To establish the feasibility of in-situ mining of uranium, it is desirable to perform small scale, inexpensive tests which conform, as nearly as possible, to the conditions of a projected commercial process. A push-pull test of an in-situ uranium leaching process, which consists…
The Ertsberg Intrusion (EI) is located approximately 1.5 km southeast of the Grasberg super-porphyry Cu-Au deposit (GIC), in the Gunung Bijih (Ertsberg) Mining District, West Papua, Indonesia. Intrusion- and carbonate-hosted mineralization is associated with the 3.28-2.97±0.54 M…
High pressure water jet technology is utilized in many industrial and construction processes but, with exception of some hydraulic mining activities, had yet to find widespread application within the mining industry. One emerging application of water jets within mining is hydros…
Increased production in underground coal mines in the USA has increased dust generation in face areas. Over the last five years, considerable research has been done on respirable coal dust control. Some of the results of these studies have been implemented in a non-integrated fa…
The overriding objective of this research was to develop an understanding of Iran's policy environment, within which the country's mining sector operates, in relation to that of the rest of the world. In an effort to diversify the country's economy, the first five-year developme…
Scientific and practical studies of raw material issues presents the contribution to the Russian-German raw materials forum. The main theme of the book is problematic issues of subsoil use, whereby the contributions are divided in two main parts: - Exploration, mining and proces…
How different mining industries across the world affect landscapes, people and politics.