What is the optimal cutoff surface for ore bodies with more than one mineral?

In mine planning problems, cutoff grade optimization defines a threshold at every time period such that material above this value is processed, and the rest is considered waste. In orebodies with multiple minerals, which occur in practice, the natural extension is to consider a cutoff surface. We show that in two dimensions the optimal solution is a line, and in n dimensions it is a hyperplane.     

Polyketide Synthase-Mediated O-Methyloxime Formation in the Biosynthesis of the Oximidine Anticancer Agents

Bacterial trans-acyltransferase polyketide synthases (trans-AT PKSs) are modular megaenzymes that employ unusual catalytic domains to assemble diverse bioactive natural products. One such PKS is responsible for the biosynthesis of the oximidine anticancer agents, oxime-substituted benzolactone enamides that inhibit vacuolar H⁺-ATPases. Here, we describe the identification of the oximidine gene cluster in Pseudomonas baetica and the characterization of four novel oximidine variants, including a structurally simpler intermediate that retains potent anticancer activity. Using a combination of in vivo, in vitro and computational approaches, we experimentally elucidate the oximidine biosynthetic pathway and reveal an unprecedented mechanism for O-methyloxime formation. We show that this process involves a specialized monooxygenase and methyltransferase domain and provide insight into their activity, mechanism and specificity. Our findings expand the catalytic capabilities of trans-AT PKSs and identify potential strategies for the production of novel oximidine analogues.     

Determination of traces of Sb(III) using ASV in Sb-rich water samples affected by mining

Chemical speciation [Sb(V) and Sb(III)] affects the mobility, bioavailability and toxicity of antimony. In oxygenated environments Sb(V) dominates whereas thermodynamically unstable Sb(III) may occur. In this study, a simple method for the determination of Sb(III) in non acidic, oxygenated water contaminated with antimony is proposed. The determination of Sb(III) was performed by anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV, 1–20 μg L⁻¹ working range), the total antimony, Sb(tot), was determined either by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS, 1–100 μg L⁻¹ working range) or inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES, 100–10,000 μg L⁻¹ working range) depending on concentration. Water samples were filtered on site through 0.45 μm pore size filters. The aliquot for determination of Sb(tot) was acidified with 1% (v/v) HNO₃. Different preservatives, namely HCl, L(+) ascorbic acid or L(+) tartaric acid plus HNO₃, were used to assess the stability of Sb(III) in synthetic solutions.The method was tested on groundwater and surface water draining the abandoned mine of Su Suergiu (Sardinia, Italy), an area heavily contaminated with Sb. The waters interacting with Sb-rich mining residues were non acidic, oxygenated, and showed extreme concentrations of Sb(tot) (up to 13,000 μg L⁻¹), with Sb(III) <10% of total antimony. The stabilization with L(+) tartaric acid plus HNO₃ appears useful for the determination of Sb(III) in oxygenated, Sb-rich waters. Due to the instability of Sb(III), analyses should be carried out within 7 days upon the water collection. The main advantage of the proposed method is that it does not require time-consuming preparation steps prior to analysis of Sb(III).     

开采沉陷工程岩体本构关系研究

传统开采沉陷理论存在对采动岩体本构关系研究不够的问题, 本文在运用现代工程地质学理论和现代数学力学理论相结合, 对采动岩体本构关系进行深入研究的基础上, 提出了用“黑箱”问题“灰箱”化的全息反分析法, 确定采动工程岩体本构关系及其有关参数。实例分析表明, 对于复杂岩体结构的开采沉陷问题, 能够取得满意的结果。     

