Contents: Vol. I: I. Plenary lectures: 1. Vision of coal India for future/Shashi Kumar. 2. Emerging issues in safety in Indian mines -- agenda for action/Bhaskar Bhattacharjee. 3. Mining in Asia towards a sustainable future/Ajay K. Ghose. 4. Sustainability in mineral development: lessons from other parts of the world/Matthew Handley. II. Country status papers: 1. Iran: Status quo of mining in IRAN: prospect for future development/Abbas Parwaresh. 2. Mongolia: discovering new mineral opportunities/B. Batochir, N. Bayambadorj and N. Byantogtokh. 3. Oman: mineral deposits and mining at Sultanate of Oman - current status and potentialities/Ratan Tatiya. 4. Pakistan: Reviewing the development of mineral industry and government initiatives in Pakistan/Naseem Aadil and Monsoor Iqbal. 5. Russia: Mining in the Asian Part of Russia: potential, economy, manpower and engineering personnel/L.A. Puchkov and V.L. Petrov. 6. Turkey: Mineral wealth of Turkey - resources and utilization/Sinasi Eskikaya. 7. India: i. Mineral and mining Stewardship in India - special outlook on coal/S. Chaudhury. ii. Indian non-coal mining sector and its future directions/C.P. Ambesh. III. Technical session - IA: Topic : technology developments in underground coal mining: 1. Underground coal mining in India -- system improvement hold the key/S.P. Mathur. 2. New age diesel equipment for the global underground coal mining industry/Tony Scott. 3. Management and analysis of mining induced stresses for strata control during underground coal mining/Rajendra Singh, A.K. Singh, P.K. Mondal and Rakesh Kumar. 4. Suitability of fly ash as a stowing material for underground coal mines - some studies/C.N. Ghosh, P.K. Mondal and Prashant. 5. Numerical modeling of the caving behaviour of massive strata at a shallow depth longwall panel and dynamic loading effect/G.S.P. Singh and U.K. Singh. 6. Settling characteristics of fly ash of Talcher Thermal Power Station/Samir Kumar Das, Hemant Kumar and D.P. Mishra. 7. Frequency control system for improving efficiency of conventional coal mine hauler efficiency/Srinivasulu Tadisetty and R.N. Gupta. IV. Technical Session - IB : Topic : Development of mineral industry: 1. Development of non-ferrous metal industry in India/S.K. Choudhuri. 2. Rock phosphate a fertilizer resource in India -- an overview/T.N. Jaggi. 3. Envisioning the demand of Iron Ore in India/R.C. Srivastava and P.C. Naik. 4. Prospect of Uranium in India/S.N. Murthy, Y.V. Rao, Sourav Khare and M. Aruna. 5. Base metal mineralisation in the Nepal Himalaya/C.K. Chakrabarty, A.K. Ghosh and B.N. Upreti. 6. Comprehensive mining/B.C. Bhattacharya. 7. Various aspects of oil and its analysis/S.G. Sajay Kumar. V. Technical Session - IIA: Topic : Technology Developments in Underground Coal Mining: 1. Longwall top coal caving mining technology developments in Yanzhou Mining Area/Jin Tai. 2. Suitability evaluation of the High efficiency long wall fully mechanized top-coal caving technology and its application in China/LIU Chang-You, HUANG Pei-Ju, WU Fengfeng and Wang Zhen. 3. The need to fully mechanized underground coal mine in India/David Johnson. 4. Longwall mining in India - Quo Vadis?/S.K. Sarkar and A.K. Ghose. 5. Technical and legal issues on risk assessment for longwall operations/C. Pinnow. 6. Prediction of main fall span at a longwall panel by numerical modeling - a case study/G. Banerjee, M.T. Rahaman, S.B. Srivastava and P.R. Sheorey. 7. Geo-statistical modelling of coal seams in Jharia coalfields using kriging and simulated annealing simulation/Bhavesh C. Sarkar, Kalyan Saikya and P.P. Paul. VI. Technical Session - IIB: Topic : technology developments in mining of minerals: 1. Why minerals and mining in the prevalent scenario/Ratan Tatiya. 2. Mine designing for sustainable exploitation of uranium reserve in India/Diwakar Acharya and Malay Daripa. 