Preface | p. IX |
Organization | p. XI |
World-wide experience | |
Review of the American mining industry | p. 3 |
Challenges of mining at great depth | p. 11 |
Mining operations in the Northern Territory of Australia | p. 23 |
Designing the ventilation system for the McArthur River Mine - World largest uranium deposit | p. 31 |
Rock mass classification techniques used during the design and development of McArthur River project | p. 37 |
Coal mining | |
Underground coal mining in Poland: Present and future | p. 47 |
The Australian black coal mining industry | p. 55 |
Technology development trends in the American coal mining industry | p. 63 |
Management of safety and its impact on mine productivity in Polish coal mines | p. 71 |
Management of coal mine gas emission and methane utilisation | p. 79 |
Thin seam coal mining | p. 89 |
Evaluating development in roofbolting technology in Australian coal mining | p. 95 |
Non-coal mining | |
Methodes d'exploitation dans les mines souterraines au Canada: couts operatories et totaux/Underground metalliferous mining in Canada: Methods and costs | p. 107 |
Alternative access, mining and hoisting for underground deposits | p. 117 |
Trends in non-coal underground mining technology at the close of the millennium | p. 127 |
Advances in automation and robotization of open pit mining | p. 145 |
Present and future of Polish sulfur mining | p. 153 |
Present and future of Polish industrial minerals mining | p. 157 |
Development and present state of transport systems in Polish copper mines | p. 165 |
Mine ventilation practice in Polish copper mines | p. 173 |
Mining methods and equipment | |
Underground supersucker winzing - Defining the mining environment | p. 183 |
Improved vibroacoustic characteristics - A goal to be pursued in the open pit mining machinery of the XXI century | p. 193 |
Mine hoisting in Poland: Status and recent developments | p. 201 |
Achievements of the KOMAG Mining Mechanization Center in technical restructuring of the Polish coal mining industry | p. 213 |
Restructuring Polish coal mining industry | |
Energy supply policies in Poland: Present and future | p. 225 |
Coal preparation in Poland: Present practice and perspectives | p. 231 |
Polish lignite mining industry at the beginning of new millennium | p. 237 |
Systemy informatyczne w restrukturyzowanym koncernie gorniczym Management information systems in the mining company undergoing restructurization | p. 243 |
Restructuring the Polish mining industry in urbanized regions on the example of Katowicki Holding Weglowy S.A. | p. 253 |
Economics, organization and planning | |
Virtual mine design paradigm for underground mining | p. 263 |
Introduction of modern management concepts and techniques to the Polish mining industry | p. 277 |
Time to retire the Internal Rate of Return as a project evaluation criterion! | p. 285 |
Simulation of an underground hoist with scheduling | p. 291 |
Use of simulation and animation models in the new millennium | p. 301 |
Support activities | |
Mine surveying--History, new technologies and changing role of mine surveyor | p. 309 |
Safety hazards related to high voltage underground equipment and their control | p. 317 |
Integrated system for surveillance of disaster areas | p. 327 |
Digital image analysis towards an intelligent rock fragmentation system | p. 335 |
Preventive maintenance and testing of mining ropes | p. 341 |
Email addresses | p. 349 |
Author index | p. 351 |
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