Safety is a legal requirement of mining industry. Effective safety measurements and risk management can serve the mine administration to lessen dangers recognized in mine. Autonomous technologies, such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) models have been integrated with industry ensure safe working environment since decade ago form fully unmanned workfaces robots. These autono...

Heavy metal pollution is a worldwide problem. This study was conducted in a turquoise mine in Nyshabour (Iran) to find accumulator plant(s). Concentrations of metals were determined both in the soil and the plants growing in the mine. Concentrations of total K, Ca, Na, Mg, Mn, Zn, Fe and Cu in the mine area were higher than the control soil. The results showed that four dominant vegetations nam...

In this study, soil samples were collected from a large-scale open-cast coal mine area in Inner Mongolia, China. Arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), beryllium (Be) and nickel (Ni) in soil samples were detected using novel collision/reaction cell technology (CCT) with inductively-coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS; collectively ICP-CCT-MS) after closed-vessel microwave digestion. Human health risk...

The objective of the Diesel Emissions Evaluation Program (DEEP)-sponsored project at Inco’s Stobie mine was to conduct a long term field evaluation of diesel particulate filter (DPF) systems available to the underground mining industry. Some of the major issues studied were criteria for selecting the filter media, means of DPF regeneration, efficiency of DPF systems and the occurrence of unwant...

This document presents material supplementary to our companion paper A Decomposition-Based Heuristic for Collaborative Scheduling in a Network of Open-Pit Mines. In this companion paper, we consider the short-term production scheduling problem for a network of multiple open-pit mines and ports. Ore produced at each mine is transported by rail to a set of ports and blended into signature product...

PROBLEM It is estimated that 5 to 10 arc flash explosions occur in electric equipment every day in the United States. In the mining industry the largest single injury category of electrical injuries are caused by non-contact electrical arcs. METHOD This investigation progressed in two phases: (a) 836 Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) reports of electric arcing incidents that occurr...

A rockburst is a violent failure of a mine opening and is usually associated with deep mining operations. The objective of this research is to detect and reduce rockburst hazards by studying seismic energy release, geostructural data including mine opening closure rates, and in situ stress measurements. Little progress has been made in determining mechanisms of rockbursts, but improved methods ...