3. Uranium mining in India: Technological and geo-mining challenges/A. Ghade and Vir Pratap. 4. Maintenance performance management: the need of the hour for the mechanized mining industry/Uday Kumar and Aditya Pardia. 5. Production scheduling for surface mining operations: an application of Surpac software to a limestone deposit/S. Choudhury and B.S. Sastry. 6. Effect of deepening of surface mine on hydrogeological regime of area - a case study of limestone mining in India/A.K. Soni. 7. Mining truck performance optimisation/Pinaki Chatterjee. VII. Technical Session - IIIA : Topic : New Technology in coal mining: 1. Revitalisation of Jharia coalfield to meet growing coking coal demand of steel industry/P.S. Bhattacharyya. 2. Paradigm shift in coal mining technology - a success story of MCL Abhiram Sharma, B.R. Tripathi and G.K. Mishra. 3. Modern coal mining technology and road map for bridging energy challenges/Lakshman Jha. 4. Large Shovels - the reality/Ian F. Grant. 5. Development of electronic Detonator - a step jump in initiating system with some case studies in Indian coal mines/N.C. Jha. 6. Overburden side casting by blasting - operating large opencast coal mines in a cost effective way/Partha Das Sharma. 7. Slope stability investigation in an opencast coal mine with boundary faults - a cast study/J.C. Jhanwar, A.K. Chakraborty and N.R. Thote. VIII. Technical Session - IIIB : Topic : New Technology for mineral processing: 1. Establishing large-scale pithead power station using two-stage High efficiency dry coal cleaning system before coal burning/Qingru Chen and Haifeng Wang. 2. Choice of washers for cleaning of high ash Indian coals for power, cement and sponge iron industries/Kalyan Sen. 3. Separation of PP from PP and PF mixture by Froth Flotation Technique/Somsak Saisinchai. 4. Coal washing in India : opportunities and challenges/G.C. Mrig and Ramesh Khanna. 5. Rotary breakers : prospect of application in India/S. Bhattacharya. 6. Advance pneumatic flotation technique to recover clean coal from slurry stock/Slime pond/A.K. Mishra. 7. Integrated flow sheet design for setting up of a Manganese Ore beneficiation plant for MOIL/A.B. Chatterjee. 8. Influence of power coal quality on Indian Rail Transport System/Ashim Kumar Maitra and S. Bhattacharya. IX. Technical session - IVA: Topic : Environmental and social issues in mining industry: 1. A review of statutory requirements and industry practices relating to environmental management in the Indian mining sector/S.P. Banerjee. 2. Response of coal mining companies to the social issues - special reference to NCL/V.K. Singh, D. Sengupta, and A. Baijal. 3. Rejection dump management - an innovative approach/Vinay Kothari. 4. Charge parameters and its impact on ground vibration/S.K. Mondal, M.M. Singh, N.K. Bhagat and S. Dasgupta. 5. ISO 14001 environmental management system as a base model for sustainable development in mining industry - experiences in Coal India Limited/A.K. Garg and T. Verma. 6. Environmental issues of coal mining industry in Orissa - challenges and opportunities/Shambhu Jha. 7. Transforming mining professionals in knowledge economy - a model to transform human "Resources" to human "Asset"/Chinmoy Sarkar. X. Technical session - IVB : Topic : Health and safety issues in mining industry: 1. Experimental study on the methane explosion ignited by sparks of cable bolt breakage/Jialin Xu. 2. Removal of roadblock in technology transfer - globalization of standards, testing and certification procedure of coal and oil mining electricals/S.K. Sarkar and Saibal Chatterjee. 3. A comparative study of some Indian coals to self-heating risk - correlation among methods/Devidas S. Nimaje and B.S. Sastry. 4. An epidemiological study of coal miners injuries/Ashis Bhattacherjee, B.M. Kunar and M.B. Sharan. 