1st Edition

Information Technologies in the Minerals Industry Proceedings of the first international conference on information technologies in the minerals industry via the Internet, 1-12 December 1997

Edited By T.N. Michalakopoulos, G.N. Panagiotou Copyright 1998
    124 Pages
    by CRC Press

    The conference is organized by the Department of Mining Engineering and Metallurgy of the National University of Athens, Greece and its purpose is to promote technology transfer and identify future courses of action in research and development via the Internet.

    The topics covered include applications in a wide spectrum of mining related fields: Mineral exploration; Orebody modelling; Mine planning and operations; Mine equipment; Rock mechanics; Mine safety and training; Reclamation and environmental issues; Mineral processing.

    The complete proceedings are published on a CD-ROM with an accompaying book which contains the full texts of keynote papers and the abstracts (including full title, author's names and e-mail addresses as well a keyword index) of all papers.

    Foreword, Keynote papers: Open systems standards for the mining industry; Geostatistics: A critical review; Equipment management - Breakthrough maintenance strategy for the 21st Century; Technical session I: Exploration - Orebody modelling; Technical session II: Mine planning - Mining operations; Technical session III: Rock mechanics - Excavation engineering; Technical session IV: Mine equipment; Technical session V: Mine safety Training; Technical session VI: Reclamation - Environmental issues.

    Biography

    T.N Michalakopoulos, G.N. Panagiotouboth National Technical University of Athens, Greece