基于时序多光谱影像的干旱草原区开采扰动信息提取方法

露天开采会彻底改变原有土地利用景观格局，直接破坏当地生态环境，甚至会影响附近居民的生产和生活，因此越来越多的学者开始关注开采扰动。先前有关利用时序多光谱影像提取开采扰动的研究区集中于扰动形式单一的森林区。而我国露天煤矿大多集中于草原区，且我国东北部的草原矿区因其脆弱的生态环境以及其他多种扰动形式的存在，使得开采扰动识别更加困难。为明确我国东北部生态脆弱区草原露采场的开采扰动，以胜利矿区为例，利用1986年-2017年27期Landsat多光谱遥感影像，基于归一化植被指数NDVI（normalized difference vegetation index）的长时间序列轨迹变化特征（为了去除物候、云和阴影等对时序多光谱影像的影响，利用BISE-WT滤波器对原始NDVI时间序列进行滤波处理, 有效地去除时序NDVI数据中的噪声并同时保留有效信息），经过样本点训练，获得CV阈值（变异系数coefficient of variation）和Max阈值（植被阈值），构建CV-Max扰动识别模型，提取研究区的扰动分布。并利用植被阈值，分析NDVI时序轨迹，获得扰动年际信息，重构扰动历史地图；进而通过分析研究区典型地物的光谱特征，构建裸煤提取规则，以此来提取研究区的裸煤分布；最后通过构建裸煤及扰动区两者间的拓扑关系，进行空间拓扑叠置分析，从而获得开采扰动信息。经过精度验证，开采扰动的提取精度达到93.17%（Kappa系数=0.85），扰动年际信息提取精度达到83.35%（Kappa系数=0.81）。结果表明：在研究期间，空间上，开采扰动面积占研究区总面积的8.90%；时间上，开采扰动的发生集中于2000年-2009年，期间开采扰动像元占开采扰动总像元的76.70%；1988年-1998年矿区属于土地损毁初始期，2000年-2005年矿区属于土地损毁加速期，2006年-2009年矿区属于土地损毁高峰期，2010年-2017年开采扰动像元占比趋势比较平缓且持续处于较低水平，矿区土地损毁范围基本稳定。所提出的针对我国东北部生态脆弱性草原矿区，基于时序多光谱影像，利用植被指数NDVI和裸煤光谱特征提取开采扰动信息的方法是可行的，该研究结果可为干旱、半干旱草原露天矿区的可持续发展提供数据和理论方法支撑。     

Conflict minerals (3TG): Mining production,applications and recycling

The growing public awareness of conflict minerals used in consumer electronics and various other devices (e.g. GPS in vehicles, medical equipment, airplane equipment and instruments, etc.) is accompanied by increasing regulatory obligations for companies affected by different laws and certification standards e.g. Dodd Frank Act section 1502, the ICGLR Regional Certification, the OECD Due Diligence Guidance or the planned EU Certification regulation.The so called conflicts minerals are natural mineral resources such as tin, tantalum, tungsten and Gold (3TG) that are critical resources for the electronic and automotive industries but also for other industries (aviation, medical equipment, etc.).Extraction of the 3TGs is widespread and includes primary industrial mining and artisanal mining as well as recycling.     

黑龙江省矿区生态破坏与地质灾害及其防治

黑龙江省矿产分布情况和开发概况以及矿业开发在经济发展中占有重要地位 ;在矿业开发过程中引起的诸多生态破坏和地质灾害及其引起的危害 ,已引起高度重视 ;本文在综合论述黑龙江省矿区发展所带来各项利弊后提出了具体的防治对策。     

A solution approach for optimizing long- and short-term production scheduling at LKAB’s Kiruna mine

We present a mixed-integer program to schedule long- and short-term production at LKAB’s Kiruna mine, an underground sublevel caving mine located in northern Sweden. The model minimizes deviations from monthly preplanned production quantities while adhering to operational constraints. Because of the mathematical structure of the model and its moderately large size, instances spanning a time horizon of more than a year or two tend to be intractable. We develop an optimization-based decomposition heuristic that, on average, obtains better solutions faster than solving the model directly. We show that for realistic data sets, we can generate solutions with deviations that comprise about 3-6% of total demand in about a third of an hour.     

南京石膏矿特大突水灾害机理研究

发生于2006年9月11日的南京石膏矿特大突水灾害不仅改变了矿区及外围的地下水流场, 并引发了矿区地面沉降变形, 对地表附属物产生了一定的破坏作用, 造成了包括矿山关闭在内的巨大财产损失。南京石膏矿涉及典型的深部矿山地质工程问题, 影响地下开采稳定、矿山灾害和环境问题的主要因素是矿体及围岩的岩性结构及岩体结构构造, 特别是断裂构造及其影响带裂隙发育情况、富水性、导水率。围岩的岩溶强烈富水带的存在是矿坑突水的直接水源; 矿体的软岩特性、矿山开采扰动使采场周围的应力场重新分布、开采对断裂构造及裂隙带等结构体的活化作用都加剧了突水灾害的发生。