The underground metalliferous mining industry continues to change under the influence of many factors including, to name a few, new ...Read more
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In most underground mines, the ventilation system is a significant portion of the total mine capital and operating cost and ...Read more
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With increasing depth, there will always be situations where stress, strength and structure combine to store energy in unstable ways ...Read more
The risk from fire remains one of the most serious of underground mine disaster scenarios. The impacts of mine fires ...Read more
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A method and equations are presented to allow calculation of the natural wet bulb temperature (WBn), psychrometric dry bulb temperature ...Read more
To better understand the rockmass response to mining – specifically changes in stress and fracture density – it is desirable ...Read more
Microseismic monitoring is routinely used by block and panel caving mines worldwide to track cave shape development. The standard practice ...Read more
We present qualitative observations of the recorded rock mass response to hydraulic-fracturing in four case studies from three major caving ...Read more
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Short-term seismic hazard based on the stability analysis methods of the 1990s is part of the deep mine culture of ...Read more
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For underground mines with extended periods of surface temperatures below freezing, there are a range of potential impacts on the ...Read more
