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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Large deformations in deep mines occur due to the exposure of extensively damaged rock mass adjacent to an excavation. In ...Read more
Most mine ventilation engineers are involved in ventilation planning and design in some capacity. Ventilation modelling software used by a ...Read more
Microseismic monitoring is routinely used by block and panel caving mines worldwide to track cave shape development. The standard practice ...Read more
Ballantyne, Powell & Tiang (2012) found that about 36% of a mine’s total energy use is consumed by crushing and ...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
Over the last decade there has been an evolution in block cave fragmentation prediction methods. This evolution has mainly been ...Read more
The Australian mining industry has changed dramatically over the past 20 years in terms of mining methods, mining equipment and ...Read more
All ventilation practitioners need to be able to select suitably seized airways or suitably sized fans for a variety of ...Read more
A method and equations are presented to allow calculation of the natural wet bulb temperature (WBn), psychrometric dry bulb temperature ...Read more
