Tools for Mining: Techniques and processes for small scale mining
by
Michael Priester, Thomas Hentschl, Bernd Benthin
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Summary:
The handbook serves as an information source of planning and
consultancy aid for technicians, engineers and advisors for small-scale mining
in developing countries. It integrates both modern, historical and traditional
techniques for approaches to solutions, thus providing multifarious possibilities
for solving present-day problems. Included in the handbook are techniques
taken from the most varied sectors of mining operations. In the part of the
handbook devoted to techniques, special attention is paid to ensuring local
production in developing countries, to offering environmentally-friendly technologies
and to taking into account the social and cultural framework conditions of
the miners when selecting the techniques.
Excerpts from the content of this 537 pages manual:
Analysis: Problem areas and units for taking samples,
examination and necessary investigation, description of individual techniques.
Underground mining: With suggestion for organisation
of work, environmental and health aspects and techniques from the sub-chapters
of safety techniques, weathering, mine drainage, extension, lighting, extraction,
loading haulage and mine transport.
Open cast mining: Hints for environmental and health
aspects, rocks and clay mining as well as techniques from the sub-chapters
of strip mining equipment and special techniques.
Mineral processing: Hints for organising work and technical
procedures for diamond processing, gold processing and the processing of phosphate
raw materials to fertilizers, approaches for optimising the organisation of
work and techniques from the sub-chapters of comminution, classification,
gravimetric sorting, gold processing, special techniques for processing, drying
and purification.
Mechanisation and power supply: With chapters on power
transformation, power distribution, mechanisation aspects, environmental and
health aspects and the most varied techniques of supplying power.
Moreover, the handbook includes lists of manufacturers, comprehensive
literature, references and a key-word index.
ISBN 3-528-02077-6
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