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The aim of selecting a specific mining method should be to maximize the safe and cost-effective extraction of an orebody whilst minimizing the environmental impact and effectively collaborating with the local community (social license to operate) so they can benefit long term from the mining.
It is a privilege to introduce the 19th International Symposium on Mine Planning and Equipment Selection – MPES 2010 Conference Proceedings. Throughout its history, MPES symposium has been recognised as the leading forums for promoting international technology transfer, with the main focus on all aspects of mine planning, as well as mining equipment.
Mining operations can generate enormous amounts of waste (i.e. waste rock and tailings) that must be managed and handled in an appropriate way to avoid any possible negative environmental impact, such as air, soil and water pollution.
The Earth’s Crust is the topmost solid layer of the Earth which has a thickness of 30–35 km in the continents and 5–6 km in the oceans (the Mantle and the Core being the other two inner parts of the earth). According to F.W. Clarke, the abundance of Chemical elements in the earth’s crust is shown in Table 1.1. The chemical elements that occur in the earth’s crust in compound forms are known as minerals. However, certain elements like Gold, Silver, Platinum and Copper often occur in native form.
Ignez de Pinho Guimarães and Jefferson Valdemiro de Lima Editorial for Special Issue “Mineral Chemistry of Granitoids: Constraints on Crystallization Conditions and Petrological Evolution”
Jefferson Valdemiro de Lima, Ignez de Pinho Guimarães, José Victor Antunes de Amorim, Caio Cezar Garnier Brainer, Lucilene dos Santos and Adejardo Francisco da Silva Filho A Review of the Mineral Chemistry and Crystallization Conditions of Ediacaran–Cambrian A-Type Granites in the Central Subprovince of the Borborema Province, Northeastern Brazil
The Middle Miocene Orduzu volcanic suite, which is a part of the widespread Neogene Yamadag˘ volcanism of Eastern Anatolia, consists of a rhyolitic lava flow, rhyolitic dykes, a trachyandesitic lava flow and basaltic trachyandesitic dykes. Existence of mafic enclaves and globules in some of the volcanic rocks, and microtextures in phenocrysts indicate that magma mingling and mixing between andesitic and basaltic melts played an important role in the evolution of the volcanic suite. Major and trace element characteristics of the volcanic rocks are similar to those formed in convergent margin settings.
Although aspects of mineral deposit evaluation are covered in such texts as McKinstry (1948), Peters (1978), Reedman (1979) and Barnes (1980), no widely available in-depth treatment of the subject has been presented. It is thus the intention of the present book to produce a text which is suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of mining geology and mining engineering and which, at the same time, is of use to those already following a professional career in the mining industry. An attempt has been made to present the material in such a way as to be intelligible to the average geologist, or engineer, who is perhaps daunted by the more mathematical approach to the subject of orereserves found in more specialist books and papers. Although most of the theory in this book is written using metric units, individual case histories are described using the units employed at each mine at the time of writing <...>
Conceptual models that describe the essential characteristics of groups of similar deposits have a long and useful role in geology. The first models were undoubtedly empirical attempts to extend previous experiences into future success. An example might be the seeking of additional gold nuggets in a stream in which one nugget had already been found, and the extension of that model to include other streams as well. Emphasis within the U.S. Geological Survey on the synthesis of mineral deposit models (as contrasted with a long line of descriptive and genetic studies of specific ore deposits) began with the collation by R. L. Erickson (1982) of 48 models. The 85 descriptive deposit models and 60 grade-tonnage models presented here are the culmination of a process that began in 1983 as part of the USGS-INGEOMINAS Cooperative Mineral Resource Assessment of Colombia (Hodges and others, 1984). Effective cooperation on this project required that U.S. and Colombian geologists agree on a classification of mineral deposits, and effective resource assessment of such a broad region required that grade-tonnage models be created for a large
number of mineral deposit types. A concise one-page format for descriptive models was drawn up by Dennis CO X, Donald Singer, and Byron Berger, and Singer devised a graphical way of presenting grade and tonnage data. Sixty-five descriptive models (Cox, 1983a and b) and 37 grade-tonnage models (Singer and Mosier, 1983a and b) were applied to the Colombian project. Because interest in these models ranged far beyond the Colombian activity, it was decided to enlarge the number of models and to include other aspects of mineral deposit modeling. Our colleagues in
the Geological Survey of Canada have preceded this effort by publishing a superb compilation of models of deposits important in Canada (Eckstrand, 1984). Not urprisingly, our models converge quite well, and in several cases we have drawn freely from the Canadian publication.
Mineral deposits are usually classified and described by the metals or the substances which they contain; for instance, deposits of copper are described together, with little or no effort to separate them into genetic groups. Where a genetic treatment has been attempted it appears to me to have failed in not giving due weight to the physical conditions attending the genesis. Furthermore, it is the custom to divide the mineral deposits into two groups—the metallic and the non-metallic—a line of division which can hardly be defended except on the ground of long-established habit.