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  • SAIMM
    Importance of failure mechanisms for management of surface instability risk above abandones mines

    By J. P. Josien, Didier C.

    ABSTRACT: France now faces the closure of most of its mining sites. Surface instability risk may sometimes remain, especially where large underground voids exist. This paper illustrates the importance

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Can Buffer Stores Improve Productivity? ? Synopsis

    By R. C. D. Phillis

    The management of critical resource inventories is an important productivity lever and a significant risk factor?risk in the sense that poor resource availability lends itself to disempowerment of wor

    Jan 1, 2011

  • SAIMM
    Method statement for Excavation of Powerhouse Cavern Considering Mudstone Layers in Masjed Soleiman Dam

    By M. Shahabi, M. Kashfi

    This paper briefly describes the excavation procedure of a powerhouse, comprising of its incremental excavation, reinforcement measures, and the installed monitoring system. During the first phase of

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Numerical identification of the excavation damaged zone in rock salt

    By K. -H. Lux, Z. Hou

    ABSTRACT: It is well known in underground mining and waste disposal that the development of excavation damaged zones (EDZ), and thus, hydraulic pathways, is closely related to the excess in the corres

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Applicability of the Hoek-Brown failure criterion and the effect of the anisotropy on intact rock samples from “Athens Schist”

    By P. Marinos, G. Tsiambaos, H. Saroglou

    The anisotropic behaviour of “Athens Schist” has been brought out through the testing of specimens with varying orientation of schistosity with respect to the major principal stress under uniaxial, tr

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    IN DIE KOLLIG: Hittebehandeling: Teorie en Praktyk deur

    By deur R. Dippenaar

    'n Kort kursus oar die teorie en praktyk van hittebehandeling is vanaf 29 Junie 1981 tot 3 Julie 1981 in die departement Materiaalkunde en Metallurgiese Ingenieurswese aan die Universiteit van Pr

    Jan 1, 1981

  • SAIMM
    Strategic Long Term Planning In Mining - Synopsis

    By G. L. Smith

    The fundamental challenge facing mineral and metal companies is how to create sustainable value while operating within mandated strategic bounds, identified constraints, and variable market and econom

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Strategic Long Term Planning In Mining ? Synopsis (287252bf-313f-4c0f-98fd-28fa4c30c9b7)

    By G. L. Smith

    The fundamental challenge facing mineral and metal companies is how to create sustainable value while operating within mandated strategic bounds, identified constraints, and variable market and econom

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Effect of Roughness on the Peak Shear Strength of Clay Infilled Joints under Constant Normal Stiffness

    By A. Haque

    The shear behaviour of infilled joints produced from ordinary gypsum plaster (gyprock) and bentonite was investigated in the laboratory under Constant Normal Stiffness (CNS) conditions. Shear tests we

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Correlation Between P-Wave Velocity And Some Mechanical Properties For Sedimentary Rocks ? Synopsis

    By R. Altindag

    Engineers and researchers need to estimate the mechanical properties of rocks from P-wave velocity. In previous studies, the researchers have investigated either the limited values or all the data bel

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    What boundary conditions should we apply? Applications to tunneling and to the AECL Underground Research Laboratory

    By B. Amadei, F. Tonon

    Rock stress measurement is cast in the more general context of the determination of boundary conditions for rock engineering. A study on the effect of elastic anisotropy on underground excavations rev

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Effect of true tri-axial loading schemes on fracturing of limestone

    By J. -P. Tshibangu, A. Vervoort, A. Lavrov

    Abstract: The aim of the research presented is to study the effect of complex loading schemes on the fracturing process during loading and/or unloading. A first set of experiments was done using a pol

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Shear-flow coupling properties of a rock joint and its modelling by Geographic Information System (GIS)

    By Y. Mitani, F. Vallier, T. Esaki

    Shear-flow coupling tests are conducted using an original apparatus, and a shear-flow coupling model using Geographic Information System (GIS) is developed in order to evaluate shear-flow coupling pro

    Jan 1, 2003

  • SAIMM
    Exploitation Of A Massive Low Grade Zinc-Lead Resource At Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation, Namibia

    By S Rupprech, T Lund, H Fourie, PH van Rooyen, NM Vegter

    Rosh Pinah Zinc Corporation (Pty) Ltd (RPZC) operates an underground mine at Rosh Pinah in southern Namibia producing zinc and lead sulphide concentrates. It currently mines around 0.7 Mtpa run-of-min

    Jan 1, 2007

  • SAIMM
    Classifying Quarries Vis-À-Vis Prospects Of Profitability - Synopsis

    By J. Dvorácek

    Similar to the case of any other business venture, the activities of mining industries are profit-oriented. Nothing will stop successful businesses in their quest for new localities to be prospected f

    Jan 1, 2012

  • SAIMM
    Onlangse Produktiwiteitsverbeteringe op Blinkpan Koolmyne Beperk

    By A. C. Coetzee

    Blinkpan Koolmyne is as ten voile gemeganiseerde steenkoolvoorsiener aan die 1 000 MW Evkom-kragsentrale in die Oos-Transvaal, onderhewig aan groat seisoenale produksieskommelinge. Die aanwending van

  • 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
    TEM Study Of Solid Titanium Oxides Inclusions In Steel Melt At 1600°C

    By C. -T. Mutale, A. S. Tuling

    Titanium can exist in three different oxidation states. Its oxides are numerous and in presence of iron and oxygen, iron-titanium oxide compounds can also form. Some of the oxides are non-stoichiometr

    Jan 1, 2004

  • 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
    Meeting The Milestones: Are South African Small-To Medium-Scale Mines Up To The Task? - Synopsis

    By J. J. Dekker

    Controlling noise has proven difficult in mining, and noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) remains common. In 2008, a South African Mine Health and Safety Council study focused on small- to medium-sized

    Jan 1, 2011