BACKGROUND Crystalline silica and asbestos are common minerals that occur throughout South Africa, exposure to either causes respiratory disease. Most studies on silicosis in South Africa have been cross-sectional and long-term trends have not been reported. Although much research has been conducted on the health effects of silica dust and asbestos fibre in the gold-mining and asbestos-mining s...

Introduction......................................................................................................................... 1 TriMan software package ................................................................................................... 2 The numeric model ......................................................................................................... 3 Inverse m...

There are a large number of sensors to detect information in mine environment system, which provides the original data for the prevention and treatment of mine accidents. According to data flow of data acquisition, data transmission, data storage and data processing, this paper used CC2530 to design the wireless sensor nodes, analyzed the Zigbee network topology and designed an optimized PEGASI...

Mine fill is the material placed underground to fill the voids created by mining excavations. It provides overall large scale ground stabilization while allowing localized pillar recovery. In addition to providing a working floor or back, mine fill has the potential to reduce subsidence and minimize dilution. Mine fill is essential to cut and fill, benching and sublevel stoping mining methods. ...

Mining of association rules is one of the most adopted techniques for data mining in the most widespread application domains. A great deal of work has been carried out in the last years on the development of efficient algorithms for association rules extraction. Indeed, this problem is a computationally difficult task, known as NP-hard (Calders, 2004), which has been augmented by the fact that ...

Major proposed changes in drainage control from a large underground mine pool required a detailed assessment of the hydrology, geochemistry, and impacts on the receiving streams. Proposed changes entail relocation of the withdrawal and treatment facilities to an adjoining, but separate watershed and increasing the pumping rate by 35%. Fifteen major and numerous smaller mines in two coal seams c...

In this work, a system is proposed for safe Coal Mine Monitoring, which plays an important role in coal mine safe production. Wi th continuous enlarging of exploiting areas and extension of depth in coal mine, many laneways become monitoring blind areas, wh ere are lots of hidden dangers. It is very difficult to lay cables which are not reliable and not effective. For to overcome this , a new s...

The propagation environment of electromagnetic waves in mine tunnels is confined areas. The mine tunnel is regard as wave-guide which contains kinds of un-beneficial medium, the field formulas of different polarization waves were presented based on Marcatili method, and field prediction of horizontal and vertical polarization waves were simulated. The results showed that propagation effect of v...