A range of nuclear spectrometric techniques for quantitative borehole logging and surface quantitative analysis for the coal and metalliferous mining industries. The paper reviews the latest developments of this technology.

China produces and consumes most of coal in the world. This situation is expected to continue within a certain period in the future. Currently, Chinese coal industry is confronted with several serious problems relating to land resource, water resource, environmental, and ecological sustainability. Coal resource exploitation causes the permanent fracture and movement of strata structure, which h...

The migration of methane towards the surface, within mining areas closed mines, can be a danger to public safety for many years after process liquidation has been finished. liberation from undisturbed coal seams, and those destressed through earlier not fully recognised so far. Knowledge effect presence water, along with hydrostatic pressure, on intensity desorption seams is necessary in determ...

It is important that the strategic mine plan makes optimum use of available resources and provides continuous quality ore to drive sustainable mining profitability. This requires development a well-integrated strategy options for surface and/or underground their interactions. Understanding current tools methodologies used in industry transitions planning are essential dealing with complex deep-...

The Big River (BGR) drains much of the Old Lead Belt mining district (OLB) in southeastern Missouri, USA, which was historically among the largest producers of lead-zinc (Pb-Zn) ore in the world. We sampled benthic fish and crayfish in riffle habitats at eight sites in the BGR and conducted 56-day in situ exposures to the woodland crayfish (Orconectes hylas) and golden crayfish (Orconectes lute...

In this study, a three-dimensional finite difference numerical model of the Jinfeng Gold Mine, including surface topography, ore body, shafts, and main faults, was built to estimate shaft stability deformation induced by underground mining transferred from open-pit mining. Satellite monitoring data displacement at several points used calibrate model. The sequence excavation filling in simulatio...

A plausible case of collective and economical mining of diamondiferous kimberlite deposits of Wajrakarur and adjoining places in Andhra Pradesh, southern India along with the whole-rock geochemical evidences in support of their diamond potentiality are discussed in this article. The kimberlites/lamproites are mantle-derived ultrabasic rocks which rarely carry diamonds from mantle to the earth’s...

Mining shovels or excavators are basic equipment designed to dig and load material in surface mines. They are often considered the major material-handling equipment for high-production, low-cost operations (HPLC). The selection of an appropriate shovel for any HPLC operation is of critical importance because the overall production of the mine is measured in terms of material handled by a princi...