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The remaining funds from Wuhan will be contingent on completion of a feasibility study for the Zambeze coal project, including its ability to produce at least 30 million run-of-mine tons of coal annually.
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Hence the bulk sample should be separately prepared by mixing stones from different parts of the deposit in such a proportion that it will simulate or bear closest resemblance to the actual run-of-mine stone.
5.1 Raw-mix design 1993
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Suppose that during the test the coal used was run-of-mine bituminous having a heating value of 13,500 B.t. u.
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No. 343, Binders for coal briquettes; No. 362, Mine sampling and chemical analyses of coals in 1907; No. 363, Comparative tests of run-of-mine and briquetted coal on locomotives, including torpedo-boat tests, and some foreign specifications for briquetted fuel; No. 366,
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Demonstrations, on a commercial scale, of the possibility of producing briquettes from American lignites, and the relative value of these for purposes of combustion as compared with the run-of-mine coal from which the briquettes are made;
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Comparative tests of run-of-mine and briquetted coal on locomotives, including torpedo-boat tests, and some foreign specifications for briquetted fuel, by W.F. M. Goss.
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There have been 300 house-heating boiler tests and 575 steam-boiler tests; also, 83 railway-locomotive and 23 naval-vessel tests have been made on run-of-mine coal in comparison with briquetted coal; also, 125 tests have been made in connection with heat-transmission experiments, and
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Elimination of the wasting of slack or fine coal, through more careful methods of mining, through limitations on the excessive use of powder and larger use of wedges, through the abolition of laws for the payment of miners on a run-of-mine basis, and in the case of anthracite through recovery of the "silt" or dust caused by mining and sorting.
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This is often sold as "run-of-mine" coal, -- that is, just as it comes from the mine, whether in big pieces or in little ones; but sometimes it is passed over screens, and in this process the dust and smaller bits drop out.
Diggers in the Earth Eva March Tappan 1892
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According to the IMC-reviewed mine plan, by 2030 and beyond, when deeper seams are mined at the Elga open pit, the same annual run-of-mine production volume is expected to yield over 11.5 million tonnes of coking coal concentrate.
unknown title 2011
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