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  • Erwee, Markus Wouter; Reynolds, Q.G.; Zietsman, Johannes Hendrik (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2024-03)
    Pyrometallurgical furnaces, essential for metal extraction, operate at temperatures exceeding 1600°C and represent complex multiphase systems that challenge direct industrial research. Multiphysics models play a key role ...
  • Wildenboer, R.A.; Sandenbergh, Roelf (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2024-10)
    Rare earth elements (REE) are present at concentrations of approximately 0.36 % in phosphogypsum stacks located in Phalaborwa, South Africa. The REE are present in the phosphogypsum in solid solution in the gypsum and ...
  • Govindasamy, T.; Bekker, M.C. (Michiel Christiaan) (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2024-01)
    The potential benefits of implementing the Last Planner System (LPS) on mining infrastructure projects were explored through two case studies in the South African mining industry. The first part of the study involved ...
  • Buthelezi, S.M.; Maritz, Jan Abram; De Beer, Koos (Southern African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 2024-06)
    The economic upheaval of COVID-19 forced companies to invest in emerging technologies to aid recovery. One such technology is extended reality, which is becoming a mature and innovative tool. Early adopters are seeing ...
  • Hernandez-Aristizabal, David; Garzon-Alvarado, Diego-Alexander; Duque-Daza, Carlos-Alberto; Madzvamuse, Anotida (Elsevier, 2024-12)
    In this work, we present a mechanobiochemical model for two-dimensional cell migration which couples mechanical properties of the cell cytosol with biochemical processes taking place near or on the cell plasma membrane. ...

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