining fre-
 

Summary:  slurry impoundments, slurry cells, or, in a very few cases, underground in abandoned mines. Slurry... ). When impoundments are constructed in close proximity to active or abandoned underground coal mines... recovery as is commonly done in surface ...

  

Source: Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
11 Time-lapse gravity monitoring of an aquifer storage recovery project in Leyden, Colorado Kristofer Davis*
 

Summary:  coal mine is being developed into an underground water reservoir in Leyden, Colorado. Excess water from... aquifers, the City of Arvada has turned to abandoned coal mines as a solution to water storage... . This alternative solution is advantageous because abandoned coal ...

  

Source: Batzle, Mike - Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines; Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Center for Rock Abuse

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels ; Geosciences

 
12 SWEMP 2002, Cagliari, Italy SDPS for Windows: An Application for Subsidence Prediction, Optimum Mine Design and Environmental
 

Summary:  Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA Abstract The impacts of underground mining on the surface... ground deformation induced by underground mining, as well as the interaction of geotechnical... subsidence is an important environmental consideration of active, as well as ...

  

Source: Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
13 Vol. 34, No. 2, MarchApril 2004, pp. 124134 issn 0092-2102 eissn 1526-551X 04 3402 0124
 

Summary:  Sweden, produces about 24 million tons of iron ore yearly using an underground mining method known... . History: This paper was refereed. Planning an underground mine is a complex pro- cedure consisting of five... how to mine the ore, that is, by surface or ...

  

Source: Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Center for Rock Abuse

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels ; Geosciences

 
14 Observations of overwintering nymphalid butterflies in underground shelters in SW and W Bohemia (Czech Republic) (Lepidoptera: Nymphalidae
 

Summary:  of mining tunnels/galleries or natural caves. A special category of underground shelters in the study area... of abandoned mining tunnels and galleries. Cellars ­ unheated cellars of houses, castles and monasteries. Total... Observations of overwintering nymphalid butterflies in ...

  

Source: Fric, Zdenek - Department of Ecology and Conservation, Institute of Entomology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
15 A System for Volumetric Robotic Mapping of Abandoned Mines
 

Summary:  1 A System for Volumetric Robotic Mapping of Abandoned Mines Sebastian Thrun + , Dirk H˜ ahnel... of underground mines. One sys­ tem is based on a cart instrumented by laser range finders, pushed through a mine... mine in Bruceton, PA, and an ...

  

Source: Thrun, Sebastian - Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
16 A System for Volumetric Robotic Mapping of Abandoned Mines
 

Summary:  1 A System for Volumetric Robotic Mapping of Abandoned Mines Sebastian Thrun , Dirk H¨ahnel , David... describes two robotic systems developed for acquiring accurate volumetric maps of underground mines. One sys... information. We report results obtained in two mines, a research ...

  

Source: Burgard, Wolfram - Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Thrun, Sebastian - Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Engineering

 
17 ISRM -Lisbon -General Report Theme T1 -Robert Hack -10 July 2007 1 Rock Engineering and
 

Summary:  levels on mining or abandoned mines Underground excavation and construction Acid water and ground... on mining or abandoned mines (Grgic et al., Garzonio, and Yu et al.) Changing groundwater levels on mining... or ...

  

Source: Hack, Robert - Department of Earth Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Engineering

 
18 1.0 MAJOR STUDIES SUPPORTING THIS SCOPING RISK The most important period of past U.S. uranium production spanned from approximately 1948
 

Summary:  of abandoned uranium mines. The major studies supporting this scoping analysis include EPA's 1983 Report... ) and EPA's risk assessments for underground and surface uranium mines for Clean Air Act requirements (U... hypothetically located in Wyoming and an inactive underground ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
19 Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Abandoned Mines
 

Summary:  a robot system designed to explore spaces much closer to us: abandoned underground mines. According... to work even for active underground mines [25]. In abandoned mines, however, the robot needs richer... Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of ...

  

Source: Thrun, Sebastian - Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

 

Collection: Engineering ; Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
20 Autonomous Exploration and Mapping of Abandoned Mines
 

Summary:  closer to us: abandoned underground mines. According to a recent survey [6], "tens of thousands, perhaps... to work even for active underground mines [25]. In abandoned mines, however, the robot needs richer... Autonomous Exploration and Mapping ...

  

Source: Burgard, Wolfram - Institut für Informatik, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg; Thrun, Sebastian - Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, Stanford University

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences ; Engineering


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21 REAL TIME MONITORING OF INFRASTRUCTURE USING TDR TECHNOLOGY: CASE HISTORIES
 

Summary:  that develop on the surface over abandoned underground mines are the ultimate result of subsurface strata... -Oct, 439-448. Ruegsegger, L.R. and Lefchik, T.E., 1997, Abandoned Underground Mine Inventory and Risk... , Abandoned ...

