Erratic power supply has caused serious problems in the Nigerian environment resulting in the extensive use of small generating plants in the first instance. Frequent and unpredictable fuel scarcity has further exacerbated ...

Ghana is a well known mining nation and hard rock mining has been going on since the 10th century. Mining companies in Ghana are well aware of the regulatory requirements to carry out blasting activities such that ...

Ghana is the second largest gold producer in Africa after South Africa, and the third largest African producer of aluminium metal and manganese ore and a significant producer of bauxite and diamond. Despite the huge ...

With the increased use of broadband Internet facilities and high speed computers, the range of desktop GIS applications being migrated to the Internet is growing by the day. This study presents the development of an ...

The marine salt mining industry has about 20 Small Scale and over 120 Micro-small scale projects scattered over the coast of Ghana. With oil find, Ghana can produce over 6 million t/yr of salt worth over US$1.2 billion and ...

The effect of the radiation on the droplet ignition was investigated. The Rosseland approximation was employed in the modelling of the radiation heat transfer and temperatures of the droplet. The governing equation was ...

The environmental and socio-economic effects of mining activities on agricultural practices in selected mining locations in Ondo, Oyo and Plateau States had been carried out. Soil samples from selected agro-mining sites ...

This study was carried out to determine the Environmental effects of oil spillage on Bomu community of Rivers State, Nigeria. In other to achieve this, the following methods were adopted: oral interview, physical observation ...

MIRARCO has pioneered the application of large-screen, stereoscopic, virtual reality technology for the mining industry since 2001. The technology is used to evaluate trends in the data to gain insight and understanding ...