China recently implemented a “Green Mine” policy focused on promoting the filling method, aiming to mitigate environmental impacts of underground mining; nevertheless, quantitative inventories have rarely been provided support or negate such promotion, especially from life-cycle perspective. Accordingly, this paper proposes bottom-up model for estimating greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions metal min...

In his seminal “Clio and the Economics of Qwerty”, Paul David indicates Thorstein Veblen’s famous discussion British system coal rail haulage as an intellectual antecedent to idea lock in. This note documents how Albert G. Keller, a Yale sociologist contemporary Veblen, had presented similar argument in connection establishment brick tax England its effects on size bricks. Like Keller used this...

The information obtained using the satellite technologies of remote sensing provides new massive knowledge about open pit mining operations at deposits carbonate rocks for manufacture cement in 26 regions Russia. number and haulage machines operating each individual mine within whole industry sector is determined. was used analytical estimation capacity overall potential production this sector....

This chapter covers the potentially important conductive polymers and their benefits with effective relevance in number of growing technologies in telecommunication, biomolecular electronics, display devices, electrochemical storage systems, and many more. The most widely investigated polymers in practical applications are polythiophene (PTh), polypyrrole (PPy), and polyaniline (PANI). These po...

Surface mining comprises complex geometries, dangerous operations and human controlled machines. Due to human errors, unstable layouts, geological deformations, and design problems, safety and health hazards including fatal accidents occur. The 2016 fatal accidents review by the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) showed that mobile machines accounted for 58.3% (2012), 36.4% (2013), 39...