  

Source: Northwestern University, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Infrastructure Technology Institute

 

Collection: Engineering

 
22 Vol. 40, No. 3, MayJune 2010, pp. 222245 issn 0092-2102 eissn 1526-551X 10 4003 0222
 

Summary:  been applied to both surface and underground mine planning problems, including mine design, long... ; open-pit mining; underground mining. History: This paper was refereed. Published online in Articles... ore and waste from the top downward in a methodical fashion. ...

  

Source: Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Center for Rock Abuse

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels ; Geosciences

 
23 Chapter 3. Volume and Characteristics of Uranium Mine Wastes Uranium has been found and mined in a wide variety of rocks, including sandstone, carbonates1
 

Summary:  from conventional mining, and in particular, wastes from abandoned mines that have not been reclaimed... , and underground mines followed mineralized zones directly into the subsurface. Thin overburden over deeper parts... also influence the overall economics of ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
24 LiDAR Data Applications Robert A. Bauer
 

Summary:  from the best available map of the underground mine. 2) 2008 LiDAR map of surface topography... areas can be used to more closely define the extent of these underground mine operations. For Additional... Program Detection of Old Longwall Coal Mine Boundaries 1) 2007 Coal City Quadrangle ...

  

Source: Frank, Thomas D. - Department of Geography, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
25 SME Annual Meeting Feb. 27-Mar. 02, 2011, Denver, CO
 

Summary:  in underground coal mines since 2007. The current mine propagation modeling software, named COMMS, is able... activities INTRODUCTION Wireless communications and tracking systems in underground coal mines are required... in locating wireless communication components in ...

  

Source: Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
26 Technical Report Technologically Enhanced
 

Summary:  and 300­3,000 pCi/g radium-226 (about 11­111 Bq/g). Radon measurements in some abandoned underground mines... 's National Hard Rock Mining Team and Abandoned Mine Lands Team, who are employees of the following EPA... ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
27 Underground Exploration
 

Summary:  to as an underground construction activity that results in a permanent facility. This contrasts with mining, which... Underground Exploration and Testing A Report to Congress and the Secretary of Energy Nuclear Waste... of Mines Dr. John J. McKetta, Jr. University of Texas at Austin, Emeritus Dr. D. Warner ...

  

Source: U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

 

Collection: Fission and Nuclear Technologies ; Environmental Management and Restoration Technologies

 
28 EPA Uranium Program Update Loren W. Setlow and
 

Summary:  30, 2008 #12;2 Overview EPA Radiation protection program Uranium reports and abandoned mine lands... and Liability Act #12;4 Uranium Reports and Abandoned Mine Lands Program ·Technologically Enhanced Naturally... Abandoned Uranium Mines (Final released April 2008) ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
29 Modelling the long-term evolution of groundwater's quality in a flooded iron-ore mine using a reactive transport pipe network model
 

Summary:  ) Water management at abandoned flooded underground mines: fundamentals, tracer tests, modelling, water... , France, pauline.collon@ensg.inpl-nancy.fr Abstract over the past 25 years, underground mine flooding... adams R, younger Pl (2001) a strategy for modeling groundwater rebound in ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
30 Appendix I. List of Acronyms and Abbreviations, and Glossary of Terms
 

Summary:  Atomic Energy Commission ALARA As low as reasonably achievable AML abandoned mine lands As arsenic ATSDR... Navajo Abandoned Mine Lands Reclamation Program NARM naturally occurring and accelerator... Mining which uses either mechanical open-pit surface mining ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
31 COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES
 

Summary:  and underground mine fires, (2) reduction or elimination of surface subsidence above abandoned deep mine workings... , and still later abandonment of major deep mines, large underground mine water pools were formed in the ...

  

Source: Kirby, Carl S. - Department of Geology, Bucknell University

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
32 Lab staff was increased from 6 to 32 full-time positions at peak installation.
 

Summary:  SoudanUnderground MineStatePark Tolearnmore... FormoreinformationabouttheSoudan Underground... . The Soudan Underground Mine State Park ­ a registered National Historic Landmark ­ is where Minnesota iron... 's underground environment firsthand. By preserving the ...

  

Source: Militzer, Burkhard - Departments of Earth and Planetary Science & Astronomy, University of California at Berkeley

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
33 Mechanisms of gas migration in flooding post-mining context nils Le gAL,
 

Summary:  : to characterize underground mine gas migration and to determine the influence of flooding on mobilization... in abandoned mines, in the light of laboratory investigations. in: research reports of central Mining institute... Mechanisms of gas migration in flooding ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
34 Underground Mine Communication and Tracking Systems : A Survey
 

Summary:  Underground Mine Communication and Tracking Systems : A Survey Prasant Misra1 Diet Ostry2 Sanjay... ;Abstract This article presents a survey of the state-of-the art underground mine com- munication... and tracking systems. Underground mines are extensive labyrinths. ...

