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Books Review
Fathi Habashi, Chalcopyrite. Its chemistry and metallurgy. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1978. 165 pp. RI9,95. Loss prevention and safety promotion The Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Loss
Jan 1, 1979
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Systems simulation for dragline selection in open cast mines
By K. M. Li, Y. D. Zhang
The selection of stripping dragline is a complicated problem. Several factors, such as the deposit buried conditions, the demand of mine production rate, cast blasting result, the mining/stripping ope
Jan 1, 2003
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Fracture displacement due to thermal load from nuclear waste at a repository
By E. Hakami
The objective of the study was to estimate the largest shear displacement that could be expected on a pre-existing fracture located in the repository area, due to the heat release from deposited waste
Jan 1, 2003
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Focal Depths of South African Earthquakes and Mine Events
By M. B. C. Brandt
Focal depths of 15 tectonic earthquakes and 9 mine-related events were determined for South Africa using data recorded by the South African National Seismograph Network. These earthquakes and events w
Jan 1, 2014
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Pit Wall Failures On ?Unknown? Structures
By Phillip M. Dight
A number of impending and actual pit wall failures have been observed and documented which have been interpreted to initiate on newly generated structural features. This infers failure through intact
Jan 1, 2006
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Fan-Structure Shear Rupture Mechanism as a Source of Shear Rupture Rockbursts
By B. G. Tarasov
This paper proposes the further development of a recently identified shear rupture mechanism (fan mechanism) that elucidates a paradoxical feature of hard rocks ? the possibility of shear rupture prop
Jan 1, 2014
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Assessing risk in grade-tonnage curves in a complex copper deposit, northern Brazil, based on an efficient joint
By M. B. Fonseca
Risk quantification in grade-tonnage curves is critical for capital investment in mining projects and can be obtained through geostatistical simulations of orebodies. A practical difficulty may arise
Jan 1, 2003
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Personeelbestuur in die mynboubedryf
By F. S. A. de Frey, F. C. Kruger
Personnel management has undergone a remarkable change over the course of the past ten years. Personnel departments have played an increasingly important role, which today requires highly trained peop
Jan 1, 1982
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Laser surface alloying of Al with Cu and Mo powders
By S. T. Camagu, J. Dutta Majumdar, S. L. Pityana
Laser surface alloying was used to develop copper and molybdenum aluminides by injecting premixed copper and molybdenum powder particles into a laser-generated melt pool on an aluminium substrate. Dif
Jan 1, 2015
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Merensky pillar strength formulae based on back-analysis of pillar failures at Impala Platinum - Synopsis
By B. P. Watson
The Bushveld platinum group metal deposits are two distinct, shallow-dipping stratiform tabular orebodies and strike for many hundreds of kilometres. Mining is extensive, with depths ranging from clos
Jan 1, 2008
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Development and application of new technology for 3D Geomechanical model test of large underground group caverns
By S. Jiansheng, H. Nakayama, D. Lu, A. Wang
ABSTRACT: New techniques and methods for 3D geo-mechanical model test are presented in this paper. The new model material NIOS with high density and low cost; the so-called DPSS (Discrete Principal St
Jan 1, 2003
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Flotation At Goedehoop Colliery
By S. N. Opperman
Testwork at Goedehoop Colliery showed that fine coal, essentially?150 microns can be successfully beneficiated using froth flotation. Both conventional and column flotation were tested. It was found t
Jan 1, 2002
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Development of Best Practice Guideline for the management of hot holes in surface coal mines
By M. Mpofu, G. Stenzel, F. Magweregwede, B. Maphalala, T. Kgarume
Surface coal operations in which mining activities are conducted above old underground workings experience hot holes after drilling. In a coal mine, hot holes are defined as shot holes, which after be
Sep 9, 2024
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Innovations In Ferro Alloys Technology In India
By C. N. Harman
Steel is the most versatile material which has made the progress in every aspect on this earth possible. There are hundreds of varieties of steel because for each application it has to be made with sp
Jan 1, 2007
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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
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A review of the State's role in assisting gold mines in South Africa
By C. A. Border
This paper is a brief record of the State's involvement in the problems that have faced Iow-grade mines in the South African gold-mining industry for a period of more than sixty years. Not all th
Jan 1, 1981
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Increasing efficiency of conveyor belt transporting system 4 Belt Lonmin - Synopsis
By G. G. le Roux
The purpose of the investigation was to assess various options for increasing the efficiency of the conveyor belt transporting system used at 4 Belt Shaft at Lonmin?s Marikana operations. The reason f
Jan 1, 2008
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Descaling Behaviour Of Stainless Steel Following Simulated Reheating
Experimental results are presented that test the hypothesis that the descaling behaviour of stainless steel slabs following reheating is controlled by interfacial roughening at the scale-steel interfa
Jan 1, 2003
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Verification Of Pillar Life Prediction Method
By J. N. Van der Merwe
The principal goal of the research described in the paper was to determine, by measurement of pillar scaling on pillars that have not failed, whether the pillar life prediction method developed by van
Jan 1, 2004
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The Application and Economics of Industrial Alkaline Leaching of Copper Enargite Concentrates
By C. G. Anderson
"As demand for copper and precious metals continues to grow, the need to develop new supplies increases. In the imminent future, the new large global ore bodies are more complex, with enargite, tennan
Jan 1, 2015