• Proceedings of the Korean Association of Geographic Inforamtion Studies Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.227-230
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• 2007

대규모 노천광산의 개발과정에서 배수 및 운반 설계는 매우 중요한 작업 요소이며, 그 결과에 따라 채광 효율성과 광산 운영비용이 크게 달라질 수 있다. 본 연구에서는GIS를 이용하여 노천광산의 배수 및 운반 시스템을 최적화할 수 있는 새로운 채굴적 설계 방안을 제시하였다. 대부분의 노천광산에서 빈번하게 수행되는 지상 지형측량 결과를 이용하여 수치표고모델을 생성하였고, 수계분석 알고리즘을 적용하여 강우시 노천광산 배수 시스템의 특성을 분석하였다. 또한, 최적경로 분석 알고리즘과 다중 의사결정 기법을 접목하여 폐석 트럭의 최적 운반경로를 분석하고, 트럭 운반 시스템의 효율성을 평가할 수 있는 방법을 제시하였다. 인도네시아 파시르 석탄 노천광산을 대상으로 적용시험을 수행한 결과, 배수 및 운반 설계 과정에서 GIS가 효과적으로 활용될 수 있음을 확인할 수 있었다.

• Current Industrial and Technological Trends in Aerospace
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.102-109
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• 2011

NEOs are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of nearby planets into orbits that allow them to enter the Earth's neighborhood. When the NEOs with certain size impact in the Earth's surface, it could cause a serious disaster. However, the NEOs that are potentially the most hazardous because they can closely approach the Earth are also the objects that could bemost easily exploited for their raw materials. This paper presents the characteristics of NEOs and the technology trend of advanced countries on spacecraft missions to comets and asteroids.

• Explosives and Blasting
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• v.39 no.3
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• pp.35-43
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• 2021

Slope optimization aims to maximize the slope angle in an open pit mine, resulting in subsequent profits from additional ore extraction. The large open pit mines have adopted the advanced technologies to increase slope angle until they ensure the slope stability. This paper introduces a current stage of slope optimization efforts and best practices from the open pit mines.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2021.05a
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• pp.49-50
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• 2021

광산 분야 등의 채굴을 위한 천공 과정에서 현재 진행 중인 천공 위치의 실시간 측정이 요구되는데 이를 위해 드릴 후면에 부착된 센서 정보를 로드 파이프를 통해 지상으로 전송할 수 있는 통신방식을 제안하였다. 드릴 후면에 장착된 센서에서 검출된 신호는 송신부에서 변조를 통해 로드 파이프로 전송하고, 수신부에서는 이에 대응되는 복조 과정을 통해 센서 데이터를 추출하였다. 제안된 방법의 검증을 위해 설계된 장치를 사용하여 실험을 수행하였으며, 실험 결과 제안된 방법에 의한 데이터 송수신이 정상적으로 동작함을 확인하였다.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.21-25
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• 2024

최근 몇 년 동안 탈중앙화 금융(DeFi)은 블록체인 기술의 혁신적인 사용을 통해 금융 부문의 지형을 재정의할 획기적인 세력으로 부상했다. 본 연구는 DeFi의 제도화를 향한 패러다임 전환에 대한 포괄적인 기술적 분석을 제시하며, DeFi가 전통적인 금융 시스템을 혼란에 빠뜨리고 글로벌 경제 프레임워크를 재구성할 수 있는 잠재력을 강조한다. 본 연구에서 스마트 계약, 분산형 자율 조직(DAO) 및 합의 알고리즘을 포함한 DeFi 핵심 기술의 복잡성을 조사하고 이러한 요소가 어떻게 집합적으로 보다 개방적이고 투명하며 포용적인 금융 생태계를 조성하는지 탐구한다. 주요 고려 사항에는 규제 장애물, 보안 문제, 확장성 문제, 혁신과 소비자 보호 간의 균형이 포함된다. 금융 포괄성, 특히 은행 서비스를 받지 못하는 인구와 은행 서비스를 받지 못하는 인구에게 금융 서비스에 대한 접근을 제공하는 역량 측면에서 DeFi의 혁신적인 잠재력에 대해 논의하여 일드 파밍, 유동성 채굴, 분산형 대출 등 새로운 금융 상품 및 서비스를 도입하는 데 있어 DeFi의 역할을 평가하여 소비자와 기존 금융 기관 모두에 미치는 영향을 강조한다. DeFi의 기술 기반과 기관 금융 프레임워크 내에서 급성장하는 역할에 대한 자세한 조사를 제공함으로써 본 논문은 금융의 미래 궤적과 글로벌 경제 시스템의 진화하는 역학에 대한 귀중한 통찰력을 제공하는 것을 목표로 한다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Forest Science
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• v.113 no.1
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• pp.118-130
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• 2024