  

Source: New South Wales, University of - School of Computer Science and Engineering

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
35 Access Optimisation Tools in Underground Mine Design Marcus Brazil, Peter Grossman, David Lee, Hyam Rubinstein, Doreen Thomas, Nicholas
 

Summary:  Access Optimisation Tools in Underground Mine Design Marcus Brazil, Peter Grossman, David Lee, Hyam... ;Access Optimisation Tools in Underground Mine Design Marcus Brazil, Department of Electrical... @uwaterloo.ca #12;Access Optimisation Tools in Underground Mine Design ...

  

Source: Wormald, Nick - Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
36 Chapter 5. Conclusion Uranium, a naturally occurring element, contributes to low levels of natural background radiation in the
 

Summary:  conventional open-pit and underground uranium mining include overburden (although most overburden... by major underground mining activities generally involves less than about 50 acres (20 hectares). Waste... volumes produced by surface, open-pit mining are a factor of 45 greater than for ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
37 A Solution Approach for Optimizing Long-and Short-term Production Scheduling at LKAB's Kiruna Mine
 

Summary:  -integer program to schedule long- and short-term production at LKAB's Kiruna mine, an underground sublevel caving... : Mining/metals industries: determining optimal operating policies at an underground mine Production... /scheduling applications: production scheduling at an ...

  

Source: Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Center for Rock Abuse

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels ; Geosciences

 
38 2.0 GEOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS ON THE LOCATION OF URANIUM MINES
 

Summary:  could be considered a mine. Records may indicate multiple mine portals for an underground mine... .S. Hundreds of active and abandoned uranium mines are scattered over wide areas of the western United States... surface and underground ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
39 Modern Strategic Mine Planning By Graham A. Davis
 

Summary:  , the timing of lumpy decisions such as pushbacks or transitions from open pit to underground mining... domains in which suboptimal models appear exist in underground mine block sequencing and mine design... . This means that abandonment options will be exercised later ...

  

Source: Colorado School of Mines, Department of Geophysics, Center for Rock Abuse

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels ; Geosciences

 
40 Mining Engineering Department FALL 2011 SEMINAR SCHEDULE Thursdays 12:251:45pm 2250 WEB (Warnock Eng Bldg)
 

Summary:  Jim Walter Resources Underground Coal Mining Basics Nov 3 Dan Saint Don DMC, Inc... Mining Engineering Department FALL 2011 SEMINAR SCHEDULE Thursdays 12:251:45pm 2250 WEB... Mining at Twentymile Oct 6 Allyson Boye Newmont Mining ...

  

Source: Utah, University of - Energy and Geoscience Institute, Geothermal Research Group

 

Collection: Renewable Energy ; Geosciences


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41 Technical Report Technologically Enhanced
 

Summary:  this report and study are from abandoned conventional open-pit and underground uranium mines, and include... Mining Volume 2: Investigation of Potential Health, Geographic, And Environmental Issues of Abandoned... mining (both surface and ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
42 A System for Three-Dimensional Robotic Mapping of Underground Mines
 

Summary:  A System for Three-Dimensional Robotic Mapping of Underground Mines Michael Montemerlo, Dirk H... two robotic systems [6] for acquiring high-resolution volumetric maps of underground mines. Our... of abandoned mines. Hazardous operating conditions and difficult access ...

  

Source: Carnegie Mellon University, School of Computer Science

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
43 International Conference on Ground Control in Mining SDPS for Windows: An Integrated Approach to Ground Deformation Prediction
 

Summary:  of underground mining on the surface are important environmental considerations in the permission, planning... of the parameters affecting ground deformation induced by underground mining, including subsidence parameters... consideration of active, as well as abandoned, ...

  

Source: Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
44 Wireless Underground Sensor Networks using Commodity Terrestrial Motes Erich P. Stuntebeck (corresponding), Dario Pompili, Tommaso Melodia
 

Summary:  a node is underground, yet in an open space such as a cave or mine, as well as when a node is completely... Wireless Underground Sensor Networks using Commodity Terrestrial Motes Erich P. Stuntebeck... }@ece.gatech.edu Abstract-- The concept of a Wireless Underground Sensor Network (WUSN) is introduced and ...

  

Source: Melodia, Tommaso - Department of Electrical Engineering, State University of New York at Buffalo

 

Collection: Engineering

 
45 Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 96, pp. 34553462, March 1999
 

Summary:  , tailings, and in underground or open-pit mines. Acidity and metals, formerly contained in the acid mine... was an underground survey of the Rich- mond tunnel and part of the mine workings. Prior to under- ground renovations... of the most acidic waters found ...

