Labour-intensive drill-and-blast mining, as conducted on the major South African gold and platinum mines, is often not tightly managed due to the lack of good information about what is going on underground. As a result, mining operations tend to be dangerous and unhealthy as well as expensive. In addition, there are human-resource challenges at all levels due to the lack of appropriately-skilled workers
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Stewart, R, Donovan, SJ et al. 2008. AziSA: An architecture for underground measurement and control networks. Science real and relevent: 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference, CSIR International Convention Centre Pretoria, 17 & 18 November 2008, pp 1
Stewart, R., Donovan, S., Haarhoff, J., Brink, V., & Vogt, D. (2008). AziSA: An architecture for underground measurement and control networks - 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2629
Stewart, R, SJ Donovan, J Haarhoff, V Brink, and D Vogt. "AziSA: An architecture for underground measurement and control networks - 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference." (2008): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2629
Stewart R, Donovan S, Haarhoff J, Brink V, Vogt D, AziSA: An architecture for underground measurement and control networks - 2nd CSIR Biennial Conference; 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/2629 .
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