Preface ................................................................... v VOLUME 1 KEYNOTE ADDRESSES KN 1 Coal and Sustainable Development .................................... 3 Malcolm Keay KN 2 Global Energy Issues: Recent Developments in Policy and Business ....................................................... 17 Gerald Doucet KN 3 Mineral Exploration Trends within the European Union ............... 27 Raimo Matikainen KN 4 Mining Technology for Surface and Underground Mining - Evolving Trends ........................................... 35 Horst Wagner KN 5 The Mine of the Future for Environmentally Appropriate Mining ...... 51 A.D.Ruban, A.I.Subbotin and Y.N.Malyashev KN 6 Mineral Processing—Challenges and New Trends ....................... 61 T.C.Rao KN 7 Extraterrestrial Mining and Deep Sea Mining - Trends and Forecasts ............................................... 75 P.N.Martens KN 8 Safety and Health in Mines: An International Approach .............. 99 Norman S. Jennings KN 9 Mining and the Environment: Challenges and Opportunities .......... 111 John Groom KN 10 Forecasting Metal Supply and Demand ............................... 123 Olle Ostensson KN 11 Mining of Aggregates: A 21ST Century Perspective ................... 131 Cipriano Gomez Carrion KN 12 Global Coal Vision-2030 ........................................... 137 Shashi Kumar TECHNICAL SESSION SUB THEME 1: SUSTAINABLE MINING DEVELOPMENT—GLOBAL INITIATIVES 1.1 Recent Trends in World Mining ...................................... 153 L.Weber 1.2 Sustainable Mining Development in the Northern Territory, Australia .................................. 167 Tad Szwedzicki and Richard A. McGill 1.3 Strategic Restructuring of Mining Industry in Developing Countries ............................................... 177 Saumen Ray and Bidyut Chakraborty 1.4 India's Coal Sector Development and the Need for Adoption of Clean Coal Technologies ................................ 185 D.N.Prasad 1.5 Sustainable Development of Indian Coal Industry .................... 191 L.K.Bose 1.6 Current and Future Issues of the Japanese Limestone Mining Industry for Sustainable Development ........................ 207 Jiro Yamatomi, Umetaro Yamaguchi, Gento Mogi and Masayuki Matsumoto 1.7 Operationalizing Sustainable Development in the Mining and Mineral Industries ............................................. 223 Arun J. Basu, Gavin Hilson, Uday Kumar, Felix Dodds and Rosalie Gardiner 1.8 Global Restructuring is Consolidation - The Key to the Future of Mining ................................................... 231 Magnus Ericsson 1.9 Restructuring of Polish Hard Coal Industry ......................... 247 Marian Turek 1.10 10 Years of Restucturing in Coal Mining Holdings of Katowice S.A., Poland ........................................... 259 Maksymilian Klank 1.11 Restructuring of Coal Industry in the Republic of Slovenia ......... 277 Franc Zerdin, Evgen Dervaric and Mag. Vladimir Malenkovic SUB THEME 2: MINERAL EXPLORATION IN THE 21ST CENTURY 2.1 Global Mineral Resource Assessment Project: A Cooperative International Project to Assess the World's Undiscovered Non-Fuel Mineral Resources ......................................... 291 Klaus J. Schulz and Joseph A. Briskey 2.2 New Approach to Evaluation of a Low Grade Iron-Ore Deposit in Turkey .................................................. 295 A.E.Yuce, B.Elevli, N.Acarkan, A.Demirci and G.Onal 2.3 Mining Policy and Exploration Strategy of the Islamic Republic of Iran for 1999 and the Third Five-Year Plan (2000-2005) ................................................... 305 Ali Reza Babakhani 2.4 Detailed Exploration for Epigenetic Gold Deposit: A Case History: Hira-Buddinni Gold Deposit. Hutti-Maski Schist Belt, India ..................................... 315 Prabhakar Sangurmath 2.5 Mineral Exploration Using Combination of Aero-Magnetic, Remote-Sensing and Geological-Mineral Data ......................... 331 H.Sheikhi Karizaki and M.R.Jafari 2.6 Prospecting and Economical Evaluation of Heavy Minerals in Karkheh River Sediments, Khuzestan Province, Iran ............... 343 Zarasvandi Alireza and Liaghat Sassan 2.7 Operational Experience of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Arctikmorneftegazrazvedka" of West Arctic Shelf and Perspectives of The Enterprise's Further Activity .............. 351 Oleg C. Mnatsakanian 2.8 The Sohagpur Coalfield Project - A Collaborative Study of Potential Coking Coal Resources by the Geological Survey of India and the U.S. Geological Survey ............................ 357 Robert C. Milici, A.Mukhopadhyay, Peter D. Warwick, S.Adhikari, Ediwin R. Landis and S.K.Mukhopadhyay SUB THEME 3: MINING TECHNOLOGY FOR SURFACE AND UNDERGROUND MINING—EVOLVING TRENDS 3.1 Mineral Wealth of Turkey and Its Impact on the Country's Economic Growth .................................................... 371 Sinasi Eskikaya and Omur Acaroglu 3.2 Past, Present and Future for China's Non-ferrous Mining Industry .................................................... 383 Peng Huaisheng and Yu Runcang 3.3 Mining in the Czech Republic ....................................... 393 Jiri Kalkus 3.4 Status of Metalliferous Mining in India: An Overview and Future Outlook ................................................. 403 K.S.Raju, M.Hasan and Y.G.Kale 3.5 Mining in India - An Expanding Horizon ............................. 415 Balaswamy Akala 3.6 The Future of Polish Lignite Mining ................................ 427 Monika Hardygora and Zbigniew Kozlowski 3.7 Slovak Magnesite Industry .......................................... 437 Grenda Ondrej and Durove Juraj 3.8 Shenhua Model for Efficient Development and Utilization of Coal Resources in China ......................................... 449 Gu Dazhao 3.9 Model of Mining Technologies Delimitation into Performance Ranges in Romania ...................................... 457 Nicolae llias and Maria Gaf-Deac 3.10 Specificity of Mining Technological System Development for Romanian Conditions ............................................ 467 Nicolae Ilias, Iosif Andras, loan Gaf-Deac, Sorin Radu, Iosif Gruneantu and Mihael Melczer 3.11 Development Trends for Surface Mining in Yugoslavia ................ 483 Radomir Simic, Vladimir Pavlovic and Miodrag Gomilanovic 3.12 Blast Vibration Modelling In Sar Cheshmeh Mine ..................... 495 Hamid Mansouri and M.A.Ebrahimi Farsangi 3.13 Higher Level Production Control of Opencast Mines and Power Plants in the Rhenish Lignite Mining Area .................... 501 Lars Kulik 3.14 Simulation of In-Pit Crushing Systems Using AutoMod ................ 517 Bozo Koionja, Ratomir Stanic and J.Hamovic 3.15 Mine Development: Challenging the Fundamentals ..................... 533 Eric Trueman and Vishnu Kadekodi 3.16 The Principles and Strategy of Combined Methods and Technologies in Massive Mineral Resources Exploitation ............. 559 D.R.Kaplunov, M.V.Rilnikova and N.N.Chapligin 3.17 Application of LCC and LSA Techniques for Profitability in Surface Mining Activity ......................................... 571 B.Ramesh Kumar and N.K.Nanda 3.18 Optimisation of Mine Production System through Operation Research Techniques ...................................... 583 N.K.Nanda 3.19 Technical and Practical Aspects of Application of Electro-Hydraulic Method of Rock Breaking in Polish Mining Industry ............................................. 597 J.Res and K.Kotwica 3.20 Excavation of Natural Stone in Croatia ............................. 609 S.Vujec, S.Dunda, P.Hrzenjak and T.Kujundzic 3.21 Ornamental Rocks in Romania ........................................ 623 Adrian Florea, Dumitru Fodor and Laurentiu Bogatu 3.22 Systematization and Choice of the Flow Sheets of Small-Scale Deposits ............................................... 631 V.R.Rakhimov and G.A.Prohorenko 3.23 Extraction of Dimensional Stone with Controlled Fracture Growth Blasting Techniques ......................................... 637 S.S.Rathore and Sushil Bhandari 3.24 Process and System Improvements in Underground Mining .............. 