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 Volume 9, Number 4 (Winter 2011)

Regulars:

  • President's Message: Coal Preparation Begins at the Face (Dave Carris)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Index of CPSA Journal Articles (Ken Miller)
  • Current Coal Processing Philosophy at Consol Energy (Gary Meenan)
  • Solving Flow and Flotation Monitoring Problems in Coal Preparation Using New, Non-Invasive Passive Array Flowmeter Technology (Christian V. O’Keefe, Robert Maron & Paul Rothman)
  • ASTM Update (Mel Laurila)

 

Volume 9, Number 3 (Fall 2010)

Regulars:

  • President's Message: Carbon (Dave Carris)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)
  • Available CPSA Publications

Features:

  • Valuation of Pre-Combustion Coal Cleaning Facilities for Power Plants (Bethany Snoby & Stephen Smith)
  • Strategies for Washing Australian Coals (Wes Mackinnon & Andrew Swanson)

 

Volume 9, Number 2 (Summer 2010)

Regulars:

  • President's Message (Dave Carris)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)
  • Available CPSA Publications

Features:

  • XVI International Coal Preparation Congress (William Kalb)
  • Achieving Reliable Material Flow in Coal Preparation Plants (Jayant Khambekar, Ph.D., Roger A. Barnum, Roderick J. Hossfeld)
  • XVI International Coal Preparation Congress 2010 Country Report: Hungary (Dr. Ljudmilla Bokányi PhD)
  • Resource-Saving Technologies to Recover Combustible Matter from Coal-Bearing Wastes (Pozdeyev V.N., Mikhaltsevich V.V., Lyashenko A.P.)

Volume 9, Number 1 (Spring 2010)

Regulars:

  • President's Message (Mel Larila)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Country Reports:
    • Australia 
    • Canada
    • Greece
    • India
    • Poland
    • Russia
    • Slovakia
    • South Africa
    • Turkey 
    • Ukraine
    • United Kingdom
    • United States. 

  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer: David Horsfall

 

 

 

 


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Volume 8, Number 4 (Winter 2010)

Regulars:

  • President's Message (Mel Laurila)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Index of CPSA Journal Articles (Ken Miller)
  • XVI International Coal Preparation Congress
  • XVI International Coal Preparation Congress: Technical Program Abstracts

Volume 8, Number 3 (Fall 2009)

Regulars:

  • President's Message (Mel Laurila)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Coal Outlook in Canada (Dr. Ahmed I.A., Salama)
  • Making the Most of Your Sulfur Analysis (David Akers)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer: F. Monty Lyon (Ronald W. Utley)

Volume 8, Number 2 (Summer 2009)

​Regulars:

  • President's Message: Why Clean Coal (Mel Laurila)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • The Global Warming Debate (Dave Akers)
  • Minutes of the Annual Meeting of Members
  • Keynote Address at Coal Prep 2009 (Luke Popovich)
  • Application of Crusher Types (G. Edmiston & B. Daskivich)
  • Coal Prep 2009
  • Developments in Instrumentation and Controls: Rapid On-line Analysis for Coal Sorting & Classification (Scott Snyder)
  • Coal Quality Standards Update (Mel Laurila)

Volume 8, Number 1 (Spring 2009)

Regulars:

  • President's Message (Mel Laurila)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Crusher Technologies that Derive More Value from the Coal You Mine (Michael "MIke" G. Hamby)
  • Making a Silk Purse From a Sow's Ear: Producing Metallurgical Coal From Coal Waste (David Akers & Clark Harrison)
  • What's in that Pile? (Gene Pietrowski, L. Robert Kimball & Associates)

 

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 Volume 7, Number 4 (Winter 2009)

Regulars:

  • President's Message:  Become More Active to Help Position Coal as the Real Answer to America's Energy Crisis (Mel Laurila)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Index of CPSA Journal Articles (Ken Miller)
  • Call for Papers - International Coal Preparation Congresss 2010, April 25-30, 2010 
  • The Evolution of Coal Loading Systems (Bill Hale)
  • Coal Quality Standards Update (Mel Laurila)

Volume 7, Number 3 (Fall 2008)

Regulars:

