Analytical method for predicting filling rates of mining pit lakes: Example from the Getchell Mine, Nevada

Mining Engineering

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 53-60

  Shevenell, L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; LAKES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WATER QUALITY;

HYPERBOLIC CURVES; WATER-BALANCE COMPUTATIONS;

OPEN PIT MINING;

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; LAKE WATER; MINE WASTE; OPEN PIT MINE; WATER QUALITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033995725     PISSN: 00265187     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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