VOLUME 2 SUB THEME 4: MINES OF THE FUTURE FOR CLEANER MINING 4.1 Clean Technology is the Safe Technology: Success Story of Dimensional Limestone ............................. 937 S.C.Agarwal 4.2 Tiny Miners of the Future Mining ................................... 947 Asha Gupta, Birendra Kumar and D.D.Misra 4.3 Clean Energy from Coal Emission-Free Power Generation with Options for CO2 Sequestration ...................................... 955 T.M.Yegulalp, K.S.Lackner and P.F.Duby SUB THEME 5: NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR MINERAL PROCESSING 5.1 Benefication of the Low Grade Bauxite from Paduvari Plateau, South Kanara, India ....................................... 967 Mehran Gholinejad and Nima Bahrevar 5.2 State of the Knowledge on the Use of Chelating Reagents in Mineral Flotation ...................................... 977 A.M.Marabini and M.Barbaro SUB THEME 6: EXTRA-TERRESTRIAL AND DEEP SEA MINING—TRENDS AND FORECASTS 6.1 Mining interplanetary Resources .................................... 987 W.J.Zealy, R.N.Singh and M.J.Sonter 6.2 Methods of Calculation for Rational Exploitation of Submarine Quarries ................................................ 1001 Jose Enrique Perez Gonzalez SUB THEME 7: HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES 7.1 Mining Legislation In Poland ...................................... 1009 Wojciech Bradecki 7.2 Mines Safety in India - Control of Accidents and Disasters in 21ST Century .......................................... 1019 S.N.Padhi 7.3 Health and Safety in Implementing Advanced Technology in Small and Medium Size Extractive Industries .................... 1031 Jukka Pukkila and P.Sarkka 7.4 Emergency Preparedness and Response System in Indian Coal Mines - A Suggested Approach on the Basis of Case Studies ............... 1041 A.K.Sinha, B.Bhattacharjee and R.Sharma 7.5 Efficiency of Work Safety Management in Polish Hard Coal Mines - Technical and Economic Aspects ....................... 1055 Jozef Dubinski and Piotr Rosmus 7.6 Development of an Approach to Categorize the Coal Pillars with Respect to their Proneness to Spontaneous Heating in Indian Coal Mines ....................... 1067 D.C.Panigrahi and R.M.Bhattacharjee 7.7 Outburst Management - Recent Case History from Australia .......... 1079 C.Harvey and R.N.Singh 7.8 Addressing Safety and Health Issues at De Beers ................... 1095 P.J.P.Fourie 7.9 Development of Retardants to Control Fire in Opencast Mines ................................................. 1101 D.C.Panigrahi and G.Udayabhanu 7.10 Mine Safety Management - Recent Trends in Accident Analysis and Control .............................................. 1111 J.Maiti and S.Dasgupta 7.11 Determination of the Influence of Model Gas Mixtures on the Trends of Fire Prevention .................................. 1127 Zygmunt Kajdasz and Piotr Buchwald 7.12 The Management of Electrical Safety in the Surface Extractive Industry ............................................... 1135 Donald Thomas 7.13 Design of Illumination System in Opencast Mines ................... 1149 M.Aruna, Y.V.Rao and N.C.Karmakar SUB THEME 8: ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES—CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES 8.1 Policy Issues Pertaining to Environmental Protection in Developing Countries with Particular Reference to Indian Mines .............................. 1161 A.N.Bose 8.2 Rendering Back into the Economic Circuit the Lands Occupied and Damaged by the Lignite Opencast Operations in Romania ............................................. 1171 Dumitru Fodor, Gavril Baican, Ion Vulpe, loan Manea, loan Iane and Vasile Pop 8.3 Geomechanical Impact of Natural Events and Processes on the Performance of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant ............. 1187 Shankar Ghose 8.4 The Emerging Lignite Mining Scenario in Rajasthan and Gujarat and the Conflict Resolution with the Related Environmental Issues .............................................. 1201 R.Choudhuri and P.Chakravarty 8.5 Sustainable Development with Minimal Environmental Degradation ....................................................... 