Approaches and Barriers to Incorporating Sustainable Development Into Coal Mine Design

It is widely recognized that coal is and will continue to be a crucial element in a modern, balanced energy portfolio, providing a bridge to the future as an important low-cost and secure energy solution to sustainability challenges. The designer of coal mining operations needs to simultaneously con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Craynon, John Raymond
Other Authors: Mining and Minerals Engineering
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29660
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-11182011-162423/