Mining Operations

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

The S11D Eliezer Batista Complex of Vale, located in Canaã dos Carajás, Brazil, is a massive mining facility that includes ...Read more

  Cardox systems are a special type of non-explosive rock blasting technology that uses the rapid phase transition of carbon dioxide ...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

The animations illustrates the principle of double benching using an excavator and a truck.  Please watch the video to learn ...Read more

Aitik, situated outside the town of Gällivare in the very north of Sweden, is Sweden’s largest copper mine. Aitik is ...Read more

For a mine operations manager, the role is a high stakes balancing act of maximizing production, ensuring safety, and controlling ...Read more

Introduction In the mining and aggregates industries, the performance of crushing operations is often overlooked, but one crucial factor that greatly ...Read more

The speed at which an explosive shock wave travels through an explosive substance after initiation is known as the Velocity ...Read more

The fragmentation of rock is fundamental to mining. It is the first preparatory stage in the extraction process – making ...Read more