Considering the fact that rocks fail faster under tensile stress, rock tensile strength is of greatimportance in applications such as blasting, rock fragmentation, slope stability, hydraulic fracturing,caprock integrity, and geothermal energy extraction. There are two direct and indirect methods tomeasure tensile strength. Since direct methods always encompass difficulties in test setup, indire...

Fragmentation analysis is an essential part of the optimization process in any mining operation. The costs loading, hauling, and crushing rock are strongly influenced by size distribution blasted rock. Several direct indirect methods used to analyse or predict fragmentation, but none entirely applicable fragmentation assessment sublevel caving mines, mainly because limitations imposed undergrou...

Platelets are released by megakaryocytes (MKs) via cytoplasmic extensions called proplatelets, which require profound changes in the microtubule and actin organization. Here, we provide evidence that the Rho/ROCK pathway, a well-known regulator of actin cytoskeleton, acts as a negative regulator of proplatelet formation (PPF). Rho is expressed at a high level during the entire MK differentiatio...

[1] Axial valleys are found along most slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges and are one of the most prominent topographic features on Earth. In this paper, we present the first deep-tow swath bathymetry for the axial valley walls of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. These data allow us to analyze axial valley wall morphology with a very high resolution (0.5 to 1 m compared to ≥ 50 m for shipboard multibeam ba...

Variations in rock fragmentation are very likely to occur a sublevel-caving operation. This study conducted comprehensive test an iron ore mine monitor fragmentation. The results show clear trend variations from start end of production ring. These suggest increase coarse and oversized fragments with increasing material extraction the rings that can be linked increased overburden drill hole devi...