Overview
- Demonstrates the productivity in surface mines starting from definition of surface mine and ending with land reclamation and mine closure
- Includes step-by-step tutorials to help the reader to learn quickly about topics such as ore deposits, mineral economics, cost estimation, slope stability, and freight traffic
- Provides a global prospective of surface mining technology with case studies from different countries
Part of the book series: Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering (TMMME)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book gives a brief history and a general overview of the state of surface mining technology with topics ranging from the principles to surface mining methods, systems, and pit planning design. It starts with the definition of surface mine and ends with land reclamation and mine closure. The following chapters address the basics of mineral economics, calculation of stripping ratio; exploitation of difficult parts of ore deposits, slope stability, controlling falls and slides in the surface mines, sorts of freight traffic, scrapers, bulldozers, and loaders. The book serves as a reference text for mining students, engineers, and geologists.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Surface Mining Technology
Authors: Mostafa Mohamed Ali Elbeblawi, Hassan Ali Abdelhak Elsaghier, Mostafa Tantawy Mohamed Amin, Wael Rashad Elrawy Abdellah
Series Title: Topics in Mining, Metallurgy and Materials Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3568-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-16-3567-0Published: 01 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-16-3568-7Published: 31 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2364-3293
Series E-ISSN: 2364-3307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 344
Number of Illustrations: 107 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour