Browsing by Subject "mining impacts"

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A comprehensive designation of tailings storage dams – a case study of the sangan iron mine project in Iran
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2023) Maleki, Shaho; Khalilidermani, Mitra
Tailings storage dams are considered to be one of the most essential facilities in mining projects. In metal mines, after blasting the rocks, the blasted ore is transferred to specific industrial plants for processing operations. During such operations, a large amount of pollutant tailings are inevitably generated. Those tailings must be safely stored in previously constructed storage dams. In this research, a storage dam has been designed to store the tailings of the Iranian Sangan Iron Mine project. The geometry and capacity of the dam were designed to minimize the construction works and to maintain the stability of the facility. To assess the stability of the proposed storage dam, a numerical analysis was performed for both static and dynamic loading conditions. The results showed that the embankment is stable under these two different loading conditions. Hence, the proposed design can be successfully adopted for the construction of a tailings storage dam in the project. In addition, the methodology presented in this research can be used by geotechnic engineers to design safe tailings storage dams in mining projects.
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Evaluating the contribution of the most common types of damage on the degree of technical wear of masonry buildings located in mining areas
(2013) Firek, Karol
This paper presents a proposal to evaluate the contribution of the most common types of damage to the technical wear of buildings in mining areas. The database which includes 122 single-family residential buildings of traditional masonry construction, not older than 26 years, located in the Upper Silesian Coal Basin, was the base of the research. In the first stage, based on the analysis of the study group of the buildings, 11 most common categories of damage as well as irregularity of structural elements and finishes were identified. To evaluate the extent and frequency of damage, a 4-point qualitative scale was applied. Then, using methods of mathematical statistics, a contribution of particular types of damage to the extent of technical wear of the analyzed buildings was examined. As a result, it was concluded that initially accepted and statistically significant types of damage jointly explain about 50% of the variation of technical wear of the studied buildings. The largest, around 20% on average, contribution to the degree of the wear was obtained in the case of the damage to the bearing walls together with the finishing layers.