Nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide gases together with dust are known as the major pollutants arising during the blasting operations using the ammonium nitrate-fuel oil (ANFO) explosive at the Sungun surface mine, located in the northwest of Iran. The pollutants were monitored during some blasting operations at the mine. It was concluded that the gases and dust clouds initially went up to the ...

Doing large-scale genomics experiments can be expensive, and so experimenters want to get the most information out of each experiment. To this end the Maximally Informative Next Experiment (MINE) criterion for experimental design was developed. Here we explore this idea in a simplified context, the linear model. Four variations of the MINE method for the linear model were created: MINE-like, MI...

the present study represents a first insight into the draa lasfar min (marrakech - morocco) to assess the degree of polymetallic pollution caused by anthropogenic activities (like mine extraction) and consequently the possible diffusion of heavy metals and to predict the risk of their mobility in the surroundings of the mine area. the edaphologic parameters ph and electrical conductivity (ec) w...

Sponsored by Defense Threat Reduction Agency Contract DSWA01-98-C-0176 The Mine The cooperating mine was the Morenci Mine operated by Phelps-Dodge in SE Arizona. The scale of the operation is illustrated below. The mine produces over 25% of all US copper. Three to five blasts are detonated daily. During July and August, 31% of the events in the USGS Mine Event List were from this mine. Regional...

In recent years, with the discovery of oil and gas in Carboniferous bauxite reservoir Ordos basin, formation distribution reservoirs have attracted attention explorers. Based on slightly equidistant core testing minerals porosity calibration logging curves, we established a identification method for study area fitted formula calculating diaspore content using data. By applying this large amount...

The dynamics of tropical weathering through time with the formation and long-term evolution laterite associated climatic geodynamic forcing is still a poorly explored issue. To better access this, we focused on lateritic-bauxitic duricrusts from well-explored, 300 m high Kaw mountain in northeastern French Guiana. Macroscopically homogeneous Fe (oxyhydr)oxides-rich subsamples were separated 10 ...