All ventilation practitioners need to be able to select suitably seized airways or suitably sized fans for a variety of ...Read more
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The risk from fire remains one of the most serious of underground mine disaster scenarios. The impacts of mine fires ...Read more
The 10th deepest open pit mines in the world are raked as follow: Bingham Canyon Mine (USA): > 1.2 km Chuquicamata (Chile): ...Read more
Rio Tinto obtained an exploration license in 1997 in the Simandou mountains, in southeastern Guinea. Since then, the company has ...Read more
On 12 August 2019, a 47-year-old contractor, Mr Andrew Bray, was fatally injured when a Caterpillar D10T dozer (DZ 813) ...Read more
Fire has historically being the biggest single cause of underground hardrock mining disasters and traditional primary ventilation systems and practices ...Read more
With increasing depth, there will always be situations where stress, strength and structure combine to store energy in unstable ways ...Read more
Mine fires remain one of the most potentially devastating underground incidents due to the prospect of multiple fatalities from the ...Read more
An advanced Geotechnical Televiewer Interpretation (GTI) methodology has been developed that accurately interprets the full suite of geotechnical properties and ...Read more
Most mine ventilation engineers are involved in ventilation planning and design in some capacity. Ventilation modelling software used by a ...Read more
