There has been a strong trend over the past decade in hard rock mines towards the use of very high ...Read more
Mining Doc Latest Posts
Mine fires remain one of the most potentially devastating underground incidents due to the prospect of multiple fatalities from the ...Read more
Ballantyne, Powell & Tiang (2012) found that about 36% of a mine’s total energy use is consumed by crushing and ...Read more
Unexpected contact with powerful mobile equipment and moving machine parts at a mine can cause serious injuries and even death. The ...Read more
Many underground mines do not have a qualified or dedicated occupational (industrial) hygienist on site, or even available as a ...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
An advanced Geotechnical Televiewer Interpretation (GTI) methodology has been developed that accurately interprets the full suite of geotechnical properties and ...Read more
With hardrock mines using mobile equipment with ever larger diesel engines in ever larger development dimensions, the use of traditional ...Read more
When compared to seismically active underground mines, the Mount Isa Mines Deep Lead can be considered to be seismically ‘quiet’. ...Read more
Whilst there have been relatively few innovations in the nature or application of main surface fans in the past 20 ...Read more
