One of the main concerns of an underground coal mining engineer is the safety and stability of the mine. One way that the safety and stability can be ensured is to know and understand the coal mine geology and how it reacts to the mining process. One technique that has shown a lot of success in the coal mining industry for geologic technical evaluation purposes is the coal mine roof rating (CMR...

Reclamation under the strict requirements of the federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 requires a high level of knowledge of plant growth r e q u i r e m e n t s in r e l a t i o n to geochemical factors on each mine site. A desirable reclamation goal would be to consider all feasible alternatives for creating productive soils and attractive landscapes. The raw materials fo...

This paper describes the effects of igneous intrusions on pore structure and adsorption capacity of the Permian coals in the Huaibei Coalfield, China. Twelve coal samples were obtained at different distances from a ~120 m extremely thick sill. Comparisons were made between unaltered and heat-affected coals using geochemical data, pore-fracture characteristics, and adsorption properties. Thermal...

Tests of space-time interaction detect clustering of events in space and time in excess of “any purely spatial or purely temporal clustering” (Kulldorff, 1998, pg. 58). These tests are widely employed in studies of crime (e.g. Knox, 2002; Grubesic and Mack, 2008) and disease (e.g. Petridou et al., 1996; Rogerson, 2001). By simultaneously considering both the spatial and temporal dimensions of t...

Mining activity always has high impact on its surroundings, being waste deposition the cause of multiple and complex problems to the environment. One of them is Acid Mine Drainage (AMD), causing acid water percolation through large areas in the mine site. Portugal was a prosper tungsten producer from the beginning of the XX century, having its apogee during World War II. Nowadays there are mill...

A numerical simulation is carried out to study the effect of the thin metal outer case of an antitank mine and the top air gap of an antipersonnel mine on the passive infrared imaging signature. In addition, an antipersonnel surface mine is also analyzed in the present investigation to show its effect on the soil thermal content. The effect of shortand long-wavelength radiation as well as the c...

glucose 6- phosphate dehydrogenase from streptomyces aureofaciens was purified andinactivated by pyridoxal 5′-phosphate (plp). the inactivation was a pseudo-first order and time-dependentreaction. complete inactivation was achieved at 0.2mm plp within 16 minutes. the type of inhibition wascompetitive with respect to glucose 6- phosphate. spectral characteristics of plp-enzyme complexcorresponde...

interaction of glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase from s. aureofaciens with nad+, nadp+and glucose 6-phosphate were investigated using different fluorescent probes. binding of nad+, nadp+and s-nadph to the native enzyme quenched intrinsic protein fluorescence by 100%, 10% and 21%,respectively, from which kd values of nad+ (6.5 mm), nadp+ (92.0 μm) and s-nadph (122.0 μm)were calculated. binding o...

The deposits of phosphate rock in the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., were among the first discovered in the United States, and until about 20 years ago the field was one of the largest producers in the world. The workable deposits are confined to the region lying in general between Charleston and Beaufort and extending about 25 miles back from the coast. The phosphate rock occurs in a thin bed ...

The mineral lulzacite from Saint-Aubin des Chateaux mine, France, with theoretical formula Sr(2)Fe(2+)(Fe(2+),Mg)(2)Al(4)(PO(4))(4)(OH)(10) has been studied using a combination of electron microscopy with EDX and vibrational spectroscopic techniques. Chemical analysis shows a Sr, Fe, Al phosphate with minor amounts of Ga, Ba and Mg. Raman spectroscopy identifies an intense band at 990cm(-1) wit...