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  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    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

  • SAIMM
    A note on the strength of Flint particles

    By N. A. Smith, R. J. Fowell, J. L. Hislam

    Abstract: Data are presented from two sites in southeast England, where problems were encountered in tunnelling through ground containing flint. In response to the difficulties, substantial laboratory

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Comparison of continuous and discontinuous modelling for computational rock mechanics

    By T. Scheldt, M. Lu, A. Myrvang

    Abstract: In this paper both continuous and discontinuous modelling are utilised in order to analyze the stability of the Gjøvik Olympic Mountain Hall. The large span cavern (62 m) was built for the 1

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Managing the hazard of wind blast/air blast in caving operations in underground mines

    By P. Sharma, J. C. W. Fowler

    This paper discusses the wind blast / air blast phenomenon, how it is managed in coal mines and how it might best be managed in other underground mines. L'article qui suit a pour objets de dé

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Studies of strength performance and deformation characteristic of layered rock

    By P. He

    Abstract This paper introduces the test results of dark-gray calcium-shale, discusses the infection of strength characteristic and deformation characteristic due to the angle between structural planes

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    The influence of conditional bias in optimum ultimate pit planning

    By E. J. Magri, A. Couble

    Kriging estimates of geological resources are sometimes conditionally biased because the kriging plan contains too few samples. This may be done purposely in order to match the variance of the estimat

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    PlanIt–OPTIM: An optimal mine planning system for large underground mining corporations

    By F. Terblanche, M. Holton, A. Kruger

    The paper presents an optimal mine planning system designed to simultaneously optimize all the underground mines of large South African gold and platinum mining corporations. The system, code name

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    An experimental study on the electrical potential of non-piezoelectric geomaterials during fracturing and sliding

    By T. Ito, N. Tokashiki, H. A. Bilgin, Ö. Aydan, T. Akagi

    This study is concerned with the electric potential induced by deformation, fracturing and sliding of non-piezoelectric geomaterials. In experiments, the acoustic emissions together with electric pote

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Alarm and evacuation systems in underground mining

    By J. L. Fuentes-Cantillana, Á. Rodríguez, P. Morillo

    Evacuation operations from work places in the case of an emergency are the key to minimising the effects of catastrophic type accidents such as fires, explosions, cave-ins, floods, etc. The correct pl

    Jan 1, 2003