Mining Operations

A hydraulic breaker is a powerful attachment used in construction, demolition, and mining to break through tough materials like concrete, ...Read more

Buffer blasting is most successful when the rock is quite competent or on slopes designed with a higher factor of ...Read more

A Tunnel Boring Machine is a highly efficient piece of excavation equipment used to bore circular cross-section tunnels through various ...Read more

A roadheader is an excavating machine used in underground mining and tunneling to continuously cut rock and other materials without ...Read more

Trim blasting is a control technique which is used to clean up a final wall after production blasting has taken place. ...Read more

Definition The process of turning raw ore into marketable, useable minerals is a crucial aspect of the mining industry. A range ...Read more

A sluice box is an engineered channel for extracting gold from placer deposits using gravity separation.   Gold’s high density causes ...Read more

Smooth wall blasting is the most commonly used underground technique and was developed in Sweden (The Blasters’ Handbook, n.d.). The ...Read more

Tailings dams, vast structures designed for the perpetual containment of hazardous mining byproducts (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, n.d.), pose significant, ...Read more