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  • SAIMM
    Numerical simulation of simultaneous drying and pneumatic conveying: small metallic filter cake particles

    By M. Kilfoil

    Many minerals processing operations result in crushed rock being mixed with a liquid. Sometimes, the rock particles have to be dried before the next process begins and there may be a considerable dist

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Large-scale infrastructure projects. Application of rock mechanics in geotechnical engineering to avoid delays in constrution time and increases of costs—case studies

    By W. Wittke

    SUMMARY: Geotechnical problems often lead to an increase of construction time and costs for large highway and railway projects. Some reasons, which have led to failures and thus to a delay of construc

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The application of power ultrasound to the surface cleaning of heavy mineral sands

    By A. F. Collings

    The processing of heavy mineral concentrates can be enhanced by the use of power ultrasound to clean their surfaces of oxidation products and fine coatings, mainly through the large, but very localize

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The Introduction of a Stiff Rockbolt and Hanging Wall Control Management System at a Platinum Mine in South Africa

    By P. Altounyan, K. Akermann, T. Van den Berg

    Amandelbult Mine is currently undertaking a trial to mechanise the mining of the UG2 reef through the introduction of room and pillar mining. As part of the trial, a system of managing the control of

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Mine Closure From A Legal Perspective: Do The Provisions Of The New Mineral And Petroleum Resources Development Act And Draft Regulations Make Closure Legally Attainable?

    By C. Dixon

    The Abandoned Mine by C.C. Woollacott A heap of rocks marks the abandoned mine. The veld's unpitying silence lies around. Those broken stone?a mute and mournful sign Of human enterprise with fail

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Possibilities of limiting methane emission into atmosphere on the example of mines in the Jastrzebie Coal company

    By A. Tor, M. Borowski, N. Szlazak, D. Obracaj

    This article presents possibilities of reducing methane emission to the atmosphere in working mines in Jastrzebie Coal Company by means of proecological solution. They form a new approach towards the

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The response of shotcrete to blast induced vibrations in mining

    By L. Malmgren, A. Ansell

    This paper deals with the influence from blast induced stress waves on the performance of shotcrete support in the Kiirunavaara mine. Time histories of stress waves from blasting were obtained from me

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Presidential Address: Rock Engineering - Good Design Or Good Judgement?

    Rock engineering has now been practised as a discipline for about50 years, and many sophisticated methods of analysis for use in rock engineering design have been developed. However, analysis is only

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Utilization of scripting languages for customization of mine planning packages by specialized users

    By D. R. Hack

    The complexity of commercial mining software has gained rapidly over the past decade as hardware developments have surpassed software capabilities at a staggering rate. Software users, recognizing the

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Lötschberg base tunnel: brittle failure phenomena encountered during excavation of the Steg lateral adit

    By V. Labiouse, P. K. Kaiser, F. Descoeudres, F. Rojat

    In this paper some failure phenomena observed in the crossing of brittle rock formations at the Lötschberg base tunnel are presented. A brittle failure criteria, recently developed by Canadian researc

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Comparative study on the stability analysis methods for underground pumped powerhouse caverns in Korea

    By H. -U. Lim, C. -H. Kim

    The sixth underground pumped powerhouse cavern is under construction now in Korea. For the stability analysis of the five underground powerhouses, finite element method was used. For this analysis, in

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Design of open pit slopes in Ganboke gold mine, Chad

    By K. -C. Han, S. -Y. Kim

    This study was carried out in a bid to survey Ganboke gold mine in Pala, Mayo-Kebbi Province, southwestern Chad. The Ganboke mine is now being prepared for investigation and development, and the resea

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Kinetics Of Chromite Vs. Ilmenite Magnetization During Oxidative Roasting Of Ilmenite Concentrates (ac3d8f22-0a34-4795-aabe-e109bbe0406f)

    By J. D. Steenkamp

    In a paper presented at the Heavy Minerals Conference 2001 a laboratory scale investigation on the beneficiation of an ilmenite containing waste stream by magnetizing roasting was reported1.This waste

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Study of hollow friction bolts in rock by a three dimensional composite element method

    By Z. G. He, S. H. Chen, P. Egger

    A new model for hollow rock bolts which comprises rock material, hollow bolt material, bolt/rock interface, is developed on the base of the composite element method (CEM). The main advantage of the ne

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Geotechnical risk assessment of an underground magnesite mine

    By T. Frömmer, H. Wagner

    An inter-disciplinary geotechnical study has been carried out in an Austrian magnesite mine. The paper describes the how geological data, in situ and laboratory tests as well as subjective, empirical,

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Stability assessment of underground machine hall of Rogun HPP based on the results of physical modeling and in-situ observations

    By I. Grigoriev, A. Yolkin, E. Freiberg, A. Fedchun, A. Kolichko

    Abstract: The paper describes the engineering-geological conditions and the structural decisions of the underground machine hall of Rogun HPP under construction in Tadjikistan on Vaksh river as well a

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Rockbursts in the period of mining activity reduction in Ostrava-Karvina Coalfield

    By V. Velicka, J. Ptacek, R. Snuparek, P. Konecny, G. Takla

    Coal mining in Ostrava-Karvina coalfield is being accompanied by rockbursts. 82 rockbursts occurred within the period between 1990 and 2002. Natural and technological factors from these rockbursts wer

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The integrated use of IT to manage the Economic Resources Department at Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine

    By K. G. Lomberg

    The integration of various highly sophisticated IT applications has been implemented at Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine, a new platinum mine in the Anglo Platinum Group. This system is required to ass

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    A computer program for estimation of support requirements for circular shafts

    By H. Ozturk

    In this paper, the computer program ‘SHAFT’ developed for estimation of support requirements for circular mine shafts is introduced. Theory of support design is based on the analytical solutions of ci

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Integration of CSIR- and CSIRO-type of overcoring rock stress data at the Zedex Test Site, Äspö HRL, Sweden

    By F. H. Cornet, D. Ask, O. Stephansson

    We have conducted a stress analysis of overcoring stress measurements undertaken at the Zedex Test Site (ZTS) in the Äspö HRL, Sweden. Two different types of overcoring cells have been used at the sit

    Jan 1, 2003