Mining Engineering

A tunnel boring machine (TBM) works by mechanically excavating tunnels through soil, rock, or sand using a rotating cutterhead at ...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

Drift mining is a type of underground mining where tunnels, called drifts, are driven horizontally or nearly horizontally into the side ...Read more

Marble is a metamorphic rock primarily composed of carbonate minerals, most commonly calcite (CaCO₃) or dolomite (CaMg(CO₃)₂), that has recrystallized ...Read more

Bioremediation is an environmental technique used to clean contaminated soil and groundwater by enhancing natural biological processes. It relies on ...Read more

The Santa Luz Project is an open-pit gold mine located in Bahia State, Brazil. It is owned and operated by ...Read more

What is blast confinement? Blast confinement refers to methods and practices that contain or direct the explosive energy within a controlled ...Read more

Blasting is a key operation in both mining and civil engineering, involving the controlled detonation of explosives to fracture rock. ...Read more

Surface mining involves the extraction of minerals and resources from the Earth near its surface, without the need for tunnelling ...Read more