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Information Circular 9142: Bureau of Mines Cost Estimating System Handbook (in Two Parts): 1. Surface and Underground Mining

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  • Corporate Authors:
    United States. Bureau of Mines
  • Description:
    This Bureau of Mines report was prepared to assist in the preparation of prefeasibility-type estimates for capital and operating costs of mining of various types of mineral occurrences using current technology. The handbook provides a convenient costing procedure based on the summation of the costs for the unit processes required in any particular mining or mineral processing operation. The costing handbook consists of a series of costing sections, each corresponding to a specific mining unit process. Contained within each section is the methodology to estimate either the capital or operating cost for that unit process. The unit process sections may be used to generate, in January 1984 dollars, costs through the use of either costing curves or formulae representing the prevailing technology. Coverage for surface mining includes dredging, quarrying, strip mining, and open pit mining. The underground mining includes individual development sections for drifting, raising, shaft sinking, stope development, various mining methods, underground mine haulage, general plant, and underground mine administrative cost. This system can be used for estimating cost data for an undeveloped deposit or for checking or verifying mining costs from a developed deposit, with a minimum amount of background information. [Description provided by NIOSH]
  • Subjects:
  • Series:
    Mining Publications
  • Subseries:
    Information Circular
  • Document Type:
    Text
  • Genre:
    Handbooks
  • CIO:
    National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
  • Division:
    WO - Washington Office
  • Topic:
    Workplace Safety & Health
  • Location:
    North America
  • Pages in Document:
    646 pdf pages
  • NIOSHTIC Number:
    nn:10005989
  • Federal Fiscal Year:
    1987
  • Peer Reviewed:
    False
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  • Main Document Checksum:
    urn:sha-512:0e647d814a3c46e12a3836258178eb249c67e76ddeb5f25e1193fb4c616e8da8fde8671e9618799d2cc1130bbf595c7613c094457fa8aecb555e875f11be6ad6
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