1215 Deepak Vidyarthi 8.6 "Rekult" - Research and Development Project for the Formulation of Standards for Renaturing and Recultivation Measures for Landscape Following Mining Activities ................ 1235 Josef Pappenreiter and Roman Schaffer 8.7 Experience of Rehabilatation of Mining Zones of Jiu Valley, Romania ................................................... 1245 Mircea Georgescu 8.8 Technical Accident at S.C. "Aurul" S.A. - Baia Mare, Romania ........................................................... 1257 Dumitru Fodor and Vasile Pop 8.9 Practice, Procedure and Draft Policy for Environmental Protection in Kotah Stone Mining .................................. 1269 S.C.Agarwal 8.10 Environmental Aspects of Mining and Waste Recoveries: Case Studies of Impact Assessment: Goa and Sukinda - India ........ 1281 Tapan Biswas, S.L.Pitale and A.Santha Ram 8.11 Research on Industrial Ecological Economy of Mining Areas ......... 1293 Chen Yin Ling 8.12 Chemical and Mechanical Characteristics of the By-product Gypsum Produced In a Hungarian Lignite-Fired Power Plant ......................................... 1305 Ference Kovacs, Jozsef Molnar and Jozsef Valaska 8.13 New Methods of Microbial Iron Separation from Highly Polluted Mine Waters .............................................. 1313 Wolfgang Rolland and Ingolf Arnold 8.14 Combined Heat and Power Generation from Coalmine Gas in Germany .................................................... 1319 Roland Mader and Ludger Dinkelbach 8.15 Underground Placement of Coal Processing Waste and Coal Combustion Byproducts Based Paste Backfill for Enhanced Mining Economics ......................................... 1327 Y.P.Chugh, D.Deb and D.Biswas 8.16 Environment Protection in the Process of Cement Plants Privatization .............................................. 1343 Dragoljub Urosevic, Zvonko Eamber, Mirjana Grbaveic and Vuk Durovic 8.17 Underground Utilization of Waste in Poland ........................ 1351 Jan Palarski 8.18 The Problem of Discrete State of Substance and the Strategy of Mineral Preservation .................................. 1363 Vakhab R. Rakhimov, R.I.Koneev and A.H.Turesebekov 8.19 Coal Production in Slovakia—Ecological Aspects .................... 1367 P.Cicmanec and J.Fabian 8.20 Land Reclamation and Afforestation in Trench Mining, an Achievement at Panchpatmali Bauxite Mine, NALCO ................ 1377 K.C.Pattnaik and A.Raoul SUB THEME 9: SOCIAL LICENCE FOR MINING - CONSTRUCTIVE ENGAGEMENT 9.1 R and R - A Major Consideration in Indian Mining Industry .......... 1397 Suvendu Bose 9.2 Resettlement and Rehabilitation of Project Affected Persons (PAPs) in Coal India under CSESMP .......................... 1413 B.C.Bhattacharya SUB THEME 10: MINERALS AND RAW MATERIALS - FORECASTING DEMANDS 10.1 Demand Forecasting in India: Mineral Raw Materials with a Case Study on Granite ...................................... 1427 K.K.Chatterjee, S.Chandramouli and S.S.Bhake 10.2 Future World Demand for Major Metals .............................. 1439 Dan Nilsson 10.3 Coking Coal Scenario for Steel Industry of India with Specific Reference to SAIL in 10th and 11th Five-Year Plans ......... 1451 G.S.Khuntia SUB THEME 11: HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE MINERALS SECTOR IN THE 21ST CENTURY 11.1 Mining Education and Training for Sustainable Development ......... 1463 Mike Katz 11.2 Training of Specialists for Mining Industry In Romania in 21st Century ................................................... 1471 Nicolae Dima, Alexandru Florea, Andrei Magyari, Mircea Georgescu and losif Andras 11.3 VIEX: Virtual Training Tool for a Safer Mining Method ............. 1479 Vicente G. Peinador, Dulce M. Vega and Eva M. Estrad IBSM PLENARY SESSION IBSM 1 In-situ Stress Measurement in Indian Coal Mines by Modified Sleeve Fracturing Technique ........................... 1495 D.G.Rao, A.Sinha, R.Singh, G.Murali Mohan, A.K.Singh, A.K.Ghosh, Niraj Kumar and M.Prasad IBSM 2 Analysis of a Disaster and Determination of Capacity of Powered Roof Supports for a Single Pass Thick Seam Longwall Face under Massive Roof Condition - A Case Study .................... 