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Work-related musculoskeletal disorders in the South African Mining Industry
By B. Dias, P. C. Schutte
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) affect the wellbeing of workers and result in poor quality work, lower work performance and decreased motivation. In contrast to ‘occupational’ diseases
Jan 1, 2003
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Method For Assessing Quality Of The Variogram
By H. J. Glass
Collection, preparation, and analysis of blasthole chippings is expensive. Frequently, interpolation of grades at unsampled locations is considered using techniques like kriging. A pre-requisite for k
Jan 1, 2003
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Influence Of Water Resources And Metal Ions On Galena Flotation Of Rosh Pinah Ore
By G. Coetzer
During galena flotation of Rosh Pinah milled material, metal ions and salts contents of various water resources (deionized, simulated circulated, lead concentrate thickener, lead tailing thickener and
Jan 1, 2003
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Grain Size Modelling Of A Low Carbon Strip Steel During Hot Rolling In A Compact Strip Production (CSP) Plant Using The Hot Charge Route
By W. Stumpf
Mill log analyses and complementary hot deformation studies were carried out on the as-cast structure and on a hot rolled structure of the same low carbon steel (SAE 1006) that had been processed acco
Jan 1, 2003
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Dynamic Support Rationale and Systems
By U. Singh, E. T. Brown, J. Coxon
The rapid fracturing and deformation that occurs around excavations during rock bursts demand that support and reinforcement systems have both deformability and damping capabilities. The energy deman
Jan 1, 2003
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Factors limiting autonomy of chemical oxygen self-rescuers
By J. B. A. Solar Menéndez, M. A. Martínez Fidalgo, L. A. Alvarez-Santullano
1. ANTECEDENTS This present communication refers to the results of the research project entitled "Training in the correct use of chemical oxygen self rescue apparatus and also an analysis of apparatu
Jan 1, 2003
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What is driving the development of integrated technical enterprise systems in the mining industry?
By I. Jones
Geologists, engineers, technicians and surveyors have successfully utilized technical software in the mining industry for over 30 years. Software for processing survey, geology, mine engineering and p
Jan 1, 2003
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Evaluation of the importance of thermo-hydro-mechanical couplings on the performance assessment of a deep underground storage design
By A. Rejeb, A. Millard
ABSTRACT: An evaluation of the importance of the thermo-hydro-mechanical couplings (THM) on the performance assessment of a deep underground storage design has been made as part of the international D
Jan 1, 2003
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Forecasting algorithms of production and consumption dynamics of world countries resources on the base of Kondratyev’s cycles
By I. E. Teymenson, L. A. Bakhvalov
Irrational usage of mineral commodities leads to depletion of natural resources and various ecological violations in natural environment. Fulfilment of a number of measures and strategic decisions by
Jan 1, 2003
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Experiments on stope closure as a diagnostic measure of rock behaviour
By D. F. Malan, M. Grave, J. A. L. Napier
Previous fundamental research projects have indicated the value of continuous closure measurements in deep tabular excavations for improved support design, hazard assessment and for quantifying the ef
Jan 1, 2003
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Failure probability analysis of high rock slopes based on bionic algorithm
Abstract : The computation of reliability index or failure probability of slopes can be transformed into an optimisation problem. In high rock slope engineering, it is usually a multimodal optimizatio
Jan 1, 2003
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Stability analysis of ore passes in the Kiirunavaara mine
By J. Sjöberg, P. Lundman, E. Nordlund, C. Quinteiro
Abstract In the Kiirunavaara underground mine, crude ore is transported through ore passes from the production levels to the main haulage level. Failure and stability problems have occurred in som
Jan 1, 2003
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A few remarks on storage of low temperature materials in rock caverns
By N. Kinoshita, Y. Inada
The authors have proposed and discussed storage of low temperature materials such as LNG, LPG and frozen food in rock caverns. In this case, as the rock mass around the caverns will receive effects of
Jan 1, 2003
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Development of a fire and explosion risk assessment methodology for underground mines
By A. M. Thyer
Throughout the history of mining, underground fires or explosions have killed many hundreds or thousands of people. Fortunately, the safety record has gradually improved as a result of many people’s w
Jan 1, 2003
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The Application of Ductile Support Methods in Alpine Tunnels
By B. Moritz, W. Schubert, E. A. Button
ABSTRACT: Geological conditions associated with alpine environments in combination with high overburden in many tunnelling projects lead to squeezing behaviour. The main problems associated with such
Jan 1, 2003
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Some practical aspects of the use of lognormal models for confidence limits and block distributions in South African gold mines
By D. G. Krige
For the purpose of determining confidence limits for ore grade estimates, an extensive simulated data base was used, which included 1728 ore blocks with ‘actual’ grades and the corresponding estimates
Jan 1, 2003
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Visualising and Understanding the Stress Path for Rock Mechanics Modelling and Testing, and Rock Engineering Design
By J. P. Harrison, J. A. Hudson.
ABSTRACT: When considering the rock stress component of rock mechanics design, the basic procedure is to consider the pre-existing stress-state in the rock mass and then estimate the disturbance to th
Jan 1, 2003
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Geotechnical parameters characteristics for a kind of schist in Iran
By A. Fahimifar, H. Soroush
Abstract: Triaxial tests were conducted on the schist specimens with various anisotropic angles under confining pressures of 0, 7 and 15 MPa, and axial stress-axial strains, were measured and plot
Jan 1, 2003
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Noxious gas emissionss from the closed iron mines to the built-up areas on the surface
By D. Grabowski, Z. Pokryszka
ABSTRACT: Some residential areas of the iron basin of Lorraine (in the North-East of France) are affected by noxious gas emissions (under oxygenated, carbon dioxide loaded and radon loaded gas mixture
Jan 1, 2003
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The Mineral And Petroleum Royalty Bill - Report To National Treasury - Executive Summary
By F. T. Cawood
This research report was produced in response to the release of the Mineral and Petroleum Royalty Bill. It involved are view of the mineral investment environments of selected countries in order to fo
Jan 1, 2003