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ERE - 2011
Recent Submissions
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[Conference-Full-text]The energy needs of the world Mining Industry show an exponentially increasing trend owing to greater demand. The best available reports speculate that our present oil reserves will last for 40 years at most; therefore, ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Investigation carried out in the area around Rathnapura shows occurrence of economically valuable phlogopite mica mineralization in the area. Such deposits are concentrated in Hindurangala, Palkumbura, Pathagammana, ...
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[Conference-Full-text]The heavy mineral deposits of Sri Lanka are widely spread over the coastal area. The mining industry is looking forward for an effective method for heavy mineral separation with the low cost equipments, which suit the ...
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[Conference-Full-text]A hydrogeological model has been developed for the Aruwakkalu limestone mine to study the behaviour of groundwater flow, associate with specific problems within the mine, in this research. Groundwater flow model ...
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[Conference-Full-text]The instability of the slope area at Mahawewa, Walapane has been identified as a major threat to the people and properties of the vicinity since 1986. Therefore, National Building Research Organization has started a ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Colombo is the major commercial harbour in Sri Lanka and the government has started to expand this harbour to increase its capacity. Therefore, a breakwater has started to build perpendicular to the shoreline. Due to ...
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[Conference-Full-text]The frequency of the occurrence of disasters is increasing day by day. Urban flooding has become one of severe problems faced by Sri Lanka seasonally leading for various social and environmental interruptions. With the ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Treatment efficiencies of pilot scale constructed wetland treating greywater from a staff canteen of the University of Moratuwa was studied to estimate the temperature dependent reaction rate constants of specific pollutant ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Sri Lankan quarries observe their own blasting parameters and standards mainly based on experience gained over the years. Some of them are not the optimum values, due to the fact most of the quarries economical problems. In ...
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[Conference-Full-text]At present, Dynamite is currently manufactured only in a few countries as a commercial explosive due to its high cost hazardousness. Therefore import and supply do not match the demand patterns which inevitably result in ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Construction materials have a huge demand and become an expensive commodity due to limited quarry activity. Further Research and Development (R and D) is very important in quarry industry in order to minimize the cost ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Quality controlling of aggregates is a major concern in aggregate industry. Cost of quality controlling can be minimized via finding correlations between different test on aggregates and rocks. Los Angeles abrasion value ...
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[Conference-Full-text]Conventionally, in the local construction industry, darker coloured (melanocratic) rocks are preferred over light coloured (leucocratic) rocks without proper scientific reasoning. Hence, the objective of the study is to ...