  • President's Message:  CPSA Agrees to Work with Mining Media to Publish International Coal Preparation Journal (Mel Laurila)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Call for Papers - Coal Prep 2009, April 27-30, 2009
  • Call for Papers - International Coal Preparation Congresss 2010, April 25-30, 2010 
  • Replacement of Belt Presses with a Deep Cone Thickener at Lone Mountain Processing (B. K.  Gupta, Roy Gross, & Peter Bethell)
  • Teetered-Bed Separators: An Effective Fine Coal Cleaning Tool (Rick Honaker)

Volume 7, Number 2 (Summer 2008)

Regulars:

  • President's Message:  CPSA Exisits to Serve Members and the Coal Preparation Industry (Mel Laurila)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Jack Hopwood)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Annual Membership Meeting Report
  • CPSA and Department of Commerce Host Coal India, Ltd. Delegation (Shannon Fraser)
  • Coal in Turkey: Past and Present Conditions (Gulhan Ozboyo)
  • Coal Preparation Research Activities at Southern Illinois University (Manoj K. Mohanty)
  • A Modern Dewatering Technology for Coal - Capillary Action Filter - Ceramec (G. Gorres, D. Hanfland, J. Helsto, R. Hindstrom, & A. Vesala
  • CPSA Technical Program for Coal Prep 2008

Volume 7, Number 1 (Spring 2008)

Regulars:

  • President's Message:  A Note of Thanks (Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Airborne Ultrasound (Harold Van De Ven)
  • Operational Considerations for Waste Minimization (R. Q. Honaker)
  • An Alternative for Fine Coal Flotation (Jaisen N. Kohmuench, Michail J. Mankosa, & Eric S. Yan)

 

 

 

 


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 Volume 6, Number 4 (Winter 2008)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: Climate Change (Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • The Annual Coal Processing Exhibition and Conference will Celebrate Its 25th Anniversary
  • Coal Preparation Plants in South Africa (GJ de Korte)
  • Motor Circuit Analysis (Harold Van De Ven)
  • CO2 Capture and Geologic Sequestration - What it is and Its Implications (Eduardo Manrique & Anibal Araya)

Volume 6, Number 3 (Fall 2007)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: Positive Changes in the Coal Industry  (Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • CPSA Board of Directors Nominee fro Vice President
  • Coal Mining and Processing in China (Richard McCormick, Richard Terry, & Brian Watters)
  • Thermography (Harold Van De Ven)
  • Coal Waste Impoundment Study - Five Years Later (Richard J. Sweigard)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer: Don Schreckengost (George C. Brooks, Sr.)

Volume 6, Number 2 (Summer 2007)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: High Level of Interest in Our Industry Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Vibration Analysis (Harold Van De Ven)
  • Techniques for Evaluating Separating Equipment Performance (Joe Davidson & William Kalb)
  • The Motorless-Rotorless Flotation Cell (William R. Roy, Latif A. Khan, Jonathan H. Goodwin, Chris Manrique, John Kaineg, Jeff Chambers, & Joseph Hirschi)
  • Why ASTM International?

Volume 6, Number 1 (Spring 2007)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: Renewed Interest in Coal (Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Review of "The Future of Coal" - An Interdisciplinary MIT Study on the Future Utilization of Coal (G. William Kalb)
  • Stop Walking through the Maintenance Minefield with Your Eyes Shut! (Harold Van De Ven)
  • A New Method of Collecting Slurry Samples (Dave J. Akers)
  • Techniques for Evaluating Separating Equipment Performance (Joe Davidson & William Kalb)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer: Ellis J. O'Brien (Al Deurbrouck)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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 Volume 5, Number 4 (Winter 2007)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: An Opportunity for the Coal Industry (Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Index of 2006 CPSA Journal Articles
  • Coal Prep 2007 Technical Program
  • Stop Walking through the Maintenance Minefield with Your Eyes Shut! (Harold Van De Ven)
  • Techniques for Evaluating Separating Equipment Performance (Joe Davidson & William Kalb)
  • International Coal Preparation Congress - Beijing 2006
  • Coal Preparation Development in Russia (A. P. Veselov & B. I. Linev)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer: Dr. Donald A. Dahlstrom (Chuck Silverblatt, Bob Emmett, & John Gottschall)

