The development of a wireless initiation system has created new possibilities to re-think conventional mining methods. Until now, blast designs ...Read more
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Early 2019 Hemlo’s management team approached Orica and Manroc to explore opportunities for improvement via the application of wireless blast ...Read more
Case study from an underground mine showing how pre-splitting techniques were applied to production holes on the wings of secondary ...Read more
A Tier One gold producer with operations in Canada, Finland and Mexico and exploration and development activities extending to the ...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 presentation gives an introduction to sublevel caving (SLC), the types of SLC mines, mine design of SLC, geotechnical considerations ...Read more
The case study covers the immediate actions when dealing with geotechnically high risk operations. Five main areas are discussed on ...Read more
All drill and blast engineers at stoping mines should have an intuitive understanding of the causes and controls on stope ...Read more
Unplanned dilution directly adds cost to production from mining, milling, tailings disposal and administration. Additionally, unplanned dilution decreases the productivity, ...Read more
An advanced Geotechnical Televiewer Interpretation (GTI) methodology has been developed that accurately interprets the full suite of geotechnical properties and ...Read more
