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International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering

This journal also publishes Open Access articles

International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering (IJMME)

Editor in Chief: Prof. S.J. Jung
ISSN online: 1754-8918
ISSN print: 1754-890X; 4 issues per year
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IJMME is an interdisciplinary and refereed international journal that fosters innovative solutions to the safe, efficient, and environmentally responsible exploration and extraction of mineral resources. It promotes feasible mining system design, development, and management, bringing together sustainable technologies, the people, and sound processes. It provides cross learning between various scientific and technological, as well as business and economics, disciplines.

Topics covered include

Exploration, mine planning/design
Drilling/blasting
Materials handling: excavation, haulage, disposal
Mining rock mechanics and mine ground control
Mine drainage
Process control/optimisation, mining systems simulation
Artificial intelligence, knowledge based systems
Information technologies
Mine mechanisation, automation, robotics
Reliability, maintenance, overall performance of mining systems
Interaction between minerals/systems/people/other elements
Environmental impact assessment, sustainable development
Mineral economics, business systems
Risk assessment/management, health/safety
Education

Objectives

The objective of IJMME is to provide an international forum for academics, industry leaders, and policy makers to investigate and exchange novel ideas and disseminate knowledge and information covering the broad range of activities including, but not limited to, mining engineering, economics, environment, safety and health, information technologies, and management in mining and mineral engineering. In addition, it aims to establish an effective channel of communication between policy makers, government agencies, academic and research institutions and persons concerned with the complex set and behaviour of mining systems and operations. It also aims to promote and coordinate developments in the field of mining and mineral engineering. The international dimension is emphasised in order to overcome cultural and national barriers and to meet the needs of accelerating technological and ecological advances in the mineral industry and the global society and economy.

Readership

IJMME provides a vehicle to help professionals, academics, researchers and policy makers, working in the fields of exploration, mining, technology management, production engineering, mineral economics, environmental assessment, and health and safety, to disseminate information and to learn from each other's work.

IJMME publishes original papers, review papers, technical reports, case studies, conference reports, management reports, book reviews, notes, commentaries, and news. Special Issues devoted to important topics in Mining and Mineral Engineering will occasionally be published.

Editor in Chief

Jung, S.J., University of Idaho, USA
(ijmme.editorgmail.com)

Associate Editor

Komljenovic, Dragan, Hydro-Québec, Canada

Editorial Board Members

Akdogan, Guven, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Apel, Derek, University of Alberta, Canada
Arya, Sampurna, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Delic, Edin, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Karpuz, Celal, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Kecojevic, Vladislav, West Virginia University, USA
Kolonja, Bozo, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Mitri, Hani, McGill University, Canada
Moser, Peter, University of Leoben, Austria
Peng, Tiefeng, Chongqing University and Southwest University of Science and Technology, China
Rashidi-Nejad, Farshad, University of New South Wales, Australia
Saydam, Serkan, University of New South Wales, Australia
Song, Wongun, Posco Research Institute, South Korea
Tripathy, Sunil Kumar, University of Minnesota Duluth, USA
Vardhan, Harsha, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India
Villas-Bôas, Roberto C., CETEM/IMAAC/CYTED, Brazil
Yang, Ruilin, Orica USA Inc., USA

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Journal news

Rock-solid research for mineral froth

22 July, 2024

Research in the International Journal of Mining and Mineral Engineering introduces a new approach to controlling mineral processing that uses active sensing. This method embeds intelligence within sensor systems, significantly reducing the need for human intervention in the process to improve efficiency and precision in mineral separation processes. Even tiny improvements in efficiency can have a major economic impact on processing of ores containing copper, lead, and zinc, and even more so in the case of precious metals. Active sensing involves the integration of intelligent sensor systems that minimize human involvement by optimizing measurement processes. These systems use a combination of different measurements to put detailed information into the broader context. Primary measurements are precise but limited in range while auxiliary measurements provide broader, but more diffuse, data that can be used to guide the primary sensors to specific areas of interest that need detailed measurements. Mikko Salo, Teijo Juntunen, and Risto Ritala of Tampere University in Tampere, Finland, have looked at this approach for froth flotation, an important process used in mineral processing. Froth flotation separates minerals based on how they interact with water, their water-repellent, or hydrophobic, character. A slurry of mixed minerals and water is treated with reagents to make certain particles hydrophobic, this makes them accumulate on air bubbles and so rise to the surface as froth. This froth containing much of the mineral of interest from the slurry can be scooped off as concentrate for further purification and processing. The remaining slurry, known as tailings, flows out of the system [...]

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