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 Stability Analysis of Tailings Dams – Focus on Numerical ModellingMonday, March 26, 2012Here is a link to a Licentiate Thesis by Muhammad Auchar Zardari of the Lulea University of Technology in Sweden. Its title is Stability Analysis of Tailings Dams – Focus on Numerical Modelling. read more » Conceptual Models for Mining Analysis and Decision MakingWednesday, March 21, 2012Conceptual models are key aspects of mine modelling, analysis, and decision making. With our limited thinking ability, we need concepts, or models, of reality before we can fully comprehend, understand, and mentally manipulate reality. read more » Groundwater Modeling in Decision Making About Mine Tailings, Waste Rock, and Heap Leach FacilitiesWednesday, March 21, 2012Let me discuss modelling, calculating, and thinking as part of the decision making process. In particular, I write of those essential modern aids to judgment, namely conceptual models and the running of computer codes. read more » The Observational Method for Groundwater Modeling & PracticalityMonday, March 19, 2012One of the enduring mysteries of professional practice is why groundwater experts never apply the Observational Method in their ever-more sophisticated groundwater modeling and monitoring work. read more » Monte Carlo AnalysisFriday, March 16, 2012Monte Carlo is a principality where you can go and gamble to the profit of the royalty of a small kingdom. It is also the most powerful way to quantify the probability distribution of an outcome of an essentially random process. read more » |
