Special issue: "Advances in Continuous Surface Mining"

International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering 10(2/3/4) 2019

• Current state and development of continuous systems on EPS opencast lignite mines
• Ultimate pit limit determination for fully mobile in-pit crushing and conveying systems
• Lignite mine monitoring and mapping using freely-available radar and optical satellite imagery
• Application of mine planning software to resources estimation of the lava lignite deposit in Servia, Greece
• A real-time event-driven database productivity and maintenance planning tool for continuous surface mining operations
• Exploring the effect of physical, human and technical factors on bucket wheel excavators' efficiency: a fuzzy cognitive map approach
• Design and approval third party audit of material handling and mining equipment
• Percussive cutting of hard rocks with point attack picks: dependency of specific energy consumption and number of blows per unit length of cut groove on impact energy and cutting parameters
• A cloud-based near real-time slope movement monitoring system
• Alkali activation of low-alumina mine tailings for more sustainable raw material supply
• Assessment of social and environmental risks on opencast coal mines
• Surface mining in Western Macedonia, Greece: fugitive dust (PM10) emissions and dispersion
• Structural analysis of Greek and Bulgarian coals by solid-state 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy
• Selection of an optimal electric monorail loading technique in underground mining using analytic hierarchy process and Yager's technique