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How Insoluble Inclusions and Intersecting Layers Affect the Leaching Process within Potash Seams
Applied Sciences, 2021 Potash seams are a valuable resource containing several economically interesting, but also highly soluble minerals. In the presence of water, uncontrolled leaching can occur, endangering subsurface mining operations.
Svenja Steding +2 more
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“Ural-20R” combines loading drives evaluation in two-stage development of the face
Записки Горного института, 2020 The technological features of the use of high-performance Ural-20R combines in the conditions of potash mines in Russia are described. It is shown that when the capacity of the worked potash seams is over 4 m, a two-layer ore extraction is used.
Dmitriy I. SHISHLYANNIKOV +2 more
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Detecting mining-induced ground deformation and associated hazards using spaceborne InSAR techniques
Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk, 2018 The Delaware Basin, an evaporite sequence spanning west Texas and southeast New Mexico, is well known for the mining of potassium salts, known as potash. Several companies operate mines in the region, primarily using room-and-pillar techniques.
Albert Zhang, Jason Lu, Jin-Woo Kim
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Organizational structures of mining companies: composition and development [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2021 The organizational structures of large companies from the same industry are typical. But the geographic, economic and political conditions of activity impose some particularities on them.
Yaschenko Sergei +2 more
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Fixing Saskatchewan’s Potash Royalty Mess: A New Approach for Economic Efficiency and Simplicity [PDF]
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2013 For a government’s fiscal program to best serve the public interest, while also ensuring sufficient public revenue collection, it has to meet three criteria: efficiency, simplicity and fairness.
Duanjie Chen, Jack M. Mintz
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Diversity of Microorganisms in Biocrusts Surrounding Highly Saline Potash Tailing Piles in Germany
Microorganisms, 2021 Potash tailing piles located in Germany represent extremely hypersaline locations that negatively affect neighbouring environments and limit the development of higher vegetation.
Ekaterina Pushkareva +3 more
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Microorganisms, 2020 Potash tailing piles caused by fertilizer production shape their surroundings because of the associated salt impact. A previous study in these environments addressed the functional community “biocrust” comprising various micro- and macro-organisms ...
Veronika Sommer +3 more
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Environmental & Socio-economic Studies, 2016 The Petrikov deposits of potash salt is situated in Gomel oblast of Belarus in the south-east of Pripyat Trough, and have Northern and Southern prospects. Underground mining of potash salt will start at the Northern prospect with an area of 166 km2.
Barbikov Dmitry V. +5 more
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Resolving the Conflict between Mining and Sustainability
Applied Environmental Research, 2019 Mining is essential for human health and prosperity, and is increasing as the global population grows. The need for minerals appears to conflict with what is commonly understood as ‘sustainability’, as geological resources are non-renewable on a human ...
David A. C. Manning
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Testing a new type of mine brattice and its applications in production units [PDF]
E3S Web of Conferences, 2020 The article describes the ventilation schemes of the potash mine production units, in which, due to the action of natural draughts (thermal depressions), as well as the use of portable mine brattice (MB), safety and energy efficiency of mining operations
Nikolaev Aleksandr +2 more
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