Crystalline silica is a form of silicon dioxide which occurs naturally in the Earth’s crust. When it is broken up ...Read more
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Unexpected contact with powerful mobile equipment and moving machine parts at a mine can cause serious injuries and even death. The ...Read more
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The World’s Largest Coal Field nestled in the northeastern United States, spanning an expansive 180,000 square kilometers across nine states. With ...Read more
Rio Tinto obtained an exploration license in 1997 in the Simandou mountains, in southeastern Guinea. Since then, the company has ...Read more
The underground metalliferous mining industry continues to change under the influence of many factors including, to name a few, new ...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
Short-term seismic hazard based on the stability analysis methods of the 1990s is part of the deep mine culture of ...Read more