647 Tuula Puhakka and Pekka Sarkka 3.25 Backfilling in High Temperature and Hard Rock Mining in Toyoha Mine, Japan .............................................. 655 Jiro Yamatomi, Hiroshi Shimotori, Narihiro Yamaji, Osam Sakai and Yoshio Otsuka 3.26 Development and Application of a Discrete Element Code to Simulate of Gravity Flow of Ore in Ore Passes .............. 673 H.Nazeri and T.G.Rozgonyi 3.27 Mechanization of Room and Pillar Mines with Special Emphasis on Application within Coal India .......................... 683 Roger O'Quinn and Martin Wedig 3.28 Innovative Technology in the Workings of German Hard Coal Mining Industry .......................................... 695 Jurgen Eikhoff 3.29 Prognosis in the Construction of Underground Works ................. 709 Rafael Martinez Silva 3.30 Technical Innovation for Intermediate Mechanization based Underground Mining of Thick and Contiguous Coal Seams of India ................................................ 719 Rajendra Singh, P.K.Mandal and A.K.Singh 3.31 In the Quest of New Technology for Liquidation of Standing Pillars in India .......................................... 733 R.M.Bhattacharya and N.C.Karmakar 3.32 Goaf Pillar Method for Subsidence Control .......................... 743 A.Kushwala, John Loui, R.Singh, R.Bhattacharjee and S.K.Singh 3.33 An Experience on Extraction of Developed Pillars within the Longwall Panel by Powered Support Longwall Equipment In an Industrial Coal Mine ...................... 755 M.P.Dikshit and P.K.Mondal 3.34 A New Method for Recovery of Coal in Abandoned Sill Pillars ........ 773 K.Shahriar and T.Yajam 3.35 Behaviour of Mining Works with Hydraulic Props in Dipping Thick Coal Layers .......................................... 781 Celestino Gonzalez Nicieza and Maria B. Diaz 3.36 Actual Status and Future Development of Underground Coal Exploitation in Yugoslavia .................................... 793 Dusan Gagic, Velyko Simeunovic 3.37 Working the Longwall Face at Steep Gradient (A Case Study at JK - 5 Incline) ........................................... 805 B.Veera Reddy and K.Nageswara Rao 3.38 Study of Strata Behaviour in Multi-Seam Longwall Mining under Shallow Depth of Cover ................................ 819 N.C.Karmakar, Soumendu Kundoo, B.K.Thakur and R.M.Bhattacharya 3.39 Application and Development of Powered Support for Sublevel Coal Caving at Different Thick Coal Seam Conditions ................ 829 Wang Guofa and Shen Aimin 3.40 Research on Fully Mechanized Coal Mining Equipment and Technology for Large Mining Heights in China ................... 837 Feng Gang, Shen Amin and Zhao Hongzhi 3.41 Equipment for Thick-Bed Mining Used in the Czech Republic .......... 849 Horst Gondek, Daniela Marasova and Lubomir Schellong 3.42 Development Process of High Performance Shearer Loaders for Coal Winning Demonstrated by the Shearer Loader Type SL 500 at Matla Colliery, South Africa ................. 861 Eckhard Ulrich Conrad and Wolfgang Schroth 3.43 Development and Application of Wireless Data Acquisition System for Continuous Monitoring of Longwall Powered Supports' Performance .............................................. 877 Srinivasulu Tradisetty, Kikuo Matsui and R.N.Gupta 3.44 Telecommunication's Contribution to Mining ......................... 885 Francisco Arechaga, Manual Breton, Juan Donapetry, Jose Antonio Manrique and Daniel Soriano 3.45 Control of Massive and Hard Roof by Water Injection under High Pressure ................................................ 891 Gautam Banerjee, A.K.Ray, G.S.P.Singh, and K.P.Yadava 3.46 Hydraulic Borehole Mining (HBM) Technology: An Overview ............ 905 W.S.Jura 3.47 Performance Evaluation of Underground Coal Mines: A Case Study ....................................................... 917 D.Sarkar, A.Bhattacharjee and N.Kumar 3.48 Data Mining Information Technology for Supporting of Mining Management Decision ......................................... 929 Laszlo Balla and Ferenc Kovacs