Volume 5, Number 3 (Fall 2006)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: Coal Producers Join CPSA (Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • President of CPSA Recognized by SME
  • Joseph Paul Matoney - An Appreciation by Clark D. Harrison
  • Holden 22 from 70's "By Zero" to De-Slime D.M.C./Compound Sprial Efficiency Levels (Peter J. Bethell & Chuck Waine)
  • Stop Walking through the Maintenance Mine Field with Your Eyes Closed (Harold Van De Ven)
  • CAST - Center for Advanced Separation Technologies ( Roe-Hoan & Chris Hull)
  • Allen and Fennell Join ECSI

Volume 5, Number 2 (Summer 2006)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: Exciting Times for the Coal Business (Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Current Situation and Development Prospects of Coal Preparation in Poland (Wieslaw S. Blaschk & Lidia Gawlik)
  • Improving Mine Profitability Using Dry Deshaling Technologies (R. Q. Honaker, G. H. Luttrell, R. C. Bratton, & D. Patil)
  • Minutes of the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Coal Preparation Society of America

Volume 5, Number 1 (Spring 2006)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: The Need to Work More Closely with Coal Users (Clark Harrison)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Increasing Cleaning Plant Yield (Glenn Shirey, Clifford Raleigh, David Akers, Joel Franklin, Todd Dobbs, & Joseph Renk)
  • International Coal Preparation Congress
  • An Update on the Role of Column Flotation in the Coal Industry (J. N. Kohmuench & M. J. Mankosa)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer: Bill S. Taylor

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 Volume 4, Number 4 (Winter 2006)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: "The Power of Associations" (Clark Harrison)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Change in Corporate Dues
  • Education through Research at the University of Kentucky (Rick Honaker)
  • Pump Ghosts I've Met: A Guide to Centrifugal Pump Diagnostic Techniques - Part 2 (Joseph R. Askew)

Volume 4, Number 3 (Fall 2005)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: Generation - Advanced Fuels (Clark Harrison)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Pump Ghosts I've Met: A Guide to Centrifugal Pump Diagnostic Techniques - Part 1 (Joseph R. Askew)
  • Enhanced Ultrasound: A Method of Improving Cleaning Plant Performance (Dave J. Akers)
  • McLanahan Corporation Announces Personnel Changes

Volume 4, Number 2 (Summer 2005)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: Renewed Interest in Coal (Don Symonds)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Your Information Station (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Review of "The Future of Coal" - An Interdisciplinary MIT Study on the Future Utilization of Coal (G. William Kalb)
  • Stop Walking through the Maintenance Minefield with Your Eyes Shut! (Harold Van De Ven)
  • A New Method of Collecting Slurry Samples (Dave J. Akers)
  • Techniques for Evaluating Separating Equipment Performance (Joe Davidson & William Kalb)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer: Ellis J. O'Brien (Al Deurbrouck)

Volume 4, Number 1 (Spring 2005)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: CPSA Status and Plans (Clark Harrison)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)

Features:

  • Classifying Cyclone Operation and Maintenance (Robert Moorhead)
  • Coal Preparation Society of America Constitution
  • Process Control in Coal Preparation (Mel J. Laurila)
  • The Market Within the Market: Strigent Environmental Regulations Result in Explosive Demand Growth for Eastern Coal (Dave Lewandowski, Nick DeIuliis, & Kent Lindsay)
  • Call for Papers

 

 

 

 


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 Volume 3, Number 4 (Winter 2005)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: The Sky is Falling (David Akers)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • The Preparation Toolbox (Kip Alderman)

Features:

  • Kyoto: Silver Bullet or the Great Train Robbery (Nicholas Deluliis)
  • The Geologic Record of Climate Change (Nicholas Lancaster)
  • Call for Papers

Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall 2004)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President (Clark Harrison)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)

Features:

  • International Coal Preparatoni Congresses Fifty Years On (Doug Jenkinson)
  • Fundamental and Practical Development of Dry Coal Cleaning in China: A Review (Yuemin Zhao, Zhenfu Luo and Qingru Chen)
  • International Coal Preparation Congress (William Kalb)

Volume 3, Number 2 (Summer 2004)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President - Take Your Biomass and ...(Clark Harrison)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • The Preparation Toolbox (Kip Alderman)

Features:

  • New Products
  • Coal Quality Impacts on Power Generation (Randy Cole and Rob Frank)
  • Minutes of the CPSA Annual Meeting (Barbara Fyock)
  • One Trillion Reasons for Optimism (World News)

 

