Machine automation and atmospheric monitoring are used by many industries to improve safety and productivity in the workplace. The underground Methane Watchdog System (MWS) is a multi-nodal network of sensors currently under development. The MWS aims to improve safety and produc…
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Insecticide application via indoor residual spraying (IRS) and long-lasting insecticide-treated bednets (LLIN) has been a key component in combating malaria in sub-Saharan Africa, with pyrethroids being the traditionally recommended insecticides. However, the resistance of Anoph…
This dissertation evaluates how unequal power structures generate a form of structural violence that becomes embodied by people who live within them, and explores how historical narratives of the colonial experience have obfuscated the realities of the Indigenous experience of c…
Thin Film Composite (TFC) membrane technology has been applied in the removal of various pollutants from wastewater. TFC membranes have small pore sizes which enable the rejection of multivalent ions such as those found in Acid Mine Drainage (AMD). Also, nanoparticles with desir…
Tin mining on the Jos Plateau was the major income earner in Nigeria before petroleum was discovered in the Niger Delta region in 1958. The excavation for tin left the Plateau landscape environmentally depleted, with over forty-six per cent of its land filled with gullies and po…
The eastern basin acid mine drainage treatment plant was launched in February 2017. The short-term treatment (STT) of acid mine drainage (AMD) involves a high-density sludge management system and the purpose of the treatment is to discharge improved (neutralised) quality of wate…
For more than a century, a large volume of gold-mining tailings was deposited in Whitewood Creek and the Belle Fourche River, tributaries to the Cheyenne River in western South Dakota. Much of it still remains, and field and historical evidence indicates continued remobilization…
En el transcurso de las últimas décadas el mundo se ha visto enfrentado a una serie de desafíos en torno a los componentes tanto climáticos, ecológicos, económicos como sociales fruto de la huella antrópica remanente en el territorio resultante de la producción industrial, una d…
Long standing residents of Northern New Mexico hold a special relationship with water, through both centuries old and time immemorial water stewardship practices. In the face of ecological threats, such as mining, water diversions and evolving social dynamics, Northern New Mexic…
This dissertation investigates overall the impacts of the modern extractive mining industry on the lives of local people in the region of Kedougou, and in particular in the villages of Sabodala and Faloumbo. It explores also, how the utilitarian narratives about corporate mining…
Afghanistan, a nation battered after three decades of war and conflict, has a new opportunity to reset the calculus on its internal and regional insecurities through the establishment of a mineral mining economy. Following the invasion of Afghanistan by coalition forces in the f…
In the last fifteen years, Indonesian coal production has increased rapidly. Most of the production came from mines operated by private companies. The success of the Indonesian government in attracting investors, both domestic and foreign, was accomplished by improving legal asp…
A comparative study of sulphide mine-tailings from two sites near Silver City in southwest New Mexico has shown the need for environmental monitoring in a geological context. The Cyprus-Pinos Altos and Cleveland deposits consist of Cu and Zn skarn mineralization in the Pinos Alt…
This thesis aims to develop a comprehensive strategy for automatic control of the ITH percussive drilling process. Such automation would provide the benefits of improved productivity and quality in terms of penetration rate and hole deviation, as well as enhanced hole quality an…
Coal mining carries significant impacts for surrounding livelihood practices. Yet, in order to explain how specific impacts become grounded within a particular community, attention must be given to the complex assemblage of socio-political and economic forces operating at the lo…
The effects of sulfide minerals on gold dissolution in atmospheric and oxygen enriched solution was studied by using rotating disc method. This research was divided into four sections: Direct leaching of gold in cyanide solution in the presence of sulfide minerals in air and oxy…
Entry roofs in underlying multiple seam mines are vulnerable to failure under the influence of stress transferred from the upper seam workings. Overburden depth, innerburden thickness, percentage of hard rock in the innerburden and relative location of pillars in the two seams a…
The purpose of this dissertation is to create a computer simulation model of a bucket wheel dredge for mining sand and tin-ore. This research is part of a long term plan of PT Timah Tbk, an Indonesian tin mining company, to search for alternative dredging technologies for offsho…
This study has been performed to better understand the flotation behaviour of pyrrhotite by quantifying the combined effect of crystal structure and chemical composition. Effect of these variables on flotability of pyrrhotite has not been clearly established to date due to the d…