1. Editorial

   • I. W. Farmer

   EditorialNotes Pages: iii - iii

2. Economic aspects of pad construction costs on heap leach projects

   • D. Van Zyl
   • M. Henderson
   • B. Cobb

   Papers Pages: 275 - 286

3. Yield pillars for stress control in longwall mines — case study

   • K. Y. Haramy
   • R. O. Kneisley

   Papers Pages: 287 - 304

4. Effects of search parameters on kriged reserve estimates

   • Abdullah Arik

   Papers Pages: 305 - 318

5. Perturbed earth processes due to thermally induced deformation in a discontinuous granite mass

   • A. M. Awadalla

   Papers Pages: 319 - 331

6. Effects of structural faults on ground control in selected coal mines in southwest Virginia

   • M. Molinda
   • D. K. Ingram

   Papers Pages: 332 - 347

7. Introduction to pareto optimal mine planning

   • Paul B. Appiah
   • Michael A. Rosenman
   • John R. Sturgul

   Papers Pages: 348 - 356

8. Design considerations for subsidence control

   • M. Karmis
   • Z. Yu
   • A. Jarosz

   Papers Pages: 357 - 368

9. Measurement of parameters impacting methane recovery from coal seams

   • S. Harpalani
   • A. Schraufnagel

   Papers Pages: 369 - 384

10. Rock mechanics applied to shaft pillar mining

    • J. C. Johnson
    • S. A. Orr

    Papers Pages: 385 - 392

11. Rapid solution of kriging equations, using a banded Gauss elimination algorithm

    • J. R. Carr

    Papers Pages: 393 - 399

12. Mining subsidence — past, present, future

    • R. E. Gray

    Short Communication Pages: 400 - 408

13. Rock pressures around a large underground excavation — a case history

    • Chou Wanxi

    Short Communication Pages: 409 - 414