Volume 3, Number 1 (Spring 2004)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President - Higher Coal Prices, Don't Spend Your Bonus Yet (Kip Alderman)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Research & Development (Rick Honaker)

Features:

  • Technical Meeting Calendar
  • Member News
  • Froth Flotation - To Deslime or Not to Deslime (Peter Bethell)
  • CPSA Membership List

 

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 Volume 2, Number 4 (Winter 2004)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President - A Clean, Well-Lighted Place (Kip Alderman)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)

Features:

  • Member News
  • Paradise Lost: TVA Paradise Preparation Plant (Stephen Smith)
  • Technical Meeting Calendar
  • Online Resources
  • Stockpile Measurement (Gene Pietrowski)
  • CPSA Constitution
  • Slate of Officers for 2004-05 & 2005-06 Membership Years
  • We are Still in an Ice Age (Dave Akers)

Volume 2, Number 3 (Fall 2003)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President - IF Anyone is Home in Washington... (Kip Alderman)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • The Preparation Toolbox - Release Analysis or Froth Flotation Washability (Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • TVA Assesses Future of Coal-Wash Facility at Paradise (Judith Elb)
  • Matching Plant Design to Seam Washability Characteristics (David Carris)
  • Coal Preparation Pioneers - The Long Talent Line (Dominick Sisti)
  • Underwood Flyash Goes to Afghanistan (Lauren Donovan)

Volume 2, Number 2 (Summer 2003)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President - Coal A Human History (Kip Alderman)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Research & Development (Rick Honaker)
  • The Preparation Toolbox - Partition Curves (David Akers

Features:

  • TXU Hosts First Preparation Seminar
  • Cleaning Coal to Reduce Mercury Emissions (David Akers and Clifford Raleigh, Jr.)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer - Harry Fagan Yancey & Max Richard Geer (Stanley Jacobsen)

Volume 2, Number 1 (Spring 2003)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President - Coal Preparation and the Future of the US Coal Industry (Kip Alderman)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • The Preparation Toolbox -Washability Analysis (David Akers and Barbara Arnold)

Features:

  • Coal Preparation Trends (Richard Terry)
  • Coal Preparation in CSIRO (Bruce Firth)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer - Donald Norval Griffin (Carlos Tiernon)

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 Volume 1, Number 4 (Winter 2003)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President - Coal is the Worst Fuel for Making Electricity ... Except for the Alternatives (Kip Alderman)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Research & Development (Rick Honaker)

Features:

  • Index of Volume One - Feature Articles
  • Coal Cleaning Plant Upgrade Benefits Rosebud Mining (Bradley Parker and Barbara Arnold)
  • Technical Meeting Calendar
  • CPSA Charter Members List

Volume 1, Number 3 (Fall 2002)

Regulars:

  • Editorial: Another Renaissance (Clark Harrison)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Research & Development - First International Symposium on Dry Coal Cleaning (William Kalb)

Features:

  • Chinese Coal Preparation (Yang Yongren, Wu Shiyu and Dipl-Ing. Jochen Schwerdtfeger
  • Noise Control in Coal Preparation Plants (Anthony Argirakis Leonard Marraccini)
  • Noise Regulation Compliance & Abatement (Carlos Mosley)

Volume 1, Number 2 (Summer 2002)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President - The Big "E" in the CPSA Logo (Kip Alderman)
  • The Preparation Toolbox - Using Sieve Analysis for Process Estimates (Kip Alderman)
  • Research & Development - Coal Preparation Research (Rick Honaker)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)

Features:

  • Heavy Media Washer (Surendra Jain)
  • Plant Efficiency Testing (Fred Stanley)
  • Ludowici Vibrationtechnic Screen (Paul Yandora)

Volume 1, Number 1 (Spring 2002)

Regulars:

  • A Message from the President (Kip Alderman)
  • The Preparation Toolbox - Working with Size Analysis Data (Kip Alderman)
  • Research & Development - Coal Preparation Research (Rick Honaker)
  • Preparation Q&A - Ask Mr. Prep (Gerald Luttrell)
  • Regional Coal Preparation Meetings (Monty Lyon)

Features:

  • Coal Preparation Society of America Constitution
  • Performance and Cost of Air Jigging in the 21st Century (Michael Kelley and Richard Snoby)
  • The Magnetite Supply Line (W. R. Huck)
  • A Coal Preparation Pioneer - Edward Clayton Carris (David Carris)

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