Essays on Mining

Coltan, short for columbite tantalite, is the principal source of tantalum, a rare and valuable metal in huge demand in today’s high technology industries. Tantalum is an extremely hard, dense rare element that is highly resistant to corrosion. It has a very high melting point and is a good conductor of heat and electricity. Demand…

Native Title and its ramifications for Australian Law The Torrens Title System: A system devised to recognise provable ownership of land by Law. Australia initially adopted the British system using Title of Ownership, deeds of grant and following the doctrine on tenure where the Crown, is the ultimate owner of all lands (Gray et al….

IPE – Green Critique IPE is about states and markets as is examined through the various perspectives; Liberalism -laissez faire, free markets; Economic nationalism – states, power and security; and the Structuralist perspective – capitalism pushing states and markets into class warfare. But it is easy to oversimplify IPE, an important intellectual movement aims to…

With the development of China’s steel industry, the increasing displacement of blast furnace slag, slag pile up over the years has been nearly 15107t, covers an area of ?approximately 1000km2. To deal with these residues, the state spends huge amounts of money and the railway line built slag field, wasting a lot of manpower and…

These software algorithms work with variables as route length, loading mime, hauling time under certain parameters of ore quality and quantity. Based over this information they optimize the variables and assign more or less trucks to a certain face regardless of the truck (as independent unit) performance. Truck Performance We can define the truck performance…

In this case study, we explore the strategies employed by American Barrick Resource Corporation, a prosperous gold mining company. The discussion revolves around the diverse hedging programs implemented by the company and the differences observed among these programs. Interestingly, American Barrick was established by Peter Munk, a Canadian entrepreneur who lacked prior involvement in the…

The duties of the section involve reagent storage and mixing, determining the dosage of reagents, ample preparation, metallurgical accounting and dispatch of the concentrate for further processing. Production – duties include receiving ore, ore milling, monitoring flotation cells, concentrate handling and tailings handling. The process at the concentrator is semi- automated and is monitored by…

I t is important for India to continue with its structural reforms to sustain its high growth. The fact that even seven per cent growth is spoken of as not being good proves that the Indian economy has set high bench mark. India and the World Bank Group have been exceptionally good partners during a…

Industrial Minerals what it is all about? Is it really important to us? When I read the topic, my curiosities begin to start & ask questions in my mind. Industrial Minerals are geological materials which are mined for their commercial value, which are not fuel and are not sources of metals. They are used in…

Abstract Environment greatly influences public health. Health environment enhances public health. Therefore there is a need to enhance good environment. Policy makers, public and other stake holders need to corporate to ensure good environment that will ensure public health. This paper discusses this issues and analysis articles on environmental issues and public health interaction. Recommendation…