  

Source: Cooper, Robin L. - Department of Biology, University of Kentucky

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology ; Biology and Medicine

 
46 LA-UR-07-3638 Decommissioning the Los Alamos Rack Tower Complex
 

Summary:  underground atomic tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) and includes a multi-floor rack tower... " underground --~_ subcritical test conducted at NTS in August 2006. LANL planning staff are considering... with contained underground tests at the Nevada Test Site in 1957. On October 31, 1958, the United States

  

Source: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Theoretical Division, Condensed Matter and Statistical Physics Group

 

Collection: Materials Science

 
47 Chapter 4. Uranium Mine and Extraction Facility Reclamation This chapter is not intended to serve as guidance, or to supplement EPA or other agency environmental
 

Summary:  . 1998), Abandoned Mine Site Characterization and Cleanup Handbook (U.S. EPA 2000d), EPA's National... : the waste products from open-pit or underground mines (which may include TENORM for which EPA, federal land... or in suspension with a current or successor owner; or abandoned ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
48 Z .Journal of Applied Geophysics 43 2000 4354 www.elsevier.nlrlocaterjappgeo
 

Summary:  their spatio-temporal evolution. A slow and local phenomenon of subsidence caused by underground coal mining... interferometry; Land subsidence; Underground mining and seismic activity 1. Introduction Z .Differential... of interest, affected by underground coal ...

  

Source: Delacourt, Christophe - Laboratoire Domaines Océaniques, Universite de Bretagne Occidentale

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
49 SME Annual Meeting Feb. 28-Mar. 03, 2010, Phoenix, AZ
 

Summary:  -066 DESIGNING AND MODELING WIRELESS MESH COMMUNICATIONS IN UNDERGROUND COAL MINES K. R. Griffin, Virginia Tech... and safety and routine production in underground operations. Modeling a mine's potential communication... experiments showed that radio propagation in mines was possible but ...

  

Source: Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
50 What Every Farmer Should Know About Mining Law (February 2004)
 

Summary:  residential homes in this area typically have to accept deeds with language that allows underground mining... . Longwalling has become one of the major methods of coal extraction in these underground mines. This process... Subsidence and Land Conservation Act, companies that mine coal ...

  

Source: Boyer, Elizabeth W. - School of Forest Resources, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
51 The West Virginia Coal Economy February 2010
 

Summary:  : West Virginia Bituminous Coal and Lignite Underground Mining Production: 2000-2008 13 Figure 5: West... Virginia Coal Production by Quarter: 2008 14 Figure 6: West Virginia Underground Coal Mining Production... Bituminous Coal Underground and Surface Mining ...

  

Source: Mohaghegh, Shahab - Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, West Virginia University

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
52 Making Mining Safe and Sustainable: Mary Poulton heads a new minerals institute with an interdisciplinary
 

Summary:  and air quality parameters in underground mines; and building data warehouse on sustainability metrics... Making Mining Safe and Sustainable: Mary Poulton heads a new minerals institute... by mining and geological engineering department head and University Distinguished Professor Mary Poulton

  

Source: Wong, Pak Kin - Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona

 

Collection: Engineering ; Biology and Medicine

 
53 The Students of "Applied Field Methods for Environmental Engineering", Fall 2008
 

Summary:  KL-1 Discharge from Strip Mine Tailings #12;KL-2 Discharge out of Abandoned Underground Mine #12;· h... Quality Sampling at Klondike Mine September 25, 2008 KL-1 Discharge from Strip Mine Tailings #12;Sampling

  

Source: Brennan, Rachel A. - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

 

Collection: Engineering

 
54 Safety Assurance and Rescue Communication Systems in High-Stress Environments -A Mining
 

Summary:  operations in underwater, urban war zones, mountainous terrain, avalanches, underground mine disasters... communication in all high-stress environments and then evaluates it with respect to the underground mine... environment. Second, it discusses cur- rent underground ...

  

Source: New South Wales, University of - School of Computer Science and Engineering

 

Collection: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences

 
55 U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey
 

Summary:  - ground "mine pools." Extensive parts of the abandoned underground mines that underlie the valley... -use classification may be misleading because, in the upper basin, abandoned underground mines extend beneath much... U.S. Department of the ...

  

Source: Kirby, Carl S. - Department of Geology, Bucknell University

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
56 Remediation of Abandoned Mines Using Coal Combustion By-Products
 

Summary:  the injection of this optimal mixture into the Frazee mine, 4 ha abandoned underground coal mine located... Remediation of Abandoned Mines Using Coal Combustion By-Products Sowmya Bulusu1 ; Ahmet H. Aydilek... that occurs when pyrite that is present in ...

  

Source: Aydilek, Ahmet - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland at College Park

 

Collection: Engineering

 
57 Office of Radiation & Indoor Air EPA 402-R-05-009 Radiation Protection Division (6608J) August 2006
 

Summary:  of wastes from abandoned uranium mines in the western United States. Between the 1940s and 1990s, thousands... , Geographic, and Environmental Issues of Abandoned Uranium Mines (2006b), will evaluate, in a general way... , potential radiogenic cancer and environmental risks posed by ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
58 Using Force Fields as a User Interface Device CSIRO, ICT Centre, Australia
 

Summary:  in the underground mine planning domain. 1. The Problem During the course of an interactive computer program... to be used by a mine planning consultant when planning a decline into an underground mine. As opposed... to a vertical mine shaft, a decline is a steeply ...

