The Australian mining industry has changed dramatically over the past 20 years in terms of mining methods, mining equipment and ...Read more
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Fire has historically being the biggest single cause of underground hardrock mining disasters and traditional primary ventilation systems and practices ...Read more
Underground blasting operations are challenging from the standpoint of the distribution of explosives energy representative of ring blasting. Energy from ...Read more
Axial Initiation is a change in the geometry of the propagating detonation front resulting from a continuous det cord. What has ...Read more
The assessment of slope stability does not frequently account for the interaction between stress, rock mass damage and water pressure ...Read more
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Open access to forecasts of mine performance by all members of the mine planning team, in the form of open ...Read more
Underground excavations are subjected to complex stress changes caused by nearby mining, but may also be affected by repeated dynamic ...Read more
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All ventilation practitioners need to be able to select suitably seized airways or suitably sized fans for a variety of ...Read more
There have been many single and multiple fatalities over generations of underground mining due to workers being gassed by toxic ...Read more
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The measurement and management of deformation in underground excavations is a key responsibility of geotechnical and mining engineers. A critical ...Read more