1511 Samir Kumar Das IBSM 3 Role of Geotechnlcal Instrumentation for Monitoring Pit Slopes and Impoundment Structures .......................... 1523 A.Santha Ram and A.K.Ghoshal IBSM 4 Design and Monitoring In Underground Stone Quarrying ........... 1531 O.Del Greco and C.Oggeri IBSM 5 Filtration Properties of Discontinuties in Triaxial State of Stress ................................................ 1545 Pavel Konecny, Alena Kozusnikova and Mariusz Mlynarczuk IBSM 6 Mining Design for a Large Hard Rockburst-Prone Deposit ......... 1551 Guo Ran and Yu Runcang IBSM 7 Development of Seismogenic Zones in Underground Mines in the Light of Results of Passive Tomograpy ............. 1561 Jozef Dubinski IBSM 8 The Timeliness of Delimiting Caving Areas under the Circumstances of a Drastic Decrease of Mining Activity in Baia Mare Basin .................................... 1569 Adrian Todorescu and Adalbert Kruk IBSM 9 Algorithmic Basis to Forecast Type and Level of a Gas Dynamic Hazard in Coal Mines ............................... 1581 G.Ya.Polevshikov IBSM 10 Dynamic Phenomena in Mining Iron-Ore Deposits in Siberia ....... 1597 M.V.Kurlenya and A.A.Eremenko IBSM 11 Study of Load Transfer Capacity of Bolts Using Short Encapsulation Push Test ........................................ 1607 Najdat J. Aziz and Benjamin J. Webb IBSM 12 Numerical Modelling and Experience for Design and Mines Control - Application to Provence Coal Mines ............. 1617 M.Al Heib, M.Sylla, J.P.Josien IBSM 13 The Stability of Slopes in Morraine Material in Exploitation of Bauxite in Montenegro .......................... 1637 M.Korac, J.Majstorovic, M.Cvetkovic IBSM 14 In-Situ Shear Test for Optimum Slope Design of a Phosphorite Mine ............................................... 1647 V.K.Singh, J.K.Singh and A.Kumar IBSM 15 Physical Processes in Mining: Prospects and Problems ........... 1655 Anatoly D. Alexeev and N.S.Surgai ICAMC PLENARY SESSION ICAM 1 A PC Based Water Level Management System ....................... 1665 T.K.Mitra ICAM 2 Opencast Mining Technology Visualization ....................... 1669 Zdenik Neustupa ICAM 3 A Graphic Information System for Managing the Rehabilitation of Landscape Degraded by Mining ................. 1677 Zdenik Neustupa ICAM 4 Structure and Methods of Data Processing of the System of Identification of Technical and Technological Conditions of Mining Geological Objects and Mine Information Control System ................................ 1691 A.V.Vilgelm and A.G.Babenko ICAM 5 Main Tasks of Automatic Systems of Early Detection and Fire Prevention on Belt Conveyors in Mines ................. 1699 Eduard Lapin and Vladimir Matveev ICAM 6 Information Structure of Automated System of Technological Processes of Mine (PIT) .......................... 1703 Alexander L. Karyakin ICAM 7 Choice of Interval of Sensors Checking in Control Systems of Parameters of Mine Atmosphere ....................... 1707 Sergei Lapin and Rafail Leonov ICAM 8 Methods of Realizing Generating Conditions of Mining Machine Thyristor Drives ....................................... 1713 I.V.Breido, V.V.Kaverin and L.I.Daych ICAM 9 General Concept of Multicomponent Fire Gas Detector............. 1721 P.Krzystolik and Stainslaw Trzeionka ICAM 10 Coal Processing Plant—Automatics and Control System of the Polish Jigs ............................................. 1733 Barbara Tora, Zygmunt Smiejek and Marian Kurzac ICAM 11 Automation and Robotics: The Different Approaches .............. 1741 V.Konyukh ICAM 12 Monitoring and Control of Coal Production Process to Improve Efficiency and Safety in Mines ......................... 1749 Wladyslaw Mironowicz and Stanislaw Wasilewski ICAM 13 Environmental Monitoring System for Small Mines ................ 1767 Boleslaw Firganek ICAM 14 VRML Environment for Visualization of Model of Underground Technological Process .............................. 1773 Oldrich Kodym ICAM 15 Information and Communication Technology (ICT) In Particular Reference to Indian Mining Industry .............. 1783 C.B.M.Mishra and A.K.Singh