  

Source: Chen, Zhuo - Wireless Technologies Laboratory, CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.- Australia)

 

Collection: Engineering

 
59 PROCEEDINGS, Thirty-Sixth Workshop on Geothermal Reservoir Engineering Stanford University, Stanford, California, January 31 -February 2, 2011
 

Summary:  energy has always had a dominant role in the climate of underground facilities and mine tunnels. The wall... ", Elsevier, Amsterdam Toth A.. (2007), "A prospect Geothermal Potential of an Abandoned Copper Mine... , Stanford, California, January 31 - February 2, 2011 SGP-TR-191 GEOTHERMAL DEICING IN A ...

  

Source: Stanford University - Department of Energy Resources Engineering, Reservoir Simulation Research

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
60 Coal supply and cost under technological and environmental uncertainty
 

Summary:  are subsidence from underground mines, surface mine pit area, erosion, acid mine drainage, air pollutant... mines, surface pit reclamation, substitution of robotic underground mining systems for surface pit... ...

  

Source: Center for Integrated Study of the Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC)

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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61 Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 6, September 2008 Abandoned Hopes: Reef Mining on the Albert Goldfield,
 

Summary:  Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 6, September 2008 111 Abandoned Hopes: Reef Mining... in the Wambarriga Range about seven miles #12;Abandoned Hopes: Reef Mining on the Albert Goldfield, north... ,500 in cash. An additional 5,000 #12;Abandoned Hopes: Reef ...

  

Source: Canberra, University of - Institute for Applied Ecology

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
62 By-Products Utilization
 

Summary:  for backfill around underground utilities and filling of abandoned underground facilities. Values shown... infrastructure. References: 1. Naik, T.R., Ramme, B.W. and Kolbeck, H.J., "Filling Abandoned Underground... -excavation with the equipment to be employed. Re-excavation around ...

  

Source: Wisconsin-Milwaukee, University of - Department of Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Center for By-Products Utilization

 

Collection: Engineering ; Materials Science

 
63 COMPLETE 1998 DATA REFERENCE FOR ALL VIRGINIA MINES WITH NATURAL GAS SUPPLEMENT
 

Summary:  operations, which account for about 24 percent of total production. Productivity in underground mines shows... ,909,024 9,602,120 8,900,340 8,041,872 Underground Mines 29,434,576 27,008,184 27,179,945 27,988,826 25... ,093 6,534 5,802 Surface Operations 1,542 1,245 1,141 1,333 1,235 ...

  

Source: Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
64 BERKELEY LAB Bringing Science Solutions to the World
 

Summary:  of a single biological species, found almost two miles underground in a gold mine near Johannesburg, South... the physics of Type Ia supernovae. Underground Science Laboratory The Homestake Mine, a former gold mine... market. Charcoal stoves are also being tested for distribution in ...

  

Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, High Redshift Supernova Search

 

Collection: Physics

 
65 Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 12, EGU2010-4878-1, 2010
 

Summary:  interest group concerned with the impact and the safety of the underground works in the field of the post-mining... purposes in "post mining" research is related to the available methods and means for monitoring mine... , aims amongst other at developing techniques for monitoring ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
66 Vol. 41 (2010) ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B No 7 UNDERGROUND LABORATORIES TODAY
 

Summary:  km2 of underground excavation area), belongs to the KGHM holding of copper mines and metallurgic... in the dismissed mine. The scientific users are more than 200 in number. Budget request for the underground large... . There is an access charge paid to the host institution, Soudan ...

  

Source: Magiera, Andrzej - Instytut Fizyki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

 

Collection: Physics

 
67 What Will You Learn? Ever wonder how dynamite works? How about fireworks?
 

Summary:  was featured in The New York Times in July 2007. Loading dynamite underground at school mine - 2005 Explosives... explosive related. 6.How underground blasts work. 7.How pyrotechnics are used in special effects. 8.How... at the Summer Explosives Camp is have fun! S&T (formerly UMR) Mining Engineering ...

  

Source: Ragsdell, Kenneth M. - Design Engineering Center, University of Missouri-Rolla

 

Collection: Engineering

 
68 40 CFR Ch. I (7101 Edition) 61.20 coverage by a standard that applies
 

Summary:  ] Subpart B--National Emission Standards for Radon Emissions From Underground Uranium Mines SOURCE: 54 FR... of this subpart are ap- plicable to the owner or operator of an active underground uranium mine which: (a) Has... the following specific meanings: (a) Active mine means an ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
69 Department of Civil Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208.1 GeoTDR, Inc., 297 Pinewood Drive, Apple Valley, MN 55124.2
 

Summary:  , TN, May, 1997. 9. Ruegsegger, L.R. 1997. "Abandoned Underground Mine Inventory and Risk Assessment... OKVKICVG FCOCIG TDR monitoring of cables embedded in strata overlying abandoned mines provides a means... in March 1995. Subsidence was initiated in response to dewatering of an ...

