Strengthening decision-making processes to promote water sustainability in the South African mining context: the role of good environmental governance and the law by Kengni, Bernard

“…This thesis examines whether the concept of good (environmental) governance provides a useful tool and legal base for the achievement of water sustainability in South Africa's mining sector. …”
Get full text

Colonial mining policy of the Cape of Good Hope : an examination of the evolution of mining legislation in the Cape Colony, 1853-1910 by Davenport, Jade

Get full text

Quantification of production risk in the underground mine planning process by Dowling, Lizel

Get full text

Not about rules, but about good deals: The political economy of securing inclusive capital investment and transformation in South African mining by Nxele, Musawenkosi

“…What kind of deals produce capital investment and transformation, and what kind of deals produce predation and isomorphism? Using process tracing methodology, the research traces deal in platinum mining between 1994 and 2018. …”
Get full text

Evaluation of three carbon sources for the biological treatment of acid mine drainage through process modelling by Gopal, Hemant

“…These metals and acids constitute acid mine drainage. This natural process results from the exposure of ores to atmospheric conditions coupled with bacterial activity (Tsukamoto and Miller, 1999). …”
Get full text

A Study Of Cyanide-Glycine Synergistic Lixiviant And The Igoli Process As Suitable Replacements For Mercury Amalgamation In Artisanal And Small-Scale Gold Mining by Masuku, Wilson

“…However, mercury amalgamation has low recoveries in the range of 30-33% of gold from the otherwise rich gold ores typically mined in ASGM. In the amalgamation process, about 70% of the mercury used is lost to the environment with the amalgamation tailings and during the roasting process. …”
Get full text

A sytemic study of mining accident causality : an analysis of 91 mining accidents from a platinum mine in South Africa by Bonsu, Jude

“…The understanding of accident causality is a major step in the quest to reduce accidents. It is only with a good understanding of the accident process that effective remedies can be designed. …”
Get full text

Extracting failure modes from unstructured, natural language text by Malan, Francina

Get full text

Hybrid non-linear model predictive control of a run-of-mine ore grinding mill circuit

Get full text

Strip-mine rehabilitation in Namaqualand by Schmidt, Anel

Get full text

Modelling and control of an articulated underground mining vehicle

Get full text
Get full text

An assessment of the in-situ state and staged construction of a tailings storage facility in South Africa by Simjee, Yusuf

Get full text

The Use of bioinformatics techniques to perform time-series trend matching and prediction

Get full text

An investigation into strategy implementation : the case of the Zimbabwe mining development corporation by Watungwa, Ostern

Get full text

Developing an approach to report scope 3 emissions in South African mines by Mashila, Tlangelani

Get full text

Application of clustering techniques for improved energy benchmarking on deep-level mines by Caromba, Claudio Mauricio

Get full text

The calibration of material properties for use in discrete element models by Horn, Etienne

Get full text

An analysis of the potential implications of the introduction of the “use it or lose it” policy in the Zimbabwean mining sector

Get full text

Modelling the impact of change in systems and technology in a surface mining environment with system dynamics

Get full text

Towards a Framework for Regulating the Sustainability of Mine Hospitals: A Legal Perspective by Kabuzi, Doreen Nabisere

“…Additionally, mining companies can promote local procurement by purchasing goods and services needed for their mine hospitals from local suppliers. …”
Get full text