Mine haul road maintenance management systems

Journal of The South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 303-312

  Thompson, R J ^a   Visser, A T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Haul road; Pavement design; Road maintenance; Surface mining; Transportation

Indexed keywords

COSTS; OPEN PIT MINING; PAVEMENTS; ROLLING RESISTANCE; SCHEDULING; STRATEGIC PLANNING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION;

HAUL ROADS; HAUL TRUCKS; PAVEMENT DESIGN; ROAD MAINTENANCE;

SURFACE MINE TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 0141599036     PISSN: 0038223X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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