  

Source: Northwestern University, Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Infrastructure Technology Institute

 

Collection: Engineering

 
70 36 JANUARY 2011, GSA TODAY Jen Schneider, Div. of Liberal Arts and International Studies,
 

Summary:  School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA, jjschnei@mines.edu; Roel Snieder, Dept. of Geophysics... , Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado 80401, USA, rsnieder@mines.edu In April 2010, the New York Times... that CO2 underground in geologic repositories near its plant in ...

  

Source: Snieder, Roel - Department of Geophysics, Colorado School of Mines

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
71 ontanans use water in homes, on land, and in industries. We also use the state's streams, rivers, and lakes for recreation. When we
 

Summary:  in various parts of the state. Oil and natural gas are pumped from underground. Coal is mined extensively... that "strips" the surface soil so that underground coal deposits can be extracted. Strip mining occurs south... dilute pollutants such as arsenic from geothermal sources, toxic metals from inactive or ...

  

Source: Lawrence, Rick L. - Department of Land Resources and Environmental Sciences, Montana State University

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
72 Bulletin of Latin American Research, 2011 DOI:10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00529.x The Global Gold Mining Industry,
 

Summary:  required for underground mines is replaced by simple, low-tech extraction techniques such as dynamiting... , 1981). Industrial metal mining abandoned Guatemala during the early 1980s as the Latin American... Mining Industry, Junior Firms, and Civil Society Resistance in Guatemala MICHAEL ...

  

Source: Wisconsin at Madison, University of - Department of Engineering Physics, Computational Materials Group

 

Collection: Fission and Nuclear Technologies ; Materials Science

 
73 DOCKET NO: A-98-49 TECHNICAL SUPPORT DOCUMENT FOR
 

Summary:  Underground Potash Mining UP (HCN) DP (future) Called Potash Mining in CCA; solution mining now in new FEPs H... ...............................3 2.1 Human Intrusion by Drilling: Exploitation, Completion, and Abandonment ...............7 2... and Abandonment Practices ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
74 Vol. 41 (2010) ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B No 7 LAGUNA IN POLKOWICESIEROSZOWICE MINE
 

Summary:  . In agreement with Polish law the state is owner of all underground ores. The Polkowice­Sieroszowice mine has... , any underground activity, which is not directly related to mining must be accepted by the Chief... underground work. #12;1808 A.Zalewska et al. The mine ...

  

Source: Magiera, Andrzej - Instytut Fizyki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

 

Collection: Physics

 
75 West Virginia University College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
 

Summary:  and efficiently. Underground Mining - Developing safe and productive mineral operations from below the ground... of useful minerals. Ground Control - Laying out a mine and designing support for underground openings... , underground mining systems, and surface ...

  

Source: Mohaghegh, Shahab - Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, West Virginia University

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
76 APPENDIX E: METHANE EMISSIONS FROM NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION, OIL PRODUCTION, COAL MINING, AND
 

Summary:  , and the condition in which the mine is abandoned, among other factors. METHANE EMISSIONS FROM NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION... and Brandenburg, 1989) . Underground mines produce an order of magnitude more gas per ton of coal than do surface... of coal from underground ...

  

Source: Delucchi, Mark - Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis

 

Collection: Energy Storage, Conversion and Utilization

 
77 West Virginia University College of Engineering and Mineral Resources
 

Summary:  and efficiently. Underground Mining - Developing safe and productive mineral operations from below the ground... of useful minerals. Ground Control - Laying out a mine and designing support for underground openings... , underground mining systems, and surface ...

  

Source: Mohaghegh, Shahab - Department of Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering, West Virginia University

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
78 ADVANCED UNDERGROUND VEHICLE POWER AND CONTROL FUELCELL MINE LOCOMOTIVE
 

Summary:  ADVANCED UNDERGROUND VEHICLE POWER AND CONTROL FUELCELL MINE LOCOMOTIVE Arnold R. Miller, David L... powered locomotive, an underground mining haulage vehicle, was developed and is presently undergoing... Underground mining is the most promising application in which ...

  

Source: DOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Hydrogen, Fuel Cells and Infrastructure Technologies Program

 

Collection: Energy Storage, Conversion and Utilization ; Renewable Energy

 
79 Vol. 41 (2010) ACTA PHYSICA POLONICA B No 7 THE LAGUNA DESIGN STUDY --TOWARDS GIANT
 

Summary:  UNDERGROUND DETECTORS FOR NEUTRINO PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS AND PROTON DECAY SEARCHES A. Rubbia for the LAGUNA... cosmic rays, a new very large underground infrastructure is required. Seven potential candidate sites... .52.+r, 13.30.­a, 29.40.Gx, 14.60.Pq 1. Physics goals Large underground neutrino detectors, for instance

  

Source: Magiera, Andrzej - Instytut Fizyki, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski

