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Diagnosis Of A Compacted Area For Mining Through The Mechanical Resistance To The Penetration Using Geostatistical Methods In The Amazon Forest

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

70

Pages

9

Published

2004

Size

730 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/BF040051

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

A.Í. Ribeiro, A.J.T. Filho, R.M. Longo, W.J. de Melo & A.J.S. Maciel

Abstract

The mining process promotes land modification and complete landscape alteration. Those alterations in the surface are shown more obviously in the aesthetical aspect as the visual elements of form, texture, climbs, complexity and color which composes the landscape. As a consequence, mining has impacts on the topography, in the soil, in the vegetation and in the area’s drainage, with a direct influence on the enterprise. A quite common problem in the recovery of degraded areas in mineral exploration is the compaction of the soil due to the intense traffic of machines and earth movement. The most common problem of the compaction of a degraded surface is an increase of the mechanic

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