Coal blending is a critically important process in the coal mining industry as it directly influences the number of product tonnes and the total revenue generated by a mine site. Coal blending represents a challenging and complex problem with numerous blending possibilities, multiple constraints and competing objectives. At many mine sites, blending decisions are made using heuristics that have...

Japanese mine safety legislation was enacted in 1949. Improvements in safety and production in the mining industry have been achieved to a large extent under this legislation. However, because of the prescriptive legislation style of mine safety regulations, the degree of safety achieved has not been evaluated from a system performance point of view. Articles of the coalmine safety regulations ...

This paper with the title Waste Management in Mining Industry mainly deals with the large amount of waste generated by the mining industry in the process of extraction of minerals which is a great threat to the environment leading to air pollution soil pollution and many other hazardous effects to the environment as well as human lives . This paper broadly discusses about the different type of ...

abandoned surface mine excavations can be a major environmental, social and/or human healthproblem for the mining industry as well as for the community living nearby. this problem is exacerbated by therapidly growing population encroaching on areas of historic mined lands. the aim of this studywas to assess thesafety status of the historic nyala mine excavation with the purpose of coming up wit...

In recent years, a variety of technologies have improved mining operations. One them is the Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), emerging technology that has been changing process, boosting safety and productivity. The main purpose this paper to review applications UAVs in industry based on results 113 research papers over past twelve from 2010 May 2022. potential are broad. Based identified, eight...

The open-pit mine production scheduling problem has received a great deal of attention in recent years, both in the academic literature, and in the mining industry. Optimization approaches to strategic planning for mine exploitation have become the industry standard, as the recent review of Newman et al. [19] highlights. However most of these approaches focus on extraction sequencing, and don’t...

Modern mining is the process of exploiting minerals from the earth to derive profits. Realtime optimization for plant-wide production has been implemented in the process industry; however, these systems have not yet been implemented for mine-wide production in the mining industry, particularly for underground mines. Real-time control systems have been applied to a few unit operations (e.g. conv...

The ICGMP provides a needed global forum for the exchange of innovative ideas, and it provides an opportunity to communicate research results to public policy makers, industry experts, and public representatives in order to promote the direct use of scientific and technical data to environmental protection and control. Intense interest in mercury is evident from the recommendations adopted by t...

As mineral resources are depleted, most mines are typically abandoned and left unattended, resulting in serious social problems that impede sustainable development of these areas. The mining industry has recently introduced the use of renewable energy systems to solve the problems. This study assessed the photovoltaic (PV) potential of an abandoned mine tailings dam at the Sangdong mine in Sout...