Case study from an underground mine showing how pre-splitting techniques were applied to production holes on the wings of secondary ...Read more
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A Tier One gold producer with operations in Canada, Finland and Mexico and exploration and development activities extending to the ...Read more
Over the last decade there has been an evolution in block cave fragmentation prediction methods. This evolution has mainly been ...Read more
The presentation gives an introduction to sublevel caving (SLC), the types of SLC mines, mine design of SLC, geotechnical considerations ...Read more
The case study covers the immediate actions when dealing with geotechnically high risk operations. Five main areas are discussed on ...Read more
All drill and blast engineers at stoping mines should have an intuitive understanding of the causes and controls on stope ...Read more
Unplanned dilution directly adds cost to production from mining, milling, tailings disposal and administration. Additionally, unplanned dilution decreases the productivity, ...Read more
An advanced Geotechnical Televiewer Interpretation (GTI) methodology has been developed that accurately interprets the full suite of geotechnical properties and ...Read more
Typically, large volumes of data are collected during geotechnical investigations for mining projects but rarely is this done in a ...Read more
A comprehensive three dimensional geotechnical model is fundamental to any pit slope design. This paper details a methodology for the ...Read more
The use of hydro scaling and in-cycle shotcrete to replace conventional jumbo scaling mesh and bolting as the primary method ...Read more
With hardrock mines using mobile equipment with ever larger diesel engines in ever larger development dimensions, the use of traditional ...Read more
There are many sources of gas in underground mines including development and production blasting, strata gases, spontaneous combustion, diesel equipment, ...Read more
Most mine ventilation engineers are involved in ventilation planning and design in some capacity. Ventilation modelling software used by a ...Read more
The case study covers basic ventilation principles applied to an underground mine planning. Secondary ventilation systems are also covered in ...Read more
