Mine planning is a typical engineering design function which integrate the disciplines of geology, metallurgy, geotechnics, mining and economics. The numerous uncertainties associated with geological understanding, the exposure of people to potential hazards in the work place and the need to provide a specific dollar outcome, requires a proper assessment of the risk. This paper identifies the s...

Business intelligence is information about a company's past performance that is used to help predict the company's future performance. It can reveal emerging trends from which the company might profit [31]. Data mining allows users to sift through the enormous amount of information available in data warehouses; it is from this sifting process that business intelligence gems may be found [31]. W...

Mining method selection is one of the most critical and problematic activities of mining engineering. The ultimate goals of mining method selection are to maximize company profit, maximize recovery of the mineral resources and provide a safe environment for the miners by selecting the method with the least problems among the feasible alternatives. Selection of an appropriate mining method is a ...

Recently the Customer Relationship Management (CRM) has been achieved an increasing popularity in business management. CRM includes all the steps which an organization employs to create and establish beneficial relationships with the customers. Using technologies such as data warehousing and data mining CRM can be introduced as a new area where companies can gain the competitive advantage. Via ...

Nkala v Harmony Gold Mining Company Ltd (Treatment Action Campaign NPC and another as amici curiae)1 is the first South African mass personal injury class action. The latter worth noting because...

Based on the findings of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, organizations’ data double every five years. However, the rate of using data is 0.3. Nowadays, data mining tools have greatly facilitated the process of knowledge extraction from a welter of data. This paper presents a hybrid model using data gathered from an ATM manufacturing company. The steps of the research are based on CRISP-D...