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Research Articles (Mining Engineering): Recent submissions
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The experience of using virtual reality for interactive spatial visualisation of environmental data (CEUR-WS, 2023)Virtual reality possesses various properties that have the potential to be beneficial for the visualisation of spatial data, including intuitive gestural affordances for looking around and interacting with data and the ...
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(Elsevier, 2023-12)Please read abstract in the article.
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(Springer, 2023-12)Entrapments are a huge risk in underground mines. This happens when miners (or any other persons who have entered underground) survive the initial event of an accident, become trapped or lost in unknown and life-threatening ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-12)This paper reflects critically on why individuals engaged in artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) struggle to obtain formal loans. Several studies have concentrated on the perceptions of formal lenders on the risks ...
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(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2022-09)The principal objective of this investigation was to conduct a thorough literature review on the status of project readiness mechanisms, tools, techniques, and frameworks for mining projects. The review aimed at identifying ...
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(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2022-09)This paper provides an overview of the concepts of citations and journal impact factors, and the implications of these metrics for the Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (JSAIMM). Two key ...
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(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2022-03)Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) operations continue to grow across sub-Saharan Africa and serve as a source of livelihood to many rural communities. Owing to safety, health, environmental, and social concerns, the ...
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A review of EN 16907 on earthworks (extractive waste) in the context of South African mine residues (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2022-06)Rather quietly, a new generation of European norms dealing with earthworks has been developed over the past few years, in particular a part of EN 16907 pertaining to extractive waste. Whereas the majority of the parts ...
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A case study of geotechnical conditions affecting mining-induced seismicity in a deep tabular mine (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2022-03)Seismic risk in the deep gold mines of South Africa has been studied for many decades. A clear understanding of the effect of geotechnical conditions on the seismic hazard nevertheless remains elusive. Certain reef types ...
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(Elsevier, 2022-09)Longwall coal mines in the Bowen Basin of Australia are highly productive and gassy, comprising many coal seams above the working seam. Predictive modelling of specific gas emission (SGE) using the conventional Winter model ...
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(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2021-12)South Africa is one of the leading producers and exporters of coal globally. A significant amount of the country’s production is obtained from previously mined underground bord and pillar workings. This coal is in the ...
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(Springer, 2021-01)An improved understanding of pillar strength and pillar failure mechanisms is required to optimize tabular mine layout designs. The paper describes the application of a limit equilibrium model for pillar failure analysis. ...
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(Elsevier, 2020-12)In the past decades, attempts were made to build a systematic approach to mining method selection (MMS) Ooriad et al. This is because MMS is a complex and irreversible process. Since it can affect the economic potential ...
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(Elsevier, 2021-06)This paper investigates the use of a thin spray-on liner (TSL) as stope face support in narrow width tabular stopes. The application of areal support is difficult in these stopes because of the small stoping width and the ...
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(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2020-12)Since 2010, a number of researchers have investigated the development of new models to generate accurate predictions relating to the risks from flyrock. The purpose of this paper is to summarize and analyse these recent ...
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(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2020-06)Thorncliffe Chrome Mine, one of Glencore’s Eastern Chrome operations, is currently mining the Middle Group No.1 (MG1) chromitite layer and is conducting a pre-feasibility study for an expansion project to mine the Middle ...
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(Springer, 2021-03)During underground longwall coal extraction, overburden strata deformation may result in vertical goaf drainage holes, which are drilled in advance of mining for tail gate gas management, to fail. The performance of these ...
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(Mine Ventilation Society of South Africa, 2019-01)The use of high powered catalogued auxiliary fans to meet the ventilation requirements of fairly shallow mines is common practice and often is not an energy efficient ventilation solution. This paper describes the ...
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(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2019-07)AfriTin Mining Limited plans to reopen the Uis tin mine in Namibia and establish a pilot processing plant for phase 1 of the Uis tin project, which is scheduled to commence in the last quarter of 2018 . A mining plan is ...
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(Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2020-01)This paper was compiled to highlight the need for additional research in the area of layout design criteria for deep gold mines. It describes aspects related to two popular design criteria used in the deep gold mines of ...
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