Rehabilitation of mining areas can reduce damage to ecosystems. However, the effects of rehabilitation on ecosystem services (ESs) and its contribution to local communities are not well known. Thus, the aims of this study were to clearly identify the ES beneficiaries affected by mining activities, to determine how the beneficiaries profit from surrounding areas in cooperation with local stakeholders, and to manage the rehabilitation areas for the ESs that the beneficiaries want. This study chose 18 ESs (4 provisioning, 7 regulating, 5 cultural, and 2 habitat services) based on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity. A semi-structured questionnaire survey using an 11-point Likert scale was conducted among 87 community residents to investigate social awareness and identify key ESs. The survey results from two local communities showed high awareness and demands mainly on cultural (mental and physical health, aesthetic appreciation, and recreation) and regulating services (local climate and air quality, and moderation of extreme events). These services were related to the daily lives of residents in local communities, provided positive benefits, and potentially improved the residents' future livelihoods. However, the average questionnaire scores were limited to 6-7 points, indicating that the benefits to local communities were meager. The residents' awareness of provisioning service was negative, even if it provided goods and profit opportunities. This indicated a disconnection between local communities and provisioning services due to forest rehabilitation that did not consider local communities that traditionally relied on specific provisioning services before the onset of mining activities. Future forest rehabilitation in abandoned mine areas must consider the welfare of local communities for sustainable use of rehabilitated forests and enhancing ESs. In this study, only a qualitative evaluation based on frequency analyses was conducted. The quantification and valuation of key ESs are warranted in the future to promote ESs from forest rehabilitation in abandoned mine areas. The study results would be useful for developing site-specific ES promotion strategies for reforesting mine areas.

• Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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• v.5 no.4
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• pp.13-24
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• 2004

This study was carried out to plan the prevention of the generation and discharge of Acid Rock Drainage (ARD). The Acid Base Accounting(ABA) test was performed for geological materials such as pit wall, waste rock and stream sediments near the Imgi abandoned pyrophyllite mine in Busan, Korea. In addition, hydraulic characteristics were tested with the disk tension infiltrometer around the waste rock dump. Maximum Potential Acidity(MPA) of geological materials near the Imgi mine was 246.942kg $H_2SO_4/t$, and maximum Acid Neutralising Capacity(ANC) was 8.7kg $H_2SO_4/t$. These results indicate the pit wall and waste rock, except most of stream sediments are acid generating geological materials. These have salt and free hydrogen ion which resulted from oxidation of sulfides. Hence they could be convert rain water to acid rock drainage. Although the waste rock dump of the Imgi mine have very low infiltration rate, slopes of the waste rock dump have many "V" type erosion gullies and multi-layers. These gullies and multi-layers have coarse clastic particle layers which have very large hydraulic conductivity. Through this coarse clastic particle layer a large part of rain flow into ground. And also this layer could function as aeration path which induced oxidation of sulfide minerals and generation of ARD continuously.

• Economic and Environmental Geology
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• v.47 no.3
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• pp.255-263
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• 2014

Conflict minerals refer to minerals mined in conditions of armed conflict, especially as in the eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The common conflict minerals are cassiterite, wolframite, coltan(columbite-tantalite ore), and gold, which are mined and extracted from the Eastern Congo. These minerals are essentially used in the manufacture of a variety of devices, including consumer electronics. To end the violent conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and in surrounding countries, it is necessary to block the supply route of conflict minerals which has been partially financed by the exploitation and trade of conflict minerals. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, passed into law in July 2010 and it contains requirements that U.S. companies report to the Securities and Exchange Commission(SEC) on the origin of conflict minerals and show due diligence of OECD. The goal of the act is to cut direct and indirect funding of armed groups engaged in conflict.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.30 no.5
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• pp.473-483
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• 2020

This paper examines the vertical stress change concentrated on mine pillar which occurs due to the stress disturbance from opening excavation at room and pillar mine by FLAC3D, a finite difference method (FDM) software. The mesh size combination is decided with a careful consideration of relative error and run-time, then its performance is verified. A series of numerical analyses is conducted and the vertical stress at central pillar was observed for the test cases of 1×1 to 11×11 mine pillars, 40 m to 320 m depth with 40 m difference. The results show that the vertical stress of pillar approaches to the similar value with the value estimated by tributary area theory(TAT) when the development area (N_P) is increased or the height of overburden (H_OB) is decreased, while it is overestimated in the opposite case. Furthermore, it also represents that the vertical stress factor (VSF) converges to a specific value when the depth is increased whille keeping the development area identical.

• Tunnel and Underground Space
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• v.26 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2016

This study deals with the case that was the field application of the microseismic monitoring techniques for the stability monitoring in a domestic mine. The usefulness and limitations of the microseismic techniques were examined through analyzing the microseismic monitored data. The target limestone mine adopted a hybrid room-and-pillar mining method to improve the extraction ratio. The accelerometers were installed in each vertical pillar within the test bed which has the horizontal cross-section $50m{\times}50m$. The measured signals were divided into 4 types; blasting induced signal, drilling induced signal, damage induced signal, and electric noise. The stability analysis was performed based on the measured damage induced signals. After the blasting in the mining section close to the test bed, the damage of the pillar was increased and rockfall near the test bed could be estimated from monitored microseismic data. It was possible to assess the pillar stability from the changes of daily monitored data and the proposed safety criteria from the accumulated monitored data. However, there was a difficulty to determine the 3D microseismic source positions due to the 2D local sensor arrays. Also, it was needed to use real-time monitoring methods in domestic mines. By complementing the problems encountered in the mine application and comparing microseismic monitored data with mining operations, the microseismic monitoring technique can be used as a better safety method.