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Eureka and beyond: mining's impact on African urbanisation [PDF]

, 2012
This collection brings separate literatures on mining and urbanisation together at a time when both artisanal and large-scale mining are expanding in many African economies. While much has been written about contestation over land and mineral rights, the
Anderson D.M., Appiah K.A., Bank L., Barnes T.J., Beall J., Bebbington A., Brands H.W., Bridge G., Bridge G., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Bryceson D.F., Buijtenhuis R., Carstens P., Cooper F., Coquery-Vidrovitch C., Danny MacKinnon, De Boeck F., De Boeck F., De Boeck F., Deborah Bryceson, Dore E., Duffy R., Emel J., Ferguson J., Freudenberg W.R., Freudenburg W.R., Freund W., Freund W.M., Gluckman M., Godfrey B.J., Grätz T., Harries P., Hilson G., Hilson G., Hilson G., Holliday J.S., Jeeves A., Johnston R.J., Jønsson J.B., Kirk J.F., Laverty J.R., Lawrie M., Le Billon P., Le Billon P., Luning S.W.J., Mabin A., Mabin A., Mkandawire T., Moodie T.D., Morris R.J., Morris R.J., O'Connor A., Parks R., Peters K., Potts D., Rajak D., Rakodi C., Richards P., Ross M., Saad E.N., Smith M.D., Storey K., Swanson M., Tonts M., Vennetier P., Verhoeve A., Walker R.A., Walsh A., Walsh A., Welsby D.A., Werthman K., Wilks I., Wilson L.J., Wolpe H.   +77 more
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Determination of Environmental Factors for the Implementation of the Exploitability Index in Industrial Aggregate Mining Using Multi-Criteria Analysis

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021
The quality of human life is linked to the exploitation of mining resources. The Exploitability Index (EI) assesses the actual possibilities to enable a mine according to several factors.
Julio Manuel de Luis-Ruiz, Benito Ramiro Salas-Menocal, Gema Fernández-Maroto, Rubén Pérez-Álvarez, Raúl Pereda-García   +4 more
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Sustainability of Information Security Investment in Online Social Networks: An Evolutionary Game-Theoretic Approach

Mathematics, 2018
With the rapid development of information technologies, security violations in online social networks (OSN) have emerged as a critical issue. Traditional technical and organizational approaches do not consider economic factors, which are increasingly ...
Guang Zhu, Hu Liu, Mining Feng
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Re-mining item associations: methodology and a case study in apparel retailing [PDF]

, 2010
Association mining is the conventional data mining technique for analyzing market basket data and it reveals the positive and negative associations between items.
Atan, Tankut, Demiriz, Ayhan, Ertek, Gurdal, Ertek, Gürdal, Kula, Ufuk   +4 more
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Potential Benefits and Constraints of Development of Critical Raw Materials’ Production in the EU: Analysis of Selected Case Studies

Resources, 2021
Major benefits and constraints related to mineral extraction within the EU have been identified on the examples of selected critical raw materials’ deposits.
Katarzyna Guzik, Krzysztof Galos, Alicja Kot-Niewiadomska, Toni Eerola, Pasi Eilu, Jorge Carvalho, Francisco Javier Fernandez-Naranjo, Ronald Arvidsson, Nikolaos Arvanitidis, Agnes Raaness   +9 more
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Coastal Remote Sensing: Merging Physical, Chemical, and Biological Data as Tailings Drift onto Buffalo Reef, Lake Superior

Remote Sensing, 2021
On the Keweenaw Peninsula of Lake Superior, two stamp mills (Mohawk and Wolverine) discharged 22.7 million metric tonnes (MMT) of tailings (1901–1932) into the coastal zone off the town of Gay. Migrating along the shoreline, ca.
W. Charles Kerfoot, Martin M. Hobmeier, Gary Swain, Robert Regis, Varsha K. Raman, Colin N. Brooks, Amanda Grimm, Chris Cook, Robert Shuchman, Molly Reif   +9 more
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Assessing the freshwater quality of a large-scale mining watershed : the need for integrated approaches [PDF]

, 2019
Water quality assessments provide essential information for protecting aquatic habitats and stakeholders downstream of mining sites. Moreover, mining companies must comply with environmental quality standards and include public participation in water ...
Arroyo, Nilton Deza, Beeckman, Eveline, De Saeyer, Nancy, De Schamphelaere, Karel, Forio, Marie Anne Eurie, Goethals, Peter, Mercado Garcia, Daniel, Sanchez Peña, Marco, Van Buggenhoudt, Cécile, Van Butsel, Jana, Wyseure, Guido   +10 more
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Evaluation of PV and CSP Systems to Supply Power in the Zimbabwe Mining Sector

Energies, 2021
The drought that occurred in Zimbabwe in 2020 affected the country’s main hydro-power station causing the electricity supply to be less secure and reliable. This challenge resulted in load-shedding, which is not desirable to mining companies that require
Anesu Maronga, Kumbuso Joshua Nyoni, Paul Gerard Tuohy, Agabu Shane   +3 more
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Level of CD8 T Lymphocytes Activation in HIV-Infected Pregnant Women: In the Context of CD38 and HLA-DR Activation Markers

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2014
Background. To date the effect of pregnancy on the immune activation of CD8 T cells that may affect HIV disease progression has not been well studied and remains unclear. Objective.
Stanslaus Musyoki, Simeon Mining, Paul Nyongesa   +2 more
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Resilience estimation of the mining fleet (Case study: Sungun copper mine) [PDF]

International Journal of Mining and Geo-Engineering, 2021
In recent years, using of the resilience concept has been increased in order to evaluate the response of systems against the failures. Resilience depicts the system ability to return to its normal operational status after failure accruing.
Adel Motahedi, Farhang Sereshki, Mohammad Ataei, Abbas Barabadi, Ali Nouri Qarahasanlou   +4 more
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