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Future of Indian Mineral Industry : Challenges and Opportunities

, The Mining, Geological and Metallurgical Institute of India, 2004, pbk, xvi, 258 p, $55.00 (Includes free airmail shipping)
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Future of Indian Mineral Industry : Challenges and Opportunities

Contents: I. Development of mining technology: 1. Introduction of continuous miner technology at Tandsi Project of WCL/Ashok Mehta and R.S. Malhotra. 2. Study of induced blasting effect on the long wall roof Strata at Rajendra colliery using microseismic technique/C. Srinivasan, C. Sivakumar and R.N. Gupta. 3. Proposal for conventional DE-Pillaring (CAVING) with hydraulic supports/V. Krishna Prasad and A. Manohar Rao. 4. Mechanisation to meet the challenges of underground coal mining in India: a success story/Rajendra Singh, P.K. Mandal, Arun K. Singh, Amit K. Singh, Sahendra Ram and Nirmal Kumar. 5. Blasting gallery method - the future for thick seam extraction in India/C. Sawmliana, P. Pal Roy and V.M.S.R. Murthy. 6. Compatibility of resin bolting vis-a-vis mass production technology in an Indian mechanized underground coal mine/Niraj Kumar, Biswajit Paul and A. Sinha. 7. Innovative mining method: success story of Nigahi open cast mine of NCL/Ashok Kumar Singh and S.P. Singh Bhati. 8. Slope stability study at Lingaraj open cast mine/V.K. Singh. 9. Evolution of surface miner in Indian coal and limestone mines and its latest development/S.C. Niyogi and S.P. Mishra. 10. An innovative priming system - emulsion based cast booster/A.K. Mishra and D. Bhattacharya. 11. Bulk handling of explosives vis-a-vis Site Mixed Slurry (SMS) explosives for cost-effective blasting in Indian surface mines/Satish R. Kate and G.K. Pradhan. 12. Monitoring and analysis of Hydraulic chock shields behavior in real time/Srinivasulu Tadisetty, R.N. Gupta, Kikuo Matsui and Hideki Shimada. II. Development of process technology: 1. Coalbed methane- an extensional domain of coal industry/M.N. Jha and P. Kumar. 2. Non-fuel uses of coal - the recent trend/S.C. Roy and Kalyan Sen. 3. Introduction of Underground Coal Gasification (UCG) as future alternate energy option/D.M. Kale, P.K. Hazarika and J. Sethu Madhavan. 4. Coal washeries in India a case study/G.C. Mrig. 5. Coalbed Methane drainage/A.K. Agarwal. 6. Leveraging six sigma to reduce process variation in coal beneficiation and improved marketability of coking coal/Bholanath Sarkar and Kalyan Kumar Guin. III. IT application in mineral industry: 1. E-commerce in mining/Saumen Ray. 2. An approach to handle negatively skewed data in ordinary kriging for Ore Grade estimation in a limestone deposit/S. Chatterjee, A. Bhattacherjee, S.K. Pal and B. Samanta. 3. IT advancements in blasting technologies and field application/R.V. Erady and P.R. Prasad. 4. Mining industry needs an IT strategy/Diwakar Thakore. 5. IT enabled integrated geo-mining models for augmentation of coal production from South Karanpura Coalfield, CCL/R.K. Choudhary and S. Bhat. IV. Management aspects: 1. Corporate social responsibility of coal companies/V.K. Singh. 2. CIL-opportunities ahead/D.K. Verma and A.K. Sinha. 3. GAPP/D.K. Verma and A.K. Sinha. 4. Challenges in Jharia coalfield- a systems approach for revival of BCCL and dealing with the problems of fire, subsidence and rehabilitation/H.R. Surana and B.K. Sharma. 5. Outsourcing - a challenge to the Indian mining industry/A.R. Ansari. 6. Business perspective for India mines/Paul L. Richard. 7. Exploration of mineral resources of the sea-a challenging venture/T.K. Mallik. 8. HEMM - operators interface/Chinmoy Ghosh. 9. Management of innovative practices in Coal India/A. Hafeez and A.K. Sinha. 10. New management prescriptions for new technology in equipment selection for surface and underground mining/Y.P. Tripathy. 11. Investment opportunity in minerals sector/A.K. Mishra. V. Safety and health issues: 1. Accident scenario in Indian coal mines/S.N. Mitra. 2. Variations in physiological parameters of coal mine loaders/N.C. Dey and Ratnadeep Saha. 3. The effect of human factor on the accident rate at coal mines/A. Mnukhin and Brukhanov. 4. Health and safety/K. Mukanda Rao. VI. Environmental management: 1. Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) of A CBM Project - an overview/B.C. Bhattacharya, Phalguni Guha, Debashis Sarkar and Prasanta Roy. 2. Reclamation of mining degraded land with fly-ash in Jharia coal field, India : a case study/Biswajit Paul. 3. Transplantation of Banyan tree at Laxman open cast project of Kusmunda area of south eastern coalfields limited/A.P. Dubey, S.S. Prasad, P.K. Nigam, M. Akhtar, Yogesh Kumar Mishra and Ram Narayan Tripathi. 4. Soil conservation for rehabilitation and revegetation of mine degraded land/Mrinal K. Ghose.

"MGMI, which is serving the cause of Mineral Industry since 1906, has published this document as signpost for direction of Indian Mineral Industry for meeting the challenges of competitiveness in the emerging business scenario of tomorrow.

42 technical papers presented in the MGMI International Conference on Future of Indian Mineral Industry : challenges and opportunities (September 2004) are included in this book. Eminent experts from mining organizations, manufacturing companies, consultancy firms, academic and research institutions have contributed their valuable experience and new ideas."

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