 

Collection: Physics

 
80 Energy Procedia, 2009, 1(1), 2929-2936, doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2009.02.068 AAA sssiiittteee ssseeellleeeccctttiiiooonnn mmmeeettthhhooodddooolllooogggyyy fffooorrr CCCOOO222 uuunnndddeeerrrgggrrrooouuunnnddd ssstttooorrraaagggeee iiinnn dddeeeeeeppp
 

Summary:  Wilson, BP33, 93211 Saint-Denis La Plaine Cedex, France (4) Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint... National de l'Environnement Industriel et des Risques, Ecole des Mines de Nancy, Parc de Saurupt, 54042... -use and underground- use (3), consideration of economic and social aspects (4). These goals can be expressed ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics


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81 Appendix III. Occupational and Public Risks Associated with In-Situ Introduction
 

Summary:  this report focuses on the impacts associated with conventional surface and underground uranium mines... of an aquifer is exempt from protection as an underground source of drinking water during the mining process... , Geographic and Environmental Issues of Abandoned Uranium ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
82 Good Abandonment in Mobile and PC Internet Search Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, and Akihito Tokuda
 

Summary:  Good Abandonment in Mobile and PC Internet Search Jane Li, Scott B. Huffman, and Akihito Tokuda... Google Inc. janeli,huffman,akihito@google.com ABSTRACT Query abandonment by search engine users... is generally con- sidered to be a negative signal. In this paper, we explore the concept of good abandonment

  

Source: Pregibon, Daryl - Google Labs

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
83 Carbon storage: the economic efficiency of storing CO2 in leaky reservoirs
 

Summary:  of today's market production comes from natural resources: CO2 is mined from underground reservoirs... carbon underground), we derive analytic expressions for the value of leaky CO2 storage compared... from the oil and gas industry [Holloway, 2001, Herzog, 2001, Bachu, 2001]. Natural underground

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
84 Real-Time Detection of Abandoned and Removed Objects in Complex Environments
 

Summary:  Real-Time Detection of Abandoned and Removed Objects in Complex Environments Ying-li Tian, Rogerio... present a new framework to robustly and efficiently detect abandoned and removed objects in complex... regions (i.e., static blobs potentially corresponding to abandoned or removed objects) without extra

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
85 December 3, 2007 R&D Proposal to NSF
 

Summary:  of neutrons to antineutrons in a 1-km long vertical shaft at the Deep Underground Science and Engineering... , installed on top of a 1-km vertical mine shaft. The antineutron detector will be located at the bottom... of the shaft. One of the vertical shafts currently available at the Homestake mine could be used

  

Source: Dai, Pengcheng - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee

 

Collection: Materials Science ; Physics

 
86 http://www.sltrib.com/fdcp?1195239701671 1 of 3 11/16/2007 12:01 PM
 

Summary:  emissions. Utah may be about to take center stage in for long-term underground storage. deep rock formations... in the the New Mexico Institute of Mining and contracts will remain under the control of science and engineering... to contain 100 years of carbon a vast storage potential, perhaps enough where underground, geological ...

  

Source: Utah, University of - Energy and Geoscience Institute, Geothermal Research Group

 

Collection: Renewable Energy ; Geosciences

 
87 What Will You Learn? Ever wonder how dynamite works? How about fireworks?
 

Summary:  are available. 6.How underground blasts work. 7.How pyrotechnics are used in special effects. 8.How to set up... &T (formerly UMR) Mining Engineering Program The Missouri University of Science and Technology was founded... in 1870 as the Missouri School of Mines and was the first technological institution west

  

Source: Ragsdell, Kenneth M. - Design Engineering Center, University of Missouri-Rolla

 

Collection: Engineering

 
88 Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 554 (2005) 286290 Measurements of muon flux in the Pyha salmi
 

Summary:  in the Pyha¨ salmi underground laboratory T. Enqvista,Ã, A. Mattilab , V. Fo¨ hra , T. Ja¨ mse´ nc , M... mine (Finland) using a plastic scintillator telescope mounted on a trailer. The flux was determined... at four different depths underground at 400 m (980 m.w.e), at 660 m (1900 m.w.e), at 990 m (2810 m

  

Source: Usoskin, Ilya G. - Sodankyla Geophysical Observatory, University of Oulu

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Physics

 
89 Geological and geotechnical databases and developments
 

Summary:  in NL - Hack & Tegtmeier 12 Past: Most underground excavations for mining normally not in an urban... and geotech databases in NL - Hack & Tegtmeier 10 Past: Underground excavations in an urban environment #12... , mining often provided the chance to gain experience and expertise in ·Ground ...

  

Source: Hack, Robert - Department of Earth Systems Analysis, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Universiteit Twente

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Engineering

 
90 Application of 3D electrical resistivity imaging in an underground potash mine Robert A. Eso and Douglas W. Oldenburg, University of British ColumbiaGeophysical Inversion Facility
 

Summary:  Application of 3D electrical resistivity imaging in an underground potash mine Robert A. Eso... it possible to explore for water infiltrated areas in underground salt mines using electrical resistivity... the application of 3D electrical resistivity imaging (ERI) in an underground potash ...

