A typical line-scan rate for a commercial atomic force microscope (AFM) is about 1 Hz. At such a rate, more than four minutes of scanning time is required to obtain an image of 256 ' 256 pixels. Despite control electronics ...

Assessment of blast fragment size distribution is critical in mining operations because it is the initial step towards mineral extraction. Different empirical models and techniques are available for predicting and investigating ...

In the present study, a systematic investigation on the effect of Fe content on the Hall-Petch coefficient of (CoCrMnNi)100-x Fex (x = 20, 40, 50, and 60) medium- and high-entropy alloys (M/HEAs) was carried out. The ...

Rapid and uncontrolled urbanization is a major issue in both developing and developed countries. Uncontrolled urbanization has resulted to unplanned expansion of residential and commercial areas, informal ...

Tropical montane forests are known to support many endemic species with restricted geographic ranges. Many of these species are however, faced with numerous threats, most notably from habitat loss and degradation, invasive ...

Solid mine waste management is a continuous and systematic assessment of the potential hazards, disposal, and proper utilization of waste produced in a mining company during the mining and mineral processing stages. In ...

Haulage of materials in Open-pit mines contributes to approximately 40%-60% of the total operational costs. Current stricter environmental conditions, an increase in depths and size of open-pit mines, an increase in ...

—Recent research indicate a surge in the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence to compliment the processes of human visual perception. In particular, applying closeness measures of digital objects is ...

Mining is an expensive business and firms have to be cost sensitive in their operations to ensure high performance. Consequently, mining firms such as medium scale miners (MSMs) in Taita Taveta County, Kenya have ...

In this study, the exponentiated generalized exponential Dagum distribution has been proposed and studied. This family of distribution consists of a number of sub-models such as the exponentiated gener alized Dagum ...