I am delighted to announce completion of the second issue of the new journal of “Geopersia”, a product of the new era of replacing the Persian language journals with specific English-language ones. Our purpose is to provide a journal that offers a multi-disciplinary analysis of issues concerning Geology subjects (i.e. sedimentology, stratigraphy, paleontology, Petroleum Geology, Engineering Geo...

Diamonds formed during the Proterozoic and Archaean and are in-homogenously distributed in the mantle below Archaean cratons. Kimberlite magmas usually form well within the diamond stability field and physically incorporate seemingly random amounts of diamonds during their ascent through the mantle. The diamond content of a kimberlite magma arriving at the earth’s surface is defined by ascent p...

This review tells about the International Conference on Information Visualization that is held annually in London, England. Themes selected from the Conference Proceedings are focused on theoretical concepts, semantic approach to visualization, digital art, and involve 2D, 3D, interactive and virtual reality tools and applications. The focal point of the iV 05 Conference was the progress in inf...

In this study, the natural Cu background concentration and Cu natural and anthropogenic contamination in soil, water and crop were investigated systematically in Huangshi area. The results show that regional geology is the dominant factor controlling the natural Cu background concentration in soil and water, and that pH is important to control the vertical distribution of Cu in soil under the s...

184 Non-Contact Method for Surface Roughness Measurement After Machining J. Valíček, M. Držík, T. Hryniewicz, M. Harničárová, K. Rokosz, M. Kušnerová, K. Barčová, D. Bražina 1 Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mining and Geology, VŠB Technical University of Ostrava, 17. listopadu 15/2172, 708 33 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic, corresponding author: [email protected] 2 Institute of Construction ...

1 Department of Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, Australia, 2 Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, 3 Plentziako itsas Estazioa, University of the Basque Country (PiE-UPV/EHU), Plentzia-Bizkaia, Spain, 4 School of Civil, Environmental and Mining Engineering, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, A...

Background . The dominant role of energy georesources in the mineral resources sector Russian economy is considered. Achievements this are determined by quality human capital. Successful implementation Strategy for Development Mineral Resource Base Russia until 2035 requires improved personnel training higher education system according to new educational programs disciplines Applied Geology and...

An updated biography of the mining engineer Manuel Fernández de Castro y Suero (1825-1895), who was head Commission for Geological Map Spain between 1873 and 1895, is presented. Through different documentary we have approached to both his family ancestry in Greater Antilles, three stages professional career. The first one, completion engineering studies 1845 departure Cuba 1859; second, as Cuba...

This paper describes the use of AI planning techniques to represent scientific, image processing, and software tool knowledge to automate knowledge discovery and data mining (e.g., science data analysis) of large image databases. In particular, we describe two fielded systems. TheMultimission VICAR Planner (MVP) which has been deployed for 2 years and is currently supporting science product gen...

Mining companies world-wide are faced with the problem of how to accurately value and plan extraction projects subject to uncertainty in both future price and ore grade. Whilst the methodology of modelling price uncertainty is reasonably well understood, modelling ore-grade uncertainty is a much harder problem to formulate, and when attempts have been made the solutions take unfeasibly long tim...