Geomechanical Design For The World’s Largest Underground Mine
Author: Esteban Hormazabal The Chuquicamata underground mine in the Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the…
Open Pit To Underground Transition
Author: Simon Hanrahan SRK carried out a scoping study on an existing open pit operation (12 Mtpa) that…
Planning Considerations For Transition From Open Pit To Underground
Author: Peter Terbrugge Many ore deposits extend vertically, a fact which is not always known at the start…
Geotechnical Data Collection And Approach To Modelling For Cukaru Peki
Author: Neil Marshall A geotechnical model is the fundamental basis for the design of open-pit and underground mines….
Geotechnical Model Development For Caving Design
Author: Ian de Bruyn SRK performed a comprehensive geotechnical model development for an existing large panel caving operation…
Rapid Cave Design And Production Scheduling
Author: Scott Loewen For early stage caving projects, there is usually a high degree of uncertainty in the…
Automation in a Cave Mining Environment
Author: Iouri Iakovlev In general, automation is most effectively applied to repetitive tasks, such as production loading and…
Cave Mining Risks – Not Necessarily Greater, But Definitely Different
Author: Neil Winkelmann Are you familiar with cave mining risks? Cave mining, and in particular block-cave mining, stands…
Mudrush Dynamics In Underground Mining
Author: Jarek Jakubec Mudrush, mudflow, or mudpush are the most common terms describing uncontrolled ingress of assorted mixture…
The Importance Of Post-Drilling Assessment
Author: Carl Kottmeier In sublevel caving operations, it is imperative that the production blastholes be drilled accurately so…