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  • SAIMM
    Stress Induced Damage In Tunnels In A Cave Mining Environment In Kimberlite

    By P. J. Bartlett

    Premier Diamond Mine exploits a kimberlite orebody using cave mining methods. A drilling level is established at the base of a block of ore to effect undercutting that leads to caving of the overlying

    Jan 1, 2000

  • SAIMM
    The Use And Abuse Of Feasibility Studies (c627553d-2bd9-45a2-832d-29f2383e03fc)

    By W. Mackenzie

    The development of a resource project inevitably requires the investigation of a vast range of issues across most engineering disciplines - mining, metallurgical, chemical, civil, electrical, mechanic

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Backfilling waste material composites environmental impact assessment

    By J. Kortnik

    Mining has always been, and still is, an activity which is vital for the development of mankind. This is because a predominant proportion of industrial products and energy is produced from raw materia

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    A decision analysis guideline for underground bulk air heat exchanger design specifications

    By M. Hooman, W. M. Marx, R. C. W. Webber-Youngman

    This paper discusses a study that investigated different underground bulk air heat exchanger (>100 m3/s) design criteria. A literature review found that no single document exists covering all design c

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Optimizing The Life Of Ore Passes In A Deep-Level Gold Mine

    By P. R. Brenchley

    Main ore pass systems should last the life of a mine, and too often expensive and hazardous remedial measures are required to repair a damaged ore pass in an attempt to extend its life. In order to ma

    Jan 1, 2006

  • SAIMM
    Underground Extraction Of Contiguous Coal Seams/Sections Consisting Thin Parting: A Case Study

    By Rajendra Singh

    Underground depillaring of contiguous coal seams/sections is a difficult problem, which becomes even more complex if the interburden/parting between them is thin. Conventionally, the depillaring with

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Ultrafine Particles: Aggravating Exposure Factor?

    By W. C. A. van Niekerk, M. H. Fourie

    The carcinogenic potential of chromium (VI) has been the subject of numerous environmental and occupational studies, from which many regulatory efforts emanated. Besides the regulation of levels of k

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    The Manganese Ferroalloys Industry In Southern Africa

    By J. D. Steenkamp

    Southern Africa has a history rich in the pyrometallurgical processing of ores. Two of the alloys produced are high-carbon ferromanganese (74?83 per cent Mn) and silicomanganese (59?67 per cent Mn and

    Aug 1, 2013

  • SAIMM
    Automated SEM study of PGM distribution across a UG2 flotation concentrate bank: implications for understanding PGM floatability ? Synopsis

    By D. Chetty

    The characterization of platinum group minerals (PGMs) from concentrator flotation circuits provides valuable information towards understanding PGM recovery under given milling and flotation condition

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    Numerical Simulation Of Shear Fracture Evolution In Laboratory-Scale Samples ? Synopsis

    By D. P. Roberts

    This investigation aimed to simulate the experiments performed by Nic Gay (Gay, N.C. 1976. Fracture growth around openings in large blocks of rock subjected to uniaxial and biaxial compression. Intern

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    The Application Of Cyclic Voltammetry Coupled With Surface Plasmon Resonance Measurements To Thiol-Collector Interactions With Gold Surfaces (4ab15224-caa7-44d5-8efa-b1cd96e7beac)

    Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) spectroscopy, combined with cyclovoltammetry, has been successfully used to study the interactions between ethyl xanthate, heptyl xanthate, dithio-phosphate and propyl

    Jan 1, 2005

  • SAIMM
    Masjed-e-Soleiman HEPP, Iran Rock Engineering Investigations, Analysis, Design and Construction

    By F. B. Samani, B. Stabel

    The 1,000 MW Hydro Power Station Masjed-e-Soleiman (formerly called Godar-e-Landar) in Iran is under construction since 1992. The rock engineering aspects of the major underground structure, i.e. the

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Air Leakage Through Underground Ventilation Stoppings And In Situ Assessment Of Air Leakage Characteristics Of Remote Filled Cement Concrete Plug By Tracer Gas Technique

    By A. K. Singh

    Between the main fan and the coalface in a mine a lot of air is lost through leakage at stoppings, doors, air-crossing etc. so that a much larger quantity of air has to be circulated by the fan in ord

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Wind Erosion Of Tailings Dams And Mitigation Of The Dust Nuisance

    By G. E. Blight

    Wind erosion can be a major cause of the loss and dispersion of tailings material from a tailings dam into its surrounding environment. Such dust dispersion can be a serious nuisance, as well as a hea

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Optimization of shovel-truck system for surface mining - Synopsis

    By S. G. Ercelebi

    In surface mining operations, truck haulage is the largest item in the operating costs, constituting 50 to 60% of the total. In order to reduce this cost, it is necessary to allocate and dispatch the

    Jan 1, 2009

  • SAIMM
    The Fabric Of Coal-Mine Refuse As Backfilling Material And Its Relation To Grain-Size Distribution Parameters

    By M. G. Senyur

    This study aims at investigating the structural characteristics of backfilling material. In this regard, spatial arrangement of solid particles and associated voids in a unit mass of coal mine refuse

    Jan 1, 1998

  • SAIMM
    Representation of coal and coal derivatives in process modelling (c1409317-ab54-4241-b307-06d0044846d0)

    By J. A. Theron

    "This paper provides guidelines on performing mass and energy balance modelling involving coal and coal derivatives. Usually, the inputs to a pyrometallurgical process would be specified in terms of e

    Jan 1, 2015

  • SAIMM
    Aspects Of Saf Smelting Of Ferrochrome

    This paper provides a review of the chemical reactions occurring in the submerged arc processing of chromite ores. The excavations of industrial furnaces have shown that the charge, as it descends thr

    Jan 1, 2004

  • SAIMM
    Non-Linear System Identification Of An Autocatalytic Reactor Using Least Squares Support Vector Machines

    Paper written on project work carried out in partial fulfilment of B.Sc. Eng. (Extractive Metallurgy)degree The concepts behind support vector machines are very interesting both in theory and in pr

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Technical skills?a major strategic issue - Synopsis (fe76e3c8-f6c3-411a-a6dd-39c52c339bd0)

    A shortage of technical skills in all areas of the mining industry is being experienced worldwide. This has significant consequences for design, operations, productivity and safety and, therefore, nee

    Jan 1, 2008