Estimating mine planning software utilization for decision-making strategies in the South African gold mining sector.

The work presented in this paper is part of a PhD research study in the School of Mining Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand.This paper discusses a new methodology for defining and measuring mine planning software utilization in the South African gold mining sector within an evolving data-set framework. An initial data-set showing the mine planning software providers, their corresponding software solutions, as well as the software capabilities and information on the number of licences was collected and compiled in 2012 in an online database for software utilized in the South African mining industry. Details of the database development and implementation were published in the Journal of the Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy in 2013. In 2014 the data-set was updated with additional and new information. Using the 2012 and 2014 timestamps, a methodology for estimating the software utilization was developed. In this methodology, the three variables of commodity, functionality, and time factor were used to define and measure the software utilization in order to ultimately inform decision-making strategies for optimal software utilization. Using six different functionalities, namely Geological Data Management, Geological Modelling and Resource Estimation, Design and Layout, Scheduling, Financial Valuation, and Optimization, utilization in the gold sector was measured. This paper presents the methodology employed for measuring the mine planning software utilization. The methodology is useful for stakeholders reviewing existing software combinations or intending to purchase new software in the near future and who want to estimate the comparative attractiveness of a certain software package. These stakeholders include mining companies, consulting companies, educational institutions, and software providers. The work presented in this paper is part of a PhD research study in the School of Mining Engineering at the University of the Witwatersrand.MvdH2017http://www.saimm.co.za/publications/journal-paper

Critical Metals: Essential development of novel extraction methods

Ioanna Maria Pateli is a Greek researcher with interests in chemistry and environmental  protection. She obtained her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the School of Mining and  Metallurgical Engineering at the National and Technical University of Athens. In January 2017,  she relocated to Leicester to embark on her PhD career as a Marie Curie fellow, working to  identify a novel approach in extracting critical and precious metals from industrial residues  containing low amounts of metal

Ecomining as a pattern of integrated approach towards sustainable mining

This paper briefly describes the Educational Project “EcoMining: Development of Integrated PhD Program for Sustainable Mining & Environmental Activities” (2019–2022), which is being implemented between Dnipro University of Technology (DUT, Ukraine) and Technical University Bergakademie Freiberg (TU BAF, Germany) under support of German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

Design of engineering systems in Polish mines in the third quarter of the 20th century

Participation of mathematicians in the implementation of economic projects in Poland, in which mathematics-based methods played an important role, happened sporadically in the past. Usually methods known from publications and verified were adapted to solving related problems. The subject of this paper is the cooperation between mathematicians and engineers in Wroc{\l}aw in the second half of the twentieth century established in the form of an analysis of the effectiveness of engineering systems used in mining. The results of this cooperation showed that at the design stage of technical systems it is necessary to take into account factors that could not have been rationally controlled before. The need to explain various aspects of future exploitation was a strong motivation for the development of mathematical modeling methods. These methods also opened research topics in the theory of stochastic processes and graph theory. The social aspects of this cooperation are also interesting.Comment: 45 pages, 11 figures, 116 reference

Earth science education in South Australia: Evolving with the resources boom

Copyright © 2007 AusIMM The document attached has been archived with permission from the publisher.Andreas Schmidt Mumm MAusIMM and Alan Collins, Geology and Geophysics, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaidehttp://direct.bl.uk/bld/PlaceOrder.do?UIN=206473720&ETOC=RN&from=searchengin

Geologists of Russian origin in Latin America

Se describe la vida y trayectoria de geólogos que más allá de su nacionalidad (rusa, ucraniana, tártara, alemana, etc.), nacieron en territorios que pertenecieron al Imperio Ruso, la Unión Soviética o la Federación Rusa, y de sus descendientes graduados en geología, todos los cuales vivieron y trabajaron en países de Latinoamérica (en los cuales las lenguas que prevalecen son el español y el portugués). También se incluyen geólogos de la URSS que trabajaron temporariamente en algunos países de Latinoamérica y que con sus publicaciones contribuyeron a la Geología.We describe here the life and career of geologists who beyond their nationality(Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, German, etc.), were born on the territory of the Russian Empire, the SovietUnion or the Russian Federation and their descendants that became geologists, all of whom lived andworked in Latin-American countries (where Spanish and Portuguese languages prevail). We includealso geologists from USSR who worked temporary in some countries of Latin America and leftcontributions to geology in form of publications.Fil: Tchoumatchenco, Platon. Bulgarian Academy Of Sciences; BulgariaFil: Riccardi, Alberto Carlos. Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo; Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; ArgentinaFil: Durand Delga, Michel. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; FranciaFil: Alonso, Ricardo. Universidad Nacional de Salta; ArgentinaFil: Wiasemsky, Michel. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; FranciaFil: Boltovskoy, Demetrio. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Ciudad Universitaria. Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Instituto de Ecología, Genética y Evolución de Buenos Aires; ArgentinaFil: Charrier González, Reynaldo. Sociedad Geologica de Chile; ChileFil: Minina, Elena. State Geological Museum “V.I.Vernadsky”; Rusi