Front Cover -- Title/Copyright Page -- Foreword -- Contents -- Section 1: Mining Engineering Magazine Technical Papers -- January -- Selection, design and construction of retaining structure to support the primary crusher relocation project at Round Mountain Mine -- Significant developments in dry rare-earth magnetic separation -- February -- International education of mining engineers-an update on the Australian experience and international opportunities for collaboration -- Investigation into dust exposures and mining practices in mines in the southern Appalachian Region -- March -- Effect of longwall face advance on spontaneous heating in longwall gob area -- Operating speed assessments of underground mining equipment -- Assessment of equipment operator's noise exposure in western underground gold and silver mines -- April -- Impact of air velocity and support advance on shield-generated dust -- Hydrologic evaluation of post-closure flooding and dewatering of the Homestake Mine -- June -- Reducing the fire and explosion hazards of flame-cutting and welding in underground coal mines -- July -- Surface treatment of ornamental stones by high-pressure, water-jet technology -- Methane explosion modeling in the Sago Mine -- August -- Investigation into the practical use of belt air at US longwall operations -- Estimating excavator teeth consumption rates -- September -- Evaluation of the wet head continuous miner to reduce respirable dust -- Solution mining mass balance calculations -- October -- Continuous miner spray considerations for optimizing scrubber performance in exhaust ventilation systems -- Breaking the ice on the booster fan dilemma in US underground coal mines -- November -- A review of the effects of exhaust after treatment on nitrogen dioxide emissions from underground mining equipment -- December.

Haul truck fuel consumption and CO2 emission under variou sengine load conditions -- Potential of roof screening to reduce workers' compensation costs -- Section 2: Minerals & Metallurgical Processing Journal -- February -- Utilizing minerals and materials with negative properties -- Effect of compaction on binder performance in copper heap leaching -- The carbon footprint and life cycle analysis of kaolin and calcium carbonate pigments in paper -- Comparison of volumetric and section area particle compositions using the Gaudin random mineral liberation model -- Flotation of oxidized zinc ore without desliming -- Evaluation of novel Georgia Pacific clay binders in iron ore flotation -- High-confidence flotation testing at Xstrata Process Support -- May -- Reprocessing of a French Guyana operation's tailings using flotation for gold concentration -- Gold recovery from high-arsenic containing ores at Newmont's roasters -- Optimizing complex gold mill metallurgy for cash flow improvement -- Ore characterization, hydrometallurgical and reactive transport studies for in-place leaching of oxidized gold deposits -- Basic iron sulfate - a potential killer in the processing of refractory gold concentrates by pressure oxidation -- The modular Python processing plant - designed for underground preconcentration -- The leaching of MgCO3 and CaCO3 from Mount Isa zinc concentrate -- Application of the Taguchi orthogonal array design to Cr (VI) solvent extraction -- Kinetics of dissolution of Mardin-Mazıdagi (Turkey) phosphate ore in dilute phosphoric acid solutions -- August -- Improved nickel and cobalt recovery from nickeliferous laterites in acidic fluoride media -- Pellet feed production via the concentration of flotation tailings -- Solvent extraction of zirconium from zircon leach liquor using triphenylphosphine oxide.

Performance of a full-scale continuous centrifugal concentrator in reconcentrating fine hematite from tailings -- Copper losses in sulfide concentrate smelting slag are dependent on slag composition -- Laboratory study of an organic binder for pelletization of a magnetite concentrate -- Ammonia separation of Ni from spent fly ash leach liquor -- Flotation of zinc oxide minerals from low-grade tailings b y oxine and dithizone using the Taguchi approach -- Design, operation and control of a teeter-bed hydroseparator for classification -- Reverse flotation of diaspore from aluminosilicates by a new cationic organosilicon quaternary ammonium collector -- November -- Leaching of gold and silver from a Kupol composite sample: assessment of the CANMET enhanced leaching process (CELP) -- The deportment of mercury during thiosulfate leaching and resin-in-pulp recovery of gold from ores -- Modeling the equilibrium loading of gold onto activated carbon from complex cyanide solutions -- Gold heap leach simulation and optimization using a multiphysics model -- Selective elution of gold, silver and mercury cyanide from activated carbon -- Biooxidation of an auriargentiferous arsenical pyrite concentrate by means of mesophilic and thermophilic bacteria -- Behavior of gold and silver in various processing circuits at the Fort Knox Mine -- Transport of Ca, Mg, Na, sulfate and other components of pellet production at the Kiirunavaara iron mine by process water and magnetite surfaces: a quantification -- Section 3: Transactions Papers -- Design and preliminary testing of a low-energy planetary excavator -- Key deposit indicators (KDI) and key mining method indicators (KMI) in underground mining method selection -- Use of the New Mexico Mines Database and ArcMap in uranium reclamation studies -- The use of waste material in underground coal mines.

Geotechnical data collection and application to the Leeville underground mine -- Achieving longer pull using newly developed Pentadyne-HP explosive -- Quantitative mineralogical study of ore domains at Bingham Canyon, Utah -- Case study of blast vibration-induced sounds recorded inside a house near a West Virginia coal mine -- A comprehensive subsidence study for a longwall mine under steeply mountainous areas -- Subsurface subsidence prediction model and its potential application to the study of longwall subsidence effects on the hydrologic system -- Investigation of ventilation problems of a small coal mine compounded by a massive roof fail -- Mine haul road design and management: a review of current practice -- Modeling the effect of barometric pressure changes on spontaneous heating in bleederless longwall panels -- Effect of air velocity on conveyor belt fire suppression systems -- Improvements in conveyor belt fire suppression systems for US coal mines -- In-mine study of high-expansion firefighting foam -- Mine rescue training facility inventory - compendium of ideas to improve US coal mine rescue training -- A back analysis of the Crandall Canyon Mine collapse -- A shotcrete adhesion test system for mining applications -- An analysis of flexural strength and crack width for fiber-reinforced shotcrete used in weak rock mines -- Studying intake airway pressurization by ventilation modeling and leakage evaluation -- Experimental studies on corrosion of rock anchors in US underground coal mines -- NIOSH tools for hearing loss prevention programs -- Index.