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
Faced with the need to improve workplace conditions in both its development and production headings in its existing K1 orebody, ...Read more
Paracatu is a long life, cornerstone operation located near the City of Paracatu in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region. Paracatu is ...Read more
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Paracatu is a long life, cornerstone operation located near the City of Paracatu in Brazil’s Minas Gerais region. Paracatu is ...Read more
The case study covers techniques followed to reduce ore grade variability in ore polygons. The drill hole spacing was reduced ...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 Ernest Henry mine (EHM) is a copper-gold mine located 38km north-east of Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, Australia. The mine produces ...Read more
The design concept was to drill out the wedge as a forward stripping blast and to pre-charge this with WebGen™ ...Read more
