Estimation of ore reserves is one of the most critical aspects of mining geology. The accurate assessment of the tonnage and grade of run of mine may be the difference between a healthy profitable operation and an expensive early mine closure. The first step in ore reserve estimation is to determine the boundary of ore body or ore/waste contacts. This paper presents a specific mining applicatio...

Mineral resource base development objectively requires high-quality human resources for mining and geological sector. A brief analysis of the sector tendencies ongoing projects demonstrates scale technological challenges facing Over past decades, Russia has been serious problems that can become constraining factors in economic development, regional implementation national projects. Training spe...

Underground coal mining was finished in the north-eastern region of Hungary after its operation more than two centuries, as a result economic, technical, environmental and political reasons. A fairly significant part reserve is still available to extract. With different perspective mining, considering ways utilization (such chemistry, etc.) extraction material can be cost effective. In past few...

With the increasing depth of coal mining, quantitative evaluation degree geological structure development is becoming increasingly important for control mine water hazards in mining areas. Understanding complexity can improve safety and efficiency production. At present, various indicators cannot fully reflect faults folds, process usually affected by subjective human factors. In this paper, fr...

Soon robotic explorers will be able to produce more scientific data than can be transmitted or interpreted efficiently. We present a method for characterizing geology during rover traverse using autonomous data analysis techniques. The strategy detects discrete geologic features in images; distributions of these features constitute a signature that correlates with the geology of each site. Thes...

According to the publication by US Minerals Survey in 1999, the total reserve of manganese ore in the world is 0.66 billion tons. See Table 1. Table 1 World Manganese ore reserve(Mn metal weight, million tons) __________________________________________ Name of counties Reserve in 1999 __________________________________________ South Africa 370 Ukraine 135 China 40 India 34 Australia 26 Gabon 20...

CANADA. J. Parnell, G.R. Osinski, P. Lee, M. Baron, M. J. Pearson and M. Feely, Dept. of Geology & Petroleum Geology, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, U.K., [email protected]), Dept. of Geology, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 5A3, Canada, SETI Institute, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, U.S.A., 4 Dept. of Geology, NUI Galway, Rep...