The Analyzing Development Issues (ADI) team and research participants express their gratitude to the Bunong indigenous people in the Mondulkiri villages of Gati and Pou Rapeth for sharing with us their experiences of interacting with the corporate mining companies in their midst. The researchers would also like to thank the local authorities and mining officials in Mondulkiri who cooperated in this study. Tien Hien Tang and Vaing Samrith from Development and Partnership in Action (DPA) assisted the fieldwork in Gati village in Keo Seima district.

Mining geology is a specialised area of applied geological sciences that historically evolved as a support for operating mines and for evaluating mining projects. The main objective of mining geology is to provide detailed geological information, and undertake technical and economic studies to evaluate a mining project. When mining commences, mine geologists provide geological support to the operation, ensuring cost effective extraction of the valuable minerals and their accurate separation from the waste rocks. In addition to detailed understanding of the geology of the mining project area, they also provide accurate estimation of the spatial distribution of the economically valuable minerals and quantitative estimation of the geological characteristics that control mining and processing methods and operational costs.<...>

Информационно-технический справочник по наилучшим доступным технологиям (далее — справочник НДТ) «Горнодобывающая промышленность. Общие процессы и методы» разработан на основании анализа распространенных в Российской Федерации и перспективных технологий, оборудования, сырья, других ресурсов с учетом климатических, экономических и социальных особенностей Российской Федерации.

The organization of this book follows the typical mining sequence that starts with the exploration phase aimed at delineating the mineral deposit and detailing its geology.

Geological objects can be singular, like the inverted cone-shaped diatreme of the El Teniente copper mine; more generally, they can be domains with given lithological, mineralogical, structural or alteration properties, which will be designated throughout this book under the name of ‘facies’, commonly used in geosciences. Within each facies, the metal grades have their own distribution and variability. This peculiarity will lead directly to the prediction or simulation of the grades (quantitative variables) taking into account the statistical and spatial characteristics of each facies (categorical variable).

We emphasize these four terms, which will be found throughout this book: prediction, simulation, quantitative variable and categorical variable <...>

In this book, management is defined as the process of generating plans and supervising their implementation. For a mineral resource, these plans relate to a strategy that determines how the resource is to be exploited. The process has two important aspects—one is the organizational setting within which it occurs, and the other is the set of techniques available for the analyses. Ideas in both areas have evolved rapidly in recent years and this book presents an authoritative review of the current state of the art.

The WA School of Mines, established in 1902, has been a core part of Curtin University since 1969 when it came on board to deliver mining education programs as part of what was then the Western Australian Institute of Technology.

As one of the first mining schools in Australia, it has adapted and expanded over more than a century to better support the education and research needs of the broader resources industry. In addition to retaining its mining roots, the School now also incorporates chemical engineering, mineral and energy economics and petroleum engineering. <...>

Рассмотрены вопросы охраны и рационального использования подземных вод в трио юбынающнх районах Даны общие представления о процессах загрязнения и истощения подземных вод. Сформулированы требования к гидрогсоло! мчсской разведке и эксплуатации мссюрождсшш, а 1акже к проектам юрных предприятий Изложена меюдика специальных пщрогеологичсских исследований па упааках загрязнения подземных вод в горнодобывающих районах Приведен комплекс специальных водоохранных мероприятий
Для гидрогеоло1 он, геологов, горных инженеров, обогати гелей и стропle.ieii, связанных с использованием и охраной подземных вод

An evolution in applied mineralogy related to processing began in the mid 1960's, and significantly modified the scope of the field. Many new instruments were developed and enabled applied mineralogists to accurately determine a wider array of mineral characteristics than was previously possible. The results had a major impact on processing, and many operations now use applied mineralogy as a standard tool. The expanded scope of applied mineralogy made one realize that a dedicated mineralogist is essential at most large mining operations; a person who performs applied mineralogy as an adjunct to other duties can no longer develop the breadth of knowledge and experience that is required to recognize and determine mineral properties that affect different processes. It is also recognized that, to be able to assess what to look for, the applied mineralogist should be a member of a team performing investigations. <...>

В книге, представляющей первый специальный труд по данному вопросу, систематизированы все виды существующих методов измерения кусковатости на открытых и подземных горных разработках. Наряду с анализом сущности и степени точности, различных методов даны практические указания по их рациональному применению. Рассмотрен вопрос о характеристиках и критериях кусковатости. Обобщен большой исследовательский и экспериментальный материал, а также работы научно- методического характера по вопросам измерения и оценки кусковатости, проводившиеся автором почти 15 лет.

Книга предназначена для научно-исследовательских институтов и инженерно-технических работников горнодобывающей промышленности, а также может быть полезна для студентов старших курсов горных вузов, и факультетов.