Mining Engineering

The Weipa Bauxite Mine, located on the western Cape York Peninsula in Far North Queensland, Australia, is one of the ...Read more

In-situ recovery (ISR), also called in-situ leaching, is a sustainable mining technique that extracts copper by dissolving it underground and ...Read more

Subdrill refers to the length of a blast hole that is drilled below the intended final floor or grade elevation ...Read more

Longwall mining is a highly efficient underground coal mining technique that involves the use of a long wall of coal ...Read more

The Garzweiler mine in Germany is a large lignite (brown coal) surface mine located in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ...Read more

Shaft mining and drift mining are two different underground mining methods. Shaft mining involves sinking a vertical shaft to reach the ...Read more

Introduction Underground mining is one of the most widely used methods of extracting minerals in the world. It is a high-risk ...Read more

A shift boss, also known as a shift supervisor, plays a critical operational and supervisory role in the management of ...Read more

The expression cave mining refers to all mining operations in which the ore body caves naturally after undercutting and the ...Read more

The fundamental elements of an open pit mine are the key physical and operational components that define its structure, function, and efficiency. ...Read more