5. Risk analysis of dumper drivers for an opencast mine using a developed logistic regression model/Samir Kumar Das and Mithilesh Kumar Singh. 6. Monitoring of slope movement with the help of auto-scanning laser prolifer: a case study of Sasti Opencast mine/A.K. Raina, S. Deshmukh, A.K. Chakraborty, S. Bhowmik, P. Srinivas and Ramulu More. 7. Safety in opencast mine - role of human resource development/Chinmoy Ghosh. XI. Technical session VA: Topic : Environmental and social issues in mining industry: 1. Best reclamation practices from the outset - key to abandoned surface mine closure strategy/R.P. Ritolia and Arun Kumar Shukla. 2. Environmental challenges for Indian mining in the 21 century/Amar Nath Bose. 3. Sequestration of carbon dioxide in deep coals/Satya Harpalani and Ashwani Zutshi. 4. Eco-genetic study in the mines reclaimed area - a case study at Asia's largest Bauxite mines of National Alluminium Co. Ltd./A. Chakraborty, A. Roul, A.A. Dash, and Arup Anand Dash. 5. Certification of ISO 14001 in Korba Coalfields of SECL/S. Lahiri, R.N. Tripathi, Gopal Singh, Gurdeep Singh and A.K. Sharma. 6. Dynamic response of structure due to blasting induced ground vibration at the opencast mines of Ranigunj Coalfields, ECL/B.S. Shastri, N. Dhang, S.C. Ray, K.K. Chatterjee, and S. Mukherjee. 7. Integrated Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Management System frame work for mining operations/Marina N. Hepsiba. XII. Technical session VB: Topic : Innovative technologies in mineral industry: 1. Extraterrestrial mining and possible role to be played by space elevators/S.V. Ali. 2. Underground coal gasification - application in the country/N.N. Gautam. 3. Worldwide developments in UCG and Indian initiative/R.K. Sapru, R.P. Singh and R.K. Sharma. 4. Underground coal gasification of the Lapanga (Chordhara) UCG Block of South Karanpura coal field/J.S. Madhavan, R.P. Singh and R.K. Sharma. 5. An approach to underground coal gasification in India/A.K. Singh, J.N. Sahu, M.K. Singh and A. Sinha. 6. Geological characterization of coal for coal bed methane reservoir with special reference to Cambay basin/V.A. Mendhe, A.K. Singh, A. Sinha and A.K. Verma. 7. Coal bed methane and underground gasification of coal - the new found energy resources of India/Phalguni Guha, BC Bhattacharya, Debashish Sarkar and Prasanta Roy. 8. Coalbed methane - a new future for coal/Ashok Verma.
Vol. II : (pbk) : Biographical sketch: Biographical sketch of authors and technical committee members.
"Asia possesses largest share of mineral resources in the world, much of which remains untapped. The mineral industry has to gear up and accelerate the pace of exploitation of its mineral resources to meet the increased demand of raw materials for the development of key industries which will help in improving the economy of Asian countries. MGMI is hosting the 1 Asian Mining Congress on the theme of "Asian Mining Towards a New Resurgence" to focus on the prospects of mineral development in Asia.
The proceeding volume collates 84 technical papers being presented at Plenary sessions, Country Status reports and a rich variety of papers by eminent experts on different facets of development of technology for mining, mineral processing, environmental and social issues, health and safety issues and other topical subject areas presented at the Congress.
Apart from contributions by eminent experts from Indian Mineral Industry, there are useful contributions from other Asian Countries such as China, Iran, Mongolia, Oman, Pakistan, Russia, Thailand and Turkey. The proceeding volume is enriched by valuable contributions by experts from Australia, Germany, South Africa, Sweden, U.K., U.S.A. etc. Hopefully, the rich fare of contents of this volume will be of abiding interest."