  

Source: Oldenburg, Douglas W. - Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of British Columbia

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
91 Multicomponent reactive transport modeling at the Ratones uranium mine, Cceres (Spain)
 

Summary:  management. The Ratones uranium mine was abandoned and flooded in 1974. Due to its reducing underground... , the models capable of simulating metal release in abandoned underground mines are scarce. The Ratones mine... /06/05 / Accepted: 02/10/05 ...

  

Source: Politècnica de Catalunya, Universitat - Departament d'Enginyeria del Terreny, Cartogràfica i Geofísica,Hydrogeology Group

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
92 Chapter 1. Introduction Uranium is a common element in nature that has for centuries been used as a coloring agent in
 

Summary:  of waste from conventional mining of uranium (surface and underground mining) are not subject to NRC... Issues of Abandoned Uranium Mines (2006a), will evaluate, in a general way, potential radiogenic cancer... and environmental risks posed by abandoned uranium ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
93 Brady, T., S. Cardimona and N. Anderson, "Detection and Delineation of Underground Fuel Storage Tanks and Associated Utility Lines Using Electromagnetic Induction and Ground Penetrating Radar Methods," International Conference on the
 

Summary:  Brady, T., S. Cardimona and N. Anderson, "Detection and Delineation of Underground Fuel Storage... of Underground Fuel Storage Tanks and Associated Utility Lines Using Electromagnetic Induction and Ground... to the underground fuel storage tanks and associated utility lines. Noninvasive mapping of these features prior

  

Source: Ragsdell, Kenneth M. - Design Engineering Center, University of Missouri-Rolla

 

Collection: Engineering

 
94 UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTALPROTECTIONAGENCY WASHINGTON, D.C. 20460
 

Summary:  closed or abandoned mines can accumulate the gas in underground chambers, or vent the gas through old... removed may have radium contamination of soils at the site. Underground mines of all kinds have... . Active mines may have large fans that pump ...

  

Source: Yucca Mountain Project, US EPA

 

Collection: Environmental Sciences and Ecology

 
95 Carbon storage: the economic efficiency of storing CO2 in leaky reservoirs Minh Ha-Duong, David W. Keith
 

Summary:  : CO2 is mined from underground reservoirs such as the Mac Elmo Dome in Colorado. Presently the average... carbon underground), we derive analytic expressions for the value of leaky CO2 storage compared... from the oil and gas industry (Holloway 2001; Herzog 2001; Bachu 2001). Natural underground reservoirs

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
96 Environ Engg and Policy 1 (1999) 223233 Q Springer-Verlag 1999 The use of sulfur isotopes to monitor the effectiveness of constructed
 

Summary:  problem widely associated with abandoned coal mines. The remediation of these sites commonly falls... . Surface and groundwaters in areas with abandoned coal mines commonly exceed Secondary Maximum Contaminant... is a persistent problem. Moreover, many of these mines have been ...

  

Source: Maynard, J. Barry - Department of Geology, University of Cincinnati

 

Collection: Geosciences

 
97 THE ANALYSIS OF FATAL ACCIDENTS IN INDIAN D. Sengupta1
 

Summary:  are generally known to be safer than underground mines, the Indian open cast mines are shown to be at least... as hazardous to the workers as the Indian underground mines. Analysis of the accident rates is made via a few... have mostly underground ...

  

Source: Mandal, Abhyuday - Department of Statistics, University of Georgia

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
98 Design and Field Testing of an Autonomous Underground Tramming System
 

Summary:  underground mining vehicle. Described is the development of a fast, re- liable, and robust "autotramming... in underground mining operations by robotiz- ing some of the functions of underground vehicles. For example... in underground mines, this ...

  

Source: Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de mathématiques

 

Collection: Mathematics

 
99 International Conference on Ground Control in Mining During the last 25 years, technological advancement and
 

Summary:  (SDPS) package. INTRODUCTION The impacts of mine subsidence due to underground mining are important... ground movements due to underground mining present significant problems that have the potential to create... affecting ground deformation induced by underground ...

  

Source: Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research

 

Collection: Fossil Fuels

 
100 CHARACTERISATION OF ACID MINE DRAINAGE USING A COMBINATION OF HYDROMETRIC, CHEMICAL AND
 

Summary:  , Chemical and Hydrologic Variability of Acid Mine Drainage from Abandoned Esco #40 Underground Coal Mine... treatment of acid mine drainage from portals, is not feasible for the thousands of abandoned mines... of these tools. Research was ...

  

Source: Williams, Mark W. - Insitute of Arctic and Alpine Research & Department of Geography, University of Colorado at Boulder

 

Collection: Geosciences ; Environmental Sciences and Ecology


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